A new school year means Leslie Alexander ’95 is on the road again with her spreadsheet riding shotgun. On the road to schools like Cove Creek and Blowing Rock, Green Valley and Bethel, Valle Crucis and Mabel. There are eight elementary/middle schools and one high school in Watauga County, whose postcard-worthy towns are found on the spine of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina.
In a corner of Mark Dixon’s ’96 Hege-Cox Hall classroom is a portable wooden table that wasn’t always a table. In another lifetime, the table’s top, sides and legs were part of an upright piano. That was before Mark extracted the soundboard from the piano’s innards, sketched out a blueprint, pulled out some tools and – voila! – a table.
Over a career that spanned nearly three decades, Kenny Browning ’68 has seen and accomplished much. But what played out the evening of Sept. 20 at Northern Durham (N.C.) High School was a first for one of the state’s most successful high school football coaches.
President Kyle Farmbry invited three Guilford alumni with deep experience in finance to serve on an Alumni Finance Advisory Team, and they will provide input and guidance to the College as it navigates some fiscal challenges.
The Council on Foreign Relations has selected Sarah Munro ’09, Guilford’s Director of Global and Off-Campus Initiatives, to be part of its 2024-25 Higher Education Ambassador program.
Zitty Nxumalo ’08 completed a bachelor’s degree in Business Management as an adult student at Guilford College after a nine-year odyssey attending colleges in two states and changing majors multiple times.