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1978Pamela Sanders EllisBirth: Daughters, Zapporah Sarah and AnyaEllis, born on December 31, 1998.Professional Achievement: Appointed March5, 1999 to the Maryland Board of Examinersof Optometry by Governor Parris Glendeningfor a term ending in 2002. Shereceived a doctoral degree from the PennsylvaniaCollege of Optometry in 1984.Camille LewisProfessional Achievement: Appointed VicePrincipal, Wilson’s Classical School HighSchool, Long Beach, California.Education: Received a Masters Degree inCurriculum and Administration fromNational University in Los Angeles.Cynthia Neal SpenceProfessional Achievement: Appointed AcademicDean at Spelman, where she has beena valued member of the Spelman facultyand staff since 1981. She most recently heldthe position of Associate Academic Dean.1980Deborah Johnson MitchellProfessional Achievement: Named the1999-2000 Atlanta Public Schools Teacherof the Year.1981Tanya Jones GrantProfessional Achievement: Named assistantdirector in the Office of Human Resourcesat Sinclair Community College, effectiveMarch 1, 1999. As director, she is responsiblefor management of staffing, performancemanagement and the positionclassification process of the College. Shealso serves as the Equal EmploymentOpportunity officer for the College, responsiblefor areas related to diversity and legalcompliance.1982Patricia BlackwellProfessional Achievement: Owner of “Fromthe Heart,” a collection of unique handmadeand mass produced art cards. Contacther at P.O. Box 130225, Ann Arbor, Michigan,48113-0225 to order special occasionand holiday cards.Gracie M. HutchersonProfessional Achievement: Appointed to theposition of interim director of the MarianWright Edelman Child Development Centerof Spelman College.1983Alfredia Shelton WingateBirth: Son, Ernest Wingate, IV, to her andher husband, Ernest III on July 29, 1999.Ernest IV weighed 6 lbs., 1 oz. and was 20inches long.1984Rosalind Gates BrewerPersonal Achievement: Promoted to VicePresident of Woven Fabrics Business atKimberly-Clark, giving her responsibilityfor her own sector. This position makes herthe first African-American female officer inthe history of the company.Annette Davis JacksonMarried: Thomas LaMarr Jackson on Saturday,July 24, 1999 at Eastminster PresbyterianChurch in Stone Mountain, Georgia.Margarethia G. EllisPersonal Achievement: Became the “FirstLady” of Macon, Georgia when her husband,Jack Ellis, was elected mayor of thecity, making him the city’s first black chiefexecutive officer.1985Deborah E. JohnsonMarried: Daniel H. Hoover on Saturday,November 27, 1999 on Hilton Island, SouthCarolina.Professional Achievement: Her artworkappeared in “Fat,” an exhibition exploringbody image, in May 1999. Her paintingswere also part of the 1999 Nexus Biennial,“Celebrating Local Figures,” a thoughtprovokingroundup of metro Atlanta artists.Annette Byrd TurnerBirth: Daughter, Lindsay Allison, born onJune 12, 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia.Cheryl Lewis VowelsBirth: Son, Robert (Robbie) Clifford Vowels,III on February 23, 1999.1986Debbie Marable ClementsProfessional Achievement: Accepted a communicationsposition at NCR in DaytonOhio in the area of Global Operations Support,Sales Process and Quality Communications.Dazon Dixon DialloMarried: Elimane Amadou Diallo on Saturday,September 11, 1999 at Camp JohnHope in Fort Valley, Georgia.Anna PonderEducation: Received a Ph.D. in PoliticalScience from Yale University.Professional Achievement: A Bill Bradley forPresident staff associate, she is the personaland traveling aide to Ernestine SchlantBradley, wife of the presidential candidate.Patrice McWherter PyeMarried: Albert C. Pye, Jr. on Saturday, June26, 1999 at Mt. Zion Missionary BaptistChurch in East St. Louis, Illinois.1987Karen Burns-HillBirth: Daughter, Madison Nicole Hill, bornon May 16, 1999 in Atlanta, Georgia to herand husband Victor.Melanie Grant JonesBirth: Daughters Sinclair Alyssa and MadisonLeigh born Thursday, September 23,1999 to her and husband, Tyree, and theirproud brother, Conner.Cynthia SteedProfessional Achievement: Joined RichmondGoodwill as a Job Retention