Summer 2013 - University of the Cumberlands

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ALUMNI MAGAZINE
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One of the most difficult challenges in today’s fast-paced world is to be “On Board, On Task and On Time”
in capacities where average working professionals place importance. For example, when the Alumni
Office reaches out to alumni about varying requests, many alumni respond by say, “I’m too busy” or “I
can’t right now”. These are certainly legitimate responses considering the demands of modern life. We
understand that Cumberland alumni are volunteers, missionaries, parents, community leaders in the
overall bandwidth of steward leadership.
In this issue of Cumberland Today we decided to kick off the special 125th Anniversary with a full feature of
alumni who for many years consecutively, have been “Serving the Great Commission” at home and abroad.
This publication does not in any way intend to overlook or omit those Cumberland alumni who serve, lead
and promote individual growth among mankind. Rather, we feature those who for most of their tenure as
alumni have been “On Board, On Task and On Time” with University of the Cumberlands. The overall service
of those alumni featured in this edition reflects in the purest sense, a willingness to give something back to
their alma mater. These alumni have been paying forward what they received as students.
Since January 2013, the Alumni Office staff has been communicating with alumni who served on the Alumni
Board of Directors as president, secretary or general board member. The first president to serve on the
Alumni Board was Mr. Conley Manning, ’54. Since 1964 there have been 45 presidents and 217 members
among the fifty terms of office.
If we have overlooked your service to Cumberland, be sure to let us know. This magazine reflects only those stories we learn about though
shared partnerships. Perhaps you have been “Serving the Great Commission” as an alum and we have not been aware of it. Take time now
to write to us at alumni@ucumberlands.edu and share your story or the story of another Cumberland alum involved in service. We need and
appreciate your help to this end.
As a university faces good and troubling times, forward progress is easier with an active base of informed alumni. Such alumni tend to read
the published materials while understanding the history, supporting the mission and clearly seeing the vision of the organization. These active
alumni return to campus for annual traditions and special events. They form lasting friendships. They create fond memories. And they leave
impressions of school spirit and goodwill.
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS! At Cumberlands, we could always use more active volunteers. You can help by joining in the celebration of
Cumberlands’ 125th Anniversary kickoff event and Homecoming Weekend scheduled for October 4-6, 2013! Save the date now and make
plans to join the fun. Contact your classmates and professors encouraging them to attend, too!
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Contents
2012-2013 Alumni Association Board of Directors
President
Allen Robbins, ’90
President-Elect
Jimmy Huddleston, ’87
Past President
Susan Rice Bradley, ’98
Secretary
Kathy Byrd, ’83-’87
Board Member Emeritus
Mary Doyle Johnson, ’48
Dick Koeniger, ’67
COVER STORY: Serving the Great Commission
Just as Christ served Peter by washing his feet, Cumberland has served
the Great Commission locally and around the world for 125 years.
Term Expiring 2013
Tom Broyles, ’80
Maureen “Cookie” Henson, ’74
Brittney House, ’09
Terry Stigall, ’75
Amy Stroud, ’04
The Divine Servant Statue, added to campus in 2003, visually helps
represent the mission of the University. The sculpture is cast bronze
and was first crafted by Max Greiner Jr. in 1986. Greiner succeeded in
portraying the message of sacrifical love, humility and servanthood. The
sculpture was made possible through the generous donation of trustee
Tom Raper and his wife, Suzanne.
Term Expiring 2014
Bill Hardin, ’81
John P. Hollingsworth, Ph.D., ’63
Lee Kendall, ’82
Keith Pray, ’90
Chuck Sheriff, ’63
At its dedication, President James Taylor stated “those who lead best,
serve most. It is appropriate that this statue is located at a bridge
leading from the campus to town and in the midst of several churches.
Service at first may seem a sacrifice, but ultimately is the greatest
blessing. Cumberland College is interested in the production of those
Servant Leaders.”
Term Expiring 2015
Willie Adkins, ’03
Amanda Farris, ’08
Duane Floro, ’79
Michael Bryant II, ’85-’90
Tony LeMaster, ’94
2-8 Campus News
9 Feature: Jason Ellis
Ex-officio Members
Dr. James H. Taylor, ’68, President
Ms. Sue Wake, ’70, V.P. for Institutional Advancement
Jennifer Wake-Floyd, ’97, Director of Multimedia & Athletic Services
Paul P. Steely, ’49, Trustee Liaison
Sam Huntley, ’13, SGA President
18-21 Athletic News
22-28 Cover Story: Serving the
Great Commission
Office of Alumni Services
Dave Bergman, ’89, Alumni Director
Stephanie Taylor, ’10, Administrative Assistant
Josh Kroetsch, ’03, Graduate Assistant
Taylor Farmer, ’15, Work-Study Student
30-36 Commencement 2013
38-43 Gifts & Giving
Graphic Designer
Meghann Holmes
Articles contributions by student & staff members of the 20122013 Multimedia & Athletic Services
Printed By
Vivid Impact
11-17 Alumni News
FPO
44 Save the Date
45-49 Alumni Class Notes
50 Alumni Nostalgia
52-53 Homecoming 2013 Schedule
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Campus News
Dr. Charles Krauthammer Speaks at
Eighth Annual Center for Excellence
in Leadership Program
World renowned columnist, political commentator and psychiatrist Dr. Charles Krauthammer spoke to a
crowded auditorium of over 3,000 students, staff, and faculty, as well as friends from across the state of
Kentucky, during the University’s annual Forcht Group of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Leadership event
on April 9th. Held in the O. Wayne Rollins Center, Krauthammer’s speech, “Ethical Leadership,” focused
on the various ethical issues that the country is currently facing. Krauthammer shared his opinion on
difficult decisions that leaders must make, and on showing respect for those whose ideals differ
from your own. Interspersing humor with soberness, he received a warm response from the crowd.
UC honored six individuals who have been instrumental in demonstrating an excellence to their
community and nation and for serving as a role model to others by taking active steps to pursue
noble goals and high ethical standards. The following were awarded plaques for their excellence in ethical leadership: Sara Beth Gregory, Stephen R.
Hall, Ph.D., Joseph Daniel Jones, Owen T. Nichols, Albert Robinson and Robert Stivers.
Sara Beth Gregory was elected to the office of State Senator in December 2012 for the 16th Senatorial District representing Clinton,
Cumberland, McCreary, Monroe, Wayne, and Whitley Counties. She also serves as Chair of the Government Contract Review Committee,
Vice-Chair of the Agriculture Committee, and serves as a member of the Appropriations and Revenue Committee, Administrative
Regulation Review Subcommittee, and the Judiciary Committee. Gregory currently works as an associate with the law firm Carroll &
Turner, P.S.C. in Monticello, KY. She serves as a member of The Center for Rural Development Full Board, Republican Party of Kentucky
Executive Committee, Wayne County Fair & Horse Show Board of Directors, Wayne Republican Women, and Monticello Kiwanis Club. In
2011, she was named Young Civic Professional of the Year by the Young Professionals of East Kentucky.
Dr. Stephen R. Hall is a national leader in the area of mental health and developmental disabilities. He has been the commissioner of
the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities, and part of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services
since October 2009. Governors in Indiana, Georgia, and Colorado have appointed Dr. Hall to serve on commissions and councils to lead
policy reform efforts. Hall also has extensive experience in developing programs to promote individual and family
self-direction and authority.
Joseph Daniel Jones is the Executive Director of the Cumberland River Regional Mental Health and Mental Retardation
Board, Inc., a non-profit agency that provides mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disability services in eight counties
in Southeastern Kentucky. He is an advisory board member at the Appalachian Regional Hospital in Hazard, Ky., and served as VicePresident and Treasurer of the Kentucky Association of Regional Programs. Jones earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business
Administration from Cumberland in 1976, and served four years on the Alumni Board.
Owen T. Nichols is the President and CEO of the Northern Kentucky Mental Health, Mental Retardation Regional Board,
overseeing and providing leadership to 17 community clinics. He has served over 25 years of continuous community and public service
related to leading, managing, coordinating, and directing organizations, work teams, and individuals. He currently serves as the President
and Board Chair of the Kentucky Association of Regional Mental Health and Mental Retardation Programs Inc., and Vice-Chair for the
Kentucky Board of Examiners in Psychology. Nichols is also a Fellow in the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, Fellow in the
Academy of Medical Psychology, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Division of Independent Practice.
Senator Albert Robinson began his career in the Kentucky Assembly as a state representative where he served from 1972
until 1984, and again from 1987 to 1988. He was first elected to serve in the State Senate from 1994 to 2004, then again from 2013
to present. Robinson represents the 21st District comprised of Estill, Jackson, Laurel, Menifee, and Powell counties. He is a member of
the Banking and Insurance Committee, the State and Local Government Committee, the Transportation Committee, and the Veterans,
Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee. Robinson also is a self-employed real estate broker, auctioneer, farmer and founder of
the Robinson Sausage Company. He attended Cumberland as a non-traditional student and is a 1980 alumnus.
Robert Stivers has served in the General Assembly since 1997 representing the 25th District of Clay, Knox, Lee, Magoffin,
Morgan, Owsley, and Wolfe counties. He was recently elected Senate President. Stivers serves as chairman of the Senate Committee on
Committees and Rules Committee and is the co-chair of the Legislative Research Commission. Currently he is serving as a member of the
governing board of the Council of State Government, executive committee member of the Southern Legislative Conference, and member
of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Stivers is also a practicing attorney in Manchester, KY.
The annual lecture series is made possible by an endowment from local business owners Drs. Terry and Marion Forcht, who founded the
Forcht Group of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Leadership in 2006. The purpose of the Center is to provide programs and activities that enhance the
development of leadership, character and good citizenship. Past speakers in the series have included Roy Moore, Zell Miller, Stephen Covey, Ben Stein,
Karl Rover, Mike Huckabee and Rudy Giuliani.
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Cumberlands was named to the 2013
President’s Higher Education Community
Service Honor Roll. This designation is the
highest honor a college or university can
receive for its commitment to volunteering,
service-learning, and civic engagement.
Recently, UC students, faculty, and staff have
been actively involved in several different
service projects including outreach to the local
community through missions, construction
ministry work through Mountain Outreach, and
the third annual UC Relay for Life event.
The AffordableCollegesOnline.org released
a new list of twenty-six Baptist colleges with
graduates who earn high starting salaries.
ACO thoroughly reviewed four-year, fullyaccredited private institutions with average
starting salaries for graduates of more than
$30,000.00 per year. The website also looked
at mid-career salary averages as well as the
overall return on investment for the degree.
Campus News
Cumberlands Honored With Prestigious Awards & Recognitions
UC was recognized for providing high quality
education at an affordable price. The College
Database has released its list of the top
Kentucky colleges with the highest financial
return on investment. UC is proud to be
one of the eleven schools selected for this
honorable list.
Two Kentuckians Recognized With Honorary Degrees
On February 11, Cumberlands awarded
Dr. Ron D. Bryant with an Honorary Doctor
of Laws degree and Dr. Joe Alan Stepp
with an Honorary Doctor of Administration
degree during the University’s Recognition
Program in the Gatliff Chapel.
contributions to genealogical librarianship. He
has appeared on and given over 200 radio
and television interviews, which have aired
on stations such as the History Channel and
CBS Evening News. Bryant has also served
as the historical commentator for KET for the
inauguration of Kentucky governors.
Bryant is a noted Kentucky author/
Dr. Stepp is the President of Alice Lloyd
historian and is currently the manager of
College and head administrator for The June
Waveland State Historic Site in Lexington,
Buchanan School in Pippa Passes, Ky. When
Ky. He is also the Kentucky political
he was named Alice Lloyd’s President in 1999,
history columnist for the Kentucky
Stepp became the first native Appalachian to
Gazette in Frankfort, the editor of the
assume that role in the College’s history. As
Kentucky History and Genealogy Journal,
President, Dr. Stepp has worked to strengthen
a member of several boards for cultural,
L-R: Dr. Ron Bryant, Dr. Joe Alan Stepp
the College’s emphasis on and preservation
historical, and educational institutions, a
of its heritage as it serves a large number of
renowned public speaker, and a teacher
students from the Eastern Kentucky region. During his tenure, Alice
of American, Kentucky, and European history for the last 30 years.
Lloyd College has increased their endowment to $29 million and has had
Bryant is an author of several hundred articles on Kentucky history. He
15 major construction, renovation, and technology project upgrades in
compiled the Bibliography of Kentucky History published by Greenwood
the last ten years. Dr. Stepp is also active in the community as a deacon
Press in 2000, completed a bicentennial book on Jefferson Davis, and
at Caney Baptist Church and as a Sunday school teacher. He has
is the author of the script for “The Price of Power,” a biographical film
served on the Pippa Passes City Council and is President of Ashland
on Kentucky Governor William Goebel. Bryant has received numerous
Prosthetics and Orthotics, Incorporated.
awards including the prestigious national Filby Award in 2005 for his
Dr. Colegrove Joins Minger Foundation Board
In January, Vice-President of Student Services Dr. Michael B. Colegrove was appointed to the Foundation’s
Board of Directors. The appointment came a month after Gail Minger, President of the Michael Minger
Memorial Foundation, visited UC’s campus to talk about fire safety in dormitories with resident directors and
assistants. Colegrove brings 39 years as a school administrator experience to the Board. He currently serves
as Vice-President, Professor of Education, and Director of Leadership Studies at Cumberlands. Colegrove is
also actively involved in the institutional accreditation process having served as member or chairman of more
than 20 visiting committees for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. In addition, he has 30 years
of experience in the military as a Retired Army Colonel. Further information on the Michael Minger Memorial
Foundation can be found at http://www.mingerfoundation.org/.
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Faculty and Staff Honored at 21st Annual Dinner
At the 21st annual Faculty-Staff Dinner on April 18, Cumberlands honored 23 individuals who had reached milestone years of service and
presented the 2013 Service Award, the William T. Miles Community Service Award, and the Excellence in Teaching Award.
YEARS OF SERVICE
45 Years – Dr. James H. Taylor, ’68
40 Years - Micaiah Bailey, ’70, Business Administration; Sue Wake, ’70, Vice-President Institutional Advancement
35 Years - Karen McKinney, ’78, Financial Planning
30 Years - Patsy Cross, ’83, Development; Dr. Bob Dunston, Missions and Ministry; Irma Ivey, Development
25 Years - Wanda Hensley, ’86, International Studies/Church Relations; Dr. Chin Tan, ’87, Business Administration
and Head Tennis Coach
20 years - Elaine Croley, ’98, Development; Dr. Michael Dickman, Communication Arts
15 Years - Lisa Bartram, Director of Student Activities; Ms. Stephanie Bowlin, ’09 BS, ’12 MBA, Accounts Payable;
Agnes Brown-Oliphant, ’98, Business Administration; Russell Carr, ’97, Admissions; Susan Felts, Bursar Office;
Dr. Richard M. LaGrone, Business Administration; Steve Morris, Vice-President Business Services; Marianne
Worthington, Communication Arts.
10 Years - Cleda Caddell, Cumberland Inn; Shelli McGrath, Admissions; Jamey Temple, ’03, Communication Arts/English;
Travis Wilson, Tele-data communications.
2013 SERVICE AWARDS:
Chuck Dupier III, ’96 BS, ’10 MBA, Registrar, was named the recipient of the 2013 Service Award for fulltime administrators and non-teaching staff members. Each year one employee from the full-time University
administrative, professional, office or Cumberland Inn staff is selected for the Service Award. Four areas of service
are considered when selecting the recipient: student service, visitor service, staff/faculty
service and community service.
Dr. Eric Stephens, Psychology Professor, was presented with the Dr. William T. Miles
Memorial Award for Community Service. The University presents this award to a
faculty member who has made significant contributions to the Williamsburg community
in an area consistent with University goals. The individual must be a Christ-like servant who: lives the mission
of Cumberlands; achieves a bold service focused on physical and spiritual health; provides humble service; and
models service to others.
David Threlkeld, Professor of Music, received the 2013 Excellence in Teaching Award.
When it comes to teaching, Threlkeld is not afraid to try something new to reach students.
He has been at UC for over 20 years and his eagerness and love of bringing his discipline to life is clearly evident. He
believes in requiring only the best from students. Threlkeld consistently models for his students a depth of knowledge
that demonstrates expertise yet is done so in a quiet and humble manner. Threlkeld is an active recruiter for the
Cumberlands reaching out into the local community as well as beyond the confines of our state to bring in diverse
groups of students. He maintains leadership positions in state wide organizations that promote his discipline and
brings to his own classes a willingness to learn as he invites experts in his field to his classroom.
RETIREES:
Alvin Sharpe, ’65, joined the UC faculty in 1971, initially serving as a health and physical education instructor and head
coach of the track and cross country teams. In 1981, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Health and Physical
Education and Director of Mining Technology. As head coach of the track and cross country teams, Sharpe led 17 NAIA
All Americans and two National Champions. He was also named the KIAC Coach of the Year six times. Sharpe is currently
the Director of Tourism for the city of Williamsburg. Under his leadership, Williamsburg has developed the Kentucky
Splash Waterpark, the Hal Rogers Family Entertainment Center, the Annual Jeep Jamboree, a new playground at the
city park, upgrades to the little league fields and other enhancements. He has also been instrumental in the growth
of Williamsburg’s Old Fashioned Trading Days. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Southeastern Kentucky Industrial
Development Authority. Upon retirement, Sharpe plans to keep working for the Williamsburg
Tourism and Convention Commission, spend time with his family, and do a lot more fishing. He
is married to Juanita (Brown) Sharpe, ’65, and they have two sons Jeff Sharpe, ’90, and Mike Sharpe, ’93.
Donna (Mayne) Perkins, ’82, served as an employee at UC for the last 35 years working in several different
capacities. During her time she was secretary to President James Boswell, worked in Alumni Services, Development,
and the Religion and Chemistry Departments. She spent the last 21 years as an administrative assistant to the
Chemistry, Math, and Physics Departments. Perkins decided to retire to spend time with family and friends and to
travel. She has two children, Steven and Mary, and two grandchildren, Kaidence and Adyen.
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Dr. Barry A. Vann’s latest book, Puritan
Islam: The Geoexpansion of the
Muslim World was named to Choice’s
2012 Top 25 Outstanding Academic
Titles (OAT) list. Choice’s annual
OAT list is widely recognized in the
academic community for its coverage
of the most significant scholarly titles
published each year. Dr. Vann is a
professor of geography and higher
education at UC. Puritan Islam is the
sixth book that he has written
throughout his career.
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Vann’s Book Named to
Choice’s Top 25
Morelock’s
Book to be
Published
On September 19, 2013, Associate
Professor of Spanish, Ela Molina
Morelock, will have her new book
entitled, Relecturas y narraciones
femeninas de la Revolución Mexicana,
released to the public. The book
analyzes the perspective of four
Mexican women writers, Nellie
Campobello, Elena Garro, Laura Esquivel, and Angeles Mastretta,
regarding the Mexican Revolution. Morelock has been at UC since
August of 2008 and gives a lot of credit for her new book to the
support of her Patriot family. Anyone interested in purchasing the
book may receive it directly from the Imprint on Tamesis’ website:
http://www.tamesisbooks.com/store/viewItem. asp?idProduct=14291.
Day and Stoffle Earn Sullivan Awards
Cumberlands presented Kelsey Day (Cumberland, KY) and Seth Stoffle (Seymour, TN) with the prestigious Mary Sullivan Mildred and Algernon
Sydney Sullivan Award during the 54th annual Honors Day Program on April 21. The awards were given to the two students in recognition of
their academic and spiritual excellence and their dedication to service to others.
Kelsey, the daughter of Luke and
Donna Day and the fiancée of
Jordan Infield, majored in English
and minored in Christian studies
in the Missions and Ministry
department. During her years at
UC, she ministered on campus with
Appalachian Ministries and Baptist
Campus Ministries and off campus
as close as Laurel Lake Baptist
Camp and as far as New York City,
Belize, and Guatemala. She also
served as the president of Baptist
Campus Ministries during the 20122013 school year. Now that she has
graduated from UC, Kelsey says she is “open for anything” but
will work at M-Fuge on campus throughout the summer and then
hopes to work in a children’s home where she can minister to
those most in need.
Seth received a Bachelor of Science
in Accounting with a minor in political
science. While at Cumberland, he
maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.6 and
made the Dean’s list five semesters. He
was a member of the PEAK Accounting
Academic Team for two years and a STAR
in the Insights freshmen orientation
program for four years. He was a four
year captain of the track team and set
a school record in the decathlon. He
was also a four year captain of the
debate team that won two national
championships in parliamentary debate.
Seth worked with Mountain Outreach on
multiple projects while at Cumberland and provided leadership for many
youth activities including Bible studies and Bible School programs at
Pleasant View Baptist Church, located in the Williamsburg area, and at
his home church in Seymour. Seth has also been a guest speaker for the
Fellowship of Christian Athletes on multiple occasions.
The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation, now located in Oxford, Miss., was chartered in New York State in 1930. Its purpose is to
promote service to others and service to the broader community, values that were exemplified by Algernon and Mary Mildred Sullivan,
the parents of the organization’s founder. In addition to providing support for financial aid to small private colleges, located primarily in
the Appalachian region, the Sullivan Foundation also collaborates with 54 southeastern colleges and universities to present awards in
memory of Algernon and Mary Mildred Sullivan.
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Hutton School of Business Hosts
Spring Business Forum
L-R: Larry Gray, George “Boog” Potter, Kim Knopf, Mike Martinez,
Paul Perkins and J. Hunt Perkins
On April 17, the Hutton School of Business hosted the 6th annual Business Forum for Young
Professionals. The business forum is designed to prepare young professionals as they enter the
business workforce. Industry professionals share their professional experiences and discuss ways
in which businesses can thrive, not just survive, in any financial climate. The theme for 2013 was
“How to Achieve Business Growth in a Recovering Economy.”
This year’s guest speakers were Larry W. Gray, President of Baptist Health Corbin; Kim Knopf,
founder, President and CEO of Innovative Mattress Solutions; Paul Perkins, President of Amatrol
Inc.; George Potter, ’91, entrepreneur; and Mike Martinez, ’96, entrepreneur.
The forum was founded by Mr. J. Hunt Perkins, president of J. Hunt Perkins and Associates, Inc.;
a Lexington firm established in 1983 that specializes in oil and gas exploration services, gas well
drilling and field exploration services. A current member of Cumberlands Board of Trustees, Perkins
strong association with the University extends back to when his mother served more than ten years
as the Bursar at Cumberland.
Bruce Rector Speaks at
Kiwanis National Day of Prayer
On May 2, Bruce Rector served as the key-note speaker for
the Kiwanis Club of Williamsburg’s 14th Annual National Day
of Prayer Breakfast. The event was held at the Williamsburg
Convention and Tourism Center. In attendance, were members
of the community and Cumberlands faculty and staff. Rector’s
message focused on prayer and leadership.
