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PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY • 2019-2020
GOD HAS MADE OF
ONE
BLOOD
ALL PEOPLES OF THE EARTH.
ACTS 17:26
FALL 2020 Volume 91 Number 2
CONTENTS
MAGAZINE PRESIDENT’S REPORT
4 | A Message from the President
Abbie Tanyhill Darst ‘03, Editor Lyle D. Roelofs, President
Kim Brown, Associate Vice President for Marketing 6 | A Message from the Vice President for Alumni and College Relations
and Communications BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Chad Berry Hon. ‘20, Vice President for Alumni and OF ONE BLOOD–DONOR PROFILES
College Relations
Jackie Collier ‘80, Associate Vice President for Alumni
Robert T. Yahng ‘63, Glenn R. Jennings ‘82
Chairman of the Board Shawn C.D. Johnson 18 | The Test of Time: Charles and Edwena Crowe
Relations
Charlie C Campbell, Graphic Designer Stephanie B. Zeigler Ken Koh
Crystal Wylie ’05, Director of Photography and Vice Chair of the Board Nancy “Nana” Lampton 20 | “I Won’t Be Silent:” Toni McNaron
Digital Engagement Vicki E. Allums ‘79 Eugene Y. Lowe Jr.
Celeste P. Armstrong ‘90 Betty H. Olinger ‘69 30 | Internalizing Our Common Humanity: Dr. Faramarz Ismail-Beigi
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
Charlotte F. Beason ‘70 Thomas W. Phillips ‘65
Cora Allison ’22, Abbie Tanyhill Darst ’03, Katie Grindstaff,
Vance Blade ‘82 Miriam “Mim” Pride 32 | Help for Generations: Dr. Jan Pearce
Tim Jordan ’76, Jason Lee Miller, Sam Milligan, Michele Pekola
Anne Berry Bonnyman William B. Richardson
CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS: Joseph John Bridy Dennis R. Roop ‘69 34 | Continuing to Find the Landing Space: Carl and Deborah Thomas
Rui Barros, Jay Buckner, Patrice Johnson, Jennifer Lance ’20, Stephen Campbell Charles Ward Seabury II
Michael McElroy, Art Meripol, Parker Michels-Boyce, William 60 | Equal Opportunity: Doug Rosenthal
David H. Chow David E. Shelton ‘69
Earl Neikirk, Tyler Roquemore ’22, Brittany Sidwell, Lance Omar
M. Elizabeth Culbreth ‘64 David B. Sloan ‘72 62 |
Thurman, David J. Turner, Crystal Wylie ’05
Bill Daugherty ‘76 Tyler S. Thompson ‘83 Equity and Belonging: Jessie Ball duPont Fund
COLLEGE ADMINISTRATION Samantha S. Earp ‘86 Rocky S. Tuan ‘72 74 |
Lyle D. Roelofs, President John E. Fleming ‘66 Emmanuel Ampofo-Tuffuor ‘88
Loyal to Loyalty: Robert Phillips
Jeffrey S. Amburgey Hon. ’10, Vice President for Finance Michael D. Flowers Diane Artist Wallace ‘80 76 | Kinship and Service to Others: Joe and Gerry Scardo
Sylvia Asante, Dean of Labor
Scott M. Jenkins
Channell Barbour ’91, Vice President for Student Life
Chad Berry Hon. ‘20, Vice President for 92 | A Place to Belong: Veronica Mauratic
Alumni and College Relations HONORARY TRUSTEES
Steve Gowler, Interim Associate Provost 94 | By the Grace of God: Sam and Stephanie San
Phillip Logsdon, Chief Information Officer James T. Bartlett Douglas M. Orr
Dwayne Mack, Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Martin A. Coyle David S. Swanson 96 |
Matthew Saderholm ’92, Dean of the Faculty Elissa May-Plattner R. Elton White ’65
Memory Lane: Cynthia and James Hicks
Derrick Singleton, Vice President for Harold L. Moses ‘58 Dawneda F. Williams
Operations and Sustainability ONE BLOOD STORIES
Scott Steele, Interim Provost
Thomas H. Oliver
Teri E. Thompson, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives 47 | Outside of the Bubble: Joe Saleem ’08
Judge B. Wilson II ’78, General Counsel and Secretary ALUMNI EXECUTIVE COUNCIL 2020-21
Sherry McCulley-Hall ’81, Jackie Collier ’80, 48 | Just Picking Up a Package: Collis Robinson ’13
CORRESPONDENCE AND REPRINTS
If you have comments, questions or suggestions President, North Carolina Associate Vice President for
for the Berea College Magazine or would like information about Joe Saleem ’08, Alumni Relations
49 | Finding My Voice: Dayjha Hogg ’23
reprinting any article appearing in the magazine, Past-President, Kentucky Dr. Chad Berry Hon. ‘20,
please contact: REPORT ON FINANCIAL POSITION
Dr. Dwayne Compton ’01, Vice President for Alumni
President-Elect, Kentucky and College Relations 84 |
Editor, Berea College Magazine
Dr. Lyle D. Roelofs,
Designation of Funds
Berea College
CPO 2142 President of Berea College 85 |
Berea, KY 40404 Source of Support
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE 86 | Statements of Financial Position
AT YOUR SERVICE
Alonzo (Lonnie) Allen, Jr. ’84, Kentucky 87 |
Web: www.berea.edu
V. Eldon Ball ’70, Virginia
Statements of Activities
Mail: CPO 2203, Berea, KY 40404
Phone: 859-985-3104 Dr. Geoffrey Bartlett ’93, New York BEREA COLLEGE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING
Toll free: 1-866-804-0591 Raymond Crenshaw ’12, Washington D.C.
Magazine: magazine.berea.edu Dr. Donna J. Dean ’69, West Virginia 8 | Berea College Honor Roll of Giving
Email: magazine@berea.edu
Ethan Hamblin ’14, North Carolina
Berea College Magazine (ISSN 1539-7394) is published quarterly Vallorie Henderson ’79, Kentucky 8 | Alumni by Class Year
for Berea College alumni and friends by the Berea College Jane Miller Hutchens ’71, Kentucky
Marketing & Communications Department. Periodicals postage Dr. Randy Johnson ’91, Kentucky 28 | Alumni Class Rankings
at Berea, KY, and additional mailing offices. Zack Johnson ’17, Kentucky
Elle Keys ’18, Kentucky 36 | Friends of Berea
Postmaster: Send address corrections to the Berea College Office
of Alumni Relations, CPO 2203, Berea, KY 40404.
Angie Li ’16, Tennessee
Elizabeth (Libby) McCord, Esq. ’73, Ohio 88 | Memorial Gifts
Berea College is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization under Tran Nguyen ’17, Indiana
federal guidelines. Robert Phillips ’90, Virginia 98 | Bequests
Mahjabeen Rafiuddin ’97, Florida
Carlos Verdecchia ’91, Kentucky 98 | In Honor Of
ALUMNI TRUSTEES 100 | Corporate Matching
Celeste Patton Armstrong ’90, Alabama 100 | Gifts from Foundations, Corporations and Organizations
Bill Daugherty ’76, Kentucky Photo by Jennifer Lance ’20
Dr. Betty Hyatt Olinger ’69, Kentucky
Diane Artist Wallace ’80, Kentucky
PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY 2019-20 3
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
DEAR BEREA ALUMNI AND FRIENDS,
I am pleased to present this year’s President’s Report on Racial equity, healing and justice have always been at the
Philanthropy and commend it for your review. Though a global heart of the Berea College story. We have not always fully
pandemic has delivered us unprecedented circumstances, realized this goal, and there have been setbacks that lasted
our financial position has remained strong and our sources of for decades, but the conviction that we are all of one blood
support have remained steadfast. Thanks to supporters like has always been key to our identity and continues to inspire
you and those featured in this report, Berea College continues us today. Recent events have made it clear there is still a
with its historic mission despite a challenging environment. long way to go in terms of race relations in our country, but
Working toward a world shaped by the power of love over these same events move us to renew our commitment to
hate, human dignity and equality, and peace with justice is as interracial education and to building a beloved community
essential and urgent today as it has ever been. You have joined that fosters understanding between people. It is not always
us in this mission, and for that, we are eternally grateful. popular, but it is always right. The Berea College story of
tomorrow, within which you play a critical part, will be a tale
The stories in this report reflect the mission envisioned by of equity and healing as we reach out to one another with
the Reverend John G. Fee when he founded Berea College dignity and respect.
as an interracial institution aimed at promoting the equality
of the races. He did so at a time when such a vision was Thank you for being a part of that story. Your support of
unthinkable to many around him. Yet, he clung to his Berea College has enabled us to continue Reverend Fee’s
biblical foundation, reciting for those who opposed him that mission even into the 21st century. Thanks to you, we
God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth (Acts surpassed our goal for the Berea Fund, which completes the
17:26). At the close of the Civil War, Fee recruited Black tuition scholarships we give to each aspiring student with
soldiers from nearby Camp Nelson to come study alongside capable mind and willing hands. Thanks to you, we have
white students. Back in town, the families in Berea lived in been able to offer a complete education to students who
a “checkerboard” arrangement with alternating Black and otherwise would not be able to afford it. And thanks to you,
white homes. The Fees’ mission, above even education, was we have been able share a message of true kinship with all
that people come to an understanding of their kinship with we ecounter. Without your support, the Berea College story
one another and that each and every one of them was a would fade into history. Instead, we move, ever faithful, into
conduit for God’s impartial love. a more just and equitable future.
Warm regards,
Lyle D. Roelofs
Photo by Crystal Wylie ’05
4 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY 2019-20 5A MESSAGE FROM THE VICE PRESIDENT
FOR ALUMNI AND COLLEGE RELATIONS
In 2006, when trying to land my dream job at Berea College, I gladdened by our students today—all peoples of the earth,
met a person who had once worked there. I was trying to learn really—and how in recent years our student diversity more
as much as I could about the College, and I’ll never forget closely resembles the mix of students in the 19th century.
what she told me.
I would hope the Fees would take approving notice of the
“Well, it’s important for you to know the impact of Berea’s myriad ways Bereans connect the present and future to the
founder,” she said. “The ghost of John G. Fee wafts in and past to make the power of love over hate, human dignity
around the mighty oaks on the campus. His is a presence that and equality, and peace with justice possible. Our effort
is still felt on a daily basis.” is continuous, and the work of Berea’s founders is just as
relevant 165 years later on the same little ridge in the foothills
I remember thinking that I’d never been part of an organization of the Appalachian Mountains.
where the ghost of a founder continued to exert a guiding
influence. But she was absolutely right, and I often explain And wouldn’t it be thrilling to take the Fees into the archives to
to friends and donors how hard we work each day to bring us show them lists of all those alumni and friends who contributed
closer to attaining the founders’ vision. The enduring mission to Berea since Rev. Fee’s death in 1901? Or for a stroll past the
of John and Matilda Fee and other early Bereans, manifested Legacy Wall to read the names of those who left the College a
in the Great Commitments, makes Berea a college unlike any bequest from their estate? Each name from the past, and every
other. one of the names today emblazoned in this inspiring report,
would likely fill the hearts of the Fees beyond capacity.
