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Greenwood Rotary Club on October 23,
2007. Louise Gervais Miller is the lead
speech pathologist for Charleston County
School Districts.
1979 Rose Varn Smith is returning
to school to get her degree in English.
She has two children: one who attends
Hammond Academy and one who is a
nursing major at Clemson University.
1981 Margaret Snowden Chandler
is an English instructor at Williamsburg
Technical College in Kingstree. She was
nominated for the Governor’s Professor
of the Year Award for 2007. Rose Emily
Jackson, founder of South Carolina
Women in Business and owner of Rose
E. Jackson Financial Services, received
the Diplomat of the Year award from the
Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce
for 2007. She serves as a liaison for the
chamber staff, the board of directors, and
the membership.
1982 Ruth Aycock retired from
teaching in Sumter District 17 and now
teaches pre-school at Thomas Sumter
Academy. Laurie Ann Shealy Chapman’s
daughter attends North Greenville
University in Greenville. Frances Gardner’s
art works, “Orienting the Self: studies in
Time, Place, and Person,” were on display
at the Florence Museum from January 7 to
February 3.
1983 Cynthia Troxel Stall has been
teaching for 24 years and is teaching
second grade at Fort Dorchester
Elementary School in Summerville.
Helen Simmons Yeadon’s son Deandre
graduated from high school and her other
son, Dorian, is a sergeant first class in the
Naval-JROTC.
1984 Deborah Silver Stroman was
featured in The State newspaper as she
and the Lower Richland High School Girls
Varsity Basketball team competed for their
third consecutive state title. The team was
victorious in a 47-45 win over Dorman.
1985 Lauri Brown Stevenson enjoys
spending time with her husband Andy and
their three sons Drew, 19, Will, 16, and
Mac, 12.
1986 Marion Fallaw Greer participated
in the Williamsburg Presbyterian Women
Spiritual Retreat on February 2, where
she served as a leader for the retreat.
Patricia Cox McCann’s son graduated
from the University of South Florida in 2007
with a degree in political science. He has
joined the Peace Corps and is stationed
in Morocco. Genie Looney Murrell is
enrolled in the master’s of library science
degree program at the University of South
Carolina. Josephine Murray Robinson’s
husband is a judge advocate in the United
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States Marine Corps. Michele Gardner
Williamson is the WorkKeys program
manager at Williamsburg Technical College
in Kingstree.
1987 Janice Williams Wise has three
boys and a girl and owns a real estate
company.
1988 Wendy Godwin Barnes has
three children ages 13, 6, and 3. Angela
Luca Bouknight’s oldest son, Christopher,
is a civil engineering major in college and
has been accepted into the Phi Beta Kappa
fraternity. Her other son, Adam, is in the
tenth grade. Both sons are Eagle Scouts.
Sherry Lynn Fogle Cade has a daycare,
The Apple of His Eye, that she operates
from her home. Christine Clifton recently
launched her own life coaching practice,
Break out of the Ordinary, Life Coaching for
the Mind, Body, and Spirit. Lorena Crouch
Gibbons is working at Richard Wynn
Academy in Winnsboro teaching math in the
high school. Her husband Brian is a family
court judge in the Sixth Judicial Circuit of
South Carolina. Taryl Dabney Holden has
received her National Board Certification.
1990 Annette Wofford Barnett
has three children: Alex, 9, Matthew,
4, and Robert, 2. She has been working
for Consolation Energy monitoring
environmental energy and emergency oil
spills for the last seven years.
1991 Cynthia Russell-Albach
received her National Board Certification in
high school English in 2007. She teaches
AP English, Honors English, and College
Prep English at Stall High School in North
Charleston. Deborah Chapman Farr
works at Frame Designs. She has her
own business, Fetish by Debu, selling
jewelry. She formed an art organization
called Spartanburg Artist Studio Spaces
(SASS) that provides affordable studio
spaces for local artists. Martha Sligh-
Langdon teaches second grade in
Lexington District One. She has a master’s
degree in education and is National Board
Certified. She has two children, a boy and
a girl. Sandra Logan Parnell is a retired
real estate broker. She was named one
of the top ten sales agents of Columbia,
South Carolina new homes sales for ten
consecutive years. Susan Humphries
Plyler is a math instructional coach in the
Lancaster County School District. Michelle
Browder Swancey started a non-profit
organization, Saving Lana Foundation, in
honor of her daughter Lana, to support
medical treatment and raise money for stem
cell research. Michelle’s daughter was born
in 2001 with Canavan’s Disease, a lethal
neurological disease.
