1976
Dr. Steve Skinner, director of the Greenwood Genetic Center, was awarded the Order of the Palmetto by Gov. Henry McMaster. Skinner received the award, the state’s highest civilian honor, for his outstanding work and leadership. The college conferred an honorary doctor of science degree upon Skinner in 2021.
1977
South Carolina Humanities has elected Bill Comer to its board of directors. He has served as CFO of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International and American Specialty Health and currently serves on the board of directors of Preservation South Carolina and the Union County Historical Society. He’s also on the board of visitors of the University of South Carolina Palmetto College.
1979
Rodney Anderson hosted a program honoring Elloree, S.C., veterans at the Elloree Heritage Museum on Dec. 5. He is a retired U.S. Army major general.
1984
Dr. David Moody was appointed to the board of directors of Danimer Scientific. He also is a member of the board of directors of Jadex and is an adjunct instructor of chemistry at Wofford. Glen Padgett was inducted into the athletics hall of fame at Concord (N.C.) High School. Padgett is the school’s head football coach and ranks fifth in Cabarrus County history with 113 career victories
1991
Clint Pressley was nominated for president of the Southern Baptist Convention at the 2024 SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind. He has been senior pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., since 2010. He was first vice president of the SBC in 2014-15.
1993
Darrin Goss Sr. keynoted the breakfast summit of the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at the Charleston Gaillard Center on Jan. 13. He is president and CEO of Coastal Community Foundation and resides in North Charleston.
1999
Wes Hickman became a professional Entrepreneurial Operating System implementer, using the company’s model to help business leaders and entrepreneurs solve root problems and lead more effectively. He was previously director of news and internal communications at the University of South Carolina.
Eleanor McDonough Malinoski opened The Centre, a private mental health practice, in Zionsville, Ind. She also completed training to become an EMDR therapist, allowing her to work with a wide range of clients who have a history of trauma, as well as trauma recovery networks around the country.
Wagner Wealth Management added Shanna Alexander Walker as its director of communications. She was previously a content coordinator for Best Version Media and lives in Greenville, S.C.
2001
TODAY Show host Craig Melvin was named Kappa Sigma 2023 Man of the Year. He is the 90th member of Kappa Sigma to receive the award, which is presented annually to recognize extraordinary professional success and societal impact.
2002
Jen Gilstrap Peery joined the Empyrean team as senior director of product strategy, wrapping up a 16-year career with Benefitfocus. She lives in Charleston, S.C., with husband Elliott Peery.
Wilmot Irvin Jr. joined Joan Herlong and Associates Sotheby’s International Realty in Upstate South Carolina. He is now licensed in both South Carolina and Georgia.
2003
Thurmond Kirchner & Timbes in Summerville, S.C., has promoted T. Happel Scurry to partner. He has been an attorney with the firm since 2019.
2004
Dr. Brittnee Jones was promoted to vice president of product management and customer success at Genomenon, where she was previously director of customer success. She lives in Emeryville, Calif.
2005
Carrie Schultz Peck and Brian Peck welcomed a daughter, Ann Eliza “Annie” Peck, on Oct. 26, 2023. She joins big brother Henry. They live in Fort Mill, S.C., where Carrie is the head of strategic projects and change management at TD Bank and Brian is a director of development at UNC Charlotte.
2008
Charleston-based Yarborough Applegate has added Megan Early-Soppa as an associate attorney. She will be based in Greenville, S.C. She previously was a partner with the Moseley Marcinak Law Group.
Dr. Tiffany Tonismae and Matthew Forrester welcomed baby Taylor Marie Forrester on Oct. 1, 2023. Tiffany is a maternal-fetal medicine physician at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
2009
Jamie Wilson was named to the National Black Lawyers’ Top 40 Under 40 list, which recognizes attorneys for outstanding reputation, leadership and notable achievements. She is a criminal defense attorney at Price Benowitz Accident Injury Lawyers in Spartanburg.
2010
The Housing Authority of Newberry, S.C., has named Jessica Holcomb its executive director. She worked with the Spartanburg Housing Authority for 12 years.
2011
Dr. Covington Avent Hanley graduated from the University of Tennessee with a doctorate in counselor education. She is currently the administrative coordinator for the Counselor Training Clinic and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Tennessee. She has accepted a full-time placement at the University of Tennessee-Martin beginning fall 2024.
Logan Threadgill was elected as shareholder of Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, where he works as a litigation attorney. He also is president of the Chattanooga Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division and serves on the board of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division.
