Guilford Earns Two CASE Awards for Guilford Madness Campaign
Guilford’s Advancement & Alumni Relations Office received two Circle of Excellence awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for the Guilford Madness giving campaign in 2023. The College won a Grand Gold Award in the “Videos on a...
Brennan Aberle ’08 shares with Honors students the importance of listening
Brennan Aberle ’08 still remembers meeting his first client as a Guilford County Public Defender. She was a single mother working two jobs – a grocery store by day and a packaging plant by night – who had been charged with solicitation for prostitution.
In praise of public service
In this political season, the spotlight shines bright on our elected officials, two in particular. Yet just beyond the light, it’s the work of countless civil and public servants, deeply committed to serving others. Guilfordians have made careers out of public service...
David Grimsley ’00 spent 6 days in western North Carolina helping hurricane victims
Like many Guilfordians, David Grimsley ’00 read the early headlines coming out of western North Carolina last week and wondered what he could possibly do to help the victims of Hurricane Helene.
Before he made history at Guilford, Steve Hankins ’75 stood guard over it
What lingers in the memory is how ordinary the weekend was shaping up to be. Barely 19 and a few months removed from Parris Island, Marine Private First Class Steve Hankins ’75 was loafing in his barracks when a news bulletin shattered the Friday afternoon calm.
As New Garden’s pastoral minister, Brenda Esch ’83 comes home again
Forty years after graduating, Brenda Esch ’83 is back in Greensboro, this time as New Garden Friends’ new pastoral minister.
A leader in learning
A new school year means Leslie Alexander ’95 is on the road again with her spreadsheet riding shotgun. On the road to schools like Cove Creek and Blowing Rock, Green Valley and Bethel, Valle Crucis and Mabel. There are eight elementary/middle schools and one high school in Watauga County, whose postcard-worthy towns are found on the spine of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.
Hannah Moran ’11 gives back
Hannah Moran ‘11 is a high school English teacher in Massachusetts who is quick to share the joys of teaching – the inspiration, the humor, the “ah-ha” moments when a line from Shakespeare resonates with one student or makes a literary connection to the newest Taylor Swift album. She’s also seen the other side of teaching, the one where would-be educators struggle financially and personally before even getting into a classroom.
The Metamorphosis of Art Professor Mark Dixon ’96
In a corner of Mark Dixon’s ’96 Hege-Cox Hall classroom is a portable wooden table that wasn’t always a table. In another lifetime, the table’s top, sides and legs were part of an upright piano. That was before Mark extracted the soundboard from the piano’s innards, sketched out a blueprint, pulled out some tools and – voila! – a table.