As a speaker, author, facilitator and moderator, Rector teaches,
inspires and motivates people of all ages to become better
business, government, community and family leaders. He is a Past President of Junior
Chamber International, a 200,000 member strong organization of young leaders and
entrepreneurs from 110 countries. In 2003, he traveled to nearly 50 countries as JCI World
President. In every presentation he makes, Rector shares his practical tips for improving
personal and organizational performance in an entertaining way that leaves the audience
energized and ready for action.
Donnie Grimes
Named
Vice President
of Information
Services
Over the years, Cumberlands Information
Technology has been one of the best IT
departments in the country. The department
continues to find new and innovative ways of
conducting business and classroom activities
that continually earn praise from several
high ranking committees. UC Information
Technology Director Donnie Grimes, ’89, has
been an integral part of the technological
advances the UC campus has experienced
over the years and his work has helped to carry
the campus into the 21st century. Recently, Dr.
Taylor named Donnie Grimes Vice President of
Information Services making him the ninth vice
president named to the President’s Cabinet.
In his 23 years at UC, Grimes has been the
Director of Information Technology, a professor
in the Information Systems Department, and
the Campus Network Director. He oversees
and creates all data related technology
including web servers, iLearn, MyUC student
portal, network infrastructure (wired and
wireless), ERP system, and internet technology
and its safety.
Grimes has won numerous awards and
accolades for his service and the work he
provides the University. In the last few years
alone he has earned awards for “Best Online
Service”, “Most Successful Infrastructure
Project”, “Best New Campus Application”,
“Most Innovative Use of Technology for
Instructional Purposes”, and “Best Student
Online Service” by the Association of Kentucky
Born in Anderson, IN in 1963, Rector attended the University of Kentucky where he worked as a
Independent Colleges. Grimes has also
student athletic trainer assistant for Wildcat athletic teams. In 1990, he received a Juris Doctorate earned Cumberlands prestigious Service Award
from the University of Kentucky and was admitted to practice before the Kentucky Courts. Currently, given each year to a University staff member
Rector is President of KBA Sports, Inc. which operates a 58,000 square foot multi-sport training and who exemplifies student service, visitor service,
competition facility in Lexington and organizes sports programs and events across Kentucky.
staff/faculty service, and community service.
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Excerpt from Report presented by Vice
President of Student Services, Dr. Michael
Colegrove, in April 2013
and children’s camp weeks for the Summer
Appalachian Ministries Team.
•Seven UC students attended the Passion
Worship Conference held at the Atlanta
Superdome, January 1-4, 2013, along with
45,000 other attendees from around the world.
•There were 10 UC students who attended
the Urbana global missions conference in
December, with several of them seeing the call
to serve God through missions. One couple
led a UC team on the New York Spring break
mission as a result of this conference.
•Students are involved and serving at Main
Street Baptist Church of Williamsburg ,
Immanuel Baptist Church of Corbin, Faith
Baptist Church of Corbin, Forward Church in
Corbin, First Baptist Church of Williamsburg,
Cornerstone Church of Williamsburg and
Central Baptist in Corbin as well as others.
•Leadership Forum is taking place and a team
of students is forming to carry out ministry
through BCM and in local Baptist churches for
next year. The Leadership Training Conference
called Changing the Channel will be attended
by the entire BCM leadership team as well as
some other students, April 12-14, 2013 at
Cedarmore Baptist Camp.
•February 1 was the BCM Winter Breeze
with 44 attending, and $220 being raised for
student missions.
•Special speakers for UC Worship this
semester have included Rev. Joel Dew, Chris
Bell, and Caleb Hetrick.
•February 25-26 was Spring Renewal
Services with special speaker, alumnus
Albert Jones, ’94
student pastor at
Main Street Baptist
Church, and special
worship provided
by Live Fish from
East Somerset
Baptist Church. At
each of the two
Convocations,
there were about
350 students in
attendance. There
were 14 decision
cards completed.
•30 students serve weekly at five different
nights with Appalachian Ministries, teaching
Bible, recreation, and crafts to area children
and youth in Canadatown, at Corbin Manor
Apartments, at Brush Arbor Apartments, at
Jellico Good Soil Center Homeschool Co-op,
and at Williamsburg UMC.
•12 people will serve area churches and
at Kaskaskia Baptist Association’s youth
•12 students plus staff will serve in the
area building homes and doing construction
ministry this summer with Mountain Outreach.
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NORTHERN IRELAND: Nine people served
with a ministry called Adventure Leadership
Training using a climbing wall and archery to
reach communities that have been broken by
paramilitary activity. The team led a Kids Club
at a church located in one community and
reached 30 families with one child making a
profession of faith. The team canvassed the
entire community inviting the children and
families to the church. The team helped lead
a youth rally at a large weekly youth ministry
and participated with The Dock (a ministry at
the site where the Titanic was built) and Safe
Zone (a unified ministry led by all churches to
reach out to young people on the streets of
downtown Bangor and Belfast on weekends).
•Three UC students will serve on KY BCM
1:8 Leadership teams for the summer in
Bowling Green then Greece, FBC Murray then
Zimbabwe, and FBC Shelbyville then Russia.
•5 students will be serving with Centri-Kid at
various locations throughout the US.
•26 students and five faculty members
attended the Catalyst One-Day conference in
Lexington, KY. The event was intended to help
churches and church leaders to grow healthy
and effective ministries that share the Gospel
in ways that change the greater culture.
•There have been two students and four
others who have made professions of faith in
Christ through the ministry of students and
the campus ministers of UC BCM so far for
this semester. There was one decision for
baptism and FBC Somerset sponsored it.
•During Winter Break, BCM sent out two
international mission teams as follows:
GUATEMALA: Four people served at the Prince
of Peace Home for Girls in San Cristobal
alongside the Barron family who recently left
the BCM ministry at EKU to serve as directors
for the home. The team worked with all of the
residents, and they led Kids Club time while
also catching the larger vision of Christian
ministry and outreach in Guatemala. There
will be a team of three returning in May to
serve there as well.
•During Spring Break, BCM sent out four
teams, a total of 28 people as follows:
KENTUCKY/ILLINOIS: Seven people served at
Refuge for Women in Lexington, KY. The Refuge
has rescued 30 women in three years from the
sex industry, with 27 of them receiving Christ
and following Him now. They led a Youth Disciple
Now Weekend for 21 area youth at Kaskaskia
Baptist Association, with one salvation decision.
UC alumnus Jim Shemwell is the Director of
Missions. They also served at the Jefferson Street
Baptist Mission Center among homeless people
in Louisville, concluding their trip by hosting a
worship service for about 60-75 parents and
students at the KY Governor’s Cup Academic
Team Finals held at the Galt House in Louisville.
COLORADO: Seven people served in Denver
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doing carnivals and Bible clubs for residents
of multi-housing units in five locations
throughout the city, leading one child to
faith in Jesus. They worshiped at Bear
Valley Church, the sponsoring church for
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served with LifeWay’s beach ministry reaching
out to peers who were spending their spring
break at the beach. UC students led two
people to salvation in Christ, and one of
the UC team members who had never been
baptized was baptized by a Rev. Forrest
Coleman, a UC alum who took a team of
seven from his church, FBC Somerset,
partnering with our team. There were a total
of 51 salvation decisions for that week, with
5,333 pancakes served and 6,864 safe van
rides given to people.
•Special prayer times are held in Gatliff
Chapel on some Fridays.
•The BCM Drama Team served in four church
services, at the KY Baptist Creative Ministries
Festival (leading workshops and performing),
and two school assemblies where many youth
were reached with the gospel.
the ministry, and they led children in Bible
lessons, crafts, and recreation. They were
on hand to help the ministry create over 300
evangelistic Easter baskets/gifts, while also
cleaning and serving in whatever way they
were needed.
NEW YORK: Eight people served with SBC
Disaster Relief on Staten Island with mud
out and clean up from Superstorm Sandy.
They served three different homes in
varying degrees of needing repair. They also
ministered to their volunteer supervisor who
is a resident of the area, but who is not a
believer. They made a huge impact on his life,
while also doing witnessing on the streets.
One man was given a meal and a Bible while
the gospel was also shared with him freely.
BEACH REACH, PCB FLORIDA: Six people
is open to all, and a lot of people are being
reached through this ministry that have not
been previously engaged.
•Four additional teams of students served in
Disciple Now youth events in KY churches
•One of the UC BCM semester missionaries
has held numerous outreach events on
campus called The Kingdom Productions, and
they have consistently had 30-40 students
attending different events such as Open Mic
Night, Confabulation, and Rapsody—all events
where students can share raps, spoken
words, music, and other creative outlets.
Most of what is shared is Christian, but it
•To date, there are over 70 students who
will be serving in summer missions and
ministry projects, including Appalachian
Ministries, Mountain Outreach, Laurel Lake
Baptist Camp, M-Fuge, Crossings Camps,
internationally, and in area churches as
interns or with Vacation Bible Schools.
UC Joins Collegiate
Disaster Relief Ministry
When disaster strikes, some of the first to respond to help are the dedicated Southern Baptist
disaster relief volunteers. Kentucky has an active disaster relief program which works in concert
with similar programs in other states. The Kentucky Disaster Relief, a part of the Kentucky Baptist
Convention, has a program called the Collegiate Disaster Relief. Cumberland joined this ministry in
February 2013 and is one of five Kentucky schools involved. The other participating schools include
Morehead University, Northern Kentucky University, Western Kentucky University, and the University
of Louisville. The director for the Kentucky Baptist Convention Disaster Relief, Coy Webb, and
participating schools BCM directors are collaborating to gather more students, faculty, and staff in
order to provide a large, effective group of volunteers to help in the event of a disaster.
Kentucky volunteers can staff feeding units designed to deliver thousands of hot meals on quite
a short notice, move in with chainsaws to help remove debris caused by the storms, help families
remove mud from flooded homes, and provide many other common disaster relief services. The
Collegiate Disaster Relief does so much more than simply rebuilding and performing cleanup duties.
They discuss God’s love with the victims and others participating and do what they can to develop
and improve their relationship with Jesus Christ.
UC students helped clean out this home in
New York that was hit by Hurricane Sandy.
The Collegiate Disaster Relief ministry was in full force this past spring break as UC sent several
student volunteers to help clean up the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy in Staten Island, New York. UC currently has twelve participants but is
always looking for more people to train and prepare for service whenever disaster strikes.
Training is necessary for anyone who wants to volunteer their time and helping hands to this ministry. The Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
volunteers are required to be recertified every three years. In order to be eligible for recertification, all volunteers must complete training and
submit to a background check. All volunteers must be eighteen years old or older to serve. Anyone interested in participating in or making a
contribution to Disaster Relief can visit www.kybaptist.org/dr.
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A life dedicated to leadership and services was taken tragically in the early
hours of Saturday, May 24, 2013. Bardstown, Kentucky Police and Canine
Officer Jason Ellis, ’03, was on his way home from his work shift when
something apparently went terribly wrong. Officer Ellis sustained multiple
fatal shotgun wounds on Bluegrass Parkway after stopping to clear brush
and debris from a rural exit ramp in what appears to be a well-orchestrated
ambush. The entire community mourns Ellis’ death, none more so than
his wife, Amy, a 2005 Cumberlands alumna, and two young boys.
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In Memoriam:
Former Cumberlands Baseball Star and
Bardstown Police Officer Remembered
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A former Cumberlands baseball player and teammate, Joel Dobney, ‘07,
dedicated his weekly blog to Ellis this way; “Working as a de facto member
of the coaching staff at that time was a Cincinnati native named Jason
Ellis. A catcher by trade, he had set a pile of school and conference
records before departing via the MLB draft. His minor-league season had
closed, and he was working out with the team to stay in shape and rehab
a shoulder injury before the next year. He was perhaps the best player
to ever come through the program; I was quite near the other end of that
spectrum. To say I had nothing to offer him would be putting it mildly.
Jason Ellis entered Cumberlands in 1998 after graduating from Glen Este
Despite that, he treated me like I was a real ballplayer. He threw me extra
High School in Batavia, OH, where he was selected first team all-city and
batting practice. He encouraged me when I was splitting my time equally
player of the year in the Queen City Conference. He
between striking out and making feeble contact. He
started his collegiate baseball career in 1999 with
watched me take some tosses off the mound and
Coach Terry Stigall and ended in the spring of 2002
told me I had potential there. He was a king on that
under Coach Brad Shelton with one of the most
campus and he treated me, possibly the worst player
impressive career baseball resumes of any player
on the team at that time, as a peer. Time went on,
ever to suit up for Cumberlands on the diamond.
as it does. I settled in to the squad after a rough
first semester. Coach Ellis went back to being paid
To date, Ellis is Cumberlands all-time career batting
to play. I ground through four nondescript years of
average leader at .389, all-time career leader in
college baseball. His shoulder injury got the best
hits with 246, all-time career leader in doubles with
of him, and he retired from professional baseball.
60, all-time career leader in home runs with 34 and
We both got married, both fathered sons (two for
all-time runs batted in with 183. He played in 186
him, one for me), and he began a career in law
games, also a career record. Ellis holds the following
enforcement in Bardstown, Ky. You remember fondly
Ellis with Coach Shelton in ’01
team records for a season: third in batting average for
the people who have been good to you at times in your
a season with .447, first in hits with 93, first in
life when you could do absolutely nothing for
doubles with 30, third in home runs with 14,
them in return. From what is being reported,
and first in games played with 63. Adding to
Coach Ellis was a good cop, a good husband
this remarkable list of statistics is the fact that
and a good father. He was active in the
he was a leader on and off the field, leading by
community - coaching Little League baseball
example.
- and he inspired a level of love that is obvious
in his chief’s comments in that video. In other
Coach Stigall says, “When his summer coach,
words, he was still the same guy that he had
Mike Hatfield, ‘96, who also played here for
been to me way back when I was 18, in over
me at Cumberland, brought Jason down for
my head and desperately in need of a boost.”
a workout, Mike let me know right away that I
was going to be looking at a special talent and
Upon graduating from Cumberlands, Ellis was
a good young man. I recognized right away
signed by the Cincinnati Reds Minor League
that Jason needed to be a part of our baseball
professional baseball team. He played with
program. In the years that I had the privilege
the Reds in Sarasota, Florida and in Billings,
to coach Jason, I never had a player who
Montana from 2002-2005 before leaving his
worked harder and improved year to year like
baseball career behind to assist his wife Amy
Ellis was inducted into the
he did. I wasn’t a bit surprised when he was
through a difficult pregnancy. He decided to
Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.
able to sign a pro contract with the Cincinnati
pursue a second career goal as a police officer,
Reds because he had that level of talent. I truly
but continued to love the game of baseball,
enjoyed coaching him and he was always a model citizen on the field and
coaching many Nelson County youths through Nelson County Little League.
in classes. I also had his wife, Amy, in class and remember when they
Ellis had been employed by the Bardstown City Police Department since
first started dating. They were real assets to our University. I will always
2005 and the K-9 Officer with the Canine Unit since 2008. On the job, he
remember Jason’s positive attitude and what a great influence he was
received the Governor’s Award for Impaired Driving Enforcement for 2007
over his teammates and the students that he knew on our campus.”
and 2008. He also received the Officer of the Year Award in 2008.
Coach Shelton stated, “Jason Ellis was the heart of our team while he
was a player here. He helped lead us to our program’s first NAIA regional
appearance in several years during his senior season. He is arguably the
best player to ever play in our program. There is no doubt that he is the
best catcher I have ever coached. None of this compares to the type of
person he was. He was a great teammate, friend, and father. I will always
miss him. Our baseball program will never forget him and will always
honor him for the man he was and the sacrifice he made.”
At the writing of this tribute, members of the Nelson County Little League
were organizing a memorial baseball tournament July 13-14 in memory of
Jason and in support of his family. Plans are also being made by Coach
Shelton and the Cumberlands baseball team to honor Ellis at the Alumni
Baseball Reunion this fall at Homecoming and during the 2014 season.
If you would like to donate to the Ellis family or the reward fund, checks
should be mailed to Bardstown Police Department, 212 Nelson County
Plaza, Bardstown, KY, 40004.
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Patriot Pride Shown
All Over Campus
On Valentine’s Day, the Alumni Services Office challenged every
department and sports team to show their Patriot Pride in the
Inaugural I Love UC Photo Contest. To see the other entries go to
http://www.ucumberlands.edu/alumni/.
Take a Trip Down Memory Lane
With the Digital Yearbook Archive!
“My experience looking at the year books on your website took me back
some fifty years and I am so glad I was a part of those days. Thank you.”
-Arthur Wilson, ‘63
“I stumbled onto this tonight and didn’t know it existed. I got to see a pic of
my dad as a freshman in 1971. Thanks!” -Jeff Bowman
http://www.ucumberlands.edu/alumni/archive/
Blast From the Past
WINNER – “Mathematics and Physics Go Bananas for UC”.
L to R: Larry Newquist, Diana Jamison, Reid Davis, Jim Manning,
Lenora Bunch, and Jonathan Ramey
Dave Huff, ’53, playing basketball for CC in the 1950s.
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RUNNER-UP – “UC PA Department Hearts UC!”
Pictured: All students, staff and administrators of the
Physician’s Assistant Program
RUNNER-UP – “We Love UC Golf”
Pictured L to R: Laura Beth Harris, Bri Tokariwski, Shannon
Bishop, McKinzie Price, Chelsea Branscum, Cristina Jimenez,
and Taylor Gillis
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Back: Pamela (Slaughter) Jones, ’81; 2nd Row: Laura Keown, ’82;
Christie (Sheene) Smothers, ’82; Front Row (L-R): Linda Cassada, ’83;
Carrie (Lincoln) Newman, ’82; Tracey (Kidd) Wessel, ’82.
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Written by Tom Frazier, ’69,
Professor and Chair of English
and Modern Foreign Languages
When Jolina Miller, the first
member of her immediate family
to pursue a college education,
received the H. N. and Frances
Berger Award at Cumberland’s
2008 commencement, the
award criteria validated what
all who knew her recognized.
She exhibited academic
achievement, showed superior
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leadership, performed service to
the college community and beyond. While maintaining an enviable
GPA, Jolina served as a STAR in the freshman Insights program, editor
of the campus literary publication Pensworth, a varsity cheerleader,
a member of the UC chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International
English Honor Society, Homecoming Queen, and an inductee in Who’s
Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. And if
this weren’t enough, Jolina conducted Bible studies for the campus
BSU, worked in an orphanage in Columbia and as a missionary with
an international sports federation in Greece.
Paralleling Jolina’s innate need to serve was her ever-present infection
with words and the stories that came from them. She always seems to
have written. She tells of her manning the vegetable stand outside her
mother’s store, Miller’s Amish Country Store in Greenbrier, Tennessee.
While she should have been redding up the vegetable and fruit display
and imploring customers to stop, Jolina would sit writing into her fat,
spiral journals, sometimes for six hours a day. Although her mother
threatened to fire her, Jolina kept her job and wrote on.
Jolina maintained this love of words when she came to University of
the Cumberlands. Often she would stop by the English office and
chat about something she had read or written. She would tell of
stories not yet written, but too good not to be. It was during these
visits that Jolina came under the writing wing of Nancy Jensen, now
a member of the EKU creative writing program. Professor Jensen did
more than encourage Jolina, as we all did. She mentored Jolina into
pushing forward with her writing and becoming one who writes and
not just dreams of having written. Jolina took the mentoring to heart.
like Hester, Rachel does not deny her sin and sets forth to bear the
seeds of her sin. However, Jolina’s telling does more to involve the
reader into the lives of Rachel and the residents of her Copper Creek,
Tennessee, home. We are allowed to feel Rachel’s pain much more
intensely than we do Hester’s.
The Outcast, however, is more than a mere retelling of The Scarlet Letter
with modernisms thrown in. Jolina brings numerous new narrative
techniques into play, the most significant being the presentation of two
strong narrators, Rachel of course, and Amos King who speaks with the
voice of reason and understanding from beyond the grave. According
to Jolina, she decided upon Amos because of the influence of her
husband’s grandfather, Amos Stoltzfus, who had been removed from
the Amish community when he was only seventeen. Amos Stoltzfus
passed away shortly before Jolina began writing The Outcast, and she
imagined him as a “great cloud of Witness” referred to in “Hebrews. “
The influence of both Amos’s upon their families became more than
mere literary fodder; it became personal because her husband’s family
was having difficulties similar to those found in Rachel’s community. As
Jolina recounts, “I wept as I wrote the confrontational scene between
Amos and his son Tobias. If only we could be so blessed to converse with
those who have gone before! I pray this story will be more than just a
story, but will reach out with a message of reconciliation.”
The Outcast has proven to be more than just a premier novel by an
author with great talent. An agent, with Amish background, read early
portions of the novel and encouraged Jolina to complete it. When she
did as he suggested, he was able to sell the manuscript to Tyndale House
Publishers. This would be Tyndale House’s first venture into “bonnet
fiction.” According to a pre-release notice from the publisher, “Having
waited so long to enter the genre, we had determined that we would
only say yes to something that we could not bear to miss the chance to
publish.” Jolina’s agent reports, “Tyndale has waited to publish in the
Amish fiction genre until they could do so consistent with the literary
sensibilities that have made their publishing team successful.” And
Jolina and The Outcast were what Tyndale House were awaiting.
One should not be surprised to note that Jolina’s second novel was due
at the publisher by June 1. Although it is not a sequel to The Outcast,
it will again be set in Amish literary country, this time revolving around
midwifery. Jolina Miller Petersheim’s The Outcast was released on July 1,
2013, and can be found at Amazon as well as at other booksellers.
After publishing several short stories and having her blog syndicated,
Jolina decided that it was time to go big, to write her first novel. Her
family’s move from their native Amish/Mennonite Lancaster County
Pennsylvania to a similar community in rural Tennessee and the
experiences and stories that made up her life there provided the
source material for her novel. She decided to give “bonnet fiction,”
literature based upon life in the “Quiet world” of the Mennonites, a
chance. Since her novel is based upon the “quiet life” of the Amish,
Jolina hopes that there will be little negative backlash to her work from
her community. Her sole intention has been to show that the “Gentle
People” struggle with sin as much as the Englisch and the power of
desire and its reverberating cost if that desire is left unchecked.
To give her work thematic and literary vitality, Jolina decided to
make her novel, The Outcast, originally titled The Bishop, a modern
rendition of Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter. Like Hawthorne’s
protagonist Hester Prynne, Jolina’s Rachel Stoltzfus bears a child out
of wedlock and is ostracized and shunned by her community. And
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UC cheerleaders in 2005. Jolina is pictured in the front holding
Emma Kate Bergman.
