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Soden Brothers
Will lead Alumni Drive
Dr. Kevin Soden has been
named National Chairman of
the Alumni Annual Fund
Campaign. Brendan Soden will
serve as co-chairman.
The Soden brothers will aid
the College in the Annual Fund
Drive. The Annual Fund is
composed of restricted and
unrestricted gifts given by
alumni, corporations, foun
dations and friends of Belmont >
Abbey College. The alumni
portion of the Annual Fund
Campaign will be kicked off in
early November.
Kevin received the B.A.
degree in history from Belmont
Abbey in 1967, and the Master’s
in higher education from
Florida State University in 1%9.
He then returned to the Abbey
to complete his science
requirements in order to enter ■
the University of Florida
Medical School.
Kevin completed his
residency at Charlotte
Memorial Hospital this past
July in Family Practice and is
currently working in Family
and Emergency Medicine. He
and his wife Hope have three
children and are residing in
Belmont.
Brendan received, the B.A.
degree in psychology from the
Abbey in 1971. He is currently
with the Secret Service in New
York City, on assignment with
the Unit^ Nations.
During the presidential
campaign Brendan traveled
around the country with many
of the candidates. Among his
other assignments, he traveled
with Henry Kissinger on one of
his Middle East trips.
KCVm SODEN
BRENDAN SODEN
NEW FACULTY MEMBERS. Islwiitii M BM Ih* Imk. m
(seated) Dr. Monica Minton, Dr. Russell Fowler, and Mrs. Carol'
Harkey. Standing are George Kennedy and Dr. John Tatschl.
(Lawrence Walsh not pictured).
AtlMNI NEWS AUMM
NEWS AUMNI news
’48 “ Joseph Farenti and his wife Virginia stopped by
the Abbey on September 6. He is quality assurance
officer for Daniel International Construction Co.,
which builds nuclear power plants. They have eight
children, four boys and four girls, and live in Dothan,.
Alabama.
’58 - Thank you, Joe llerrity, for your letter written
August 4 from Bangkok. Becky visited him there in
March and Joe spent a month in Florida. He is a Major
in the Army serving with the joint U.S. Military Ad
visory Group in Bangkok. He will be assigned in Oc
tober to Homestead AFB, Florida, and plans to retire
August 1,1979, with Becky and daughter Luann and son
David to Augusta, Georgia.
’59 “ Enjoyed chatting with Harold Davis when he
called to inquire about another alumni trip. He is
personnel director for Parkdale Mills in Gastonia, and
he and Betty have one child, Amy, who is seven years
old. Congratulations to Jim Babb, who has been
promoted to executive vice president of Jefferson-Pilot
Broadcasting Co. (WBT and WBTV), effective
January 1.
'60 - Gary Cannon has been appointed divisional
market manager of construction for the fiber glass
division of PPG Industries. He joined PPG in 1960 as
production supervisor at the fiber glass plant in Shelby
and has been branch manager in Charlotte since 1973.
Congratulations!
’61 - Steve iiodulik came by on Labor Day to tell me
that he and Anne and their three children, Stephen,
who is ten, John, eight, and Paul, five, are moving to
Cincinnati where Steve will be regional sales manager
for the mid-central states with Blue Bell, Inc.
Congratulations, Steve, and we will miss your visits
while you were living in Charlott^.
’63 - It was so good to have news of Bister R«se
(iregory Ryan when Virginia and Jnaeph Parent! (’48)
stopped by in September. Sister is (XD coordinator
and in social ministries at St. Cokimba’s Qumch in
Dothan, Alabama. Do keep in touch. Sister; we don't
want to lose you again - and that goes for all the
alumni!!
’64 ~ Wbitaey Norton stopped by the Abbey on
September 12. He is interested in starting a B.A.C.
alumni chapter in the New York and New Jersey area.
’66 - Thanks to Richard Zittel for stopping by the
Abbey on September 14 to share his ideas on alumni
activities up North.
’67 - Congratulations to Cindy and Ed McGarry on
the arrival of their second daughter on January 22. .