We work so untiringly that were the Fees able to return to
campus today, they would be very proud of what they would All Bereans are also working to make you—a person who has
see. Those oaks have only grown more majestic, along with invested in lives of great promise—proud. If you haven’t been
the campus. And while they would see Acts 17:26 in action, to campus in a while, or if you have never been to campus, we
they might wonder what Zoom, email and masks are all about. invite you to visit as soon as the pandemic recedes. Just as the
Fees would be, I venture that you’ll be just as inspired by seeing
Perhaps most important, I’m sure their hearts would be a place where mission and values are put in action every day.
Sincerely,
Chad Berry
Vice President for Alumni and College Relations
Photo by Tyler Roquemore ’22
6 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY 2019-20 7BEREA COLLEGE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING ALUMNI BY CLASS YEAR (continued) ✤ Lifetime Giving Society ❡ Elizabeth Culbreth Society ❦ Annual Gift Club ❖ Great Commitments Society
HONOR ROLL OF GIVING CLASS OF 1951
Contributors: 32
Berea Fund: $22,362
Leah Ann Alley Kidd ❦
Martha Dendy King ❦
Howard Kuhl, Jr. ❡❦
Roemelle Stivers Holloway ❡❦
Glennon B. Ison ❡
Dr. H. Milton Jones
Dr. John Y. Lu ❡❦✤
C. Eugene McLemore ❡❦
Carol Ledbetter Miller ❖
Berea College’s Honor Roll of Giving is one way we celebrate the generous alumni, friends and organizations that make the Berea mission possible. Total Funds: $68,362 Nadene Wade May ❖ Mabry Jean Durden King ❖ Dr. Kenneth W. Moss
The entire Berea community thanks those listed for their incredible support of Berea students. Dr. John Alden Auxier ❖❦✤ Mary Henderson Pardue ❡ Dr. George Ronald Lester ❖❡❦✤ Doris Hinkle Musser ❡
Dr. George E. Barrier ❖ Dr. John M. Ramsay ❖ Alan E. Lewis Beth Meyer Perry ❖
✤ LIFETIME GIVING SOCIETY ❦ ANNUAL GIFT CLUB Raymond Beverly ❡❦ Reynard Conley Shrewsberry ❦ John S. Marsh ✤ Billie Stevens Rayl ❡
Berea’s lifetime giving societies—named for important figures in Berea’s annual giving societies recognize those alumni and friends R. Eugene Bowling ❡❦ Dixie Fair Shugars ❡ William B. Napier Retha Brown Reedy ❡
Berea’s history—recognize those who have reached a significant level who have made a gift at giving club levels in the previous fiscal Mary Ogle Bremier ❖ Dr. O. Byrne Tinney, Jr ❦ Dr. James E. Owens Dot Rider
of cumulative giving in support of Berea’s mission. These generous year. Berea College depends on these annual gifts to support Tuition Emogene Gilpin Brummitt ❡ Robert L. Westfall ❦ Don C. Pardue ❡ Dorothy Gay Rouse
alumni and friends are important partners in Berea’s work. Promise Scholarships and other critical Berea needs. Evelyn Hammons Buchanan ❡❦ Maudine Bastin Williams ❡ Betty Maupin Pogue ❦ Lois Williams Sanders ❦
Rebecca O’Daniel Cauble ❡❦ Gunars Potapous ❦ Jo Ella Nuckols Sink ❦
❡ ELIZABETH CULBRETH SOCIETY ❖ GREAT COMMITMENTS SOCIETY Louise Lewis Craft ❖ CLASS OF 1953 Joe Douglas Powell ❡❦ Lucille Metcalf Skaggs ❦
Berea Trustee M. Elizabeth Culbreth ’64 began giving back to her alma The Great Commitments Society recognizes those who have included Gertrude Bremer Crites Contributors: 27 James Pugsley ❡ Nancy Spitzer Snively ❡
mater in 1965. Her faithfulness and love of Berea inspire us—that’s Berea College in their will or trust and/or have established life Louise Archer Davidson ❖❡❦ Berea Fund: $14,390 Reva Jo Fowler Schumacher James Price Stephenson
why we want to recognize all those who make consecutive annual income agreements with the College. These planned gifts are the Jeanne Purkey Deschamps ❡ Total Funds: $23,190 Fairy Powers Sells Eleanore Burchell Sturgill ❖❡❦✤
gifts to Berea by welcoming them into the Elizabeth Culbreth Society. foundation of Berea’s endowment and have allowed Berea College to Lena Marie Dove ❡ Claude M. Allison ❦ Nelma Eller Sherrill ❖ Dr. Peter S. Thoms ❖❡❦
This support year after year is vital to Berea’s ongoing mission. continue its operations for more than 100 years. Those listed as Great Irene Wells Engle Frances Farley Barrier ❖ Eva Franklin Shrewsberry ❦ Mary Childers Tisinger
Commitments Society members have made the generous decision to Rev. Floyd William Finch, Jr. ❡ Charles B. Bensenhaver, Jr. ❖❡ Imogene Lewis Soper Loring H. Vance, Jr. ❡
support Berea with a planned gift. Beverley H. Fleming ❡ Jane Aulick Bentle Bettie Smith Spangler ❡❦ Margaret Brittain Wetzel ❡❦
Dorothy Talbott Greenawalt ❡ Iva Sublett Brown Delores Ball Tackett Billy Edd Wheeler ❦
ALUMNI BY CLASS YEAR JULY 1, 2019–JUNE 30, 2020
Dr. O. Glen Hall ❡❦
Ruby Hurt Hill ❡
J. Charles Honeycutt ❖✤
D. Sue Lilly Bryant ❦
Ruth Brantley Conn ❖❦✤
Ignacio Torres Cruz
Anna McGee Watts
Dr. Jack Wayne Weaver ❡
Joyce Loy Welch ✤
Ann West Williams ❖
Dr. Charles C. York
Berea College alumni, once the recipient of a Tuition Promise Scholarship, generously pay it forward to present and future Bereans with their giving. Mary Skidmore Hoskins ❖ Edna Nickell Daniel Frieda Meade Wierda ❖❦✤ CLASS OF 1956
Rev. Jerry John ❡❦ Leona Sutherland Finch ❡ Dorothy Ledford Withers ❖ Contributors: 57
CLASS OF 1948 AND PRIOR Ruth Ferrill Luthringer ✤ CLASS OF 1949 CLASS OF 1950 Dr. Douglas Kelley ❖ Dr. Billy W. Friar ❡ Man-Chong Wong ❡❦ Berea Fund: $95,063
Contributors: 44 Dr. Geneva Metzler Matlock ❖❦✤ Contributors: 20 Contributors: 18 Cherry Cook Davenport Kelly ❖ Dr. Robert Lee Glenn ❡❦ Total Funds: $77,675
Berea Fund: $27,025 Helen Yambor McCann-Herbst ❖ Berea Fund: $11,500 Berea Fund: $67,900 Betty Dimmick Mattingly ❖❡✤ Mary Hughes Harrelson CLASS OF 1955 Elizabeth Potter Armstrong ❡❦
Total Funds: $247,807 Mary Ellis McDonald ❡❦ Total Funds: $14,300 Total Funds: $83,750 Nell Jean Lusk McDarris ❖ James Maupin Hubbard ❡❦ Contributors: 51 Ramona Leslie Auxier
Roberta Larew Allison ❖❡❦✤ Anne Hayes Montgomery ❡❦ Dr. Robert Auerbach ❖❡❦✤ Summer Reunion Chair: Eula Jean Lindon Meier ❡❦ Samuel B. Jennings Berea Fund: $75,510 Carolynne Fincher Bobbitt ❖❡❦✤
Lois Speer Baird ❡❦✤ William James Morgan ❡❦ Dr. Frederick Lamar Chapman ❡❦ Dr. Steele F. Mattingly Odell Carlton Miller ❦ Dr. Robert Warren Miller ❖ Total Funds: $258,707 Dr. Charles A. Brown ❖❡❦
Betty Jean Shufflebarger Bergman ❡ Dorothy Turpin Morris ❖ V. Jean Childers ❡❦ Lola Sholar Cunningham ❡❦ Stokes Royal Pearson ❦ Wanda Honeycutt Miller ❦ Summer Reunion Giving Chair: Elizabeth Brown ❦
Dorothy Davis Blackburn ❖ Carl Woodrow Newman ❦ Alice Hook Colley ✤ William B. Evans ❖✤ Ruben D. Recio, Sr. ❖✤ Charles Lewis Morris ❡❦ Dr. Peter S. Thoms Joyce Grogan Bryan ❡❦
Raymond A. Bradbury ❖❡❦ Katherine Leatherwood Pennington ❖ William Jerome Crouch Mary Armstrong Hiller Glenna Sawyer Rice ❖ William E. Parker ❡❦ Ledford L. Austin ❡❦✤ Robert E. Bryan ❡❦
Dr. Warren E. Bulman ❖❡❦✤ Fern Goode Porter ❖ Dr. James M. Dowdy ❦ Betty Partin Hurst ✤ Juanita Clemons Roschi ❡ Mary McWilliams Perry ❡❦✤ Joan Coy Bates ❡❦ Gayle Harper Buchanan
Hazel Hughey Canon ❡ Marian Van Winkle Presnell ❡ Dr. Margareta Johnson Duncan ❡❦ Mary DeLoach John ❡❦ Earl Stanley Shrader Peter Lewis Putnam Dr. Jesse Leroy Bobbitt ❖❡✤ Tommy L. Clark ❖
Frances Sanders Carroll ❖❦ Charles C. Rayburn ❖❡❦ Betty Burgin Freeman ❡❦ Ruby Morrow Kuhl ❡❦ Dr. Ted Smith ❡ Louise Austin Roe ❡ Betty Jo Waldrop Boggild Stanley H. Comstock
Donald K. Clark Cecilia Stalnaker Repair ❖ Audrey Shaw Gordon ❡❦ Dr. Steele F. Mattingly ❖❡✤ Rubye R. Teague ❖ John James Rouse, Jr. Molly Myles Bundy Dr. Darrell Crase ❖❡❦✤
Martha Hutcherson Cochran ❡ Hilda Karlsson Roderick ❡❦✤ Dr. Charles F. Haywood ❖✤ Charles S. McNeer ✤ Fannie Garrison Westfall ❦ Eleanor Clem Van Horn ❡ Marilyn Patton Chambers ❡ Ruth King Cross ❡❦
Juanita Noland Coldiron ❦ Lou Haigler Salter ❖❡❦✤ Rossie Drummond Kelly ❡❦ Dr. Shirley Baker Meece ❖❦ Martha Salter Wilson ❖❦ Janath Casto Walters ❖ Sally Jo Ballard Clark ❡ Dr. Bernard Davis ❡❦
Doris Davies Comer ❖ Victor E. Scherrer ❡❦✤ Robert Roy Lang James D. Miller, Jr. Fred E. Winebarger ❡❦ Rev. Ronald K. Walthall ❦ Emma Maynard Cooper ❖❡❦ JoAnn Overton Dawson ❖❡❦
Carl I. Crabtree ❦ Frances Sturgell Smith ❖❦ Elaine Charles Moore ❡❦ Betty June Parker ❖❡❦✤ Dr. Rosemary Maxie Weddington ❖ C. Dean Cornett ❖❡❦✤ Thomas L. Dawson ❡❦
Rev. Kern Eutsler ❡ Carl Daniel Sword Mary Alice Neal Richard Wilbur Parker, Jr. ❖❡❦ CLASS OF 1952 Helen Kiser Wheeler ✤ Martha Marshall Cress Elizabeth Sanborne Deuillet
Jennie Westlake Findley ❖❡❦✤ Annie Sue O’Daniel Teeter ❦ Dr. Franklin Parker ❖❡❦✤ Dr. Maxine Bonner Patterson ❖❡❦ Contributors: 23 Wesley Wilson ❡❦ William B. Daniel Frank Dickerson ❡❦
Maxine J. Funk ❖ Aileen Saylor Williams ❖ Dr. Eugene Q. Parr ✤ Velma Watson Pressly ❦ Berea Fund: $24,941 Lillian A. Ebermann ❡❦ Floyd G. Estridge, Jr.
