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.
Home sweet Hobbs
From her home across the road, Mary Mendenhall Hobbs needed only to glance out her bedroom window in 1907 to watch her legacy take shape. A half-made structure, its beams, columns and trusses rising bare from the Guilford campus. Soon it would be fortified with those iconic red bricks, prompting Mary to write of its grandeur: “The walls are about done and it does look beautiful.”
Ken Browning ’68 earns another honor. Pretty big one, too.
Over a career that spanned nearly three decades, Kenny Browning ’68 has seen and accomplished much. But what played out the evening of Sept. 20 at Northern Durham (N.C.) High School was a first for one of the state’s most successful high school football coaches.
Alumni Advisory Team to Help College Navigate Financial Realities
President Kyle Farmbry invited three Guilford alumni with deep experience in finance to serve on an Alumni Finance Advisory Team, and they will provide input and guidance to the College as it navigates some fiscal challenges.