1992 Julieanne LeJeune Humowitz
was named the Outstanding Teacher of
American History for 2007–2009 by the
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Winyah Chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution. Louise Myers
Johnson recently joined the Columbia
office of Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A. as
special counsel, where she is a member
of the firm’s Financial Institutions Industry
Group. Paula Johnson Wise is a family
educator in Lexington District Five. Her
husband Rick is a manager for South
Carolina Troops to Teachers. Her son Austin
is an 8th grader at Dutch Fork High School
and her daughter Ashley is married and
teaches school in Aiken. Paula also has a
granddaughter who is 2 years old.
1993 Terri Haynes Chiles has
four children: Joseph Haynes, 8, Emily
Catherine, 7, James Thomas, 4, and Sarah
Elizabeth, 1. She home schools her children
and operates a home business, Premier
Designs Jewelry. Lorraine Ward Glandon
has two grandchildren: Madeline, 5, and
Caleb, 5 months.
1994 Melinda Hopkins Boggs has two
girls, Hannah, 8, and Nikki, 4. They enjoy
dancing, gymnastics, and spending time
with mom. Jennifer Hipp McAlphin lives
in Fort Worth, Tex., and is a stay-at-home
mom to daughter Abigail, who will be two
years old in May. Wendy Smith Nix is
a media specialist at Beck Academy in
Greenville.
1995 Reva Roberts Brennan has
been named the associate director of the
South Carolina Association of Certified
Public Accountants. She also received her
Certified Association Executive credential
in 2008. Melisa Underwood Caughman
was named interim chief financial officer
for the city of Columbia in January. Kerry
Jackson recently purchased her first
home in Augusta, Ga. Rebecca Evans
Willis recently received Reading Recovery
certification and is the reading recovery
teacher at Hickory Tavern Elementary
School in Laurens District 55.
1996 Tonya Jackson Freeman is the
vice president of South Carolina Bank and
Trust. She is the director of the Epworth
League at Prospect Southern Methodist
Church in Branchville. Tonya also serves on
the board of Branchville Youth Sports and
is a volunteer with the Company B Family
Readiness Group for the S.C. National
Guard. Bonnee Meacham Majzun owns
Bonnee Majzun Consulting, a healthcare
consulting company. Lisa Reeder Wilson
is a senior auditor with the South Carolina
Education Lottery Commission. She resides
in West Columbia with her husband and two
sons, Jared 8, and Zachary, 1.
1997 Manisha Johnson Arceneaux
teaches first grade at Killian Elementary
School in Richland District Two in Columbia.
Dawn Garrett Ledwell, an antique
reproduction doll specialist, participated in
an exhibit at the Colleton County Memorial
Library in Walterboro.
1998 Diana Gomez Hudgens teaches
at Oakbrook Middle School in Dorchester
District Two. She and her husband Charles
have a four-year-old son named Caleb.
Lori Mumpower and her husband, Janson
Jones, moved to Anchorage, Alaska, in
the fall of 2007, where she teaches in the
department of English at the University
of Alaska Anchorage. Elizabeth Suber
Pappas and her husband David have two
boys ages 2 and 8 months. Amy Ottenbreit
Whittingham is working on her master’s
degree in education at Southern Wesleyan
University in Central.
1999 Robin Dandridge Phillips
teaches at Pelion High School. She has a
son, James, and a daughter, Lakyn.
2000 Beverly Wilson Holmes is
an adjunct instructor in the department
of continuing education at Benedict
College. She teaches critical thinking and
introduction to social work.
2001 Awanyia Sprowl is a career
specialist/counselor in the Abbeville County
School District.
2002 Lynn Hazel is the director of
community relations and development at
Palmetto Health Children’s Hospital. Lynn
was previously the director of Children’s
Miracle Network. Crystal Strickland is the
auction manager for Century 21 Bob Capes
Realty in Columbia.
2003 Tiffany Knowlin recently served
as revival speaker at the Ann Hope United
Methodist Church in Seneca. She is on staff
with United Methodist Volunteers in Mission.
2004 Nan Binnarr Carter has been
named director of community relations
and development for cancer services at
Palmetto Health Foundation.
2005 Evelyn Clary sang the role of
Mother in the opera Amahl and the Night
Visitors at Columbia’s First Church of
the Nazarene in November 2007. She is
currently working as an insurance agent
with GMM Insurance. Jamie Randolph
bought a home and is a supervisor at
Verizon Wireless. Tahlia Audrianna
Robinson founded TRG Enterprises, LLC
in 2005. The company provides business
management consulting and training
services for groups and individuals.
2006 Michelle Stephens is enrolled
in the graduate program in religion at
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School in
Rochester, N.Y.
2007 Mary Elizabeth Parker teaches
at Nursery Road Elementary School in