1953
August was a big month for Dr. Ted Morton. On Aug. 20, he and his wife, Henrietta, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary, and on Aug. 13, he was awarded the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s highest civilian honor. Morton helped develop Greenwood Methodist Home, now Wesley Commons, serving that community for 27 years. He also served in the U.S. Army Reserve for 27 years and on the South Carolina Methodist Board of Pensions. Morton is still chairman of the board of the South Carolina Methodist Foundation.
1958
Dr. Will Carpenter was recognized this year with two distinguished national awards: the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Schizophrenia Research Society and the Pardes Humanitarian Prize from the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. Carpenter donated the $150,000 humanitarian prize to support schizophrenia research at Maryland Psychiatric Research Center at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.
1967
“Evil Eye and Other Stories” completes the trilogy of “what if” short stories that the Rev. Harold Lawrence started in 2017 with “Nightflyers and Other Stories” and continued in 2018 with “Water Sprites and Other Stories.” There are 63 stories in the three volumes. Lawrence has written other stories as well while serving as a United Methodist minister in Georgia. Lawrence’s newest book is available through Amazon.
1968
Spartanburg Community College President Henry Giles was recognized in August with the Order of the Palmetto, South Carolina’s highest civilian honor. The award honors a half-century of service to the students and staff of SCC. During the ceremony, the SCC Foundation announced the establishment of an endowed scholarship in his honor. The scholarship will go to a second-year student seeking an associate degree in education.
1971
In August, Gene Breaznell published a short story, “Killing Raskolnikov,” which appears in Switchblade Magazine, and a novella, “A Connecticut Yankee in the Land of Cotton.” According to Breaznell, the short story owes a debt of gratitude to Wofford professor Marie Gagarine. The novella also relies heavily on Breaznell’s experiences as a student at Wofford.
1979
On May 6, the Rev. Jim Caprell and his wife, Holly, welcomed their first grandson and perhaps a future Terrier, Rowen Caprell. The Caprells live in Simpsonville, S.C.
1983
Mark Cauthen, a partner with The McKay Firm in Columbia, S.C., has been recognized by Midlands Legal Elite as a top attorney practicing in the areas of workers’ compensation defense, civil litigation, construction law, subrogation and appeals.
In August, Dial DuBose was elected to the Tri-County Technical College Foundation Board of Directors. DuBose is a managing partner for Nalley Commercial Properties in Easley, S.C. He and his wife, Kathy, live in Williamston.
Jimmy Fowler was recognized in July with the Independent Banks of South Carolina Leadership Award during the 55th IBSC Annual Convention. Fowler is vice president and serves on the legislative committee for IBSC. He is executive vice president and director of commercial banking and strategic initiatives at Countybank in Greenville, S.C.
1984
Best Lawyers in America has selected Daniel Fritze and Tim Madden ’85 of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough as a 2020 Lawyer of the Year in their respective areas. Fritze practices corporate law in Columbia, S.C. Madden practices family law in Greenville, S.C.
1989
Mark Bundy is a commercial project estimator for Everlast Construction in Alpharetta, Ga., where he lives with his wife, Cindy, and their children, William and Elizabeth.
Brian Michel has joined ServisFirst Bank in Birmingham, Ala., as senior vice president of commercial banking. He has 21 years of banking and commercial lending experience.
1993
Wendell Jones, owner and founder of Wendell Jones Leadership Institute, is the new instructor of the Greenville Chamber Minority Business Accelerator. The accelerator was created to advance academic and economic inclusion in Upstate South Carolina, focusing on socially or economically disadvantaged businesses owned by minorities, veterans or women.
Mike Shetterly has been elected general counsel for the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce for 2019-20. Shetterly is the managing shareholder in the Greenville, S.C., office of Ogletree Deakins.
1995
After more than 20 years of study, Chad Gabrich received his black belt in Brazilian jiujitsu in April. “As a member of Ribeiro Brazilian jiujitsu, this has been one of my greatest achievements,” says Gabrich. “Along with my instructor, David Sumpter, we represent one of two Ribeiro schools in the entire state of Indiana.”
