ALUMNI NOTES


1981 Rev. Terry Fowler and his wife, Terri Fowler (’81), serve as directors of Te Good Samaritan Colony, an eight-bed residential substance abuse treatment center in Ruby, SC. At the colony, men hear the gospel daily, and many have become Christians. At Te Colony Cabinet Shop, the men in the program build professional-quality cabinets from solid wood and install in the client’s home or business. If a man completes the one-year program, he will receive a check for five percent of the profits from Te Colony Cabinet Shop upon his graduation. If the shop clears $20,000 in profit during 2020, each man will receive a $1,000 check at his graduation to help set him up for success in his next chapter of life.


1983 Camilla (Gibson) Pitman — city clerk of the City of Greenville, SC — was elected to the Board of Directors of the International Institute of Municipal Clerks on May 22, 2019, during the institute’s annu- al conference in Birmingham, Alabama. (See the full story on Page 24.)


1996 Curtis Johnson received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from the NGU Alumni Association. Johnson has served as senior pastor of Valley Brook Outreach Baptist Church in Pelzer, SC, since 1993.


John LeGrand was recently named the Southeast Learning Community Principal of the Year. He has served as principal of Butler High School in Mat- thews, NC, for the past six years. LeGrand taught for four years in Lancaster, SC, before beginning his tenure in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools as a social studies teacher in 2013. He served as an assistant principal at J.M. Alexander Middle School, Indepen- dence High School, and Bain Elementary School, where he became principal before moving to Butler.


Jose Rondon was the guest speaker at the 15th Annual Prayer Service for Missouri Government Leaders in January 2020. Te event marked the first day of the new session of the General Assembly. Rondon gave the charge to the gathered lawmakers


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and citizens. He formerly served as a chaplain at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, where he witnessed thousands of Army trainees and soldiers profess faith in Christ. Now, Rondon serves as a regimental chaplain at the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY.


1998 Jason Ross (MBA ’08) was recently promoted to major and the new 2nd Battalion Commander for the Upstate with the South Carolina National Guard. His area of operation is 14 counties. Ross’ battalion was deployed in January to support local law enforcement and emergency management after a tornado hit North Central High School in Kershaw, SC.


1999 Andrew “Drew” Chisholm has been named athletic director at Berea High School in Greenville, SC. Chisholm played football for NGU from 1995 to 1999. He has spent the past 12 years as an educator, assistant football coach, and, beginning in 2013, head football coach at Blacksburg High School, with prior stops at Wren and T.L. Hanna High Schools.


2000 Jacob Frick is a fishing excursion guide and captain in Ocean Isle Beach, NC.


2002 Dr. Dawn (Montgomery) Hooker received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from the NGU Alumni Association. Hooker serves as principal of East North Street Academy of Mathematics and Science with Greenville County Schools.


2004 Chaplain Captain Adam Langley recently returned from his second combat deployment to the Middle East, where he ministered as a chaplain to U.S. service members as they liberated men, women, and children from terrorist control.


Ashley O’Shields moved to Tunisia, North Africa, in September 2019 to teach English with the organization


English Language Institute China (ELIC). O’Shields will be learning Arabic, as well as teaching English at a community center. She previously taught music in Cambodia from 2016 to 2018.


2005 Amber Harvey was named the varsity softball head coach at Hartsville High School in Hartsville, SC. Harvey’s experience includes serving as the Red Fox- es’ varsity softball assistant coach last season, when the team won the Class 4A State Championship. She is a graduate of Hartsville High and the current Dixie Youth Baseball president for Hartsville.


2006 Ashley Bowers received the South Carolina Financial Literacy Master Teacher Program’s Educator of the Month Award in January 2020 from the South Carolina State Treasurer’s Office. Tis statewide financial literacy initiative aims to educate more teachers about the im- portance of incorporating personal finance education into their classrooms.


Heath Ward has been named the new director of the Saluda County Library in Saluda, SC. Ward has 10 years of experience in public libraries, previously working in Spartanburg County and Pickens County. He received his undergraduate degree in Christian Studies from NGU and his Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of South Carolina.


2007 Hunter Conrad took the reins of local government in St. Johns County, FL, late last year as interim county administrator and then stepped up to fill the position permanently after a month on the job. Conrad completed his bachelor’s degree in account- ing at NGU and his law degree at Florida Coastal School of Law.


Krystal Tucker Ribble has published her first book, “Te Church’s Orphans: How the Church Can Protect Couples Longing for Parenthood,” which is geared towards church leaders, as well as family and friends who want to care for couples who are


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