Peach Packing by Wenonah Bell Mississippi Museum of Art

The Johnson Drove recently announced that the critically acclaimed, nationally touring exhibition Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Drove volition be on view at Wofford College Sept. vii to Dec. 18.

Spanning the decades between the late 1890s and early on 1960s, "Fundamental to Their Lives" examines the specially complex challenges Southern women artists confronted in a traditionally conservative region during a period in which women'due south social, cultural, and political roles were being redefined and reinterpreted.

Later on opening at the Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, the exhibition traveled to the Mississippi Museum of Fine art, Jackson; the Huntington Museum of Fine art, West Virginia; the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee; and the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, S Carolina.

The Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts at Wofford College in Spartanburg—the Johnson Collection's hometown—is the fifth stop on the exhibition'south vi-country, three-twelvemonth bout.

Among the works on view, several are of local interest including Wenonah Bong'southward Peach Packing, Spartanburg County captures the importance of women to South Carolina's thriving peach industry during the 1930s and 1940s and works past Spartanburg natives Margaret Police force, Josephine Couper, and Blondelle Malone speak to the artists' indelible legacy in their hometown and beyond.

Antipodal College welcomes half dozen new members to its Board of Trustees

Sandra "Sandy" Hartnett retired from 26 years of total-time teaching in 2001 and was a substitute teacher at the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind in Spartanburg. Hartnett received a available of arts caste in Psychology and a minor in Education of the Deaf in 1975 from Converse.

As a dedicated student-athlete, Hartnett competed on the basketball and field hockey teams while at Converse and served on the Athletic Association equally the secretary and vice president. She has been an engaged alumna of Converse, serving as a member of the Alumnae Board (2014-2017), belongings the 1970s Decade Representative and became the Spartanburg Alumnae Chapter Chair in May of 2017.

She is a staunch supporter of Converse Athletics through the Valkyries Lodge and tin be seen at many Converse Athletics games. Sandy'due south love of Converse and delivery to physical health is axiomatic: in 2015 she funded a educatee weight training room in the Montgomery Student Center, open to all students, dedicated to fellow alumna and sometime Educatee Government Clan president, Kayla Duran Manning '15. Because of her dedication to Converse, Sandy was awarded the Mae Elizabeth Kilgo Spirit Award in 2018.

Padrica Hopkins is a medical oncologist at the Georgia Cancer Specialists in Stockbridge, Georgia. She graduated from Converse in 1985 with a bachelor of arts caste in Chemistry, was a Junior Marshal, Academic Aide, and a member of Alpha Lambda Delta.

Specializing in women'south health issues and chest cancer, she earned her medical degree from the Academy of Florida, College of Medicine in 1990; completed her residency at Kaiser Permanente in Los Angeles, California; and completed her fellowship at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, California in 1995. She is a member of the American Gild of Clinical Oncology and the American Medical Association.

Karla Jones is the Director of Customer Success at Dynamic Indicate Engineering in San Bruno, California. After graduating from Converse in 1985 with her bachelor'due south degree, her leadership and positive impact are evident in the accolades she has earned.

She is a retired U.South. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel later on serving the Air Force for nearly 19 years, both in active duty and as a reservist. She also received her Masters in War machine and Strategic Leadership from USAF Air Command and Staff College, serving equally the Logistics Direction Operations Officer (1998-2009) and the Inspector Full general Officeholder (2009-2016). During her time with the United states Air Force, she was highly decorated—awarded two Air Force Meritorious Service Medals, 3 Air Force Citation Medals, the Air Force Accomplishment Medal, National Defense Service Medal, the Global State of war on Terrorism Service Medal, and the Armed Forces Reserve Medal.

She is affiliated with the Military Officers Association of America and the U.s. Air Forcefulness Silvery Eagles. She too holds a Masters of Public Administration from the University of Oklahoma. She has two daughters, Gabrielle and Italy Woodson. The Converse Board is looking frontward to Karla'due south expertise and her focus of retaining African American students and enhancing the higher's goal of producing passionate and global leaders making positive, lasting contributions to the world.

Tina Rohner is an Investment Specialist at the Asian Development Banking company (ADB), based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She works for ADB's Private Sector Financials Institutions Partitioning focusing on evolution impact capital to banks and microfinance institutions in developing Asia. Tina received her Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Arts in Politics from Converse in 2007 summa cum laude.

While at Converse, she had the opportunity to spend her summers studying at the American University in Dubai, Bard College, and Georgetown Academy thanks to the Nisbet Honors Program and the Chapman Study Abroad Scholarship. Originally from Germany, she had never been to the The states prior to arriving every bit a freshman at Converse. While a student, she was role of the Antipodal Tennis squad, the Nisbet Honors Program, Model Arab League, Model NATO, Rotaract, and the Presidential Leadership Program.

