05_Berry Magazine - Winter 2010-2011

BERRYa magazine for alumni and friends of Berry College

Winter 2010-11

Researcher David O. Wood (68A, 72C)takes aim at deadly disease

SpurringsuccessBilly Blanchard (93C) blazesunique trail to bank presidency

Beverly Philpot Smith (69C)shares her passion for education

Pathwaysto Berry

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Features9 Living legacy

Classmates honor memory of JimmyFletcher (64A, 68C)

12 Target: typhusResearcher David O. Wood (68A, 72C) takesaim at deadly disease

15 Spurring successBilly Blanchard (93C) blazes unique trail tobank presidency

18 Pathways to BerryBeverly Philpot Smith (69C) shares herpassion for education

Departments2 Noteworthy News

• Campus renovations: Student stonemasonsmake lasting impression

• Udderly Cool: Berry cheese takes off• Freshman class sets high bar• Honor Roll of Donors available online• Familiar face highlights Roosevelt Days• Leading the way: Spotlighting excellence

10 President’s EssayCollege or university: What’s in a name?

21 Learn. Live. Give.• Student work position endowed: BobWebb/John Hamrick CEO position forgenetics enterprise

• Annual Fund goes digital• Their stories: Lindsay Tutt finds a way• Cathy Anderson (77C) inspires generosity

26 Class Notes

32 Memory and Honor Gifts

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Snow adorns a holly branch outside the Ford Buildings inFebruary 2010. Photo by Alan Storey.Cover photo by Walter Beckham, Public Relations, College ofMedicine, University of South Alabama

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Published three times per yearfor alumni and friends

of Berry College

EditorKarilon L. Rogers

Managing EditorRick Woodall (93C)

Contributing WriterDebbie Rasure

Design and ProductionShannon Biggers (81C)

PhotographyPaul O’Mara and Alan Storey

Class Notes and Gifts ListingsJustin Karch (01C, 10G) and Rose Nix

Contact InformationClass Notes and Change of Address:[email protected]; 706-236-2256;800-782-0130; or Berry AlumniOffice, P.O. Box 495018, MountBerry, GA 30149.

Editorial: [email protected];706-378-2870; or Berry magazine,P.O. Box 490069, Mount Berry, GA30149.

Berry Alumni Association

President: Barbara Pickle McCollum(79C)

Vice Presidents: Alumni Events,Haron W. Wise (57H); BerryHeritage, Allyson Chambers (80C,84G); Financial Support, LarryEidson (57C); Young Alumni andStudent Relations, Jeff Palmer (09C);Alumni Awards, Clara McRae (60C)

Parliamentarian: Bart Cox (92C)

Secretary: Kimberly Terrell (04C,06G, FS)

Chaplain: Dr. David Fite (51H)

Director of Alumni RelationsChris Watters (89C)

Assistant Vice President for PublicRelations and Marketing

Jeanne Mathews

Vice President for AdvancementBettyann O’Neill

PresidentStephen R. Briggs

BERRYmagazine

FOR GENERATIONS, BERRY’S

WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAM

HAS HAD A LASTING IMPACT ON

THE LIVES OF STUDENTS.

Sometimes it has an equal effecton the campus itself. And whenboth results merge, somethingreally special happens.

Just ask college stonemasonJamie Swan and his studentworkers, who set to work twoyears agorefurbishingthe stonewalkways inthe courtyardsurroundingthe FordReflectingPool. Startingat Ford DiningHall, theyworked theirway down thesidewalks to the auditorium. Theresult is a much smoother

walking surface that hasimproved handicap access yetretains the beauty of the originalstone. The walkways feel solidand permanent to those whowalk them and to those whorestored them.

“Everything that I’m buildingis tangible,” said junior sociologymajor Jesse Burnette. “It’ll behere in 80 years. I can bring my

grandkids andtell them,‘Yeah, I builtthis back in2010.’

“Before Icame to Berry,I met this guywho helpedbuild the firstGate ofOpportunity,and he was

talking about how proud he wasthat he got to be a part of that. I

think that’s how I’m going tofeel about this.”

This fall, Swan and hisstudent masons started anotherproject at the House o’ Dreams,but they will eventually return toFord to refurbish the walkwaysoutside the main entrance toClara and the Office of Admis-sions. They are also painting andrepairing all the agriculture fencesvisible to the public.

Work crews have been busyin other areas of campus inrecent months as well. Completedprojects include the renovationof West Dana and Clara halls aswell as the locker rooms in thebasement of Ford Gymnasium.Landscaping and irrigation atthe front entrance to the collegehave been improved, and astructure has been refurbished atthe Gunby Equine Center thatnow provides housing for up to12 students.

NOTEWORTHY NEWS

Campus renovations

Student stonemasonsClay Henry and Nicole Pearre.

“”

I can bring mygrandkids and tell

them, ‘Yeah, Ibuilt this back

in 2010.’– Jesse Burnette,

sociology major andstudent stonemason

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THANK YOU!Donors thanked via onlineHonor Roll of Donors

IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE

THOUSANDS OF ALUMNI

AND FRIENDS WHO

SUPPORTED BERRY with afinancial contribution in the2009-10 year (July 1, 2009 –June 30, 2010), you’ll findyour name – and heartfeltthanks from Berry and Berrystudents – on the Honor Rollof Donors at www.berry.edu/honorroll.

In fact, everyone isinvited to visit the site tolearn about the year ingiving at Berry and to viewthe names of Berrysupporters. And if you wantto make sure your name islisted next year, please visitwww.berry.edu/gift orconsider using the AnnualFund envelope enclosed inthis issue of Berry magazine.

History renewedALREADY RATED A “STAR

ATTRACTION” BY AAA and a“Must Do” by the GeorgiaDestination Guide, The MarthaBerry Museum recentlyunderwent extensiverenovations designed to make iteven more welcoming to thoseinterested in the story of MarthaBerry and her schools.

Work completed this summerincluded new paint and flooring,updated restrooms, andadditional furniture. Changeswere made to the exhibits aswell. Artifacts from Berry’s pastthat have never been seen by the

public are nowon display,including piecesfrom ItalianPrince Enricodei PrincipiRuspoli, husbandof MarthaBerry’s sister.

“We wantedto make it openand vibrant,”explainedPatrice Shannon

(08C), interim director of thefacility. “Sometimes we are allpeople see of Berry, and that isvery important to us.”

Still a page turner – even online!WE’LL ALWAYS BELIEVE BERRY MAGAZINE IS BEST experi-enced from the comfort of your favorite chair, but if you preferan online experience, we’re happy to offer that too. Visitwww.berry.edu/magazine to access our newly enhanced onlinearchive. Simple tools make it possible for you to select theissue of your choice, magnify the text and even turn thepages, all with a mouse click. Nothing could be better(outside of that comfy chair, of course).

OFFERING INCOMPARABLE

NATURAL BEAUTY AND A CHOICE

OF THREE DISTINCT RACE

DISTANCES, the Berry Half-Marathon has quickly become adestination of choice for seriousand recreational runners alike. Arecord number of participantsflocked to the 2010 race, and thefourth-annual event – scheduledfor March 5, 2011 – will welcome1972 Olympian Jeff Galloway asone of its featured participants.

Galloway, a renowned experton his sport and past winner of Atlanta’sPeachtree Road Race, will host a runningseminar two days prior to the 2011 Berryraces (March 3 in Krannert Center). He alsowill speak at a special runners’ retreat to beheld the weekend of the event.

Separate registration is required for both the seminar and theretreat, and space is limited. Visit www.berryhalfmarathon.com formore details about these events, as well as online registration for thehalf-marathon, 10K, 5K and 1-mile fun run. Proceeds benefit BerryCollege Elementary and Middle School.

Olympic challengeBerry Half-Marathon welcomes Jeff Galloway

Former OlympianJeff Galloway willteach a runningseminar as part ofthe 2011 Berry Half-Marathon.

ALAN STOREY

STUDENT PHOTOGRAPHERSARAH GARRETT

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN

FORMING A GROUP OF BERRY

ALUMNI AROUND A SHARED

PURSUIT, activity, bond orpurpose, the Office of AlumniRelations is eager to provide aspecific set of services to helpyou get started.

All services are designed toencourage and supportnetworking and interactionamong Berry alumni (graduate,non-graduate, associate andhonorary alumni of Berry high

schools or college) via self-formed and self-managed“interest groups.” So if you areinterested in taking the Vikingby the horns and organizing an“interest group” of your own tosocialize, perform volunteerservices, help Berry students, orenjoy a sport or other activity –now’s a great time!

Services provided by youralumni relations staff include anannouncement of the group toan appropriate set of alumni

who might be interested injoining; hosting a group page onthe Berry alumni website; andlisting the group’s scheduledactivities, meetings or events onthe Berry alumni website and onthe Alumni Accent e-newsletter’scalendar of events.

Two groups are already active(the Berry Breakfast Club of highschool/academy alumni and theSunshine Room, a weavinggroup). Complete informationon forming “interest groups” isavailable at www.berry.edu/alumni. You can also reach thealumni office at 800-782-0130,706-236-2256 or via e-mail [email protected].

If you are already part of anexisting group of Berry alumniwho get together frequently,please let us know!

Calling all alumni:Interested in interest groups?

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Hail to the chief(s)!TWO RENOWNED NATIONAL

EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

HAVE SELECTED BERRY facultymembers as their leaders.

Dr. Mary C. Clement, profes-sor of teacher education, ispresident-elect of Kappa DeltaPi, an international honor societyfor educators with more than46,000 members worldwide, andwill assume the presidency in2012. Dr. Krishna S. Dhir, HenryGund professor of management,has been elected president of theDecision Sciences Institute, aninternational organization withmembers in nine global regions.He will serve over the next threeyears as president-elect,president and immediate pastpresident.


MARY CLEMENT

KRISHNA DHIR

PAULO’MARA

ALANSTOREY

ALANSTOREY

MARK KOZERA (79C) has returnedto Berry as a senior advancementofficer in the Office of Advance-ment. He brings more than 25 years ofcorporate experience to the position,most recently serving as a director at Crawford andCompany, the world’s largest provider of claimsmanagement services for the insurance industry.

CHRIS REINOLDS KOZELLE has joined Berry’s publicrelations and marketing staff as director of news andeditorial services. A former metro news reporter with theAtlanta Journal-Constitution, she most recently served as a

freelance writer, editor and media consultantworking for a variety of clients, includingnonprofits, Fortune 500 companies and startups.During her career, she has won awards from theSociety of Professional Journalists, ArkansasAssociated Press Managing Editors and ArkansasPress Association. She has a bachelor’s degree injournalism from the University of Kansas.

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Countdown to class reunions!A GREAT TIME IS SURE TO BE HAD BY ALL when Berry warmlywelcomes the classes of 51C, 51H, 56C, 56H, 61C, 61H, 66C and66A for reunions during Alumni Weekend, May 20-22, 2011. TheBerry community is looking forward to having you all back oncampus for this very special set of reunions.

Particular congratulations go out to the classes of 61C and61H, who will celebrate their 50th anniversaries. It will be agolden time to visit your alma mater; the red carpet will be rolledout for you as you are inducted into Berry’s honorary GoldenGuard. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime celebration of your daysat Berry.

If you want more information about any upcoming classreunion, please contact the alumni office at 800-782-0130,706-236-2256 or [email protected].

Here they come … again!BERRY’S CHALLENGE TO “EXPERIENCE IT FIRSTHAND!”

CONTINUES TO RESONATE AMONG PROSPECTIVE

STUDENTS seeking a college education that is trulymeaningful.Building on a record number of applications, Berry

welcomed the largest incoming class in its history for the2010-11 academic year, including 694 freshmen andtransfers. Total enrollment is now 2,087, including 1,928undergraduates.“This is an intentional, sustained effort,” explained

Berry President Steve Briggs. “We’re very pleased thatour emphasis on relevant on-campus work experiences,coupled with strong academics and a focus on communityservice, continues to resonate with prospective studentsand their parents.”For the fall 2011 term, the college will use a smaller

working admissions goal that, combined with improve-ments in retention, will lead to an eventual undergraduatepopulation of 2,100 students. According to Briggs, thismeasured approach will ensure that Berry sustains a highlevel of quality as it carefully grows the size of the studentbody.Representing more than 20 different states and nine

foreign countries, the current new class boasts impressiveacademic accomplishments (including 21 valedictoriansand 12 salutatorians), and a strong commitment to workand service – both key components of Berry’s enduringeducational philosophy.“This is a very promising group, and we expect them to

mesh well with the many talented upperclassmenreturning to Berry this fall,” Briggs said. “We areencouraged by the size of the new class, but enrollment isnot a measure of success. Ultimately, our success will bejudged by the opportunities we provide to these studentsand the personal growth they experience as a result.”

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN 51

YEARS, MILK FROM BERRY’S

JERSEY COWS IS BEING MADE

INTO CHEESE – and it’s sellingalmost as fast as newly releasedcomputer gadgets from Apple Inc.

Students from The BerryFarms Jersey Milk enterprise,one of 11 student enterprises oncampus, sold 300 pounds ofcheese in less than six hourswhen the product debuted at theBerry Farmers Market in July.They had equal success at thefall farmers market, once againselling all 300 pounds worth oftheir products before the marketclosed.

“The crowd seemed to lovethe cheese and reacted very wellto the samples. It was a greatsuccess,” declared RachelDiPietro, a senior majoring inanimal science and CEO of TheBerry Farms Jersey Milk.

At the market, cheeseaficionados could savor the likesof queso blanco, fromage blanc,early cheddar and Monterreyjack cheeses, all made from rich,creamy Berry Jersey milk.

Fromage blanc and Monterreyjack were the crowd favorites,according to DiPietro, but thelarge blocks of early cheddarsold out first. Cheese lovers canlook forward to aged gouda inthe future.

DiPietro, who plans to be adairy veterinarian, has learned alot about running a businesssince she helped start The BerryFarms Jersey Milk enterprise in2009 as part of Berry’s newstudent enterprises initiative,including how to work withother businesses to produce aproduct.

This past summer she formeda partnership with Berry alumnusJeff Greene (87C), owner andoperator of Udderly Cool Dairyin Roopville, Ga. Each week,Greene comes to campus to pickup raw Jersey milk that he usesto make the delicious cheesesthat DiPietro and her fellowstudents sold at the farmersmarkets. Currently, the cheesesare marketed under the UdderlyCool Dairy label.

As perfect as DiPietro saysthis partnership is, she has evenbigger dreams for The BerryFarms Jersey Milk enterprise.DiPietro is currently developinga label for Berry’s own line of

cheeses and isresearching thepossibility ofproducingadditionalproducts, such asyogurt and icecream, in thefuture.

cheese?Did someone

say


Packaged byUdderly CoolDairy, Berrycheesedebuted atthe BerryFarmersMarket, withmore than300 poundsselling in sixhours.

