FALL 2021

CLASS NOTES

1971 Caroline Mayo Roueche of Rock Hill was recognized by Rock Hill Schools upon her retirement after 50 years as an educator. She received a South Carolina Senate resolution in her honor.

1980 Dorman High School Volleyball Coach Paula Kirkland of Moore received her 1,000-career win, making her the second coach in South Carolina history to reach the milestone.

1987

Gwendolyn Gordon Lindsey of Rock Hill was named Assistant Principal of the Year at Sullivan Middle School and honored by Rock Hill Schools for the 2020-21 school year.

Mark Rodman of Lansing, Michigan, was appointed by Governor Gretchen Whitmer as the state historic preservation officer.

1988 Gail Wilson Awan of Columbia was appointed president and chief executive officer of the Urban League of the Upstate.

1990 Rock Hill resident Patrick Robinson will serve as administrator-on-call for Rock Hill Schools.

1991

Dana Cartrette Bruneau of Rock Hill joined Charter Communications in Charlotte, North Carolina, as an instructional designer.

1993 Toastmasters International presented Allegra Manigault of Conyers, Georgia, with the Award of Excellence in Program Quality for her exceptional work in District 14.

Anson County School Superinten- dent Howard McLean of Wades- boro, North Carolina, was named the 2021 North Carolina Healthy Schools Superintendent of the Year.

1995 S.C. Governor Henry McMaster presented Jennifer Jenkins Butler of Columbia with the Order of the Silver Crescent, South Carolina’s highest service award, for her longtime work with suicide prevention.

Kevin Hood of Rock Hill was named Rock Hill Schools’ Virtual Academy middle school administrator.

Rock Hill resident Brian Vaughan was named Rock Hill Schools’ chief of operations.

1997

Charlene Slaughter of Matthews, North Carolina, earned the Accredi- tation in Public Relations credential.

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1998 Laurens County School District 55 announced Kathy McMillan- Bennon as director of academic interventions.

1999 Abel Jackson III of Taylors was one of four artists that participated in the “Path of Portraits” at the Charlotte Museum of History in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Chip Newton of Rock Hill was named assistant principal of Saluda Trail Middle School.

2002 Leroy Springs & Co. announced John Gordon of Fort Mill as president and chief executive officer of Anne Springs Close Greenway.

Jacob Moree of Rock Hill was named principal of Oakdale Elementary School.

2003 Author, speaker and poet Rian Jenkins of Columbia has published a collection of poetry entitled “A Queen’s Heart.”

Sheleea Simon Leonard of Char- lotte, North Carolina, was named principal of Ebenezer Avenue Ele- mentary School.

Bradley Moore of Nashville, Ten- nessee, joined the Piedmont Players Theatre in Salisbury, North Carolina, as its managing director.

Sharonview Federal Credit Union in Indian Land promoted Casey Munn of Rock Hill to vice president of risk management.

Sylvester Owens of District Heights, Maryland, was promoted to director of estate planning at @humanrightscampaign in Washington, D.C.

2004

Bodybuilder and Personal Trainer Emmett Ballard of Waxhaw, North Carolina, competed for the Mr. Health and Fitness title, the largest and most prestigious online fitness competition sponsored by Muscle & Fitness.

Keller Williams Real Estate recognized Seniqua Breazeale Griffin of Lexington as the top- selling agent and she received the Most Prominent Agent Award for the first half of 2021.

WRHI Broadcaster and Rock Hill resident Chris Miller was elected by his peers for inclusion on the Our Three Sons Sports Wall of Fame.

Nakia Isreal Navarro of Lynn, Massachusetts, founded the Jean Charles Academy, a private school for students in pre-kindergarten through seventh grade.

2005

Victoria Carter of Laurel, Maryland, was appointed firm-wide leave administration manager at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Law Firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Rock Hill resident April Raysor Garvin earned a Master of Jurispru- dence degree from Loyola Universi- ty in Chicago, Illinois.

Ryan Milling of Florence was named principal of H.E. McCracken Middle School in Bluffton.

Adrian Anderson Rhodes of Hartsville was awarded the annual prize for contemporary art for her printmaking piece entitled “Pressing Voices.”

Stacy Siders Yancey of Asheboro, North Carolina, was selected as the 2021-22 president of the North Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists.

2006 Knoxville, Tennessee, resident Florence Brown Ndiaye has been appointed ombudsman for Knox County Schools.

Kannapolis City Schools named Christopher Triolo of Charlotte, North Carolina, as assistant superintendent.

Jermaine Whirl of Augusta, Georgia, has accepted a three-year appointment to the Human Capital Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, Georgia.

2007

Winthrop Associate Professor of Exercise Science Joni Marr Boyd of Rock Hill collaborated with Winthrop learning design and technology graduate students to create an online hub that hosts performance support tools for exercise science students.

2008

David Arraya of Austin, Texas, was appointed general manager at Etéreo, Auberge Resorts Collection, a luxury retreat in Riviera Maya at Kanai.