1996
Dr. David Cross is an associate professor at Charleston Southern University, where he teaches Arabic and Spanish. In 2017, he earned a master’s degree in Arabic from Middlebury College and completed the creation of an Arabic minor at CSU. In the fall of 2018, he published the first issue of Charleston Magazine, a student magazine containing writings by students in Arabic classes. This past summer, he gave a presentation in Arabic at the Arab Thought Forum in Amman, Jordan. His article, “Disruption, Self-Reflection and Renovation: Revising the Arabic Influences in Don Quijote,” was accepted for publication in Dirasat: The Journal for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Jordan.
1997
Leah Robertson Maybry has joined the Charlotte, N.C., office of SignatureFD, a financial design and advisory firm. Maybry has more than 20 years of experience in advising high-net-worth clients, including 10 years in Big Four accounting firms.
David Suber has moved to Jackson, Tenn., where he is the upper school director at the University School of Jackson.
2000
Missy Turpin teaches 10th and 12th grade English at Dauphin County Technical School in Colonial Park, Pa.
2001
Anne Wheeler Bell and Jason Bell announce the birth of their daughter, Eleanor Mae Bell, born June. The family lives in Columbia, S.C.
On Sept. 27, Willis High, who played basketball at Wofford, was inducted into the Berkeley High School Athletic Hall of Fame. At Berkeley High School in Moncks Corner, S.C., he participated in football, basketball and track.
2004
John Clements and Kristen Keroson Clements ’05 welcomed a son, Jack Rutherford Clements, born July 29. Jack joins big sister Bellamy. The family lives in Fort Mill, S.C. John became a partner at McNaught & Clements in January, and Kristen is an administrator with Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.
Jeff Owen was promoted to senior director II of predictive analytics and data science at Walmart Inc. He and his wife, Ashley Mamele Owen ’06, live in Bentonville, Ark., with their two children, Liam (5) and Eliza (3).
Katherine Johnson “Kate” Halligan, daughter of Katherine and Andy Halligan, was born Aug. 14. The family lives in Spartanburg, where Andy is a regional director with Johnson Development Associates.
2006
John Garrison “Jack” Conner was born Oct. 14 in Chattanooga, Tenn., to proud parents Meg Beacham Conner and Garrison Conner ’09. Jack joins sib.lings Beach (4) and Molly (1).
Suzanne Davis Webb married James Black Jones IV on Nov. 10, 2018. Suzanne is a nurse practitioner for Dermani Medspa. James is a corporate counsel for Credigy Solutions Inc. They live in Atlanta, Ga.
2007
Cameron Widman Leyh and her husband, Justin, welcomed their first child, a son named Barrett Richard Leyh, born Aug. 23. They live in Charleston, S.C.
2008
Matt Bond has been named president of United Bank’s capital market. In this role, he is responsible for the management and operation of the nine United Bank offices in Charleston, Boone and Logan counties in West Virginia. Bond lives in Charleston with his wife, Anna Frances, and son, Donald Henry.
A neuroscientist, Dr. Kimberly Smith Piersol is a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. She and her husband, Joshua, have one son, John Harold Piersol, who will celebrate his first birthday in December.
Dr. Tiffany Tonismae has completed her medical training and accepted a job with Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla. She is a maternal-fetal medicine specialist.
2009
Ashtin Kilpatrick has joined Turner Padget in its Columbia, S.C., office as an associate attorney. She practices commercial and residential real estate law.
2010
Austin Webb, CEO and co-founder of Fifth Season (formerly Robotany), a robotic indoor vertical farming company based in Pittsburgh, Pa., was the keynote speaker at the inaugural Great Lakes Ag Tech Summit held in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sept. Fifth Season’s first commercial-scale facility, a 60,000-square-foot robotic vertical farm, is under construction in Braddock, Pa. The plan is to start delivery of fresh greens and herbs out of the new facility in early 2020.
2011
Craig Calhoun has been promoted to director of finance at Frampton Construction Co. He is based in the company’s Charleston, S.C., office.
Former Wofford basketball standout and assistant coach Tim Johnson has joined the staff at Furman University as an assistant basketball coach. He spent the past two years coaching at James Madison University.
