AlumniNotes 1999
Carrie Buchanan is principal of Hall Fletcher Elementary School in Asheville, NC. She had served as the school’s interim principal since September 2020.
Demetral McIIwain Butler is a member of the first Upper State Apartment Association Leadership Lyceum Class of 2022 along with 10 other multi-family industry leaders. She has been thriving in the multi-family industry of the Upstate for 10 years.
2000
Monica Bishop Bryant is the Assistant Real Estate Operations Manager at United Housing Connections in Greenville, SC.
Michael Chapple is the principal of Indian Creek Middle School in Covington, GA. He has more
than 15 years of experience in education. After college he pursued a career in television news as a production assistant and news photojournalist. With that experience, Chapple began his career in education, becoming a high school broadcasting teacher in the Clayton County School District. He later taught in the Cobb and Henry county school systems before returning to Clayton County as a digital learning specialist. In 2016, Chapple accepted the position as lead administrator for school- wide personalized learning implementation at Woodland Middle School in Fulton County Schools before joining the Newton County School System team in 2017 as an assistant principal at Newton High
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School. While at Newton High School, he served as the director of school operations, CTAE administrator, and assistant principal of ninth grade.
2001
Branton Burleson is an adjunct professor for the The College at Southeastern at the Fruitland Baptist Bible College campus.
Mary Evans Lane and her husband, Brant, along with their four children,
served as missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators at JAARS in Waxhaw, NC, from 2016 to January 2023. They have moved to a different ministry, serving as missionaries with Teen Missions International in Merritt Island, FL.
Emily Benjamin Raines recently received the Sales Leader of the Year Award for DRB Group/Dan Ryan Builders. DRB Group is the No. 28 largest builder in the nation. Emily is the director of sales and marketing and broker in charge for the Greenville division. After marrying Tyler Raines (’02), Emily started her real estate career in new construction 17 years ago. She has sold homes throughout the Upstate and has been in management for the last six years. She currently sits on the board of directors for the Greenville Home Builders Association.
2002
Trey Austin is the community engagement coordinator for Greer Relief. He is responsible for the Empowerment program (RENEW) services. RENEW, which stands for Reaching Every Neighbor Every Way, was launched in 2015 and is an education, enrichment, and life skills program open to the public. Volunteers offer to teach
classes in areas such as health and wellness, job skills, crafts, financial health, and more. Trey also serves as the coordinator for FoodShare at Greer Relief. FoodShare Greenville is a program that partners with local farms to provide fresh, healthy produce to the community, regardless of income.
Lauren Caldwell Price was chosen as a Cigna Community Ambassador Fellow to lead
an initiative bringing clean water to Lirhanzo Mission School in Zimbabwe. She won the fellowship from Cigna, her employer, last summer. Cigna, which employs 70,000 worldwide, selects 12-15 employees to be Cigna Ambassador Fellows each year. Fellows receive up to 12 weeks of paid leave and funding to complete their project. Price connected with her local school district, two local high schools, and a teacher in Indiana, all of whom are using her project for STEM lessons for their students. The plan is for students to create a final product that can be shared to raise awareness of water scarcity and this project.
2003
Dr. Chris Aiken recently was installed as the seventh senior pastor in the history of Englewood Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, NC. Previously, he served in churches in SC, NY, and FL. He also served as an adjunct professor of missions, evangelism, church planting, and biblical studies at the Baptist College of Florida.
Rev. Patrick Malphrus became moderator (president) of the General Synod of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in June 2021. He is the youngest to date to be elected to this office. Patrick is a pastor of Old Providence ARP in Spottswood, VA.
Lee Richardson is the chief compliance officer (CCO) for Creative Planning, a $90 billion Overland
Park, Kansas-based Registered Investment Advisor. Lee joined Creative Planning in March of 2020 and was promoted to CCO in July of 2021 after a five-year stint at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Richardson had worked as an auditor and later a compliance examiner at the federal regulator, which oversees the United States capital markets. He will now be responsible for overseeing Creative Planning’s compliance department in its entirety.
Mark Thomas joined New South Wealth Management, an investment consulting firm, in Charlotte, NC, as a financial associate.
Andy Vaughn is the associate athletics director for football player personnel and recruiting at
Arizona State University. He spent the previous two years at the University of Miami in a similar capacity. Vaughn was instrumental in three straight Top- 25 recruiting classes at Miami. The highlight was the 2021 Miami signing class that ranked No. 11 nationally by 247 Sports. Vaughn also had previous stints at Arizona, Nebraska, Nevada, and Middle Tennessee State. Vaughn earned a master’s degree in physical education and sports administration from Florida State University in 2005.
2004
Philip Turner (MCM ’14) former pastor of discipleship at First Baptist Church of Columbia, SC, is the director for church engagement at Connie Maxwell Children’s Home in Greenwood, SC.
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