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Piedmont CollegeW. Ray CleerePresident

EditorDavid PriceDirector of Public Relations

Graphic ArtistAmber HarmonPublications Coordinator

Special Projects Coordinator Sandi Suda

Alumni InformationBrandy Aycock Associate Director of Institutional Advancement

Justin ScaliAssociate Director of Institutional Advancement

Donor RelationsSusan MillsAlumni and Donor Records Coordinator

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Top Stories 1 Hollingsworth named new President

2 Work begins on Art Gallery and new studios

4 Amphitheater earns design award

5 Trustee Irvin retires as Ag Commissioner

5 Judge Jones named to Federal bench

College Life 6 Theatre’s ‘Steel Magnolias’

6 Debate Team

7 ‘Elephant Man’

8 ‘The Tempest’, Chamber Singers

8 Community Service Challenge

Academic News 11 December Commencement

CONTENTSAthens

12 Athens Campus adds BSN program

Athletics14 Women’s lacrosse team

15 Fall and Winter sports roundup

Alumni & Friends20 Classnotes

22 ‘Friends of Music’ and Alumni Challenge

23 ‘Love Connections’

24 Obituaries

25 List of Donors

30 Financial Report

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Hollingsworth named new Piedmont president

Dr. Danny P. Hollingsworth of Morris-town, Tenn., has been named the 12th pres-ident of Piedmont College. Hollingsworth will take over the reins of the college from Dr. W. Ray Cleere, who announced last year that he would retire in June 2011 after 16 years as president.

Hollingsworth, who currently serves as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Carson-Newman College, will of-ficially assume the role of president in June, following his approval by the Piedmont Board of Trustees on March 5.

“I am honored to have the opportu-nity to become a part of such a fine edu-cational institution as Piedmont College,” Hollingsworth said. “I hope to build upon the college’s many successes to enhance its national reputation and to better serve the citizens of northern Georgia with higher educational opportunities to im-prove their lives.”

Cleere said he was “extremely pleased” with Dr. Hollingsworth’s appointment. “With his background and experience, and his knowledge of this part of the country, he is an excellent choice to continue the progress that is under way at our institu-tion,” he said.

Cleere thanked the members of the

committee that oversaw the eight-month, national search for a new president. “We were assisted by William Funk and Associ-ates out of Dallas, Texas, one of the most widely respected search consultants for higher education,” he said. Internally, a committee including the president, Provost Dr. James Mellichamp, and some 40 faculty, staff, students and alumni helped conduct the search and evaluate applicants. After the committee’s process of review was com-pleted, the information was brought to the full Board of Trustees for consideration.

Following their deliberations, the Execu-tive Committee of the Board, chaired by Thomas A. “Gus” Arrendale III, made the final decision.

Hollingsworth comes to Piedmont with some 36 years experience in business and higher education. Before joining Carson-Newman College as Dean of the School of Business in 2008, he taught business and accounting at Mississippi State University, where he served as director of the School of Accountancy and as interim Dean of the College of Business and Industry. From 1987 to 2000, he taught at Baylor Univer-sity, serving five years as chair of the Depart-ment of Accounting and Business Law.

At Carson-Newman College, Holling-sworth is responsible for all financial areas, including the offices of advancement, ath-letics, communications, church relations, finance, human resources, information technology, physical plant and student af-fairs. Hollingsworth and his wife, Elizabeth, have three college-age sons, Jake, Clark and Luke. “My wife and I are looking forward to becoming an integral part of the community as we serve Piedmont College,” he said.

Cleere said that after leaving Piedmont, he plans to continue to be active in higher education, working as a consultant for small colleges in the Southeast. His wife, the Rev. Dr. Ashley Cleere, will continue at Piedmont as Chaplain and as an associate professor of religion.

Before coming to Piedmont as presi-dent in 1995, Cleere served as commis-sioner of higher education in Mississippi, and he previously served as vice chancel-lor for academic affairs for the University System of Georgia. He also served as vice president and dean of faculties at Valdo-sta State College. He began his career in

Danny Hollingsworth will be the college’s 12th president.

W. Ray Cleere is retiring in June after 16 years at the helm.

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Two downtown Demorest buildings are getting a face lift in preparation for their reopening as one of northeast Georgia’s pre-mier art destinations.

Workers are in the process of renovating the Piedmont Art Gallery and art classrooms on Georgia Street, two brick buildings from the early 1900s. When they reopen this fall, the buildings will house a permanent art collection and exhibit space for displays of student and faculty art, as well as temporary shows by a variety of noted artists.

Combined, the two buildings will in-clude 6,500 square feet of exhibit space on two floors. The permanent exhibit will include more than 100 paintings from the collection of Piedmont Trustee Dr. Bill Mason and Bob Scharfenstein, both of Bir-mingham, Ala. A portion of the collection is currently housed in two galleries at the Swanson Center.

“This gift to the college represents art-works that have been collected over a period of more than 40 years,” said President Ray Cleere. “It includes primarily paintings by 19th- and 20th-century American and Euro-

The renovated Art Gallery in Demorest will include 6,500 feet of display space.

The second floor area of the Art Gallery will feature a permanent display of paintings and sculpture.

pean painters and sculptors.” Cleere said a patio area outside the building will also fea-ture a sculpture garden.

The renovation work was designed by Athens architects Armentrout, Roebuck and Matheny; and the construction is being done by Scroggs & Grizzel Contracting of Gainesville.

Chris Kelly, chair of the Art Depart-ment, said the permanent collection and the expanded gallery will greatly improve the type of art instruction Piedmont can offer. The gallery will especially augment the college’s new BFA degree program in Art Administra-tion. Graduates of this program will combine classes in the fine arts with business courses to learn how to manage art, music and the-ater venues.

“The Gallery will be a core part of teach-ing art at Piedmont College,” Kelly said. “The permanent collection will be important to our art history classes and to teach art management, curation, preservation and gal-lery management. In the temporary area, we plan to hold two shows each semester with works by invited artists.

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With the downtown gallery expanding and taking over much of the current art stu-dio space, construction is expected to begin this summer on a new art instructional build-ing adjacent to the current Martens Center. This three-story building, designed by Ar-mentrout, Roebuck and Matheny of Athens, will provide more than 26,000 square feet of instruction space for two-dimensional and three-dimensional art. Cleere said construc-tion of the new building is scheduled to begin this summer. Once it is completed, the current Art Annex building on Historic

Brickwork from the 1916-era buildings will be retained as part of the aesthetic look of the art gallery.

Highway 441 will be torn down to provide additional campus parking space.

“For the first time, Piedmont will have a facility purposefully built for the instruction of art,” said department chair Chris Kelly. “Lighting, safety and ease of instruction will be greatly improved. It will be a stellar space for art instruction.”

In addition to facilities for the study of painting and sculpture, the building will house instruction areas for photography, ce-ramics and graphic design, Kelly said.

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Piedmont’s new Arrendale Amphithe-ater, which has proven to be a hit with music fans, has also won national and international kudos from fans of cutting-edge design.

“Metal Architecture” magazine singled out the amphitheater for its top 2010 award in the category of metal roofing. The am-phitheater was the subject of a four-page article in the latest issue of the magazine, and the judges praised its clean lines and the way “the venue fits perfectly with the surrounding landscape.”

Architects Armentrout, Roebuck, and Matheny Consulting Group of Athens de-signed the state-of-the-art outdoor entertain-ment venue with an infrastructure that can

accommodate everything from Piedmont student performances to larger-scale com-mercial productions.

The roof of the amphitheater is actually its centerpiece, and architect James Blythe said it was purposely made to stand out. “We wanted it to have a little bit of presence that would draw you in from off site. One of the nice things is throughout the day the aesthetic changes because of the way the sun hits it,” Blythe said. “The actual design of the canopy was shaped in large part to provide the proper acoustics and sight lines for the sloped seating areas, as well as solar-modeled to optimize the shading during the warmer summer months,” he said.

In addition to the magazine award, the Alcoa company has spotlighted the Arrenda-le Amphitheater internationally to promote the composite aluminum panels used in its construction. The material was selected to withstand northeast Georgia storms and to be low maintenance.

Named for the Arrendale family, longtime supporters of the college, the am-phitheater seats about 350 people and is located adjacent to the Swanson Center for Performing Arts and Communications on Piedmont’s Demorest campus. The building contractor was Scroggs & Grizzel of Gaines-ville, with metal installers Kistler McDougall Corporation of Woodstock and J&J Weld-ing of Gainesville.

With its soaring aluminum panels, the Arrendale Amphitheater appears to take flight in this photograph provided by Metal Architecture magazine.

education as a teacher and counselor in the Atlanta City Schools.

During his time as president, Cleere has overseen the growth of Piedmont from a small, 850-student, four-year, liberal arts college to a comprehensive institution of almost 3,000 students on two campuses in Demorest and Athens. During his tenure, the college has constructed nine new buildings in Demorest, including five dormitories to dra-matically increase the number of residential

students. Almost every building on campus has also undergone a complete renovation, as have the athletic facilities and overall land-scaping. The Athens Campus, which began in a former residence, has now grown to in-clude a sprawling campus near downtown.

On the academic side, the college has expanded its curriculum in almost every area, including the addition of master’s, special-ist, and doctoral programs in education, and three master of business administration (MBA) programs. The college also opened

the Daniel School of Nursing, which offers bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) degrees in Demorest and Athens.

Piedmont has not been the only benefi-ciary of Cleere’s time while president. He is an active member and former president of the Habersham County Chamber of Com-merce. He also was the driving force for the establishment of radio station WPPR, which provided northeast Georgia with Georgia Public Radio broadcasts for the first time be-ginning in 1995.

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After 42 years as Georgia’s Agricultural Commissioner, Tommy Irvin of Mt. Airy is hanging up his political hat after one of the longest state office careers in Georgia history.

Irvin, whose other hats include his service on the Piedmont College Board of Trustees since 2001, began his public service in Habersham County as a trustee of Hazel Grove Elementary School and later North Habersham High School. Irvin then served four terms in the state legislature before be-ing appointed Agriculture Commissioner in 1969. He then won 10 straight elections to the post before deciding not to run for elec-tion in 2010. In all, he put in some 54 years of public service, and until his retirement was the longest-serving state agriculture commis-sioner in the nation. He is the only Georgian to serve as President of the National Associa-

tion of State Departments of Agriculture.Throughout his career, Irvin has been

interested in education as well as agriculture. Prior to his state service, he served on the Habersham County Board of Education in 1956 and as president of the Georgia School Board Association.

Those interests came together when he authored the state constitutional amend-ment that created the school lunch program in Georgia. “I’m very proud of that,” Irvin recently told The Northeast Georgian news-paper. Irvin recalled that he was a student at Chattahoochee School in White County, he might have only a cold potato or biscuit for lunch. “We were poor,” he said.

During his tenure as Agriculture Com-missioner, Irvin has crisscrossed the state countless times, perhaps racking up more

than a million miles in travel. In 1998, a portion of Georgia Highway 365 was named Tommy Irvin Parkway in his honor.

Through his career, Irvin has collected numerous awards, including the Progressive Farmer Magazine Man-of-the-Year in Service to Agriculture, the National Award for Ag-ricultural Excellence by the National Agri-Marketing Association, the National Future Farmers of America Honorary American Farmer Degree, and the Southeastern Poultry and Egg Association’s “Workhorse of the Year” award, which is considered to be the most prestigious recognition bestowed by the poultry industry.

He has been inducted into the Halls of Fame of many organizations, including National 4-H, Georgia Agrirama, Vidalia Onion, Georgia Seed Association, Haber-sham County, Hall County, and University of Georgia College of Agriculture.

Commissioner Irvin set up an interna-tional trade division in his department and pursued markets for Georgia’s agricultural producers in the Soviet Union, China and Cuba. His initiative has inspired other states to follow his lead, and the United States De-partment of Agriculture and leaders in other countries have sought to emulate Georgia’s procedures to eradicate animal diseases, and control plant pests.

During his 10 years on the Piedmont Board, Irvin has served on a variety of com-mittees that have overseen the college’s growth. “Tommy understood a long time ago the importance that Piedmont has, not just to the immediate community but to the en-tire northeast Georgia area,” said Piedmont President Ray Cleere. “He may have retired as Agriculture Commissioner, but I’m sure everyone at Piedmont looks forward to his continued service on our Board of Trustees.”

