1955
Theron Few has written a book titled “My Darling Darlene.” He lives in Raleigh, N.C.
1968
Dr. Dean Hartley III recently published a pair of new books, “Christian Visions: A Novel Perspective” and “Christian Visions: Marriage and Other Risks.” He lives in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he is writing scientific works and now science fiction novels.
1978
The S.C. Department of Transportation Commission has named J. Barnwell Fishburne vice chairman. He is the owner of Fishburne and Co. Development Corp. in Walterboro, S.C., and has represented the 6th Congressional District on the commission since 2018.
1983
Dr. Ellis DeWayne Colvin received his Ph.D. from Capitol Technical University in Laurel, Md., in April at age 62. Colvin retired after serving 21 years in the U.S. Army and 40 total years of federal service. Colvin, who graduated from the Charleston School of Law at age 52, has launched his own national security company.
1984
S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster has nominated William H. Floyd to be the next executive director of the state Department of Employment and Workforce. Previously the agency’s chief of staff, Floyd has served as acting executive director since March 1. Prior to joining the department, Floyd practiced law for 35 years as a certified labor and employment law specialist and has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America since 2008.
1992
Beth Houck has retired as principal of Saxe Gotha Elementary School in Lexington, S.C., County School District One. She spent her entire 30-year career in Lexington One and became principal at Saxe Gotha in 2009.
1994
Gary C. Cooper of Pawleys Island, S.C., has been elected to the Waccamaw Community Foundation board of directors. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of Palmetto Infusion Services.
The Spartanburg School District 7 Board of Trustees appointed James A. Jones to fill a vacant board seat. Jones is a private immigration attorney.
1997
The Westchester Country Day School Board of Trustees announced that Mary Moore Keever will serve as interim head of school for the 2023-24 academic year. She joined the school, located in High Point, N.C., in 1999 as a language arts/literature teacher and became head of the middle school in 2012.
1999
Lexington County School District 2 has named Vance Jones principal of Brookland-Cayce High School. Jones comes to the post from Spartanburg High School, where he served as principal since 2019.
Amanda Jopling Wells has been named assistant principal at Tuscola High School in Waynesville, N.C. She served as the school’s lead teacher for the past year.
2000
Clemson University has hired Darrick Gibbs as an assistant women’s basketball coach. He has more than 15 years of coaching experience, including the past eight as head coach at the University of North Florida.
Bradley S. Talbert has been named CEO of Memorial Health in Savannah, Ga. He was previously CEO of HCA Florida Memorial Hospital.
2004
Jean Cecil Frick has been elected to the board of directors of the Girl Scouts of South Carolina — Mountains to Midlands chapter. She is senior vice president of NP Strategy in Columbia, S.C.
Santee Cooper has named Shawan Gillians director of sustainability and associate general counsel. In her new position, Gillians, a member of Wofford’s board of trustees, will enhance the utility’s efforts in sustainability through the development of a comprehensive corporate strategy and support structure.
2005
The Blair Cato Pickren Casterline law firm has hired Jaclynn Bower Goings as an associate attorney in its Lexington and Chapin, S.C., offices. Goings will assist clients in all transactional matters involving real estate contracts, purchases, sales and financing.
2006
Becca Monroe Mathis has completed the certified financial planner exam and was promoted to senior financial advisor at Jeter Hrubala Wealth Strategies in Spartanburg, S.C.
2007
Thread Bancorp in Brentwood, Tenn., has named Andrew Montgomery as its senior vice president and director of financial technology partnerships. Montgomery is responsible for identifying and building strategic partnerships with other financial technology companies and enhancing Thread Bank’s growing suite of digital products and services.
2009
The Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tenn., has named Garrison Conner head of the Upper School. He has served as assistant Upper School head since 2020.
2011
Anna Barber and Edward “Hood” Dawson III were married on Oct. 15, 2022. They reside in Greenville, S.C., with Caroline, 6. Anna is an attorney with Canal Insurance Co., and Hood is an attorney with Gallivan, White and Boyd.
2012
Warren B. Ritter II was the subject of a Black History Month feature article in the Montecito, Calif., Journal. He is executive director of the Common Table Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on community unity.
2014
Holli Rebekah Branum Reynolds and Berry Mayfield Reynolds IV ’15 welcomed a son, Foster Crockett Reynolds, on Feb. 9, 2023. They live in Raleigh, N.C., where Holli works in executive support with Goetz Traction and Berry is a lead software engineer with ConnectWise.
2017
Alex Bentley has discovered a new species of dwarf boa constrictor. He is the research coordinator at Sumak Kawsay in Situ, located in the Pastaza province of Ecuador. The snake is one of 15 previously unknown species that Bentley and his colleagues have identified.