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From Coal Miner’s Son to Longest Sitting Judge in Whitley County
Judge Jerry D. Winchester, a native of McCreary County, Kentucky and a
coal miner’s son, is one of the many mountain youngsters that came to
Cumberland College hungry for an education. Growing up, in what is now
the Daniel Boone National Forest, he thought college was beyond him,
simply a distant dream.
With encouragement from his father and a scholarship to Cumberland,
Winchester enrolled in the fall of 1959. He spoke of President Boswell
as a man who would help anyone but did not want it to be a handout so
you worked. During the school year, he cleaned the Gray Brick Building
(now known as the Bennett Building). In the summer, he worked any job
he could get, painting houses half a day, lifeguarding at the city pool and
driving a gas truck. Money earned was used to pay for tuition.
Looking back on his time at Cumberland, Winchester named some of
the classes and professors that pushed him as far as he could go. He
recalled history class with Ms. Janie Hall, who informed him that he
should not get a B or C because he had the ability to do much better than
that. After six weeks of his first math class with Dr. J. T. Vallandingham,
Winchester received a D. He was informed by “Dr. Val” that he should
be doing better and was capable of getting an A. Winchester was
challenged by teachers who did not want him to simply get through
college, but to succeed above and beyond the standards. He also spoke
of teachers who wanted to expand student experiences and outlooks.
Winchester named the art and music appreciation courses taught by Dr.
Nell Moore as a contributing factor to his love and collection of art.
After graduating from Cumberland in 1963, Winchester was recruited
for training at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
While there, Winchester was asked by a Cornell graduate regarding
his education. Responding that he earned a degree from Cumberland
College, he was told to give up and return home. Following the first
round of physical and intellectual tests, the Ivy Leaguer was sent home.
When all tests were completed, the field of trainees had been narrowed
from three hundred to twenty-five. Judge Winchester was one of the
remaining twenty-five, proving that his education at Cumberland could
compete among the Ivy League.
Winchester began his career as a math teacher at McCreary County High
School, a position he held for one year before enrolling in law school
at the University of Kentucky. In 1967, he earned his law degree and
gained employment with the FBI. Winchester served as a special agent
for five years, traveling to places such as Washington D.C., West Virginia,
Ohio and Kentucky. He began practicing law in Corbin, Kentucky in
1971 and then served as the Commonwealth Attorney for twelve years.
Governor Martha Lane Collins appointed Winchester as Circuit Court
Judge which he held until retiring in 2007. Since then, he has served as
Senior Judge and is the longest sitting judge in Whitley County.
Now fifty years since his graduation from Cumberland, Judge Winchester
is extremely proud of his alma mater and speaks highly of the numerous
changes that have been made. He commends President Taylor for
improving the college and remaking its image while keeping up the
standards. He is perhaps most proud of the school’s continuing Baptist
affiliation and belief in God. Winchester visits campus often, admiring
the changes and promoting it to out-of-state friends and family. This
successful alumnus affirms that Cumberland can compete with big
universities and is second to none. Judge Winchester and his wife, Nell,
reside in Corbin. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on
June 29, 2013.
International Student Gains More Than a Degree
When Wenny* came to University of the Cumberlands in 2008 from Wuhan,
China, she was an atheist who “thought Jesus was a western Buddha or a
character from a story, like Cinderella or Snow White.” Her second cousin who
lived in Canada and was a Christian had helped Wenny find a university and
make the arrangements. While she had never thought of attending a
religious school, Wenny says the people at Cumberlands were very kind and
that made it okay. Through chapel speakers and church services,
Wenny was saved while attending church in April 2009 at Main
Street Baptist Church of Williamsburg. After graduating from
Cumberlands in 2010, she lived in Nashville for ten months and
then returned to her hometown at the end of 2011. Wenny found
a Christian church to attend in Wuhan and when the opportunity
came, she invited her parents and it was then that they accepted
Christ. Dean Whitaker, Cumberlands’ Director of Campus Ministries,
stated “The world literally comes to our doorsteps through our
campuses every semester. When we reach one international student
with the Gospel and discipleship, we become missionaries throughout the
world through them. Wenny is a beautiful example of God’s sovereign hand
drawing people into relationship with Him to advance His kingdom to the ends of the earth.”
*Wenny is a nickname used by her American friends. Her full name withheld for security reasons.
**Adapted from original article “How One Atheist Student Found Christ” by David Roach, Baptist
Press. (www.opposingviews.com)
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Cumberland Alumna Meets, Then Serves with Future Husband in Papa New Guinea
after Cheri’s graduation
Cheri (Bridges)
from Cumberland in
Floyd, ’91, a native
1991, the Floyds were
of Andersonville, TN,
married in Tennessee
enrolled at Cumberland
and flew to Papa New
in the fall of 1987 on a
Guinea for full-time
full tuition scholarship.
missions work.
After checking out other
Today, Cheri, Don, and
schools, she decided
their three sons spend
Cumberland was a great,
three or four years at
friendly campus and it
a time living in Papa
just clicked with her. She
New Guinea, the largest
majored in biology and
of the indigenous
minored in English. Here
pacific nations with a
campus dorm suitemate
population of six and
was current UC professor,
a half million and the
Dr. Sara (Steen) Ash,
most diverse nation on
’93. Floyd recalls that
the planet. According to
while on campus there
the Floyds, It is a country
was somebody who was
with rich resources such
everywhere all the time,
as gold, gas and oil
Dr. John Broome, former
but the people remain
UC professor and current
economically poor. For
Freshmen Admissions
one year, the family
Advisor. For the two
The Floyd Family
returns to the United States traveling to different
required history courses, Floyd made sure to sign
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churches here and in Australia to speak, serve, and
up with Dr. Broome on both. As an upperclassman,
seek financial support in order to return to their
Floyd was chosen by Dr. Tom Fish to be a STAR and
mission work with the Wesleyan Church in Papa New Guinea.
mentor the freshman students. As a junior, she received the A.T. Siler
Community Service Award.
Don says, Papa New
Guineans are shorter
It was halfway through her college career that Cheri met her future
in stature but very
husband, Don Floyd, while on her first mission trip to Papa New
muscular and strong
Guinea. Don, a carpenter by trade from Australia, was on his third
trip to the country and Cheri was asked to do the cooking for his team not from “working
out” but from simply
with another female missionary. Christmas of that same year, Don
working. In this
came to Tennessee to meet Cheri’s family, and the next summer,
country, work is a
Cheri traveled to Australia to meet Don’s family. It was during her trip
social event and the
to Australia that Don proposed, which was followed by a ten month
people there have a
period where the two did not see each other. Almost immediately
great work ethic. Don
Advocating for burns patients
uses his carpentry
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skills to help with
building, maintenance, and community improvement. Yet instead
of just doing the work for the natives, he trains a team of carpenter
apprentices and purposely uses hand tools, items that they can
afford to purchase or that are easily accessible in their surroundings.
For example, Don shows the Papa New Guineans how to square a
building using vines or how to build a water meter from a plastic tube.
Along with carpentry training, Don and Cheri also assist with schools,
clinics, churches, health care and financial education. Cheri uses what
she learned at Cumberland to teach science and English in the schools.
The Floyds are empowering the Papa New Guineans with the belief, skills
and knowledge to be self-sufficient. And through these efforts, Cheri
says that natives believe in and feel better about themselves.
On the job training of carpenters
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For more information about the Floyds ministry, visit their Facebook
page, “Don and Cheri in Papa New Guinea” https://www.facebook.
com/DonCheriFloydInPNG?fref=ts
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History’s Handful: Serving As Examples
The following listing of alumni reflects those serving University of the Cumberlands as
ambassadors of good will. Each has dedicated significantly their time, energy and resources to
make a lasting impact on the mission of their alma mater.
Past Alumni
Board Members
*Deceased
**Served twice as president
***Completed a vacant term
1964-1967
Stanley Lovett, ’65
Johnny Reeves, ’57
Gwendolyn Renfro Goode, ’67
*E.E. Sheils, ’30
*Doris Spafford, ’50
1965-1968
*Tom Warren Butler, ’51
1968-1971
*The Honorable Bert T. Combs, ’30
*Dr. Darrell E. Rains, ’59
Donald R. Shelton, ’53
Ann Hollin Smith, ’56
*Marcus C. Yancey, ’27
1969-1972
Don J. Apking, ’58
*Sterling S. Brown, ’42
*Ken Howard, ’61
Mary Doyle Johnson, ’48**
*James E. McCreary, ’37
1970-1973
*Dr. Jerry D. Hayner, ’57
Dr. John R. Heneisen, ’65
Conley L. Manning, ’54
*Chester A. Nevels, ’57
Dr. Betty L. Siegel, ’50
1976-1979
Gordon D. Bocock, ’67
*Ronald Glass, ’70
Ray Lipps, ’70
Martha Begley Lovett, ’46
1977-1980
Jerry Baker, ’67
*Lillian C. Galloway, ’55
Judson S. Harmon Jr., ’68
Linda Cox Miller, ’61
*R.C. Miller, ’26
1978-1981
Fred R. Conatser, ’77
Ray Cummins, ’55
1971-1974
Richard Brashear, ’63
Dr. Oline Carmical Jr., ’66
Dr. Howard Chitwood, ’51
*Dr. Cratis D. Williams, ’30
1972-1975
David Huff, ’53
Marcella Faulkner Mountjoy, ’43
*Harold Lee Patterson, ’58
1966-1969
Dr. Charles D. Barnes, ’55
1973-1976
Earl C. Brady, ’69
Frances Hooks Catlett, ’55
Shelia Dinsmore Hollin, ’63
*The Honorable Eugene Siler Sr., ’20
*Dr. Cratis D. Williams, ’30
Bill F. Freeman, ’49
*Meriel D. Harris, ’33
1979-1982
*Wallace Boyd, ’32
Bob C. Jones, ’50
Mary Carolyn Farler Rutledge, ’56
1980-1983
*Jerry D. Bryant, ’69
Dr. Bernard C. Moses, ’72
*George D. Roberts, ’50
Ike M. Slusher Jr., ’52
William Reed Bryant, ’62
Nadine Maiden Siler, ’39
*Earl Woods, ’48
1967-1970
*John Wesley Faulkner Jr., ’63
Tom A. Gardner, ’67
Robert Leon “R.L.” Miracle, ’62
Mary Kathryn Kirby Moss, ’64
*Ann Renfro Shelley, ’39
1974-1977
Lee A. Bishop, ’70
David L. Davies, ’55
Dr. Robert Michael Duncan, ’71
*Dr. M. Charlene Hill Robinson, ’61
*Dr. Clifton Raymond Smith, ’43 & ’61
1975-1978
Ray C. Braden, ’74
Dr. Judy S. Rose, ’58
Jo Florence Buhl Cordell, ’54
Jerry L. Hodges, ’71
1982-1985
Harold Glenn Clarkston, ’56
*Edger Croley, ’39
*Helen Campbell Hamblin, ’45
*Doris Jean Spafford, ’50
1983-1986
Martha Begley Lovett, ’46
Dr. Arliss L. Roaden, ’49
Dr. Judy S. Rose, ’58
1984-1987
Dr. Frank H. Catron, ’53
Mary Doyle Johnson, ’48
Waunita Sowders Kearney, ’49
V. Troy Lovett, ’69
Larry W. Stewart, ’69
1985-1988
Fred Anness, ’70
Dr. Ralph M. Denham, ’36
Charles E. Reed, ’75
1986-1989
Nick F. Greiwe, ’74
Dr. Ralph W. Hodge, ’68
1981-1984
Lloyd Abdoo, ’80
Zafer Roback, ’65
1987-1990
*The Honorable Jerry D. Bryant, ’69
Dr. Michael B. Colegrove, ’71
Ray Lipps, ’70
Dr. Carolyn Barnwell Petrey, ’71
William Brian Oberschlake, ’84
Dr. Carolyn Barnwell Petrey, ’71
Laura J. Keown, ’82
1998-2001
Scott J. Burleigh, ’91
H. Ray Hammons, ’90
1988-1991
*Dr. Verna Young Barefoot, ’34
Dr. Ronnie Day, ’63
Richard Koeniger, ’76
Jim C. Wilder, ’61
1989-1992
David Davies, ’55
Rep. Tom Jensen, ’71
Donna Doan Ledden, ’72
Paul P. Steely, ’49
1990-1993
Glenna Mattingly Bryant, ’69
Jerry L. Connell, ’63
James M. Davis, ’72
Dr. David E. Ison, ’72
L.C. Madron, ’64
Dr. Leo R. Taylor, ’44
Donna Little Abner, ’76
1999-2002
Lee A. Bishop, ’70
Vince D. Henley, ’92
1992-1995
Dr. D. Terrell Bradley, ’81
Cathlene Lee, ’85
Dean Hawkins, ’81
*John L Turnblazer, ’49
Ralph Lipps, ’70
Terry L. Wagnon, ’83
1993-1996
*David L. Chitwood, ’68
Ray Lipps, ’70
Jenny Ruth Bryant Clifton, ’67 & ’02
Jimmi Susan McIntosh, ’81
2000-2003
Teri Winkler Foltz, ’75
Andy O. Abbott, ’94
Robert A. Kellough, ’75
1994-1997
Jeff C. Clark, ’88
Bob C. Jones, ’50
Jo Florence Buhl Cordell, ’54
Ralph Souleyret, ’63
2001-2004
Dr. Susan C. Hawkins, ’87
John W. McCauley, ’81
William Mike Sewell, ’72
V.L. Stonecipher, ’66
Brenda Phillips West, ’73
1996-1999
Pamela Jean “P.J.” Davis, ’77
Sharon K. Parrott, ’68
Barry D. Pencek, ’68
1997-2000
Dr. Max Allen Cox, ’72 & ’99
2012-2015
Willie Adkins, ’03
Michael Bryant II, ’85-’90
Amanda Farris, ’08
Duane Floro, ’79
Tony LeMaster, ’94
2005-2008
Colan Harrell, ’81
Ralph Lipps, ’70
Laura J. Keown, ’82
Sharon K. Parrott, ’68
Past Alumni
Board Presidents
2006-2009
Andy O. Abbott, ’94
Jeffrey A. Barker, ’94
David B. Rhodes, ’80
2009-2012
Jonathan Childers, ’00
Wesley Cornett, ’90
Dr. Terry P. Dixon, ’68
Melanie Mackey Bloomer, ’90
Shannon Evans Harrington, ’00
1967-1968
Wanda Bowling Freeman, ’61
1968-1969
1969-1970
*Robert K. Jones, ’51
1970-1971
1971-1972
*Dr. Howard R. Boozer, ’42
2010-2013
Tom Broyles, ’80
Kathy Byrd, ’83-’87
Brittney House, ’09
Terry Stigall, ’75
Amy Stroud, ’04
1972-1973
The Honorable Harry
“Gippy” Graham, ’50
2002-2005
Ben F. Atchley Jr., ’82
David D. Close, ’93
Jimmy Huddleston, ’87
Kelly Partin Miller, ’97
2003-2006
Leigh Sexton Burke, ’90
William C. Gullett, ’71
Tracey Kidd Wessel, ’82
William R. Lyttle, ’75
1966-1967
Conley L. Manning, ’54
2007-2010
Patti Mullins, ’91
Richard Prewitt, ’80
V. L. Stonecipher, ’66
Jimmy Huddleston, ’87***
2008-2011
Maureen “Cookie” Henson, ’74
Dr. John P. Hollingsworth, ’63
Mike Parsley, ’89
Jeffrey W. Davis, ’80
1991-1994
Anthony L. “Tony” Bell, ’89
Dr. Sue Ball Phelps, ’54
1995-1998
*Frank B. Abdoo, ’67
Martha Crume Ash, ’44
David Paul Estes, ’90
Bob Proud, ’81
2004-2007
Dr. Terry P. Dixon, ’68
John W. McCauley, ’81
Ralph Neal, ’80
Kime’ Epsich Murphy, ’82
Dr. E. Wheeler Conover, ’87***
1973-1974
2011-2014
Bill Hardin, ’81
John Hollingsworth, ’63
Lee Kendall, ’82
Keith Pray, ’90
Chuck Sheriff, ’63
1974-1975
**Mary Doyle Johnson, ’48
1975-1976
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Anna P. Rutherford, ’46
1976-1977
1994-1995
Paul P. Steely Sr., ’49
1977-1978
Dr. Chloe Chitwood, ’49
1995-1996
*Doris Jean Spafford, ’50
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2006-2007 (also 1993-1994)
**Dick Koeniger, ’67
Russel E. Bridges, ’51
1968
1978-1979
David L. Davies, ’55
Dr. James H. Taylor, ’68
1968-1973
1979-1980
*The Honorable Pleas Jones, ’34
John E. Lancaster
1973-1975
1980-1981
Fred R. Conatser, ’77
1981-1982 (also 1970-1971)
1982-1983
*Lillian C. Galloway, ’55
1983-1984
Mary Farler Rutledge, ’56
1984-1985
Dr. James E. Croley III, ’72
1985-1986
Jerry L. Hodges, ’71
1986-1987
Dr. Eleanor M. Behrmann, ’36
1987-1988
Phillip M. Armstrong, JD, ’70
1988-1989
Dr. Arliss L. Roaden, ’49
1989-1990
Kate Smith Hill, ’63
1990-1991
1996-1997
Dr. D. Terrell Bradley, ’81
2007-2008
Dr. Terry Dixon, ’68
1992-1993
*The Honorable Jerry Bryant, ’69
1993-1994
**Richard F. Koeniger, ’67
John E. Clinton, ’78
1978-1980
William H. Lynch, ’81
1980-1984
1998-1999
Jerry L. Connell, ’63
Dr. Brian L. Shoemaker, ’79
1984-1989
1999-2000
Bob Proud, ’81
Patty Evans Bryant, ’81
1989-1990
2000-2001
2001-2002
David Paul Estes, ’90
2002-2003
L.C. Madron, ’64
2003-2004
Ralph Lipps, ’70
2004-2005 (also 1974-1975)
**Mary Doyle Johnson, ’48
2008-2009
William R. Lyttle, ’75
2009-2010
David B. Rhodes, ’80
2010-2011
Richard Prewitt, ’80
2011-2012
2012-2013
2013-2014
President-Elect Jimmy
Huddleston, ’87
Bob C. Jones, ’50
1991-1992
Ray Lipps, ’70
Dr. Oline Carmical, Jr., ’66
1975-1978
1997-1998
Jimmi S. McIntosh, ’81
Past Creech-Boswell
Club Presidents
Dr. Jerry Lowrie, ’58
Past Alumni
Directors
2005-2006
V. L. Stonecipher, ’66
Marcella Faulkner Mountjoy, ’43
*George D. Roberts, ’50
Paul P. Steely Sr., ’49
William Reed Bryant,’ 62
R. Alan Coppock, ’87
1990-1994
Dr. Rick A. Fleenor, ’85
1994-2005
David S. Bergman, ’89
2006-present
Become a part of
history’s handful by
serving at UC.
To learn more about
serving on the Alumni
Board of Directors or to
become involved in the
UC Alumni Association,
contact Alumni Services:
7075 College Station Dr.
Williamsburg, KY, 40769
606-539-4355.
Thank you!
Mike Ashurst, ‘74 - Pictured
on Referee Magazine March
2013 Edition
Mark Terry, ‘90 BS, ‘10
MBA - Pictured on Bank
Technology News Magazine
February 2013 Edition
Alumni Connect in Washington DC
Eugenia Vickers, ‘12, & Andy Abbott, ‘94 - Pictured at National Conservative
Student Conference at US Capitol, August 2012
Preaching the Possum’s Funeral
In the mid-1990s, the late George Jones created quite a stir on
campus and throughout the community when he entertained a
packed O. Wayne Rollins Center. Fans came from far and wide to
hear the legend often referred to as “The Possum.”
The country music star passed away on April 26 at the age of 81. On
May 2, Cumberland alumnus and George’s pastor, Mike Wilson, ’94,
“shared with mourners the George he knew and quoted lines from
George’s hit songs, “Choices” and “The One I Loved Back Then.” As
Wilson led in prayer, everyone bowed their heads and held hands.”
(www. blog.gactv.com)
This type of memorial service was one reserved for the elite among
music stars. Held in the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, the
service was shown live on television, streamed via the internet, and
hosted numerous news anchors and photographers. Several alumni,
faculty, staff and students mentioned seeing Wilson at the memorial.
Wilson was keynote speaker at Cumberlands 2012 Homecoming,
after being inducted into the Alumni Hall of Honor for Service.
Wilson speaking at 2012 Alumni Dinner.
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Coach Shelton Earns 600th Win
in Patriot Baseball
On April 12, Cumberlands baseball team defeated MSC foe Saint Catharine College in game one
of the series. With the win, Head Coach Brad Shelton earned his 600th win during his illustrious
coaching career. Since coming to UC in 2001, Shelton has built one of the NAIA’s best baseball
programs in the country. In his twelve years as the Patriots Head Coach, Shelton has won 411
games with a winning percentage of over .660. His teams during that span have made 5 regional
tournaments, won 3 MSC Championships, and 1 MSC Tournament Championship. Highlights during
his career at UC include setting the record at UC for wins in a single season with 45 in 2004 and a
#3 NAIA national ranking. He also led his 2005 team to a NAIA Regional Runner-up finish and had
his 2008 team ranked #7 nationally with 43 wins.
Shelton has coached one NAIA First Team All-American, one Region XI Player of the Year, three MSC
Players of the Year, two MSC Pitchers of the Year, one MSC Freshmen of the Year, and 40 First Team
All MSC performers. His players have also been successful in the classroom with many earning
MSC Academic All-Conference. Prior to coming to UC, Shelton was the head coach at St. Catharine
College where he built a nationally ranked junior college program.
For more information on the University of the Cumberlands baseball
team you can follow them on twitter at @uccoachshelton or visit the
athletics website www.cumberlandspatriots.com.
Patriot Named Freshman of the Year for MSC
Freshman Ashley Mullins (Totz, KY) was named Freshman of the Year for the Mid-South Conference at the
conclusion of the 2012-13 basketball season. Mullins averaged 9.8 points per game along with 5.3 rebounds
as she not only played key minutes for the Patriots, but started in many of the games.
Patriot Men’s Track
Runs Away With MSC
Championship
Cumberlands Men’s Track and Field program hosted
the Mid-South Conference Championships April 2627. After finishing day one in 1st place with many
strong showings, the Patriot men took home the
MSC Championship as they literally ran away from
the competition. The Patriots finished in 1st place
out of 9 teams earning 283 points, 120.5 points
ahead of 2nd place Lindsey Wilson College.
Skelly Voted Women’s NAIA National
Coach of the Year
At the NAIA National Swimming and Diving Championships, Coach Eric Skelly was voted by his peers as the
Women’s NAIA National Coach of the Year. The honor was the first for Coach Skelly and is a testament to
how far he has taken Cumberlands swim program since his arrival in the summer of 2011. Coach Skelly
took the women’s swim team to a 3rd place finish at the NAIA National Championships which ties the
highest ranking any Patriot swim team has received at the Championships.