Ruth Steinberg Geis Gretka Young Wolfe ❡ Dr. Herman Patterson ❖❡❦ Myrtle Tonne Robinson ❡❦✤ Total Funds: $60,241 CLASS OF 1954 Robert Lewis Edwards ❡❦ Joyce Betler Estridge
Lucille Holmes Gibson ❖ Margaret Armbrister Worsham Sheridan L. Risley ❖ Jacky Hopper Shadowen ❖❡❦ Dorothy J. Alexander ❖❡❦ Contributors: 36 William H. Farmer Erma Reedy Lane Fielden ❖❡❦
Frances Nunley Giles ❖❡❦ Kathleen Mieras Wright ❡ Dr. William H. Roush ❡❦ Effie Taylor Strong ❖✤ Wilma Adkins Barck ❖ Berea Fund: $15,695 Russell G. Gadd ❡ A. Vernon Flynn, Jr. ❡❦
Dr. Louise Young Gossett Alice Refo Xiques ❡ Jeanne Haring Schoonover Christine Chadwell Vensel ✤ Claranelle Blackburn Bradbury ❖❡❦ Total Funds: $91,560 Robert B. Goodson Ralph G. Fort ❖❡❦✤
Hazel Reynolds Hale ❖✤ Charles O. Zimmerman ❖ Betty Isaac Smith William C. Webb, Jr. ❦ Mae Crosswhite Brummitt Elaine Risk Armstrong ❡ Dr. Fred H. Greenberg ❖❡❦✤ Dr. James R. Gaines ❦
Wilma Clarice Miniard Hatcher ❡ Amanda Clark Snider ❖ Charles F. Williams, Jr. Emily Brittain Carswell Dempsey Bailey ❡❦ James Leonard Greer ❡ Hallie Price Garner ❖
Dr. John D. Haun ❖✤ NAVY V-12/V-5 Dale Dedman Wilson ❖❡ Eula Bumgarner Williams Alexander J. Chalmers ❡❦ Blanche Allison Bakke ❡ Harold Dean Haga ❡❦ Viola Couch Glassmann
Eula Turner Holliday ✤ Contributors: 4 Josef B. Wilson ❖❡ Dr. Ohlen Rudolph Wilson ❖❦ Marilyn Arend Duncan ❡ Lydia Galliher Brtan ❡❦ J. Clyde Hall ❡❦✤ Dr. Elmer Gray ❡❦
Margaret Frye Holmes ❡❦ Berea Fund: $136 Dillard Bruce Feltner ❡❦ Mary Cavalier ❡❦ Rev. Dr. Delmas E. Hare ❡❦ Gay Looney Grider ❖
Carolyn Keener Howard Total Funds: $1,896 Helen Knight Finnie ❖ Reba Blevins Cornett ❖✤ Shirley Purkey Hendrix Mabel Herren Hare ❡❦
Patricia Finn Hunter ❡❦✤ Melvin Gordon Satlof, V-12/V-5 ‘44 ❖ Susan Wiseman Fisher ❡ Mary Ballard Denney ❡ Willie Jo Traylor Hipp ❖❡❦ Irene Hoong-Chiung Ch Hsu ❡❦
Norma Vanderheide Johnson Dr. Robert H. Shipp, V-12/V-5 ‘45 ❖❡❦ Caroline Atkins Gula ❖ Frances Van Sant Edwards ❡❦ James Edward Hyder ❡❦✤ Charles E. Larew ❦✤
Harry W. Kilbourne ❦✤ Harold Strom, V-12/V-5 ‘43 ❡ Doris Parrish Hazlewood ❖ Laura Rachel Farley Betty Parker Johnston ❦ Dorothy Winston Larew ❦✤
Beryl Wilson King ❖❡❦ Gloria Pfalzer Wanland, V-12/V-5 ‘47 Bettye Maggard Hensley Gordon S. Hamilton ❖❡❦ Dr. Ernest P. Lane ❡❦ John W. Leeson ❖❡❦
Dr. William R. Ledford ❡❦ Betty Ross Hubbard ❡❦ Helen Fillmore Harvey ❖❦✤ Ann McMurray Larkey ❖ Jo Ann Marsh
Margie Mantooth Linnartz ❡ Ramona Davidson Jones ❡❦ Corine Alley Hegwer Jana Lee Gabbard Lewis Sarah Gouge McKee ❡
8 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY 2019-20 9BEREA COLLEGE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING ALUMNI BY CLASS YEAR (continued) ALUMNI BY CLASS YEAR (continued) ✤ Lifetime Giving Society ❡ Elizabeth Culbreth Society ❦ Annual Gift Club ❖ Great Commitments Society
CLASS OF 1956 (CONTINUED) Shirley Rasnake Owens ❡ Joy Phillips Miller ❖❦ Iva Bowman Ritenour Sylvia Barnett Johnson ❡ Janice Mayhall McDaniel Sara Standifer Hamilton ❡❦✤ C. Glenn Ihrig ❖❡❦✤
Cecelia Burnell McKinney ❦ Gerald Parrish ❡ Robert Clell Miller, Sr. ❖❦ William C. Roberson ❦ Carolyn Kiracofe Joyce Ambrose C. McDow Dr. Ruth Lanier Hays ❦ Dr. Linda Hall Jackson ❖
Freddafay Haithcoat Michel Betty G. Penrod Royce Brown Miller ❦ Gail Parsons Ross Stanley C. Kramer Harold Molineu ❡❦ M. Douglas Hazelwood Ruby Sharon Tomberlin Jackson ❖
Daniel Frederick Moore ❦ Colleen Snapp Redman ❡❦ Dr. Harold L. Moses ❡❦✤ Joanne Cornette Schweitzer ❡❦ Shelby Duncan Lane ❡❦ Dorothy Chandler Nieter ❡ Sylvia Hernandez ❖ Dr. William R. Kidwell
Larry P. Peercy ❡❦ Forrest Ronald Ross Carol Colvard Noronowicz ❡❦ George Allen Simmons ❦ Robert Allen Lawson Larry George Owen ❡❦✤ Earlene Hibbard Hopkins ❡❦ Dr. Carl Clinton Layne ❡❦
Terry D. Poff Barbara Weaver Sawyer ❡❦✤ Joyce Hyder O’Keefe ❖❡❦✤ Mable Lewis Starling ❖ Prof. Robert Gene Lawson ❡❦ Dr. James E. Parks ❡ Freeman Hughes ❡❦ Roger F. Leggett
Marguerite J. Ratcliffe ❖❡ Dr. Hershel G. Sawyer ❡❦✤ Mitchell M. Osteen ❦ John Wesley Turner ❦ Dr. Ollie J. Lee ❡ Dr. John Vandaveer Payne ❖❡❦ Geneva Caudill Hughes ❡❦ Al Martin
Shirley Douty Rion ❡❦ Owen J. Schumacher G. Keith Parker, Ph.D. ❡ Margie Louise Crawford Weber ❡❦ Emma Deaton Lowe Dr. J. Dan Pittillo ❖❦✤ Dr. Anne Cole Keast ❦ Evelyn Ritchie Nachman ❡❦
Barbara Ledford Rueger ❡❦ Ellen Harvey Showell ❦ Elizabeth Nelson Peeler Bettyann Musser White ❦ Gloria Calfee Martin ❡❦ Carol Ingledew Roland ❡ Marian Martin Kenner ❖❦ Diane Martin Nelson
Ron Smith ❖❡❦✤ Larcenia Singleton Souther Dr. James Lawrence Powell ❡❦ Shelby Alderman Whitson ❖✤ Dr. James A. McCool ❖ Nancy Rose Dr. Georgianna Tonne Klein Joyce Ross Olinger ❖❡❦
Dr. Daniel Patrick Spangler ❡❦ Helen Baldwin Telfer ❡ Alice Kee Ring ❡ Dr. Janice Crabtree Wilson ❦ Frances Lewis Meghoo ❡ Jane Gardner Sapp ❖❡❦ Rosemary DeHart Lawson ❡❦ Patricia Wolford Porter ❖❦✤
Kathryn Sanborne Spelman Bill Toy ❡❦ Frances Stephens Sebastian ❡❦ Dr. Ballard D. Wright ❡❦✤ James P. Miller Kenneth F. Sapp ❖❡❦ Betty Feltner Leggett Theda Rasnick Riemann ❖❡❦
Sylvene Osteen Spickerman ❡❦✤ Allan F. Vinton, Jr. ❦ Charles R. Sheppard ❦ Charles W. Wykle ❡❦ Mary Jane Miller ❖ Ival Secrest ❖❡❦ William M. Lowder ❦✤ Mary Martha Rose
Dr. Wayne C. Spiggle, Jr. ❦ Dr. Patricia A. Walker Ardle W. Snapp ❡ Marion Skipper Zipf Fay Picardi ❡ Sylvia Minnix Shepherd Lynda McGraw Martin ❡ Pauline Correll Roush ❦✤
Christine Greene Thompson ❖❦ Martha Noss Whitis ❖❡❦✤ Franklin Delano Souther Ronald E. Reed, USAF Ret. ❦ Diane Robertson Sheppard ❖❦ Dr. Celia Hooper Miles Leah Lee Schneider ❡
Renee Dow Toy ❡❦ Avis Joanne Williams ❖ Elizabeth Guffey Summers ❡ CLASS OF 1960 Joseph W. Richen ✤ Edward Shull ❡❦ Cora Boone Payne ❖❡❦ Dr. Scott B. Scutchfield ❦