Former Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tommy Irvin, right, with fellow Piedmont board member Edward Ariail. Irvin stepped down as commissioner in 2010 after a 54-year career in public service.

Piedmont Trustee Tommy Irvin’s career combines interests in education and agriculture

Jones named Federal District JudgePiedmont College Trustee and Western

Circuit Superior Court Judge Steve Jones of Athens has been confirmed as a new judge in the U.S. Northern District of Georgia.

President Barack Obama nominated Jones in July to fill a vacancy in the District Court, and his appointment was confirmed by a unanimous 90-0 vote in the U.S. Senate on Feb. 28.

An Athens native and a University of Georgia graduate, Jones was a prosecutor and Athens-Clarke Municipal Court judge before then-Gov. Zell Miller made him a Superior Court judge for Clarke and Oconee counties in 1995. He also is involved in numerous community organizations, including chairing the anti-poverty effort “Partners for a Prosper-ous Athens,” now known as “OneAthens.”

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Pep Band ReturnsFans at basketball games in the Mize Center were treated to some rousing games and some rousing music from the Piedmont College Pep Band, which has regrouped under the direction of Wind Ensemble conductor Lee Ewing after an absence of several years. Currently there are six students performing during select basketball games. Ew-ing said he hopes that the band will become a permanent tradition once again.

‘Steel Magnolias’The women of Chinquapin, Louisiana, came to life in November as the Piedmont College Theatre presented Robert Harling’s ‘Steel Magnolias.’ The play examines the friendships among six women who frequent Truvy’s Beauty Salon in the small town as they face life, new birth, and death. The Piedmont production was directed by professor John Spiegel and performed in the Swanson Black Box Theater. Pictured (seated from left) are Kate Meents and Melissa Rice; (standing) Katie Robinson, Savannah Shelton, Sonya Leckman and Britt Hensley.

Debate Team takes awards

The Debate Team competed in the Georgia Parliamentary Debate State Cham-pionship against 48 students from across the state. Held in February at Georgia Tech, other participating colleges included Mercer University, Georgia Tech, and Gainesville State College.

Piedmont’s Michael Barry won the Best Speaker Award, and Cadman Kiker placed fifth.

During the fall semester, the debate team traveled to Bowling Green, Ky., to compete in a Parliamentary Debate at Western Kentucky University. The team competed in seven com-petitive debate rounds in the novice division and then advanced to the octa-finals and the quarter-finals.

In a third competition at Berry College, the debaters won the quarter-finals and ad-vanced to the semi-finals in the novice divi-sion. Barry and Kiker won the quarter-finals at this event and received their first runner-up semi-finals award. The team of Brittany Way and Jacob Reed received novice debate speaker awards for outstanding accomplishments.

The Debate Team, left to right, includes Brittany Way, Bethany Murley, Dustin Ingram, Michael Barry, Kami Anderson, Cadman Kiker, Jacob Reed (in back), Brittnye Hawks, and advisor Dr. Janice Moss.

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‘Elephant Man’ examines what it means to be human

Unlike the movie of the same name, the theatrical version of “The Elephant Man” relies on the audience’s imagination to visual-ize the disfigured features of the real-life Joseph Merrick, as well as the disfigured souls of the people who seek to either abuse or ex-ploit him.

The play by Bernard Pomer-ance and directed by Piedmont theatre department chair Bill Gabelhausen tells the true story of Merrick, who was rescued by Dr. Frederick Treves from Victo-rian-era side shows. Treves takes Merrick to the London Hospital to study his deformity, and the production tells the story of how Merrick rejoins society and pays the price for being “normal.”

As part of the production on the Swanson Center Main-stage, the students researched the lives of the main characters and life in Victorian England,

Pictured, above from left, are Brandon Mahaffey, Jonathan Fountain, and Jennifer Fuller. Below, from left: Tamara Rainwater, Amy Masten, Njoki Coleman, and Jennifer Fuller

‘The Return’ of ‘The Beatles’The Arrendale Amphitheater could have doubled for “The Cavern” in Liverpool, England, where four guys with long hair and mod suits first started singing in 1960. To mark the 50th anniversary of The Beatles, Piedmont students danced and even screamed a little for “The Return,” a Beatles tribute band that has toured the world. With vintage instruments and amps, the Faux Fab Four played a series of hits that spanned the Beatle’s songbook from their first days at The Cavern Club to their final American tour in 1966.

Gabelhausen said. “They have created realistic and stunning characters, and in the process, their work has been an inspira-tion to me as an educator.”

Reunion DinnersAwards BanquetsThe Coach Cave Memorial Golf Tournament& More!

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Chamber SingersThe Chamber Singers, a group of students admitted by audition only, performed their fall concert in November. The theme was “Genera-tion to Generation” which explored pieces with actual reference to generations and pieces that came from old texts with new contemporary adaptations by new composers. The ensemble, directed by Dr. Wallace Hinson, was accompanied by artist-in-residence Louise Bass on organ. They performed pieces by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Johannes Brahms, and Benjamin Britten.

‘The Tempest’“O brave new world, That has such people in it,” says Prospero’s daughter Miranda in “The Tempest.” Believed to be the last play Shakespeare wrote, “The Tempest” was the Bard’s last chance to pull out all the stops for his theatrical masterwork. Featuring a magical island, the wizard Prospero and the fairy-like Ariel, the play enchanted audiences at the Swanson Center mainstage in February. Pictured left are Matt McClure as Caliban, with Chase Weaver (seated) and Justin Gilleland (standing). At right are Rickey Eberhardt, Brandon Mahaffey, and Kate Meents.

The international art honor society Kappa Pi hosted the Second Annual “Empty Bowls,” charity event March 17 in Jenkins Theater.

Empty Bowls is an international grass-roots effort to fight hunger. Potters and other craftspeople, educators, and students work with the community to create hand-crafted bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal of soup and bread and are asked to keep their bowl as a reminder of all the empty bowls in the world. The money raised is donated to an organization working to end hunger and food insecurity. This year’s Empty Bowls raised $850 for the Habersham County Community Kitchens.

Entertainment for the evening was be provided by the Theater Department’s com-edy improv group, “Schticks & Giggles,” and the Music Department’s elite group of vocal performers, “Cantabile.” Dinner was pro-vided by Java Joe’s in Clarkesville.

‘Empty Bowls’ art project fills need

By Sandi SudaThis past December, the day before Per

Nyberg (‘06) was to fly home from London to Sweden for a much-needed vacation, a terrorist blew himself up on a crowded Stockholm street, killing the bomber and injuring two people.

Immediately, Per was tasked with sending CNN the details of the attack, confirming authority reports, and finding reporters in Sweden who could cover the story until he could be there the next day. Nyberg flew to Stockholm with a video camera in hand, and during his “vacation” he covered the first suicide terrorist attack in Sweden. For the CNN freelance correspondent, this is just “a glimpse of what a day at CNN can be like.”

The journey for Nyberg has been an eventful one since graduating from Piedmont in 2006 with a degree in mass communica-tions. He returned to his home country of Sweden, where he worked full time for sev-eral different local stations within the TV4 network as a news anchor, reporter, and news director. He started his TV4 career in Troll-hattan, a small town in southern Sweden. He then moved to Gavle, located near the east coast, and then to Uppsala, the fourth largest city in Sweden.

While at the TV4 Uppsala station, Ny-berg hosted a half-hour daily morning show about news and current events. He spoke with guests and covered stories from across the region. “I really liked this role because it was something beyond just straight news, and it gave me an opportunity to explore the sto-ries more in depth,” he said.

After working with TV4 for two and a half years, Nyberg decided he wanted to go back to school to earn a master’s degree and start working with international news again. He applied to King’s College in London, was accepted, and in fall 2008, he started an M.A. degree in Terrorism, Security, and Soci-ety, graduating in January 2010.

While studying at King’s College, Ny-berg contacted CNN and started working as a freelance assignment editor on the CNN International London News Desk. As the assignment editor, he monitors news and as-signs reporters to cover stories in Europe and Africa. Since CNN does not rely on Reuters or Associated Press, Nyberg’s main duty is to confirm when something has happened in the news. He has also worked as a field producer, going out with a reporter and a cameraman to be the contact between the field and the desk. He has been sent to Ma-drid to field produce the World Cup Final coverage, to the United Kingdom to cover the elections, and to Stockholm, Sweden, to

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‘This is Per Nyberg for CNN’

cover the terrorist attack. At the time when he started his degree and job at CNN, he also stayed in contact with TV4 and became their main freelance correspondent in London.

Nyberg credits the instruction he received at Piedmont with helping in his international journalism career. “The mass communica-tions department’s multi-skills approach, where you have to learn skills ranging from creating websites to writing for newspapers or working in PR, is truly a recipe for success,” said Nyberg. “I had the privilege of doing internships at CBS and CNN [in Atlanta] where I learned from some of the best jour-nalists in the world.”

Before Nyberg started his studies at Pied-mont, he attended the firefighter academy for three years and worked as a Swedish fire-

fighter. When he came to the U.S. through a Rotary program, he worked as a volunteer firefighter. After two years at Piedmont, he returned to Sweden to fulfill his mandatory military service in the Navy, where he was a communications officer and firefighter. He was based on a foreign expedition ship that sent him to Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, San Diego, and the Azores. After his military ser-vice he went to Spain to study Spanish and worked with CNN’s Madrid Bureau. He said the experience has helped him in journalism, because while working alongside military and emergency professionals he understands what they go through. Nyberg said, “The experi-ence of working as a firefighter and serving in the Swedish Navy has certainly helped shape me into who I am today.”

Covering the royal wedding of Sweden’s Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling in June 2010 was just another day on the job for Per Nyberg (’06), who reports on events in Europe for CNN.

Per Nyberg and a cameraman in Madrid work the crowd for a story after Spain’s 1-0 win over the Netherlands in the

2010 World Cup Soccer Tournament.

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In one of the largest gradu-ation ceremonies in its 113-year history, 453 students received de-grees Dec. 11, at the Johnny Mize Athletic Center in Demorest.

The graduates included 117 students receiving bachelor of arts and bachelor of science degrees. The School of Educa-tion awarded diplomas to 313 teachers receiving graduate degrees, including master’s and education specialist degrees. The School of Business awarded mas-ter of business administration degrees to 23 graduates.

The Commencement speak-er was Dr. Paul Shaw, Superin-tendent of the White County School System. Shaw began his career in education as a social studies teacher and has served as superintendent in South Caro-lina and Georgia. Now in his 11th year in White County, he was named Superintendent of the Year in Georgia for 2010, an honor he also earned in South Carolina in 2000.

Dr. Betty L. Siegel, Piedmont College Board of Trustee member since 2002, received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. Siegel retired from Kennesaw State Uni-versity after serving as president from 1981 to 2006. She continues to pursue new initiatives for ethi-cal leadership and has recently conducted workshops on educa-tion and leadership in England, China, South Africa, and Crete.

December Commencement adds to Class of 2011

Some soccer alumni were on hand to watch their buds graduate. From left are Jake Krieger (’10), Derek Vorherr (’10), Jeremy Stille (’09), Chris Leone (’11), Jorge Pradilla (’10), Josh Mitchem (’11), and Bryan Prevatte (’11).

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Athens Campus to offer bachelor of science in nursing (BSN) this fall

Piedmont College in Athens will begin offering Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) degrees with the start of the fall 2011 semester.

Dr. Linda Scott, dean of the college’s Daniel School of Nursing at the campus in Demorest, said that initially about 20 stu-dents will be enrolled in Athens. Classes will be held in Lane Hall on North Milledge Av-enue, adjacent to the college’s main Athens campus on Prince Avenue.

Students interested in enrolling in the nursing program should have completed their core freshman and sophomore studies by spring or summer of 2011. For informa-tion on how to enroll, contact the Piedmont School of Nursing at 706-776-0116.

In 1999, Piedmont opened its nursing school in Demorest and enrolls about 40 students there each year. The Georgia Board of Nursing approved the new program in Athens in December. Scott said the BSN program is similar to that for registered nurses and also includes classes in research and community health. The college offers different tracks for nurses who may already have an RN or LPN degree and want to earn a BSN diploma.

