ALUMNI NOTES
1962 Harvey Tankersley has been named to South Carolina Basketball Coaches Association’s (SCBCA) Hall of Fame. He began his career in 1964 at North Greenville, where he compiled a record of 138-68. He went on to serve as head boys’ basketball coach at Eastside High School and had a 406-215 record over 25 years. Under his direction, Eastside became state runner-up in 1977 and 1985. Tanker- sley was inducted into SCBCA’s Hall of Fame on March 15 in conjunction with the North-South All-Star Game Banquet in Columbia, SC. Tankersley is also a member of NGU’s Athletic Hall of Fame.
1966 James Cotney — pastor at Park Road Baptist Church in Prosperity, SC — has recently been appointed as national chaplain to the 173rd Airborne Brigade Association. In this role, he will minister to thousands of combat veterans, both nationally and internationally. After graduation from North Greenville, Cotney volunteered to enter the U.S. Army as a combat medic and paratrooper. He served as a medic with the 173rd Airborne Brigade. After medical discharge, he graduated with a BSN from the University of South Carolina and then attended Midwestern Seminary.
1972 Judge Donna Scott Davenport was recently nominated by the Junior League of Murfreesboro to receive the ATHENA Leadership Award. She was elected as one of only eight elected independent juvenile court judges for the state of Tennessee in 2000. Cur- rently, Davenport is serving her third elected eight-year term as juvenile
court judge for Rutherford County. She has also served as an adjunct professor with the Criminal Justice Department at Middle Tennessee State University since 1995. She has served on the bench for almost 20 years, also participating in various civic groups.
1977 Tony Cadden was inducted to the Charleston Baseball Hall of Fame in 2019. He previously played base- ball at Country Day High School, winning three state championships, and then played infield at North Greenville. Following college, he coached recreation baseball on James Island, SC, eventually taking the South Carolina College All-Stars to the Summer Collegiate World Series. Cadden coached the American Legion Post 147 baseball team for 20 years, raising over $100,000 to fund the program. He led Post 147 teams to a pair of state runner-up titles, with more than 100 of his players going on to play collegiately and eight to play professionally. Currently, he serves as an associate scout for the New York Mets and an assistant baseball coach for Porter-Gaud School.
1992 Blair Waddell delivered the 2019 annual lecture at the Evangelical Library in London on “Te Biblicism of William Jay (1769-1853).” Previous lecturers at this prestigious occasion have included Carl Trueman, Iain Murray, F.F. Bruce, and Martyn Lloyd Jones. Waddell is a 2005 MDiv grad- uate of the Southern Baptist Teo- logical Seminary, and he received his PhD from the University of Stirling in 2013. He is currently the senior pastor of Providence Baptist Church in Huntsville, AL.
1996 Jose Rondon is a chaplain at the Fort Leonard Wood Army base, where nearly 5,000 soldiers and trainees professed faith in Christ in 2018. Rondon was also a featured guest at the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Conference on Feb. 21-24, 2019.
1998
Chris McCants has been hired as the principal of Florence Chapel Middle School in Spartanburg, SC. Former- ly, McCants served as principal at Beech Springs Intermediate School for three years. He began his career in education as an English teacher at Florence Chapel Middle School before being promoted to assistant principal. McCants holds a master’s in English from Troy University and a master’s in educational leadership from Furman University.
Lamont Sullivan (MCM ’13) has returned to his alma mater as director of alumni engagement. (See full story on Page 22.)
1999 Travis Kerns, former North American Mission Board missionary and church planter, has been named to the faculty of Southwestern Baptist Teological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX, as an associate professor of apologetics and world religions. He is the author of “Te Saints of Zion: An Introduction to Mormon Teology.”
2001 Corey Fountain has been named Clinton High School’s head varsity football coach for the 2019-20 school year. Fountain was previously the head football coach at Lamar High
School in Lamar, SC, where he led his team to several consecutive winning seasons. Te 1A team was Region and Upper State Champions in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. In 2015 and 2017, they were also the 1A Division II State Champions. Fountain has been recognized as Region Coach of the Year, South Carolina’s High School Sports Report Regional Coach of the Year, Class A Upper State Coach of the Year, and South Carolina High School League Coach of the Year.
Mary Evans Lane and her family have recently moved to serve at Jungle Aviation and Radio Service (JAARS) in Waxhaw, NC, where they serve as missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators. Mary’s husband, Brant Lane, is the interim director of land transportation. His job focuses on training other missionaries who are going overseas in maintaining and op- erating their vehicles. Mary is a writer with the communications department at JAARS. Teir family’s main goal in serving is to support Bible translation efforts around the world. Tey have four children: Annabelle, Allison, Jonathan, and Jesse.
2002 John Polk was the recipient of the 2019 Young Democrats of South Carolina Award, awarded at the party’s annual convention held on May 4, 2019, in Summerville, SC.
2003
Christopher Aiken graduated from Te Southern Baptist Teological Seminary with a Doctor of Education in December 2018. His area of focus was organizational leadership and church revitalization. Currently, he serves as assistant pastor of Englewood
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