Lisle Traywick, an associate with Robinson Gray law firm, has been named to the Leadership Columbia Class of 2020. Traywick is one of 63 up-and-coming community leaders named to the Greater Columbia (S.C.) Chamber of Commerce program. Traywick also has been elected to the board of the South Carolina Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.
Clark Witzleben and Katy Duyava Grein were married on Aug. 24, 2019, at Gorrona Ranch in Telluride, Colo. The couple lives in Denver, where Witzleben works in sales with Bargreen Ellingson, a restaurant supply and design company.
2012
Randal Greene Jr. joined the corporate section of Williams Mullen law firm in Richmond, Va. He advises in the areas of health care and corporate law.
Both dentists in Jacksonville, Fla., Dr. Emma Hughes and Dr. Michael Jauch were married Oct. 12 in Greenville, S.C.
Dr. Whitney Walker Linville opened her own pediatric dental practice — Acadiana Pediatric Dentistry — in Youngsville, La.
2014
Will Bagwell and MaryScott Calicutt were married on July 20 at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Spartanburg, S.C. The couple lives in Spartanburg, where Bagwell is an assistant fence operations manager at Bagwell Fence Co.
When the new season of “Temptation Island” aired in October, Chris Novak, a mergers and acquisitions consultant in Austin, Texas, was one of the participants. The television show holds the 10 p.m. Thursday timeslot on the USA network.
2015
Elizabeth van Keller has joined the Finkel Law firm in Columbia, S.C., as an associate attorney. She will help expand the firm’s Social Security disability department in the Midlands area.
2017
Robert E. Hart Jr. and Elie Brantley ’18 were married on Sept. 7 at Shandon United Methodist Church in Columbia, S.C.
2018
Charlie Mogul has joined The Peninsula Company’s commercial brokerage team in Charleston, S.C. Additionally, he will be working as an analyst in the company’s development division.
2019
Miles Brown is on the roster of the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals as a defensive tackle. Brown, #72, joined the team as an undrafted rookie free agent.
FACULTY
Dr. Stefanie Baker, professor of biology and vice chair of the department, co-published an article, “Prolonged exposure to simulated microgravity diminishes dendritic cell immunogenicity,” in Scientific Reports, 2019.
Dr. Laura Barbas Rhoden, professor of Spanish; Dr. Britt Newman, associate professor of Spanish; and Dr. Beate Brunow, former assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, recently published “Environmental Literacy as a Global Literacy in Modern Languages: Lessons from a Liberal Arts College” in Foreign Language Teaching and the Environment: Theory, Curricula, Institutional Structures.
Dr. Peter Brewitt, assistant professor of environmental studies, published “Little Dams, Big Problems: The Legal and Policy Issues of Non-Jurisdictional Dams” in WIREs Water, October 2019.
Dr. Terry Ferguson ’75 (associate professor and senior researcher for the Goodall Environmental Studies Center) and Dr. Chuck Smith (associate professor of biology) both have recent articles published in the prestigious journal Nature. Ferguson is part of a multidisciplinary research team that recently discovered anomalously high levels of platinum in sediments at a Midlands South Carolina location — supporting a growing body of evidence that an extraterrestrial impact event occurred nearly 13,000 years ago. Smith’s article discusses the impact of an unexpected drought in Connecticut on the reproductive cycle of copperhead snakes; the findings have implications regarding climate change.
Dr. Katherine Janiec Jones, professor of religion and associate provost for curriculum and co-curriculum, was a keynote speaker at the Vocation and the Multi-Faith Academy conference at Pepperdine University. She also wrote a post in Vocation Matters, a blog sponsored by NetVUE, “Who Cares for the Caregivers?” which centers on vocation, burnout and suicide.
Dr. Anne B. Rodrick’s book “Self-Help and Civic Culture: Citizenship in Victorian Birmingham” (Ashgate, 2004) is being reissued by Routledge Press under the Routledge Revivals imprint and will be available digitally. Rodrick is a professor of history.
Dr. Patricia Nuriel, associate professor of Spanish, co-edited “Jewish Identities in Latin American Cinema,” special issue of Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities (Winter/Spring and Summer 2019).
Dr. Tom Wright’s new paper, “A Conditional Density for Carmichael Numbers,” was accepted by the Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society. Wright is an assistant professor of mathematics.