The faculty in Athens will include pro-fessors from the Demorest Campus, as well as some new members. The college already works with Athens-area medical facilities for students performing clinical internships.

Athens ‘Lights the Night’Twenty-four faculty, staff, and students from the Piedmont Athens Campus participated in the annual Light the Night walk to support people battling blood cancers. The team raised $2,400, which is $400 more than their team goal. The funds raised went to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society for cancer research, events, educational materials, counseling services for people and families of people with blood cancers.

Alumni Weekend 2011 is set for April 15-17, so mark your calendars and plan to join us for all the fun and excitement. This year’s event will include the Coach Cave Memorial Golf Tournament and the Annual Alumni Association meeting. New events this year include a Chick-Fil-A picnic on the Quad and a Reunion Gala and Awards Cer-emony in the Swanson Center.

Friday, April 159:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Athens Trip. Tour the

PC Athens campus, enjoy lunch, and Thrift Store shopping with host Doug Johnson (‘66). Self pay. $5 per person for van trans-portation.

11 a.m.-6 p.m. Coach Cave Memorial Golf Tournament at The Orchard Golf & Country Club.

5:30 p.m. Reunion Dinner. Classes of ‘65, ‘66, ’67 at local restaurant (TBA). Other classes welcome! Self pay.

7:30 p.m. Great Composers Concert. Piedmont College Chapel. Piedmont Cho-rale, Chamber Singers & Orchestra. Works by Beethoven, Bruckner & Holst. Free.

Saturday, April 169 a.m. Torch Breakfast. Brookside Din-

ing Room, Nielsen Hall. For women of the Torch. Torch members RSVP and pre-pay online at www.piedmont.edu/torch or e-mail Linda Wofford at lwofford@piedmont.edu. $11 per person

10:30 a.m. Alumni Association Annual Meeting. Stewart Hall Auditorium. Facts and figures for the year and general membership meeting. All are welcome.

11:30 a.m. Letter Club (“P” Club) Lunch. Brookside Dining Room, Nielsen Hall. Recap and preview of Piedmont Athlet-ics. Induction Hall of Fame Class of 2011. All are welcome. $12 per person.

11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Chick-fil-A Lunch & Music on the Quad. Lunch and Activi-ties (inclement weather Student Center). Come visit with current professors, stu-dents and alumni. Student art sale. Family-friendly activities. All are welcome. Lunch $5 per person.

1 p.m. Lions Softball Double Header vs Covenant College at Walker Fields.

4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. Alumni Social. Presi-dent’s Home. All are welcome. Free.

5:30 p.m. Reunion Gala & Alumni Awards Celebration. Swanson Center Atri-um. Special dinner seating and recognition for Anniversary Classes. Honor the successes of the recipients of the Distinguished Alum-ni, Alumni Service, Excellence in Education,

Stephen Andrew (’04 M’07), Justin Mathews (’04 M’07), and Jonathan Stuart (’04) chip to the pin in last year’s tourney.

Mark Your Calendars for Alumni Weekend 2011! and Pacesetter Awards. All are welcome. $25 per person/$15 per Young Alumni (‘00-’10) Prepayment required.

7 p.m. Lions Baseball vs Maryville Col-lege at Loudermilk Stadium.

Sunday, April 171 p.m. & 3 p.m. Lions Softball Double

Header vs Maryville College at Walker Fields3 p.m. Lions Baseball vs Maryville Col-

lege at Loudermilk Stadium

Always a highlight of Alumni Weekend, alumni and friends will take to the links at 11 a.m., April 15, for the Coach Cave Memorial Golf Tournament. This year’s tournament will be played at The Orchard Golf and Country Club north of Clarkesville.

The $95 entry fee includes lunch, greens fee, cart, range balls, and a goody bag. The top four teams will be awarded cash prizes ranging from $400 to $100, plus there will be

course prizes for the longest drive and closest to the pin.

Registration will begin at 11 a.m., with lunch at 11:45 and a shotgun start at 1 p.m. The tournament is a four-person Lauderdale with a 9-hole blind draw.

For more information or to sign up, visit www.piedmont/alumni or contact Brandy Aycock at baycock@piedmont.edu or Justin Scali at jscali@piedmont.edu, or call 1-800-868-1641.

‘Chip in’ for the Cave Memorial Golf Tournament

The Boys of OctoberAlumni members of the PC baseball team gathered in October for a reunion game. Pictured (front from left) are Josh McEachin, Matt Huffman, Ian McMaster, Corey Lindsey, Tom Dimitroff, Justin Vorherr, Travis Hunt, Walker Searcy, Cole Spedale, and Spencer Ventrice. Back: Mike Santowski, Matt Copeland, Trey Fowler, Bill Sands, Justin Oates, Jared Moon, Jared Vermilya, Stuart Lancaster, Evan Rodery, Zach Kunz, Daniel Rivera, Matt Burgess, Tim Jones, Evan Nissley, Stan Brosko, Spencer Shelton, Wes Crow, Andrew Migetz, Zac Stein, Terry Roberson, Andrew Wagner, Head Coach Jim Peeples.

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team set to take the field in the spring of 2012, the college is in the process of organiz-ing a women’s team to begin competition the following year.

Athletic director John Dzik said the col-lege is now looking for a head coach to build the foundation of the new team and begin recruiting players. “We hope to create inter-est for both qualified student-athletes and an experienced head coach with this formal an-nouncement,” Dzik said.

According to the latest participation survey by U.S. Lacrosse, the sport’s governing body, lacrosse is the fastest-growing high school sport for girls over the last 10 years and the second-fastest growing sport among boys. At the collegiate level, men’s lacrosse has been the fastest-growing sport over the past decade, while women’s lacrosse has been the second-fastest-growing sport. Currently in NCAA Division III, there are close to 200 women’s lacrosse programs across the nation.

According to the latest U.S. Lacrosse survey, close to 10,000 players from the youth up to the adult level are playing lacrosse in Georgia, a mark second only in the Southeast to the lacrosse-heavy state of Virginia.

The advent of the women’s lacrosse program comes less than a year after it was announced that Piedmont would add men’s lacrosse to its list of intercollegiate athletic offerings. Standout high school coach Peter Manderano was tapped as the first leader of the Piedmont men’s lacrosse program, bring-ing a slew of Georgia high school playoff ap-pearances and a 2006 state title with him to the collegiate level.

Piedmont becomes just the fifth NCAA Division III school in Georgia and the third in the Great South Athletic Conference to formally add women’s lacrosse as an inter-collegiate sport. The Lady Lions will join

Women’s lacrosse on horizonAgnes Scott College and LaGrange College as GSAC member schools who will offer women’s lacrosse, while Huntingdon College is expected to add the sport in 2013.

The college will shortly begin conduct-ing a national search for a head coach to lead the program and expects to make an ap-pointment to the position by the end of the current spring semester. The new coach will be charged with adding assistant coaches and beginning a comprehensive recruiting pro-gram for the 2011-2012 school year, with the

anticipated inaugural season slated for the 2013 spring semester.

With the addition of men’s lacrosse, Piedmont has already begun the necessary expansion of facilities and support services to accommodate both the new men’s and women’s lacrosse programs. A new turf play-ing facility was added in the fall of 2010 to the Walker Athletic Complex complete with markings for both men’s and women’s lacrosse. Athletic office space has been ex-panded, as has the current athletic training staff with the addition of assistant athletic trainers Tim Miesmer and Kristi Castellaw, who both came to Piedmont in the fall of 2010. Renovation of existing locker rooms is also a part of the start-up process for the new athletic program.

Members of the 2010-11 Cheerleaders include, front from left: Alexandra Mahoney, Michelle Sosia, Lauren Boone, Rebecca Bloomingdale, and Beth Gossett. Back: Kel Lee Cutrell (coach), Olivia Swisher, Danielle Vidd, Danielle Morgan, Aubrey Tidwell (captain), Kristen Payne (captain), Sara Gardiner, Stevie Brown, Torey Poole, and Renee Lowry (coach).

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The Piedmont vs Maryville rivalry in men’s soccer heated up a little more this past season as the Lions dropped a 2-1 overtime loss to the Scots in the GSAC championship match. It marked the third straight year that Piedmont finished second to Maryville and the second time in three years that the final match went into overtime.

In an even contest fit for a championship, the Lions struck first in the 55th minute when junior Nick Weatherby of Grayson broke free to put a punted ball from keeper Brian Gaid into the Maryville net. The 1-0 advantage would last 20 minutes before the Scots found an equalizer in the 75th min-ute to put the score at 1-1, where it stayed through regulation. In the first overtime period, Maryville scored the winning goal only three minutes in.

Gaid, a junior keeper from Marietta, was selected as the GSAC championship tournament MVP for his effort between the sticks for PC. Coach Jimmy Stephens’ Lions ended their season at 11-8 overall.

Five Piedmont players were named to the All-Conference team. They include Weatherby, Gaid, sophomore Brian Re-ulbach of Grayson, sophomore Sidney Smith of Dallas, and freshman Justin Whitaker of Lawrenceville. Weatherby led the conference in six different offensive categories during the regular season, including goals, assists, and total points. Whitaker also earned a spot on the All-Freshman list, joining teammates Chase Rivers of Lawrenceville and Stephen Sherfy of Cookeville, Tenn.

Sophomore Tyler Buttram of Cartersville was honored with the GSAC’s Individual Sportsmanship Award for Pied-mont. Buttram, Gaid, Reulbach, and Weatherby joined team-mates Koffi Ametohoun of Atlanta and Brooks Willis of Ac-worth on the GSAC All-Academic team for carrying at least a 3.25 GPA.

Hoping to repeat as GSAC champions, the Piedmont men came up just short of Huntingdon College in the season finale held at Maryville, Tenn. Fit-tingly, it was Huntington that edged the Lion runners for this year’s title.

Despite falling short of team success, the men did receive some good news when runner A.J. Meyer was named GSAC Freshman of the Year. Meyer placed third individually with his race time of 28:57, while teammates Wesley Milton and Chez Maxwell followed closely behind with times of 29:37 and 29:42 respectively.

Junior Matt Collins was next for Piedmont at 30:13 and was one of four Lions to finish in the top ten of the race. Meyer, Milton, and Maxwell each earned All-Conference honors, while Meyer also earned a spot on the All-Fresh-man squad as did teammate Brett Grantham. Collins and Milton also were named as GSAC All-Academic selections.

On the women’s side, the Lady Lion runners took fifth place in the seven-team GSAC championship meet. The team was not short of hardware, how-ever, as Molly Atkinson was honored as the GSAC Freshman of the Year. At-kinson came in at 29:27 on the day, a time that was good enough to place her 11th individually. Fellow freshman Kristen Payne was right behind with a time of 29:31. Payne and Atkinson were both named members of the GSAC All-Freshman team for their performance in the conference meet.

Fall and winter sports roundup

Nick Weatherby was one of five GSAC All-Conference Team players fielded by Piedmont this past season.

Goalkeeper Brian Gaid and the Lions recorded five shutout victories this season.

Cross Country men 2nd, women 5th in GSAC races

It was déjà vu all over again as the Piedmont women reached the finals of the GSAC tournament for the second year in a row, only to fall to Maryville College by the same score, 2-1.

In a deadlocked match that kept fans on the edge of their seat, the two teams were in a scoreless draw until a flurry of scores after the 65th minute. Piedmont struck first, as sopho-more Macie Rooke of Sugar Hill curled a shot just over the head of Maryville’s keeper.

Unfortunately for the home team, the lead would be short-lived as Maryville equal-ized just two minutes later on a scramble in front of the goal. With the score now knotted at one each, the match appeared to be head-ed for overtime until the Scots again found the back of the net with just six minutes re-maining to steal the 2-1 win.

Coach Stephen Andrew’s Lady Lions finished 2010 with a 13-7 overall record, the third consecutive season that Piedmont has finished with 13 or more wins.