ALAN STOREY

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BERRY MARKED THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF

THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S FAMOUS VISIT TO CAMPUS

with a one-of-a-kind celebration Oct. 15-16 that embod-ied the spirit and vitality of the Rough Rider himself.The star attraction was Joe Wiegand, a noted imper-sonator whose spot-on delivery and uncanny physicalresemblance have delighted audiences from New

York City to the East Room of the White House.History came to life during a reenactment of

Roosevelt’s Oct. 8, 1910, address to the BerrySchools. Dressed in period clothing and standingin front of the cabin that now bears “his” name,Wiegand apologized for taking so long between

visits and made sure to comment on the magnificentfall weather – a marked contrast to the rain that fell

throughout Roosevelt’s original visit. Earlier, Wiegandgreeted 1,000 local schoolchildren in attendance at atrio of special presentations in the Cage Center. He alsodelighted some 150 state and national leaders of theDaughters of the American Revolution who were oncampus for their triennial tour of schools.

During the celebration, guests had theopportunity to tour Roosevelt Cabin and

learn about the continuing restoration of thehistoric site. Recently completed projects include therestoration and reinstallation of all the windows anddoors on the east side of the building, as well asreconstruction on the west chimney’s log veneer.Additional support beams have been installed for theback porch, and the two porches on the east side ofthe building have been reconstructed by alumnivolunteers. Whenever possible, crews are making useof historic materials such as window panes,floorboards and paneling from old Fairfield Cottage(demolished in 2008).

Pending additional funding, future projectsinclude restoration of the remaining doors andwindows and installation of foundation grillwork anda new roof. If you would like to support restorationof Roosevelt Cabin, please call 877-461-0039 or visitwww.berry.edu/gift. Be sure to direct your gift to“Roosevelt Cabin Preservation.”

photography by Alan Storey

TeddyandBerry


THE STORY OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT’S 1910 VISIT TO

BERRY IS A TRIBUTE TO THE TENACITY OF COLLEGE

FOUNDER MARTHA BERRY. It was recounted by Dr.Ouida Word Dickey (50C, FFS) and Dr. Doyle Mathis(58C, FFS) in chapter three of their book, Berry College:A History.

“Soon after the boarding school for boysopened, [Martha] Berry began efforts to meetwith President Theodore Roosevelt. He planneda southern trip in 1905 but advised Berry thathe could not visit her school at that time. Shethen sent him pictures of the school. In early1907, Berry traveled to Washington, D.C.,where she requested an appointment withFirst Lady Edith Roosevelt, who declinedbecause her son was ill but said that perhapsthe two women could meet on Berry’s nexttrip to the city. Later that year, Berry invitedthe president to attend the end-of-school-yearactivities, but he again declined. In the fall of1907, however, Edith Roosevelt sent Berry aletter and a fifty-dollar donation, and when Berrywas in Washington the following April, shewas invited to have lunch at the White House.

President Roosevelt received Martha Berryon April 21. She told him the story of herschool, so impressing him that he arranged adinner for her with him and some of hiswealthy and influential friends, although healso expressed regret that she did not also havea school for girls. He subsequently wrote toBerry that he would come see her schoolfollowing a trip to Africa after leaving thepresidency. He made good on his promise,visiting on October 8, 1910, delivering aspeech to the students, and having a meal inthe Cabin, subsequently known as theRoosevelt Cabin.”Editor’s Note: Martha Berry opened her

school for girls on Thanksgiving Day 1909.

Good SOUPTHE AFRICAN SOUP

(SPONSORSHIP OF ORPHANS IN

UGANDA PROJECT), a student-initiated effort to assist Ugandanorphans, brought nationalrecognition to Berry whenselected for a Jenzabar Founda-tion Student Leadership Award.Other institutions among thisyear’s winners were BrighamYoung University and theUniversity of Southern California.Honorees receive a $5,000 grantto support their future efforts.

The project (http://theafricansoup.org) was founded bystudent Brin Enterkin in responseto the tremendous need shewitnessed in rural Uganda whileteaching microfinance in thecountry on a Berry CollegeInternational Programs summergrant.

Sustainable beautyIN JUNE, BERRY’S AUDREY B. MORGAN AND DEERFIELD RESIDENCE

HALLS became the first buildings on campus to earn certification forLeadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) when theyachieved Gold certification status. Soon after, Cooper Carry Inc. – thearchitectural firm that designed Berry’s newest student residences –claimed a Silver Citation for Residence Halls/Lounges in AmericanSchool & University’s Educational Interiors Showcase. Judges laudedMorgan Hall’s 2,300-square-foot, glass-encased common area.

Established by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) andverified by the Green Building Certification Institute, LEED is thenation’s preeminent program for the design, construction andoperation of high performance green buildings. Gold is the secondhighest LEED rating available. According to the Georgia Chapter ofUSGBC, fewer than 100 projects statewide have been certified Goldor higher.

Riding highALLIE JONES CLOSED THE

2009-10 VARSITY EQUESTRIAN

SEASON ON A HIGH NOTE byplacing eighth at the NationalReining Horse Association’sCollegiate Reining Champion-ships in Oklahoma City. Thejunior from Cambridge, England,qualified for the competitionwith a second-place showing atthe Intercollegiate Horse ShowAssociation (IHSA) nationalchampionships in May. Jones’success helped Berry log a sixth-place finish in western teamcompetition at the IHSAchampionship.

Ring the bell!MARTHA BERRY’S GREAT-NEPHEW RANDY BERRY (back row, center)was all smiles July 22 as representatives of Peoples FederalBancshares Inc. rang the NASDAQ closing bell in New York City incelebration of the company’s initial public stock offering. Berry, aBerry College trustee, is a member of the board of directors for theBoston-based corporation.


Matters of stateDR. BRUCE CONN, PROFESSOR

OF BIOLOGY AND DEAN OF THE

SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL

AND NATURAL SCIENCES, is oneof only 12 scientists andengineers nationwide selected in2010 for a Jefferson ScienceFellowship and, as part of theprogram, is spending thisacademic year in Washington,D.C., in an advisory role withthe State Department.

The Jefferson Scienceprogram is designed to engage

tenuredscientistsandengineersfromAmericanacademicinstitutions

in the formulation andimplementation of U.S. foreignpolicy; all must obtain officialU.S. government securityclearance before their awardsare confirmed. Dr. Conn willremain in a consulting positionwith the State Department forfive years after returning toBerry in the fall of 2011.

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Head of the classBERRY’S WOMEN’S SWIMMING

AND DIVING TEAM capped itsinaugural (2009-10) season withScholar All-American Teamhonors, while seven members ofthe men’s basketball team claimeda spot on the National Associationof Basketball Coaches HonorsCourt. The scholar-hoopstersincluded recent graduates WillBlackwell (10C), Matt Mixer (10C)and Bentley Sparks (10C), as wellas four returning players: KendallGadie, David Holloman, Tim Milesand Michael Schulte.

©DAVE DAWSON PHOTOGRAPHY

© 2010, THE NASDAQ OMX GROUP, INC.


JIMMY FLETCHER (64A, 68C)

WAS BORN WITH CEREBRAL

PALSY BUT NEVER ALLOWED

IT TO DEFINE HIM.

As a child, the oldest sonof Berry postmaster HoraceFletcher (33H, 37C) defied his

withered right arm by playing tackle footballwith his brothers, Lamar (66A) and Julian(66A). Later, the 1964 valedictorian of BerryAcademy taught himself Greek and Latin sohe could read original translations of theBible, as well as other classic works.

“Never in my life did I hear him ask, ‘Whyme?’” Lamar stated. “He never really ques-tioned the condition he was in. He just tookthe opportunity to be as normal as he possiblycould be and to do whatever he could do.”

Cancer finally did what cerebral palsycould not, claiming Jimmy’s life in February2010. His memory lives on, however, pre-served by a special scholarship endowed byfriends and former classmates that isdesignated specifically for a student with apermanent physical disability.

The idea for the Jimmy R. FletcherMemorial Endowed Scholarship and a$10,000 leadership gift were provided byErnie Chou (66A), whose generosityresonated from his home in China toclassmates halfway around the world. By theend of the summer, more than $40,000 ingifts and pledges had been received, easilyexceeding the $25,000 minimumrequirement to endow a named scholarship.

“Jimmy believed that there was no greaterhandicap than a lack of education,” Chousaid. “And I believed that there was no betterway to honor him than to make a scholar-ship available to someone who shared hischaracter and ideals. I learned to lookbeyond a person’s physical limitationsbecause of Jimmy, and the scholarshipseemed to be the best way to assure thatothers would do the same.”

Jimmy’s education startedat Possum Trot, the “cradle”of the Berry Schools. Helater attended Glenwood Primary School,where his mother, Rosa (31H, 35C), was ateacher, before returning to Berry for highschool and college. His physical conditionpresented numerous challenges, but no oneever questioned the power of his intellect.

“I’ve never encountered anyone withgreater intellectual curiosity, or a fresher andmore resilient sense of humor, or greatercourage, or deeper faith,” said lifelong friendTom Bertrand, son of the late BerryPresident John R. Bertrand. “Though hisbody often kept him frustratingly off-balance,Jim was an exquisitely balanced human beingin the only truly important way to be balanced:to keep a stoically cheerful attitude towardwhatever life throws at you, and to care forothers more than you do for yourself.”

Those words, part of a eulogy written byBertrand that was delivered at Jimmy’sfuneral Mass, echoed the thoughts of othersfortunate enough to cross his path. Fourfriends from his Berry days – Chou, JohnShahan (64A, 69C), Bob Williams (62H) andDale Cummings (66A) – served on thecommittee that spearheaded fundraisingefforts for the scholarship fund.

Recalling his friend, Chou described a“gentleman” who was also “a scholar, asports nut and a team supporter.”

“He had a quick mind and even quickerwit,” Chou remembered. “He was alwayshappy and fiercely independent. He had anincredible work ethic and an unquenchable

thirst for knowledge thatwe all admired. He nevercomplained, never feltsorry for himself and wasnever unkind. He nevertold us how to live ourlives; he taught us simplyby living his life andallowing us to watch.”

These qualitiesallowed Jimmy to lead afruitful life despite hisphysical condition. Hisaccomplishments includ-ed a master’s degree fromWest Georgia Collegeand a long career atNorthwest GeorgiaRegional Hospital,where he served aslibrarian and, later,worked in the hospital

therapy center. He was an avid traveler,active in his church and community, and acharter appointee to a state advisory panelresponsible for advocating on behalf of thosewith disabilities.

Throughout his life, Jimmy’s love for hisalma mater never wavered. He “bled Berryblue,” according to Lamar, and was a familiarface at alumni events and other collegefunctions.

“He gained our respect, each and everyday,” Shahan said. “He was a practicalexample of life’s endurance. Most of us haveproblems, but they’re somewhat petty andsmall compared to the physical problemsthat he had to endure.”(Contributions to Jimmy’s scholarship can

be made at www.berry.edu/gift or by mailinga check to P.O. Box 490069, Mount Berry,GA 30149. Please be sure to designate yourgift to the “Jimmy R. Fletcher Scholarship.”Contact Stacey Spillers at 706-368-6774 [email protected] for details.)

Classmatesrally to

preserve thememory of acourageous

alumnus

Living

Top: JimmyFletcher, at age5, with brothersLamar (left) andJulian. Inset:

Jimmy (left), inhis final months,

with lifelongfriend TomBertrand.

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Legacyby Rick Woodall


Dr. Stephen R. Briggs

PRESIDENT’S ESSAY

Sometimes the question is posed in terms ofwhether Berry is qualified to be a university.These inquiries reflect honest confusionabout what it means to be a university or acollege. The simple truth is that institutionstoday are more or less free to choose theirown label. The choice is one that relates tocore identity.

Historically, there are two differentiatingfactors between colleges and universities: theemphasis on undergraduate teaching versusadvanced research and the importance of aresidential learning community. America’searliest colleges were founded as residentialcolleges in the model of England’s Oxfordand Cambridge universities. Thus, NewCollege (now Harvard University), the Collegeof William and Mary, and the CollegiateSchool (now Yale University) began as smalllearning communities in which students werehoused and fed and instructed by residentialtutors. Other residential colleges graduallyemerged throughout the colonies.

Over time, some of these institutionsadded doctoral and professional programs asthey evolved into more complex institutions.Harvard was officially recognized as auniversity in 1780 at about the time itopened a medical school. In 1876, however,a more radical change occurred when The

Johns Hopkins University was founded inthe model of a Germanic university with afocus on research specializations and thescientific discovery of new knowledge. JohnsHopkins became the first university to teachthrough seminars rather than lectures and tooffer undergraduate majors rather than apurely liberal arts curriculum. Many researchuniversities now emphasize graduateeducation more than undergraduateeducation. This focus is true even for aninstitution such as Harvard; only one-third ofits current students are undergraduates – theother two-thirds are pursuing graduate orprofessional degrees.

Today, we can point to superb examplesof both types of institutions. U.S. News andWorld Report provides separate categoriesand rankings for national researchuniversities and national liberal arts colleges.One model is not superior to the other; thesetwo models of excellence have distinctivepurposes and emphases. The prototypicalresearch university focuses on doctoral andprofessional programs and is often a large,dispersed, decentralized enterprise, whetherstate-supported or independent. The proto-typical liberal arts college emphasizesundergraduate education in the context of asmall, focused, residential learning community.

Although these two models can bedistinguished in their purest forms, the

reality is that many institutions combineelements of both: There are small researchinstitutions with a strong residential andundergraduate focus, and there arecomprehensive teaching institutions that aredecentralized and largely non-residential.The matter is further complicated byadditional models, including communitycolleges, technical schools and for-profitinstitutions. As a result, college anduniversity have become interchangeableterms in many ways.

Berry could choose to adopt the label ofuniversity at any time. We have accreditedgraduate programs and separate schools forbusiness and education, so we could do soquite legitimately. Across the country, otherless established schools use the universitylabel, presumably because they believe itpositions them beneficially.

Berry’s identity, however, is defined inlarge part by its residential nature andsetting. We date our founding to 1902 whenMartha Berry deeded over part of herinheritance to create a residential campusthat superseded her day schools. She madethis high-risk, “all in” decision because sherecognized the power of a residentiallearning community. Berry’s exceptionalcampus with its multiple residential settingsreflects the value we have long placed on theliving-learning experience.

COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITYWhat’s in a name?

I AM ASKED QUITE REGULARLY WHETHER

BERRY IS PLANNING TO BECOME A UNIVERSITY.


In this regard, Berry is akin to the nation’stop liberal arts institutions. These institutionsare deliberately residential because theyunderstand that the most powerful forms ofundergraduate learning occur when studentsare immersed in an experience. Suchopportunities might involve a researchtutorial with a professor in a laboratory, aleadership experience with a campusorganization or a study abroad experienceliving with a family in an unfamiliar culture.In-depth learning has little to do with sittingin a lecture hall; it has much to do withinvesting fully in a project and making itone’s own.

