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Furman ALUMNI NEWS11Andrew Huang is assistant editorof TOWN magazine, an Upstate SouthCarolina lifestyle publication.Stefanie Kenoyer was chosen toappear on Golf Channel’s “Big Break”reality competition program this spring.The show features 12 professional golfers,six men and six women, pursuing theirdreams of playing on the professional tours.The season, filmed in Mexico, began airingMay 13. Stefanie, a two-time SouthernConference Player of the Year, currentlycompetes on the Symetra Tour.MARRIAGE: Steven Hovdesven andCarrie Neal, December 29. They live inKailua, Hawaii, where Steven is an officerassigned to the 25th Infantry Division atSchofield Barracks and Carrie works atAlston, Hunt, Floyd & Ing Lawyers.12Brittany Berger is an environmentalmanager with Reserva do Ibitipoca in Brazil,a retreat area that is part of a large reservededicated to sustainability, reforestationand protecting wildlife.Mary McArthur is an artist-in-residencewith Jonathan and Tina Bailey, CooperativeBaptist Fellowship missionaries in Bali.Mary is working with indigenous musicgroups and studying Balinese andIndonesian music, as well as creatingmusic and exploring other art forms.MARRIAGE: Virginia Pazdan andThomas Powers ’11, June 30, 2012.They live in Charleston, S.C., where Virginiais teller leader at Southern First Bank andThomas is pursuing a Ph.D. in pharmacologyat the Medical University of South Carolina.DEATHSAnne Mae Pickens Collins ’31, January16, Chester, S.C. After earning a degreein journalism from the University of SouthCarolina, Anne wrote for The State newspaperin Columbia, the Rock Hill (S.C.)Herald, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer andthe Chester News, where she penned the“Ambling With Anne” column. Active incivic life, she was the founder and organizerof two theater groups in Chester, a trusteeof Chester County Library for 24 years, anda member of the Chester City RecreationBoard, York Technical College FoundationBoard and Chester County Board ofRealtors. She was one of South Carolina’sdelegates to the first White HouseConference on Aging in Washington, D.C.With her husband, Joe, she establisheda real estate agency, and after his deathshe served as its broker-in-charge untilher retirement in 1988. She was nameda Woman of Achievement and Model forToday’s Girls by the Piedmont Area GirlScout Council, and she was one of fourChester County citizens honored duringBlack History Month in 1997. Her familywas named the town’s Family of the Yearin 1957 and Family of the Year in SouthCarolina’s Region III in 1987. She was theauthor or editor of 13 books of familyand community histories.Selina Parker Stoddard Hopkins ’36,January 19, Summerville, S.C. She was alibrarian with the Charleston County (S.C.)Library. She was a member of Daughtersof American Colonists and the HuguenotSociety of South Carolina.Alice Ives Purser ’36, December 11,Taylors, S.C. She was active in the JoyceScott Chapter of the Daughters of theAmerican Revolution.Numa L. Smith, Jr. ’38, December 10,Arlington, Va. Recipient of Furman’sBradshaw-Feaster Medal for GeneralExcellence at graduation, he went onto law school at Duke University, wherehe finished first in his class. After servingin the U.S. Army he went to work forWhite & Case in New York City. Fromin Washington, D.C., where he spent theremainder of his legal career. He was amember of the bars of the Supreme Courtof the United States, the Court of Appealsfor the D.C. Circuit and the Federal Circuit,the New York State Court of Appeals, andthe Tax Court of the United States, amongothers. A life member of the American LawInstitute and the Fellows of the AmericanBar Foundation, he served on the boardsof a number of charitable and religiousorganizations. At Duke he was a memberof the Board of Visitors and was presidentof the law school’s Alumni Association.A scholarship at the school bears his name.Dorothy Few Walker ’42. March 14,Greer, S.C. Dot had retired from theGreenville County School System.George Albert Bowdler, Jr. ’43,January 25, Saluda, S.C. He was pastorof Baptist churches in Louisiana and SouthCarolina before moving to Guatemalaas a missionary for the Southern BaptistForeign Mission Board. Upon his return tothe States he became chaplain at BaptistHospital in Columbia, S.C. He also taughtat the University of South Carolina-Aikenuntil 1985. He then moved to Panama City,Fla., where he co-founded Capstone House,a spiritual information center.Kathryn Wells Herbert ’43, January 31,Greenwood, S.C. Kay worked with theFederal Reserve Bank in Atlanta and waslater employed with the School Districtof Pickens County and the South CarolinaDepartment of Education.Annie Margaret McDonald Jackson’43, January 14, Lexington, S.C. She taughtthird grade at Lexington Elementary Schoolfor 30 years.Marcia Wyche McIver ’43, December14, Greenville. She was a professional operasinger from 1943–47. She eventually begana career as an educator in Columbia, S.C.,working her way from elementary schoolteacher to principal in both elementaryand middle schools. Later she becamean administrator in Richland County SchoolDistrict 1. After retiring from the fieldof education she moved back to Greenville,Bernice McIntyre Coleman ’45,January 11, Latta, S.C. She had a longcareer in the Pee Dee area, teaching atLatta Primary School and serving as readingcoordinator for Marion School District 1.She was past president of the InternationalReading Association of the Pee Deeand past officer of Delta Kappa Gammaof Alpha Eta State. She was also a memberand past regent of the Rebecca PickensChapter of the South Carolina Daughtersof the American Revolution and a memberof the Pee Dee Chapter of the South CarolinaSociety of Colonial Dames XVII Century.Garnet Andrew Barnes ’46, February25, Easley, S.C. A U.S. Army veteran ofWorld War