In the GSAC All-Conference balloting, Piedmont led the way with six selections, including Laura Goodwin of Snellville, who was honored as the league’s Freshman of the Year. Goodwin scored 14 goals while dishing out 12 assists in her debut season. Goodwin was also named to the All-Conference Team, as were junior Justine Clay of Buford, senior Katie Porter of Buford, senior Kaitlyn Induni of Lawrenceville, sophomore Dilyn MacLean of Blue Ridge, and sophomore Katherine Metz of Suwanee. Sarah Hill of Lilburn was named to the All-Freshman Team.

Goalkeeper Induni was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America 2010 NCAA Division III All-South Atlantic Region team on the strength of her 10 shutouts this season and 0.69 goals against average, a season mark that shattered the school record.

Induni and Justine Clay were named to the Scholar All-South Region Team of the NSCAA, an award that goes out to the top scholar athletes based on academic and athletic performance from a field of over 50 teams in the south region.

Sophomore Macie Rooke of Sugar Hill took home the GSAC’s Individual Sportsmanship Award for Piedmont. Clay, Induni, and Metz joined teammates Kris-ten Murri of Villa Rica, Kaitlyn Pannell of Monroe, and Brooke Terilli of Dacula on the GSAC All-Academic team for carrying at least a 3.25 GPA.

Soccer women post 18-7 record, and second in GSAC

Senior Katie Porter was one of six Piedmont players named to the GSAC All -Conference Team.

Kaitlyn Induni recorded 10 shutouts during the 20-game season and was named to the NCAA D-III All South Atlantic Region Team.

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The volleyball team claimed its first Great South Athletic Conference Champion-ship Tournament crown since 2007 with a 3-1 victory over the top-seeded Lady Hawks of Huntingdon College, earning an automatic berth into the NCAA Division-III National Tournament.

The Lady Lions had a battle on their hands from the start in the GSAC final, tak-ing the first set 26-24, only to see Hunting-don tie it up with a 25-21 win in the second set. However, Piedmont would rally to close the door with two more set victories, 25-22 and 25-19, to earn the 3-1 overall match vic-tory.

Senior outside hitter Kalin DeMarrais of Lawrenceville led the way for PC with another double-double, earning 11 kills and 16 digs on the day, while fellow senior Heather Stafford of Sandy Springs earned 14 digs to help in the cause. Defense was the name of the game again for the cham-pionship squad with four players posting double-digit dig numbers.

Sophomore libero Paige Eslinger of Ring-gold was the leader in digs for the match with her 27 helping to stave off a ferocious Huntingdon attack at the net. In her first GSAC championship match appearance, freshman setter Katheryn Knarr of Chickam-auga dished out 14 set assists.

In their first match of the NCAA Nation-al Tournament, Piedmont fell in straight sets to the number-one-ranked Eagles of Emory University on the in-state rival’s home floor. Piedmont stayed tight with the hosting Eagles early in each set, but could not hold on to

Volleyball takes top prize in GSAC Championships

They are Number One. Coach Sid Feldman and the Piedmont women’s volleyball team show their approval after knocking off Huntingdon College for the GSAC title.

take a set on the road from the tour-nament favorite, finishing the match 25-15, 25-15, and 25-18.

Coach Sid Feldman’s Lady Lions finished the season at 20-14, marking the sixth consecutive year that they have won 20 or more games.

Knarr was named the GSAC Freshman of the Year; and three Pied-mont players made the All-Confer-ence list, including Eslinger, who was named Libero of the Year, Stafford, and junior Rachel Powell of Tallaseee, Ala.

Knarr was also honored with the GSAC’s Individual Sportsmanship Award for Piedmont. Eslinger, Staf-ford, and Powell joined teammates DeMarrais, Jessica Hollis of Flowery Branch, and Hallye Jerkins of Buford on the GSAC All-Academic team.

Freshman Ashton Nash goes up to set the ball.

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The Piedmont women claimed their second GSAC basketball title in four years Feb. 26 with a commanding 69-44 win in the finals over Agnes Scott College, a team that had beaten the PC women 59-50 just a few weeks earlier in the regular season.

The championship victory propelled the Lady Lions into the first round of the NCAA D-III national tournament, where they faced the number-one ranked Thomas More Saints March 4 in Crestview Hills, Ky.

Coach Jamie Purdy’s Lady Lions gave up a 17-point lead to the Saints by the end of the first half, when they trailed 31-14. The second half was all Piedmont, though, as the team put together a 21-6 run and closed the gap to just four points with four minutes left on the clock. The Saints’ offense rose to the chal-lenge, however, and fend-ed off the Piedmont attack with a 12-7 run of their own, to win 53-44.

The loss to the Saints ends the Lady Lions’ season at 20-9 overall, with an 11-3 re-cord in the Great South Athletic Conference.

In the GSAC team balloting, senior Laura Simmons of Gainesville and junior Sada Wheeler of Lula both were named to the All-Conference Team. With close to 900 career points to her name, Simmons was the Lady Lions’ top scorer in 2010-11, averaging 12 points per game, while pulling down 131 rebounds on the year as well.

Basketball women take Great South titleMaking her second

straight appearance on the All-Conference list, Wheeler grabbed 226 rebounds for the Lady Lions and led the GSAC in double-double perfor-mances with 11. Consistently a defensive presence down low with her 72 blocks on the

season (number one in GSAC), the junior was one of a handful of women’s basketball players across NCAA Division III to post a triple double with 28 points, ten boards, and ten blocks against La-Grange on Jan. 14.

Freshman Danielle Hendrick of Statesboro took home the GSAC’s Individual Sportsman-ship Award for PC. Simmons joined team-mates Amber Satterfield of McCaysville, Shanice Wheeler of Kennesaw,

Lauren Anderson of Cornelia, and McKenzie Reeves of Lawrenceville as members of the GSAC All-Academic team.

Ironically, it was another victory against the visiting Scotties of Agnes Scott during the regular season that provided a special treat for the Lady Lions. That 69-51 win on Feb. 1 put Coach Jamie Purdy over the 100 wins mark during her six seasons at the head of the team. Including her two previous seasons as coach at Middle Georgia

Amber Satterfield (above) and Shanice Wheeler (below) were among the five PC basketball women named to the GSAC All-Academic Team. (Below, left) Lauren Hamel of Winder averaged more than five points per game. (Photos by Jasper Lee)

College, Purdy now has 138 total career wins. She graduated from Piedmont in 2000 after four years as a standout basketball and soft-ball player.

100 wins for Coach Jamie Purdy

Basketball men fall in semis, claim road win over Maryville

The basketball men were buoyed by a win on the road against Maryville College late in the season, but saw their GSAC hopes sink with a 96-74 loss to Huntington in the conference semi-finals. The hosting Hawks put the clamps on one of the best three-point shooting teams in the league and held the Lions to just 12 percent shooting from behind the three-point line—well below their season average of 41 percent from downtown. The two teams had split their earlier match-ups during the regular season.

The loss dropped PC to 10-16 on the sea-son, as the Lions ended their 2010-11 campaign. In the All-Conference balloting, point guard Will Skaggs was named the GSAC Freshman of the Year, while head coach Lee Glenn was tapped as the league’s Coach of the Year after leading PC to its first win at Maryville College in the program’s history. Skaggs dished out 150 assists during the season, ranking 15th in the nation in his first collegiate season. Also joining

Skaggs on the All-Freshman Team was Kevin Kubandi, who averaged just over seven points per game.

Juniors Josh Haymore and Tracey Gardner were named to the GSAC All-Conference team. Gardner was the league’s top rebounder pulling down a to-tal of 205 boards, while Haymore was hon-ored for his three-point accuracy of close to 50 percent, which was best in the league and third in the nation.

Senior Phillip Sloan was the GSAC Individual Sportsmanship Award winner for Piedmont. Sloan was also a GSAC

All-Academic selection, joining teammates Haymore, Gardner, Daniel Lampl, and Mi-

chael Ross. The five honorees led all GSAC schools, marking the eighth consecutive year that the Lions have led the league in All-Academic selec-tions.

(Above) Kevin Kubandi was named to All-Freshman Team, and teammate Will Skaggs (below) was selected as the GSAC Freshman of the Year. (Photos by Jasper Lee)

Lee Glenn was named GSAC Coach of the Year.

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John and Rosa Valdes Kuiken (both ’59) celebrated their 50th wedding anniver-sary on May 28, 2010. The couple met at Piedmont in 1958 and currently live in Hen-derson, Nev.

Tom Richard (’70) is the executive sec-retary for the National Association of Con-gregational Christian Churches. He and his wife, LeeAnne, have two grandchildren and one step grand-child. Their oldest daughter recently returned from her second month-long trip with the Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts on a bird-counting expe-dition off the East Coast. Their youngest daughter just returned from a month-long mission trip in Ghana teaching art to chil-dren in an orphanage.

Dianne Wittington Lawson (’71) has owned Dream Givers Gallery in downtown Toccoa for seven years. The gallery represents more than 90 artists and sells art and art gifts made locally. Dianne and her husband, Buddy, have been married for 25 years and have “two awesome dogs.”

John Preece (’71) is currently in his ninth national tour of “Fiddler on the Roof.” He has performed more than 3,100 times in the show, with 1,500 of those as the character Tevye. John has been involved with theatre for 40 years and has performed in many plays, including “The Sound of Music,” “Jesus Christ Superstar,” and “42nd Street.” He has also helped produce and direct more than 40 plays. He and his wife, Susie, live in Springfield, Ill.

Robert S. Davis (’78) is a professor of history at Wallace State College in Hancev-ille, Ala., where he is also director of the Family & Regional History Program. In Sep-tember, he was interviewed for an episode of the History Channel’s upcoming television series Brad Meltzer’s Decoded. Through The History Press in Charleston, he has recently published his 39th book, “Andersonville Confederate Prison.” In spring 2011, he will publish a book on Civil War Atlanta. Davis has recently published his 100th article in a scholarly journal. He also has recently given state-wide talks on family history in Alabama and Georgia.

Prakash Silwal (’89), right, pictured with Dr. Rob Wainberg, was one of the first stu-dents to graduate from the biology program and went on to earn a Master of Science degree in Toxicology from Clemson. He then went to work on his Ph.D. at Florida Interna-tional University. Prakash worked for various ministries with the Nepalese government and

then worked with The Mercy Corps in India, Pakistan, and Sudan. He currently works for CARE, International, directing the construc-tion of roads and canals.

Linda Pitts (’90) and Jim Duling were married Sept. 4, 2010, beside a waterfall in Sky Valley.

Matt Benson (’92) completed his doctoral de-gree from the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif., in May 2010. In July, he joined Bryan College in Dayton, Tenn., as vice-president for Spiritual Forma-tion and assistant

professor of Chris-tian Thought and Biblical Studies. He and his wife, Melody, and their three children live in Dayton.

Dackri Davis (’93) recently moved to Denver, Colo., and is the assistant principal at Denver East High School. She is finishing coursework for a PhD in Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University and will defend her dissertation next year.

Elizabeth “Liz” Kelly (’96) recently joined Georgia Southern University in the Department of Writing and Linguistics as a Rhetoric and Composition expert. She is working on a manuscript entitled “Pedagogy of Empathy: Teaching Writing in the 21st

Century” for the National Council of Teach-ers of English. She is also working on a novel about her grandmother’s circus roots and a play that focuses on adolescent bi-polar disor-der. Liz will be working with Project Literacy, Habitat for Humanity, and various non-profits in the near future to help educate the unemployed in the region.

Jessica Shirley (’96) recently changed departments at South Rabun Elementary School in Tiger to the office and media cen-ter. She has been at the school for 11 years.

Debbie Allen (’97) wel-comed her grandson John David Adams on July 27, 2010. The proud parents are Mandy and Brandon Adams.

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Teachers of the Year for 2010-2011

Michelle Masters (M’06), New Holland Core Knowledge Academy. She has taught at the Gainesville school for six years and now teaches fourth grade.

Geoff Chaffin (M’09), C.W. Davis Middle School. He has taught at the Flowery Branch school for four years and teaches seventh and eighth-grade special education math.

Michele Taylor (M’07, EdS’08) Riverbend Elementary School. She has taught at the Gaines-ville school for six years and teaches fourth and fifth-grade language arts.