Donald R. White ❡ Robert Henry Wolfe ❡❦ Roy N. Walters, Jr. ❖ Contributors: 59 Linville C. Robinson, Ph.D. ❡❦ Shirley Unthank Smith Royce Lee Pennington ❖ Patricia Baber Sergent ❦
Dr. Harry Ruff White ❦ Agnes Kulungian Woolsey ❡ Berea Fund: $27,008 Margaret DeHart Simmons ❡ Hazel Tallent Stangis Edy Cook Price ❖❡❦ Betty Sutton Spiggle ❖❦
Jean Musser White ❡ CLASS OF 1958 Glenn David Wooters ❦ Total Funds: $76,008 Faye Adams Turner ❦ Patricia Burd Stiegler ❡❦ Flay Spencer Price ❖❡❦ Dr. D. Jack Tate ❡❦
Dr. Peter R. Whitis ❖❡❦✤ Contributors: 59 Joanne Brockman Wooters ❦ Summer Reunion Chair: John Cook Lucille Rakes Wells James H. Turner ❖ Mary Lou Crigger Reed ❦ Nancy G. Varney
Dr. Connie Willard Williams ❡❦ Berea Fund: $108,043 Betty Jones Zeller ❖❡❦ Reunion Giving Chair: Mrs. Evelyn Hance Barbara Baker White ❖ Treva I. Turner Dr. James Michael Riemann ❖❡❦ Ronald P. Woodson ❡❦
Sadie Stines York Total Funds: $135,971 Ruby Roten Absher ❖ Susan Hall Williams ❡ Eva McClelland Walter Dr. Linda Stewart Rivers ❖❦ Johnny Grant Wykle ❦
Anna Collins Abrams ❡❦ CLASS OF 1959 Rose Lee An Carol Burr Woods Shirley Gregory Ward ❡ Charles R. Sanford, Jr. ❡❦ Kate Austin Wynn
CLASS OF 1957 Marcella Webb Akers Contributors: 46 Royce H. Bailey Elizabeth Peterson Wright ❡❦✤ Bobby Eugene Wood ❦ Linda Seneker Sanford ❡❦ Robert T. Yahng ❡❦✤
Contributors: 50 Margaret Boyd Atkins ❖❡❦✤ Berea Fund: $20,590 Noyce Snow Bischoff ❖❦ Paul M. Sipple ❡
Berea Fund: $85,179 Marion F. Atkinson ❡ Total Funds: $57,710 Gayle Cooper Bosma ❡ CLASS OF 1961 CLASS OF 1962 Sylvia Tyree Smith CLASS OF 1964
Total Funds: $157,433 Suzanne Hile Atkinson ❡ Jack Algon Allen ❡❦ Sandra Conover Branam ❡❦ Contributors: 51 Contributors: 68 Wayne H. Standifer ❖❡❦ Contributors: 62
Dr. Emel L. Atkins ❖❡❦✤ Dr. Frances Gabbard Baird ❡❦ Matt B. Benningfield, Jr. Joseph Franklin Brodrick, III ❡❦ Berea Fund: $29,725 Berea Fund: $27,030 Robert Arthur Stewart ❡❦ Berea Fund: $88,975
Kathleen Gibson Bailey ❡❦ Dr. Wallace Baird ❡❦ Dr. Bill F. Best Dr. Lloyd M. Browning ❦ Total Funds: $59,111 Total Funds: $91,691 Carolyn Farley Stultz ❡❦ Total Funds: $2,138,298
Donald C. Baucom ❡❦ Marguerite Dyer Bertram Dan P. Blalock, Jr. ❦ Dr. Robert N. Compton ❦✤ Laura Zimmerman Abramson Kathryn Whitaker Alford ❦ James R. Terry ❖❡❦ L. Belle Sexton Altice ❡
Harold Gene Blackburn ❖❡❦ Juanita Rice Blodgett ❡ Dr. Harold F. Branam ❡❦ Winifred Peace Compton ❦ Maxine Harrison Aldredge ❡ Julie Erdman Atkinson ❦ Earl S. Trent ❖ Dr. Barton Scofield Baker ❡❦
Dr. Jack C. Blanton ❦ Basil Borders ❖❡❦ Dr. Ruth W. Burgin Vernon Conley Anna Thorn Alt Ronnie C. Atkinson ❦ Geraldine Edwards Underwood ❖ Velma Dixon Baldock ❖
Dr. Carroll Ray Bostic Don R. Buchanan Ophelia Weaver Burton ❡❦ John Cook ❡❦ Ruth Napier Bailey ❡❦ Nancy Norman Austin Everette L. Varney June Mullins Begley ❖❦
Carrie Holcomb Bottenfield ❡❦ Dr. James S. Burton ❡❦ Louann Parrish Casper Arvil Crase Jack H. Blair ❡ Billy Ray Banks ❡❦ Dr. John David Walker ❡❦ Leo Begley ✤
Sammy Ray Bryant ❡❦ F. Howard Campbell, III Joyce Collins Clarke Violet Kisamore Crase Larry Blondell ❡ O. Jack Barrier ❡❦ James Edward Wilder ❡❦ Dr. Nancy Hammonds Belcher ❡❦
Paul Roy Claiborne ❡❦ Phyllis Cody Campbell Marianna Smith Conley Patricia Collier Daner ❖ Marcella Chambers Browning ❦ Dr. Valerie Bauhofer ❡ George Osborne Wilson, Jr. ❡❦ Willa Peters Benning ❡❦
Donald Clarke Richard Darrel Campbell ❖❡❦✤ Pat Pruitt Dash ❡❦ Ray H. Dash ❡❦ E. Gene Bundy Anna Stewart Beckley ❡❦ Kathryn Ross Wright ❡❦ Joyce Thompson Bergen
Ann Walker Collins ❦ Anita Oganecu Casey Dr. Robert Hedley Dowdy Elizabeth Tester Davis ❡❦ Ruby Hampton Bundy Ollie Williams Belcher ❡❦ Joel Young ❡ Rebecca J. Lee Bocskey
JoAnne Collier Davidson Dr. James Edward Colvard ❡❦ Kent Kelly Felty ❡ Claude Wallace Derting ❡❦ Betty Carter Cain ❡ Richard Ray Bellando ❡❦ Gary G. Zachary Doris A. Brooks
Wilma Audrey Dick Joy Alexander Colvard ❡❦ Johnny Franklin ❖ Helena R. Derting ❡❦ Nina Crabtree Cornett ❖❡❦✤ Otis Costello Benning ❡❦ Ruth Carhart Buterbaugh ❡
Kay Reita Dickson Janet Miller Derting ❦ Joyce Duncan Franklin ❖ Annette Collins Dowdy Elizabeth Rose Cunningham ❡❦ Dr. Carl H. Boatright ❡❦ CLASS OF 1963 Joyce Bach Carpenter ❡
Jo An Howard Gaines ❦ Mannon Blevins Eldreth Dr. Robert Lee Gillespie ❖❡❦ Shelby Cave Edwards ❡ Dr. Chella David ❖✤ Peggy Wilkerson Boatright ❡❦ Contributors: 41 Sharon Carrington Caston ❦
Gwynne Norman Griffith Dr. George G. Ellis Shirley Reed Goossen ❖✤ Dr. Thomas L. Edwards ❡ Rev. Vance P. Davis, Ph.D. ❖❡❦ Dr. John D. Bradley ❖ Berea Fund: $79,658 Carole Tuckwiller Clemo ❖❦
Kenneth D. Griffith Jewell Lee Cardwell Field Wesley Lowell Harris ❡❦ Joyce McEntire Ellis Veda Webb Davis ❦ Nellie Kindle Brodrick ❡❦ Total Funds: $2,317,803 Jacqueline Levi Cope ❡❦
Sarah Kincer Hagen ❖ David L. Gillenwater ❖❡❦ Cecil Edward Hatfield Fred T. Elswick ❖❡ Beverly Smith Dean ❡❦ Anna Davidson Burton ❡ Jean Howard Barrier ❡❦ Zilpha K. Cornett
Hope Rae Hamilton Penman R. Gilliam ❖ Sue Troutman Henry John William Evans ❡ Keith Alan Devault Dr. James L. Campbell Dr. Parker Ray Blevins ❡❦ Elizabeth Culbreth ❖❡❦✤
Betty Jean Gasaway Hartsell ❖✤ Carol Roach Gray ❡❦ Loretta Bishop Hicks ❡ Elva McCullough Fisher ❡ Carolyn Messenger Dunford ❡ Billie Jo Bates Caudill ❦ Rodney C. Bussey ❡ W. Clyde Draughn ❡
Donald F. Hawkins Dr. Herbert W. Grubb ❡❦ Clyde R. Hopkins ❡❦ Barbara Owenby Gaffney ❦ Violet Johnson Farmer Hazel Williams Chappell ❦ Dr. Helen B. Byrd ❡ Linda Finley Elledge ❡❦
Dr. Miles O. Hayes ❡❦✤ Betty Lou Hollifield Hall ❡❦✤ Norma Salisbury LeDe ❖❦ Wayne A. Geiss ❦ Jo Thompson Felty ❡ Carl E. Clark ❡❦✤ Mabel Lim Chang ❡❦ Carole T. Fiske ❦
Carleen Hemric Mary Roberts Harrell ❡ Rev. Reginald Martin ❖❡ Harry W. George, Jr. Joyce Barnes Fields ❡❦✤ Milinda Byrd Compton ❦✤ Dr. Philip W. Conn Marjorie Molineu Gautieri