In the past two seasons, the women’s team has also broken several school records. Twelve members of the
women’s team received All-American or Honorable Mention All-American honors. Skelly has also had the
privilege to coach a two-time NAIA National Champion at UC, Charlotte Parent (Braine-l’allaud, Belgium.
From All-Conference award winners to Champions of Character, the Patriots have had numerous studentathletes reflect the core values and responsibilities for which the Mid-South Conference stands. Two standout
scholar-athletes were honored for their success on the field/course and in the classroom. Cedric Muteshi,
‘13 (Nairobi, Kenya) and McKinzie Price, ‘13 (Somerset, KY) were named the Men and Women’s Mid-South
Conference Scholar Athletes of the Year, finishing out their careers at UC on the highest of notes.
Patriot soccer sensation Cedric Muteshi, a four-year member of the men’s soccer program, is no stranger to success
winning several awards throughout his time spent at UC. A team captain for the last two seasons, Muteshi had an
immediate impact on the defensive side of the field for the Patriots, being named to the All-Conference first team as
a freshman, sophomore, and junior. Starting every game from his sophomore to senior season, Muteshi was named
the Patriots’ Most Valuable Player for the 2011-2012 season and was recognized as a MSC honorable mention
selection during his senior season. An Academic All-Conference winner for the MSC from 2010-2012 as well as
a Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete from 2011-2012, Muteshi maintained a high
grade point average, majoring in biology in hopes of entering medical school after
graduation.
McKinzie Price
Cedric Muteshi
Patriot golfer McKinzie Price was been a member of the golf team for the past four years, achieving greatness
on and off the course each season. Winning four MSC Team championships, Price began her career with
a dominant freshman season in 2009-2010. Finishing first place individually for the MSC regular season
championships, Price was also awarded MSC Freshman of the Year as well as an All-Conference First
Team selection. She continued her reign of triumph in her sophomore and junior season, being named
an All-Conference First Team selection twice, ranking 46th in the NAIA Women’s Championship. Price was
named MSC Academic All-Conference in 2011 and 2012, as well as a Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete in
2012. Throughout her four years at UC, Price maintained a 4.0 grade point average, majoring in business
administration. Price plans on obtaining her Master’s in Business Administration before beginning a career in
Nursing Administration.
Patriot Golf Dominates in
Mid-South Conference
Men’s golf won over
Lindsay Wilson College by
four strokes to claim the
Championship. This
win gave the Patriots
their 4th straight sweep
of the regular season
and postseason MidSouth Conference
Championships. Isac
Lambertsson (Njutanger,
Sweden) was named the
MSC Freshman of the Year.
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Two Patriots Named Male & Female Scholar Athlete of the Year
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Women’s golf won over
Lindsay Wilson College by
seven strokes to claim the
Championship. Junior
Liz Stephens (Tockington,
Bristol UK) took home
Co-Player of the Year
honors as she shared
the title with Cumberland
University’s Katie Legge.
Head Golf Coach, Chris
Kraftick, was also named
MSC Men’s and Women’s
Coach of the Year.
Women’s Basketball
Hosts Second Annual
Barefoot for Barefeet
On January 24, women’s basketball head coach
Melissa Irvin and her team hosted their second
annual Barefoot for Bare Feet Game against UVAWise. During the game, Irvin and her staff went
bare foot to help draw awareness to the problems
facing Southeastern Kentucky’s children that
have to go without shoes on a daily basis. Since
the event, $4,292.88 has been raised for the
cause. The Barefoot for Bare Feet movement
involves coaches, governors, business leaders,
teachers, pastors and others who perform their
jobs barefoot to provide a voice for the 300
million children who go barefoot. Through this
effort Samaritan’s Feet has provided more than 2
million pairs of new shoes and nearly $2 million
dollars to those in need. For more information
visit http://samaritansfeet.myetap.org/fundraiser/
fundraisingpage/individual.do?participationR
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Former Athletes Inducted Into
Athletic Hall of Fame
Cumberlands honored a special group of former athletes as they were inducted into the 2013 Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, February 16.
The ceremony was held during halftime of the Patriot men’s basketball game versus Campbellsville University in the O. Wayne Rollins Center.
Joining this elite club were (pictured L to R :) Jerry Williams, Ivan Johnson, Timothy Henderlight, and Roger Morris.
Timothy Henderlight
Class of 1971
Track & Field/Cross Country
Timothy Henderlight was graduated from
Cumberlands in 1971. He was a member of
the track & field and cross country teams,
participated in the Varsity C Club, and served
as Treasurer and Vice-President of Student
Government. He was captain of the track team
his junior and senior years and captain of the
cross country team his senior year. In 1971, he
was voted Most Valuable Graduating Senior by the Student Senate
and Most Athletic by the yearbook staff.
During the 1970 and 1971 seasons, Henderlight set six track & field
records in the two, four and six mile run, two and four mile relay, and
distance medley relay. His time of 30:50.2 for the six mile event
remains unsurpassed as a school record. In 1970, he qualified and
competed in the three and six mile runs at the NAIA national meet,
finishing 20th in both races and qualified for the national meet
in 1971, but did not compete. He earned the title of conference
champion three times during his college career; once in the two mile
and twice in the three mile events. He became the district champion in
the three mile run twice. Henderlight was named All-Conference by the
Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference for Cross Country in 1970
and in Track, 1970 and 1971. The Golden Guts Award was presented
to him in 1970 in recognition of his status as the top cross country
runner. Along with his individual accomplishments, Henderlight was a
member of Cumberland’s cross-country team which won back-to-back
district championships in 1969 and 1970 and the first Cumberlands
track team to win a district championship in 1971.
After graduation, Henderlight remained active in athletics. He helped
recruit and coach the 1977-78 Cumberlands basketball team, the
first basketball team in school history to win a district championship
and compete in the NAIA national tournament. Presently, Tim
officiates at numerous high school, college and national track & cross
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country meets. In 2009, he was voted Kentucky’s Track & Cross
Country Coaches Association Outstanding Official of the Year. In
2011, he was voted Kentucky’s USA Track and Field New Official of
the Year.
Henderlight resides in Paris, Kentucky where he is employed by Hinkle
Contracting Company as a Sales Engineer. He has three children,
one son; Timothy, who resides in Huntington Beach, California;
two daughters in Kentucky; Leslea, who lives in Louisville with
granddaughter, Alexis; and Julia, who lives in Williamsburg with her
husband, Steven Moses.
Ivan C. Johnson
Class of 2003
Basketball
Ivan C. Johnson was born the son of Sharon
and Pete Johnson of Cincinnati, OH in 1980.
Raised by his mother, Johnson attended
Withrow High School in Cincinnati where his
mother currently serves as the principal.
Johnson was the 1998 Cincinnati High
School Player of the year, earned 2nd Team
All-State honors and received a McDonalds
All American Nomination. He led Withrow High to the Ohio State
Basketball Final Four his senior year. In the fall of 1998, Johnson
enrolled at Cumberland College. He was graduated in 2003 with
a major in Communications and minor in Health Movement and
Leisure Studies. After college, he was invited to rookie training camp
with the Boston Celtics. He played professionally in Europe with
the Birmingham Bullets (England) and spent one year in the ABA
(American Basketball Association) with the Cincinnati Royals.
Johnson enjoyed a sterling career at Cumberland and is regarded as
one of the best all-around players in Cumberland history. He scored
1,815 points during his career, which places him 4th on the all-time
scoring list. He also is the career leader in steals with 253 and ranks
Johnson currently resides in Columbus, Ohio
where he is employed in the pharmaceutical
sales industry. He is also Co-Founder
and CEO of Magnum Opus Group LLC, a
marketing and events firm.
Roger Morris
Class of 1966
Baseball
Born the son of Victor and
Maxie Morris in Keokee,
Virginia, Roger Morris is
the ninth of ten children
including seven girls and
three boys. Father, Victor,
Sr., played baseball in the
coal fields in the late 1920s
Jerry L. Williams
Attended 1999-2001
Basketball
Jerry L. Williams attended
Cumberland College, from 1999
to 2001. During his Cumberland
basketball career, Williams
played in 65 games, accumulated
1,300 points, 128 assists, 106
steals and 23 blocks. On March
21, 2001, Williams scored 36
points in a National Tournament
game against USAO, which
stands as third best all-time for
points scored in the post-season
and ranks first all-time in the NAIA
Tournament for a Cumberland player. In a
2001 MSC Tournament game versus Lambuth
University, Williams scored 32 points which is
first-all time for a Cumberland player in a MSC
Tournament game. Williams made 299 field
goals in the 2000-01 season which stands as
fifth all-time. He finished as the fourteenth
highest scorer in Cumberland history, was
the second highest scorer of players who only
played two seasons, and scored 30+ points in
and early 30s. This may explain the Morris
family athletic talents with a member of the
family on the Keokee High School baseball or
basketball team for twenty-five consecutive
years. Roger’s brothers played and coached
college basketball and baseball. His
brother, Victor Morris, ’64, preceded Roger
at Cumberland, and was selected a Small
College All-American in baseball before being
inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at
Cumberlands in 2002.
Roger Morris was graduated from Keokee
High School and enrolled at Cumberland
College in the fall of 1962. His brother,
Vic, was a senior that year and they played
baseball together for one season. Roger’s
yearly batting average at Cumberland
consisted of .489, .320, .379 and .400. In
his first college game against Pikeville, he
went five for five, including a homerun in
his first time at bat. In a double header
against Campbellsville during his freshmen
year, Morris went seven for eight. Coach
Walt Mathis told Morris he would have led
the nation in hitting that year if he had
accumulated ten more at bats.
After his graduation from Cumberland
in 1966, Morris moved to Dayton,
Ohio and was signed by the California
Angels. He was to report for spring
training in El Centro, California, but was
drafted into the Army in October. The
Angels helped Morris acquire a three
month early leave from the military
after his service in Thailand. He played
one summer with the Quad City Angels
and attended spring training in 1969,
a single game twelve times in his career with
eleven posted during the 2000-01 season.
Williams is only the fifth player in school
history to average as much as 23
points per game and was the first
Cumberland player to average that
many since 1978-79. In 200001, Williams grabbed 55 steals
(14th all-time) and over his career
completed 106 (7th all-time).
Williams was the first Cumberland
player since the 1981-82 season
to be selected as Conference
MVP and the first Cumberland
men’s player to be selected a NAIA
First Team All-American in 2001. He was
selected a two-time First Team All-Mid-South
Conference, MSC Player of the Year in 2001,
MSC Player of the Week three times from
1999-2001 while leading the MSC in scoring
for the 2001 season.
Upon leaving Cumberland, Williams had a
long career playing basketball in Europe and
other countries including Mexico, Africa and
where he was a late release due to age.
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6th all-time in assists with 451. Perhaps
most impressive among his career statistics
is that Johnson is one of only two players
in Cumberland history to accumulate over
1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 300 assists,
and 200 steals. While Johnson’s entire
career was outstanding, it was his junior and
senior seasons that really stood out. During
that time, he led Cumberland to a 51-16
record and appearances in the NAIA National
Tournament both years. His 28 points
against Oklahoma Christian University in the
2003 National Tournament is the second
most points scored in the NAIA Tournament
by a Cumberland player. Johnson was also
a three time Mid-South All Conference player
and twice was named Mid-South Conference
Player of the Year. In both 2002 and 2003,
Johnson was named to the NAIA All American
first team, the only time in Cumberland
history that a player has been so honored.
Roger played summer baseball in Dayton
with college players and former pros. He was
coached by the legendary amateur coach Ted
Mills and was picked by Mills in 1985, to the
first team All Time All Star team from players
that had played for him from 1962-85. In
1969, Morris began a high school coaching
career that lasted forty-two years. He coached
baseball and boys and girls basketball at
Keokee High School for thirteen years. In
1982, Morris became the head baseball and
assistant basketball coach at Cumberland
High School, Cumberland, Kentucky. He
served twenty-two years as head baseball
coach, nine years as assistant and three years
as head basketball coach. He was elected to
the Kentucky Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame
in 1998 with over 400 victories at the time. In
2004, Morris retired from Cumberland High
School and returned to Virginia. He coached
at Lee High School for five years before
retiring in 2009. During his coaching career,
his teams acquired over 700 victories, winning
eighty percent of their games, many of which
came against larger schools. Sixty of the
players who called Morris their coach went on
to play collegiate baseball.
Morris currently resides in Cumberland,
Kentucky, the father of twin daughters, Joey
and Kelly, who led Cumberland High School
to the Class “A” Basketball Championships
in 1991 and 1992. Both daughters received
basketball scholarships to Lees McCray
in North Carolina. Morris also has two
grandchildren, Maya and Roan.
Australia. He says the best times were playing
in Glasgow, Scotland because he had the
chance to play against Cumberland teammate,
Ivan Johnson, a member of the Birmingham,
England professional team.
Williams currently resides in Jacksonville, FL
with fiancée, Taylor Straughn, and their two
energetic sons, Jeremiah and Jeven. He also
has a 17 year old son, Jarry Williams, who is
a top football star at Terry Parker High School.
Jarry is a top scholar working on his associate
degree while attending high school. Williams
has three siblings. His younger brother,
Rashean Mathis, who attended Williams’ last
game at Cumberland has played ten years
in the NFL for the Jacksonville Jaguars. His
mother, to whom he credits all he knows
about basketball, also resides in Jacksonville.
Williams is now an assistant coach for the
Jacksonville Giants professional basketball
team where he won his first championship as
a coach in 2012. Coaching is a great passion
for Williams and he wants to someday become
an NBA coach.
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Serving the Great Commission
16 Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where
Jesus had told them to go. 17 When they saw him, they worshiped
him; but some doubted. 18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All
authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore
go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching
them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am
with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Matthew Chapter 28, Verses 16-20 NIV.
The Great Commission was issued by Jesus to all claiming him as Lord
and Savior. In 1888, there came forth the founders of University of
the Cumberlands (then Williamsburg Institute) to establish a school of
higher learning with a Christian mission laid as its’ cornerstone. These
founders had a clear vision to send forth a well rounded graduate
into the world. A graduate enlightened by scholarly work, a graduate
empowered by the moral compass of Biblical teaching and Christian
service, and a graduate destined for greatness as a lifelong learner.
Only four short years into the storied history of Williamsburg
Institute (later Cumberland College 1916-2005 and University of the
Cumberlands 2005-present) there emerged four students from near
obscurity to lead and serve The Great Commission. Representing the
first graduating class were (pictured below left to right) A.S. Petrey, E.
L. Stephens, A. J. Meadors and L. B. Parker.
Cumberlands’ first four graduates
A. S. Petrey was an Instructor of A Grammar at Williamsburg Institute
from 1893-1897. He did missionary work in Hazard and Perry County,
organizing twelve churches in the area including the First Missionary
Baptist Church of Hazard in 1898. His interest in education work led him
to found and become president of the Hazard Baptist Institute in 1902.
E. L. Stephens taught as an Instructor of A Grammar, Rhetoric and
History, and Algebra at the Williamsburg Institute 1894-1901. He
studied for and passed the bar exam and became a prominent
attorney in Williamsburg, Kentucky.
A. J. Meadors entered the field of education and taught in the
elementary grades of the Williamsburg Institute for one year, 189596, Instructor of A Grammar. He moved on to become a principal
of a high school in Arkansas and later President of Conway Female
College, Conway, AR. According to the University of Central Arkansas
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historical archives, Meadors Hall was erected in 1937 to honor
Andrew Jackson Meadors, UCA’s first academic dean. This position is
known today as “Provost.” Meadors joined the faculty of UCA in 1909
and became dean in 1921. He served in this capacity until 1942.
Before retiring, he served briefly as Interim President.
L. B. Parker became a minister and was at one time supply pastor
of the Williamsburg Baptist Church. Reverend Parker served as
pastor at several churches in the Midwest including Illinois, Kansas,
Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.
The early graduates of Williamsburg Institute are much like the
graduates of today. There is a steady flow of students in Williamsburg
who dedicate themselves to academic excellence, civic service and
spiritual growth. It is this well roundedness in Cumberland graduates
that enables selfless growth in service to others.
Dr. Bob Dunston, Chairman of the Department of Missions and
Ministry, explains the Great Commission by saying, “In Matthew
28:19-20 Jesus commanded his disciples then and now to make
more disciples. We do that by going, baptizing, and teaching.
University of the Cumberlands’ faculty, staff, and students are
obeying Christ’s commission. Every summer they go to serve in our
area and around the world, meeting the physical and spiritual needs
of individuals. Many also serve in local churches helping people find
Christ as Savior, mature in faith, and serve Him as Lord. Our two
required General Education courses in Christian Faith also enable
us to reach out with the gospel on campus and through our online
classes. We help students find faith in Christ and grow as committed
Christians. Christ’s Great Commission is our calling and our joy.”
Further explanation of Cumberlands’ service is given by Dean Whitaker,
Director of Baptist Campus Ministries, “UC has a strong commitment
to sharing the gospel and making disciples throughout the world as
Jesus commanded in the Great Commission. The mission statement
that is embodied by BCM is ‘Growing as disciples by making more
disciples through authentic relationships.’ Students and staff are
actively pursuing Jesus and following him wherever He leads. We share
Christ through the many ministry and mission opportunities we have
before us on short-term mission teams as well as on weekly ministry
to children, youth and families in our area. BCM has sent students
and staff on mission teams to share the gospel of Jesus with words
and actions in Kentucky, Illinois, Colorado, Florida, New York City (two
teams), Guatemala (two teams), and Northern Ireland over the course
of the winter break and spring semester. Each mission was a perfect
example of living out the Great Commission.”
Whitaker works with Love In
Action founder and alumnus,
Reverend Jim Shemwell (and his
wife, Donna) adding, “We are
very aware of the Shemwells
and their contributions to
UC! It was because Jim and
Donna started Love In Action
that we began partnering with
them many years ago. Spring
Break Mission and Appalachian
Ministries Summer Teams go to
Shemwell’s associational camp
and staff it for two weeks in
June (one week for children and
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“Since its beginning, University of the Cumberlands has been in
partnership with the Kentucky Baptist Convention and has constantly
sought to be a great commission university. Though its initial
focus was on transforming the lives of the students within its local
geographic area, the influence of the University has now spread
throughout the world,” according to Dr. Rick Fleenor, ’85, Church
Relations and International Student Relations Director.
Fleenor continues, “Through the years, the university has sent
out thousands of alumni who are making a difference in their
part of the world. Many returned
to their hometowns to serve their
local communities through every
occupation one can imagine. In the
process, UC alumni have invested
themselves professionally and
through volunteer service as Sunday
school teachers, Little League
coaches, as members of civic clubs
and organizations and through a
variety of other means. Countless
lives have been impacted by the
Servant Leaders who once walked
this campus.
Cumberlands’ international studies
program and international mission
trips through Baptist Campus
Ministries provide students with
opportunities to expand their
worldview and have an even greater
global impact. Cumberlands alumni
are serving in several countries
around world. Many of these share
their faith while impacting individuals
and communities as educators,
business leaders or as agricultural or
environmental experts.
Presently, more than 100 international
students from 34 different countries
have made University of the
Cumberlands their choice. As a
result, they experience the influence
of Christian teachers and students
and are exposed to the gospel through
Biblical Studies requirements in
General Education Curriculum, regular
chapel programs and other ministry
and worship opportunities.
with student activities. There were fellowships to share Christ
with the students, such as apple pie social. There was a lot
of poverty in the area and many of our BSU students collected
clothing and toys to distribute in the mountain communities,
especially for the Christmas season.
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one week for youth). I really appreciate the Shemwells and all they do
and have done for the Kingdom and for UC!”
One main event that shaped me was our BSU trip to Biloxi/
Gulfport, Mississippi under the direction of Sonny Wilkerson.
We went in a rickety air force bus and a donated car from
the Pontiac Dealer. It was there the Lord led me to join the
Navy and it was in the Navy that I had the vision to return to
Appalachia and lead in outreach to the mountain communities
around Cumberland. We found that there were other students
who also felt the Lord was leading in
the same direction. Sonny took me to
talk with Dr. Boswell, who shared that
he had always thought Cumberland
could reach out to communities
around the school. So, it was evident
that the Lord brought us all together
at His time, to fulfill that dream.
Love in Action, 1977
As I reflect on Cumberland, it
brings great pride that the Lord
has worked and is still working in
such special ways. It is surprising
that after these 40 years or so, the
ideas for the ministries we were so
involved in still exist and have been
expanded through Appalachian
Ministries, Mountain Outreach and
other programs. I’m not saying
that Cumberland was not a mission
minded school before Love In Action,
but I am saying that it is a wonderful
experience to have been part of
these ministries that continue on and
grow. It is a blessing that my college
places such importance on missions
as well as academics.
I am blessed to have the opportunity
to be able to work with the members
of Appalachian Ministries who spend
approximately three weeks per year
working in our association and camp
programs.
As Director of Missions, I hear people
talking about our youth leaving the
church. Yes, this might be true of
some. However, I also find that
there are still young people who are
willing to serve and sacrifice in the
Mountain Outreach, 1982
same spirit and dedication as those
Cumberlands is fulfilling the Great
who served in Love In Action. There are still those in this new
Commission by bringing individuals to its campus, equipping them
generation as mission minded as we were in the 70’s. Adults in
with Christian values and instilling in them the importance of serving
the church also are just as critical saying “these young people
others. This rich heritage is multiplied with every new freshman that
aren’t doing things right” just as the adults said about us a long
comes to campus and with each graduate who goes out to serve.”
time ago. I have to laugh!
Love In Action (now Appalachian Ministries) founders, Rev. James
So, I praise God that He is raising up each generation with young
Shemwell, ‘76, shares his perspective:
people as well as adults who will serve Him in ministries, and I also
praise God that He is still using Cumberland, not only as a place
In 1967 when I first arrived at Cumberland, a lot of us were
for quality education, but a place of mission heart and spirit.
very involved with BSU and very exciting things were going on
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Debbie (Mills) Harp, ’79, Director of Career Services, reflects on her
time working with Love in Action:
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I had just graduated from Danville High School in 1975
when my youth director, Larry Cordell (a 1969 graduate of
Cumberland) brought us on a mission trip to work with Love-InAction. I spent a week working in the Canadatown community.
I returned later that same summer to work an additional two
weeks with the program. I believe one week was in Harlan
County and possibly one week in Gum Fork, TN. I made my
decision to attend Cumberland because of my experience with
Love-in-Action. Jim and Donna were passionate about reaching
the children of Appalachia with the gospel. We often used
puppets, clowns and backyard Bible clubs as a way to reach
the children. I was involved from 1975-79 as team leader
and student coordinator of the program. I was hired in 1979
to serve as the Director of the program and to assist with the
Baptist Student Union.