Juliana Dean (’06, M’09), Wauka Mountain Multiple Intelligences Academy. She has taught at the Hall County school for four years and teaches fourth grade.

Jeremy Pirkle (EdS’08), Chicopee Woods Elementary School. He has been at the school for one year as the media specialist. He has been teaching for nine years.

Misty Freeman (M’08), Friendship Elemen-tary School. She has taught at the school all 11 years of her teaching career and currently teaches first grade.

K. Ashleigh Fickey (EdS’10), South Haber-sham Sixth Grade Academy. Ashleigh teaches social studies and is also the cheerleading coach at South Habersham Middle School and at the Habersham Ninth Grade Academy.

Hugh McKinney (EdS’09), Northeast Geor-gia Youth Science & Technology Center. Earlier this year, he was also named the Gainesville Mid-dle School Teacher of the Year. He teaches eighth grade physical science.

Sherri Behrens (’08), Rabun County Elemen-tary School. She teaches sixth grade social studies and has been teaching for three years.

STAR Teachers 2011Ernie Davis (M’02), selected by Michael

Reynolds at Chestatee High School. He was also selected in 2006 by STAR Student Caswell John-son.

Lynn Tankersley (’97), selected by Ian Kelly at East Hall High School.

Shannon Gilstrap (’99) successfully de-fended his doctoral dissertation in English at Georgia State University and received the degree in December. He earned his master’s degree from Clemson and is currently a fac-ulty member at Gainesville State College.

Erin McManus Mundy (M’00) was recently promoted to assistant profes-sor within the De-partment of Family Medicine at the School of Medicine of the Medical Col-lege of Georgia. She has also been named the Area Health Education

Center (AHEC) Director of Community Based Training Programs. Erin has been with the Medical College of Georgia and the Georgia Statewide AHEC Network Pro-gram Office since 2004. She lives in Flowery Branch with her husband, Chris, and their nine-year-old son, Davis.

Addie Wamsley Thomas (’02) and Jason Hans Thomas of Chester, S.C., announce the arrival of their first baby girl, Taylor Mae Thomas, born Nov. 28, 2010, at 8 lbs 11 ounces, 21.5 inches long.

Nick Kastner (’03, M’06) was recently elected to the Piedmont College Alumni Board and his term began on Jan. 1, 2011. The Alumni Board of Directors are nomi-nated and voted on by fellow Piedmont Col-lege Alumni.

Amy Rine Thompson (’07, M’09) and Zachary Thompson (’06) were married in May 2009. Amy has worked as a kindergar-ten teacher at East Lake Elementary School in the Atlanta Public Schools System for the past three years. Zach was ordained as a transitional deacon in the Episcopal Church in December 2010 and is expected to be or-dained a priest this summer. He will graduate with a Master of Divinity degree from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in May 20011 and then will begin coursework for a Master of Sacred Theology at The Uni-versity of the South this summer.

Gabby Parham (‘07) and Chad Parham welcomed their son, Brayden Maddox Par-ham, into their lives on September 30, 2010 at the Habersham County Medical Center. He weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces and was 19.5 inches long.

Chanda DeFoor (’02) ran a half-mara-thon on October 24, 2010, in Myrtle Beach. She raised $1,500 for Southern Cross Dog Rescue.

Lindsey Cromer Bar-kley (’06) and Gary Bruce Barkley were married Nov. 15, 2008, and recently wel-comed their son, Camden Todd Barkley, on Feb. 12, 2010.

Megan Day (’08, M’09) joined the School of Audio Engineering in Atlanta as a financial assistance coordinator in Septem-ber. The school opened in 1976, specializing in audio engineering education. Now it offers degrees in filmmaking, digital jour-nalism, animation, web design, and game design as well.

Ashley Smith Martin (’08) and Nathan Martin welcomed their son, Easton Martin, into the world Sept. 20, 2010.

Joy (’09) and Robert Rittweger (’07) wel-comed their daughter, Jubilee Michal Rittwe-ger, into the world March 2, 2011.

Kasey Taylor Bridges (’10), Chris Bridg-es, and big brother Luke Bridges welcomed Bowman Curtis Bridges into their lives in July 2010. He was born at Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton.

Kathy Conley Nicholson (’10) has joined Habersham County Family Connection as executive director. In her position, she spot-lights education and is currently directing the creation of an Adult Language Learning Cen-ter within an elementary school. In addition to this position, Kathy is an on-air personality and producer with WRAF 90.9 FM/WEPC 88.5 FM. She currently hosts a Sunday af-ternoon show from 1-5 p.m. And starting in April 2011, Kathy will be a television host for Windstream Communications for a commu-nity talk show entitled Southern Accent.

Liat Faver (’10) has been accepted into the Converse College Creative Writing graduate program in Spartanburg, S.C. She recently performed in the Habersham Com-munity Theatre’s production of Hairspray and will direct a play in the upcoming HCT One-Act Festival.

E. Lane Gresham (’10) has re-joined The Northeast Georgian newspaper as a staff writer.

Jean McCullough (’10) joined the Great-er Hall Chamber of Commerce staff as Proj-ect Manager. In her new position she assists the Economic Development Division with programs and services for small businesses and retail development.

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ALUMNI & FRIENDSThe Friends of Music is a new organization for the Piedmont com-

munity to support the college’s music students and to promote music programming at the college and in the northeast Georgia community.

Funds generated by membership and donations will be used to pro-vide concerts open to the students, faculty, staff, and friends of Pied-mont and to provide travel opportunities and scholarships for music students.

Bill Loyd, Community Bank and Trust Senior Vice President and Piedmont Trustee, joined the Friends of Music Program and is a longtime supporter of the music program. “I saw this as an op-portunity to expose to the public what a hidden gem we have at the college,” Loyd said.

Loyd also sings with the Piedmont Chorale and is the organist and director of music at Cornelia Methodist Church. Music is very impor-tant to him and has been since the fourth grade. “The Piedmont music department gives me another opportunity to immerse myself in some-thing I really love,” he said.

Piedmont’s annual fund-raising drive is under way, and the race is on to see which alumni classes will be able to claim the largest percentage of donors. Will it be the alumni from the 1930s, the ’40s, ’50, ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s, or the 2000s?

The Fund for Piedmont is one of the most important ways you can help current and future students. Gifts to the fund are combined to support scholarships, work study programs and to supplement activi-ties on campus from the classrooms to the athletic fields. Almost as important as the amount raised is the number of alumni who contribute to the Fund for Piedmont. That is because many foundations that give to Piedmont base their own contributions on how well our alumni—the people who know Piedmont best— support the mission of the college.

By making a donation of any size—re-member it is a challenge for percentage of donors—you can help your classmates win.

And because we recognize that it is espe-cially hard for recent graduates to think about the Fund for Piedmont when you have a mil-

lion other new responsibilities vying for your time, we’ve created the 10-4-10 program. We are asking all new alumni to consider a $10 donation each year for 10 years. It may not sound like much, but when everyone pulls together, it all adds up to a lot of support for students.

Of course, the 10-4-10 program is flexible. You can give any amount you choose, and you can even des-ignate your gift for any area of the college, whether a particular school, major or athletic program.

Community Service ChallengeThis next challenge goes out to all

alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends as the college’s quality enhancement team has embarked on a year-long effort to dem-onstrate how small actions can create a big impact. The challenge is for the Piedmont

community to log 10,000 hours of volunteer work. The PC alumni are hoping to log 1,000 of those hours.

We know PC alums are serving their communities through volunteer activities. Your individual service hours can help meet

the alumni goal and the overall goal of 10,000 hours. What a great way to be involved with Piedmont whether you are nearby or far away. Just report your service hours to Brandy Aycock at baycock@piedmont.edu or log them using the link from

www.piedmont.edu/alumni. You can also call your hours into Brandy at 706-778-8500, ext. 1170.

So, ALUMS, there are two CHALLENG-ES on the table. Let’s show the classes of 2011 thru 2014 that ALUMNI ROCK!

Alumni challenge set for Annual Fund, service

‘Friends of Music’ help program expand

The Chamber Singers ensemble is just one of the groups that receive support from the ‘Friends of Music.’ Students also participate in the Piedmont Chorale, Cantabile, Wind Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, Orchestra, and Opera Workshop.

Loyd said he tries to attend all of the music performances he can and also sings a couple of times each year with the Chorale. “The stu-dents amaze me every time they perform. Piedmont has many things to be proud of and so much potential,” he said.

Membership levelsFriends of Music has three levels of membership: Prelude, Sonata,

and Concerto, providing a range of benefits. Prelude members receive name recognition in musical performance

programs and reserved seating at all musical performances. Sonata members additionally receive a digital recording of the

annual Lessons & Carols program, a wine and cheese reception dur-ing the concert season, and two tickets to each performance requiring paid admission.

Concerto members additionally receive four season tickets.To view the brochure for additional information and to find dona-

tion information go to www.piedmont.edu.

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The Alumni Association asked graduates to send in their “love connection” stories about how they met on campus.

Here are just a few of the stories they had to tell:

Richard York (’93) and Shannon Dill-inger York (’98) met during Shannon’s first year at Piedmont in 1994, when Richard was the men’s assistant basketball coach and and RD in Wallace Hall and Shannon was a student and basketball player. During this time they were acquaintances. Richard left Piedmont in 1997 and Shannon left when she graduated in 1998. The two crossed paths again in 2000 when Shannon returned to Piedmont to earn a master’s degree. She worked as the assistant women’s basketball coach under Coach Charles Cooper and also worked with the athletic director, Richard’s sister, Renee York Pryor (’89 M’98). Richard and Shannon began dating in September 2000, and they were married in June 2001. They will celebrate 10 years of marriage this summer and they have two children, Reagan, age 7, and Hudson, age 3.

Mark LaCoursiere (’01) and Melissa Bagwell LaCoursiere (’02) met at Piedmont, but Mark first caught her eye at a talent show when he was singing Backstreet Boys. The two didn’t start dating until November 2001, Melissa’s junior year, when Mark asked her to the homecoming dance. On Melissa’s gradua-tion date, Mark slipped a note in her diploma asking her to marry him. She didn’t get to see him until after the ceremony and he proposed to her in front of her family. They were married Nov. 1, 2003, their three year anniversary. On July 18, 2010, the couple wel-comed a new addition, Mace Avery LaCoursi-ere (below) to their family.

Piedmont ‘Love Connections’

Gary Coker (’63) and June Bottcher Cok-er (’64) (pictured above) met at Piedmont in 1961 on a student trip to Tallulah Gorge. At the time, June was a freshman from Worces-ter, Mass., and Gary was a sophomore from Social Circle. Their first date was in Decem-ber 1962, and little did they know this trip would spark a courtship that has continued for 47 years.

Tim Suda (’09) and Sandi Tatum Suda (’09) (above) met at Piedmont in the mass communications department when she was a sophomore and he was a freshman. Sandi was not fond of Tim at first, but after over-coming their differences they started dating and were engaged on March 19, 2010, their three year anniversary. They were married Dec. 31, 2010, at the Cornelia Community House. Both currently work at Piedmont and live in Demorest. Sandi works in the Office of Institutional Advancement and Tim works in the Admissions Office.

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1930sHoyt E. Bowen (’39) of Chapel Hill,

N.C., died Jan. 4, 2011. He was 91. Dr. Bowen served in WWII as a naval aviator. He was a professor of English at Western Kentucky University from 1971-85, and do-nated his Elizabethan and Shakespearean collections to Piedmont’s Arrendale Library. Survivors include his wife, Kathryn McMa-nus Bowen (’50).

Isabel Lumsden Couch (attended 1933-35) of Sautee-Nacoochee, Ga., died Nov. 29, 2010. She was 95. Mrs. Couch’s career in education began as a classroom teacher in Clarkesville. She went on to become supervi-sor and curriculum director in Pickens, Ste-phens, Lumpkin, and Habersham counties, retiring from that position in 1972. In retire-ment she worked with the White County Title I program, taught at the University of Georgia, served as executive secretary for the Georgia Department of Instructional Super-visors, and served two terms on the White County Board of Education. Her community efforts led to the formation of the Sautee-Na-coochee Community Association. Survivors include her sister-in-law, India Dyer Lumsden (attended 1942-43) and Dr. Tom Lumsden.