Dr. James Gordon Henry Angie Scerbo Heiman ❡❦ Reba Salyers McClanan ❦ Carol Schroedel Gillilan ❡❦✤ Truman Ray Fields ❡❦✤ Becky Henderson Cook ❡❦ E. Ray Cope ❡❦ Helen Campbell Graves ❡
June Davis Hicks ❖❡❦ Rosalie Reyes Helm Iris Cole Miracle ❦ Violett Cheek Givens Lowell A. Hamilton ❡❦✤ Laura A. Crawford ❡❦ Donald L. Davis Delphia Rawlings Hampton
Vera McKinney Hyman ✤ Betty Gene Hensley Hibbard ❡ Margaret Williams Nevels ❡ Klena Conley Godbey ❡ Madge Maupin Haney ❡ Veer E. Devalal Joel C. Detchon Rachel Berry Henkle
Margaret Landis LaMere ❖ John Holbrook Ralph W. Nevels ❡ Maurice A. Godsey ❦ Faye Robertson Hensley ❡ Rhonda Watson Duvall Wilma Hylton Dippery ❡❦✤ Larry R. Henson ❖❡❦✤
Shirley Willard Leach ❖ Pauline Shepherd Holsapple ❖ Dr. Charles Geissinger Noss ❦ Dr. Norma J. Baker Gordon ❡❦ James B. Hickman ❦ Dr. Barry W. Elledge ❡❦ Dr. Wanda L. Dodson ❖❡❦✤ Danny Clark Hill ❡❦
Carolyn Skeen Ledford ❡ Wesley Franklin Holsapple ❖ Ellen Stubblefield Parrett Vernon W. Gordon ❡❦ Howard K. Hicks ❖❡❦ Carl C. Evans ✤ Virginia Baber Draughn ❡ Nancy Hicks Hines ❦
Alma Shrewsberry Lusk ❡ Dr. M. Ali Isani ❡ Sharlett Gullett Peercy ❡❦ Gene R. Graves Loren Wight Kramer ❡ Rose Mary Evans ❖ Jonnell Webb Elswick ❖❡ Gerald Peter Hopper ❡
Dr. James Edsel Marion ❖❡❦ Arthur D. Jones ❡❦ Dr. Alice Chung Phillips ❖❡❦ Uneva Blakely Graves Charlotte Crummett Kuykendall Mary Lu Carhart George Lois Lewis Esham ❦ Dr. Bobby A. Howell ❦✤
Roy Heyward McCall, Jr. Robert Peyton Judd ❦✤ Mary Elizabeth Powell ❖❡ John David Greene ❡❦ Marty McCall Lemke ❖❦ Rodney B. Graves ❡ Charles Noel Fiske ❦ Larry W. Hudson
Faye Bennett Morris ❡❦ Judy Hacker Kirby ❖ Fay Means Purcell ❡❦ Melva Upchurch Henninger Donald Maney, Jr. ❡❦ Forest L. Greenawalt ❡ Janis Eckler Fox ❡❦ Thomas Walker Jennings
R. Mason Morrison James R. Masters ❖ Dr. James E. Purcell Julian Higgins ❖ Cora Dawn Biddix Markford Lois Forester Hall ❡❦ Evelyn Brubaker Glasscock ❡❦ Etta Widener Kidwell
Wilgus Neace Rev. J. Oscar McCloud ❦ Georgia Bishop Rachelson ❡ Rebecca Cobb Isani ❡ Felix McDaniel William Robert Hall ❡❦ Phillip Haney ❡ Dr. Roger D. Kline ❡❦
10 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY 2019-20 11BEREA COLLEGE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING ALUMNI BY CLASS YEAR (continued) ALUMNI BY CLASS YEAR (continued) ✤ Lifetime Giving Society ❡ Elizabeth Culbreth Society ❦ Annual Gift Club ❖ Great Commitments Society
CLASS OF 1964 (CONTINUED) Nancy Brumley Crabtree CLASS OF 1966 Frances Nichols Rogers ❖ Catherine Wadsworth Roberts ❡❦ Dr. Freida Hopkins Outlaw ❦ John K. Johnson CLASS OF 1970
Wilma J. Lawless Dr. Brad Crain ❖❡ Contributors: 64 Joe Allen Scardo ❖❡❦ Roberta Morrison Schofield Nancy Sue Van Sant Palmer Peggy Sloan Kemp ❦ Contributors: 89
Jean Mehaffey Leonard ❖ Mary Back Croucher ❡❦ Berea Fund: $46,427 Robert W. Schneider ❡ Helen Miller Sexton ❡ Denver Parks ❡❦ Linda Crawford Kenney ❡ Berea Fund: $62,160
Loretta Sue Lindsey Ann Peterson Duncan ❖❦✤ Total Funds: $58,591 Carol A. Selvey ❡❦ Sandra Hale Stewart ❡ Helen Charles Pennington E. Ann Harris Kiviniemi Total Funds: $72,750
Myra Nanney Long ❡ Gerald B. Farmer M. Nan Baker Charles E. Shivel, Jr. ❡❦ Dr. David P. Wesley ❦ Patrick A. Pfeifer ❡ Ronald James Kiviniemi Summer Reunion Giving Chairs: Carolyn
Donald Howard Lovegrove ❡❦ Wade F. Faw ❦ Dr. Larry K. Blair ❦ Sharon Lea Stumbo Linda Wynkoop Whittington ❡❦ Ann Francisco Pinney ❡❦ Roger Lacy ❡❦ Castle, Ronald Carl Dockery
Glenda Shortt Lovegrove ❡❦ Dr. Arnold R. Frazier ❡❦ Linda Wear Blair ❦ Russ Donald Sword ❡ Charles W. Williams ❦ Dr. Gary V. Prater ❡) Jacqueline Thomas Lipchinsky Summer Reunion Chair:
Jack R. Lykins ❡❦✤ Hugh B. Gabbard ❦ Marilyn Gerbig Borchardt ❖ Iverson Louis Warinner ❖ Carolyn L. Wilson ❡❦ Dr. E. Gary Raines ❡❦✤ C. Frank Lovell Christine Roelker Conley,
Jannelle Ledbetter Martin Elba Gillenwater, Jr. Jean Hornbeck Boyce ❖❡❦ Gordie Ann McConkey White ❖❡❦✤ Helen J. Winkler ❡❦ Elizabeth A. Rose Lois Johnson Lovell Dr. James W. Wolfe
Betty Ramey Nanney ❦ C. Luther Gochenour ❡ Dr. Robert Piper Boyce ❖❡❦ Anna Ludwig Wilson ❦ Susan Dutton Woythaler ❡❦ Tommy J. Sammons ❡ Jeffrey Lynn Lovins ❡❦ Geraldine Whitlock Adkins
Clark W. Nanney, Jr. ❦ Bobby L. Hand Allene Fitzwater Bridges ❡❦ Sharon Van Reenen Sharp Beverly Jones Madison Ronald E. Amburgey ❡
Betty Jane Nelson ❡❦ Norma Galyean Hand Audrey Berry Bryant ❡ CLASS OF 1967 CLASS OF 1968 Sandra Gilley Shivel ❡❦ Paul Hamilton Maymon, Jr. ❖ James R. Arnett, Jr. ❦
Dr. David Nickel ❡❦ Paulette Alexander Harder ❡❦ Helen Adams Bussey ❡ Contributors: 57 Contributors: 69 Connie Spencer-Ackerman ❖❡ Erma Chestnut McKinney Ann Holliday Asbury
Noah E. Perry ❦ Jo Anna McClelland Hardin ❦ Dr. Wallace Campbell ❡❦ Berea Fund: $29,942 Berea Fund: $41,320 Don R. Stacy Maj. H. Wallace Meadors ❦ Betty Ruth Ball ❡❦
David G. Phillips ❡ Thomas G. Hartsog ❡ Bonnie Riddle Carriker ❡❦ Total Funds: $48,930 Total Funds: $237,399 Vera Napier Stacy Wanda Patton Meadors ❦ Dr. V. Eldon Ball ❡❦
Joy Ritchie Powers ❦ Ellen Carpenter Hellard ❡❦ Catherine Castle ❖❡ Reba Frances Earley Austin Barbara Thompson Asher Richard Wayne Sutherlin ❡ Billy C. Melton ❖❡❦ Judy Brown Barr ❦
Raymond B. Reneau, Jr. ❡❦ Charles M. Hollitt ❡❦ Dr. Alfred L. Cobbs ❖❡❦ C. Ray Barrier ❡ Yvonne Ballew Beasley Thomas R. Watts ❖❡❦ John M. Messer ❦ Dr. Charlotte Faye Beason ❖❡❦✤
Jenny Whiteaker Richenburg ❦ Dr. Donald W. Hudson ❡❦ Rebecca Clutter Connor ❡❦ Dr. Rodney Kent Bates ❖ Deborah Watts Bedwell Dr. Helen Hatley Webb Linda White Moore Thelma Moore Blair ❡
Jackie Ernest Roush ❦✤ Patricia Pope Hudson Roger Lee Curry, Sr. ❡ Paula Bohn Jackie Gunkler Bingham ✤ Yvonne Shifflett Williams ❦ Mary Gillis Moore ❦ John L. Buckles, Sr.