Love In Action is the type of program that children never forget.
The children experienced the love and nurturing of Christian
college students who truly cared about their lives. Even today, I
am often approached by people (now adults with children in the
program) in this community who remember me as “Little Bit” and
they tell me what a difference Love In Action made in their lives.
Our purpose was to follow the Great Commission …’let’s put love
into action and make it real.’ I John 3:18 (Cottonpatch Version)
Sonny Hendrickson,
Love in Action and MO recipient
One person who has never
forgotten what the program did
for him and his four siblings
is Sonny Hendrickson, who
participated in Love In Action
activities when he was a
teenager. He and his family
were recipients of a Mountain
Outreach home nearly two
decades ago, a home that
they still live in and care for
today. “Debbie was the one
who was really involved in that at the time. She was always good
to our family. She showed that there were good people in the world
who cared about children. We went on camping trips and learned
the Bible. I always looked up to Debbie. She was a good inspiration
and still is to this day. I consider her a real good friend to the family.
I think its [Mountain Outreach/Appalachian Ministries] good for the
community. It’s just funny how things work out.” According to Sonny,
it was through Appalachian Ministries that he was able to interact
with children in other areas such as Maple Creek and develop social
skills. He and his wife, Sheila, reside just outside of Williamsburg and
parented seven children, one of whom passed away. Sonny has had
several management positions within the Williamsburg Wal-Mart and
is currently the Manager of the Tire and Lube Express.
Magan (Hess) Atwood, ’06, Director of Appalachian Ministries, states:
The Great Commission calls us to go, make disciples, and
teach them everything God has commanded us. This command
is what all followers of Jesus Christ are called to every day of
our lives. It is also the very foundation of the work done by
Appalachian Ministries. For over forty years students have been
giving of their time and talents to reach our community with
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the gospel. The love and compassion that first founded Love In
Action in the 1970s is the same force that drives A. M. today.
Appalachian Ministries VBS: Bible study time
We believe that God has called us to take the gospel to the
nations and we have been given the opportunity to start right in
our home town, or for the students, their college town.
During the school year, we serve three nights of the week
in four different locations. Between thirty to forty students
are committed to sharing Christ’s love to children, youth,
and families each week. Each summer between eight to ten
students serve as missionaries for ten weeks of Back Yard
Bible Clubs, Community Projects, and Statewide Missions.
Our goal is to spread God’s love and share the gospel. We do
this through the avenue of children and youth ministries. This
consists of teaching Bible lessons, crafts, games, music, and
providing a snack for every child in attendance.
We want to put love into action and obey not only the Great
Commission but the command God gives us in I John 3:18,
‘Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with
actions and in truth.’ Our volunteers do not simply want to say
they love God and His people; they want to put the love into
action and go make disciples.
One unique thing about our ministry and mission work is that
we get the opportunity to stay connected with the children and
families that we reach. When someone makes a decision for
Christ, we are there to help disciple them and get them plugged
into a local church body. We are striving to fulfill The Great
Commission by not only going but staying and working to make
disciples as we continue to teach and mentor children in their
faith walk.”
Mountain Outreach Director, Marc Hensley, ’05, commented on
service by saying:
Cumberlands’ Mountain Outreach is currently in the 31st
year of service in Appalachia. While currently in the process of
completing the 142nd and 143rd new home in 2013, Mountain
Outreach will see 210 volunteers partner alongside thirteen
University students that make up the M. O. summer staff. The
partnership will build these two new homes from the ground up
and complete nearly forty additional rehab and repair projects.
These projects include roof replacements, handicap access ramp
construction, insulation instillation and general maintenance on
senior adult homes. Students will also supervise the (painting,
construction, yard work) mission’s tracts for the Mission Fuge
program during the seven weeks on campus this summer.
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use them as vessels of His love to others through themselves.
These students identify and develop God’s will for their lives,
they receive the joy and blessing that comes from Christ in
His service and leave the University with a burning desire to
continue God’s mission wherever they go.
There is magnificent Great Commission work taking place
here at the University of the Cumberlands M. O. program. We
continue to be faithful to our Biblical principles, our mission and
the examples that have come before us through this program
and our partnership with the Kentucky Baptist Convention.
A floor is built on an MO home
Mountain Outreach has been and continues to be a producer of
community servant leaders. Missions allow students to witness
through service; they learn that people are yearning for comfort
and hope that only Christ can provide. And He chooses to
As early as 1893 the school’s commitment to carrying out The
Great Commission is evident in the words of Mr. John Wesley Siler,
one of the first trustees. At the inaugural commencement exercise,
Siler asserted to the first four graduates, “Go forward young men,
this school will never die. We will pass on, but the college itself will
live.” (A Bright Shining City Set on a Hill, A Centennial History.) The
University mission is alive today and will go on serving The Great
Commission. There is work to be done and souls to win through
salvation in Christ our Lord and Savior.
Serving the Great Commission Today: UC Faculty & Staff On Mission
Dr. Keith Goforth, Ph.D., CFLE
Director of Graduate Program in Christian Studies &
Associate Professor of Missions and Ministry
“I have taught a Marriage and Family Ministry course
the past two years at Kiev Theological Seminary in Kiev,
Ukraine. I teach in the Church Planting department under
the leadership of Joel and Mary Ellen Ragains (founder of
program) and Dan and Lori Upchurch. Both couples are
missionaries with the International Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention. More information about
the church planting program can be found at http://www.
ktsonline.org/en/2011/09/church-planting-program-atkyiv-theological-seminary/”
Dr. Goforth’s class in Kiev. Photo Submitted
Dr. Tan’s Borneo Tennis Clinic. Photo Submitted
Dr. Chin Tan, ‘87
Head Tennis Coach and Associate Professor of Business Administration
“I went to Borneo to meet with one of our alum Aaron Ngiam, ’09, and help him to conduct a 4 days tennis camp. I did one last week in Borneo too [May
2013], Labuan Island and will go again to meet with Aaron to continue to spread good tennis to the people in East Malaysia and it is part of the exotic
tropical Borneo. From the clinics we regularly get players for our tennis teams. The kids are attentive and valued our tennis tips tremendously.”
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Diane Jamison
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
“In May 2012 God led me on a prayer adventure to the nation of Ireland. Our
amazing God timed my arrival so I could help facilitate the Global Day of Prayer held
at the University of Cork. I was also blessed to participate in the Mustard Seed
Ministry to the homeless on the streets of Cork one evening. The couple graciously
hosting the first two weeks of my trip were involved with the International Institute
for Christian Studies. I enjoyed assisting with their outreach to students through
their weekly dinners held in their home. From Cork I ventured to Bangor in Northern
Ireland where it is recorded that the monks prayed 24 hours a day for nearly 200
years in the twelfth century. I spent the last two weeks at My Father’s House in
Southern Ireland where I visited Skellig Michael - location of the first Christian
monastery established in Ireland in the sixth to eighth century. My time there was
spent in praying for Ireland and ministering to those God brought across my path.”
Below: Diane Jamison climbs Skellig Michael in Ireland.
Photo Submitted
For two spring breaks,
Dean Whitaker took a team of
students to serve with Urban
Impact, teaching English as a
Second Language to immigrants
from all around the world in NYC.
He is pictured here teaching ESL to
a West African man.
Photo Submitted
Dean Whitaker
Director of Baptist Campus Ministries
“This is the team I took to minister with Adventure Leadership Training in Northern Ireland.
The team canvassed a community, inviting all children and youth to attend a Holiday Kids
Club that we hosted at the (only) church in their community. We ministered to about 30
families, many of whom had not previously attended that church. One 9- year-old girl
professed her faith in Jesus while we were there. We also ministered on the streets of
Belfast, helping the police and united churches to make the streets clean and safe. We
provided coffee and a safe and warm shelter for any who were out in the harsh weather.
Finally, we helped lead a large youth rally at a church where about 60 youth (many of whom
were not believers) attended. We shared praise and worship, testimonies and I gave a brief
challenge from the scripture.”
Amanda Walton, ‘02
Undergraduate Admissions Counselor
“In 2010-2011, I lived in Kenya and served at Tumaini Miles of Smiles
Centre, a Children’s Home and school just outside of Kakamega,
Kenya. While there I taught Christian Education and established a class
called Life Skills that teaches children the importance of self-worth and
purity. I also established a nightly Bible Study with the girls living in the
Children’s Home. In the fall of 2010, I traveled from Kenya to Uganda
for a short-term trip and worked with Acres of Hope Uganda. We held a
shoe distribution and washed children’s feet as well as profiled children
for Sponsorship. In Christmas of 2011, I returned to Tumaini Miles of
Smiles for a short term project and I will be returning again June 23-July
7 of this year to profile children for sponsorship through 127 Worldwide.
Summer of 2012 I traveled to Haiti with Forward Community Church and
helped rebuild a church destroyed by the earthquake. We also held a
VBS for the children of that community.”
Amanda Walton read to children in Kenya. Photo Submitted
Dr. Eric Stephens
Psychology Professor
As Deacon Chairman of his church, Stephens helped to establish some new ministries such as marriage counseling and organized certain Bible
studies and construction ministry opportunities. As a basketball coach for children in a local church ministry, he has shown the love of Christ to
both children and their families. As an Insights advisor, he has worked to include service projects for his Insights students to complete. Some
of these have included the Shoebox/Angel tree ministries and local projects that include basic yard work and home repair for elderly couples.
Stephens was also one of the leaders in the University’s effort to aid the East Bernstadt community after the tornado hit in March of 2012.
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Steve Allen, ‘93
Vice President of Student
Financial Planning
Allen served in Haiti with a group
from Main Street Baptist Church of
Williamsburg in the summer of 2012.
The group joined with the Crossings
camps of Kentucky to bring summer
camp opportunities to children in Haiti.
Three groups served in Haiti; Allen was in
the second group and served from June
9 through June 16. His wife, son and
daughter accompanied him on the trip.
Steve Allen, center, in Haiti. Photo Submitted
Dr. Fred Cummings
Associate Professor of Religion
On a mission trip to Haiti in 2012, work
involved construction on an orphanage
and open air school rooms. Pictured is Dr.
Cummings and two friends painting on the
outside of open air class rooms at a school
after the children had left in the afternoon.
Dr. Cummings and three Cumberland
students enjoying a break on a hot
afternoon with the pastor and some of the
young people in Skopje, Macedonia, the city
where they helped the church with outreach
efforts. Skopje is predominantly Muslim
and also the hometown of Mother Teresa.
Cummings, far left, in Macedonia.
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2012 SUMZBA team in Enon, Ohio. Photo Submitted
Jessica Jones
Director, Graduate Education Advising Center
“I do yearly mission work through our local South Union Mount Zion Baptist Association. Our team is made up of members from different
churches within the association. This year will be our fourth year and we’ll be going to Sharpsburg, Kentucky to assist a church on a remodel
project of their sanctuary during the third week of July 2013. This year’s mission team will be bittersweet because we lost one of our active
members to a fatal car accident in December 2012. Alexandra Hamilton’s light shown so bright and kept us all going throughout the week and at
5AM mornings, we needed a little extra light. In her honor, we’ve dedicated this year’s mission team to her: Team Alex.”
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Magan (Hess) Atwood, ’06
Director of Appalachian Ministries
“I served in San Cristobal, Guatemala in December of 2012 for 10 days. We worked in an
orphanage called Prince of Peace Home for Girls. The girls range from age 4-early 20’s.
They live on the site and also attend school there. We spent our days playing with the girls,
teaching Bible stories, doing crafts, and music. We also got to be a part of something called
the Mountain Ministry in which we took food to 5 widows in the surrounding area near the
orphanage. We were able to deliver the food and spend time talking with these ladies and
their families. I was very humbled by the whole experience and learned so much about
sharing God’s love with the world. You can learn more about Prince of Peace at
http://www.princeofpeacegt.com/”
Atwood in Guatemala. Photo Submitted
Stephanie Taylor, ’10
Administrative Assistant to Alumni Director
“On June 15-20, 2013, three young alums and
one current student embarked on a mission trip
to one of the poorest countries in the world, Haiti.
There we served in various ways: painting, doing
concrete work, visiting orphanages and schools,
handing out items such as rice, clothing, shoes,
and witnessing dolls. Most importantly, however,
we shared the love of Jesus Christ and grew in
our faith. This was my first trip out of the United
States and my first time on an airplane. Haiti is
a country of beauty and devastation, happiness
and sorrow. The mountains and clear blue water
L-R: Stephanie Taylor, ’10; Kyle Taylor, attended ’08-’10; Terra Baker, current UC Senior;
prove the awesomeness that is our Creator. The
Miranda Deaton, ’13. Photo Submitted
tents, shacks, rubble, dirt, and garbage littering
the streets show the extreme poverty. The
Haitians are an amazing people, they are happy and thankful for the little that they have, they are accepting and grateful for anything they
receive, they are giving, loving and trusting. Going to a third world country to share God’s love gives one a new appreciation for all that we as
Americans have. As a blessed nation, God has called us to go, serve, help, love and share. The Great Commission is for all of us to follow,
whether we are in a foreign country or our own backyard.”
Scottie Mullins
UC Development Officer
Mullins participated in Big Creek Missions, a
Christian ministry center in Bear Branch, KY
that works to connect churches and volunteer
groups from across the country with needs
that exist in the Leslie, Clay, and Perry County
areas. Scottie had the opportunity to assist
in community outreaches, working with local
agencies and ministries to spread the gospel.
His wife, Jo Nell (Maynard) Mullins, ‘98,
also had the pleasure to participate in the
children’s ministries leading day camps. The
couple is seen here after completing their
week long mission wearing their matching
Big Creek Mission themed t-shirts titled
“Relentless.”
People serving...serving people!
Scottie and his wife JoNell. Photo Submitted
The sun never sets on Cumberland alumni.
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Recently, members of our University have had discussions with alumni to consider the possibility of
creating an alumni, faculty and staff retirement village, a community to be located on or near the campus.
Many new retirees or soon to be retirees look for low maintenance quality housing in economic areas
where they can travel knowing their home is safe. The idea of living among people of a similar age group and
having similar interests is appealing to many retirees. Likewise, retirees would like to have the energy of young
people nearby as well as a community of their own age group. Many retirees face the challenge of going from
working full time to a life of complete retirement.
Recent statistics show that people are living longer and healthier lives well after retirement age. The
facilities found in a university environment include such amenities as a swimming pool, gym, theater, walking
track, classes for seniors & alumni, reasonably priced restaurants, live entertainment, art exhibits and a host of
other recreational opportunities. Unlike ordinary senior citizen complexes, the high cost of maintaining such
facilities is not borne solely by the residents in an alumni village. We can explain this further by mail.
We are interested in learning if this type of Alumni Village lifestyle community might appeal to
Cumberland alumni, like you. Please write us back indicating your level of interest.
We would appreciate your thoughts about this idea. Take a moment now and complete the information
below and return it to us for consideration. Provide any additional pages in writing if necessary.
Alumni Village has not progressed beyond the stage of “interesting idea”, which is why we seek your
input. If you have an interest, please let us know what specifically would appeal to you in the way of housing
type and size and which recreational facilities you might use. Does taking a course interest you? Some might
enjoy the challenge of moving into a career change. Of course, we would be interested in anything positive or
constructive you have to offer on the subject. Don’t be confined to our questions in your response.
As always, Cumberland values its alumni, faculty, staff and friends. We want to remain a part of your
life in any way that works best for you. Thanks for your help with this concept.
Alumni Retirement Village
University of the Cumberlands
Proposed Alumni Retirement Village
Alumni Survey
Sincerely,
Jack Sergi, ’69, Alumni Village & Retirement Liaison
Dave Bergman, Director of Alumni Services & Assistant to the President
Sue Wake, Vice President for Institutional Advancement
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Commencement 2013
Class of 1963 Celebrates 50th Reunion
Class of 1963 Shares Memories
Herman Blair
My best memory at
Cumberland College was
at the beginning of the
1963 summer term. I met
the love of my life who
then was Judy Carolyn
Moses on August 15th. If
it’s the Lord’s will, we will
have been married 49 years.
Mary Ann (Thomas)
Brewster
I remember the great
teachers I had!
William Hobert Brown
I remember sitting at night and talking
with the night watchman, the sack
lunches on the weekends, and Miss
Mac putting the girls in the dorm at
night.
Robert Dean Byrd
From day one Dr. “B” took me under his wing
and looked after me. After setting up classes
and getting me a dorm room he took me
across the street to meet lawyer, Crit Byrd.
Come to find out we were distant kin. Between
Dr. “B” and Mrs. Elizabeth Lovitt I would not
have lasted through my freshman year without
their help. One night Dr. “B” came to Mahan
Hall visiting the students. I was studying for
a test. He sat down beside me and started
talking. While there he ate my whole bag of
pistachio nuts. By the way I did pass the test. I
just attended the Class of 1963 50th Reunion
and really enjoyed seeing classmates and the
improvements to the campus.
Ronald Campbell
Probably the most positive
thing that happened to
me was I met the young
lady that changed my life
forever—my wife, Faye.
She has put up with me
for 47 years and kept me
on the straight and narrow
pathway of marriage! We certainly enjoy our
kids and grandkids as a result of our union.
Faye and I both marvel at the campus now. We
feel it is the prettiest campus we have seen in
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all of our travels and attending other schools
in our educational careers. The kids attending
there now should be proud of their school. I
hope their educational experiences will be as
great as the ones we received while we were at
Cumberland College.
Robert Cathcart
My best memory is
that of meeting Nancy
O. Napier, my wife of
50 years in June of this
year. One doesn’t realize
the great times enjoyed
at college until years
later—and in our case, 50
years later. In reflecting,
I realize that Cumberland College played a
key role in shaping my life, and for this I thank
you, Cumberland College (University of the
Cumberlands).
Clifton Centers
I used to smoke a pipe. I left the
pipe in the car below the Gatliff
Building. Back then you didn’t
have to worry about locking stuff.
Somebody slipped match heads
in it. We went down to the pool
place to shoot pool. One of them
went off and it was the most awful
taste. I knew who did it, it was Nolle Lawson.
Shanda (Brown) Clark
I really enjoyed my time
at Cumberland College!
There were ten of us, who
attended and graduated
from high school/six of
us who graduated from
Cumberland College, all
with teaching degrees.
I especially enjoyed my
classes with Dr. Wilder, Department Chair of
the Biology Department. He was just wonderful!
I was really impressed with his dedication to
the students; he was a very kind man. He really
enjoyed taking the class out on field trips! Once
he came to McCreary Central High, where I
taught school and judged a science fair.
Rodney Croley
My memories of
Cumberland College are
many and varied. I’ve told
numerous stories that
can’t be repeated in the
memoire. Needless to
say, I enjoyed many fond
memories of dancing to rock
and roll music while keeping
out an eye for the dean of men or women,
trips to Jellico, climbing into girls’ dorms and
dreaming up ways around Chapel.
Delores (Morris) Davis
My best memory was
working my way through
Cumberland College
as one of Dr. Boswell’s
secretaries. He was my
mentor, friend, and boss.
Eugene B. Davis
My best memory was
playing basketball and
baseball. The one-onone conversations with
Dr. Boswell, he was our
teams greatest fan. Lastly,
Ms. Compton’s classes
were all good memories.
John Faulkner
I have many fond
memories of track and
cross country trips with
Coach John Duke. I
enjoyed every race
and the challenges we
faced. I formed special
friendships with my
teammates.
James Winston Fields
I will never forget the old
machine in Mahan Hall
that had .5 cent drinks
or watching President
Kennedy discuss the
Cuban missile crisis on the
black and white television
at Mahan because it was
such a scary time. My most
memorable event was the tennis matches I had
with Dr. Boswell, what a man he was!
Betty (Plemons) Fischer
What I remember most
vividly were the professors
and Dr. Boswell, the
“Indians”, Cumberlands
basketball team, and
Norma Jean Higgins
Perkins Library which
had just opened
the year I started at
Cumberland. Another vivid memory was
meeting Dr. Boswell each evening as I was
walking to my night time ceramics class. He
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was dressed in shorts & a shirt on his way to
the tennis court—he would always speak and
call me by my first name. This impressed me
as to how he could remember my name. The
warmth and personal responses from all my
teachers and professors have become a lasting
memory of Cumberland College.
Russell M. Franklin
I do want to add that the
class of 63 was a close
knit one—the Faculty and
staff out did themselves
to make our stay at
Cumberland so rewarding!
I was so blessed [196163] God in Christ was so
good in this pilgrimage—
Thank you Cumberland and thank you Lord!
Sarah Fredericks
I enrolled at Cumberland
College in January 1943.
During WWII there was
a shortage of teachers
in Kentucky and high
school seniors could
attend Cumberland
that semester plus one
summer term and be
allowed to teach the coming fall in the local
elementary schools. Alma, Betty, and myself
enrolled, went back to Pleasant View High
School on 2-26-43 to graduate. Professor
A.R. Evans was our speaker. The school
assignment was across Pine Mountain at
primary. $65.00 per month, paying $30.00
room and board, and walk 3 miles or ride a
mule to school. Dad said “If that’s all they have
to offer, you aren’t going.”
Gladys (Dodson) Grever
Memories of Cumberland College as I knew it
in the years, 1960-63 are among the best in
my life. There were so many wonderful people
to encourage, empower, and be a role model
guiding and leading me along this important
journey. The first person, with whom I met
for planning this journey, was Dr. Boswell.
He cared so about all who came through the
doors! The friends I made shared so much in
study, socially and I loved being involved in a
few mission trips in Kentucky. I enjoyed going
across the viaduct to classes. Those 7:30am
classes were hardest to get to on time. Most
all my classes were led by caring, intelligent
professors. I appreciate Cumberland College!
Praise the Lord it’s now a University of the
Cumberlands!!! I’m proud to be part of this
great establishment!! God Bless
John Hollingsworth
First and foremost was
meeting my wife whom I
had observed one Sunday
morning at Main Street
Baptist Church. Later
she called to me in the
cafeteria to ask about
our BSU meetings.
The rest is history! We
celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary on
September 2, 2012. What memories I have
of my Cumberland experiences, they set the
foundation for my life and career in education.
Clayborne R. Holmes
Taking a rattlesnake back
to Cumberland—in a
mason jar and wrapped
in a blanket so that a
girl would receive an “A”
in Mr. Ambellas’ Biology
class. Classmates
putting Miss Compton’s
Volkswagon Bug up on
blocks. The owl someone had in his room in
Mahan Hall.Memorable teachers: Mrs. Lovett,
Mr. Austin, Dr. Wiggins,—writing 18 pages for
Miss Bess Rose’s American Lit exam. I never
did hear the donkey in Dr. Nell Moore’s musical
composition!
