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.
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.
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.
Forty years after graduating, Brenda Esch ’83 is back in Greensboro, this time as New Garden Friends’ new pastoral minister.