Spring into Leadership! - Columbia College

1930 Gertrude Whetstone was
recently featured in the Orangeburg County
Times and Democrat. She is 102 years old
and was a nurse for 35 years. Her mother
and her three sisters are also graduates of
Columbia College.
1943 Marjorie Riley Shuler has moved
from Orangeburg to Charlotte, N.C. She
has five grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren.
1945 Carleen Turbeville McGinn
retired from her private practice in family
therapy in 2005. She and her husband
Bruce have been married for 58 years and
have two sons, Wilson and David, and one
grandson, Philip, 24.
1946 Newell Jeffords Bull’s son, Dr.
Michael Bull, is the superintendent of the
Glynn County School System in Georgia.
She and her husband J. Porter celebrated
their 60th wedding anniversary in January.
1948 Margaret Ariail Lawson has
identical twins, Jimmy and Thomas, who
are both married. She has two granddaughters:
Ariail Lee and Natalie Ann.
1950 Barbara Pendarvis has retired
from the Pinellas County School System
in Florida after 40 years of service as a
librarian. Betty Ann Brown Phillips has
traveled to Russia twice. Jo Bone Walker
transferred from Columbia College to
Northwestern University in Chicago, where
she received her degree in speech. Jo’s
husband has been a practicing physician
for 53 years.
1953 Dolores Metts Banner’s husband
B.B. passed away in January. She has five
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Doris Newman Christopher enjoys
spending time with her three children:
Charles, Carol, and Connee and her four
grandchildren: Carl, Clay, Robin, and Brad.
1954 Gloria Pearson Lynn and her
husband Charles are both retired and are
enjoying traveling, volunteering, and square
dancing. In 2005, Charles and Gloria were
inducted into the South Carolina Square
Dancing Hall of Fame.
1955 Sally Bookhardt Boggan’s
grandson Zak is producing a movie called
4 Christmas’s starring Vince Vaughn
and Reese Witherspoon. Anne Spears
Caldwell is an active volunteer with The
Good Samaritan in Virginia. Anne also
volunteers at the South Boston Halifax
County Museum.
1957 Aubrey Wilson Jones has a son
who is a minister and a daughter who is a
lawyer with a firm in Atlanta, Ga. Her granddaughter
is a freshman at Newberry College
and her grandson is serving a tour in Iraq.
Jacqueline Sturdivant Pullen and her husband
Duane retired in 2000. Myrtle Hicks
Riggs now has six grandchildren. Barbara
Courtney Thomas was highlighted in the
South Carolina United Methodist Advocate
for her autobiography entitled Just Pick
up the Pieces, which is about the years
she and her sister Joy spent in Epworth
Children’s Home.
1959 Llewellyn Hiott Hames
retired in 2003 from the Lexington County
Magistrate’s office. Marlene DeLoach
Lamar’s son was married in April.
1960 Martha Davis Ellerbe has a new
grandson, Thomas Davis Landon, born on
February 20.
1961 Eleanor Stukes Carson has
retired after selling her interest in Porter’s
Gift Shop located in Florence. She has
three grandchildren: Carson Batten, 3, Dan
Batten, 4 months and Joseph Halsey, 2.
Cara Baer Murphy and her husband Larry
are enjoying their retirement, spending time
with their grandchildren, and traveling. Liz
Johnston Patterson has completed her
term as chair of the Spartanburg County
Democratic Party.
1962 Elizabeth Palmer McDaniel retired
in 2002 from the University of Georgia
Press. She has five grandchildren ages 6,
8, 10, 12, and 15, who are the delight of
her life. She also has continued to design
and publish books from her home business,
Stratford Press. Elizabeth Clyburn Minus
has a new granddaughter, Caitlin Rebecca
Whitehead, born on September 13, 2007, to
Elizabeth and Jason Whitehead. Elizabeth
works at the Children’s Hospital in Denver
and Jason is pursing his doctoral degree.
1963 Frances Copeland Stanley
is enjoying spending time with her three
grandchildren: Eliza, 6, Wyatt, 4, and
Carlisle, 2.
1964 Barbara King Guerry is enjoying
spending time with her five grandchildren:
David, 17, Joshua, 10, Caleb, 8, Amelia,
6 and Andrea, 3. Her husband is doing
very well since his heart transplant five
years ago. Tracy McDill Hamrick will
retire in June from the Charleston County
Department of Social Services after 20
years of service. Jeannette Smith Kinney
has five grandchildren: Eric Chaffer, 18,
Arine Chaffer, 14, Aneria Chaffer, 5, Aston
Kinney, 7, and Martin Kinney, 3. Esther
Spearman Overbay and her husband
James have been married for 40 years.
They welcomed four new grandchildren in
one year.
1965 Jane Evans Best retired in
2004 after 34 years of teaching at Fletcher
Elementary School in the Henderson
County, N.C., school district. She and her
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husband Thomas have been married for
40 years and they have six grandchildren.