She founded the International Student Organization, served on the Student Athletic Advisory Committee, and was the Treasurer of the Educatee Government Association. Her involvement earned her many awards and accolades including membership in Alpha Lambda Delta, Gamma Sigma, Honors in Economics, Honors in Politics, Mortar Lath, Pi Gamma Mu, serving every bit a Junior Align, Presidential Ambassador, Carolinas-Virginia Athletics Briefing All-Conference Bookish Award, and the Mary Mildred Sullivan Award for Outstanding Citizenship in 2007.

After graduating from Converse, she pursued dual Master's degrees in Public Policy and Public Affairs at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and at Sciences Po Paris, graduating in 2009. Tina then spent 5 years working for Goldman Sachs in Singapore and San Francisco before joining the Asian Development Bank in 2014. She is a CFA Charterholder, a 2016 Millennium Fellow with the Atlantic Council, and speaks English, German, French, and Mandarin Chinese.

Emily Jones Rushing retired as the Managing director of Communications and Marketing at the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham in Birmingham, Alabama in 2013. She graduated from Antipodal in 1973 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Comparative Literature and earned her Principal of Arts in Classics from the University of Northward Carolina.

She has remained engaged in support of Antipodal as a past fellow member of the Alumnae Lath and by president of the Board of Visitors. She has been recognized with the Distinguished Alumnae Honour in 1985 and the Antipodal 100 Honour. Her dedication to her alma mater is evident with her institution of the Emily Jones Rushing Scholarship in 2001 for students with financial need and the support, with her husband Hugh, of the Converse Writing Center through the Jones-Rushing Endowment Fund.

Her career began in local news reporting and editing, primarily at The Birmingham News. She remains engaged in journalism as a founding board member and electric current lath president of the Alabama Establish for Independent Journalism/BirminghamWatch, one of more than 240 news nonprofits around the country.

Despite retiring, she remains involved with the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham as a donor and volunteer in the grant review process. Her electric current community activities in Birmingham include service on the vestry of St. Mary'due south on the Highlands Episcopal Church building and on the boards of Railroad Park Foundation, the Academy of Alabama at Birmingham Visual Arts, the YMCA of Greater Birmingham and the Woods Park Neighborhood Association.

David Smart is the Executive Vice President and Primary Financial Officer for Milliken & Company in Spartanburg. He joined the company in July 2019 and is responsible for finance, accounting, taxation, treasury, and information systems. Prior to joining Milliken & Company, he served equally the Master Financial Officeholder for the Pella Corporation and served on the Board of Directors with responsibleness for strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, financial functions, legal, information technology, and business insights.

He as well served the visitor for three years as the Chief Information Officer. Prior to working for the Pella Corporation, he spent twenty years with the Ford Motor Company in senior finance leadership roles with responsibilities in both the United kingdom and Australia. He is the past president of the Indiana University (IU) Kelley School of Business organisation Alumni Association and belongs to the IU CFO Roundtable.

Additionally, he holds a Master of Business organization Administration from the University of Michigan and a Available of Science in Finance, Business organisation Economics, and Public Policy from IU.

Converse College and the Board of Trustees thanked those members departing from the Board: Ken B. Howard (2000-2010; 2012-2020), Kim Varnadoe Kent '97 (2012-2020), J. Patrick O'Shaughnessy (2012-2020), and Jayne Steward Reuben, Ph.D. '85 (2012-2020).

Spartanburg Community Higher announces Summer 2020 Dean'due south List

The following Spartanburg Customs College students take earned dean's list honors for the summer 2020 semester.