Specialist.Her responsibilities include serving as aliaison between the YWCA and RichmondGoodwill under a new program, ProjectIndependence, designed to provide employmentservices to women who have been victimsof domestic violence.1988Joi Bostic HollowayBirth: Son, Kenneth Wesley Holloway, bornon July 27, 1999, 20 inches long and weighingin at 6 lbs., 13 1/2 oz.Jacquelyn Jones NanceMarried: Fred Nance on April 25, 1999 inShaker Heights, Ohio, in a ceremony performedby the mayor of Cleveland, MichaelR. White. The bride is a planned giving officerfor The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.The groom is a partner at the internationallaw firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP.Professional Achievement: Recently electedto the Board of the Ohio Council ofFundraising Executives. She is also the current,and youngest ever, president of theCleveland Chapter of Northeasterners, Inc.and a Board member of the Northeast OhioChapter of the Susan G. Komen Breast CancerFoundation.Brett Savage-SimonBirth: Son, Richard Jordan Simon. born onAugust 8, 1999 in Freeport, New York, 20inches long and weighing 7 lbs.1989Nefatiti Richardson AndersonBirth: Daughter, Nefatiti Khya Anderson,born on May 16, 1999 to her and her husband,Richard. The baby weighed 7 lb. andwas 19 inches long at birth.Kupenda Auset (Joette HarlandWatts)Professional Achievement: Announced therelease of Time Change: New “Life”Poems, her second volume of poetry, publishedby Soulstice Publishing , Inc., P.O.Box 491557, Atlanta, Georgia 30347-1557,ISBN# 0-9658783-1-7.Cherie Bluncson DotsonProfessional Achievement: Named coordinatorof the University of Delaware’s Networkof Undergraduate CollaborativeLearning Experiences for UnderrepresentedScholars (NUCLEUS). Her responsibilitiesentail advising students who have a stronginterest in biology, chemistry, biochemistry,medical technology, physics and computerscience.Kyra Stinson HarveyPersonal Achievement: Speaker for SpelmanConvocation on September 9, 1999.She was also selected to participate in apanel discussion on benefits of the Spelmanexperience during the October 1999 meetingof the Spelman College Board ofTrustees.Sheronda Youngblood MintonProfessional Achievement: Assistant Directorof Development and Alumni Relationsfor the Goizueta Business School of EmoryUniversity.1990Robin Hurley BrownEducation: Graduated from the Universityof Maryland, Robert H. Smith BusinessSchool with an MBA. and a Master of Sciencein Information Systems in May, 1999.Married: Lt. Jeffrey Carlton Brown, USN, onJanuary 9, 1999 at Metropolitan A.M.E.Church in Washington, D.C.Gretchen Cook-AndersonMarried: Thomas Anderson on June 19th,1999 in an outdoor ceremony with anindoor reception at the Argyle Country Clubin Silver Spring, Maryland.Cindy Catlett FontenotMarried: Louis Fontenot, Jr. on March 1,1997. The groom is a Morehouse graduateof the Class of 1989. The couple lives inPortland, Oregon.Professional Achievement: Promoted to anew position at NIKE, Inc., in sports marketing,in charge of a catalog for fitnessinstructors. She has been with the companysince 1994 holding positions in public relationsand women’s basketball sports marketing.Askhari Johnson Hodari (CarlissJohnson)Education: Received a Ph.D. in psychologyfrom Howard University in May 1999.Robyn Brady InceMarried: William Charles Ince on Saturday,July 10, 1999 at First African MethodistEpiscopal Church, Kansas City, Kansas.Professional Achievement: Assistant VicePresident, Educational Grantmaking andPartnerships, Deutsche Bank AmericasFoundation, New York, New York.30S P E L M A N M E S S E N G E R