Mary Epps Monroe was featured by the
Greater Chapin Chamber of Commerce as
the Artist of the Month for February. Anne
Reynolds Walkup’s daughter serves as a
minister in Scotland.
1966 Judith Freeman Davis retired in
May 2007 from Marion School District One.
Susan Lyles McLane is a customer service
manager at the Davis-Garvin Agency. She
has two children: Iain McLane, 7, and
Shannon McLane, 4.
1967 Evelyn Paulling Gully’s first
grandchild, Donald McRae Allen III, was
born on December 15, 2007, to Ann Lee
Gully-Allen and Don Allen.
1968 Patricia Harrell McClendon’s
daughter Elizabeth is a senior at Virginia
Tech, where she is an English major coenrolled
in the master’s degree program in
education. Her son Christopher is pursuing
his doctoral degree in biophysics at the
University of California-San Francisco.
Susan Campbell Thorsland has retired after
29 years of teaching elementary school
in the Pickens County School District. In her
spare time, she enjoys spending time with
her eleven grandchildren and substitute
teaching.
1969 Susan Harris Grady has a new
granddaughter, Mary Edith “Edie” Grady,
born on September 5, 2007. She also
retired from Greenville Technical College in
December 2007. Lucy Geiger Stackpole
has an online business at
www.abcsbylucy.com.
1970 Joyce Lee Burns is enjoying
spending time with her three grandchildren:
Brady, 9, Francis, 18 months, and Jackson,
1. Rebecca Long Tenny retired as an assistant
principal from Lexington District Five
in 1997. Maria Ramos Volk has a new
grandson, Preston Paul Ketner, born June
17, 2007. Preston joins his brother, David
Charles “Chase” Ketner, 3.
1971 Deidre Buice Crow is enjoying
spending time with her five grandchildren.
Deborah Cross Etheredge has two
grandchildren ages 4 and 1. Her son owns
a restaurant in Hawaii. Ina Lee Bond
Fort-Lightner’s son Marty received his
master’s degree in guitar performance from
the University of South Carolina School of
Music in April. She has two grandchildren:
Lily, 3, and Jake, 1. She recently adopted
Michaela, 6. Lydia Latto Mims’ daughter
Alexandra is a freshman in the Honors
College at Indiana University. Mary Kent
Bailey Whitaker’s daughter Hannah
was accepted into the Teach for America
Program, where she will be teaching
in Bronx, N.Y., for two years. Roxanne
Dusenbury Wilson has four sons: Alan,
an attorney, Addison, serving a tour in Iraq,
Julian, a realtor, and Hunter, a sophomore
at Clemson University. She has three
grandchildren: Addison III, Houston, and
Emily Ruth.
1972 Aurea Rivera LaComba has
nine children, four who attended Columbia
College, and twelve grandchildren.
1973 Fair Thomas Ariail has been
been married for 15 years to her husband
Robert and has been teaching for 32
years. Fair is currently teaching in the
Kershaw County School District. Susan
Knoche Fox works at Macon State
College in Georgia. Her first grandchild
is named Nyah. Becky Greer Moss is a
member of Life and Godliness Ministry.
Becky gives public speaking seminars and
conducts tours around the United States.
She also authored a book in 2004 entitled
Concerning Spiritual Gifts. Beverly Wilson
Sumner’s first granddaughter was born on
June 11, 2007.
1974 Jane Easterling Foster
retired from Mt. Olive Lutheran Church
in May 2007. Windy Gladden Jordan
teaches elementary Spanish at Westminster
Catawba Christian School in Rock Hill.
Jean Riley Miles has a grandson named
Maddox, 1. Judy Snipes Wilkinson retired
in September 2007 from SunTrust Bank in
Virginia. Her son is a sophomore at Maggie
Walker Governor’s School in Virginia.
1975 Tricia Turner Johnson retired
in 2006 from Horry County School District
after 28 years of teaching.
1976 Katherine Flynn Egan’s son
attends college in Georgia, where he is
majoring in audio engineering. Nancy Nix
Woodall teaches school in Pickens County.
1977 Peggy Johnson Archambault
has been teaching for 30 years in the
Charleston County School Districts.
Susan Hines Conrad has three children:
Steven, 26, who was recently married;
Laura, 23, who will graduate in May 2008
from the University of South Carolina;
and Marianna, 14, who is in the eighth
grade. Rosa Meadows Floyd is enjoying
spending time with her two grandsons.
Rebecca Laffitte was recognized by The
Best Lawyers in America as one of the
best lawyers in the field of personal injury
litigation for 2008. Karen Price Windham
works for BlueCross BlueShield of South
Carolina and her husband Jackie works for
Allstate Insurance Company. Lois Haight
Zigrang and her husband, Reverend Walter
Zigrang, have been traveling missionaries
for 23 years. They have been missionaries
in Africa, Angola, and Mozambique. In 2006,
they retired from the organization, Surviving
in Missions.
1978 Jane Jenkins Herlong
was invited to share her story with the
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