Grace Dodd Hodges (’31) of Anderson-ville, Ga., died Oct. 23, 2010. She was 99. Survivors include her sister, Boyce Dodd Sullivan (’34).

1940sThomas G. Harris (’40) of Millen, Ga.,

died Feb. 16, 2011. He was 92. Mr. Harris was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII. He was a retired teacher, assistant principal, and bas-ketball coach from the Armuchee School in Floyd County.

Odell B. Dyer (’41) of Gainesville, Ga., died Oct. 11, 2010. He was 93. Mr. Dyer served in WWII as a radar operator. He received a Purple Heart after his B-24 was downed on a mission near Guadalcanal in the South Pacific. A life-long educator, he retired from the State of Georgia. Survivors include his sister, Desma Dyer Fry (’41) and niece, Nina Fry (’77).

Edna Stanley Lybrand (’44) of Albe-marle, N.C., died Nov. 11, 2010. She was 87. She had taught school in Tate and Camak in Georgia and in Lancaster, S.C. Mrs. Ly-brand and her husband were active in the Lutheran Church and had been involved in the beginning of three Lutheran churches in as many states.

Sara Garthright Ray (’44) of Warrenton, Ga., died Dec. 29, 2010. She was 87. Mrs. Ray was a retired metallurgist for Handy and Harmen of El Monte, Calif. Her husband, Jesse Ray (’43), died in 1964. She was a mem-ber of the Warrenton Garden Club, Warren County Historical Society, Daughters of the Confederacy, and the National Wildlife As-sociation at Lake Havasu, Ariz.

Guin A. “Lefty” Cronic (’48) of Lula, Ga., died Jan. 13, 2011. He was 87. Mr. Cronic enlisted in the U.S. Navy in WWII, serving in the Pacific campaign. He was a retired teacher and served as a Baptist min-ister for more than 40 years. Mr. Cronic was an outstanding baseball player, playing in the industrial leagues in Gainesville and North Georgia. He had a brief career with the Atlanta Crackers in the 1940s. In 1982 he was inducted into the “P” Club Hall of Fame. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn McDuffie Cronic (attended 1946-47), and his son Philip Cronic (’91).

Dorothy Sanders Wood (’49) of Canton, Ga., died Feb. 16, 2011. She was 80. Mrs. Wood retired from Marietta City Schools. Survivors include her husband, C. Nelson Wood (’49).

1950sWilliam Cecil “Bill” Dillard (’50) of

Cornelia, Ga., died Nov. 4, 2010. A native of Habersham County, Mr. Dillard served in the Marines during World War II in the South Pacific Theater on the island of Iwo Jima. He began his career in the insurance business in 1950, with The Life of Virginia Insurance Company. In 1968, he continued his career as owner/agent of Cornelia Insurance Agen-cy for a number of years. Survivors include his daughter, Lynn Dillard Hilliard (’76).

Bill LeCroy (’50) of Carnesville, Ga., died Dec. 8, 2010. He was 83. Mr. LeCroy served in the U.S. Army during WWII from 1944 until 1947. A corporal with the 88th Blue Devil Division, he served as a radio operator while stationed in Italy. He retired from teaching in 1960 and then worked for Georgia Farm Bureau Insurance as agent and agency manager for 37 years in Franklin County, retiring in 1997. He had been a cattle farmer for the past 13 years. Survivors include his wife, Betty Payne LeCroy (’49).

Beaulah S. Davis-Posey (’52) of Carters-ville, Ga., died March 8, 2011. She was 95. Mrs. Davis-Posey taught in the Habersham, Hall, and Forsyth county schools before mov-ing to Bartow County. She was instrumental in starting special education classes for spe-cial needs children and was a charter member of the Hickory Log Vocational School, a pri-vate boarding school facility for handicapped men. She retired in 1977, following a 34-year career in education.

Sue Grier Kennedy (’52) of Commerce, Ga., died Nov. 7, 2008. She was 75. Mrs. Kennedy had been a special education teach-er at Banks County High School.

Ida Holland Adams (’53) of Avondale Estates, Ga., died Nov. 6, 2010. She was 90. Mrs. Adams taught in various school systems in Georgia for 36 years, retiring from the DeKalb County System in 1982.

Sarah Bryant Banks (’53) of Carnesville, Ga., died Jan. 26, 2011. She was 92. Mrs. Banks retired as an elementary school teacher with the Franklin County School System af-ter 48 years of service.

Herb Goolsby (’53) of Alpharetta, Ga., died Jan. 21, 2011. He was 83. He served in the U.S. Air Force and was a software engi-neer at Lockheed Aircraft. Survivors include his wife, Iris Jackson Goolsby (’57) and broth-er and sister-in-law, Carl (’59) and Thelma Goolsby (’61).

W. M. “Mack” Manley (’58) of Homer-ville, Ga., died Oct. 25, 2010. He was 76. Mr. Manley served in the U.S. Army in the Korean Conflict and played on the Army bas-ketball team. In 1982, he was inducted into the “P” Club Hall of Fame. Mr. Manley was a high school teacher in Brooks, Thomas, and Lowndes counties, where he also coached boys’ basketball and football. For many years, Mr. Manley was a partner in the Peagler-Man-ley Insurance Agency and was a past member of the Clinch County Board of Education. He was named the Clinch County Citizen of the Year in 1995.

Marvin H. Peavy (’58) of Hawkinsville, Ga., died March 9, 2011. He was 77. Mr. Peavy was a former teacher, coach, principal and superintendent of the Pulaski County School System. He retired from the State of Georgia Corrections Department in 1991.

1970sJ. Stanley Knight (’71) of Clarkesville,

Ga., died Oct. 25, 2010. He was 74. While living on the West Coast, Mr. Knight served in the Naval Reserves. Returning to Haber-sham County, he followed a varied career path as a sawmiller, land developer, insurance salesman, radio disc jockey and small busi-ness owner. Survivors include his sister and brother-in-law, Suzanne and Bill Dover, both Class of 1968.

1990sMarty Nathan Clark (’91) of Gainesville,

Ga., died Oct. 26, 2010. He was 44. Mr. Clark was a Johnson High School graduate, attended West Georgia College where he played offensive line on the Braves’ football team and earned a degree in education from Piedmont. He was a teacher and football coach at Lumpkin County High School in Dahlonega.

2000sBrian K. Johnson (’07) of Athens, Ga.,

died Sept. 16, 2010. He was 32. Mr. Johnson was a 1996 graduate of Madison County High School and was employed with Merial Unlimited and a member of Hull Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, Andrea Radford Johnson (’06).

Deborah Louise Ransom (M’03) of Al-pharetta, Ga., died Sept. 18, 2010. She was 60. A native of Snyder, N.Y., Mrs. Ransom was an elementary schools teacher for 30 years and retired from the Gwinnett County School System in 2009.

OBITUARIES

Anonymous DonorDavid (’67) & Virginia M.

Abbot (‘68)Sidney A. AdairDavid S. Adams (’61)Michelle AlexanderGaynell Allen (M’03)Bonnie Delores Anderson (’72)Leesa P. AndersonMr. & Mrs. Melvin AndersonStephen Andrew (’04, M’07)Adolfo L. ArboledaEdward D. Ariail (’80)James Armstrong (’44)Brandy B. AycockCoach Doc Ayers (’49)Robin BakerPhilip (’69) & Margaret BallardWilliam R. BannisterMr. & Mrs. Curtis L. Barber, Jr.Michael J. Barden (’77)Locke D. BarkleyFrank BartekSteven R. BartekTeresa BartekAlicia BartonLouise BassMr. & Mrs. Thomas E. BeasleyMr. & Mrs. Timothy T. BeasleyMr. Dick BellMr. & Mrs. Andy BennettMr. & Mrs. David B. BennettMr. & Mrs. Jerry BennettRonny Bennett (’85, M’99)Barbara BensonMr. & Mrs. Randy V. BensonDonald L. & Anne A. BentleyDr. Marilyn A. Berrong (’76)Rev. Elizabeth E. BinghamJimmy Black (’61)Lisa L. Black (M’01, EdS’07)Brenda J. BilottJohn T. BlackburnPatti D. BlountMarianne G. Boggs (M’98)Mark & Kathy Bolt (M’99)Louise K. BonadiesJan T. BondBrenda M. BoonstraJames W. BoothBrad and Sheri BottsDr. J. Thomas Bowen

Blanche Truelove Bowen (’38)Dr. Richard J. BowerRev. & Mrs. C. M. BowersAnn Stripling Boyd (’40)Janice Farmer BoydMargaret M. BoylesPat & Del Bradshaw (’74)Elsie Burrell Brady (’52)Barbara Bramlett (’69)Lewis & Rose BrannonEdna P. BresciaDr. Ellen C. BriggsMr. & Mrs. John J. BroderickStan (’68) & Pamela D.

Brookshire (’68)Dr. Louie A. Brown (’61)Mr. & Mrs. Vann Brown (’90)Mr. & Mrs. Earl M. BryantMrs. Jennifer Buchanan

Andrew W. Buice (’99)Mark BurnettRichard J. Burrell (’51)C. Lyndol Cain (’53)Mary Louise Callam (’49)Mary P. CampJim D. Cantrell (’60)Jack Carey (’54)Becky P. CarlileEd & Nancy A. Carmack (’88)Carol L. CaronVivian Carson (’54)Johnny S. CarterMr. & Mrs. Thomas L. ChambersDr. R. Windy CharlesScott ChastainMelinda CheekS. N. Charles Cho, M.D. (’57)Jewell ChurchMr. & Mrs. Russell CiminoMeghann E. Clark (’09)Ray & Ashley CleereCharles (’46) & Florence H.

Clement (’46)Bill & Beth CochranElaina Craven Cochran (’08)Joan S. CochranB. J. Cofer (’10)Mr. & Mrs. Leonard R. CohenRobin (’82) & Latana F.

Coile (M’99, EdS’09)Dr. David A. ColeVallorie V. Coley (M’99, EdS’04)Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Collier, Jr.Raymond E. Collins (’58)Mr. & Mrs. Rob CollinsThe Rev. Dr. Jack & Mrs. Nancy

CookDonna CopelandBrian Cornett

Robert (’53) & Eloise W. Corry (’52)

William J. Corry (’51)Dorothea D. CotterMr. & Mrs. Michael K. CrandallJudy W. CrispCheryl A. Cubeta (’98)Susan CudaDale Ann D’Agata (’67)Dr. Viviane L. DaigleLoretta Westbrook Dalton (’86)Annie Rose Allen Davis (’51)C.W. (’47) & Margie DavisMrs. Dean DavisErick & Linda DavisJohn M. DavisMr. & Mrs. Larry B. DavisMr. & Mrs. Richard A. DavisPeggy Davis-LidonRobert T. DawkinsChanda DeFoor (’02)Mrs. Graham DellingerRichard K. DeMore (’72)Anne H. DennisMatt Desing (’02)Horace Grant Dickerson (’68)Dr. Sandra B. DicksonJames (’66) & Cheryl B.

Domineau (’66) Janet Donston (’65)Geneva T. DorseyMr. & Mrs. Jim DorseyCharlotte DossMr. & Mrs. Stephen E. DukeLinda Pitts Duling (’90)Gerald H. Dunn (’65)John DzikMatt EarnestMichael R. EastmanC.J. (’07, M’11) & Carla H.

Edenfield (’04, M’10)

Alumni and FriendsGifts to Piedmont College

reached just over $1.1 million during Fiscal Year 2009-2010. On the following pages are listed the names of donors who made contributions from July 2009 through June 2010.

Because we value every donor and appreciate every gift, the following list is not di-vided into categories base on dollar amounts. Donors may be listed in one of the four fol-lowing categories: Alumni and Friends; Organizations and Foundations; Honoraria and Memorials; and Churches.

Although the lists have been carefully compiled and the names formatted accord-ing to the donors’ requests, if your name has been omitted or incorrectly listed, please call the Office of Institutional Ad-vancement at 1-800-868-1641 so that we may correct the in-formation for the future.

To all who contributed over the past year, the students, faculty and staff of Piedmont College thank you for joining us in the 113-year-long effort to bring high-quality higher edu-cation to students of northeast Georgia.