Among the nation’s top 50 liberal artsinstitutions (including Williams College,Amherst College and Davidson College),more than 80 percent use the term college tosignify their commitment to excellence inundergraduate education. In the case ofthose using the university label, several haveprofessional programs that complement theirundergraduate emphasis: for example,Washington and Lee University (law) andSewanee – The University of the South(theology). Interestingly, several nationallyranked doctoral-granting institutions haveretained the name college, presumably toconvey the lasting importance of under-graduate education at these institutions,including the College of William and Mary,Dartmouth College and Boston College(which was chartered as a university).

Berry chooses to be called a college,thereby affirming our core identity andcommitting ourselves to excellence inresidential undergraduate education. Theidea of a learning community is critical toBerry in that it provides the context (theliving laboratory) for a firsthand education.Campus life is integral to, not separate from,the educational experience. The living-learning community provides lessons notonly for the head, but also equally for thehands and heart.

Consider three ways in which this living-learning community promotes engagementand service. First, when students enter thecollege community together, they form classbonds as they learn from and with one

another. As they live in close proximity –sharing rooms and bathrooms and meals –students adapt and bend and understand.For a good number of our students, it is thefirst time they have had to share a bedroom.Given a choice, many of them wouldprobably prefer not to share, but the lifelessons learned and friendships that emergewould not be the same without this closeproximity. Living together tests their capacityto be civil and courteous, to work throughdifferences and disagreements, and to act onbehalf of someone else’s needs.

Second, students come to lead thecommunity over time, helping shape anddefine it. New students benefit from andenjoy the warmth and generosity of acommunity that is created for them. Asseniors, these same students are responsibleto and for this community – they have theprivilege and opportunity to create anew awarm and welcoming environment forentering students. Seniors sometimes yearnto be independent; they appropriately wantto take on more of their own affairs. Yet, thisdesire for increased independence can alsobe fundamentally self-centered anddisengaging. An important lesson of theheart is to recognize our responsibility tosustain and improve the community in whichwe live. Engaging in one’s community as aleader, whether informally or formally, is agreat lesson for life and one that can belearned practically in the senior year.

Finally, Berry’s residential communityprovides the context for its extraordinaryWork Experience Program. In its early years,Berry operated as a self-sustainingcommunity as much as possible. Althoughthe world has changed in the ensuingcentury, there remains something attractiveand ambitious about this model. Thus, Berryonce again is highlighting ways in whichstudents can contribute directly andmeaningfully to the operations of the college,including opportunities to use the college’sextensive campus assets to generate fundsthat will support the educational enterprise.The robustness of the Work ExperienceProgram is rooted in Berry being a living-learning community.

Berry’s choice to be a residential collegehas several practical implications. It points inpart to things we are not likely to pursuestrategically as an institution: extensive part-time undergraduate programs, distance-learning programs or multiple “branch”campuses. It points also to the kinds ofthings we are likely to emphasizestrategically and through resource allocation.Thus, in recent years, we have invested incontinuing improvements to the residentialcharacter of the campus: the Cage Athleticand Recreation Center; residence hallrenovations and the addition of Morgan andDeerfield halls; the expansion of theKrannert dining and event spaces;improvement of campus walkways andbikeways; and the creation of gathering spotssuch as Kilpatrick Commons and thehammock zones. Our goal is to ensure thatBerry is a wonderful home, a place that is asinspiring today and tomorrow as it was 80years ago when the Ford Complex and theNormandy barns were constructed.

In the last four years, Berry has increasedits residential capacity from 76 percent to 86percent. We are now in the process ofdetermining whether to increase this goal to95 percent, a target that is consistent withother top liberal arts colleges. The president’scabinet recently visited three other highlyregarded colleges to review their residentialmaster plans. Given continued strongenrollment patterns, we will need to decidein the coming year whether to add additionalresidential facilities, especially for our senior-year students. We are actively studyingoptions relating to the type and location ofthese residential units.

Residential colleges offer the pinnacle ofundergraduate education in the nation. Berryrepresents this tradition in the state ofGeorgia and for students in this region of thecountry who seek a national-calibereducation. Berry’s residential nature is partof what sets us apart. We expect students tobe active participants in the life of thecollege, and we are committed to aresidential community that facilitates thatexpectation. Make no mistake, we are proudto be called Berry College. B

PHOTO CREDITS: INSET TOP LEFT, ALAN STOREY; REMAINING PHOTOS BY PAUL O’MARA

It is said that morehumans have lost their livesto epidemic typhus than toall the wars in history.This highly infectious disease, caused by

the Rickettsia prowazekii (R. prowazekii)parasitic bacterium and transmitted tohumans primarily by body lice, is at itsinfectious best when living conditions are attheir worst – overcrowded and unsanitarywith few opportunities for bathing orchanging clothes. The scourge of ancientarmies, epidemic typhus caused millions ofdeaths among soldiers and civilians alikeduring World War I and struck the Naziprison and concentration camps with viciousforce during World War II. Today, its mostlikely victims are refugees of war and naturaldisasters: In 1997, more than 45,000 cases ofepidemic typhus were documented in therefugee camps of the civil-war ravagedAfrican nation of Burundi.While effective antibiotic therapy exists

for the disease, which initially mimics the flu,a fully safe vaccine has not yet beendeveloped. And without timely, appropriatetreatment, up to 60 percent of those whocontract typhus die, a figure that puts R.prowazekii on the Centers for DiseaseControl’s Category B list of potentialbioterrorism agents.A Berry graduate is at the forefront of

efforts to put an end to epidemic typhus’centuries-long siege on human health. Hiswell funded, oft-published research into R.prowazekii just might unearth the molecular-genetic key.

Target:typhus

by Karilon L. Rogers



When Dr. DavidO. Wood (68A,72C) gets up

every morning, one thoughtpropels him to work in hislaboratory at the Universityof South Alabama (USA)College of Medicine inMobile: “What are wegoing to learn today?”

The distinguisheduniversity professor andchair of microbiology andimmunology has dedicatedhis career to the study ofthe typhus-causing R.prowazekii bacterium,including a 10-yearinvestigation into theorganism’s genetic basisfunded by the NationalInstitutes of Health (NIH).Doing what’s never been

done in his corner of medical research hasspurred his work and piqued his interestsince he stumbled upon microbiology atBerry College nearly 40 years ago.

Elimination of typhus is the ultimate goal.But as a basic medical sciences researcher,Wood’s interest is triggered most intensely bythe still unknown intricacies of how theRickettsia bacterium makes its way into ahuman cell and what genes and productsenable it to survive and cause disease. Hislab is working with the bacterium’s 835individual protein-coding genes, hoping todevelop a mutant in one of the genes thatcan “turn off” the organism’s disease-inducing properties. Success could lead to alive vaccine capable of invoking a goodimmune reaction in humans without causingpotentially fatal illness.

Wood’s laboratory currently is focused ona strain of R. prowazekii that is less potent –a strain that once was used in EasternEurope as a vaccine.

“The Madrid E strain is effective as avaccine,” Wood explained. “But unfortu-nately, it can revert to virulence and actuallycause typhus in some individuals – not agood trait for a safe vaccine that you maywant to give to many people. My lab isattempting to genetically alter this strain so

that it cannot revert to virulence and causedisease.”

RESEARCH RECOGNITIONWood’s research into the how, what and

why of R. prowazekii – and the research ofthe entire microbiology and immunologyfaculty at the USA College of Medicine – willsoon get an exceptional boost: Wood and histeam have landed a $14.5 million NIH grantthat will fund construction of a new state-of-the-art infectious disease research facility onUSA’s main campus. The award is the largestcompetitive grant in the history of theuniversity; Wood is the lead researcher.Construction is anticipated to begin beforethe start of 2011.

Wood and his team have built uponresearch initiated by Dr. Herbert Winklermore than 30 years ago to establish aproductive “Select Agent Program” centeredon Rickettsia. (Within the last two years,Burkholderia, another infectious bacterium,has been added to the program.) “Selectagents” are pathogens or biological toxinsthat have the potential to pose a severethreat to public health and safety, asidentified by the U.S. Department of Healthand Human Services or the U.S. Departmentof Agriculture.

The new research facility will provideextensive biosafety and biosecurity featuresto protect the safety of the researchers andthe public at large. Separate Biosafety Level2 and 3 labs under one roof will simplify andaccelerate the pace of research andencourage collaboration among scientists.Level 3 space – accessed through five levelsof security and covered by extensiveprecautionary practices – is required for thestudy of potential agents of bioterrorism.(Agents of untreatable disease require aLevel 4 biosafety facility.)

THE START OF SOMETHING BIGThere was never a doubt in Wood’s mind

that his future lay in science – medicalscience, in particular. He majored inchemistry at Berry, with minors in biologyand math.

“My goal was to be an M.D.,” he said,“but I didn’t get into medical school initially.When I needed another course, I took

Microbiology for Nursing over the summer –it was me and a room full of nurses. And Ifell in love with it. The course pulledeverything together for me.”

After graduation, Wood entered themaster’s program in microbiology at theMedical College of Georgia, still planning toattend medical school in the future. But thenhe met Dr. George Brownell, a mentor whointroduced him to original research – todoing what has never been done.

“In working with Dr. Brownell onNeisseria, bacteria that cause gonorrhea andmeningitis, I realized I could do somethingthat no one had ever done,” Wood said.“That was very appealing to me. When itcame time to reapply to medical school, I’ddone enough research to know I’d found myniche in microbiology. I applied to the Ph.D.program with Dr. Brownell. To think it allstarted with that one ‘micro’ course.”

It was during his postdoctoral study ofPseudomonas, a bacterium that causes lunginfections in cystic fibrosis patients, atVirginia Commonwealth University’sMedical College of Virginia that Wood metthe scientist who would eventually steer hiscareer toward R. prowazekii and a safevaccine for typhus.

“I worked on a project with two mentors,Frank Macrina and Paul Phibbs, and learnedso much,” Wood explained about his post-doctoral experience. “Paul had done asabbatical at USA and knew HerbertWinkler’s work with Rickettsia. When Ifinished my post doc and was looking for areal job, Winkler and the former chair of thedepartment, Joe Coggin, were looking forsome young scientists. Paul suggested thatthey hire me.

“I worked with Pseudomonas for a whileand then went to a presentation by Winklerabout Rickettsia and got really excited aboutit. I wanted to apply my experience withPseudomonas to Rickettsia. It had neverbeen done before.”

That was in 1979. In the years that haveensued, Wood has developed into a mentorand teacher himself, as well as a productiveresearcher. He teaches genetics to graduatestudents and medical microbiology andimmunology to second-year medicalstudents. He particularly values having

Left:Dr. David O.

Wood examines apolyacrylamidegel that allowshim to separateand visualize

rickettsialproteins.Above:

Fluorescently-stained cells

show, in brightgreen, a lightinfection ofRickettsia

prowazekii.

PhotosbyWalterBeckham,PublicRelations,CollegeofMedicine,UniversityofSouthAlabama

graduate students in his laboratory.“My most rewarding work is with the

students, seeing them grow into scientists,”he said. “As a young scientist, you alwaysreach a point when you surpass your mentorin the work you are doing, and they have.And they let me know it!”

Wood has served as president of theAmerican Society of Rickettsiology and as amember of the Bacteriology and MycologyStudy Section of the NIH, a peer-reviewbody that determines which scientific grants

receive funding. He also has served aspresident of the Southeastern Branch of theAmerican Society for Microbiology.

A NOBLE QUESTAlthough outbreaks of epidemic typhus

now are rare, the potential for mass fatalitiesremains very real in any part of the worldwhere infrastructure crumbles andpopulations are forced to live in close,unhygienic quarters without ready access tothe right antibiotics. Hans Zinsser (1878-

1940), an American bacteriologist andimmunologist who was an internationalauthority on typhus, long ago described whythe work of Wood and other R. prowazekiiresearchers remains so important today.

Zinsser published Rats, Lice and History in1935, a time when typhus already had becomea significantly smaller threat than it had beenthroughout history. In his book, Zinsserdeclared that typhus is not dead and warnedthat it could emerge “whenever humanstupidity and brutality give it a chance.”

DAVID O.

WOOD HAS

MORE CONNEC-

TION TO HIS

UNDERGRADUATE

ALMA MATER

THAN MOST.“When I say Berry, it means

home to me,” he declared.Born in Rome, Wood and his

family moved to Pine Lodge onthe Mountain Campus when hewas in the second grade. Hisfather, Richard, had taken aposition with what was then theMount Berry School for Boys assteward at Hill Dining Hall. Hismother, Jean, always worked byhis father’s side.Wood and younger sister

Donna had lots of places to playon the world’s largest campus andenjoyed growing up with thechildren of other Berry employees– the Geraldsons, Bowens,Lovedays and others – who,according to Wood, were “allBerry,” just like his parents. Theyounger kids always looked up tothe high school boys.

“They were all my heroes,” heremembered. “I alwaysconsidered them to be adults.”When the time came, Wood

attended Berry Academy himselfand was assigned to work on thecleaning crew.“As a child, I always wanted to

work with my dad in the dininghall,” he remembered. “But Mr.Loveday, the headmaster, was asmart person and realized Ineeded experience outside of myfather’s circle.”Eventually, Wood got his wish

and was assigned to Hill DiningHall. And then as a collegestudent, he spent his studentwork hours in the Ford andBlackstone dining halls, as well asin Krannert Center’s Valhalla Grilland cooking and serving forbanquets. By this time, his fatherhad become director of foodservices for Berry, a position heenjoyed until his death in 1993.“As I look back, my biggest

impression about Berry is howmuch the staff had to do with theexperience of the students

there,” Wood stated. “Everyonewas dedicated to the students’growth and learning, includingthe staff members.”His parents’ lives are testimony

to his own experience.“My Mom and Dad were Berry

through and through,” Woodsaid, “and one achievement thatmy Dad was most proud of was anamed scholarship that wasstarted by a former high schoolstudent. I think you see this oftenat Berry where staff members hadsuch an impact on students.” [TheRichard Wood Scholarship wasestablished in 1977 by JerryBowen (60H). It is an expendablescholarship that has continued tobe supported by the Wood familyand friends.]David O. Wood has more than

a personalized high school andundergraduate education tocredit Berry for, however. First,there is his name.“There was another David

Wood – David H. Wood, son ofHoyt Wood, who ran thewaterworks,” he explained. “We

were in the same class from thefirst grade and into college. That’swhy I always use the “O” in myname. I was always ‘David O.”And then there is his family.“I met my wife at Berry – that

changed things too!” he laughed.Wood first sighted the former

Alta Breeden (70C) when bothwere serving food at a MountainDay picnic and boldly asked theupperclasswoman to the dancethat evening. All these years later,theirMountainDay romance lives on.The couple has two sons,

Richard (33) and Andrew (28). Altais retired from teaching chemistryand the physical sciences to 8th

graders. Wood’smother, Jean,now resides inMobile.

“ ”My most rewarding work

is with the students,seeing them grow into scientists.

Berrythrough and through

ParentsRichard andJean Wood

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SPURRINGSUCCESSby Rick Woodall

A quick peek into

Billy Blanchard’s background reveals

everything you might expect of a bank

president: a strong family pedigree, 15 years of

hands-on experience, a degree in business

administration from Berry and, of course,

two years riding the range out West.

