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.
From her home across the road, Mary Mendenhall Hobbs needed only to glance out her bedroom window in 1907 to watch her legacy take shape. A half-made structure, its beams, columns and trusses rising bare from the Guilford campus. Soon it would be fortified with those iconic red bricks, prompting Mary to write of its grandeur: “The walls are about done and it does look beautiful.”
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.
Sarah Munro ’09, Guilford’s Director of Global and Off-Campus Initiatives, has been selected to participate in an international program that will help the College design and facilitate virtual student exchanges.
A celebration of Jim’s life will be held Sunday, Sept. 29, in the Carnegie Room of Hege Academic Commons on campus from 11 am to 2 pm.
Zithobile “Zitty” Nxumalo ’08 has been named President of the Guilford Education Alliance, an independent, Triad-based nonprofit focused on advocating for public schools in Guilford County.
I am writing to share the news of the passing of William F. “Bill” Stevens, who was a member of our Business faculty from 1982 until his retirement in 2006. He was instrumental in building our Center for Continuing Education up to its height in order to provide educational opportunities for adults and significant revenue for the College in six years as Dean.