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Alumni basketball players gathered to watch a game in January. Pictured (front from left) are Kayla Duncan (’09), Mandy Beasley (’10), Jammie Boyce (’08, M10), and Jessica Powell (’08 M10); (back) Sarah Lane (‘08), Beth Adcock (’09), Sheena Trimiar (’08), and Yetta Bailey (’09).

Elliot Eggleston (’56)John & Janet E. Elger (’95)Anne H. EmersonCarol Ann Epperson (’63)Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. EvansHillary F. EvansCharles W. Fagan (’57)Gina Fattorusso & Pavel

PatrikeyerSid FeldmanMiguel FernandezV. G. FickAubrey M. Finch (’51)Maria Fisk, MSN, RNJoan FitzgeraldJohn Flowers (’66)Robert H. Floyd (’51)David (’88) & Leslie FosterCarol E. FreytagTodd (’88) & Natalie R.

Fricks (’90)Trent Fricks (’93)Lauren A. Fritsch (’05, M’07)Mr. & Mrs. James FryeMr. & Mrs. William H. GaikRosa L. GaileyMark & Sarah GardnerMarvin B. GardnerJimmy Garner (’77)John M. GarrisonBobby GastleyDeborah A. GilbertMr. & Mrs. James A. GoberJill GolanDr. Shirley & Mr. Robert

GoldwasserArthur GormanNancy Graham (’65)Dr. & Mrs. W. Vance

Grant, Jr. (’43)Dr. Paul GreeneMr. & Mrs. Guy GrissomBarbra GrossmanMack H. Guest IIIRev. Dr. Robert Haldane, Jr.Paul Haley (’99)Beverly HansWalda J. HansonStephan HardingLewis HarperChip HarrisJames H. Harris, Jr.Dr. Wesley (’48) & Mrs. Juanita

C. Harris (’50)Paige & Bruce HarveyLores M. Hauck (’84)Dr. & Mrs. Phillip HaynerFerdinand N. HeebBrandi HellemnBonnie M. Henderson (’52)Edgar M. Henderson (’37)Debby HendrickCathy HensonVicki D. HerronJane E. HeusonMrs. Earl D. Higdon (’31)Jane G. Hidgon (’70)Carolyn HillDr. C. Wallace & Mrs. Jennifer

Hinson (’95)Tim & Jerilyn HitchNeva Hitchcock

Laura L. HobbsJack HodgeDr. Lisa G. HodgensShirley T. HodgesL. R. HolbrookKatie HolcombGeorge (’58) & Rena W.

Holt (’58)Yvonne C. HowardMr. & Mrs. Jim HudspethMargaret C. HulmeLloyd (’50) & Helen C.

Hunter (’51)Mary E. HusseyDr. Wilma Hutcheson-Williams

& Steven Williams (’08)Jennifer R. InglisDr. R. Arnold IsleyMs. Barbara H. JarrardMr. & Mrs. James S. JarrardWesley O. JenkinsDoug Johnson (’66)Dr. Imogene T. Johnson (’50)Kenneth S. JohnsonMr. & Mrs. Melvin JohnsonMr. & Mrs. Thomas E. JohnsonMr. & Mrs. Victor L. JohnsonBob JustusJennifer Barry Kafsky (’06)Dr. & Mrs. Walter N. KalafMargaret R. KanostHelen D. Keilbach (’35)Jeff Kelly (’02)Miles (’06) & Avery C.

Kendall (’07, M’09)Carol M. KenerleberCarla S. KermanEarlene B. KeslerMr. & Mrs. T. Doug KeslerDr. Madge H. KiblerFrank J. KimseyMr. & Mrs. Al KingEvelyn W. King (’61)Daniel J. KnauerJohn KnightRoland & Charlotte KnightRev. Dr. & Mrs. Peter N. KnostMrs. E. W. Koons, Jr.

Mr. & Mrs. John M. KoonsRaymond F. KreinerJohn (’59) & Rosa Marie V.

Kuiken (’59)Susan Spaeth Kyle (’95)Patrick (’91) & Melissa A.

Lama (’07)Kathryn Jordan Lancaster (’48)Milton D. LassiterPeggy Oliver Lattanzi (’52)Mr. & Mrs. Stephen E. LawsonKammy LeathersShirley S. LeavensJasper S. & Delene W. LeeDr. Gary D. LemmonsMrs. Wilbert R. LesserRichard L. Lester, III (‘70)Bobby Lewallen (’56)Bruce Lewallen (’68)Jerry R. Lewallen (’81)Kristen Hart Lewis (’99, M’01)Marjorie Fields Lewis (’39)Peggy B. LewisMary M. LindseyMr. & Mrs. P. Andrew LinsMr. & Mrs. Johnny W. LoganPaul T. LordRobert LowerMarcia & Bill LoydMr. & Mrs. Paul LyleDr. Timothy F. LytleHeather M. Malick (’03)Genita D. MangumMylle H. MangumBeverly J. MannesMichael Mansfield, Sr. (’09)Patricia H. MappDarlene Marshall-Pearson (M’09)Ethan MartinRobert A. MaskalDr. Bill Mason (’57)Bobby L. Massey (’61)Christy Mills Matthews (’98)William P. Matthews (’69)Stephen D. MayeuxCarolyn McCagueAnn R. McClainMr. & Mrs. Ray R. McCullen

Mr. & Mrs. Don F. McEachinDon C. McElweeJD McGuirt (’97)Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. McIntyreMr. & Mrs. Woodrow McKay, Jr.James E. McNabbArline M. McWhinneyMargie F. Means (’84)Arnold (’65) & Shirley J.

Meeks (’72)Dr. Kenneth E. MelicharDr. James F. MellichampJan & Laura Anne MelnickMr. & Mrs. Robert E. MelnickChristopher R. MerckJohn L. Merritt (’62)Charles M. MillerMr. & Mrs. Glenn MillerLinda S. MillerMr. & Mrs. W. Parks

Miller, III (M’00)Susan MillsJohn & Barbara MisnerDr. Kara Keel Moody (’94)Sean B. Moore (’94)Mr. & Mrs. Tim MooreHazel S. MoorheadCarol & Joe MorganJudge Handsel Morgan (’42)Ken (M’98, EdS’09) & Dawn

MorganMr. & Mrs. Leland M. MorganJeana C. MossEvelyne MuellerReid (’59) & Deloris N.

Mullins (’58)Gay M. NeighborsDr. Keith R. NelmsMr. & Mrs. Donald L. NewmanJames D. NewmanThomas L. NewmanWilliam J. NickersonDr. Steven D. NimmoMr. & Mrs. Thomas OakleyMr. & Mrs. John G. OliverOpal E. OttoJohn H. OwensDr. A. Melton Palmer, Jr.

Alumni and Friends

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Soccer alumni from the 2010 Alumni Weekend include, front left to right: Daniel Ostojic, Paul Mitchell, Jimmy Stephens, Bryan Prevatte, Jorge Pradilla, Chris Baker, Mike Desing, Matt Desing. Back: Drew Griffin, Chris Leone, Josh Seabrook, Patrick Ratigan, Jason Smith, Melvin Montoya, Jeremy Stille, Eric Schurke, Jeremy Beaton, Richard Schurke.

Arbor Grove Congregational Church Jackson, Michigan

Bethlehem Baptist Church Clarkesville, Georgia

Central Congregational Church La Mesa, California

Central Congregational Church Ladies Benevolent Society Derry, New Hampshire

Congregational Church of the Messiah Los Angeles, California

Evangelical Congregational Church McKeesport, Pennsylvania

First Church of Squantum Squantum, Massachusetts

First Congregational Church Toulon, Illinois

First Congregational Church Peterson, Iowa

First Congregational Church Women’s Union Falmouth, Massachusetts

First Congregational Church of Royal Oak Women’s Fellowship Royal Oak, Michigan

Liberty Congregational Church Dewey Rose, Georgia

McCaysville Church of God McCaysville, Georgia

Michigan Conference of Congregational Christian Churches Onondaga, Michigan

National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Oak Creek, Wisconsin

Churches

Sarah Green Palmer (’39)Charles A. ParkerW. Alton Parris (’47)Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth L. ParsonsMr. & Mrs. Randall E. PatmanWanda J. PayneMr. & Mrs. Lamar F. PepperDr. Judith PerryWilliam P. PerryNancy Carey Peters (’53)Joseph M. Piper (’95)Dr. William E. PiperWilliam Roy PipesMr. & Mrs. Frank PittmanDr. Joe (’68) & Dr. Dianne PittsScott PittsJohn J. Pollock, Jr.William PollockRex Poole (’60)Sue M. Popham (’64)Mr. & Mrs. Henry S. Powell, Jr.Bernice W. PriceVijay (EdS’08) & Katrina V.

Purugulla (Ed.S’08)Mr. & Mrs. Brian P. RadzikMr. & Mrs. Daniel G. RayJo Beth RayMeredith A. Ray (’07)Mr. & Mrs. Terry ReedKen (’61) & Marilyn H. Rice (’60)Nolen & Floyce RidgwayMignon J. Ridings (’52)Cesar RiveraErnesto L. Rivera, Sr.Nelson Rivera, Sr.Elsa X. RodriguezBebe Samples Rogers (’05)Sidney, Jr. (’61) & Suzanne S.

Roland (’61) Sharon Roller (’97)Dr. Richard M. Rose IIDavid T. (’56) & Edra W. RussiCharles W. Sanderlin (’58)Dr. & Mrs. F. Stuart SandersRev. James Sanders (‘48)William P. Sands (’56)Albert SantoraJoe B. Sartain, Jr. (’54)Danielle E. SartoriMr. & Mrs. Earl SatterfieldScott E. SatterfieldJustin (M’06) & Katie W.

Scali (’06, M’07)Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. SchliefMarianne M. SchoelLisa M. SchwanHarry L. SchwartzLeRoy C. SchwarzkopfMr. & Mrs. Marvin ScottMr. & Mrs. Drayton T. Scott, Jr.Dr. Teresa SeculesMrs. Paul SegersRandy Sharian (’76)Juanita Fields Shaternick (’44)Mrs. Dorothy F. ShultzDr. Franklin ShumakeJames F. Sievers (’63)Bradley G. Simmons (’87)Mrs. Hattie Mae SimmonsMr. & Mrs. Ronnie E. SimmonsDr. & Mrs. Ralph B. Singer, Jr.Dock C. Sisk (’72)

Gary L. SmithDr. Hilton SmithLinda N. SmithMarcia L. SmithRandy Smith (’89)Tricia N. Smith (’97)Susan Smith-PatrickDorothy M. SosebeeJim SouthardJudge & Mrs. Leslie H. SouthwickJohn W. SpiegelGrady (’53) & Ann H.

Starnes (’53)Mr. & Mrs. Chris SteinSue Bethke Stemas (’57)Jimmy (’95) & Monica F.

Stephens (M’08, EdS’10)Gary (’69) & Mary S.

Stephenson (’68)Charles StilleBetty Taylor Stovall (’82)Jay E. StrouseWilliam, Jr. (’61) & Rudene A.

Studdard (’61)

Courtney Randolph Stukes (’51)Tim (’10) & Sandi T. Suda (’09)Olivia SwisherDr. Barbara Brown TaylorDebra K. Taylor (’96, M’97)Pat Taylor (’71)Dr. & Mrs. David M. TempleRoy B. Tench (’56)Anita Thomas (’83)Evelyn D. ThompsonMr. & Mrs. Kenneth L.

ThompsonMr. & Mrs. L. Michael

ThompsonDr. & Mrs. Robert E. ThompsonShirley F. ThompsonRalph E. Tish (’68)Richard (’99) & Vickie

Turner (’95, M’01)Dr. Cynthia L. VanceKaren Vaughn-Smith (M’06)Mr. & Mrs. Rick VazquezMr. & Mrs. Rayford L. VickersMr. & Mrs. Stephen E. Wagner

Mr. & Mrs. O. B. Walton, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Ted H. WatsonWilma L. Webb (’49)James WelshNancy M. West (’50)Mr. & Mrs. Rodney M. WhiteEric White (’73)Scott Whitlock (’84)Cheryl L. Williams (EdS’07)Cindy Williams (’04)Eric B. Williams (’‘96)Ms. Gladys F. WilliamsLee WilliamsMichael (’91) & Christy WilliamsAndrea L. Witt (EdS’07)Lawton & Linda

Wofford (’99, M’01)Dr. Richard J. WoodMr. & Mrs. James D. WoodRichard (’93) & Shannon D.