WAIT A MINUTE! What was that last

qualification again?


That’s right. Before Blanchard (93C) startedhis career at CB&T in his hometown ofColumbus, Ga., he joined Berry classmateMike Worlow (93C) for a once-in-a-lifetimeadventure working at Colorado’s Lost ValleyRanch.

“It was totally out of left field,” Blanchardrecounted. “I had been to Colorado snowskiing but had never worked on a ranch. Ididn’t know a lot about horses or ranching.It just kind of happened.”

For nearly two years, Blanchard tended tocattle, led horseback rides and interactedwith guests who – like Billy Crystal andfriends in the movie City Slickers – wereseeking temporary escape from the trials andtribulations of everyday life. Listening toothers talk about their difficulties with workand marriage helped Blanchard crystallize inhis own mind what he wanted out of life.

“There’s so much that I learned andgained out there in addition to just enjoyingthe mountains and that type of work,” he

stated. “It was an incredible experience.”Today, as a bank president, civic leader,

husband and father of three, Blanchard is farremoved from his ranching days. Still, thereare times when he can’t help but reminisceabout a much simpler period of his life.

“I do think about it a lot, especially whentimes get particularly difficult,” he said. “I sitback and daydream about those experiencesand those mountains.”

BORN TO LEAD

While he likes to recall his days as aranch hand, Blanchard draws greatersatisfaction from the life he has built inColumbus with his wife, Olivia, and theirthree children: Russell, Betsy and Walter. Hecredits Olivia with helping him keep hispriorities in line as he has worked his waythrough the company.

“I’ve got an incredible wife who is verysupportive of what I’m doing,” he said.“She’s a good check and balance on where

my priorities are and where my mind is.”Family is a major priority for Blanchard,

as is his Christian faith. He has drawnstrength from both while working his way upfrom a management associate position atCB&T to recognition as one of the state’sleading young professionals; he wasappointed bank president at the age of 38.

Although he is only the 10th person tohold that title since the bank first opened itsdoors in 1888, he is the third member of hisfamily to do so. His father, James H.Blanchard, is a former Berry College trusteewho spent 12 years as CB&T president, from1971 to 1983, and later served as chairmanand CEO of Synovus Corp. (the parentcompany for CB&T and numerous otheraffiliate banks across the Southeast). Hisgrandfather, the late James W. Blanchard,also spent 12 years as CB&T president, from1957 to 1969.

“My grandfather’s and my dad’s portraitsare on the wall in our boardroom, and I’ve

Blanchard sathigh in thesaddle as aranch hand

before turninghis attention to

banking.

RYAN GIBSON


been sitting under their watchful eyes for 15years,” Blanchard told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer at the time of his 2009 appoint-ment. “My grandfather died two years beforeI was born. I never knew him. So what I doknow of him I know because I have workedat the bank and met people who knew him,and just to be able to follow him and followmy dad is very special.”

Blanchard maintains a close relationshipwith his father, now retired, and credits hisparents for instilling a strong set of corevalues in their sons but never pressuringthem “to be or to do any certain thing.” Thecounsel provided by his father has provenespecially valuable in recent years asBlanchard and his colleagues grapple withan economic downturn unmatched since theGreat Depression.

“He’s always available and willing toshare and to help,” the younger Blanchardstated. “The times we’re living in today in thebanking industry are a new experience, even

for him. He and his contemporaries havegone through recessions, but obviously,nobody has seen this. In a way, we’reexperiencing some things for the first timetogether. I’m able to pick up on theprinciples and core values he gained over hisyears in this business and learn a lot throughthe challenges we’re now going through.”

Early in his career, Blanchard put a greatdeal of pressure on himself “to be perfect,because I assumed that dad was.” Today, helooks back on that “immature notion” fromthe perspective of a successful professionalwho is his own man.

“I know that my father has some amazinggifts and talents that I don’t have,”Blanchard said. “I also know that I havesome that he’s not as good at. I need to beme. I’ve gotten more comfortable with thatfact and with not trying to be somebody I’mnot. That’s a fun place to be.”

While his industry has faced manychallenges in recent years, Blanchard’s beliefin the value of community banks remainsunshaken, and he feels privileged andhonored to be part of the CB&T team.

“I have not been tempted to lose faith inbankers or banks,” he said. “The worldleading up to this recession got really out ofkilter. It wasn’t any one thing. It was dozensof things that all worked together through along period of time that helped us get to thatcrisis. And we’ve all learned from it andgrown from it.”

INVESTING IN OTHERS

Blanchard delights in playing an activerole in civic affairs, and his role at the bankaffords him many opportunities to do so. Hehas contributed his time and talents tonumerous organizations, including theDevelopment Authority of Columbus, theGreater Columbus Chamber of Commerceand the United Way.

He finds efforts that contribute to thelong-term economic health of Columbus andthe surrounding community to beparticularly meaningful and points to thework being done by the local developmentauthority to facilitate job creation.

“You do so much for society when you arepart of helping somebody have a job,” hestated. “When you are part of that process,you give people the ability to earn a living, tohave a sense of worth, to provide for theirfamily and to educate their children. Itcreates a better environment for the entirecommunity.”

BLANCHARD ON BERRY

Long before he was a bank president – ora cowboy, for that matter – Blancharddeveloped an appreciation for getting hishands dirty, literally, as a groundskeeper onBerry’s Mountain Campus. Whether he wasmowing grass or pulling weeds, he stillremembers the sense of accomplishment hefelt whenever he completed a project.

“You can see the result of your workimmediately,” he explained. “You can lookback on it and say, ‘Yeah, I did that, and itlooks good.’ That’s one thing that’s hard inthe business world. There’s not necessarily aphysical result. Sometimes it’s hard to lookdown and say, ‘This is what I just did.’”

Blanchard had already been accepted tothe University of Georgia when he firstvisited Berry with his father. The beauty ofthe campus was impossible to ignore,especially for someone possessing a stronglove of nature and the outdoors, and hewound up attending Berry as a participant inthe WinShape Program.

“I think I learned how to work hard atBerry,” he stated. “It wasn’t so much thework program – that made a big difference inmy resume and the way people looked at meafter college – but having to work to besuccessful in school and commit the timeand energy to study and be prepared, even ifI wanted to be doing something else.”

Today, as a member of the Board of Visitors,Blanchard is committed to helping currentand future students develop similar skills.

“Berry is an incredible place,” he said. “Itprovides and offers so much for so manyyoung people, just like it did for me. The factthat anybody up there would want me to stayconnected and be involved is an honor, andit’s a lot of fun.”

Pictured with former FirstLady Laura Bush and his wife,Olivia, Blanchard was apresenter at the 2010 JimBlanchard Leadership Forum,held at Columbus StateUniversity’s CunninghamCenter for LeadershipDevelopment.

I think I learned how towork hard at Berry.

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LANE’S CREATIVE IMAGES


Forty-five years later Smith has once againstarted the school year at Berry, but this timeshe did so with joy in her heart and a strongsense of purpose – just as she has each of thelast two years. After a lifelong career as aneducator and administrator in public schoolsystems, Smith bypassed retirement twoyears ago to serve as director of Pathways toTeaching, a Berry program designed to helpminority students prepare for careers ineducation. It’s a post that seems tailor-madefor her – in more ways than one.

AN INAUSPICIOUS BEGINNING

“When I came to Berry as a student, itwas eye-opening,” Smith recalled. “TheVietnam War was going on. There were raceriots. People at Berry were not like my family;they had different ideas about things. I hadled a sheltered life growing up in Rockmart,and by making me come to Berry, I thoughtmy parents were throwing me to the wolves.”

It is not surprising that she felt that way,quickly finding herself unprepared for the

rigors of academic life at Berry and uncom-fortable in a totally unfamiliar setting.

“I knew I was not skilled in most of myclasses,” she said. “I had never writtenpapers using any kind of writing format. Myhigh school science labs were archaiccompared to those at Berry. And the librarywas a huge gulf of knowledge that I didn’tknow how to maneuver. Valhalla and thestudent center were two of the mostintimidating places for me to go to. I didn’thave a clue about how to use Berry’sresources or how to engage with people.”

Although Smith felt ill-prepared,discouraged and out of place at first, peoplesoon emerged from within the collegecommunity to help nurture and empowerher. Her bright smile, happy disposition andfriendliness won her many friends and madeher years here memorable. She especiallyenjoyed dorm life and her roommates.

“There was so much camaraderie backthen,” she recalled with a smile. “I lived inClara and Mary. We would stay up late at

The year was 1965. The Sound of Music was in theaters. Gasoline cost31 cents a gallon. The Voting Rights Act guaranteeing blacks the right to votebecame law. And 17-year-old Beverly Philpot Smith (69C), who longed for theexcitement of Atlanta and the promise of friends that Spelman College, MorrisBrown College and Clark-Atlanta University offered, reluctantly began herfreshman year as a minority student at Berry College.

Pathwa s

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night talking and playing cards. My familywould come every other Sunday to bringfood and supplies, and my roommates lovedto see them because my grandma could cook.”

Many things stand out in Smith’s memory– Victory Lake in all its beauty, wearing a“pink outfit” that she hated during MountainDay, a teacher who made literature comealive, watching light filter through the chapelwindows on reverent Sunday mornings,working with the Ford cleaning crew, andthe lesson that “You don’t have a problemwith race and ethnicity, others do.”

As graduation drew near, Smith wasoffered a job at Berry, but staying was notpart of her plan.

“Dan Biggers [then director of counselingand a placement officer] told me that thereare all kinds of avenues set before you in life,and you have to choose what seems right foryou at the time. I didn’t want to stay inGeorgia. I knew there was a world out there,and I wanted freedom.”

Smith bought a one-way bus ticket to NewYork City, and the die was cast. Little did sheknow that she would launch a career paththat would lead her back to Berry.

A NATURAL-BORN TEACHER

Soon after arriving in the Big Apple,Smith – who had majored in English –applied for a job as a typist at Saks FifthAvenue, but the employment agent sawsomething more in her.

“She told me, ‘I think you can teach,’ andsent me to apply for a position with theBaldridge Reading and Study SkillsProgram,” Smith explained.

She interviewed for the job, was hired onthe spot and spent the next 18 monthsteaching the program’s curriculum in

seminars across the country. At a stop inOhio, she met the man who would becomeher husband, Marvin Smith, and her days asa traveling teacher came to an end. But herdesire to teach lingered on.

In 1971, she took a job with the OhioYouth Commission and spent seven yearsteaching English to troubled children. Overthe next 10 years, she taught at schools inFlorida and back home in Georgia, all thewhile working toward her master’s degree insupervision and administration. She alsoserved in the U.S. Army National Guard forsix of those years.

In 1988, she became assistant principal ofinstruction at Model High School in Romeand two years later took the helm ofMcHenry Elementary School as principal. In1993, she joined the Floyd County SchoolSystem where she served as curriculumdirector and director of teacher instructionalsupport while earning a doctorate ineducational leadership from ArgosyUniversity in Florida.

TEACHING THE TEACHERS

Smith was on the verge of retirementwhen Dr. Jackie McDowell, dean of Berry’sCharter School of Education and HumanSciences, called and made her an offer shecouldn’t refuse.

“Beverly has had such an impact oneducation,” McDowell said. “She has livedthe model for 30 years and has beenincreasingly successful in school districtswhere she was a minority. She has a sense ofprofessionalism, and she sees teaching as acalling. When I heard that she might beavailable, I knew that she would be aninspiration to our minority students whowant to become teachers.”

McDowell’s instinct was on target.“Whenever Dr. Smith is engaged with the

students, she has a warm smile, and you cantell that she wants to be there,” said MarissaArchie, a Berry senior and Pathwaysprogram participant who has assisted Smithwith a freshman orientation class. “The roomjust brightens up when she walks in, and youcan see the students settling down andgetting ready to learn. When they raise theirhands to say something, she really listens.And if someone’s down, she is there toencourage them to keep going.”

In addition to her part-time role asPathways program director, Smith teachesOrientation to Teaching as well as Berry’sorientation class for all freshmen. She alsosupervises a student teacher, advisesstudents, and meets with students and theirparents.

Archie said the most important thingSmith has taught her is to be positive aboutlife and to bring that attitude into theclassroom.

“It’s wonderful to see that she loves whatshe does and that she puts her whole heartinto her work,” Archie said. “She’s taught meto do what I’m passionate about.”

THE RIGHT PLACE

When McDowell first contacted Smithabout taking a position at Berry in lieu ofretirement, she hesitated. Then she askedherself what good she could do if she retired.

“You never know what seeds you’replanting,” Smith said about her later-in-lifeteaching mission. “I love sharing myexperiences with students who have thepassion and desire to be teachers. Comingback wasn’t hard. I realized that Berry is theright place for me to be.”

“I admire Beverly for her tenacity duringracially turbulent times in education. Shenever let go of the expectation that all

children can learn. We try to teach youngteachers persistence, to instill in them the

conviction that all children can learn and thatclassrooms must be inclusive and welcomingplaces. Beverly shows us all how to do that.”

– Dr. Jackie McDowellDean, Charter School of Education and

Human Sciences

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Setting theexample


LEARN. LIVE. GIVE.

EACH DONOR HAS HIS OR

HER OWN REASON FOR

SUPPORTING BERRY AND ITS

STUDENTS. Bob Webb (47H) haslots of them.

Webb appreciates the atmo-sphere of support for studentstoday. He loves, respects andcompletely trusts Berry PresidentSteve Briggs. He feels “heard”about giving today’s students theopportunity to work their waythrough school like he did. Andhe knows that Berry changed hislife, just as it will change thelives of all the young womenand men who experience itsunique educational programfirsthand.

Webb has been a Berrybenefactor before. Recently,however, he and good friendJohn Hamrick (43H, 47c) putWebb’s most outstanding contr-ibution to work for Berry students– literally. Through a combinedgift of cash and a planned giftthat will come to Berry upon hispassing, Webb has endowed theBob Webb/John Hamrick CEOposition for The Berry FarmsGenetics Enterprise. It is thefirst student work position forwhich full funding has beencommitted.

The student in the Webb/Hamrick position each year willhead up Berry’s geneticsenterprise, one of about a dozenstudent-run businesses alreadyoperating under the auspices ofBerry’s Student Enterprises

initiative. Through this program,students have the opportunity toconceive, plan for, launch andoperate real Berry businesses.Additional enterprises operatingunder the Berry Farms labelinclude Jersey Milk, Jersey Beef,Angus Beef, Season’s Harvestand Martha’s Herbs. Otherstudent enterprises include abike repair and maintenanceservice and The Cottages atBerry; more are on the drawingboard. Many students in enter-prise leadership positions willhold Gate of Opportunityscholarships, which offer studentsthe chance to work their waythrough college.

WEBB’S FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE

Webb is fully convinced thatif it hadn’t been for Berry, he’dbe in jail or the cemetery.