They live in Tucson, Arizona.
’68 - (Congratulations and best wishes to Felipe
Villalon and Mayra Teresa Farias, who were married
August 27. Felipe is with Wachovia Services in Win
ston-Salem, where they are living. Congratulations to
Maureen and Tom Burch on the arrival of Michael
Martin on September 20. They have a daughter Kristy
Ann, who is three years old, and they live in
Poolesville, Maryland. Congratulations also to Patrick
M. and Catherine L. Blevins on the arrival of Jennifer
Nicole on September 12.
’69 - Bill Scholly is with the Georgia State Depart
ment of Corrections in Milledgeville. He is coordinator
of Adjustment Services with the Earned Release
Center.
’71 - (Congratulations to Al Jacobs, who has been
named assistant manager in the Charlotte office of
New York Life Insurance Co. He joined the company
as an agent in Gastonia in January 1976. In his new
position he will be responsible for the selection and
development of new agents. George Horner is Far
Eastern District Manager of Abbot Pharmaceuticals
based in Singapore, where he and Susan and son
Geoffry, age seven, are living. They have moved eight
times in the last ten years, mostly in northeastern
United States. Bob Fondy received the B.A. degree
from UNC-Charlotte last spring and is currently
training in Jacksonville, Florida with HUD as an ap
praiser. He will be working in Greensboro beginning in
February. Thanks, Elaine (SHC ’70) for sending the
news, and hope you will both like Greensboro.
Congratulations to Susan Eileen Sanders and Dr. I>eo
steplMii Frawley, who were married on August 20.
They will live in Decatur, Georgia.
’73 - Tom WHkerson is service representative of
North Carolina National Bank in (Charlotte, where he
and Betty Ruth live. It was good to see Mike Powers
when he stopped by the Abbey during his vacation. He
is working with IBM, and his wife Mary (SHC 75) is
teaching in New York.
’74 - Houston Matthews has been ordained an
Episcopal minister and is Assistant Rector at
Ascension Episcopal Church in Lafayette, Louisiana,
and is also serving as chaplain at Southwestern
Louisiana Institute in Lafayette. He and Sharon have
one child.
’75 “ Congratulations and best wishes to John
Monaco and Anne Michele Bogan (’77), who were
married September 17 in Belmont Abbey Cathedral.
John is with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell fcCo., one of the
“Big Eight” accounting firms in the United States, in
Charlotte, and Anne Michele is working at Mercy
Hospital. Tom Harlan is assistant city manager of
Brentwood, Tennessee. He received his Master’s in
Public Administration from Middle State Tennessee
University. Jean Marie Kilpatrick is teaching at Our
Lady of Lourdes in Miami, Florida. Joe Coffey is
General manager of Southern Merchandising, Inc. in
Charlotte. Jack Monaghan is with A&S in New York as
a management trainee in men’s clothing and taking a
course at Hofstra University in management. He and
Judy Harlan (’77) live in Whitestone, and Judy is a
pension benefit analyst with New York Life Insurance
Co.
’76 “ David Gentry is returning to the University of
Tennessee studying for his Master of Social Work
degree on a Public Health scholarship, the only
Federal scholarship to a student in the social work
program at the University of Tennessee. When he
receives his Master’s, he will be working in the Federal
Rural Social Services program. Congratulations!
Jack Murphy is pursuing the Master’s degree in
Guidance Counseling at UNC-Greensboro and is ser
ving as a graduate counselor in Guilford Hall there.
’77 - Greg IJposky has been accepted for graduate
school at Auburn University. Congratulations and best
wishes to Nancy Jo Pylman and Richard Joseph
Pie4rus, who were married August 21 in Charlotte. He
is with Owens-Illinois in Charlotte.
IN MEMORIAM - Patrick O. Rafter, Class of 1923;
Anthony A. Burke, Class of 1939; James M. Fagan,
Class of 1957; Mother Raphael Doyle, R.S.M., Qass of
1959 (L.H.D.); Jack N. StruA, Class of 1970.