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1950

Colleen Holland Yates of Sumter was elected to the city council for her second term in 30 years.

1954

Athens, Georgia, resident Billie Hamilton Wilson published the book “Bug Swamp’s Gold.”

1962

Marian Cooper Bryan authored a new book entitled “History of Travelers Rest, SC: A Sense of Place.”

1969

Ann Price Mayfield of Anderson has written two books, “Retail Retold: How I Moved on Through Snow, Sleet, a Hurricane, Wild and Crazy Customers, and Twenty Black Fridays…” and “Through the Eyes of Bruce Price, My Father.”

1972

Dorothy (Dot) Jean Killian of Rock Hill retired in December 2014 as associate general counsel, S.C. Department of Social Services. In April 2015, Killian received the Master of Divinity degree from Union Presbyterian Seminary.

1973

Palmetto State School Counseling Association named Sue Ballard Hilton of York the 2014 Advocate of the Year.

1974

Rock Hill resident Elaine Thomasson Baker retired from the Rock Hill School District as the district’s first public information officer after 49 years of service.

1975

Rock Hill resident Donald Rogers, chair of Winthrop’s Department of Music, will receive the inaugural Distinguished Alumni Award in the Department of Music from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

New Ventures and Medical Applications named Ruth Roper of Charlotte, North Carolina, as vice president.

1979

Women of Substance Radio chose “Free to Choose,” a song by Rock Hill resident Pamela (PJ) Brunson, for its Top 20 Indie Songs of 2014.

Spartanburg resident Ron Laffitte visited campus with his sister, Garnet ’85, and spotted a brick bearing their late father’s name along Scholars Walk. Their father, Rondeau Laffitte, was a Winthrop professor for 38 years.

Robby Sisco of Natick, Massachusetts, received Francis Marion University’s Morgan B. Coker School of Business 2015 Outstanding Alumnus Award.

1988

Linden Construction named Charleston resident Jim Coman as vice president of finance, accounting and quality management.

1989

Anthony Ravenell of Monroe, North Carolina, is the owner of a state licensed private security and bodyguard services company in Atlanta, Georgia, and Fayetteville, North Carolina.

1990

Ameris Bank named Anna Arrowood Puckett of Savannah, Georgia, its vice president and regional treasury solutions officer.

Pren Woods, a teacher at Alston Middle School in Summerville, is helping to develop resources for National History Day that will assist educators in teaching World War II. Woods also was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study Mozart’s operas.

1995 The S.C. State Superintendent

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of Education named Rock Hill residents Denise Reeves Khaalid and Norris Williams ’03 to its Principal Advisory Council.

1996

Daniel Island resident Jay Karen is chief executive officer of the National Golf Course Owners Association.

Rockingham, North Carolina, resident Debbie Price joined Re/Max Southern Realty as a sales team member.

The congregation of Faith United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C., voted to call Arlecia D. Simmons as its new pastor.

Baltimore, Maryland, resident Andy Wilson is dean of academic and student services at Johns Hopkins University.

1997

Caroline Rust Ward was selected as a 2015 Affiliate Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art + Innovation.

1998

West Rowan Middle School Principal Nancy Hill Barkemeyer retired from the Salisbury, North Carolina, school.

The Fort Mill School District appointed Matthew Johnson as principal of Orchard Park Elementary School.

2000

Bryan Gant is a partner in White and Case’s Global Competition and Commercial Litigation Groups in New York.