“When I went to Berry, Ididn’t need an education,” hedeclared with a chuckle, “becauseI already knew everything!”

It was his mother who insistedhe leave his hometown of BuenaVista in South Georgia for theBerry campus. “And when mymother said, ‘You will do it,’you’d better get ready, becauseyou’re going to do it,” he recalled.

John Hamrick’s father – thelate Grady Hamrick (12H),superintendent of the MountBerry School for Boys – had asignificant positive effect onWebb’s life.

“If I liked you, I was as sweet

as can be,” Webb declared. “Ifnot, I was as mean as a snake. Igot in fights all the time. Mr.Hamrick called me in a half-dozen times to lay down the law.I always talked myself out oftrouble, and Mr. Hamrick startedto tell me how smart I was andhow if I’d just use my smarts theright way, I’d be an ‘A’ student.”

It was in the summer of 1942– when Webb was drafted intothe service and went back toBerry to pick up his belongingsbefore heading into World WarII – that the elder Hamrick hadhis most profound impact.

“He took me to the busstation and told me how muchhe loved me and all the boys atthe school,” Webb recalled. “Ialmost cried then. I’m almost

Webbat work for work

Bob Webb, second from left,examines a Berry Jersey bullthat will be used for breedingpurposes in Texas. Joining him,from left, are friend Rod Aide,Berry dairy supervisor BenWilson, and student workersOlivia Matthews and TannerBarham.

by Karilon L. Rogers

crying now. I wrote to him whilein the Army. He alwaysanswered. He always answeredall the boys who were draftedand wrote to him.”

Webb returned to Berry afterthe war to graduate from highschool in 1947. He went on tomuch success in life, withcareers ranging from installingOtis elevators to establishing aworm farm that sold millions of

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“good fishing worms.” Hisfriendship with the youngerHamrick has spanned decades –their time together ebbing andflowing with life changes. Nowthey check on each other weeklyfrom their homes at oppositeends of the state. It is often saidthat if you see one on the Berrycampus, you will see the other.Their friendship is strong andvery important to both of them.

LAUNCHING FUTURES

The Webb/Hamrick studentwork position is already sup-porting Berry students andchanging lives – just as Webb’slife was changed at Berry. SeniorAnthony Bonazza currentlyholds the position and knowswhat a rare gift he has beengiven.

“I could not be more gratefulfor having a position like this,”

Bonazza said. “Nothingcompares to hands-onexperience. Nothing.”

Berry has long boasted one ofthe top Jersey herds in thenation; now the student geneticsteam is working to furtherenhance the herd and spread theword about its quality. Thestudent enterprise focuses onbreeding for better genetics,flushing embryos for sale, andselling high quality cows andbulls. Last spring, the enterprisewent international when it sold50 Jersey embryos to Jamaicandairies. More recently, the teamsold two young bulls withexceptional genetics to areproductive technologies firm.

Last year, Bonazza, a businessmajor, headed up the Jersey Beefstudent enterprise. An internshipat a dairy farm over the summer,however, cemented his interest

in reproductive tech-nology, encouraging himto take over the Webb/Hamrick position when itbecame open. Bonazzaplans to pursue a master’sdegree in reproductivegenetics and then go intoagribusiness.

“I can’t even tell you inwords how this experience willhelp me in the future,” Bonazzasaid. “I feel like I’ve been in acannon that shot me so farahead of where I ever thoughtI’d be right now. If you’d haveasked me as a freshman if I’dhave been CEO of a genetics

Giving to the Annual Fund:When only digital will do

IF YOU’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO SUPPORT BERRY STUDENTS

THROUGH ANNUAL FUND PARTICIPATION but find onlydigital doable, two new technologies have your name on them:mobile giving and recurring giving. Both allow you to supportstudent work and scholarships at Berry via your technology ofchoice.Through the Mobile Giving Foundation, you can now use the

same cutting-edge technology that let you vote for an AmericanIdol contestant or text a donation in response to the earthquakedevastation in Haiti to make a gift to Berry College. To make aone-time $10 donation to the Annual Fund simply text the wordBerry, followed by your first and last name, to 20222. All chargesare billed by and payable to your service provider (messagingand data rates may apply).

Some of the youngest members of our alumni communityrequested the ability to schedule small monthly giving install-ments in order to maximize their ability to support Berry. Theyspoke; we listened. And now a secure and flexible recurringgiving system is available online. You can choose the amount youwant to give each month, and you can change or cancel yourpledge at any time. Just visit www.berry.edu/givingmethods tosign up.Every gift in support of the Berry Annual Fund is important. By

uniting the individual gifts of thousands of alumni and friends(whether mailed, texted, made online

or hand-delivered), the AnnualFund makes a real difference inthe lives of real students. Thanks

for participating before June 30,2011. (And if digital is not your thing,please feel free to use the AnnualFund envelope included in this issueof Berry magazine!)

enterprise, I would never havebelieved it.”

Thanks to Webb andHamrick, Bonazza has anopportunity he never dreamedpossible. And thanks to theendowed position that bearstheir names, many students inthe future will too.

Work comes naturally togood friends Bob Webb(above) and John Hamrick, who have supported AlumniWork Week as well as student work at Berry.

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”“Nothing compares tohands-on experience. Nothing.

– Anthony Bonazza,recipient of the Bob Webb/John Hamrick CEOposition for The Berry Farms Genetics Enterprise

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EVERY GIFT IN SUPPORT OF

BERRY STUDENTS IS

IMPORTANT AND VALUED.

Whether you choose to supportthe Work Experience Program,endow or contribute to ascholarship, give consistently tothe Annual Fund in support ofscholarships and work, orsupport a building project likethe Cage Center, you becomepart of making an importantdifference in the lives of Berrystudents. Thank you!It is our privilege to recognize

all Berry supporters on our online2009-10 Honor Roll of Donors(www.berry.edu/honorroll). Wehope you’ll take a look. In themeantime, please review thefollowing list of gifts and newpledges of $10,000 or more thatwere made from May 1 toAug. 31, 2010.Anonymous, $25,000 addition tothe Betty Anne Rouse BellEndowed Scholarship and tosupport student scholarships

Anonymous, $75,000 for theplacement of oak trees alongthe Road of Remembranceand Memorial Drive

D. Randolph and Nancy Berry,$25,000 for the BerryInformation TechnologyStudents (B.I.T.S.) program

Steven J. Cage (74C), $10,000for the general fund

Alton H. (61C) and Becky (61C)Christopher, $10,000 tosupport the 1961C Gate ofOpportunity EndowedScholarship in honor of their50th class reunion

Earl DeVane (45C), $50,000,including $25,000 for the Earland Karleen Douglas DeVaneEndowed Scholarship and anadditional $25,000 charitablegift annuity that will one daygo to the scholarship

Ellen Dierenfeld, $10,000 in-kindgift of science equipment

Lamar Fletcher (66A), $10,000for the Jimmy R. FletcherMemorial EndowedScholarship

Frances Wood WilsonFoundation, $20,000 tosupport the Steven J. CageAthletic and RecreationCenter

Georgia Foundation forIndependent Colleges,$15,399 for the general fund

Hubert Judd Charitable Trust,$15,450 for the general fund

Judy Lane Gilbert MemorialFoundation, $11,515 gift forthe Judy Lane Gilbert Gate ofOpportunity Scholarship

Roger (79C) and Candy (82C)Lusby, $10,000, including$9,850 for the general fundand $150 for the Class of2010 gift fund

Donors make the differenceThe William B. Stokely Jr.Foundation, $10,000 for theWilliam B. Stokely Jr.Scholarship

C.B. “Buster” Wright (73C),$10,000 addition to the JaniceWright Endowed Scholarship

The John Zellars Jr. Foundation,$10,000 to support the

Tibbals/Zellars Gate ofOpportunity Scholarship

BEQUESTSThe estate of James Fletcher toestablish the Jimmy R. FletcherMemorial Endowed Scholarship

The estate of Earl Mackery forthe Steven J. Cage Athleticand Recreation Center

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Donors loyal in good times … and bad

LOYALTY. FAITHFULNESS. ALLEGIANCE. BELIEF. Those arethe qualities Berry supporters demonstrated dramatically

during the 2009-10 fiscal year (July 1, 2009 – June 30, 2010). At atime when giving in support of education was down 3.6 percentnationally, the Berry Annual Fund was up 9.4 percent, and alumnigiving overall grew to its second highest total in the last 10 years.Support for scholarships, the Work Experience Program and theCage Center led the way in donor preference. Planned giving –making preparations now for a future gift to Berry – was very popular.One of the most heartwarming stories came in the form of

support from the Berry “family.” Every member of the BerryCollege Board of Trustees made a gift to Berry in 2009-10, while 98percent of both the Alumni Council and the faculty/staff gaveBerry a vote of confidence through giving. The Board of Visitorsincreased participation by 36 percent, and the senior class blewthe roof off, tripling participation in giving compared to the yearbefore.“There is no doubt that our alumni and friends believe strongly

in the Berry mission and want to help today’s students come toBerry and have a world-class educational experience,” saidBettyann O’Neill, vice president for advancement. “Support iscritical as we work to build the premier student Work ExperienceProgram in the nation and to meet expanding need for studentscholarships. We know times are tough economically and aregrateful for every single gift. Thank you!”


their stories:

WHEN YOU’RE THE FOURTH OF SIX CHILDREN, THERE ARE

SOME THINGS THAT YOU JUST KNOW.You just know, for example, that you’ll be wearing your older

siblings’ hand-me-downs, and you just know that someone isalways going to be standing at the bathroom door saying, “Hurryup.” And unless your last name is Gates, Buffett or Walton, youjust know that you’re probably going to have to find a way to payfor college yourself.

That’s exactly what Lindsay Tutt did – with the help of severalgenerous Berry donors.

“With such a big family, my parents had been able to save onlya little money for me to go to college,” said Tutt, a senior biologymajor from Rome. “So during my senior year in high school, Iworked really hard to find as many scholarships as I could so Icould come to Berry.”

Tutt’s diligence paid off when she was awarded two veryspecial scholarships – one from members of the Berry Collegefamily, the A. Milton and Jo Ann Chambers EndowedScholarship, and one from a long-time friend of the college, theLettie Pate Whitehead Foundation Scholarship.

“Their support has made a world of difference for me,” shesaid. “My parents helped all they could, but without thosescholarships, I wouldn’t be here.”

Tutt added that knowing others were investing in hereducation made her even more dedicated to studying and doingwell in her classes. When she graduates, Tutt will be the firstperson in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree. Her two youngersisters now want to follow in her footsteps and go to college.

Tutt, who describes herself as ambitious, driven and confidenteven before coming to Berry, said the college has molded her intoa different person.

“I wasn’t shy before, but at Berry I have gained even more self-confidence,” she said, citing her student work experience as amajor source of personal growth. She has participated in theWork Experience Program since she was a freshman, advancingto a student supervisor’s position. She is responsible for trainingand supervising 11 students in the financial aid office and

overseeing a team ofseven student callersin the FirsthandFoner Program (anadmissions outreachinitiative). She knowsshe has developedskills that will proveinvaluable in hercareer.

“My student workjob has taught metime managementand how tocommunicate andwork with a varietyof personalities,” Tutt said. “I feel like I’ve built the skills I needto run my own company some day.”

Tutt dreams of becoming an orthodontist or pediatric dentistand is convinced that successfully navigating Berry’s challengingacademic program has prepared her well for the rigors of dentalschool. She has worked hard for the bright future she sees ahead,and she isquick toacknowledgethose whomade hereducationpossible.

“Whatthese donorshave done means the world to me,” she said. “I am eternallygrateful. It takes having a big heart to share your success and togive like that. They’ve made a great investment in me, and itmakes me want to succeed so I can give someone else theopportunity to get a great education.”

Determined to succeedLindsay Tutt grateful for donors’ generosity

LindsayStudents’ lives shaped by scholarships

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”“My parents helped allthey could, but withoutthose scholarships, Iwouldn’t be here.

by Debbie Rasure

LEARN. LIVE. GIVE.


WHEN CATHY ANDERSON

(77C) DECIDED TO GIVE

HER PRIZED STÜBBEN SADDLE

to Berry College equestrian teammember Madison Harris, shewanted to encourage andsupport the young horsewoman.Instead, with a little help fromHarris, she ended up encouragingand supporting the whole team.

The pair met when Harristook Anderson and several ofher friends on a tour of Oak Hilland The Martha Berry Museum,where Harris, a sophomoreanimal science major, was astudent worker during thesummer. The women beganchatting, and talk soon turned toa shared passion – horses.

“She was such an enthusi-astic young lady and so excitedabout her equestrian team,” saidAnderson. “It brought back a lotof memories of my days takingriding lessons at Berry. I was

happy to know that the school Iattended was continuing to offerthis great sport.”

Anderson’s passion for horsescontinued throughout the years,inspiring her late husband,Woody Anderson, to give her abeautiful thoroughbred quarterhorse and the Stübben saddleone year for her birthday.Because she has less time thesedays to enjoy riding – as ownerof Woody Anderson Ford inHuntsville, Ala. – Anderson hadbegun to look for someone whoshared her passion for horsesand riding to pass the saddle onto. When she met Harris, sheknew right away that she was“the one.”

Her generosity took Harris bysurprise.

“I just stared at her for amoment. I was speechless,”Harris said. “This is the greatestthing anyone has ever done for

me. You just don’t see that kindof selflessness very often.”

And yet, Harris is showingthat same selflessness. Not onlyis she sharing the saddle withher teammates now, but she alsointends to give the saddle to theequestrian team after shegraduates.

What doesAndersonthink ofHarris’plan?

“It’sobvious thatI selected the right

person to have that saddlebecause she wants to share itwith others so they can enjoy ittoo,” Anderson said. “That’s theBerry way.”

In addition to the saddle, thissummer Anderson also providedthe college a cobalt blue 2011

Ford Fiesta, completewith the Berry

CollegeStudentEnterpriseslogo, for

use by thestudents and staff

on the enterprises team.

Inspiring generosity

Equestrian team member Madison Harris and her horse, Sassy,show off the Stübben saddle donated by fellow equineenthusiast Cathy Anderson (77C).

Powerful first impressionTOM AND FLORINDA DRAPER MADE JUST TWO VISITS TO

BERRY COLLEGE, but that was more than enough to create abond that will last much longer than two lifetimes. Income from acharitable remainder trust the couple established many years agohas now passed to their final named beneficiary: Berry College.The trust is currently valued at nearly $1.5 million.The Drapers first visited Berry in the 1950s when Tom was

working on a film project. Decades later, Tom sent a letter toBerry requesting bequest information.“My wife and I visited Mount Berry some years ago and were

impressed with what you are doing,” he wrote.The Delaware couple’s second and final visit came in 1977.

