ALUMNI NOTES 1965
Joyce Wood Capps retired from the Iredell County Partnership for Young Children in Statesville, NC, after serving for 10 years. She and her husband, Richard Capps, are living in Denver, NC.
1976 Sam Coates has served as minister of music at Pelham Road Baptist Church in Greenville, SC, for more than 20 years. His wife, Lucy, retired last year from Green- ville County Schools; now, she is enjoying being a nana to their two grandchildren, Bear and Rory. William, their oldest son, works for the YMCA. Patterson, their middle son, teaches at Hillcrest High School. And their youngest son, Jack, serves in the Marines.
1980 Patty Stevens Kerns accepted a position with the International Mission Board (IMB) as a masters missionary in 2017, after serving on several international mission trips to Romania, Panama, Nicara- gua, and Jordan and working with the Greenville Baptist Association over many years. She is now serv- ing in Panama with IMB’s Ameri- ca Connect, facilitating short-term mission trips for churches in the U.S.
1986 Cindi Rhodes has accepted a posi- tion with Signature HealthCARE in Louisville, KY, as director of quality of life and music therapist.
1993 John Lucas assumed command of USS Bulkeley during a ceremony
onboard the warship in Faslane, Scotland, on Aug. 17, 2018. Te U.S. Navy destroyer, homeport- ed at Naval Station Norfolk, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national securi- ty interests in Europe and Africa.
1996 Bryant Sims, pastor of First Mount Moriah Baptist Church in Greenwood, SC, is the current president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention. After serving as president-elect for one year, Sims officially took office as the convention’s president at the conclusion of its annual meeting last fall.
1998 Dani Dickerson is teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at Riverside Middle School in Greer, SC.
Josh Powell was voted presi- dent-elect of the South Carolina Baptist Convention’s 2019 Annual Meeting. Powell is the pastor of Lake Murray Baptist Church in Lexington, SC.
2001 Corey Fountain has been named head football coach at Clinton High School in Clinton, SC.
Lance Stockton serves as the visu- al and performing arts coordinator for Aiken County Public School District (ACPSD). ACPSD has re- cently partnered with the Mr. Hol- land’s Opus Foundation (MHOF) and its Music Education District Support Services (MEDSS), be-
coming the only school district in South Carolina with this partner- ship. Te partnership includes pro- gram audit, instrument inventory audit, community engagement, professional development, and consultation and provides the school with an opportunity to apply for grants to improve music education access across the district. Stockton also recently started an adjunct position with the Uni- versity of South Carolina Aiken, where he teaches junior-level music education majors.
2002 Laura Brooks co-teaches with her husband, Douglas Brooks, at York Comprehensive High School. She teaches all of the horn line and winds students, as well as jazz class. Last spring, the Brooks took 140 students on a three-city tour to Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia. While in New York, their honors wind ensemble played the great stage of Carnegie Hall.
2003 Ben Herod has been named head of school of Tomas Heyward Academy in Ridgeland, SC, for the 2020-21 school year. He will be the assistant head of school for the 2019-20 school year. Herod is currently assistant principal to lower, middle, and high school at Laurence Manning Academy in Manning, SC. He also serves as the academy’s athletic director and teaches several classes.
Bill Sherrill continues to compose and publish church music. Two of his church pieces were premiered by Upstate choirs in 2018.
2004 Brett Ensley worked as music editor for the short film “Te Hastings,” released in 2018. “Te Hastings” is a suspense drama by filmmaker Miguel Miller about the anguish of a mother whose baby’s mysterious disappearance sends her into a world where surreal dreams are only a door to reality. Te film stars actors Marcela Her- rera, Dean DeVito, and Joanne Flovella. Ensley has previously also worked on the music for the documentaries “Te Sereer: Des- perately Trying to Please God” and “Lawman of Simpsonville.”
Derek and Lauren Nelson cur- rently serve in Cape Verde, Africa, through Global Year. In their role, they host students during a gap year while also spreading the gospel and making disciples among the unreached people in the nation.
Tara Tally Smith was awarded a Master of Social Work from the University of New England in Maine on Aug. 31, 2018.
2005 Matthew Rollins, co-owner of Anchor Bat Company in Green- ville, SC, partnered with an active duty U.S. Navy SEAL to create hand-painted camouflage bats used in the 2018 Major League Baseball Players’ Weekend. After Players’ Weekend, the bats went on auction. Proceeds benefited One More Wave, a nonprofit that provides wounded or disabled veterans customized equipment and assistance so they can enjoy surfing and ocean therapy. Rollins
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