Lisle Traywick was named South Carolina state chair of the Council of Appellate Lawyers for the American Bar Association. He is an attorney with Robinson Gray and lives in Columbia, S.C.
2012
Jamie Saye Chappell and Maggie Raines Chappell announced the birth of Louise Saye Chappell in November 2023. Louise joins big sister Elizabeth Dodge “Edie” Chappell, 2. The family lives in Columbia, S.C.
2014
Alex Long and Cayla Eddy Long announced the birth of their third child, Amelia Frances Long, on Nov. 15, 2023. They live in Augusta, Ga., with their older children, Crossley and Mary Elizabeth. Alex is a commercial banker with Synovus, and Cayla is the project lead with Paceline Ride, planning events that raise money for cancer research.
Chase Wolfe was interviewed during the Soda City Living segment on WIS News 10 in Columbia, S.C., where he talked about his role as Edward Lewis in the national Broadway tour of “Pretty Woman: The Musical.”
Dr. Hannah Comstock Yocum has accepted a tenure track position as an assistant professor of chemical engineering at Bucknell University.
2015
Maude Porter McBride and Christopher McBride welcomed their son, Branchford Archer McBride, on Oct. 27, 2023. They live in San Antonio, Texas, where she works as an intelligence contractor for the U.S. Air Force at Headquarters Air Education Training Command and also is a Navy Reserve officer.
Brannan Hudson and Lauren Hudson welcomed a son, John Brannan Hudson, on Dec. 13, 2023. They reside in Johns Island, S.C., where she works as an engineering supervisor at TIGHITCO and he is a senior associate for acquisitions at Monomoy CRE.
Harry Morris and Elizabeth Morris welcomed their first child, Theodore Samuel Morris, on Oct. 6, 2023. Harry is a customer success manager for VitalSource, and Elizabeth is the senior vice president of real estate development for Mint House. They live in West Simsbury, Conn.
2016
The Post and Courier featured Josh Simpson in an article titled “12 Black Leaders to Know.” The article covered his baseball career, his relationship with his children and his philanthropy efforts, including his nonprofit organization, Kid on the Left. He is the mayor of Reidville, S.C., and has the distinction of being the town’s first Black mayor.
2017
Reagan Petty joined the Blowing Rock (N.C.) Art & History Museum staff as collections manager and exhibitions coordinator after completing a Henry Luce Foundation-funded position as assistant curator for folk art at the Kentucky Museum at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.
Mary Hurston Zuelke and Rod McCants were married on Oct. 14, 2023, in Leighton, Ala. The couple lives in Spartanburg, S.C. 2018 Emily Adamson and Stephen Ridley ’19 were married on Nov. 4, 2023, in Spartanburg, S.C. They live in Washington, D.C., where she works as an auditor at PwC and he is the development manager at Common Sense Society.
2018
Emily Adamson and Stephen Ridley ’19 were married on Nov. 4, 2023, in Spartanburg, S.C. They live in Washington, D.C., where she works as an auditor at PwC and he is the development manager at Common Sense Society.
Taylor Garrett Davis accepted a position at Spartanburg Regional Medical Center as a registered nurse on the postpartum floor.
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division has hired Hailey Gardner as a forensic technician. She lives in Blythewood, S.C., and was previously a receptionist at Doko Animal Hospital.
2019
Molly Humphries Owens accepted the position of assistant director of alumni engagement at Wofford College. She lives in Gaffney, S.C., with her husband, Michael Owens, who is a fourth-year medical student at VCOM.
2020
In November, Joshua Adams, founding member and creative director of Parent ProTech, was invited to speak to some of the Apple team in Chicago on how Parent ProTech works to protect kids and teens across technology.
Maggie Baker and Tom Bundy married on Nov. 11, 2023, at Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham, Ala. The couple lives in Homewood, Ala. Tom is the grandson of Dr. Charles Alan Bundy ’51.
2021
Jacob Dippold and Jana Marie Faircloth ’22 were married on March 2 in Sumter, S.C. The wedding party included best man Jackson Galbraith ’24; maid of honor Marley McCormick ’22; bridesmaids Julia-Reagan Clark ’22, Sophia Lamm ’22, Kennedy Smith ’23, Megan Fleming ’22, Caroline Sargent ’21 and Caroline Byrd ’23; and groomsmen Jordan Dippold ’27, Ross Campbell ’21 and Joshua Congdon ’20.