Afterward, they once again expressed appreciation for all they hadexperienced.“It was a deep satisfaction to see the additions at Mt. Berry

since our last visit,” Florinda wrote in a letter to the late InezHenry, then emerita assistant to the Berry president. “Truly, theBerry Schools are an inspiration to all educators.”The couple’s trust has provided income for family beneficiaries

since Tom passed away in 1986 (Florinda preceded him in death ayear earlier). These beneficiaries have now passed away, andfuture income from the trust is now being directed to Berry.Thanks to the Drapers’ long-sighted generosity, their funds willbenefit Berry students in perpetuity.

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?WHERECLASS YEARS are followed by an uppercase or lowercase letterthat indicates the following status:C College graduateG Graduate school alumna/usA Academy graduateH High school graduatec,g Anticipated year of graduation from Berry Collegea Anticipated year of graduation from academyh Anticipated year of graduation from high schoolFFS Former faculty and staffFS Current faculty and staff

SEND ALL CLASS NOTES TO: [email protected] or AlumniOffice, P.O. Box 495018, Mount Berry, GA 30149-5018

All class notes are subject to editing due to space limitations. Classnotes and death notices in this issue include those received throughAug. 31, 2010.

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ALUMNI CLASS NOTES

1950sDaniel K. Murphy Jr. (56H)

graduated in May from LibertyUniversity, Lynchburg, Va., with aBachelor of Science degree inmultidisciplinary studies and aBachelor of Science degree inpsychology with a minor in biblicalstudies.

1960sWillard Ferguson (65C) was

voted chairman of the HabershamCounty (Ga.) Water and SewerAuthority. He is continuing work ongaining a permit from EPD to beginconstruction of a countywide watersystem as well as to help strengthenlocal community wastewaterprograms.

Jeanie Slatton Crain (69C) is aprofessor at Missouri Western StateUniversity and has written andpublished the book Reading theBible as Literature.

1970sLee Wayne Rich (73C) and

Connie Krohne Rich (75c) have bothretired from long careers ineducation. Wayne worked for theClayton Public School System for 37years in posts that included principalof Lovejoy High School and directorof the Career Academy and DualEnrollment programs. Connie was akindergarten teacher for ClaytonCounty Schools. She also served theCommunity Christian School as athird-, fourth- and fifth-grade teacherand as a certified teacher for theNational Institute for LearningDisabilities. The couple has twoadult sons and one granddaughter.In retirement, Wayne plans to workas chairman of the board forConnecting Clayton Inc., whileConnie will pursue flower gardening.The couple hopes to travel.

Scott D. Purswell (77C) andCathy McFerrin Purswell (76C) weremarried Dec. 27, 2009, in Kennesaw,Ga. Scott is the owner of DovetailedKitchens in Portsmouth, N.H., andCathy is the owner of Atlanta HomeBrokers in Kennesaw.

Roger W. Lusby III (79C) is themanaging partner of the newAlpharetta office for Frazier &Deeter LLC, which was ranked thissummer by the Atlanta Business

Chronicle as Atlanta’s eighth largestCPA firm and the fastest growingCPA firm by revenue over the pastfive years.

1980sDeidre Mercer Martin (85C) was

executive producer for the documen-tary Edgewood: Stage of SouthernHistory about a historic house inAiken, S.C., now known as thePickens-Salley House. In thedocumentary, the house tells thestories of the people who lived,worked and visited there. Deidre isvice chancellor for universityadvancement at the University ofSouth Carolina Aiken, where thehouse is located.

Stephanie Lynn Carlyle (86C)participated in the British Universitiessummer school program through theEnglish Speaking Union. Lynnstudied in the history, politics andsociety program at Oxford Univer-sity.

Andrew Birkhead Craddock(89C) and Sharon Ostack Craddock(90C) were married Sept. 5, 2009, inFrost Chapel with the Rev. BillyCraddock officiating. The coupleresides in Suwanee, Ga. Together,they share seven children.

1990sShannon Moore Dunn (92C) was

elected to the Sumner County(Tenn.) school board. SumnerCounty has more than 25,000students and an annual budget ofmore than $175 million. She andhusband John Darrell Dunn (92C)reside in Goodlettsville, Tenn.

Lori Mathis Deal (93C) holds amaster’s degree in physical therapyfrom Pacific University and works inthe health ergonomics field. Shecurrently is operations manager forthe Northwest Region of PreCare, aleading national provider of on-siteinjury prevention and physicaltherapy services. Lori resides inOregon City, Ore., with husband Todand son Jacob (4).

David Lathen Grindle (93C) hasbeen appointed executive director ofthe United States Institute forTheatre Technology. He and hisfamily will be relocating to theorganization’s headquarters inSyracuse, N.Y.

Colin Thomas William (93C) andJennifer Marston William (92C)announce the March 27, 2010, birthof son Kai Marston, who joinedbrother Aidan at the family home inWest Lafayette, Ind.

Elizabeth Knoerle Barger (94C)and husband John announce theJune 18, 2009, birth of daughterLiliya Sakura. The family resides inLondon, England.

James “Josh” Marshall Tucker(95C), an athletic trainer at ShorterUniversity, Rome, was named theSouthern States Athletic ConferenceAthletic Trainer of the Year.

Breanna Tison Mead (96C) andhusband Mason announce the Aug.13, 2009, birth of son AndrewHarrison, who joined twin siblingsBenjamin and Mary Kathryn (2) atthe family home in Rome.

Marcus Ray Whitfield (96C) hasredeployed to Iraq as the battalionexecutive officer for 2nd Squadron,14th U.S. Cavalry Reconnaissance,Surveillance and Target AcquisitionBattalion of the 25th InfantryDivision, Schofield Barracks,Hawaii.

Kenna Grant Hart (97C) andhusband Eric announce the Aug. 12,2010, birth of son Mason Sanner,who joined brother Grant (4) andsister Amelia (2) at the familyresidence in Seattle, Wash.

Clifford Allen Lipscomb (98C)and wife Amelia announce the July

29, 2010, birth of daughterHadassah Frances, who joinedbrother Thoreau at the family homein Cartersville, Ga. Cliff is director ofeconomic research and runs theAtlanta office for GreenfieldAdvisors, a Seattle-based real estateconsulting firm.

2000sKelly Barney Blain (00C) and

husband Michael announce theMarch 13, 2010, birth of sonBrayden Scott. The family resides inRoxboro, N.C.

Jennifer Lynn Elmer (01C)earned a Master of Education degreein English in May 2010 from GeorgiaState University. She is an Englisheducator for the internationalbaccalaureate program at CampbellHigh School in Smyrna, Ga.

Heather Maddox Hutchins (01C)has been promoted to manager ofanalysis for Georgia-Pacific LLC,supporting the Dixie manufacturingteam both in Atlanta and in the fieldby providing financial analysis.

Justin Christopher Karch (01C,10G) received a Master of Educationdegree in middle grades math/socialstudies from Berry College in May.He works in the Berry Collegeadvancement office and is organistfor St. Andrew’s Anglican Churchand Holy Trinity Lutheran Church,both in Rome.


Ryan Dale Thompson (01C)received a Doctor of Psychologydegree from George Fox Universityin April 2010.

Lori Pope Todd (01C) andhusband Michael announce theApril 22, 2010, birth of daughterPeyton Nicole, who joined brotherTyler (3) in the family’s Brunswick,Ga., home. Lori received a master’sdegree in secondary education andis teaching science in Brunswick.

Joshua Thomas H. Brackett(02C) and Lindsey Payne Brackett(02C) announce the Feb. 19, 2010,birth of daughter Amelia Hope, whojoined sisters Madelynne Grace (5)and Annabelle Faith (4) at the familyhome in Clarkesville, Ga. Lindseyteaches middle school, and Joshuaworks for Habersham Bancorp.

Zachry Adam Caudell (02C) andDawn Ekema Caudell (03C)

announce the June 27, 2010, birth ofson Lincoln Nash, weighing 7pounds, 14 ounces and measuring20.5 inches long. Lincoln joinedbrother Parker at the family home inGrayson, Ga.

Matthew Paul Grisham (02C)and Kelly Daly Grisham (03C)announce the July 27, 2010, birth ofson Garrett Daly, weighing 7pounds, 12 ounces. Matthew is apediatrician, and Kelly is aveterinarian. The family resides inGreenville, S.C.

Daniela Bouldin Peele (02C) wasrecently promoted to proposalmanager for InfoPro Corp., a federaland state contractor headquarteredin Huntsville, Ala.

Canaan George Stevens (02C)and husband Travis announce theJune 11, 2010, birth of daughterGeorgia Vaill at Flagler Hospital in

St. Augustine, Fla. Georgia weighed7 pounds, 13 ounces and was 19.5inches long. Georgia joined siblingsRiley, Luke and Galilee at the familyresidence in Elkton, Fla.

Alison Suzanne Karch (03C)graduated magna cum laude in May2010 with a juris doctorate from theUniversity of Baltimore School ofLaw. She is working as a law clerkfor the Worcester County CircuitCourt in Snow Hill, Md.

Nicole Hunter Smith (03C) andhusband Matt announce the March12, 2010, birth of son Owen Draperweighing 8 pounds, 5 ounces andmeasuring 21 inches long. Owenjoined brother Logan Hunter (19months) at the family home inMount Pleasant, S.C.

Daniel Paul Greear (04C) andJessica Thompson Greear (02C)announce the July 25, 2010, birth ofdaughter Annalee Hope weighing 6pounds, 10 ounces and measuring18.25 inches long. Annalee joinedsister Alison (2) at the family homein McDonough, Ga. Jessica is ateacher with Georgia CyberAcademy, and Daniel is a sales andmarketing manager with Carroll TireCo.

Evan Conlon Hopkins (05C) andhusband Stephen announce the Aug.10, 2009, birth of triplets AndrewHelton, Bradley Conlon andCharlotte Nicole. The family residesin Douglasville, Ga.

Melanie Blanchard Morris (05C)and Rodney A. Morris were marriedAug. 7, 2010, in Alexandria, Va.,where they now reside. Melanieworks as an independent collectionsmanagement specialist for theSmithsonian in Washington, D.C.

Theodore Adriel Goshorn (06C)and Dana Mire Goshorn (07C)announce the May 24, 2010, birth ofson Jackson Paul weighing 7pounds, 15 ounces and measuring21 inches long. The family resides inMacon, Ga.

Frank Robert Petruzielo Jr.(06C) and Robin Smith, both Ph.D.students in physics at Cornell

University, were married July 11,2010, at Paoli Presbyterian Churchnear Philadelphia; their receptionwas held at Brantwyn Estate inWilmington, Del. Berry alumni inattendance included Andrew DavidLandis (06C) and best man JohnMichael Boyea (08C). The couple isplanning a honeymoon cruise thiswinter to escape the cold weather inIthaca, N.Y.

Jessica Garger Presley (06C,09G) and Shane Presley weremarried June 26, 2010, in FortWalton Beach, Fla., and reside inRome. Shane is enrolled in theradiologic technology program atGeorgia Northwestern Tech, andJessi is a fourth-grade teacher atWest Central Elementary School inRome.

Ryan Jackson Simmons (07C)and Helen Thomson Simmons (07C)were married March 13, 2010, in theBerry College Chapel and nowreside in Rome. The wedding partyincluded Scrap Sutton Ladson(07C), David Michael Bayne (06C),Kelli Nicole Gay (07C) andKatharine Wright Ladson (07C).Ryan and Helen met in theirfreshmen seminar class at Berry.They are traveling to Africa this yearto film a documentary on the needfor clean water.

Jonathan David Webster (07C)and Kipling Hopkins Webster (09C)were married Jan. 9, 2010, inMontevallo, Ala.

Zachary David Darling (09C) andShawn Carroll Darling (09C)announce the May 28, 2010, birth ofson Aidan Christopher. Zachary isthe junior varsity basketball coach atDunwoody High School in Atlanta,and Shawn is the varsity volleyballcoach at Heritage High School inConyers. The family resides inDecatur.

Lindsey Carolyn Mangham (09C)announces the Dec. 12, 2009, birthof son William Nathaniel Huttonweighing 7 pounds, 9 ounces andmeasuring 18.5 inches long. Thefamily resides in Gray, Ga.

LAURA GILLESPIE (08C) IS

LIVING PROOF THAT ONE GOOD

THING LEADS TO ANOTHER.

As a Ralph George Scholar inBerry’s psychology program,Gillespie experienced theresearch process firsthand, fromdeveloping a project to present-ing her results at professionalconferences. That experiencewon her a merit-based graduateassistantship at MiddleTennessee State University andhelped her land a job with one of the largest car manufacturersin the world.This May, after completing an internship at Nissan North

America, Gillespie was hired as a talent management analystand is working to help increase employee retention and createtraining and leadership development programs to support theoverall initiatives of Nissan in both North and South America.“My work as a George Scholar directly helped me get into a

great grad school, which helped me get my job with Nissan –something that wouldn’t have been possible without a goodBerry education,” she declared.

talentTrue


Frances Bray Lamb (44C) ofNewnan, Ga., July 4, 2010.

Dewey E. Large (44c) ofKnoxville, Tenn., Aug. 13, 2010.

James F. Levie (44H) of SanFrancisco, Calif., Jan. 8, 2010.

Lawrence W. Bandy Sr. (45c) ofArmuchee, Ga., July 24, 2010.

Harlan A. Beasley (45c) of LasCruces, N.M., Oct. 25, 2009.

Margaret Tison Cummings (45C)of Jacksonville, Fla., May 27, 2010.

Katie Barrett Helton (45C) ofMurfreesboro, Tenn., Oct. 28, 2009.

Norman D. Burkett (46c) ofDalton, Ga., June 17, 2010.

Willie Johnson Cooper (47c) ofAthens, Ga., Feb. 25, 2010.

Beatrice Cloud Freeman (47c) ofNorcross, Ga., Dec. 26, 2009.

Evelyn Allen Durant (48c) ofLexington, S.C., Feb. 3, 2008.

James W. Paul (48H, 52C) ofWrens, Ga., May 17, 2010.

Nena Wells Whitley (49H, 53c)of Monroe, Ga., May 22, 2010.

1950sW.O. Hamilton (52C) of

LaGrange, Ga., May 13, 2010.Jurell McLean Beal (53C) of

Suwanee, Ga., April 13, 2010.Hilton J. Allen (56H) of Helena,

Ga., May 7, 2010.Larry I. Chestnut (59C) of

Daytona Beach, Fla., Aug. 10, 2010.

1960sCarolyn Gillis Jones (61C) of

Soperton, Ga., May 23, 2010.George M. Sharpe (61H) of

Lincolnton, N.C., Aug. 11, 2010.

DeathsBerry College extends sincere

condolences to family andfriends of the following alumniand former faculty/staffmembers. This list includesnotices received through Aug.31, 2010.

1920sBernice Bice Ross (29H) of

Brookville, Ill., Nov. 27, 2009.

1930sEdith Jarrell Vanlandingham

(30JC) of Soperton, Ga., Jan. 22,2010.

Margaret Word Lynch (31c) ofWinter Haven, Fla., July 10, 2010.

Juanita Cohn Logan (33H) ofPrattville, Fla., Nov. 7, 2009.