The Riker Danzig law firm in Morristown, N.J., has hired Ashley Duckworth to join its estate planning and administration group.
2018
Lauren Ford graduated from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and will begin a psychiatry residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center this summer. She matched into the child psychiatry track and will complete a general psychiatry residency and a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship over the next five years in Dallas, Texas.
Cole Gore has joined Hub International Limited (HUB), a leading full-service global insurance broker, as a commercial lines advisor in the Columbia, S.C., office.
2020
Meghan Daniel and Jacob Godwin ’13 were married on Dec. 10, 2022, in Georgetown, S.C. They live in Hartsville, S.C., where she is a marketing communications specialist at SPC Credit Union and a freelance writer for Columbia Metropolitan Magazine, and he is an attorney with Saleeby and Cox.
2021
The United Way of the Piedmont has named Sarah Keim to its board of directors. She is a regional director of revenue management for OTO Development in Spartanburg, S.C.
FACULTY
Dr. Matthew Cathey, professor of mathematics, is a co-author of “Contemporary Mathematics,” a new textbook for liberal arts mathematics classes. It is published by OpenStax. The book is free online at openstax.org/details/books/contemporary-mathematics. Cathey wrote the chapters on probability and statistics.
The workshop “Now Stream-ing! Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences in Aquatic Ecology” was presented by Dr. Jonathan Davis, assistant professor of biology, at the National Association of Biology Teaching conference in Indianapolis, Ind.
Dr. William DeMars, professor of government and international affairs, wrote a chapter, “The Cosmopolitan Education of Hobbits: Friendship and Political Deliberation in Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring,” in the upcoming book “Liberal Education and Citizenship in a Free Society.”
Dr. Courtney Dorroll, associate professor of religion and interim co-director of Wofford’s Center for Innovation, Teaching and Learning, published the chapter “Between Memory and Forgetting and Purity and Danger: The Case of the Ulucanlar Prison Museum” in the book “Neo-Ottoman Imaginaries in Contemporary Turkey.”
The Journal of Orthodox Christian Studies recently published “Enjoyers of the Divine Nature: Theosis According to Theodore Abū Qurra” by Dr. Phil Dorroll, associate professor of religion.
Rebecca Forstater, assistant professor of studio art, and collaborators have been approved for a $10,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant in the 2023 Media Arts Category on behalf of the New Media Caucus for their project “New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists.” Additionally, her artwork, “All the Winners,” is on view at the Hangaram Design Museum in Seoul, South Korea. Her work will be exhibited by Paradice Palase Gallery at Future Fair during New York Art Week.
Dr. Kimberly Hall, associate professor of English, participated in the online panel discussion “Nonlinear Career Trajectories in Academia.”
Dr. Ingrid Lilly, assistant professor of religion, published the essay, “The Critical Potential of Spirits: Hebrew Philology, the Poetics of Relation, and Unfamiliar Selves” in the journal Ancient Jew Review.
“Singing the 1930s Doldrums: Jevel Katz’s Argentine Yiddish Parodies,” an article by Dr. Patricia Nuriel, associate professor of Spanish, was published in the journal Latin American Jewish Studies.
Dr. Grace Schwartz, assistant professor of chemistry, and co-authors published a critical review article, “Environmental Impacts of Coal Combustion Residuals: Current Understanding and Future Perspectives,” in Environmental Science and Technology.
Dr. Timothy Terrell, Stackhouse Professor of Economics and Business, gave the presentation “Economics from the Ground Up: Intellectual Community in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” at the 2023 Austrian Economics Research Conference hosted at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala.
Dr. Jessica Tomkins, assistant professor of history, co-authored “Maat in the Egyptian Controlled Southern Levant,” in Ägypten und Levante 32. She also presented the paper “Rethinking Models of Early Kingship” at the 74th annual meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt in Minneapolis, Minn., and gave an invited public lecture on her current research for the Philadelphia, Pa., chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt at the Penn Museum.
Dr. Rachel Vanderhill, associate professor and chair of government and international affairs, gave the invited keynote address, “Democracy vs. Autocracy: Great Power Competition in the 21st Century,” at the South Carolina Political Science Association Annual Meeting. She also gave an invited presentation, “Decentralization Under Authoritarianism,” for USAID, and she presented two papers at the International Studies Association annual conference, “Digital Democracy & Digital Repression: Understanding the Regulatory and Legal Environment,” and “Sharp Power: A Failure of Authoritarian Soft Power?” in Montreal, Canada.