Chuck Haynes was appointed director of York County’s Emergency Management office in Rock Hill.

2001

Savannah Magazine and Business honored HunterMaclean Partner Rachel Young Fields as a 2015 Generation NEXT: Savannah’s Rising Star of Business.

Winthrop’s College of Business Administration named Celeste Plyler Tiller its director of external relations.

John Paul Yates was named regional manager for Great AuPair.

2002

Military Spouse magazine announced Stacey Ayers Benson of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, as the 2015 Armed Forces Insurance Coast Guard Spouse of the Year.

Tri-County Technical College named Jennifer Beattie Hulehan as one of its Educators of the Year.

Tim Kaine joined Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, as an assistant basketball coach.

2003

Antwan Calloway received a Master of Public Health degree from Walden University and received a promotion as imports inspector with the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in southern New Jersey.

2004

“Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics”

was authored by Lakeyta Bonnette of Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Scott Douglas Melton was named vice president of individual giving at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland.

2005

Matt Lochel of Greenville is director of media and content strategies at Jeff Dezen Public Relations.

2006

Daniel Hudson of Brunswick, Maine, has been named lead photographer for Quad Graphics at the dedicated L.L. Bean photo studio.

Jermaine Whirl of Snellville, Georgia, earned his Doctor of Education in organizational leadership from Valdosta State University.

2007

Mercedes-Benz Research & Development, in Sunnyvale, California, promoted Ashley Gary-Roper to human resources business partner.

The Theta Chapter of Phi Beta Mu presented Ben Hingle, now director of the Rock Hill High School band, with the S.C. Young Band Director Award.

Miami, Florida, resident Jorge Padilla is president of the city’s Financial Planning Association.

2008

Tulsa, Oklahoma, resident Melissa Kinyon is a licensed marriage and family therapist.

2009 Betsy Bennett Hare of

Charleston was selected as the Google for Education Spotlight Educator for the company’s February newsletter.

Mychal Frost of Rock Hill is director of communications for Rock Hill Schools.

Jillian Wright of Herkimer, New York, is the account coordinator in sponsor services with the New York Yankees.

2011

Rock Hill resident Anna Douglas was named the 2014 S.C. Journalist of the Year by the S.C. Press Association and was the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Journalism Award by the Greater Charlotte Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools appointed Lynanne Gabriel as principal at Barnette Elementary School in Huntersville, North Carolina.

2012

U.S. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Kimberly Backmon graduated from basic training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.

Bryan Dillon of Fort Mill is director of communications for the Clover School District.

Julie Thompson received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Agapé Hospice named Matt Whitehead as executive director of its Charleston site.

2013

Rock Hill sculptor Matt Horick was awarded a public

art commission in Rock Hill and selected as an artist for the McColl Center for Art + Innovation’s summer residency program.

Bridget Kirkland accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor of graphic design at the University of South Carolina Upstate.

Billie Jean Shaw is a reporter with WIS-TV in Columbia.

2014

Destinee Johnson was chosen by the Knowles Science Teaching Foundation as a member of the 2015 cohort of Teaching Fellows and began her first year of teaching at Westside High School in Anderson.

Eric Ruth joined the Trenton Thunder baseball team and was named the Eastern League Pitcher of the Week.

When she crossed the stage during the December 2014 Commencement ceremony, Rachel Elizabeth Stokes became a fourth generation Winthrop alumna. Other Winthrop graduates in the family include her great-grandmother,Mildred Cox Merchant ’26; her grandmother, Nancy Carolyn Merchant Brunson ’55; and her mother, Nancy Lynn Brunson Stokes ’83, ’90.

2015

Emily Boissonneault was hired as an assistant women’s lacrosse coach at James Madison University.

Elizabeth Oswald-Sease of Winnsboro graduated with a Master of Art in history from Winthrop.

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