Leth Griner Revell (33H) ofTallahassee, Fla., June 30, 2009.

Thelma East Page (34H) ofAynor, S.C., July 24, 2009.

Crawford A. Phillips (34H, 38C)of Daytona Beach, Fla., Feb. 5, 2010.

Sadie Williams Barnes (35H) ofMarietta, Ga., April 2, 2010.

Margaret Ford Jones (36H) ofLithia Springs, Ga., Jan. 31, 2009.

Ralph D. Mosley (37H) ofFriendswood, Texas, April 23, 2010.

C. Wallace Hawkins (38C) ofDublin, Ga., March 24, 2009.

Anne England Kintigh (38H) ofGreenwood, S.C., May 18, 2010.

Joseph M. Lee (38c) ofBirmingham, Ala., Aug. 5, 2010.

1940sDorothy Hamilton Bell (40c) of

Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 26, 2007.Rose Whitten Griffis (40H) of

Jefferson, Ga., March 31, 2009.Wilma Threadgill Jones (40C) of

Grand Island, Fla., April 16, 2010.Helen Thompson Kirkland (40c)

of Dawsonville, Fla., Feb. 17, 2008.Kathryn Robarts Mashburn

(40C) of Cumming, Ga., Nov. 13,2008.

James J. Fletcher (41H) ofCentennial, Colo., July 11, 2010.

Joseph L. Gandy (41H) ofPleasant Grove, Ala., May 25, 2009.

Reuel Stafford Clark (42C) ofLaGrange, Ga., Aug. 2, 2010.

Paul T. Dietz (42H, 46c) ofDuluth, Ga., April 24, 2010.

Dorothy Aldred Johnson (42C)of Lincoln, R.I., July 15, 2010.

Weyman L. Kinney (42H) ofCumming, Ga., June 27, 2009.

Thad Pirkle (42C) of Covington,Ga., March 11, 2010.

Wynelle Adkins Ward (42H, 46c)of Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 14, 2010.

Loyce Daniel Whitson (42C) ofDouble Springs, Ala., June 21, 2010.

John B. Williams (42H) of LocustGrove, Ga., May 13, 2010.

Maurine McCauley Adkins (43C)of Snellville, Ga., Feb. 19, 2010.

Josephine Martin Brendle (43c)of Kings Mountain, N.C., June 2,2010.

Sara Evelyn Stovall Bullock(44C) of Marietta, Ga., April 13,2010.

Laura McCullough Floyd (44c) ofSoddy Daisy, Tenn., April 25, 2010.

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Walter Wayne Peacock (62C) ofEastman, Ga., Aug. 4, 2010.

Martha Sue Smith Guiler (63C)of Newnan, Ga., Aug. 8, 2010.

John Clayton Nicholson (65C) ofChattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 22, 2010.

F. Marie Plunkett (65c) ofSummerville, Ga., Jan. 21, 2009.

Eugenia Strickland Bryant (68C)of Gainesville, Ga., July 20, 2010.

Evelyn Smith White (68C) ofRome, June 14, 2010.

1970sBetty Leachman Shrouder (70c)

of Broxton, Ga., Aug. 26, 2010.Peter Marshall Jordan (75A,

85C) of Rome, July 14, 2010.Ann Elisabeth Murray (75A) of

Armuchee, Ga., Aug. 22, 2010.

1980sCarl R. Rhinehart (85C) of Rome,

Jan. 15, 2010.

Faculty/StaffThomas J. Boylan (FFS) of Silver

Creek, Ga., Aug. 6, 2010.

In MemoriamMr. Raymond J. Bowen (46H,

50C) died June 21. Bowen servedBerry – high school and college – for38 years and retired in 1990 asassistant professor of industrialtechnology emeritus. He is survivedby wife Ann Smith Bowen, two step-children, and three children whoattended Berry: Carol Bowen Hatch(76c), Leigh Bowen Kosater (76A,80c) and Perry Bowen (74A, 81C).His first wife, Betty, died in 2001.

announced Jim Williams’ (71C) appointment as head of the newwomen’s basketball program at Georgia Northwestern TechnicalCollege.Other alumni career moves in the news include the naming of Jesse

Demonbreun (08C) as the new Cedartown (Ga.) Unit Director for theBoys and Girl Clubs of Northwest Georgia, as reported by theCedartown Standard, and the appointment of Tina Culver Kinsey(92C) as the director of marketing and public relations for the Asheville(N.C.) Regional Airport Authority, which was announced in theAsheville Citizen-Times.Last but not least, the Times-Journal (DeKalb County, Ga.) heralded

the induction of former Marietta High School boys’ basketball headcoach Charlie Hood (69C) into the Georgia Athletic CoachesAssociation Hall of Fame.

Berry magazine has been notified about the following newalumni-authored books since our last listing. Congratulations!

� Wayne Hunt (67C), Zack’s Turnips Lessons: IdeallyPositive, Xlibris Corp., 2009, www.waynehunt.us.

� Dr. Mary Ellen Pethel (01G) and Berry Chair of FineArts Dr. Stan Pethel, Piano Hymns for Dummies, Hal LeonardCorp., July 2010, www.halleonard.com.

If you have a newly published book (2009-10) you’d like us toinclude, please send your name and class year, book title,publisher, publication date, and a Web address for a synopsisand/or order information to [email protected] with a subjectline of “Berry Alumni Authors.”

AlumniAuthors

From the editors of Berry magazine:Highlights about Berry alumni sometimes come to our attention via the news media – especially whena Berry affiliation is mentioned. When we can, we want to share what we’ve heard with you: Thefollowing tidbits came our way over the summer. See any names you know?


So we’ve heard...

“Fork-lorist” Joseph Dabney (49C) wasdescribed as the “grand old man of Southernfood writing” in an Atlanta Journal-Constitution(AJC) article about his appearance at theDecatur (Ga.) Book Festival. Dabney hasfollowed up his award-winning cookbook,Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, andScuppernong Wine, with The Food, Folklore, and Art ofLowcountry Cooking.The AJC also reported that former Berry All-American golfer

Samuel del Val (10C) used a putting tip from former teammate JarodTrammell (08C) to card a wire-to-wire victory – with four rounds in the60s – at the Ziplocal Georgia Open. The appearance of another formerViking – baseball outfielder Palmer Karr (07C) – in the AmericanAssociation All-Star Game was announced on RomeNewswire.com(among other media outlets). Palmer plays for the Shreveport-BossierCaptains and assisted the South Division in its 12-3 All-Star victory overthe North.

Leigh Patterson (86C) is the firstwoman to be named DistrictAttorney of the Year in Georgia.According to the Rome News-Tribune, one of her outstandingaccomplishments was winning amurder case without a body; anotherwas successfully prosecuting a man

and woman for the grisly murder of the woman’s husband. Pattersonhas been district attorney in Floyd County since 2003.

Debbie Rivituso Brilling’s (81C) appointment to the State Board ofHearing Aid Dealers and Dispensers was announced by GeorgiaGovernor Sonny Perdue. Brilling is CEO of Auditory-Verbal Center Inc.and also serves as a member of the Universal Newborn HearingScreening Stakeholders Committee of the Georgia Department ofCommunity Health.Gov. Perdue also announced the appointment of Alice P. Clements

(05G) to the Professional Standards Commission, which overseesethical issues involving the state’s public school teachers. Clements is athird-grade teacher at Darlington School in Rome.The chattanoogan.com website listed Thomas R. Pope (04C) as a

new assistant professor of political science in the Lee UniversityDepartment of History and Political Science, while the MaconTelegraph reported thatWillis Jones (80C) is the new principal ofBonaire Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Coosavalleynews.com

Mountain Dayall ages

allfun

all out

30 BERRY MAGAZINE • SPRING 2009

Mountain DayAnd we do mean ALL – at Berry’s 96th Mountain Day

celebration. The focal point of the event, the Oct. 2 picnic and

Grand March, drew the largest crowd in its history, with more

than 7,000 alumni, students, parents and friends gathering on the

slopes of Lavender Mountain. More than 450 others “tuned in”

remotely thanks to Virtual Mountain Day, a special

website featuring streaming video of the Grand March

as well as a live chat. Another record crowd – more

than 3,000 – turned out that night for the sixth-annual

Marthapalooza carnival in the Clara Bowl.

Other highlights of the weekend included

convocation remarks by Callie McGinnis

Starnes (07C), now a news anchor for the

NBC affiliate in Chattanooga, and the third-annual

Mega Reunion, which drew approximately 250 guests

representing 10 different academy and college classes to

the grounds at Oak Hill.

Visit www.berry.edu/AroundBerry/oct52010/ for more

photos and video of this

year’s event, and don’t

forget to mark your

calendars for the next

observance of the most

unique homecoming

celebration in America –

Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2011.

a good timewas hadbyall...

all Berry

all ages


photography by Alan Storeyand student Kayla Sanner


MEMORY GIFTSApril 1, 2010 – Aug. 31, 2010

Mr. Hilton J. AllenMrs. Barbara Pickle McCollum

Mr. Lindsey C. AltmanMrs. Faye H. Fron Mrs. Betty Brown Madden

Mr. Charles J. ArnoldMr. H. Wayne Stevenson

Mr. G.W. BartonDr. Mary Elizabeth Outlaw

Mrs. Lois Faison Boyette Mr. and Mrs. James H. Faison

Mr. Thomas J. BoylanMs. Starr Wright Boylan Mr. and Mrs. L. Pete Sailors Mr. and Mrs. Guy StanleyMr. and Mrs. Robert E. Trammell Mr. and Mrs. Ranford R. Wright

Mrs. Virginia BoylanMr. and Mrs. Dan U. Biggers

Mrs. Louise Paul BrownDr. Horace D. Brown

Mr. R. Stafford Clark Mr. and Mrs. Billy Ray Traynham

Mr. Rembert L. CornelisonMrs. Virginia Allen Cornelison

Dr. Garland M. DickeyMr. Charles W. Harris Sr.

Mrs. Evelyn Allen Durant Ms. Donna D. Suhrstedt

Mr. James R. FletcherMr. Timothy R. Howard

Mrs. Sandra Gresham FrostMr. W. Leon Frost

Dr. Thomas W. GandyMrs. Theodora Nettles Gandy

Ms. Ruth Lois GloverDr. Jeanette Justice Fleming

Mr. Thomas C. GloverDr. Jeanette Justice Fleming

Dr. Larry A. GreenMrs. Susan Lee Hauser

Mr. Hugh Eugene Harkness Ms. Eileen H. Barber

Mr. L. Johnson HeadMr. Maurice B. Thompson

Mr. Jimmy E. HintonMrs. Velma Mitchell Hinton

Mr. Ellis K. HiteMrs. Jessie Hamrick Hite-Harkins

Mr. Jake IveyMr. Peter N. Henriksen

Mrs. Carolyn Gillis JonesMr. and Mrs. Cecil M. Carney

Mr. Dewey E. LargeMrs. Frances Denney Barnett Dr. Ouida W. Dickey Mr. William A. Legant Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kerry Noles Mr. Reese M. Ripatti Ms. Mary Catherine Surface Lt. Cmdr. Jack C. Tarwater

Mrs. Lenore Wyatt LipscombMr. Maurice B. Thompson

Mr. Marvin MaddenMrs. Betty Brown Madden

Mr. Kenneth L. Parker Sr.Mrs. Allison Parker Hill

Mr. Walter Wayne PeacockMr. and Mrs. Malcolm W. Quick

Dr. and Mrs. Walter O. PendleyMrs. Emma Fears O’Neal

Mr. Charles R. PoeMr. Billy R. Blocker Sr.

Mrs. Mildred Moore PringleMr. Timothy R. Howard

Mr. Bryan A. RaineyDr. Roger Clinton Tutterow

Mrs. Catherine Masters RexinMs. Janet Lorraine Jerkins Integration Technologies Group Inc.King’s Jewelry

Mr. Herschel V. Shirley Jr.Dr. Joan F. Clark

Ms. Kathryn S. SwinkMrs. Thelma York Morris

Mrs. Grace Lipscomb ThompsonMr. Maurice B. Thompson

Mrs. Elbia K. TutterowDr. Roger Clinton Tutterow

Mrs. Lila Gladin UnderwoodMr. Carroll C. Underwood

Mrs. Doris WatersDr. and Mrs. David L. Downing

Mr. Earl W. WilliamsMr. Richard C. Williams

Mr. Paul Renee WillisMr. Jack Burks Allen

HONOR GIFTSApril 1, 2010 – Aug. 31, 2010

Dr. Earnest Dwight Adams Mr. Jack A. Jones and Mrs. Katherine

ArmitageMr. and Mrs. Larry B. Adams

Ms. Margie A. Adams Dr. Quincey L. Baird

Mr. Jack A. Jones and Mrs. KatherineArmitage

Ms. Julie A. BumpusMr. Bryan Clay McGonagill

Dr. and Mrs. N. Gordon CarperMr. and Mrs. Steven P. Riley

Mrs. Glenda York CookMrs. Thelma York Morris

Mr. and Mrs. W. Lamar CookMrs. Thelma York Morris

Dr. C. Dewey CooperMr. Jack A. Jones and Mrs. Katherine

ArmitageMs. Wendy Erin Dahlgren

Dr. Thomas W. CarverDr. Ouida W. Dickey

Mr. Charles W. Harris Sr.Mrs. Carolyn York Grantham

Mrs. Thelma York Morris Mr. and Mrs. William L. Grantham

Mrs. Thelma York Morris Mr. Ryan Lee Harrison

Dr. Thomas W. CarverMrs. Jordan Nicole Hassell

Dr. Thomas W. CarverMr. Peter N. Henriksen


Mr. Walter Buford JenningsMr. Jack A. Jones and Mrs. Katherine

ArmitageMr. Brett Everett Kennedy

Dr. Thomas W. CarverDr. Peter A. Lawler

Mr. Jeffrey Douglas Horn Mr. Brandon Shantelle Lay

Dr. Thomas W. Carver

Mr. John R. LipscombMr. Maurice B. Thompson

Mr. and Mrs. J. Herndon MartinMr. and Mrs. J.M. Patterson

Mrs. Laura Barbarito MillerDr. Thomas W. Carver

Mr. Mark PayneMr. Jack A. Jones and Mrs. Katherine

Armitage Dr. James R. Scoggins


Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. SeegerMr. and Mrs. Jesse Martin McElyea

Mr. Timothy H. TarpleyDr. Thomas W. Carver

Mr. J. Ronald ThorntonMr. Jack A. Jones and Mrs. Katherine

ArmitageMr. Matthew Ira Warren

Dr. Thomas W. CarverMs. Allison M. Watts

Dr. Thomas W. CarverMr. and Mrs. Lenard Whaley

Mr. Roger J. Sundy

NAMED SCHOLARSHIPSApril 1, 2010 – Aug. 31, 2010

Frank and Kathryn Adams EndowedScholarship

Dr. Christina G. BucherDr. Sandra L. MeekMr. Michael F. MejiaDr. James H. WatkinsDr. Lara B. Whelan

African-American Alumni ChapterExpendable Scholarship

Mrs. Stacey Jones SpillersMrs. Chrystal Murray Robinson

Agriculture Alumni EndowedScholarship

Mr. and Mrs. William N. ClackumPat Alderman Scholarship

Mrs. Pat AldermanLeo W. Anglin Memorial Scholarship

Dr. and Mrs. Wade A. CarpenterMrs. Kathy R. GannDr. Karen A. KurzDr. Jacqueline Macy McDowell

Perry Anthony Memorial ScholarshipMrs. Emily Anthony Mullis

Bank of America GFIC Scholarship Georgia Foundation for Independent

Colleges Inc.Baxter Family Expendable Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wayne Baxter Sr.Betty Ann Rouse Bell EndowedScholarship

AnonymousBerry College Class of 1958 EndowedScholarship

Mr. and Mrs. George W. HuntMr. Walter Buford JenningsMr. Edward SwartzMr. and Mrs. Billy Ray TraynhamNorfolk Southern Foundation

John R. and Annabel Hodges BertrandEndowed Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. David M. WilliamsDan Biggers Distinguished Actor Award

Shannon W. BiggersW.S. Black Conservation Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. Owen L. Riley Sr.

