Remaining:
April TBD, 2010 Alumni Spring Luncheon for Seniors
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Myers Gallery – S & A Bldg

April 29, 2010 Alumni Executive Board Meeting
8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
Science and Art - Conference Room

May 13, 2010 Alumni Board Meeting
Year in Review
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Conference Room – S & A Bldg

*Tom Allen ‘89 President 706-543-4893 hm
706-552-2063 wk
tom_allen@ml.com

*Greta Terrell Covington ‘82 Vice-President 706-548-0039
gretat@mindspring.com

*Jay Boswell ‘88 Past President 706-549-3403
jay.boswell@boswellgroup.org

Frieda Barber Clarke ‘83 Campaign Co-Chair 706-549-5974
clarkef@charter.net

Henry Garrard ‘92 706-613-1865
hgg4@earthlink.net

Andrew Herrin ‘86 706-546-6801
ahherrin@charter.net

Kim Elder Holt ‘91 706-206-8468
kimeholt@chcarter.net

Rodney Howell ‘94 706-353-3523
rodneyhfg@gmail.com

Von Massey ‘80 706-548-0999
fvmassey@yahoo.com

Eddie Nichols ‘90 706-227-1283 hm
706-543-5151 wk
enichols@nicholsland.net

Beth Strickland Thomas ‘90 706-453-4569
beth.thomas@greene.k12.ga.us

Corky Warner ‘90 706-543-4116
cwarnerjpm@charter.net

*Alumni Executive Committee

Mallory Moye was recently selected for voiceover work for new set of television ads for DSW Shoe Warehouse. Mallory is the voice of the “gray shoe” as well as the announcer at the end of all of the commercials. She is a recent graduate of the Stella Adler Studio at New York University and is a 2005 graduate of Athens Academy. The DSW ads can be seen on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr9OiGvF0aM&feature=related

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The following classes are scheduled for reunions. Email the class contact or Debbie Daniel if you are interested in volunteering or would like additional information.

35th Reunion – Class of 1974 – Contact Page Gunn Pate at 706-369-8156

30th Reunion – Class of 1979 – Contact Louise Tillman at lptillman@bellsouth.net

25th Reunion – Class of 1984 – Contact Whitney Winburn Goodstone
at whitney@wirko.com or cell number 706-207-2923

20th Reunion – Class of 1989 – Contact Allison Bishop Hays at allisonhays@charter.net

15th Reunion – Class of 1994 – Contact Cullen Albright O’Steen at
cullenmurphydesign@comcast.net or
cell number 706-621-1230

10th Reunion – Class of 1999 – Contact Ginna Duncan Ezernack
at ginna.ezernack@gmail.com or number 706-202-0493

5th Reunion – Class of 2004 – Contact Sara Lloyd at saraclloyd@gmail.com or
Gini Eldridge at ginieldridge@gmail.com

Dr. John G. Hollingsworth Mathematics Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mathematics Studies, Mathematics Department

and the

Dr. and Mrs. Larry A. Cohen Scholarship for Outstanding Academic Record, Premedical Studies Program

We are proud of you! Congratulations!

Miss American Angus 2009, Katie Gazda

Kendall is native of Madison, a 2005 graduate of Athens Academy in Athens, and is daughter of Guerry and Joan Sherwood.

Kendall will receive her Bachelor of Arts from Clemson where she attended as a Presidential Scholar and maintained a perfect 4.0 in her four years of study there. She will receive the Faculty Scholarship Award upon graduation. Other scholarships included the Presidential Scholarship, Philip H. Prince Scholarship, and the 1950 Golden Anniversary Scholarship.

As a Production Studies in Performing Arts Major, Kendall has written several full length plays, including “Wade and Women” and “Prison Play”. “Wade and Women” will be produced in part in May at the New Works Festival in Valencia, CA. Another of her works, “This side UP,” was chosen as one of 7 plays nationally to be studied at the WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory in 2007. Her past mentor, Athens Academy Drama Department Chair, Ms. Lorraine Thompson, chose “This Side UP” to be performed by Athens Academy in their annual One Act Play Competition.

The Department of Performing Arts at Clemson has recognized Kendall as the “Outstanding Student in Performing Arts Theatre Award” winner for this year. Additionally, she received the “Arthur and Myra Fear Theatre Award” presented by the Clemson Players, the University’s theatre organization.

Kendall plans to continue her education and graduate studies in the Writing for the Screen and Stage MFA program at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois in the fall of 2009.

The induction ceremony with a reception following it
was held Tuesday, March 31 at The Magnolia Ballroom
in the GCSU Student Activities Center. Amanda is the
daughter of Dale and Rita Knight.

She is shown with her grandmother, Mrs. Louis Gomez, Jr., following
the Alpha Lambda Delta Awards Ceremony.

Well done Rachel!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ewvdeb_D9zU

Tyler Brantley, a member of Athens Academy's Class of 2005 and a senior at The University of the South: Sewanee, was recently named Middle Tennessee’s top scholar-athlete at the National Football Foundation’s Middle Tennessee Chapter awards dinner in Nashville. Brantley received the CR Bickerstaff/Coach Bill Pace University Scholar-Athlete Award for his “scholarship, sportsmanship and value to the team.” Brantley is also a Charles W. Hawkins and Joe C. Davis Collegiate Scholar-Athlete.
Tyler Brantley is a natural resources major and has played defensive back for the Sewanee Tigers for four years, during which time he was named to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference’s academic honor roll every year. At Sewanee, he is a Wilkins Scholar and a member of the Order of Gownsmen, and he has served as president of the Honor Council and VP of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. Brantley also taught schoolchildren in Tanzania, climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and volunteers through his fraternity and his church.