Sandra P. (Lindon) Jackson
Being a music major, my
fondest memories are
of the choir, band, and
music classes. There
was a great faculty
that cared, taught and
wanted us to succeed.
I feel Cumberland gave
us an excellent moral and
educational foundation for life.
Peggy (Taylor) Meeks
I have many memories of
Cumberland College; one
was the first day of math
class with Miss Compton
when she explained her
rules for that class. She
said the only excuse for
missing her class was
death and it had better
be yours. P.R. Jones would try to embarrass
you if he knew you were dating someone and
you missed one of the chemical equations or
problems at the chalkboard. He would always
ask “What was wrong with you, were you in
love?” Cumberland College for me was a
wonderful, fun and educational time.
Phyllis (Osborne)
Merryman
When I enrolled at
Cumberland College,
I knew one person.
The friends I made
at Cumberland have
become lifetime
friends today. The
faculty was outstanding. Nell
Moore, the music teacher, Ruby Early and
Ann Shelley in the Elementary Education
Department were great teachers. I was happy
to find a college that I could attend in the
summer and teach during the school year.
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and Continues Golden March Tradition
Tom Potter
I will never forget the
first night I spent at
Dr. Boswell’s house,
because they did not
know I was coming.
I had come up in the
summer to work at
the campus and Dr.
Boswell said come up
September 3rd and register then. I slipped
through the paper work. My mother and
grandmother flew from London, England to
London, Kentucky to see me graduate. The
history of how this story took place is really
funny.
Mary E. Reed
One of the outstanding memories at
Cumberland College involves Dr. and Mrs.
Boswell. Their home at time was a modest
white house on the east side of the main
campus (I think!). They would invite a few
students to their home in the evenings to
watch television programs and eat popcorn.
(I remember watching western shows!) They
were very gracious and acknowledged us
when our paths crossed around the campus.
They encouraged us in our studies and in
our fellowship with others. This was a very
touching for those of us who were away from
home for the first time.
Richard C. Rookard
My memory at
Cumberland College
was my last day of
attendance, January 28,
1963. I was reporting to
the registrar’s office for
final business. I passed
Dr. Boswell’s “open door”. He summoned
me in and presented me with a golden
opportunity: If I would enter graduate school
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right away and complete my degree as soon
as possible, he would lend me money from
the Board of Directors Fund to finance my
graduate degree education. Then I would be
hired on to the Cumberland College faculty,
instructing low level classes and use my
income to pay back the Board of Directors
loan as quickly as possible. Then if I passed
probation, I would be given a permanent
position on the faculty. I was broke,
had no car, and had taken a teaching
job effective January 31 with Campbell
County Schools in Alexandria, KY. I did
not accept the offer perhaps because
it caught me by surprise, I doubted
my ability, was tired of school and was
looking forward to income from the
immediately available job opportunity.
Though I have been satisfactorily
successful in my career, I think I made the
wrong decision.
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David R. Sawyer
Mrs. Boswell was a neat lady. I was working
in the dish room in the dining hall a couple
nights after semester exams. Mrs. Boswell
came to the window to return her tray. When
Dr. Boswell was out of town she often ate
in the cafeteria. When she dropped off her
tray I asked in German, “How did I do on the
test?” She replied in German, “You did quite
well. Where did you learn to speak German?”
I, “In your class…” She, “We have only been
reading German in class.” It was getting
complicated so I switched back to English
and told her that she had demonstrated
pronunciation. It was in the book, so I had
played with it and genetic history seemed
to have taken over. She taught me well.
For years I periodically
dreamed in German.
Chuck Sheriff
I was in Mahan Hall one
night with Artie Johnson,
John Hollingsworth,
and Jim Bridges. We
heard a bunch of
noise out in the hall
and went to check it
out. Turns out a possum had made its way
into the dorm, onto the 3rd floor, and was
making all kinds of noise.
Mary Juanita (Helton) Stallard
I was walking across campus to Art Class
with a hog rifle slung across my back, when
I passed Dr. Boswell walking in the opposite
direction. I was doing an oil painting with old
heirloom weapons in it and I wanted to show
my classmates the hog rifle (supposedly
made by the same company that made
Daniel Boone’s rifle) that had been passed
down in my family. When we passed, Dr.
Boswell gave me the oddest look and even
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kept looking (walking backwards) long after
we had passed. He never did say anything to
me about it though.
Doris Triplett
I was playing the Boogie Woogie in the Music
Building. Ms. Nell complained to Dr. Boswell.
Dr. Boswell told me I could play it at any
piano but hers.
Wilma Jo (Moody) Watson
I met my husband at
Cumberland. We were the
first couple ever married
at the President’s home
& garden. Pictures in
museum—we thought
only old people were
recognized in museums.
Ha! Cumberland College was
good to me. I am thankful for experiences I
had at Cumberland, I received a wonderful
education, developed values that I still carry
with me, was taught responsibility and found
deep friendship that has lasted these 50
years. Thank God for my life at Cumberland
College.
Rayford Watts
I remember the second
meeting of English
Literature II with
Professor Carnes in
the corner basement
room in Gatliff (this
room later became
the duplication office).
On our first meeting,
Professor Carnes had asked us to read T.S.
Eliot’s impossible poem “The Waste Land”.
Professor Carnes entered the room, wearing
a tweed jacket, pipe in mouth. As he called
roll, he asked where each student came
from and proceeded to relate a story about
someone that both he and the student knew
well.
Sam J. Watts
I have many memories
while at Cumberland
College, but this is one
of my favorites. At my
graduation in the spring
of 1963, Dr. Boswell
asked me how long it took
to complete my degree.
I related that the time periods were from
1957-1959 and 1961-1963. He did not
give me time to explain that I had worked
in Chicago for two years before returning to
school in 1961. Dr. “B” related that he was
glad I finally made it after seven years. Dr.
Boswell was a wonderful human being, and
I am grateful for his encouragement that
inspired me to complete my degree.
Jerry Winchester
Now fifty years since my graduation from
Cumberland, I am extremely proud of my
alma mater and the numerous changes
that have been made. I commend President
Taylor for improving the college and remaking
its image while keeping up the standards.
I am perhaps most proud of the school’s
continuing Baptist affiliation and belief
in God. I visit campus often, admire the
changes and promote it to out-of-state
friends and family. Cumberland can compete
with big universities and is second to none.
My wife, Nell, and I reside in Corbin. We will
celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary on
June 29, 2013.
Linda Lou (Sims) Wright
Last August, Roger & I celebrated our 50th
anniversary. We have two children, Lisa
Michelle W. Bridges and Scott A Wright. We
have six granddaughters. I taught first grade
at the Robbins Elementary School—loved my
students. Very active in our church, Mt. View
Baptist Church. Truly enjoy quilting, crafts
and traveling the USA, all 50 states. The Lord
has truly blessed Roger and me.
Calling all 1964
Class Members!
Make plans now
to attend your
50th Reunion and
participate in the
Golden March tradition
on Saturday,
May 3, 2014!
To register and for
more information,
please contact the
Alumni Office at
606-539-4355.
On Saturday, May 4, University of the Cumberlands conferred 536 degrees during the annual commencement ceremony; 166 Baccalaureate
degrees, 357 Master’s degrees, and 13 Doctorate degrees. The University had 13 cum laude recipients, 9 magna cum laude recipients, and
15 summa cum laude recipients. During the 2012-13 academic year, the University has conferred a total of 1,109 degrees making it the most
successful year in Cumberlands’ illustrious history.
All Cumberland undergraduate students are required to complete a minimum of 40 hours of community service before graduation, and those who
choose to complete a minimum of 200 service hours are named Hutton Scholars at Commencement. The class of 2013 contributed a total of
30,198 hours of service to the Williamsburg community. Sixty-four graduating seniors were designated Hutton Scholars.
Outstanding Male and Female Graduates
The H.N. and Frances Berger Awards are given each year to honor
the outstanding male and the outstanding female student from the
senior class who have demonstrated leadership in, and service to, the
University community and the larger community as a whole and also
demonstrate sound academic achievements. This year’s recipients were
Kelsey Dew and Cedric Muteshi.
Kelsey Joell Dew is the daughter of Joel
and Kendra Dew and is a graduate of
Campbell County High School in Clinton,
Tennessee. She received a degree in
elementary education with an emphasis
in mathematics. While at Cumberland
she maintained a high GPA and was
inducted into the Kappa Delta Pi honor
society in Education. Kelsey was a
member of the UC Volleyball Team for
four years and recognized as a MidSouth Conference Champion of Character. She was the 2012 UC
representative at the Mountain Laurel Festival in Pineville, KY. Kelsey
has participated in many mission activities and is preparing for a 10 day
mission journey in the coming summer months. Her plans for the future
include becoming a successful teacher and high school volleyball coach,
and to eventually begin a primary school at her church.
Cedric Muteshi is the son of John
Muteshi Alusa and Genivieve
Nalice Watia. He is from the town
of Kakamega, in western Kenya in
Africa. Cedric majored in biology and
minored in chemistry. He has been
the team captain of the men’s varsity
soccer team since the fall semester of
2011. He is a two-time winner of the
Mid-South Conference Men’s Soccer
First Team All-Conference (one time
honorable mention), three-time winner of the Mid-South Conference
Academic All-Conference, and a three-time winner of the NAIA Academic
All-Conference. He was twice nominated as a champion of character,
winning Honorable Mention in 2010. Cedric served on the Student
Government Association Senate and helped organize the first ever
Relay for Life event on the UC campus. He also served as a dormitory
Resident Assistant for three years and is a member of Biology, Chemistry
and Mathematics honors societies. Cedric leads a Bible study group
on campus, and volunteers for the children’s ministry at his church.
He has volunteered in the summers to help coach soccer camps for
underprivileged children.
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Brittany Holliman (East Point, KY) received
the George S. Munro Memorial Prize in
Pre-Medical Studies, which is awarded in
recognition of academic excellence and
effort to the graduating senior pre-medical
student who has achieved the highest
grade-point average through his or her
college career.
Cadet Natasha Sydnor (Elizabethtown,
KY) was commissioned as a Second
Lieutenant, Military Police Branch, in
the United States Army.
Cadets Kyrk Davis (Florence, KY),
Richard Hutchinson (Douglas, GA),
Andreas Lopez (Fort Lee, VA), Andrew
Marthin (Williamsburg, KY) and Tyler
Thacker (Ranger, GA) also went under
oath as they will be completing the
Cadet Command Leadership Development and Assessment Course
held at Ft. Lewis, Washington. Upon successful completion of LDAC the
cadets will accept commissions as Second Lieutenants in the United
States Army.
Two students were named Presidential Scholars for their
accomplishments in research: Kallye Renner (Cincinnati, OH) and
Samuel Huntley (Littleton, CO).
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Ed.D. Graduates
Chairman of IGA
Receives Honorary
Doctorate
During commencement ceremonies
Cumberlands presented Dr. Thomas
Haggai with the Honorary Doctor of Divinity
Degree. Haggai has been the Chairman
IGA, Incorporated since 1976 and became the
first non-food executive elected to the IGA Board.
He has been instrumental in leading IGA into
global entity with over 6,000 Hometown Proud
IGA’s in the U. S. and spread across 50 countries.
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As a world renowned public speaker, Haggai travels to several military bases
around the world to speak as well as the U.S. Air Force Academy. At a time when
Time magazine cited the deficiencies within the Boy Scouts of America, Haggai
was called upon to step in to restructure the world’s largest youth agency.
Haggai has served on numerous corporate boards including being a lifetime
trustee at High Point University and a former member of the Advisory Board
at Furman University. He hosted a daily national radio program called, “One
Minute, Please” for more than 50 years and is a regular contributor to various
magazines and periodicals and the author of several books, including How
the Best Is Won and Today.
Beginning with the bottom row (L to R): Dwayne Lee; Debbie
Wood, Administrative Assistant; Dr. Jennifer Simpson, Assistant
Professor of Education; Dr. Barry Vann, Director; Renee Parrigin;
Barbara Kennedy; Aaron Anderson, Professor of Education;
Dale Davis, ’12 Ed. D; Jerry Slone; Kathleen Flynn; Julie York;
Harry Conn; Christine Neuner; B.J. Temple; Keena Inman; Vivian
Talbott; Rebecca Wood; Amon Couch; Jamie Stringer, Professor
of Education; Gina Bowlin; Diana Baker. Not Pictured: Sabra
Albertson; Almaria Baker; Doug Bennett*; Brenda Kemme;
Scott McClendon*; Kim Miracle*; John Mark Toby; Sonia
Young. *Completed the program in August or December.
PA Graduates
Other honorary degrees and awards received by Haggai include the Horatio
Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, Class of 1980 Religious
Heritage of America’s Business and Professional Award, Horatio Alger’s
“Norman Vincent Peal Award,” and in 2001 he was presented with the first
“Thomas S. Haggai Award” established by IGA to honor those individuals
exemplifying character, leadership and community service.
He founded the THA Foundation in 1963 with 120 outstanding national
business and professional leaders as Associates. The Foundation awards
generous college scholarships to nontraditional students returning to school
in pursuit of certification as elementary school teachers and has awarded
over 1,200 scholarships exceeding $3 million dollars. Haggai and his wife,
Buren, reside in Jamestown, NC. They have three daughters, one son, five
grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Graduating students: Cohort 2, black robes; White Coat Student: Cohort 3
Front Row, L to R: Professor Kenneth Reed, PA-C; Professor Lesley Tipton, PA-C; Daniel Mays; Katie Lenihan; Nisha Patel; Cynthia Nwachukwu;
Meredith Moses; Katelyn Glass; Courtney Hamm; Shelby Wilson; Kristi Dolen; Tasha Cockrum; Ashley Leopold; Mallory Vinsant. Middle Row, L to
R: Brad Hall; Dr. Eddie Perkins; Dr. Sonia Young; Justin Cecil; Amanda Hill; Alicia Perry; Sarah Todd; Amanda Todd; Chelsea Sexton; Brittney Strunk;
Elizabeth Barnes; Kendall Warner; Adam Blanton; Kendra Neeley; Jo Lisa Ashley; Shaun Rowe. Back Row, L to R: Dr. David Williams; Gregory
Manning; Chelsea Philpot; Danielle Crum; Amy Long; Stuart Mack; Chuck Davis; Crystal Scott; Josh Prewitt; Javed Akhtar; Kayla Johnson; Justin
Edwards; Scott Rector; Robin Hayden; Evan Bennett; Michael Schuler; Oran Click; Chuck Hatmaker; Buddy Butler; Daniel Herth.
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Remember Cumberlands
You can remember Cumberlands in your will or trust, or you might want to create a charitable gift annuity to provide you with a
lifetime income as you assist deserving students.
With charitable gift annuities:
•
The rates are significantly greater than bond rates and certificates of deposits.
•
Annuity payments are fixed and based on the age(s) of the annuitant(s).
•
Annuity payments are extremely favorably taxed.
•
The donor is entitled to an income tax charitable contribution deduction.
•
Appreciated securities given to Cumberlands for a charitable gift annuity are valued on the date of the gift;
capital gains taxes are not immediately due as they are when securities are sold by the donor.
•
A gift annuity is the simplest of all split-interest planned gifts.
A Charitable Gift Annuity will not only provide you a fixed income, guaranteed for life, but also will create a significant legacy
here at University of the Cumberlands.
University of the Cumberlands offers numerous planned giving vehicles guaranteeing income for the remainder of life. Some
have established trusts and deferred gift annuities naming a loved one as the income beneficiary. With the low payout rates currently
on certificates of deposit (CDs) and the volatility of the stock market, deferred gift annuities are becoming extremely popular for
young adults who will not be retiring any time soon but want to plan and secure a steady, fixed income that will begin when they retire. For instance, a 45-year-old can defer a gift annuity for 15 years and receive income at a rate of 6.67% percent for life. The charitable
gift tax deduction would be immediate (during working years when your tax bracket is higher) and the income would not begin until
you are 60. As with regular gift annuities, the entire amount of the annuity would be backed by all of the University’s assets.
If you are considering the establishment of a Charitable Gift Annuity to provide life-long income for yourself and vital support for
University of the Cumberlands, please contact Jim Taylor at presoff@ucumberlands.edu.
Remember, as a financial supporter of Cumberlands, you are encouraging today’s students as you also demonstrate your continuing
commitment to the University’s mission to educate individuals for lives of responsible service and leadership.
Age
Yearly
Rate
Annuity
Payment
Charitable
Deduction
65
4.7%
$470
$2,661.10
70
5.1%
510
3,469.30
75
5.8%
580
4,101.60
80
6.8%
680
4,669.30
85
7.8%
780
5,418.90
*based on minimum age of 65; a gift annuity of $10,000; figures for annual
payment & IRS discount rate of 1.2% as of June, 2013.
Use this form below to send your gift or to request additional information on how you can help Cumberlands’ students today and
into the future. Complete and mail to: Jim Taylor, 6191 College Station Drive, Williamsburg, KY 40769.
A Charitable Gift Annuity peaks my interest. Please send me information for an
annuity based on the date of birth of _____________________________________.
Name_________________________________________________________________
Address________________________________________________________________
City_______________________________State___________________Zip__________
Gifts & Giving
THE ROLLINS FOUNDATION HAS ISSUED A $3 MILLION CHALLENGE GRANT TOWARD THE COST OF
HOUSING FOR PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT STUDENTS, GRADUATE STUDENTS, MARRIED STUDENTS AND
FACULTY/STAFF. THIS IS THE LARGEST CHALLENGE GRANT IN OUR HISTORY. THE CATCH IS THAT WE
MUST RAISE $3 MILLION IN CASH BY JULY 31, 2014 TO RECEIVE THEIR GIFT! WE HAVE OUR WORK CUT
OUT. WE WILL WORK HARD DAY AND NIGHT AND WE’LL NEED YOUR HELP.
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While we can’t afford to forego gifts for our workship, scholarship or Mountain Outreach programs, on the other hand we can’t afford to allow the
once in a lifetime $3 million to construct housing for our students and faculty/staff to slip away.
On-Campus Housing Needed
This is the largest challenge in our history with the least time to match it in cash. Yet it will tremendously help meet health care needs here in
CAppalachia
umberlands is
growing.
With the addition of graduate programs like the relevent and much needed Physician
and
beyond.
Assistant (PA) program, our faculty, staff and student population is expanding rapidly. Housing accommodations
have always been at a premium here in these beautiful mountains, and now because of the growth in enrollment
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that most of our graduate students are older, married, some with children, the need is far greater.
As you can see, these apartments really
aren’t all that fancy, but they do provide
decent housing to be built on campus—as
funds become available—and they do help
maintain the architectural continuity of the
campus. Currently we have a number of
students, faculty and staff commuting long
distances to find decent housing. Commuting
costs money for gas and transportation and
wastes precious time which could be used
for study. It’s also sometimes dangerous and
time-consuming to travel many of the switchback mountain roads built along the side of
these mountains.
2-Unit, 4-Unit and 6-Unit Townhouses
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and
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to
architecture.
When our new housing is built it will allow
both students and some faculty and staff to
cease long daily drives to and from campus
and take a more active role in campus life
as well as in our community. Your help is
needed today to help build and pay for 36
townhouse units to be built in two, four and
six unit complexes. Memorial and naming
opportunities are available.
Estimated
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Cost:
$125
square
$125
per per
square
footfoot
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$318,000
2 Unit:
$318,000
4 Unit:
$636,000
4 Unit:
$636,000
6 Unit:
$954,000
6 Unit:
$954,000
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Name_________________________________________________________________
Address________________________________________________________________
City_______________________________State___________________Zip__________
_____ Yes, I want to help provide funds for new housing. Here’s my gift of $_________.
_____ I’m sorry I cannot help at this time but here’s my pledge of $_________ payable at $______ per month.
Return coupon along with your gift to Dr. Jim Taylor • 6191 College Station Drive • Williamsburg, KY 40769
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Alumna and Husband Donate Half of Estate to Alma Mater
Betty (Howard) Miller, a native of Lancaster, KY and 1959 alumna of
Cumberland dedicated her life to teaching. Following her graduation
from Cumberland, Miller immediately began her teaching career at
Camp Dick Robinson and West Point schools. West Point was the last
one-room school in Garrard County with grades 1-6, 46 students, a
potbelly stove and no plumbing. The school closed in May 1961, but
the building still exists today and is now a home.
While teaching from 1959-1962, Miller took Saturday classes and
summer school at Eastern Kentucky University, returning to college as
a full time student in 1961. She earned her B.S. degree in Education
from EKU in August of 1963. Miller then taught for one year at
Versailles Elementary School in Woodford County. She started teaching
at alma mater, Buckeye High School, and taught there until it closed
in 1985. Miller was transferred to Lancaster Elementary School, and
remained there until her retirement after three decades of teaching.
In 1975, Betty was assistant director for the United Nations
Pilgrimage for Youth Tour, a fifteen day tour on a charter bus with
high school students from Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio to see
the United Nations in operation. She was president of the Garrard
County Teachers Association, a member of the CKEA Board, a 30 year
member of GCEA, KEA, NEA, serving as President, Vice President, and
Treasurer of GCEA and delegate of KEA and NEA, and the founder of
the Buckeye High School Alumni Association (1923-1964), where she
was Vice President three times.
Her dedication extended beyond the classroom to her church. From
the age of 12 until her passing on July 28, 2012 at the age of 73,
Miller served her church as a Sunday School teacher, youth and
adult choir leader, piano player, Vacation Bible School Director, and a
member of the adult class
women’s group.
Betty and her husband,
Harvey Miller, Jr. married
on August 8, 1970.
Harvey was a Korean War
veteran, employed with
IBM for 25 years. He was
a 60 year member of the
Odd Fellows Lodge, also
serving as Grandmaster.
Betty was a member of
Rebekahs of Kentucky
and served as Treasurer,
Vice Grand and Noble
Grand of the local lodge.
It was through the Odd
Fellows and Rebekahs
that the Millers first met.
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Betty’s passion for education was so strong that she and Harvey
decided to donate half of their estate to her alma mater. Recently,
Betty’s sister, Marsha (Howard) Laird, visited Cumberlands’ campus
to present the Millers’ generous donation to President Taylor. With
this donation, the Betty Howard and Harvey Miller Jr. Endowed
Scholarship Fund has been set up to provide scholarships for
deserving Garrard County students who wish to attend Cumberlands.
Betty’s legacy and love of education will live on in the lives of the
students she has touched with her teaching and with her giving.
FNB of Manchester Gives Towards $3 Million Challenge Grant
On May 30, Lynda Gilbert from First National Bank in Manchester, Ky. delivered a check to the University. Gilbert, the bank’s president and
CEO, made the donation to help meet the $3 million challenge grant to build housing for graduate and married students, faculty and staff,
many of whom currently travel long distances to study and work at the University. The grandson of the Bank’s Chairman of the Board and
shareholder Rex Greer, Garth Bustle, was recently graduated from Cumberlands iin May 2013.