York (’98)Kathleen G. YoutseyR. J. ZapfM. J. (’76) & Debbie Zimmerman

Alumni and Friends

North Shore Congregational Church Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Old South Church in Boston Boston, Massachusetts

Peachtree Presbyterian Church Atlanta, Georgia

Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims Brooklyn, New York

Preston City Congregational Church Preston, Connecticut

Redwine United Methodist Church Hartwell, Georgia

South Hills Congregational Church Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Southeast Conference United Church of Christ Atlanta, Georgia

Southeastern Michigan Association of Congregational Churches Clarkston, Michigan

Union Congregational Church of Weymouth & Braintree Braintree, Massachusetts

United Church of Christ Local Church Ministries Cleveland, Ohio

27Lyndol Cain (’53) with Robert (’54) and Gladell Perry at last year’s ‘P’ Club breakfast.

In HonorMildred Gambrell Adair Sidney A. Adair

Dr. W. Ray Cleere Lewis & Rose Brannon

Drs. Ray & Ashley Cleere Nancy Carey Peters (’53)

Dr. David L. Greene Randy Sharian (’76)

Dr. Bill H. Mason (’57) Marianne M. Schoel

In MemoryEstella Searing Adams (’62)

Dr. David S. Adams (’61)Bonnie Cash Anderson (1936-39)

Bonnie Delores Anderson (’72)

L.G. Bowen, Jr. Blanche Truelove Bowen (’38)

Dr. Joseph A. Boyd, Jr. (1936-38) Ann Stripling Boyd (’40)

Herbert Church Brandy B. Aycock

Nathaniel and Betsy Cole Dr. David A. Cole

Hugh Lee Doss (’51) Charlotte Doss

Walter & Elizabeth Epperson Carol Ann Epperson (’63)

James Roy Farmer (’36) Janice Farmer Boyd

W. Vance Grant, Sr. & Myrtle Haynes Grant (’42) Dr. & Mrs. W. Vance Grant, Jr. (’43)Brannon & Carol Stevens Hancock (’35) Alpha Gamma Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma Carol & David Bennett Steve & Susan Hancock Tommy & Laura Hancock Paige H. & Bruce Harvey Barbara H. Jarrard Jimmy & Michelle JarrardW. Loy Johnson (1948-50)

Claire Sykes Alexander Michelle Alexander Rives Alexander Mr. & Mrs. Edward D. Ariail Locke D. Barkley Jan T. Bond James W. Booth

Rev. & Mrs. C. M. Bowers Becky P. Carlile Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Collier, Jr. Robert H. Floyd (’51) John M. Garrison Debby Hendrick Shirley T. Hodges Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Johnson Barbara & Al King Mr. & Mrs. Ray R. McCullen Michelle & Tim Moore Hazel S. Moorhead Mr. & Mrs. John G. Oliver Redwine United Methodist Church Floyce & Nolen Ridgway Mr. & Mrs. Marvin Scott Judge & Mrs. Leslie H. Southwick Dr. & Mrs. David M. Temple Mr. & Mrs. O. B. Walton, Jr. Wealth Partners, LLP

Harold S. King (’61) Evelyn West King (’61)

Atos D. “Joe” Lattanzi (‘51) Peggy Oliver Lattanzi (’52)

Dr. Wilbert R. Lesser Mrs. Wilbert R. Lesser

Henrietta Brack Lunsford (’50) Dr. & Mrs. Wesley W. Harris

Esther & Jim McCague Carolyn McCague

J. Robert “Bob” Murphy (’48) Beverly Hans

John “Hank” Patrick Susan Smith-Patrick, Ph.D

Ronald J. Perona (’05) Justin (M’06) & Katie Wood Scali (’06 M’07)

Erma Shelnutt Piper Mr. & Mrs. James D. Wood

Mary Catherine Price Mr. & Mrs. W. Parks Miller III

Donald G. Ryder (’61) William P. Matthews (’69)

Dr. W. Silas Roberts (1908) Dr. & Mrs. Wesley W. Harris

Betty Curry Sanders (’48) Rev. James Sanders (1946-48)

John Shaternick Juanita Fields Shaternick (’44)

Nelle Farr Singleton (’29) Christy Mills Matthews (’98)

H. Calvin Stovall, Jr. Louise Bass Dr. C. Wallace & Jennifer P. Hinson (’95) Marcia & Bill Loyd

Elizabeth P. Walter Anne H. Emerson Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Evans Bonnie M. Henderson (’52) Jennifer R. Inglis Margaret R. Kanost Mrs. Wilbert R. Lesser Mr. & Mrs. Lamar F. Pepper Dorothy M. Sosebee

Dr. James E. & Elizabeth P. Walter

Reid (’59) & Deloris N. Mullins (’58) Dr. Frederick A. White Eric White (’73)

Wendell W. White (’77) Eric White (’73)

Gertrude Wood Williams (’50) John Flowers (’66)

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Dr. A. Jane McFerrin Chanda DeFoor (’02)

Donna Eileen Meeks (M’02 Ed.S’03) Dorothy M. Sosebee

Sue McEntire Roach Elaina Craven Cochran (’08)

Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor Kenneth S. Johnson

Organizations, Foundations, and BusinessesAnonymousAdvance Filtration and

Separation, Inc.Fred C. and Katherine B.

Andersen FoundationAnderson’s Carpet &

Furniture, Inc.Ansley Communications

Group, Inc.Ariail Tire Inc.AT&T Foundation Matching

Gift ProgramAthens Orthopedic Clinic P.A.Bank of America Endowment

Fund Scholars ProgramBarnes Group Foundation, Inc.Estate of Edwin H. BinghamBlue Ridge Construction Co.Harry R. Butman

Settlement TrustC&H Mechanical & Plumbing

CompanyFuller E. Callaway TrustCamp-Younts FoundationCarolina Burglar &

Fire Alarm Co.Caudell & Hotard, LLC

Chartwells Education Dining Services

Cooltemper U.S.A.The Jim Cox, Jr. FoundationCrook’s Paint CenterDeloitte Foundation Matching

Gifts ProgramDelta Airlines Foundation

Matching Grants to Education Program

Virginia DeNubila Living TrustDuplicating Products Inc.Easy Money Financial

Services LLCElder Financial Services, Inc.Fieldale Farms Foundation, Inc.Fly & Form, Inc.George F. & Sybil H. Fuller

FoundationGeorgia Foundation for

Independent CollegesWilliam H. Guild Charitable

TrustGrant-Reeves VFW Post 7720Habersham HardwareThe Hobbs Foundation Corp.

Holcomb’s Office Supply & Christian Products

Hunter Funeral HomeIBM Corporation Matching

Grants ProgramThomas T. & Bernice F. Irvin

Foundation Inc.John E. Kardos, P.C.Macy’s Inc. Matching Gift

ProgramHelen S. McPheeters TrustMickey Piggs BBQMidway Electric, Inc.Milliken & Company Matching

Gifts ProgramMatt Mixon State FarmRobert G. and Gloria S. Molloy

FoundationEstate of Archie Lane MoselyThomas A. and Lucile M. Moye

TrustThomas B. Musser TrustNordson Corporation Matching

Gifts programNortheast Georgia Rentals, Inc.Plymouth Endowment

Foundation

R.F. Plumbing Company, Inc.Nelson Rivera Jr. Agency Inc.RubySue Graphics, LLCS and B Farms LLCSpecialty Clinics of Ga. –

OrthopaedicsStandard Chemical, Inc.State Farm Companies

Foundation Matching Gift Program

Strick Non-Woven Materials, Inc.Stromquist & Company, Inc.SunTrust BankThe American GenealogistVulcan Materials CompanyHarry Webster Walker II

Charitable TrustLettie Pate Whitehead

Foundation, Inc.Wow! Fitness Group

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Statement of Financial PositionJune 30, 2010

With Comparative Amounts for 2009

Assets 2010 2009Cash and cash equivalents $ 530,293 $ 2,741,012Accounts receivable (net of allowance for bad debts) 566,684 2,417,401Unrestricted investments 13,770,277 12,473,132Permanently restricted investments 9,988,600 9,769,755Temporarily restricted investments 33,094,453 32,494,839Collections 170,778 170,778Property and equipment (net of depreciation) 61,797,881 57,690,802Other assets 574,892 796,210

Total Assets $ 120,493,948 118,553,929

LiabilitiesAccounts Payable $ 956,763 $ 1,146,924Accrued interest 49,849 --Deferred tuition revenue 2,065,389 2,547,080Student deposits 34,930 50,663Long-term debt 11,988,400 17,988,400Interest rate swap liability 1,555,977 1,211,873Annuity payment liabilities 585,890 621,222

Total Liabilities 17,237,198 23,566,162

Net Assets Unrestricted

Available for operations 12,085,949 14,557,726Net investment in plant 47,332,331 37,955,977Endowment 32,384,403 31,540,568

Temporarily restrictedAnnuity fund 99,089 226,490Special purpose contributions 287,408 257,709Trust fund 1,078,970 679,542

Permanently restrictedEndowment 2,016,188 2,015,188Trust Fund 7,972,412 7,754,567

Total Net Assets 103,256,750 94,987,767

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 120,493,948 $ 118,553,929

Total Endowment $45,743,561

These financial statements are a condensed presentation of the annual audit by Amos and Company, Certified Public Accountants.

Piedmont College

Statement of ActivitiesFor the Year Ended June 30, 2010With Comparative Totals for 2009

Temporarily Permanently Totals Unrestricted Restricted Restricted 2010

Gross tuition and fees $ 27,649,508 $ --- $ --- $ 27,649,508 $ 26,464,271 Contributions 624,358 389,389 218,845 1,232,592 1,628,455Interest and dividends 1,111,638 171,658 --- 1,283,296 1,389,181Sales and services of auxiliary enterprises 2,928,970 --- --- 2,928,970 2,542,159Other sources 23,458 2,567 --- 26,025 32,717Temporary assets released from restriction 891,351 (891,351) --- --- ---

Total public support, revenues and reclassifications 33,229,283 (327,737) 218,845 33,120,391 32,056,783

Operating expenseEducational and General

Instruction 12,622,134 --- --- 12,622,134 12,271,291Academic support 1,993,334 --- --- 1,993,334 2,312,618Student services 3,276,995 --- --- 3,276,995 3,022,971Institutional support 3,789,230 --- --- 3,789,230 4,473,774Operation and maintenance of plant 2,456,508 --- --- 2,456,508 2,141,310Scholarships 1,268,610 --- --- 1,268,610 1,291,067

Auxiliary enterprises 1,827,975 --- --- 1,827,975 1,597,782

Total operating expense 27,234,786 --- --- 27,234,786 27,110,813

Changes in net assets from operating activities 5,994,497 (327,737) 218,845 5,885,605 4,945,970

Non-operating income (expenses)Gain (loss) on sale of fixed assets 1,000 --- --- 1,000 (571)Other income 1,850 --- --- 1,850 529,263Investment income (loss) 879,326 67,720 --- 947,046 (1,548,412)Net appreciation (loss) in fair value of investments 1,310,985 526,411 --- 1,837,396 (6,481,975)Payment to life income beneficiaries (95,142) --- --- (95,142) (201,762)Actuarial change in annuity obligations --- 35,332 --- 35,332 912,922Change in interest swap liability (344,104) --- --- (344,104) (558,014)

Total non-operating income (expenses) 1,753,915 629,463 --- 2,383,378 (7,349,549)

Changes in net assets 7,748,412 301,726 218,845 8,268,983 (2,403,579)

Net assets beginning of periodRESTATED See Note 23 84,054,271 1,163,741 9,769,755 94,987,767 97,391,346

Net assets at end of period $ 91,802,683 $ 1,465,467 $ 9,988,600 $ 103,256,750 $ 94,987,767

Public support, revenues and reclassifications.

Piedmont College

2009Restated

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