II, he was the founder of BarnesReal Estate, Inc., and Barnes InsuranceAgency, Inc. He was also affiliated withPinnacle Associates and was co-founderof Smithfields Country Club. He wasa board member of a host of institutions,including Furman, the Palmetto HealthBoard of Directors (founding member),and the South Carolina State DevelopmentBoard. For 27 years he served on the boardof the Baptist Health Care System. He wasa recipient of the Order of the Palmetto,South Carolina’s highest civilian honor.Virginia Hutto Rickborn ’46, February27, Atlanta. She studied at the JuilliardSchool of Music in New York, then spenther professional life as an elementary schoolteacher. She was a sought-after soloist forspecial events and with church choirs.Ida Green Vaughn ’47, January 5,Simpsonville, S.C. She had been presidentof Country Store at Vaughn’s Feed and Seedsince 1986.Lina Wilkinson DuBose ’48, December26, Dillon, S.C. She worked as a bank tellerand X-ray technician in Darlington, S.C.,and as a teller and school administrativeassistant in Dillon.Frankie Elizabeth Huff Granger ’48,January 6, Greenville. She retired after 23years as minister of education at Berea FirstBaptist Church, where she was a memberfor 64 years.Dorothy Williams Jameson ’48,January 5, Easley, S.C. She taught inelementary schools for 35 years, predominantlyin the Pickens County (S.C.)School District. She was a member ofthe Volunteer Auxiliary at Palmetto Healthin Easley.Harry Llewellyn Raley ’48, January 4,Clinton, Miss. After he graduated from SouthwesternBaptist Seminary in 1951, he andhis wife served churches in North and SouthCarolina before being appointed missionariesto Taiwan by the Foreign Mission Board of theSouthern Baptist Convention. They worked inTaiwan from 1954 to 1991, with Harry servingat various times as treasurer, business manager,bookstore manager and chair of theTaiwan Baptist Mission. In 1989 the governmentof Taiwan presented him with the“Good Man, Good Deeds” award for hisservice, an honor rarely given to foreignresidents. After retirement the Raleys continuedto serve as ministers to Chinese populationsboth in the States and abroad. Harryalso volunteered as prayer ministry coordinatorfor the Mississippi Baptist Convention.Helen Bryson Taylor ’48, January 13,Richmond, Va. She was a teacher in fivestates and especially enjoyed teaching coursesin the Bible as Literature and in Americanhistory at Auburn (Ala.) High School, wherethe yearbook was dedicated to her numeroustimes. While teaching history she created andpresented, in full period costume, portrayalsof various American first ladies.Jean Carskaden Weaver ’48, December11, Morgantown, W.Va. She was active inthe Service League of Morgantown, servingas historian during the nation’s bicentennialcelebration in 1976, and was a member ofthe Campus Club at the University of WestVirginia, where her husband taught.Lewis Vincent Wood ’48, January 14,Snellville, Ga. In 1942 he enlisted in the U.S.Army Air Corps. He served as a radar navigatoron a C-47 during World War II and as aradar officer during the Korean Conflict. Afterhis military service he worked for PrudentialMortgage and Loan in Greenville, Charlotteand Atlanta, retiring in 1985.Honorees, front from left: Dan Joyner’s son Danny, daughter Beth Crigler, wife Katherine, daughter Lynn Freeman;back from left: Joyner’s son-in-law David Crigler, Rodney Johnson, Lillian Brock Flemming, Frank Blackwell.ALUMNI RECEIVE HONORS AT AWARDS DINNERFOUR ALUMNI — FRANK BLACKWELL ’90,Lillian Brock Flemming ’71, Rodney Johnson ’03and the late C. Dan Joyner ’59 — took home majorhonors at the Alumni Awards Dinner April 19.Joyner, who died in early 2012, received theDistinguished Alumni Award. Founder of PrudentialC. Dan Joyner Co., one of the Upstate’s most successfulreal estate firms, he was a community and civic leader.At Furman he served as a trustee and as presidentof the Alumni Association, and he was known as“Furman’s Biggest Fan” because of his unwaveringsupport for Paladin athletics. The C. Dan Joyner FamilyAthletic Scholarship is awarded each year, and theporch at the Shi Center for Sustainability is named forhim and his wife, Katherine Poole Joyner ‘60. Joynerpreviously received the Alumni Service Award andwas elected to the university’s Athletic Hall of Fame.His family was on hand to accept the award.Flemming earned the Gordon L. Blackwell AlumniService Award. A former Furman trustee and a recipientof the university’s Richard Furman Baptist HeritageAward, she was one of the first African-Americanwomen to attend Furman. A longtime communityleader, she has been a member of Greenville CityCouncil since 1981 and currently serves as vice mayorpro tempore. She is a past president of the GreenvilleCounty Education Association and of the MunicipalAssociation of South Carolina.Johnson, the Outstanding Young Alumni Awardwinner, is founder and principal of Greenville’s LeadAcademy Charter School, which opened in 2010.At Furman he captained the football team and workedwith Bridges to a Brighter Future, which helps highschool students who have limited financial resourcesreach their potential. He taught for several years inAtlanta before establishing Lead Academy. GreenvilleBusiness Magazine has named him to its list of thecity’s “Best and Brightest 35 and Under.”Blackwell received the Wayne and Rubye ReidAward, which goes to alumni who make major contributionsto the career development of Furman students.As director of sales for ScanSource, Inc., in Greenville,he has hired a number of Furman graduates, providedcareer advice and direction to students, and recommendedothers for positions within the company.He is a past member of the Alumni Board and isvice president of the Paladin Club.JEREMY FLEMINGthere he moved to Miller & Chevalierwhere she was active in the arts.34 FURMAN | SPRING 2013FURMAN | SPRING 2013 35