• Steven H. Middlebrook of Barnwell;
• Jacob West. Patterson, Johnthomas L. Turner, both of Blacksburg;
• Brandon Colyer, Casey Fifty. Gillespie, Neva D. Gray, Nou Khang, Frederick B. Murray, II, Danielle Chiliad. Pandy, Mihirkumar South. Patel, Brooklynn Porter, Brenton Profera, Nicholas E. Watson, Jeffrey M. Burney, Mary Sol Yanez, Gerhard D. Buettner, Roquitta Moon, Christopher L. Pitts, all of Boiling Springs;
• Bruce M. Means of Buffalo;
• Devonne Westward. Blackwell, Edward R. Perry, Jr., Viktor P. Dzhur, all of Campobello;
• Jermaine E. Vicious of Carlisle;
• Morgan R. Grubbs, Jonathan K. Bishop, Megan E. Galt, Brittany L. Hord, Cody J. Hord, Shari Eastward. Houle, Christy S. Hood, James A. Burnett, Charlene Garcia, Tony D. Cobb, Jr., all of Chesnee;
• Tennyson B. Carter of Clover;
• James A. Coffey of Columbus, NC;
• Brooklyn S. Jarrett, Christopher B. Wiggins, Jr., Cursheena L. Smith, Nicholas C. Sparks, Brent Belue, Bryan A. Smalley, all of Cowpens;
• Brandon Clark of Drayton;
• Kevin D. Richardson, Dennis Antipkin, Jacob Noll, Jamesia 50. Downs, all of Duncan;
• William C. Hairdresser of Fletcher, NC;
• Dylan S. Burns, Robert Carling, Jasmine E. Davidson-Simpson, Ethan Guthrie, Christopher Z. Hines, Tonya C. Promise, Olivia L. Martin, Madison B. Moore, Kelvinisha 50. Tate, Shawnda L. Trowell, John R. Wilkins, Deana B. McDaniel, Tamerio Phillips, Rachel M. McMillen, Sonja I. Battleson, Yessica Calderilla, Patricia A. Davis, Morgan F. Keller, Rebekah L. McIntyre, Joshua A. Melaragno, Barry G. Norton, Laney Osment, Dakeia B. Rodgers, Ayden J. Spencer, Erica N. Stockwell, Zachary D. Whisonant, Janel E. White, Queston Tate, Valery Rodriguez, Beverly N. Kurka, Kimberly G. Palencia, John C. Cooper, all of Gaffney;
• Jeffrey Galdikas, Adam C. Alonso, Taylor Fifty. Hawkins, Anna M. Gerard, Brian K. McCraw, all of Greer;
• Natalie Fifty. Blackwell, Daniel B. Burgess, Abbey L. Daniels, Stephanie A. Dubey, Yegor I. Gussev, Parker A. High, Sarah B. Hughes, Marker N. Johnson, Kiranjit Kaur, Mariya F. Kuzmina, Angelina N. Moua, Daria Romanenko, Katrina Sullivan, Thomas A. Worsdell, Christopher L. Zimmerman, Veniamin N. Tsymbalyuk, Mary Azbell, Jordy Ocampo, Melissa Thompson, Shannon R. Cartee, Lindsey R. Houghton, Reginald L. Frye, Michael W. Crawford, John Stokes, Jonathon W. Varner all of Inman.
• Robert Yard. Brewington, Marcus 50. Smith, both of Jonesville;
• Michael Haggins of Lancaster;
• Coty S. Mercado of Landrum;
• Justin S. Clary of Lawndale, NC;
• Brittany J. Hernandez of Lockhart;
• Steven A. Owens of Lyman;
• Chidi Igollo-Ogele, Dhruvi A. Patel, Bernie Fifty. McHenry, all of Moore;
• Meaghan D. Burrell of Pacolet;
• James A. Smith of Pauline;
• Michael P. Marinucci of Piedmont;
• Dawn Grand. Schimelfanick of Reidville;
• Brittany M. Berrios, William C. Tate, Michael C. Greenbacks, Hannah Martin, Christopher B. Harvey, Jeffrey Lasso, all of Roebuck;
• Alicia C. Cano of Seneca;
• Shenika L. Ferguson, Brandice S. Gist, Arth R. Patel, Jaiminkumar Due south. Patel, Lizbeth Resendiz, Hunter A. Thomas, John M. Tinsley, Isabelle R. Williams, Hernan Zuniga, Daniel R. Clark, William C. Powell, Nicole G. Green, Kristina M. Suber, John Moua, Jose Gutierrez-Lopez, Nico D. Eccellente, Utsav 1000. Patel, Samantha R. Bretz, Heather 50. Mayne, Galia Thou. Rodriguez, Khammany J. Kenekham, Jacob H. Earls, Fidel E. Montanez, Arianna L. Gonzalez, Jillian D. Kennedy, Molly H. McKinney, Matthew D. Patton, Norma J. Stephens, Hudson W. Stronck, Brenda Costa, Mustafa H. Turk, Kasey L. Jackson, Daniel S. Seay, James Bodie, Michael A. Dowdell, Veronica C. Foster, Taylor Rice, Grayson Driver, Sudarshan Tamrakar, Kathy A. Thompson, Stephanie Thou. Ricketts, Brock H. Johnson, Phila Southward. Rex, Austin B. Phillips, Andrey F. Sakalosh, Jarred Northward. Seals, Zachary B. Wyatt, Matthew C. Seals, Tiffany D. Miller, Brandon R. McCraw, Robert H. Taylor, III, Natasha Fifty. Rodgers, Collin Due west. Gault, all of Spartanburg;
• Dakota K. Combs, Alexis L. Belanger, both of Startex;
• Adeline Blackwell of Taylors;
• Andrew C. Floyd, Marker Gilmore, Zachary L. Smith, all of Marriage;
• Easton L. Jenkins, Johnathan Watkins, Zbigniew N. Szalkiewicz, all of Wellford;
• Jacob A. Lewis, Alexander Chomsavanh, both of Woodruff.

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