A Gift in Memory
Frances Begley Morris, ’53, generously established her second charitable gift to the
University in memory of her sister, Bobbie “Sue” Begley Stooksbury, ’50. She was
accompanied on her trip to campus by her friend, Eddie Ball.
Clyde Evans is awarded the Honorary Alumnus Award certificate by Ed
McGrath, Assistant to the President. The award is in recognition of Mr.
Evans twenty years of support to University of the Cumberlands and
unparalleled service to the Mountain Outreach home building program.
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Trustee and Wife Leave Legacy
On May 13, President Dr. James H. Taylor received a check for $87,500 from
the Estate of Joe and Ann Stanford, former Williamsburg, KY residents. UC was
one of several charities including First Baptist Church and Main Street Baptist
Church that received funds from the couple after their passing. The check was
presented by their daughter Pamela Stanford and granddaughter Niky White.
Joe passed away in December of 2012, two years after his wife, Ann. Both were
actively involved in their church and community. In 1962, Joe’s family moved
to Williamsburg where he opened Williamsburg Pulpwood & Timber Inc. He
operated this business with their son, Jody. In 1981, Joe opened Stanford Timber
Product in East Bernstadt, shipping wood chips to Willamette Industries. Joe and
Ann also owned several businesses in the Williamsburg area (J&A Enterprise,
NAPA Auto Parts, and others). Joe served on the City Council of Williamsburg; he
was on the board of directors at Farmer National Bank and advisor at Community
Trust Bank. He served as a member of the University’s Board of Trustees. He
was nominated and served several years as a director of American Pulpwood
Association, which is an international association for the timber industry.
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Cumberland College
Memorabilia Returns
to Williamsburg
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Dr. Richie Noe, a Tennessee chiropractor, met with UC
Assistant to the President, Scottie Mullins, in 2012.
Their discussion turned to Cumberland and Dr. Noe’s
involvement with the Albright Scholarship at Anderson
County High School in Tennessee. Dr. Noe and the Albright
family have a friendship that has lasted for several years.
On February 21, 2013, Dr. Noe and his wife Amy visited
campus to donate a CC letterman jacket and sweater
which can be seen on display in the Cumberland Archives
at the Cumberland Museum. Both items belonged to the
late Murrel Albright, a 1974 alumnus of Cumberland.
First Red Boot Run Held in
Memory of Norma Patrick
Jason Patrick presents donation to Alumni Director Dave Bergman
The cold weather did not keep people of all ages from the first
Red Boot Run held on Saturday, April 14 on Cumberlands’ campus.
Participants and supporters met at the Luecker building, where the 5K race—named in honor of Norma Patrick, former UC professor and red
boot-wearer—began and ended.
Norma Patrick passed away in April, 2012, while waiting for
a liver transplant, only a year after she retired as a professor
of education from Cumberlands where she had worked
for 37 years. The beloved teacher, mother and friend was
honored by more than 200 UC students, faculty, staff, family
and community members who participated. The event
was founded to raise funds for the Norma B. Patrick
Scholarship Fund at UC and the Kentucky Organ Donor
Affiliates.
Coming in first place at 19:59:95 for the men’s division, ages
30-39, 5000 meter run, was Norma’s son Casey Patrick, a
2000 alumnus of Cumberland. Second place for the same
category was his brother Jason Patrick, who graduated from
Eastern Kentucky University.
Members of the Red Boot Foundation were pleased that as
a result of this first event they were able to donate $5,000 to
both the Norma B. Patrick Scholarship Fund and to KODA. The
Norma B. Patrick Scholarship is awarded to single mothers
planning to pursue a degree in the education field and living in
the southeastern Kentucky area.
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Tribute Program
How are Tribute Gifts
acknowledged?
For a Memorial Gift the family
of the one you wish to memorialize
is sent an appropriate card the
same day the gift is received by the
college. Then the name of the giver
and the deceased will be listed in the
next issue of the college’s newsletter.
Honor or Memorialize a Friend or Loved One
What is a Tribute Gift?
A Tribute Gift shows love and respect for the person
being honored or memorialized. It says to others that the world is a better place
because of this person. Through a Tribute Gift to UC-Cumberland College, a
memory of the past or an honor of the present is tied to the future as it is made
to live on and on in the lives of needy students. The size of the gift you send is up
to you. Many send the amount they would spend on floral arrangements, candy
or other appropriate purchases. Gifts generally range from $15 to $1,000, but the
right amount for you is the one your heart tells you to send.
What is an Honor Gift?
An Honor Gift is a gift which shows admiration and
respect for a loved one or friend on a significant day in their life such as birthday,
anniversary, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, etc.
For an Honor Gift the person
being honored is sent an appropriate
card listing the honor giver as well as
What is a Memorial Gift? A Memorial Gift is a gift in memory of a departed
the occasion for the honor. Then the
loved one or friend. It is a wonderful way to express sympathy and high regard or
name of the giver and the name of
as a means to remember birthdays, anniversaries, or other special days (Memorial
the honoree will be listed in the next
Day, Veteran’s Day, etc.) of a deceased loved one.
issue of the college’s newsletter.
For all Tribute Gifts the amount
of the gift is kept confidential, and
all gifts are tax deductible as allowed
by law.
How will your Tribute Gift help? Your gift will provide a lasting legacy for our
needy students as it is used to help provide scholarship and workship assistance,
books and supplies, food and housing, and many other supportive services.
University of the Cumberlands Tribute Gifts
Given by:
Name___________________________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________________
City__________________________________ State_______Zip____________
Gift In Honor Of:
Name_____________________________________ Amount $ _____________
Gift In Memory Of:
Name_____________________________________ Amount $ _____________
The occasion of my gift is __________________________________________
Please send notification of my gift to:
Name___________________________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________________
City__________________________________ State_______Zip____________
Return Coupon To:
Dr. Jim Taylor, 6191 College Station Drive, Williamsburg, KY 40769
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Listings reflect the Tribute Gifts received January
16, 2013 through June 18, 2013. In preparing this
list, every effort has been made to ensure accuracy
and completeness. If a mistake was made in the
way you are identified, or if your name was omitted,
we apologize. You can help set the record straight.
Please notify the President’s Office regarding any
changes in the way your gift should be recorded in
future reports. Thank you.
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In Memory Of: Arthur “Corky” Jeffries, Jr.
Given By: Mrs. Wanda Jeffries
In Memory Of: Dr. Harold Wortman
Given By: Mr. & Mrs. John Edwin Cates
In Memory Of: Ann Austin Arnspiger
Given By: Walter G. Canipe Foundation, Inc.
In Memory Of: Emma McPherson (Miss Mac)
Given By: Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mayer Dupier, Jr.
In Honor Of
In Memory Of: Jerry Baker
Given By: Bill & Mary Arhos
Walt & Connie Straube
Dick Caley
In Memory Of: Norma P. Martin
Given By: Wanda L. Mayberry
Tim Thomas
John & Annette Weikel
In Honor Of: Prof & Barbara Carnes
Given By: Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mayer Dupier,
Jr.
Occasion: For their love and support of UC
In Memory Of: Ivan Bunch
Given By: Mrs. Marilyn R. Bunch
In Memory Of: Norma Brock Patrick
Given By: Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Ottmon Abbott
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Mayer Dupier, Jr.
Mrs. Patricia B. Gratton-Riebenack
Ms. Iona C. Patrick
Red Boot Foundation, Inc.
In Honor Of: Dr. James Boswell
Given By: The Honorable Harry G. Graham
In Memory Of: Jasper C. Creekmore
Given By: Dr. Anna Mary Creekmore
In Memory Of: Bardstown Police Officer
Jason Ellis
Given By: Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Ottmon Abbott
In Memory Of: Mark Paul Golightly
Given By: Dr. & Mrs. John David Broome
In Memory Of: Mildred Hoops
Given By: Dr. & Mrs. John David Broome
In Memory Of: James H. Taylor, II
Given By: Lt. Colonel & Mrs. Donald Brooke
Jones
Gifts & Giving
In Memory Of
In Honor & Memory Of
In Honor and Memory Of: Beulah Hoskins
Lewis
Given By: Mr. Larry Dee Lewis
Occasion: My wife of 49 years
In Memory Of: John S. Taylor and wife, Alyne
Chance (Taylor) Class of 1947
Given By: Mrs. Nora D. Roberts
CUMBERLAND’S 125th MILESTONE CAMPAIGN!
CELEBRATE TRADITION AND EXCELLENCE WITH YOUR
IMPORTANT ALUMNI SUPPORT NOW!!!
1888-2013
In April 2013, University of the Cumberlands began celebrating 125 years in education. In May 2011, then
Alumni Board President, Rich Prewitt, and the Alumni Board of Directors sent a letter issuing a challenge to
all alumni. The goal of this 125th Milestone Celebration Campaign is $125,000.If you would like to honor
a professor or classmate with your gift of support, just complete the form below. All campaign contributions
will be used to support important current programs and projects. Your alumni support is a necessary means to
keeping University of the Cumberlands vibrant and viable to future generations of students seeking a quality
liberal arts education on our scenic campus. If you have not sent your gift or pledge of support, please do so
today. And if you have already sent a gift or pledge, thank you for turning dreams into realities!
$37,303.50 in cash & pledges
125th Milestone Celebration Campaign Support Form
____ Yes, I want to help toward the 125th Campaign with my first gift of $25 over 5 years.
____ Yes, I want to help toward the 125th Campaign with my enclosed gift of $125.
____ Yes, I want to help toward the 125th Campaign with my enclosed gift of $________.00.
____ No, I cannot help toward the 125th Campaign, but I can _________________________
__________________________________________________________________________.
Name_________________________________________________________________________
Address ______________________________________________________________________
City, State, Zip_________________________________________________________________
Phoe___________________________________ Email________________________________
Year of Graduation from CC/UC__________________ Spouse Graduation Year_________
In Honor of:___________________________________________________________________
Paying Tribute to:______________________________________________________________
In Memory of:_________________________________________________________________
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2013-2014
Save The Date Campus Events
UNIVERSITY of the CUMBERLANDS
2013-2014
Save The Date Campus Events
Alumni, Faculty, Staff, Students and Friends Welcome
2013-2014 Patriot Preview Day
For Prospective Students and Families
Alumni, 9:00
Faculty,
Students
and Friends
a.m.Staff,
Saturday,
October
12, 2013Welcome
9:00 a.m. Saturday, November 9, 2013
2013-2014
Patriot
Preview22,
Day
9:00
a.m. Saturday,
February
2014
For Prospective Students and Families
th
9:00
a.m. Saturday,
October
12, 2013 Kick-Off Celebration
Anniversary
Homecoming, Alumni &
Student
Weekend/125
9:00
a.m. Saturday,
Friday,
Saturday,
SundayNovember
October 4,9,5 2013
& 6, 2013
9:00Homecoming
a.m. Saturday,Football
FebruaryGame
22, 2014
1:30 p.m. Saturday, October
5, 2013
th
Kick-Off Celebration
Homecoming,Lindsey
AlumniWilson
& Student
Weekend/125
College
vs UniversityAnniversary
of the Cumberlands
Friday, Saturday,
Sunday
4, 5 & 6, 2013
James H.
TaylorOctober
II Stadium
Homecoming Football Game
p.m.
Saturday, October
5, 2013
UC1:30
Music
Department’s
Madrigal
Dinner
Lindsey
Wilson College
University
of the Cumberlands
6:30
p.m. Thursday,
Friday,vsSaturday,
December
5, 6 & 7, 2013
James
H.
Taylor
II
Stadium
Contact Kristen Disney at 606-539-4332 for more information
th
Music
Department’s
Dinner
Anniversary
Celebration
Founder’sUC
Day
Convocation
& 125Madrigal
6:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday,
December 5, 6 & 7, 2013
JanuarySaturday,
2014: TBA
Contact Kristen Disney at 606-539-4332 for more information
Athletic Hall of Fame Luncheonth& Induction Ceremony
Anniversary
Celebration
Founder’s Day Convocation
& 125 22,
Saturday, February
2014
January
2014:
TBARSVP Required 606-539-4355
12:00 p.m. Luncheon in Boswell
Campus
Center,
2:00 p.m. Women Basketball vs Lindsay Wilson College
Athletic
Luncheon
& Induction
Ceremony
Athletic Hall
Hall of
of Fame
Fame Auction
in lobby
of Rollins
Center
Saturday,
February
22, 2014
4:00 p.m. Men’s
Basketball
vs Lindsay
Wilson College
12:00 p.m. Luncheon
in Boswell
Campus of
Center,
RSVPGame
Required 606-539-4355
Inductions
at halftime
the Men’s
2:00 p.m. Women Basketball vs Lindsay Wilson College
Athletic
of Fame
Auction
lobby of Rollins
Center Series
Forcht Group ofHall
Kentucky
Center
forin
Excellence
in Leadership
4:00 p.m. Men’s Basketball
vs Lindsay
7:00 p.m. April
2014 Wilson College
Inductions at halftime
of
the
Speaker TBA Men’s Game
Beginning February 1, 2014, Free Tickets by calling 606-539-4432
Forcht Group of Kentucky
CenterRollins
for Excellence
O. Wayne
Center in Leadership Series
7:00 p.m. April 2014
Speaker TBA
Beginning February 1, 2014, Free Tickets by calling 606-539-4432
O. Wayne Rollins Center
Dave Bergman, Alumni Director • Office of Alumni Services • 7075 College Station Drive • Williamsburg, Kentucky 40769
(606)539-4355 Work • (606)539-4168 Fax • Email: alumni@ucumberlands.edu • dave.bergman@ucumberlands.edu
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1950s
Dr. Paul Beasley, ’55, has been a member of the
faculty at Alice Lloyd College since 2004. He is
currently the faculty President, sponsor of the Chi
Honor Society and a certified
teacher educator.
1960s
Chuck Sheriff, ‘63, was
elected as the Lions Club
District 12-I Governor
for 2013-14 at the District
Convention held at
Montgomery Bell State
Park in February.
Thomas “Mickey”
Bowdon, ’65, is the
Headmaster at Ben Lippen
School in Columbia, SC.
Della (Sellers) Ingram,
’69, retired from teaching
after 33 years in both the
public and private sector.
Her husband of 43 years,
George Ingram, ’67,
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retired after 30 years as a
public school administrator. They have two children
and one grandson.
Thank you to the many alumni who submit information for the Alumni Class Notes section
of the Cumberland Today. We enjoy sharing your news. If you have something to submit,
please complete and return the form below, or email your news to
alumni@ucumberlands.edu.
Have photos? Just mail your prints or cd, or email your photos to our alumni office. Send
all materials to: University of the Cumberlands, Alumni Office, 7075 College Station Drive,
Williamsburg, KY 40769 or alumni@ucumberlands.edu.
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Alumni Class Notes
Alumni Class Notes
CLASS NOTES – What’s Up? What’s New?
What’s Going On?
Please publish this Alumni News in the Cumberland Today magazine.
Name:
Maiden name:
Class Year:
Here is my news:
Lanola (Haywood) Parsons, attended ’69-’72, is a
self-employed owner and operator of a retail sales
store, a partner in Hope Development Corp., owner
of a commercial janitorial service, a leasing and rental
agent, and a property developer/builder with over
30 years experience. She currently serves as a board
member of the Kentucky Board of Tax Appeals and
resides in Harlan, KY.
1970s
Susan (Cornelius) Wilkerson, ’70, is the Grants
Branch Manager for the Kentucky Office of
Homeland Security.
Homer Radford, ’71, retired from his position as
East Bernstadt superintendent in December 2012
after serving 42 years as a teacher, principal and
superintendent.
Photo enclosed:
Yes
No
Please update my records:
Current Address:
Nick Greiwe, ’74, recently joined the Hometown
Bank staff in Corbin, KY as a lender.
Sharon (Sowers) Osborne, ’76, recently retired after
30 years of teaching elementary music.
James Hardy, ’77, is a Chemistry Professor at the
University of Akron.
Reecia (Isom) Samples, ’78, retired on June 30, 2013
as the Superintendent of Clay County Schools after 33
years in education.
Email:
Telephone:
Cell phone:
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Alumni Class Notes
1980s
Dr. Stephen Newton, ’80, has been a
Chiropractic Physician since 1988 and practices
at International Chiropractic Center in
Orlando, FL.
Steve Reeves, ’82, has his second book, “The
1980 Gray Murders” published in 2012. Before
beginning his second vocation as a writer, he
had a 21 year career as a captain for Southwest
Airlines. He and his wife, Stacy, reside in
Nashville, TN with their two daughters.
John McCoy, ’86, and his wife, Louise, have
been married since 2001 and reside in Bronx,
NY. He is the Compliance Manager for a real
estate company at Bronx Shepherds Restoration
and she is a bookkeeper for the world’s largest
fish distribution company in NYC. John is also
the proud father of a 21 year old daughter.
Fred Gillum, ’87, recently became an assistant
coach on the Stephen F. Austin softball
coaching staff. Previously, he had coached three
years at Mars Hill College.
John Mitchell, ’87, was promoted in April 2012
to Chapter Executive Officer of the American
Red Cross Natchez Trace Chapter in Franklin,
TN which serves Hickman, Lewis, Maury, Perry
and Williamson Counties. He and his wife,
Michelle, have four children.
Jon Stewart, ’87, is the President and CEO of
KEMI, where he has been employed since 1997.
Previously, he had served six years as Executive
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He
and his wife, Melissa Bryant Stewart, ’87, reside
in Nicholasville, KY and have two children.
1990s
Dr. Brian D. Looney, ’92, is President of
Looney Eyecare with offices located in
Grundy and Welch, WV. In April 2012, he
was announced as the founding president
of the Appalachian College of Optometry in
Buchanan County, which is scheduled to admit
its first students in 2014.
David Close, ’93, is a Consumer Horticulture
and Extension Master Gardener Specialist with
the Virginia Tech Horticulture Program.
Melanie (Morgan) Jackson, ’93, joined South
Florida Community College as the director
of educational technology and the webmaster
in November 2003. She serves as the SFCC
representative to the Florida Distance Learning
Consortium, teaches computer science courses
and is the advisor for Phi Beta Lambda.
Bill Bingham, ’94, is the Reservation and
Customer Service Specialist for Conch Out
Vacation Rentals in Englewood, FL.
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Shannon Mahurin, ’94, has been a member
of the Research Staff at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory since 2006.
Jennifer (Bussey) Dukes, ’95, works at Proctor
and Gamble.
Logan Murphy, ’95, is the Executive Director
of Elevate Recreation, a non-profit organization
that provides recreational events, trainings,
camps and retreats for schools, orphanages,
churches, businesses, and organizations.
2000s
Nanette Fitzhugh, ’01, is in charge of Virtual
Advising for Management and Marketing at
Fort Hays State University’s College of Business
and Entrepreneurship in Hays, KS.
Josh Wilcox, ’02, is the Worship Pastor at
Christ’s Chapel River Campus in Erlanger, KY.
Willie Adkins, ’03, and Chasity (Sharpe)
Adkins, ’04 BS, ’08 MAT, are the proud parents
of two daughters. Willie is a Sales Engineer for
Hinkle Contracting Company and has served on
Cumberlands Alumni Board of Directors since 2012.
Pete Chapman, ’03 is employed by the
Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, TN.
Jason Creekmore, ’03 MA, ’11 EdD, recently
became an educational consultant for Academic
Edge, a company which provides video and
web-based learning products. Previously, he
served more than 13 years with the McCreary
County School System; more than 5 of those
years were as principal.
Kimberly (Hyatt) Farmer, ’03, was married in
July 2003 and has two children. She works as a
graphic and website designer for a marketing
firm in Montana.
David Wilson, ’04, is self-employed as a
Marriage and Family Therapist Associate.
Heather Branum, ’05 BS, ’11 MAE, was
named Head Coach of the Montreat Cavalier
softball team in August 2012. She joined the
staff of Montreat College in January 2012 as
Assistant Coach. While pursuing her Masters,
Branum served as Assistant Coach for the
Patriots softball team for two seasons.
Jacob Elder, ’05, was admitted to the practice
and became a Clark County Deputy in 2008.
Daisuke Hirata, ’05, is the Purchasing
Manager at American Fine Sinter.
Brittney (Soper) Marley, attended ’05-’07, was
married in June 2009 and is a stay-at-home
mom of two.
Nate Jolly, ’07, is the head wrestling coach of
Team Oxendine, a premier training facility, and
a professional fighter in Johnson City, TN.
Matt Rhymer, ’07 BS, ’12 MAT, was recently
named head football coach of the South Laurel
High School Cardinals in London, KY. He
had previously served as assistant coach at
Cumberland for five years.
Ryan Williams, ’07, is Financial Analyst at DTZ.
Brooks Morgan, ’08, is engaged to be married
in June of 2014. He works for PNC Investments
doing financial planning and retirement services.
Natasha (Vaughn) Owens, ’08, and Joshua
Owens, ’10, are the proud parents of two children.
Stephanie (Kinder) Bowlin, ’09 BS, ’12 MBA,
completed her Masters in Business Administration
at Cumberland in December 2012.
Michael Jones, ’03, and Rebecca (Kemper)
Jones, ’03, are the proud parents of a five year old
son and are expecting their second child this fall.
David Dierken, ’09, won third place in the
Senior Men (over 90 kg) Division at the 2013
Beach Wrestling National Championships.
Phillip Vogelsang, ’03, was elected City
Councilman for the city of Jacksonville Beach,
FL in November 2012.
Brent Foley, ’09, is the new Worship Leader at
Immanuel Baptist Church in Corbin, KY.
Brandon Elkins, ’04, and Christina (Sampieri)
Elkins, ’04, are the proud parents of three:
Eden, August and Titus. Brandon is the Captain
of the Campbell County Sheriff ’s Office and the
founder/pastor of Paradigm Church. Christina
is a stay at home mom and recently began a
weekly column in the Lafollette Press entitled
Letters from the Nest.
Daniel Muncy, attended ’04-’06, began his law
enforcement career with the Inez City Police
in June 2009. He is also the assistant wrestling
coach at Sheldon Clark High School.
Danny Lunsford, ’09, is an Associate Attorney
at Johnnie L. Turner, PSC in Harlan, KY.
Travis Coleman, ’10, is a Technical Support
Specialist at Bastian Software Solutions.
Tyler Harris, ’10, teaches third grade at Corbin
Elementary School and is head coach of the
Corbin High School track team.
Christen (Paysse) Dierken, ’11 BS, ’12 MAT,
won first place in the Senior Women (over
70 kg) Division at the 2013 Beach Wrestling
National Championships.
Zackary Stroub, ’12, and Chelsea (Hendrix)
Stroub, ’12, were married in April 2013.
Cody Kirby, ’13, and Rachel (Logan) Kirby,
’13, were married on May 25, 2013.