Geraldine Yeatts Scardo ❖❡❦ Jimmy Lou Jackson ❡ W. Kay Davidson ❡ Carolyn Lois Keith Brazill ❡❦ Sue Baker Bowers ❖ Dr. Roy L. Moore ❦ James E. Burgett ❦
Nancy P. Selvey ❡ Roslea Johnston Johnson ❖❡❦ Dr. James Dean ❖❡❦✤ Richard Carlton ❡❦ James Glenn Branscome ❦✤ CLASS OF 1969 Voe Frances Hines Morris ❖❡❦ Teresa Hensley Burgett ❦
Clara Williams Smith ❖ Sylvia Phelps Jones Dr. Delmar D. Dingus ❖ Dr. Charles Glyndon Click ❖ Delores Allen Carpenter Contributors: 89 Dr. Patricia Graham Murphree Rebecca Henson Byford ❡❦
Willard P. Smith ❡❦ Avanelle Kidwell Loretta Elledge-Lockett ❡❦ Karon McGuire Click ❖ Richard Wayne Collier Berea Fund: $64,934 Dr. Betty Hyatt Olinger ❡❦ Carolyn Castle ❦
Laurie Dod Speer ❦ Nancy Wallace Kinder ❡ Patricia Cooper England ❡❦ Chester R. Cole ❦ Marble Delphine Saylor Deaton ❦ Total Funds: $109,849 David Y. Olinger, Jr. ❡❦ Ramona Rowe Charles
Donna Posey Trent ❖ Mary Workman Manning ❡❦ Russell H. England ❡❦ Brenda Baldwin Colley ❦ Laura Johnson Dorrer ❖ Cary Neil Adkins Guy Lawrence Olinger ❖❡❦ Hon. William B. Churchill
Jane Robinson Davis Walters Anna Barger Matthews ❡❦ Glenna Roberson Farnsworth ❡ Michael A. Colley ❦ Susan Lund Duffee ❡ Dr. Mark Alley ❡❦ Sharon F. Parsons Joseph L. Cochran ❦
Dr. Alma Watson ❡ Dr. Joseph A. McKinney ❡ Edna Boggs Faw ❦ Alma Phillips Collins ❡ Diann Lovett Duvall Linda Helleson Appanaitis ❡ Susan Kiteck Pfeifer ❡ Lucky Jones Collins ❖
Doralene Brummett Webb ❡ Dr. Zarin R. Mody ❡ Dr. John E. Fleming ❡❦ Alice Gibson Crase ❡❦ James E. Farris ❡❦ John Daniel Atkinson Edward F. Powell Dr. Judith Sherrow Conde ❡
Dr. Larry E. West ❡❦ Dr. C. Bruce Myers Dyanne Morrell Frazier ❡❦ Dr. Charles E. Crase ❡❦ Carolyn Jackson Ferguson ❖❡❦✤ Charles G. Baldwin Peggy Hurt Powell Christine Roelker Conley
Suzanne Gibbs West ❡❦ Dr. P. David Nelson ❡❦ Ronald L. Golliday ❡ Russell Damron, Jr. ❡ Dr. James E. Ferguson ❖❡❦✤ Patricia Woodward Barrier ❡ Patsy Chadwell Puterbaugh William Larry Counts
Donald White Rebecca Plaster Nelson ❡❦ Martha Ulm Hill ❡❦ Laura McIntosh Deck ❦ Dr. Barbara Durr Fleming ❡❦ Joyce Spears Beets ❡ Janice Hill Reid ❡❦ Dr. Charles Douglas Crowe ❡❦
Joyce Tolliver Wilson Dr. Jennie Tallent Nickel ❡❦ Sandra Patricia Hill ❡ J. Gary Ferrebee ❡❦ Jean Wilson Giambri ❦ Gwen Meadows Blackmer ❡❦ Fredrick Arledge Rivers Ronald Carl Dockery ❡
Helen Hayes Wykle ❦ Catherine E. Orton ❡❦ Dr. Floyd J. Hines ❦ C. Monroe Forman ❡ Betty Williams Green ❡ Anthony L. Blair ❡❦ Dr. Dennis Russell Roop ❡❦✤ Joe Dwight Elswick ❡
Ellery Allen Owens ❡❦ Dr. Don Richard Hirschman ❖❡❦✤ Judy Ann Coates Fray ❖❦ Geraldine Bennett Grossman ❡❦ Wayne Reece Boles ❡❦ Willie Sanders ❖ George Thaddeus Fain, Jr. ❖
CLASS OF 1965 Judge Thomas W. Phillips ❡❦✤ Dr. Shirley Ann Holt/Hale ❡ Ellen Leonard Freck ❖❡❦ Dr. Laurence William Grossman ❡❦ Donna Tremaine Bonner ❡ Dr. David Eugene Shelton ❦✤ Dr. John R. Frazier ❦
Contributors: 78 Marilyn Kindel Powell ❡❦ Phyllis Campbell Hughes ❡❦ Carol Gilliam ❡❦ Betty Jean Hall ❡❦ Jane Shivel Campbell ❡❦ Cdr. Daniel D. Siedschlag ❦ Patricia Peters Frazier ❦
Berea Fund: $54,079 Susan Rockwell Price ❡❦ Judy Hensley Hulvey ❡❦ Betty Pettit Gochenour ❡ Joyce Howard Hardy ❡ David R. Choate ❖ Jo Ann Marshall Smith ❦ Gary H. Fricks ❡
Total Funds: $85,095 David Lee Reber ❦ Jo Neuber Jenson Jeanne Rae Moran Gourley ❡❦ Frederick L. Hatcher ❡ Christine Conway Collier Linda Moss Snyder James M. Greene
Summer Reunion Chair: Barbara Cranford Rhymes Howard Leroy Johnson ❡ Rick Van Gunter ❦ Cheri LeMaster Hendrickson John E. Combs ❖ Joseph M. Sowder ❦ Hannah Spurlock Guinn ❡
Dr. Jimmy W. Viers Gloria Hyder Richards ❡❦ Dr. Paul E. Lewis ❦ Janice Stephenson Hamilton Patricia Tipton Hepler Betty Miller Counts Pamela Thompson Sowder ❦ Brian E. Hall ❖❡❦✤
Rita Davis Bales ❡ Cyrus B. Richardson, Jr. ❦ Benjamin R. Martin Betty Seneker Heiney ❦ Saundra Hillman ❦ Linda Alder Crane ❦ C. Tony Spears ❦ Dr. Jerry W. Hardin ❦
Gracia Chin Barry ❡❦ Dr. Danny R. Robinette ❖ H. Thomas McClure ❖❦ Linda Waters Hershberger ❡❦ Dr. Jo Ann Chappelear Himaya Dr. Mary Mills Dalton ❖ Charles Marion Stines Norman Carl Hartsog ❡
Dr. Charles D. Bennett, Jr. ❡❦ James R. Shaw ❡❦ George Fish McKenzie, Jr. Mickie Byford Hudson ❡❦ James Tildon Hodge ❡❦ Philip N. Dalton Diane Charles Sutton ❡❦ David Hershberger ❡❦
Robert B. Bingham William P. Singleton Bruce McKinney ❡ Carol Fletcher Hunter ❖❡❦✤ Linda Martin Hook ❖❡❦ Dr. Donna Joyce Dean ❖❡❦✤ Diana Adkins Taylor Judy Carol Horne Hicks ❡❦
Rev. Roy Birchard ❡❦ George A. Spiggle ❡❦ Dr. Judith Frances McLaughlin ❖ Dr. David Lee Hunter ❖❡❦✤ Lt. Col. Clyde Boyd Huskey, USAF Ret. ❦ Elizabeth Swan Duncan ❡❦ Saundra Carter Toussaint ❡ Nina Jean Looney Hill ❡❦
David Lee Blue ❡❦ Nancy Forsyth Spiggle ❡❦ Joyce Barnes Mirgle Mary Caponite Hurley ❖❡❦ Mary Ann Moser Johnstone ❡ James Faulkner Durham Marie L. Tychonievich ❡❦ Raymond Thomas Hill ❡❦
Denny N. Bonner ❡ Erma Foster Sword ❡ Parker Montgomery Thomas Walter Hutchens ✤ Sandra Fredericks Johnstone, RN ❡❦ Ila Robinson Farris ❖❡❦ Earl L. Varney, Jr. Gary Glen Hilton ❡❦
Pam Simmons Brashear ❦ Mary Joann Tanzer Edgar G. Moody ❖ Dr. Flora Hsu Johnson ❡❦ Margaret Jones Kemp ❦ Dr. R. Louise Floyd ❖❦ Janice Gross Varney Patricia Hall Hinegardner
Dr. Edward T. Bridges ❡❦ Sue Ellen Shelton Tate ❡❦ Shirley Golladay Moyers ❡ Sandra Walker Kurtz ❡❦ Eddie Kennedy Bruce R. Garrison Anita Martin Wexler Annette Hobbs ❖
Harold Lee Brown Patsy Dills Tracy ❖ Charles E. Mullins Boon T. Lee ❡ James Kenney ❡ Dr. Carolyn David Garrison Sue White ❡ Betsy Hodges ❦
Lorene Boyd Brown Doris Enix Vargo ❖❦ Dr. Rita Howard Mullins Helen LeMay Monk ❦ Glen F. Kirk ❡ Kenneth Carl Gilbert ❡❦ Dr. Larry Allen Widner ❖✤ Bob Hodges ❦
Eugenia Davis Bryant ❦ Dr. Jimmy W. Viers ❦ Donnie R. Murray ❡❦ Charles E. Morgan ❡ Malcolm Edward Kitchen Peggy Sisson Gilbert ❡❦ Hubert D. Wilson Linda Shue Hoffman ❦
Sue Witten Butler ❖❦ Virginia ‘Ginny’ McDavid Viers ❦ Alice Anne Noss ❦ Jean Burgett Morgan ❡ Dr. Juanita Smith Lee ❖❡❦ Sandi Gilley ❦ Bruce I. Hovey ❡❦
Rev. James E. Carriker ❡❦ Linda Dunn Wagers ❡ Kenneth M. Palmer Jewell Miller Morgan ❡❦ Vicki McKenzie Lovins ❡❦ Jack F. Goodman ❦ Thomas Hutchins ❡❦
June Cleek Chard ❖ T. Sammie Wakefield ❡ Douglas Parsons Geraldine Webb Olin ❦ Jerry Mitchel Lyall Joanne Smith Graves ❡ Jenny Lovedahl Johnson ❖
Dr. Marisa Yuen Chuang, Ph.D. ❦ R. Elton White ❖❡❦✤ Harriet Smargian Parsons Donna Dempsey Petras Maggie Jordan McKinney ❡ Dr. Joyce Wooten Hamberg Dr. Helen Arleen Johnson ❦
Dr. Faye Collett-Sutton ❖❦ Stephen E. Wilson ❦ Lucy Ann Peters Pederson ❡ Robert L. Pinney ❡❦ Capt. Henry E. Montgomery, Jr. Deana Randall Hazelwood Dr. John M. Johnstone ❡❦
Frances Gasperson Collette ❡ V. Veree Thompson Linda Chaffin Plunkett ❡ James Robert Porter Susan Jane Moore ❖❡❦ Mary Cribbs Heck ❡❦ Dorothy Logan Lewis ❡
William R. Conley Woodbridge ❖❡❦ Linda Wilson Porter Dr. Janet Thompson Reagan ❡❦ David Henan Nutter ❡❦ Frank Vernon Hicks ❡❦ Rebecca Hollen Lewis ❦