24th Annual Spartan 5K
Saturday,February 14, 2009
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One might think a summer spent teaching English to African grade schoolers would have limited future applications for someone hoping to become a college football coach in America.
Tyler Brantley, a 2005 Athens Academy graduate who recently completed his final college season playing defensive back at Sewanee, says that couldn't be further from the truth.
"Wherever you go and whoever you're around, you have the opportunity to positively influence the situations you encounter," Brantley said. "That's something that I think if you take that outlook and you take that approach to anything you're doing, whether it's coaching or teaching or working with kids in Africa, you can't get anything but the best out of the situation from both ends."
That philosophy was only reinforced by Brantley's adventures nearly 8,100 miles from his hometown of Danielsville.
Brantley and Beau Gilmore, his childhood friend and teammate on the Athens Academy football team, spent most of May and June of 2007 working in Moshi, Tanzania - a town at the base of the highest mountain on the African continent, Mount Kilimanjaro.
They volunteered to work in the country through an organization called Cross-Cultural Solutions, whose programs throughout Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America center on education, healthcare, caregiving and community development.
For Gilmore, a biology and exercise science student at Georgia who plans to enter medical school, that meant work in many medical capacities - from duties in a rural clinic, to offering vaccinations and supplementation, to helping test for AIDS, which has become a major medical epidemic in the area.
It engendered in him the desire to one day return to the area and provide further assistance to a community whose optimism in the face of sometimes crippling poverty was inspirational.
"I have such a great desire to go back there in serve in some capacity, just because preventable disease is the No. 1 killer there - particularly dehydration," Gilmore said. " ... Knowing that we have treatments and that Western medicine can cure this and just bridging that gap between availability and economic insufficiency is something I really want to try to do."
Meanwhile Brantley, who hopes to become a coach and teacher following graduation from Sewanee in May, spent much of his time teaching his native language in a small room brimming with energetic fifth- and sixth-grade children at Pasua Primary School.
Taking charge of four classes with approximately 60 children apiece was an experience in itself, but Brantley was moved by the children's inquisitiveness.
"They were some of the most eager kids I've ever encountered in terms of wanting to learn and really having the initiative to take care of what they needed to," he said.
Witnessing that attitude, he said, was among the most rewarding experiences of the trip. Spending a portion of his summer in that community - and a few additional weeks there after their volunteer commitment had ended, hiking Kilimanjaro and visiting the country's neighboring island, Zanzibar - offered a fresh perspective to a young American citizen.
"I think anytime you're put in situations where you're struggling to take care of basic needs, that kind of stuff, community comes out of that," Brantley said. "I think we have in the U.S. and a lot of Westernized nations, we have a lot of individualistic approaches to those kinds of things.
"We're not worrying about where we're gonna get food or water from to put on the dinner table, for the most part. ... Over there, some of that draws them together."
The trip to Tanzania was just one of the numerous campus and community service activities that occupied much of Brantley's time in college. He credits his parents, John and Patty, and the emphasis placed on serving others at Athens Academy and Sewanee for instilling in him the importance of helping others.
Because of that commitment, Brantley was among 22 college players from across the nation named to the American Football Coaches Association's Good Works Team, which was recently recognized at halftime of the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
While Brantley was no slouch as a football player, leading the NCAA Division III Tigers in tackles with 71, the Good Works nomination process places no emphasis on on-field achievement.
Big names like Heisman Trophy runner-up Colt McCoy of Texas - who traveled on Peru on a mission trip and actively volunteers with Fellowship of Christian Athletes - made the list, but so did lesser-known players like Northern Colorado defensive back Michael Van Portfliet, who donated bone marrow to an anonymous 26-year-old female patient in honor of a former teammate, Sam Safken, who died of leukemia.
The opportunity to meet his fellow football Good Works Team members in New Orleans was a thrilling way to complete his college career, Brantley said.
"They were all just a phenomenal group of men," he said.
Now with graduation rapidly approaching, Brantley is setting his sights on future goals. Beginning this week, that includes an active search for a graduate assistant position as a college football coach or another such teaching internship.
It's a profession Brantley's traveling partner believes will suit him well, following the lessons they learned much closer to home - from their Athens Academy coach, Michael Gunn.
"(Gunn) loves his players for so many reasons," Gilmore said. "I became a coach (at Athens Academy) the year after I graduated. I know how much he cares about those boys and I know Tyler would care just as much about their academics and their personal development.
"He'd be that well-balanced coach that encourages them in the classroom and on the field and puts the academics first, because that's the way it needs to be."
It didn't take a trip to teach in Africa for Brantley, a recognized scholar at Sewanee, to prove his commitment to education. But he may have needed that experience to fully understand just how much progress can be made when a teacher with a giving heart encounters a pupil with a willing mind and an enthusiastic spirit.
It's a lesson that applies for teachers everywhere, whether at Athens Academy or Pasua Primary School in Moshi, Tanzania.

Headmaster Bob Chambers with Sewanee students and Athens Academy Class of 2005 alumni Andy Jarrett, Michael Mansfield, and Tyler Brantley.

Associate Head J.P. Watson with Athens Academy Headmaster Bob Chambers and Father John Thomas '84.