Marc Hensley, ’12 MCS, completed his
Masters in Christian Studies at Cumberland in
December 2012.
BIRTHS
2000s
Dr. B.J. Temple, ’01 BS, ’13 Ed.D. and Jamey
(Hill) Temple, ’03, would like to announce the
birth of their son, Declan, on April 10, 2013.
ENGAGEMENTS, ANNIVERSARIES,
MARRIAGES
1960s
Bill Crook, ’63, and wife, Sharon, celebrated
their 50th anniversary on December 29, 2012.
Alanna (Gumm) Sorah, ’01, and husband,
Matthew, announce the birth of their son, Ezra.
Joshua Wilcox, ’02, and wife Katie announce
the birth of their son, Shepard.
Arthur Wilson, ’63, and Lavonne (Starker)
Wilson, ’63, celebrated their 50th anniversary
on March 22, 2013.
Magan (Hess) Atwood, ’06,
and David Atwood, ’07 BS,
’09 MAE, announce the birth
of their son, Benjamin David,
on February 13, 2013.
Edd Sears, ’64, and Naomi (Smith) Sears,
’67, celebrated their 50th anniversary in
2012.
1980s
Annette (Locke) Black, ’88, and husband,
Michael, were married on December 12,
2012. She began working on earning her
MAED degree as a Reading and Writing
Specialist P-12 in October 2012.
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Nathan Barnes, ’06, and Katie (Houck)
Barnes, ’07, would like to announce the birth
of their daughter, Emerie.
1990s
Tony Pursley, ’99, and wife, Ruthanne, were
married on January 19, 2013.
Jeff Barker, ’94, announces
his engagement to Susan
Allread. The wedding will
take place on Saturday,
October 5, 2013.
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2000s
Misty (Murray) Lawson, ’05, and husband,
Thomas, were married in April 2013.
Kyle King, ’09, and wife, Kayla, were married
on June 30, 2012. Kyle is currently a Senior
Accountant at Regal Marine Industries Inc. and
the couple resides in Orlando, FL.
Kendra (McKiddy) Cress, ’10, and husband,
Jeffery, were married on December 1, 2012.
Nathan Stevens, ’11, and wife, Toni, were
married on March 9, 2013.
Jenny (Sagan) Creekmore, ’12 MAT, and
Byron Creekmore, ’13 MAT, would like to
announce their engagement. Jenny is a first
grade teacher and Byron is a middle school
teacher for Fayette County Public Schools.
Jason Baatz, ’10, and wife, Loretta, announce
the birth of their son, Christopher Raymond,
on January 28, 2013. Loretta is the housekeeper
in Asher Hall.
Casey Barnard, ’12, and Greta (White) Barnard,
’11, announce the birth of their son, Max.
FOND FAREWELLS (LEST WE FORGET)
Carlie Thompson, former faculty member,
passed away December 1, 2012. He was a
veteran of the U.S. Army and an educated
for 52 years. He taught mathematics from
1958 to 1985 at Bell County High School
and night classes at Cumberland College,
Lincoln Memorial University and Southeast
Community College. In 1985, he became
the Off-Campus Coordinator for Southeast
Community College, retiring in 2010.
Survivors include his wife of 55 years, Joyce,
three sons, six grandchildren, two brothers,
nieces, nephews and cousins.
1930s
Aileen (Lawson) Dye, ’38, passed away on
March 9, 2013 at the age of 93. She taught in
the Vanceburg Public School for twenty years.
Survivors include her daughter, sons-and
daughters-in-law, and grandchildren.
Oda (Ward) Catron, ’39, passed away on
November 24, 2012. She taught school in the
Whitley County School System for more than
30 years. Survivors include her children, greatgrandchildren, great-great-grandchildren,
nieces and nephews.
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Kari-Anne (Pettit) Hamblin, ’12, and husband,
Dennis, were married on January 8, 2013.
Ben Nevels, ’12 MAT, was hired as the head
football coach at Holmes High School in
February 2013. He has worked as an assistant
coach at Holmes HS and Lloyd Memorial
HS for the past nine years and is a special
education teacher at Holmes HS.
1940s
Dean (Gant) Johnson, attended ’40-’41, passed
away on December 10, 2012. She worked in
the Wolfe County School System from 1952
until her retirement in 1993. She is survived
by a sister, a brother, a grandson and greatgrandsons.
Virginia (Davis) Mayne, attended ’41, passed
away on February 26, 2013 at the age of 89. She
is survived by three sons and six grandchildren.
Samuel Vanover, ’42, passed away on January
12, 2013 at the age of 93.
Paul Martin, ’43, Indianapolis, IN, passed
away on March 28, 2013 at the age of 89. He
was a Navy Veteran of WWII. He worked as
a mechanical engineer at Diamond Chain
Division of Amsted Industries, retiring in
1985 as Manager of Manufacturing Process
Engineering. Survivors include his wife of
66 years, Mary Leigh, three daughters, three
grandson, and two great-grandchildren.
T.B. Taylor, ’46, Louisville, KY, passed away
on January 7, 2013 at the age of 91. He was
a WWII veteran and retired from the Army
National Guard and the U.S. Department of
Interior, National Park Service. He is survived
by his children, seven grandchildren, four
great-grandchildren, sisters and sisters-in-law.
Benjamin Carr Jr., ’48, passed away on March
2, 2013 at the age of 84. He was a veteran of the
Korean War and taught elementary school for
40 years.
Bill Creech, ’48, passed away on October 31,
2012 at the age of 83. He served in the army
from 1950-52. Starting in 1958, he worked as
a clinical biochemist in numerous Houston
area medical laboratories. He taught medical
technologists in the Texas Medical Center,
was on faculty at Baylor College of Medicine,
and worked as a consulting clinical chemist.
Survivors include his wife of 25 years, Pat, one
brother, one daughter and one grandson.
Freda (Satterfield) Forth, attended ’49-’50,
Kettering, OH, passed away February 27, 2013
at the age of 80. She is survived by her husband
of 55 years, Richard, children, brothers, one
sister, nieces and nephews.
1950s
Crata (Rains) Cavinder, ’51, Pemberton, OH,
passed away on March 28, 2013 at the age of
79. She was a retired elementary teacher and
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also a physical therapist assistant at many of
the area nursing homes. Survivors include her
husband, Richard, children, one sister, twelve
grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.
Agnes Hendren, ’52, passed away on February
24, 2013. She was a piano demonstrator and
teacher for the Baldwin Piano Company.
Survivors include her aunt and cousins.
Arthur “Corky” Jeffries Jr., ’52, passed
away on December 23, 2012 at the age of 84.
During his time at Cumberland, he played
basketball. After graduation, he worked as
an industrial electrician in OH, KY, TN,
WV and at three atomic plants in TN, KY,
and OH. He also worked as a draftsman and
building contractor of homes and businesses.
As a teacher at Whitley County High School,
he taught industrial arts, served as their first
football coach and was instrumental in getting
their football field. He was employed by the
Kentucky State Department of Vocational
Education as a regional administrator for multicounty vocational schools for 21 years before
retiring. Arthur served his country for 21 years
as a master sergeant in the National Guard and
was a member of The Charles Gatliff Chapter
of the Sons of the American Revolution. He is
survived by his wife, Wanda (Moses) Jeffries,
’68, one son, Dr. John Jeffries, ’77, and
daughter-in-law, one daughter, Laurel (Jeffries)
West, ’85 BS, ’90 MA, five grandchildren,
John Jeffries, ’05, Melissa, Aaron Jeffries, ’08,
Steven and Whitley.
Harold Lester, ’57, Fourmile, KY, passed away
on October 4, 2012 at 75. He had been a school
teacher in the Bell County School System and a
member of the adjunct faculty for the Southeast
Kentucky Community and Technical College.
Survivors include his wife, Alice (Tresper)
Lester, ’65, son, grandson, sister, brothers,
nieces and nephews.
Raymond Partin, ’59, Cincinnati, OH, passed
away on April 24, 2013 at the age of 78. He
was a United States Navy Veteran having
served in the Korean War. He is survived by
his wife, Ernestine (Cox) Partin, ’55, children,
grandchildren, and siblings.
1960s
Lela (Ohler) Norvell
Brooks, ‘61, passed
away on May 29, 2013
at the age of 101. Lela
worked on obtaining her
undergraduate degree from
Cumberland while running
her own ladies ready-towear shop, Norvell’s Dress
Shop, and simultaneously caring for a family.
Until she attained her degree, Lela worked as a
substitute, and upon completion of her degree,
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worked in the Knox County School System for
twenty years before retiring in 1980. During
those twenty years, Lela was dedicated to every
single student she came into contact with,
often bringing students to her home, giving
tutoring lessons, and helping monetarily when
necessary. She had been a faithful member
of Lynn Camp Baptist Church in Corbin, KY
since 1925 serving as church treasurer, clerk,
pianist, organist, Sunday School teacher, WMU
Director, and other positions. She was also
involved in numerous clubs and organizations,
including Delta Kappa Gamma, Business
and Professional Women Club, Eastern Star,
White Shrine, Pythian Sisters, Daughters of
the American Revolution, Kentucky Colonel,
and KY Ambassador of Good Will. Survivors
include her two sons, one stepson, three
grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, several
nieces and nephews.
Larry Ledbetter, ’61, passed away on
December 14, 2012 at the age of 73. He was the
Co-Founder and Director of Operations for
Adopt, Inc. and a committee member of Hope
for Tomorrow Children’s Home in Guatemala.
Survivors include his wife, Brenda, children,
four grandchildren, brother and sister.
Franklin Tolliver, ’61, Corbin, KY, passed
away on April 9, 2013 at the age of 79. He was
a veteran of the United States Air Force having
served during the Korean War. He retired
as an insurance adjustor from State Farm.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Evelyn
(Partin) Tolliver, ’78, four children, eight
grandchildren, one great-grandchild, siblings,
nieces and nephews.
Mary (Cornett) Bingham, ’62, passed away on
December 6, 2012 at the age of 70.
Glennis Croley, ’62, Williamsburg, KY, passed
away on January 14, 2013 at the age of 71.
Survivors include his wife, Joyce, one daughter,
one sister, one brother, sisters-in-law, one
brother-in-law, nieces and nephews.
James Miller, ’63, Lafollette, TN, passed
away on February 11, 2013 at the age of 73.
He and his father operated the Union 76
station on College Hill for years and he was
an electrician, retiring from Y-12 Plant in Oak
Ridge. Survivors include his son and daughters,
grandchildren, sisters and brothers-in-law,
aunt, nieces and nephews.
Opal (Dyche) Miller, ’63, passed away on
March 24, 2013 at the age of 102. She taught
in the Laurel County School System for three
years and worked as director of personnel at
East Bernstadt Independent and London City
School from 1936 to 1987. Survivors include a
nephew and three nieces.
Frank Reed, ’64, passed away on March 13,
2013 at the age of 74. He taught science and
math for New Haven Community Schools for
33 years, retiring in 1997. As track coach of
New Haven High School he won three backto-back state championships, was Macomb
County Coach of the Year, Michigan Coach
of the Year and inducted into the Michigan
Coaches Hall of Fame. He is survived by
his wife, Barbara, two daughters, four
grandchildren, and a nephew.
Robert Shelley, ’64, passed away on January 18,
2013 at the age of 91.
Robert Beckner, ’65, London, KY, passed away
on February 20, 2013 at the age of 71. He is
survived by his wife, Joann, one son, one stepdaughter, five brothers, one granddaughter,
sixteen nieces and nephews, nineteen greatnieces and nephews.
Jerry Baker, ’67, Kingston, IL, passed away
on January 2, 2013. He was a veteran of
the United States Air Force. For 34 years,
Baker was employed as a Plant Manager and
Maintenance Supervisor at Vee Jay Plastics
Inc., retiring in 2007. Survivors include his wife
Cynthia (Kowalski) Baker, ’69, one son, three
grandchildren, one brother, one sister, nieces,
nephews, great nieces and nephews.
Ray Petree, ’68, Lafollette, TN, passed away on
December 25, 2012 at the age of 68. He served
as Home Health Hospice Administrator in
Somerset, KY and eight years as Home Health
Administrator in Springfield, OH. He also
worked as an interim Administrator at Beach
Tree Manor in Jellico, TN. Survivors include
his wife, Frances, sons, daughter, sisters,
granddaughter, nieces and nephews.
Kenneth Rains, ’68, passed away on January
4, 2013.
Jeffrey Hammer, ‘69, passed away on June
6, 2013 at the age of 65. He worked for TVA
for one year and then became employed at
Hammers Department Store, which was started
approximately 60 years ago by his mother and
father. He is survived by his wife of 31 years,
Billie Sue, mother, sons, sister, granddaughter,
uncle and aunts, and nephew.
1970s
Bobbie (Sandlin) Jackson, ’70, passed away on
December 17, 2012 at the age of 66.
Janice (Coffey) Melvin, ’70, Lexington, KY, passed
away on March 26, 2013 at the age of 64. She
served as a social worker and later a mental health
counselor. She spent 27 years as an elementary
school teacher at Paintsville Elementary School.
Survivors include her husband, Powell, mother,
daughter and granddaughter.
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on April 13, 2013 at the age of 64. He was
vice president of purchasing at Institutional
Distribution. Survivors include his wife, one
sister, two brothers, two nephews, six nieces,
and an uncle.
Jerry Hammons, ’75, London, KY, passed
away on January 30, 2013 at the age of 66. He
is survived by his wife, Darlene, one daughter,
brothers, and one grandchild.
Ronald Moreland, attended ’75-’77, passed
away on November 15, 2012 at the age of 65. He
was a retired plant manager for the U.S. Postal
Service. Survivors include his brother, sister, son,
We recently learned that the following alumni
passed away more than a year ago:
1940s
Vernon Thomas, ’49
1950s
Barbara (Jones) Hundley, ’58
1960s
James Ragle, ’60
Jenneth (Whitaker) Walden, ’60
Ronald Banks, ’61
Katherine (Greene) Paletti, ’63
Georgia (Davis) Miller, ’63
Carl Roberts, ’63
Carl Woods, ’63
Betty (Mayfield) Roberts, ’64
Gary Fairchild, ’65
Ned Tramell, ‘65
Jimmy Wilson, ’65
Linda (Cornwell) Brown, ’69
David Tribell, ‘69
1970s
Judy (Prewitt) Upchurch, ’74
Paul Thompson, ’70, Middlesboro, KY, passed
away on March 25, 2013 at the age of 71. He
served in Vietnam during his time in the
military. He taught at Lone Jack High School
for one year before becoming employed at
the Bell County Health Department where
he remained employed until his retirement in
1995. Survivors include his sister and brother,
nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews.
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Ellis Smith Jr., ’70, Barbourville, KY, passed
away on March 24, 2013.
Jerry Powers, ’76, Williamsburg, KY passed
away on January 3, 2013 at the age of 61. He is
survived by his wife, Dorothy, three daughters,
grandchildren, three sisters and four brothers.
1980s
Terri (Shotwell) Dixon, ’80, Corbin, KY, passed
away on March 1, 2013 at the age of 54. She was
a teacher in the Knox County School System.
Survivors include her husband, Clyde Dixon,
’80, one son, one granddaughter, an aunt and
uncle, one brother, sisters and sister-in-law.
Elva Lee Jones, ’81, passed away on March 8,
2013. She was employed by Health Directions and
was named the Sentinel-Echo’s “Best of the Best”
for social work in 2010. Survivors include her
parents, sisters, brothers, nieces and nephews.
Rick Croley, ’83, Johnson City, TN, passed
away on April 9, 2013 at the age of 52.
1980s
Chris Lane, ’92, Columbus, OH, passed away
on April 21, 2013 at the age of 44. He was an
actor, director and former artistic director of
MadLab. He is survived by his wife, Tay.
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3:00–5:00 p.m.
HOMECOMING REGISTRATION
Smiddy Entrance Building
Free Gifts, Door Prizes, Alumni Board Election/Voting, Campus
Maps; Student/Family Buffet or Alumni Dinner Ticket Pick-up.
Donation Station
Mary McGraw Music Building
Free Admission. General Seating
7:30 p.m.
“SHINING OUR LIGHT” Theatrical Presentation
Grace Crum Rollins at Kohn Theater
9:00 p.m.
FRIDAY NIGHT HEADLINER: “The Sand Artist” Joe Castillo
Featuring America’s Got Talent sand artist Joe Castillo;
Preview at www.joecastillo.com. Free Admission. General Convocation
Saturday, October 5th
8:00–1:30 p.m.
HOMECOMING REGISTRATION
Smiddy Entrance Building
Free Coffee, Free Gifts, Door Prizes, Alumni Board Election/Voting
Student/Family Buffet or Alumni Dinner Ticket Pick-up. Donation Station
9:00 a.m.
UC TENNIS INVITATIONAL
Tennis Courts on North 11th Street
9:00–11:00 a.m.
*HOMECOMING BRUNCH
T. J. Roberts Dining Hall
Assorted breakfast items $5.00 per person. Donation Station bring
canned food, gently used or new book(s), toys or shoes and Brunch is
FREE. No reservation required. Meet with current and former faculty
and staff members from 9:30 to 10:30 while enjoying BRUNCH.
8:30 a.m.
*Cornhole Tournament
Band Practice Field
sponsored by the Alumni Board of Directors
$20 entry fee per team; $10 per student team
8:30 a.m.
*BOSWELL 5K RUN/WALK REGISTRATION
John T. Luecker Classroom Building
Preregistering by 9/25/13 saves $5.00.
3:00 p.m.
“SHINING OUR LIGHT” Theatrical Presentation of Cumberlands’ History
Grace Crum Rollins Fine Arts Center at Kohn Theater
Written & Directed by Dr. Kim Miller
9:30 a.m.
*BOSWELL 5K RUN/WALK START
John T. Luecker Classroom Building
Sponsored by UC Track Team
6:00 p.m.
SWIM MEET vs Campbellsville University
Dinah Taylor Aquatic Center
10:00 a.m.
Future Alums Fun Run
Free for kids ages 4–12
7:00 p.m.
VOLLEYBALL MATCH vs St. Catharine College
Intramural Gym
10:00 a.m.
ALUMNI BASEBALL REUNION WEEKEND
Baseball Field
Tribute to Jason Ellis, Class of 2003, fallen Bardstown Police
Officer, former UC baseball player & Hall of Fame Member
7:00 p.m.
Music Department Concert
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10:30–1:30 p.m.
**CARNIVAL
Band Practice Field adjacent to Hutton School of Business
Food, Games, Inflatables, Face Painting, Balloon Artist, Prizes
and much more. Performances by Williamsburg Dance Center,
UC Marching Band, Whitley County & Williamsburg Independent
H. S. Marching Bands. Donation Station
Honored Class Reunions
Colonnade pavilion at Band Practice Field
Young Alumni Association Booth
Gathering of young alumni to share similar interests
Alumni Board of Directors Auction
Begins at 11:30 a.m. at Gazebo at Band Practice Field.
(Proceeds for Scholarships and Board Projects)
Campus Tours
Hutton School of Business Foyer
(One Tour Only–leaving at 11:00 a.m.)
1:30 p.m.
*FOOTBALL GAME
James H. Taylor II Stadium
University of the Cumberlands vs. Lindsey Wilson College
Homecoming Court Presentation at Halftime
Ticket Required. Tickets available at the gate, beginning at 11:00 a.m.
Donation Station
1:00–2:00 p.m.
AUTHOR’S ROW BOOK SIGNING
Lobby of Grace Crum Rollins Fine Arts Center
2:00 p.m.
Grace Crum Rollins–Kohn Theater
4:30–6:30 p.m.
*STUDENT & FAMILY BUFFET
T.J. Roberts Dining Hall
Informal Dinner; no program. Reservation Required. Tickets must
be picked up by 1:30 p.m. on Saturday at Smiddy Building
OR
6:00–8:00 p.m.
*ALUMNI DINNER
Intramural Gym
Formal Dinner & Program. Recognition of Honored Classes: ’63,
’68, ’73, ’78, ’83, ’88, ’93, ’98, ’03, ’08 & ’13. Special Music by:
Dick Tunney, ’79, songwriter & pianist, Karin Erlandsson Pelfrey,
’89, vocalist, & Paul Pace, ’91, Nashville recording artist.
Alumni Hall of Honor & Alumni Board Member Installations.
Reservation Required. Tickets must be picked up by 1:30 p.m. on
Saturday at Smiddy Building
7:00–12:30 a.m.
Residence Hall Open House
All Halls
6:30–7:30 p.m.
AUTHOR’S ROW BOOK SIGNING
Lobby of Grace Crum Rollins Fine Arts Center
7:30 p.m.
9:00 p.m.
FIREWORKS DISPLAY
Viewing: Band Practice Field next to Hutton School of Business.
Blanket or lawn chair recommended. Presented by Pyro Shows,
LaFollette, TN. Additional fireworks provided by Thunder Sam’s
Fireworks, Jellico, TN.
Homecoming 2013
All Area Residents Welcome
Followed by Homecoming Feature Movie:
Despicable Me 2: Rated PG
O. Wayne Rollins Center on the big screen in surround sound
Sunday, October 6th
WORSHIP SERVICES: Praise, worship and fellowship on the Sabbath.
First Baptist Church: 10:45 a.m.
Sermon: Bradley Bell, ‘08; Music: UC Chorale accompanied by
Kay Dawn McFarland and directed by Dr. David Etter
Main Street Baptist Church: 10:45 a.m.
Sermon: Rev. Donnie B. Patrick, ‘92; Music: UC Chamber Choir
led by Dr. Jeff Smoak
Check listings for other local church services
12:30–2:00 p.m.
CAMPUS-WIDE PICNIC
Band Practice Field near Hutton School of Business
FREE for students & families, alumni, faculty & staff
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Jazz Ensemble performance during picnic at Band Practice Field
1:00–4:00 p.m.
Residence Hall Open House
All Halls
2:00 p.m.
Cultural Convocation
*Charges apply. All dinner tickets must be purchased by 9/25/13. See
price list on remittance section or on the main Alumni & Family Weekend
web page: http://www.ucumberlands.edu/alumni/alumniWeekend.php
**In case of rain, Carnival will be in the Gatliff (Intramural) Gym
Barnes & Noble Campus Bookstore Hours:
Friday: 8:30–7:00 p.m.
Saturday: 8:30–1:30 p.m. (Bookstore kiosk setup at Carnival
& Football Stadium)
Sunday: 12:302:00 p.m. (Bookstore kiosk at Campus-Wide Picnic)
Ticket Information: call the Alumni Services Ticket Office: (606) 539-4355
General Information: call Alumni Services Office: (606) 539-4355 or
Student Activities Office: (606) 539-4232
Theater Box Office: (606) 539-4535, boxoffice@ucumberlands.edu
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