Alumni News - Spring 2008

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Joe Moorefield was recently named the assistant vice president for student services at Brunswick Community College. Moorefield has served BCC since 1990 as the director of counseling and athletics. In his new position, he takes care of child care assistance for students, oversees students with special needs, supervises financial aid, admissions, registration, athletics and student activities.

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Kenneth Scott Drury, Southern Wesleyan University’s 2007 Young Leader Awardee, has just been named by World Hope International to the organization’s newly-created role of major gifts officer. In his new role, Drury will build existing relationships and create new opportunities for WHI to further its mission. “God is at work through World Hope International and I am excited to join what He is doing. World Hope International represents a unique opportunity to be
part of God’s transforming and empowering work to alleviate suffering and injustice around the world,”
Drury said. “I look forward to building relationships with those already committed to the mission of World Hope and inviting others to become partners in its life changing vision. Drury, his wife Elizabeth, and the couple’s four sons will relocate to the Washington, D.C. area.

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Deborah Hendrix of Lexington, S.C., is an appraiser with the Integra Realty Resources. She recently was designated a Member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI), joining 91 other S.C. appraisers.

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Maj. Marcus Scott is in the Army Reserve signal unit out of Augusta, Ga. He recently returned after a year’s deployment in Baghdad, where he was stationed in the Green Zone at Prosperity Forward Operation Base. Scott is now the postmaster of the Westminster Post Office. Scott played basketball on scholarship at Erskine College in Due West and received his master’s degree at Southern Wesleyan University in Central. He lives in Anderson with his wife, Jackie, and has three children.

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Rupal Shah has accepted a position at Harvard University’s School of Public Health to conduct
tuberculosis research as a Research Associate in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases. She will pursue graduate studies at Harvard.

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Katie (Holcombe) Kirkpatrick and her husband Tim are officially the new directors of the Hope Center in St. Martinville, La. It is the second poorest city in Louisiana. They recently bought an old Victorian home
and hope to open it as a transitional youth program in August of this year. They are also praying about leading a trip from their church to Zambia later this year.

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William Garland, Jr. has been named vice president of First Reliance Bank of Lexington, S.C. He has more
than 15 years of experience and is an active member of the community.

WEDDINGS
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Ronald Craig Brown and
Lindsey Nicole Carver
were married Dec. 8, 2007.

BIRTHS

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Jim and Janet Carriker Green are the proud grandparents of their first grandchild, Elizabeth Ann Green, born Nov. 6, weighing 7 lbs. and 15 oz., 20 inches long. Elizabeth is the daughter of Jay and Ann Brittian Green.

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Miles Louis Visher, weighing 7 lbs., 12 oz. and 19 or 20 inches, was born to Lance and Marian Visher, on Nov. 30. Proud grandparents are Buddy and Joan Rampey.

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Zachary Wayne Lemons was born on Dec. 5, 2007, to Derrick and Paula (Preusz) Lemons.

OBITUARIES
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Gordon Cary, passed away Nov. 6, 2007, in Bartlett, Tenn. The funeral was held in the Westside First
Wesleyan Church in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Nov. 11. Professor Cary served Wesleyan Methodist College
(now Southern Wesleyan University), Central, S.C., from 1946-1953. He served as dean of theology and director of Christian service at the time he resigned. He later became part of the ministry of Focus on the Family.

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Francene Cude Elliott, Columbia, S.C., Sept. 2, 2007. Mrs. Elliott’s husband was Marling Elliott, a longtime
professor at Southern Wesleyan University, who preceded her in death.

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William Fred Hubbard, Pickens County, S.C., August 9, 2007.