Frank J. Cornett Mim Pride ❡❦ Dr. Linda Wallace Reece ❦ James W. Oiler Howard G. Hill, Jr. ❦ Brenda Ernst Lilly ❦
Jerry J. Cox ❖ James E. Ripley ❦✤ Lula Ann Reynolds ❦ Walter John Olin, Jr. ❦ Donna Calmes Hubbard Fred T. Marcengill ❡
Larry D. Crabtree Padi McKain Ripley ❦✤ Doug Riffey, Jr. ❦ Kathleen Wiggins Ornelas ❦ Catherine Stewart Johnson Dr. Janet L. McDaniel ❡❦
12 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY 2019-20 13BEREA COLLEGE HONOR ROLL OF GIVING ALUMNI BY CLASS YEAR (continued) ALUMNI BY CLASS YEAR (continued) ✤ Lifetime Giving Society ❡ Elizabeth Culbreth Society ❦ Annual Gift Club ❖ Great Commitments Society
CLASS OF 1970 (CONTINUED) Dr. W. Leon Hisle, Jr. ❡ CLASS OF 1973 Linda Lambert Gaddie Joanne Strano-Smith Randy Carlson Dinsmore ❡ CLASS OF 1979 Norma Proctor Kennedy
Sally Robinson McEnroe Jane Miller Hutchens ✤ Contributors: 40 R. Gregory Hart ❖ Dr. Howard Martin Strickler ❦ Dr. Susan Price Dodd Contributors: 34 Dr. Laura Anne Porter Kimble
Dr. Carolyn McMurray McPherson The Rev. Dr. Linda Catherine Johnson ❡❦ Berea Fund: $17,225 Regina Poynter Hoskins ❖ Dawn Spurlock Tello ❡❦ Deborah Noble Edwards ❦ Berea Fund: $13,719 Barry Alan McKenzie
Margaret Knapp Messer ❦ Leonard William Marr Total Funds: $35,495 Dr. William H. Johnstone ❡❦✤ Rev. Dr. Camille Williams-Neal ❡ Jody Howson Epperson ❡ Total Funds: $31,285 Patricia Flynn McKenzie
Linda Johnson Monk ❡ Kazuko Matsumoto ❖ John Abasiekong Dr. Esfandiar Lohrasbpour ❡❦✤ Larry K. Woods ❡❦ Dr. J. Mark Estepp ❖❡❦ Clark L. Allison ❡❦ Fredrick L. McQueen
Dr. Sandra Dotson Moss ❦ James Carlton Monk ❡ Elaine Dezora Wormley Allen ❦ Darrell Lee Mahone Patricia Campbell Estepp ❖❡❦ Vicki Elaine Allums ❖❦ Peggy Neeley McQueen
Gary Russell Mullins ❡❦ Robert Callebs Montgomery C. Wayne Barber ❡ Dr. Robert Darrell Miller ❦ CLASS OF 1976 Dr. Sumit Kumar Ganguly ❡❦ Cynthia Marie Artist Edward Lee Nichols
Paula Stern Mullins ❡❦ M. Willene Moore Andrew Lewis Baskin ❡❦ Dennis R. Moffitt ❖❦ Contributors: 36 Regina A. Gilbert ❖ Amy Rose Bloomfield Vicki Rickolt Nichols
Shirley Snider Mustard ❖❡ Dr. Pamela Vickers Moore ❦ Beverly Barclay Bell ❡❦✤ Rev. George Thomas Mustard ❖❡ Berea Fund: $11,929 Jerome F. Grant ❦ Caren Lynn Caton ❡❦ Laura L. Parsons ❦
Robin P. Neal Dr. Morris David Moss ❦ Patricia Ann Bias Janice Yearout Patton ❡❦ Total Funds: $13,115 Anna Leavell Harrison Harold Wade Cox Randall Commodore Reynolds ❡❦
Virginia Angell Nutter ❡❦ Linda Pratt Orr Paula Meade Blackburn ❡ Michael S. Patton ❡❦ Linda Gassett Allen ❦ Katherine Beckman Hawks ❖❡ Gerald Evans Sarah Peters Reynolds ❡❦
Donna Taylor Oliver ❦ Wm. Paul Phillips ❡ Sheila Smith Burks ❦ Mary Hampton Phillippe ❡ Betty Lou McCreary Alspaugh ❡❦ Robert F. Hawks ❖❡ A. Wade Francis ✤ Larrey W. Riddle ❖❡❦
Kenneth Wayne Oliver ❦ Teresa Combs Reed ❡ Virgil Burnside, Jr. ❡❦ Lois Groce Porter Colleen Ambrose Jewrette Y. Johnson ❖ Brenda Colvin Griffin Mark R. Smith ❖
Katharine Freeman Parker ❡ Paul C. Siedschlag ❦ K. Darrell Cantrell ❡ York William Porter, III Paul David Atkinson Dr. Ed Kellough ❦ Dr. Anthony C. Hackney ❖❡❦ Deborah Byrd Thomas ❡❦
George Peters, III Ann Wyatt Singleton Wanda Dixon Capelle ❡ Loretta Kirby Powell Martha Elizabeth Austin ❡ Monica Satkowski Laramee ❖❡❦ Grant Lee Hafley ❡ Susan Curtis Vaughn
Larry D. Pigman ❡ Mary Ann Daniel Singleton ❖❡❦ Charles E. Carpenter ❡ Leatha Couch Quinlan ❦ Denise Canty Bentley George Burton Reed, III ❡❦ Vallorie Henderson Diane Artist Wallace ❖❡❦✤
Ronald S. Reed ❡ Pamela Corley Slowkowski ❖ Rebecca Blake Carter ❡ Teresa Hall Snavely ❡ Christa Wong Bingham Susan Bowles Reemelin ❡❦ Cynthia Hairston Hicks ❦ Dr. Richard Wanninkhof ❡❦
Betty Hollandsworth Roop ❡❦✤ Manfred Smith ❡❦ Raymond Caudill ❡❦ John Stephen Sparkman ❖❡❦ Gorden Bingham Robin Bobbitt Rice Johnny Horton Herbert D. Wilburn
James L. Rousey, Jr. ❦ Candice Shelton Strickler ❡❦ Willa Gaye Chaney ❦ Thomas Jerry Surber ❦ Mark F. Boes ❖ Jo Bumgardner Salmon ❦ Sue Jennings Johns Susie Morgan Wilburn ❖
Ann Seffens ❡ Dennis J. Strickler ❡❦ William Thomas Cochran ❡❦ Genenne Wilson ❖ Marcia Phillips Cantrell ❡ Rev. Rita Ellen White ❖ Beverly Russell Kellough ❦ Shane W. Woodson ❖
Donnie R. Singleton ❖❡❦ Vaden R. Tabor, Jr. ❡ Betty Smith Coffey, Ph.D. ❦ Brenda Wong-Uratani ❡ Roy Kin-Fai Chan, CPA, ❦ Eddie K. Au Yeung ❡❦ Lois Kimberly ❖❦
Edward Dean Smith Diana G. Taylor Sharon Wesley Edwards ❦ Kin Wah Chau ❦ Dr. Joseph Leon Korn ❦ CLASS OF 1981
John M. Smith ❡❦ Dennis Ray Tolliver Jay Fields ❡❦ CLASS OF 1975 Laura Ramsay Compton ❦ CLASS OF 1978 Brenda Williams Lane ❦ Contributors: 23
Judy Gail Kennedy Smith ❡ Dr. Jerry Walter Froelich Contributors: 36 Dr. Ralph E. Compton ❦ Contributors: 34 Melinda Wilson McDonald Berea Fund: $4,905
Linda Looney Smith CLASS OF 1972 Rondall K. Garland ❡❦ Berea Fund: $13,166 Bill Daugherty, III ❦ Berea Fund: $13,550 David Levi McFarland Total Funds: $8,775
Richard E. Smith Contributors: 32 John Henry Gillette ❡❦ Total Funds: $17,816 Seth Dei Total Funds: $29,459 Tessie Brown McNeely ❦ Guy William Adams ❖❡❦
Dr. Ronald Dale Spangler Berea Fund: $22,946 Angeline M. Gilliam ❡ Summer Reunion Chairs: Kennett R. Ellis ❖ John I. Alexander Dr. Jill Ann Neff ❖❡❦ Terry L. Allebaugh ❡❦
Linda Harden Spears ❦ Total Funds: $41,417 Delphina Hopkins Gillispie, Ph.D ❖❡❦ Anne Hylton Ramsay, Larry K. Woods John William Fisher ❡ Sharon J. Alexander Jacob Evans Opoku Dr. Lynn Bivins Anderson
Diane Sandefur Stines Mary McFee Alton ❡ Dr. John Lee Grigsby ❡ Nancy Hairston Abasiekong David L. Hammonds Susan McGuffin Alexander Louise Mbarani Opoku Sue Ellen Aylstock ❖
Nancy Boothe Stringer ❖ Freda L. Ayers Robert J. Grossman James Thomas Arnold ❖❡ Peggy Lou Harper ❡ Larry Allen ❦ Judy R. Rafson, RN, MPH, FNP-BC ❡ Patrick E. Ballinger ❡❦
Evelyn Combs Tolliver Dr. Helen Hicks Baker ❖❦ Jerry B. Hale ❖✤ Kimberly Lu Bishop James O. Hicks ❦ Phyllis Atkisson Allison ❡❦ Shawkat Rana Jo Cox ❡
Iris Kennedy Waade ❡ Ronald J. Black ❡ Nancy Walker Hale ❖✤ Charles Lee Bledsoe Timothy W. Jordan ❖❡ Robert E. Anderson, Jr. Sandra Blanton Reynolds ❖❡❦ Beverly Clay Crabtree ❖❡
Charles Edward Ward ❦ Beverly F. Cook L. Thomas Horton ❖ Stephen L. Boyce ❦ Glenna Mae Justice Jearline Matney Bledsoe Garland M. Rice Beverly Queener Fouts ❡❦
David G. Williams ❡❦ Emma Fultz Cox ❡ William Jack Hoskins ❖ Frank Lynn Bush ❡❦ Billy L. Lane ❦ Dr. Pam Holmes Chabora Janet Hall Smith ❡ Joan Jarrell Gould ❡
Nancy McCall Wilson ❡❦ Vicki Carter Cox ❖ Ettie Cyfers Jaynes Janet Sue Fore ❡ Patricia G. Lane ❡❦ Man Sung Co, Ph.D. ❡❦ Richard W. Smith ❡ Maroula Haralambidis ❡
Dr. James W. Wolfe ❡❦ Ronald Russell Deaver ❡ Mary Claiborne Johnson ❡ Theresa Phillips Glore Ernestine White Love Christopher Charles Crum Halima Mohidin Tiffany ❦ Susie D. Hillard ❖
Kay Ramsey Wong Terry Dewayne Fields ❡ Mike E. Johnson ❡ Darrel Paul Griffin Mitchell Vaughn Massey Susan MacMartin D’Amico R. Dale Toms ❖ Susan Pross Kramer
Nelva Fitzgerald Frank Johnstone ❖ Janice Yeary Grigsby ❡ Amy Johnson McGrath Carlotta Duckett Dei Karen Thomas Troxler ❡❦ Robert Frances Lee, Jr.