Caroline Sargent and Zach Glick were married on Dec. 2, 2023, in Greenville, S.C. They live in Atlanta Ga., where she is a research fellow at Georgia Tech and he is a scientific software developer.
2023
Alexander Dennis joined the Roadstead Real Estate Advisors’ Spartanburg office team as a junior associate.
Emma Whetsell and Colton Ellison were married on Oct. 21, 2023, at OakBrook Farm in Ridgeway, S.C. Bridesmaids included Grace Sorrell ’23, Catherine Ojeda ’23 and Caroline Payne ’23.
FACULTY
Dr. Douglas Clark, visiting assistant professor of religion, organized a panel at the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History, titled “Intelligence and Imagination in Hindsight: Memories of Religion and Military Service in U.S. History.” He presented a paper on that panel, titled “Religion and Reconnaissance: World War II Memory and Military Intelligence in Christian Black Power Activism.”
Rebecca Forstater’s
work was on view in the exhibition “Slime in the Grass” at the University of Montana through the end of February. She is an assistant professor of studio art. Forstater and Michael Webster, assistant professor of studio art, have been selected alongside studio art majors Annie Heisel ’24 and Maggie Genoble ’24 to exhibit their work in EMERGENCE at The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts. The juried exhibition features work from faculty mentors and student mentees from 23 institutions of higher learning across the Southeast. Forstater and Webster have both been selected as ArtFields 2024 Competition Artists. Their works will be on display in Lake City, S.C., in April.
Dr. Karen Goodchild, Chapman Family Professor of Humanities, published an article in Renaissance Studies: “A New Masaccio — and Other Low-Life Images — from Anton Francesco Grazzini’s Florentine Art History.”
Dr. Natalie Grinnell, Reeves Family Professor in Humanities, published an article, “‘[H]e, which can no pite know’: Murdered Children in the Confessio Amantis,” in Investigo: Interdisciplinary Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Grinnell also published “The Thrush and the Nightingale,” an entry for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women’s Writing in the Global Middle Ages. Additionally, she presented an invited talk, “Interpreting Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson 82D,” at the Marco Manuscript Workshop 2024: “The Whole Book,” at University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tenn.
Dr. Rachel Grotheer, assistant professor of mathematics, co-authored the article “Iterative Singular Tube Hard Thresholding Algorithms for Tensor Recovery,” which has been accepted for publication in the journal Inverse Problems and Imaging. She and Dr. Ingrid Lilly, assistant professor of religion, were granted tenure by the Wofford College Board of Trustees. Tenure and their promotions to associate professor will take effect on Sept. 1.
Dr. Alysa Handelsman, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, was honored for her work in civic engagement at the 2023 Mary L. Thomas Women’s Leadership Luncheon.
Dr. Aaron Harp, assistant professor of music, was recently featured as a baritone soloist in performances with Colorado Bach Ensemble, Chicora Voices and Taylor Festival Choir.
Dr. Daniel Helman, visiting assistant professor of environmental studies, presented a paper at the International Conference on Labour Relations and Labour Law at Ton Duc Thang University in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, titled “Aristotle as strategy for collective bargaining: Understanding three kinds of knowledge.” He also taught two research workshops at Ton Duc Thang University in January and helped to set up a meeting between Wofford College students on their Vietnam Interim and students from the university. Additionally, Helman was featured in a Vietnamese-language news article in Bao Thanh Ninh about the undergraduate soccer championship games that took place in Ho Chi Minh City in January. Finally, Helman published a play, titled “Hypatia’s Math,” in the January issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics.
Dr. Kirsten Krick-Aigner, professor of German, published the article “Polarizations at the Intersections of Jazz, Identity and Blackness in Ernst Krenek’s 1927 Opera Jonny spielt auf and Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer’s 1928 Still life Jonny spielt auf” in Polarization in North America: European Perspectives. She also was interviewed by art historian Julia Secklehner for the podcast on artists Bettina Bauer- Ehrlich, Lisel Salzer and Lisl Weil on “The Salon,” Episode 14, for “Vienna to the World.”
Dr. Dawn McQuiston, professor of psychology, was invited to present her research on secondary trauma among jurors and prosecutors at the North Dakota State Attorneys’ Association 2024 conference.
Dr. Jess Tomkins, assistant professor of history, scripted the animated TedEd video “History vs. Egypt’s ‘most powerful’ pharaoh,” which has been viewed over 333,000 times.