Bonner Scholars Program Endowment NSDAR

Raymond J. Bowen ScholarshipMr. and Mrs. Donald J. Bell Mr. and Mrs. Dan U. Biggers Mr. and Mrs. A. Milton Chambers Ms. Susan A. Chambers Dr. Ouida W. Dickey Mr. and Mrs. Norris GambleMr. and Mrs. W.R. Hauser Dr. and Mrs. Dwight KinzerMr. and Mrs. Gregory M. Kosater Mrs. Rose E. Kosater Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Lane Mr. and Mrs. Brindsley McCannMr. and Mrs. James A. Owens Mr. and Mrs. H. Haskell Perry Mr. William D. Sparks Mrs. Jo Ellen Foss Strain James Madison Institute707th AAA Gun Battalion

Joshua Bradshaw-Whittemore MemorialMr. Richard N. BassMr. and Mrs. Robert Honeycutt

Wanda Lou Bumpus EndowedScholarship

Ms. Julie A. BumpusDavid R. Burnette AgricultureScholarship

Ms. Sandra Beck Allen Mr. and Mrs. Edgar W. Fite Mr. J. Lewis Hamrick Mr. and Mrs. Stephen M. Kelly Mr. John C. Kemp Mr. Leach Delano Richards Sr.Mrs. Dorothy Woodard Sills Mrs. Jean W. Stroud Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. SumnerMr. Jerry L. Swilling

Dr. N. Gordon Carper EndowedScholarship

Dr. Jonathan M. AtkinsMr. Todd Warren CarperMr. and Mrs. G. Bert Clark Jr.Microsoft Corp.

A. Milton and Jo Ann ChambersEndowed Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. William M. ChambersMr. and Mrs. William Ebbert EvansMr. and Mrs. Charles F. Seeger

Cathy and Bert Clark Endowed StudyAbroad Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. G. Bert Clark Jr.Gene B. and Jean E. Clark EndowedScholarship

Mrs. Jean Etherton ClarkClass of 1936C Endowed Scholarship

Mrs. Catherine M. McDonaldClass of 1943C Scholarship

Mrs. Myrtle Joiner LawhonClass of 1948C Endowed Scholarship

Ms. Sue DayThe Hon. Paul E. Smith

Class of 1950C Reunion FundMrs. Laura Pollard BabbMrs. Dorothy Knight BrookeDr. Perry L. LittleMrs. Louise Fouts MaxwellMrs. Faye Hardy McLeroyChevron Corp.

Class of 1951C Memorial EndowedScholarship

Mrs. Elizabeth Williams SelmanMr. and Mrs. Robert Nathan SmelleyMrs. Sybil Pyle Still

MEMORY AND HONOR GIFTS

MEMORY AND HONOR GIFTS Special thanks go out for the following gifts to Berry, which were specifically designated in memory or honor ofan individual. Honor and memory gifts can be made by noting your intentions and the name of the person recognized at the time you makethe gift. Note: Memory gifts have been designated to scholarship funds named for the honoree unless otherwise specified by the donor.

[Gifts]


Class of 1954C Endowed ScholarshipMr. B. Leon Elder

Class of 1957C ScholarshipMr. and Mrs. Larry EidsonMrs. Sharlene Kinser Stephens

Class of 1960C Gate of OpportunityScholarship

Mr. Cecil T. BrinkleyMrs. Joanne Chance CalubMr. Lewis R. CopelandMr. and Mrs. LeBron J. HoldenMr. and Mrs. R. Lamar PlessMrs. Ann Nichols PopeMr. and Mrs. W. Cleveland RowlandMr. and Mrs. Milton SowellAGL Resources Inc.

Class of 1961 Gate of OpportunityScholarship

Mr. and Mrs. Alton H. ChristopherMrs. Nancy Jones CyrMrs. Marlene Cloud FreeMrs. Elaine Overman Harris

Class of 1965C Gate of OpportunityScholarship

Drs. J. Stanley and Wanda AldridgeMr. and Mrs. William H. BanksMr. Jimmy F. FinneyMrs. Kay West HornerDr. and Mrs. E. Jackson RinerMrs. Janelle Cato SabourinMrs. Patsy Kirkland SavageMrs. Helen Harrison Whitfield

Class of 1985C Reunion FundMr. and Mrs. Richard Lee Jennings

Class of 1995C Reunion FundFrancine Quigley HettMr. and Mrs. C.L. Tate

Class of 1953H in Memory of Staley-Loveday

Mr. C.F. GreenMr. James Harold StameyMr. Roger J. Sundy

George W. Cofield Memorial ScholarshipFund

Ms. Patricia AlmeidaMs. Karen E. AmedeoMs. Jean AronsonMs. Ann M. CofieldMs. Shannon L. CofieldMr. and Mrs. Richard L. CookMr. and Mrs. Paul DefrancescoMs. Mary DrakeMr. Raymond and Mrs. Susan Cofield

Horn Jr.Ms. Margaret A. Otzel Mr. and Mrs. Keith T. RomanoMr. and Mrs. Peter SassoMr. and Mrs. Pawel SkudlarskiMs. Theresa A. StrackMr. and Mrs. Michael TeixeiraMr. and Mrs. David C. Whitmore Jr.Equicare LLCPfizer Inc.

Hetty McEwen Coleman ScholarshipWarren Coleman Fund

Richard V. and Nancy ConcilioScholarship

Dr. and Mrs. Richard V. ConcilioChrista de Berdt International ProgramsScholarship

Mrs. Jennifer Cook TrudrungDe Berdt-Naidenko Award

Mr. and Mrs. G. Bert Clark Jr.Earl H. and Karleen Douglas DeVaneScholarship

Mr. Earl H. DeVaneEdward Gray and Doris Cook DickeyEndowed Scholarship

Mrs. Anne Cook NealGarland Dickey Endowed Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. Jessie L. NolenJessiruth Smith Doss Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. William Ebbert Evans

B. Leon Elder Endowed ScholarshipMr. B. Leon Elder

J. Mitchell and Cleone Elrod ExpendableScholarship

Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell Elrod Jr.Ralph E. Farmer Accounting Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kerry NolesRay F. Faulkenberry ExpendableScholarship

Mrs. Roslyn Glosson FaulkenberryRuby and Clifton Fite EndowedScholarship

Dr. and Mrs. J. David FiteDr. and Mrs. John Donald FiteMr. and Mrs. Bobby L. Whitmire

Jimmy R. Fletcher Memorial EndowedScholarship

AnonymousMr. Larry B. AdamsMr. and Mrs. Eugene H. AndersonMr. Franklin Thomas ButlerMr. Robert T. CampbellMr. William L. CooperMr. Dale D. CummingsMrs. Susan Beckham Daniel Mr. Charles P. Downey Mr. Lamar W. FletcherThe Estate of James R. FletcherMr. Dean Fryer Mr. Roger W. HarrisMr. William L. HarrisonMaster Sgt. Marvin L. Holeyfield Mr. Millard G. LaneyMr. Don R. LeachmanMr. and Mrs. Ronald D. SengerMr. Roark SummerfordMr. and Mrs. Alexander Whyte

Whitaker IVMr. and Mrs. Robert H. WilliamsDr. and Mrs. David O. WoodMr. and Mrs. Alan Mark Woody

George Gaddie Endowed ScholarshipMrs. Cherrie D. Shaw

Gate of Opportunity ScholarshipMs. N. Helen BakerMr. John L. BrockMr. and Mrs. James E. CampbellMrs. Johnnie Mae Smith CurryMrs. Rebecca Underwood Sewell

Georgia DAR Student Teaching AwardNSDAR

Judy Lane Gilbert Gate of OpportunityScholarship

Judy Lane Gilbert MemorialFoundation

Ed and Gayle Graviett GmyrekScholarship

Mrs. Gayle Graviett GmyrekJorge and Ondina Gonzalez EndowedScholarship

Mrs. Ondina Santos GonzalezLarry A. Green Memorial Scholarship

Dr. Janna S. JohnsonLyn Gresham Endowed Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar W. FiteMr. Larry H. OsbornMr. Larry Bernarr Webb

Hamrick Family/Aunt Martha FreemanScholarship

Dr. Karen A. KurzHeneisen Service Award

Ms. Mary Elizabeth TylerMs. Cathleen Ann Henriksen MemorialScholarship

Dr. Emmaline Beard Henriksen Dr. Peter Henriksen

History ScholarshipDr. Jonathan M. AtkinsMr. Todd Warren CarperMicrosoft Corp.

Lewis A. Hopkins Endowed Scholarship Mr. and Mrs. Stephen P. Hawkins

Becky Musser Hosea Scholarship Dr. and Mrs. Paul M. Musser

Indonesian ScholarshipMr. and Mrs. Ted A. Owens

Emily T. Ingram Endowed ScholarshipEmily Thomason Ingram

H.I. Jones Endowed AgricultureScholarship

Mr. and Mrs. William Ebbert EvansMr. and Mrs. Charles Kerry Noles

Amy Jo Johnson ScholarshipMr. Richard Allen Lester

Joseph R. Jones Endowed SpanishScholarship

Dr. Lucia I. LlorenteKappa Delta Pi Endowed Award

Dr. Mary C. ClementDr. Mary Elizabeth Outlaw

Clay Kenemer Memorial ScholarshipCarpet Capital Alumni Chapter

Peter A. Lawler Endowed Scholarship Ms. Carol S. LaBarreMrs. Diane M. LandDr. Peter A. LawlerDr. Michael B. Papazian

Fred H. Loveday Endowed Scholarship Anonymous Mr. Hollis Clayton AnglinMr. Robert Lance HutchinsGeorgia Power Foundation Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Lusby IIIEndowed Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. Roger W. Lusby IIIFrazier & Deeter Foundation

Ross Magoulas Endowed Scholarship Dr. and Mrs. Harlan ChapmanMs. Cleo M. CollinsMr. Ross A. MagoulasMr. and Mrs. George J. Moskos Sr.Ms. Cecily J. NallMr. Wiley C. OwenDekle Appliance

Edith and Harold McDaniel ScholarshipMr. and Mrs. A. Milton ChambersMr. and Mrs. Thomas W. DurantGray Eagles Association

Mew Fellowship in PaintingDr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Mew III

Linda Mills Memorial EndowedScholarship

Ms. Ronda Lynn MillsMrs. Reagan Lynice Mills-Biwott

Graden Mullis Endowed EducationScholarship

Mrs. Donna Gaylor Mr. Barry D. Mullis Mrs. Emily Anthony Mullis Bank of America Foundation –

Charlotte, N.C. Music Scholarship

Mrs. Ruth P. BakerMr. Everette L. BassDr. John E. DavisDr. Glenn Rafael Garrido

Mary and Al Nadassy EnglishScholarship

Dr. Christina G. BucherDr. Sandra L. MeekMr. Michael F. MejiaDr. James H. WatkinsDr. Lara B. Whelan

National Philanthropic Trust African-American Scholarship

National Philanthropic TrustNSDAR Scholarship

NSDARSleeping Ute Mountain Chapter DAR

James L. Paul Jr. Memorial ScholarshipMrs. Violet Paul

Dr. Bob Pearson Scholarship Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott Neal

Bernard and Doris Rowland ExpendableScholarship

Mrs. Doris RowlandDr. R. Melvin and Sarah E. RozarEndowed Scholarship

Dr. and Mrs. R. Melvin Rozar

Ann Russell Memorial ScholarshipMrs. Kathleen Robinson Ray

Vesta Salmon Service ScholarshipMrs. Angela P. Reynolds

Gordon and Mattie Schneider EndowedScholarship

Miss Marlene S. SchneiderMichele Norman Sims EndowedScholarship

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Daniel PriceHamilton/Smith Scholarship

Ms. Evelyn L. HamiltonMs. Debbie E. HeidaMs. Juanita ScurryMrs. Beverly Ann Smith

Mary Alta Sproull Endowed MathScholarship

Mrs. Jim Ann StewartRobert Earl Stafford Scholarship

Myra Stafford Pryor Charitable TrustSara E. Stafford Scholarship

Myra Stafford Pryor Charitable TrustStephens-Riley Scholarship

Mr. and Mrs. Owen L. Riley Sr.William B. Stokely Jr. Scholarship

The William B. Stokely Jr. FoundationStudent Scholarships

AnonymousMr. Derek Shawn AndersonMs. Brandy Shalaine CannonMs. Kristen Alise ColeMr. James Edward ColvinMrs. Amanda Castleberry DemingMrs. Louise Jennings FairMr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Alan HodgesMrs. Carey D. HunterDr. Christine J. JenningsMr. Timothy Eaves MargraveMr. Aubrine A. NicholsMrs. Amanda Mullis WhiteMr. David Nicholas YohanBritish Motor Car Club

Fred J. Tharpe Endowed ScholarshipMr. Fred J. TharpeTime Warner Inc.

Michael and Elizabeth ThompsonExpendable Scholarship

Mr. Michael Willis ThompsonRex Thompson/Rufus Baird Scholarship

Dr. Quincey L. BairdTibbals/Zellars Gate of OpportunityExpendable Scholarship

John Zellars Jr. FoundationTroy/Gardner Endowed Award – ArtHistory

Dr. Virginia G. TroyWalstad Gate of OpportunityScholarship

Mrs. Marti WalstadLettie Pate Whitehead Scholarship

Lettie Pate Whitehead FoundationJeff Wingo Memorial Scholarship

Mrs. Elizabeth Collins EarnstDr. Janna S. JohnsonMrs. Kathryn M. Wingo

Clarence and Marie Witt ExpendableScholarship

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Edward WittCraig Allen Wofford EndowedScholarship

Mrs. Elaine Sexton FosterJanice Bracken Wright EndowedScholarship

Mrs. Virginia C. BarronMr. and Mrs. C.B. Wright III

Yoda Scholarship Dr. and Mrs. Koji Yoda

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