CLASS OF 1971 Sue Fleshman ❡❦ Wayne E. King ❡❦ Marilyn Todd Grossman Karen Willian Miller ❦ June Delaney Julia Weatherford ❦ Stephen Lee Lewis ❦
Contributors: 43 Jane Adams Frazier ❡❦ Elizabeth A. McCord, Esq. ❖ Dr. Allan Duane Halbert Owen Dewitt Parker ❦ Michele Williams Deloach Sherry McCulley-Hall ❖❦
Berea Fund: $12,760 Maribeth Yost Hays ❡ Ann Austin Pannell ❡ Edie Carroll Hart ❖ Betty McCracken Poynter ❡❦ Loretta Young DeToma CLASS OF 1980 Sandra Taulbee McFarland
Total Funds: $16,260 Glenn R. Jennings ❖❡❦✤ Linda VanWinkle Parsons Steven Clark Harvey ❖ George L. Quinlan ❦ Rev. Grace Griffith Hackney ❖❡❦ Contributors: 31 Sarah Carper Morris ❦
Ms. S. J. Arthur Dr. Eugene Kelly ❖❡❦ Beverly Stamper Peacock Valerie Stewart Harvey ❖ Jane Wilson Ritter ❡ Jeffrey Price Hutton ❖ Berea Fund: $9,905 Valeria Dale Roberson ❡❦
Pamela Baker Billy E. Kerns ❡❦ Pablo Anibal Tello ❡❦ Elizabeth Hairston Hill Mary Glover Robinson Steven Leigh Jones ❦ Total Funds: $31,485 Kenny Eugene Walker
Irmgard Schneider Best Arlene Kindel Stephen Randolph Tilson Shirley Jean Hurt Eugenia Lynn Tanner Esther Teresa Rule Kearns Summer Reunion Giving Chair: Victoria Cunningham Walker
Nell Turner Black ❡ Lawerence W. King David Hull Tompkins ❡❦ Brenda Smith Jackson Vicki Jo VanWinkle Mary Labus ❡ Deborah Byrd Thomas Chris Wallhausser
Margaret Ann Boyd Andrew C. Lam Virginia Hubbard Underwood ❖ Timothy Lamont Jackson Brenda Weaver ❖ Linggawatti Laoh ❦ Summer Reunion Chairs: Lorena Rideout Wallhausser
John Carter Browning ❦✤ Jerry Lineberger ❖❡❦ Shinsaku Uratani ❡ Edith Carmelita James ❖ Connie N. Manchester ❡ J. Leon Davidson, Fredrick L. McQueen, Tamela Presley Warren
Linda Holbrook Browning ❦✤ Nancy Moore Melton ❖❡❦ Dr. Janet Marie White ❡❦ Brenda Starnes Johnstone ❡❦✤ CLASS OF 1977 Thomas G. Miles ❦ Peggy Neeley McQueen Mary Beth Sandone Au Yeung ❡❦
Corbett Wayne Byrd ❦ Earlene Hawks Prokopec ❖❦ Dr. William Michael Yost ❦ Jan Averill Kilbourne Contributors: 29 Ali Mohammadione ❡❦ Claudia F. Altemus
Rita Hopkins Byrd Pamela J. Baldwin Ray Tennant Yvonne Kirk ❡ Berea Fund: $6,420 Dr. Dayna Cheesman Mohammadione ❡❦ Michael Bonhajo Carr CLASS OF 1982
Parke Carter ❡ Dana Kilbourne Rousey CLASS OF 1974 Caroline Floyd Kpaduwa ❡ Total Funds: $10,120 Ruth Anita Nissley ❦ Dr. Donald W. Caudill ❖❡❦ Contributors: 27
Dennis Wade Coffey, Ph.D. ❦ Brian K. Settle ❡❦ Contributors: 26 Mary Margaret McCoy Lutes ❡❦ Barry David Adler ❡ Rev. Arvil L. Pennington Jayna Cheesman Berea Fund: $9,822
William David Col ❡ David B. Sloan ❡❦ Berea Fund: $18,173 Wanda Cain Manhanke Terry J. Anderson Margaret O. Richardson Jackie Collier ❖❡❦ Total Funds: $19,947
Julia Marie Collier Claudette Schmidt Smith Total Funds: $20,991 Stephanie Tetzloff McCoy Bonita Baker-Sparks ❦ Carl James Thomas ❡❦ Justine Conley Joan M. Aldrich
Larry Vernon Cornett ❡ June Chrisley Tompkins ❡❦ Lonnie Bruce Ballinger Cheryl Thomas McKinney ❦ Kenneth A. Bradshaw James Tuan ❡❦ Rondal D. Crabtree ❡ Kim Setzer Angermeier
Betty Ridings Dizney Dr. Rocky S. Tuan ❦ Patricia Burns Balmer Margaret Martini Mishra ❖ Carol A. Bryant ❖ Anne Elizabeth Weinkam ❡❦ Steve F. Fouts ❡❦ Thomas J. Battershell
Gay Nell Duckett ❦ Lt. Col. Wilma Lee Turner ❖❦ Patsy Williams Boyce ❦ Sherry Addington Parker ❦ Calvin Campbell Judge Bradley Wilson, II ❡❦✤ Jill Galbraith ❦ Zonya Brock Battershell
James A. Duckett ❦ Elizabeth Pansy Waycaster, Ph.D. ❡ Sharon K. Brown Dr. Timothy Franklin Phillippe ❡ Betty Sneed Crisp ❡❦ Cora Lee Crandall Wise ❡ Dr. D. Michael Graham Vance Edward Blade ❖❡❦
Scott Edward Fulton Donna Carter Yost ❦ Jackie Grisby Burnside ❡❦ Michael Wayne Ridenour Marvin Ray Crisp ❡❦ Sharon Kinser Woods ❡❦ Veronica Trent Grant ❦ Rhonda Campbell Brandenburg
Joyce Norris Greene, RN, BSN Kathlene Patterson Cratin ❡ Michael Brian Robinson Brenda McCurry Crowe ❦ Paul Man-Him Yim ❦ Amy Elizabeth Hollifield ❖ Janet Carpenter Brockwell
Betty Haas-West Rodric Hunter Eslinger Dr. Merry Embree Stewart Sandra Manuel Davis Linda Owens Jennings ❖❡❦✤ Douglas E. Cantrell ❖
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ONE
BLOOD
DONOR PROFILES
F ounded from the beginning on the
belief that God has made of one blood
all peoples of the earth, Berea College
those of limited means. And as southern
abolitionists, they also risked their lives
as they sought to realize their vision.
was a rare oasis of equal opportunity, These foundational beliefs still ring true
racial justice and community like no today at Berea College and are the reason
other place in the South. At a time when so many of our generous donors faithfully
slavery was still legal in Kentucky, when support our mission. As you enjoy this
it was illegal to educate enslaved people report, please join us in celebrating our
throughout the South, John and Matilda donors and their commitment to the goal
Fee dedicated their lives to ending that of fostering kinship and to emphasizing
evil institution. They also believed in the understanding and equality among Blacks
right of all persons to education, women and whites as a foundation for building
or men, Black or white and especially community among all peoples of the earth.
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16 BEREA COLLEGE MAGAZINE PRESIDENT’S REPORT ON PHILANTHROPY 2019-20 17THE TEST OF TIME BY TIM JORDAN ’76
CHARLES & EDWENA CROWE
C harles Crowe’s first day at Berea
College might have been his last.
“As I was moving into my room, this
white environment,” he explained. “I
understood that if I competed, it might
require doing my job like everyone
“It changes their lives,” Charles Crowe
added. “There’s a student there right
now who came from a very, what I’d
white guy comes in and announces else, but I could be successful.” say, poor background but has just
that he was my roommate, and that blossomed there. I think that there’s
immediately changed the tone of Success for Crowe included a 30-year nothing more important than youth
everything,” he recalled. “I told my career with the U.S. Department of development.”
parents, ‘I’m not staying here.’” Energy at Oak Ridge, Tenn. William
Ramsey, Berea’s then dean of Labor, That commitment to youth development—
Growing up in an African American had developed a training program for at Berea College and in their community—
community in Johnson City, Tenn., one of the nuclear facilities there, and led Crowe and two of his friends to
during the Jim Crow era, the prospect Crowe had worked with Dean Ramsey establish the Men of Tomorrow Foundation
of sharing a room with someone so at Berea. for underprivileged youth in Oak Ridge.
different unnerved Crowe. He was What began with a small group of African
ready to leave—right then—and go “The minute they saw on my résumé American young men has expanded,
home. His father sternly said, “No!” that Dean Ramsey had been my and 31 years later it serves a diverse
supervisor, that was huge,” he recalled. population including women, white
His parents’ insistence that he stay at people, Latinx people and others from
Berea College turned him around. Experiences like these changed surrounding counties.
Crowe’s life and led him to a lifelong
“It forced me into a situation where I
finally understood that we were all the
commitment to the College. Not only
has he received the Distinguished
Their foundation serves students in
grades six through 12 to develop a good “It takes courage, and Berea has a
same,” Crowe said. “That’s one of the Alumnus Award and served on the self-image, provide positive role models,
things Berea students carry away that
students [elsewhere] do not get. When
Alumni Executive Council and as an
alumni trustee for six years, he and his
emphasize academics, and encourage
career and cultural development.
history of stepping out there. This
you look at what’s going on today, you
have to listen and learn and be open
wife, Edwena, have chosen to support
the College financially through regular
Successful participants receive a $1,000
scholarship to the school of their choice
is not something new to Berea. To
minded to actually bring cultures
together. It takes courage, and Berea
donations. They also have included
Berea in their wills.
and a laptop computer.
do the right thing is where Berea
has a history of stepping out there. “We are quite proud of those kids,”
This is not something new to Berea. To
do the right thing is where Berea has
“Giving to Berea, you know where
your donations are going, and who and
Crowe said, noting that several
attended Berea and others organized
has always stood tall.”
always stood tall.” what they are supporting,” Edwena satellite foundation chapters in areas
Crowe said. “It’s that group of kids across the U.S. “We’ve seen where they
After graduating in 1970, Crowe who, otherwise, might not have gotten come from and what they’ve turned
realized the value of what he gained to go to college. There are kids we have out to be.”
at Berea. “I was not intimidated by pointed in the direction of Berea.”
being the only one (minority) in an all-
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