NewsmakersA Spelman alumna was among15 outstanding corporate professionalselected to receive a 1999CareerFOCUS Eagle Award.Yvonne R. Jackson, C’70, issaluted in the November/December1999 issue of CareerFOCUS for “triumphantlybalancing her professionaland community leadership.”Ms. Jackson is currently Senior VicePresident, Human Resources, Organizationand Environment at Compaq inHouston, TX and a member of the SpelmanCollege Board of Trustees.In industry and professional publications, Brenda C. Siler, C’75, wasrecognized as one of the country’s 12 leading African Americans in PublicRelations by PR Week in its February 22, 1999 issue. With more than 20years’ experience in communications and nonprofit/association management,Siler is director of public relations for the AmericanSpeech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). Greer L.Geiger, M.D., ‘76, is the sole subject of a recent GreaterBirmingham Edition of M.D. News, a business and lifestylemagazine for physicians. Geiger is an ophthalmologist specializingin retina surgery and the medical management ofretinal diseases, a field in which there are very few AfricanAmerican women. In addition to private practice, she is presidentof the Alabama Academy of Ophthalmology and chairof the National Medical Association Ophthalmology Section,among other professional memberships. (See page 14.)The Baptist Standard and Texas news sources covered the graduation ofCassandra A. Jones, C’79, the first African American woman to receivea doctor of philosophy degree at Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary inFort Worth, Texas. Her degree is in the area of administration.Even on the World Wide Web, Spelman alumnae are making their presenceknown. The St. Louis Post on-line publication, found at www.postnet.com,offers a captivating Arts & Entertainment Special Report, “TheDenise Thimes Story.” This indepth,five-part series finds aPost reporter and a photojournalistfollowing actress andsinger Denise Thimes, C’84,as she travels from her St. Louishome to spend time in NewYork City in an effort to grabhold of her dream to performon Broadway. In addition to theW I N T E R / S P R I N G 2 0 0 0series of articles, you can also access story photographs, as wellas listen to excerpts from Thimes’ performances. And inAugust 1999, a creative profile on Kim Stinger, C’93 couldbe found at www.hallmark.com, the Web site of Hallmark. Inthe profile, Stinger shares her thoughts as editor of the company’ssummer promotion of the Certainly Lord card line,which captures the beliefs and spirit of African Americanfaith.Although the Spelman scope is an international one,more than one-third of the College’s 9,500 alumnae liveand work in metropolitan Atlanta and Georgia. So, asstudents, faculty and staff bring greater recognition tothe College from within the gates, the achievements ofalumnae attest to the worthiness of our mission in the surroundingcommunities. In August, Teree Caldwell-Johnson, C’78,made headlines when she was the top candidate for Fulton County Manager,a position she ultimately decided not to accept. In September, NewJersey native Karen Calloway Williams, C’88, was profiled in TheAtlanta Journal-Constitution “Arts & Books” section when she came totown with the stage production of Riverdance. She is the first female todo the production number,“Trading Taps.” DeborahJohnson Mitchell, C’80,was named the 1999-2000Atlanta Public SchoolsTeacher of the Year. The subjectof a touching article inthe CITYLIFE section of theThursday, October 7, 1999 editionof The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Mitchell is alanguage arts, mathematicsand science teacher at Slater Elementary School. She rose to the top of adynamic group of 91 other teachers, and won out over the top middleand high school teachers. She has been named a CNN Teacher of theMonth and an Atlanta Braves Teacher of the Year. And in November,Juanita Blount-Clark, C’74, was called a “builder,” a “problemsolver” and an “energetic innovator” in news reports upon being nameddirector of the division of Family and Children Services by Georgia GovernorRoy Barnes.The Clayton Neighbor profiled community activist Gail Davenport,C’70, in the People section of the Wednesday, December22, 1999 edition. A resident of Clayton County, Georgia for morethan 40 years, Davenport is lauded for her many efforts on behalfof her community. Among other involvements, she is presidentand founder of the Concerned Black Citizens’ Coalition of ClaytonCounty, which organizes voter registration drives and spearheadsthe Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration in Clayton County.31
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