BPC Family enjoys Alumni Weekend April 16-17

These alumni attended the President’s Reception for the class of 1960 in the president’s home April 16. Standing from left are Joel Moring, Ollie Horne, Al Rahn, Peggy Goode, Bobby Goode, Lynn Brantley, Paul Scott, and Bobbie Scott.

MOUNT VERNON—Brewton-Parker College’s Office of Alumni Relations reports about 100 alumni and friends of the college attended this year’s Alumni Weekend, held on the Mount Vernon campus over the weekend, April 16-17.

The spring flowers, azalea bushes and numerous native blooming trees created a beautiful and serene backdrop for the reunion of former BPC students and a rekindling of their memories.

Annual Alumni Awards and inductions into the BPC Athletic Hall of Fame were also celebrated during this special weekend. This year’s winners are: Alumna of the Year, Maria Sasser (‘96); Ministerial Alumnus of the Year, Robert Anderson (’64); Friend of the Year, Bill Brown (posthumous); Young Alumna of the Year, Millie Holder Price (’97); Music Alumna of the Year, Darlene Thrift Collins (’75); and Hall of Fame Inductees Katharine “KC” Cheshire (’05), Chuck Litvaney (’55) and Michael Mulling (’75).

Hilda Brackett (President of the Half Century Club) from left, Vaunita “Cherry” Waldon and Myrtice Edwards represented the class of 1940. They enjoyed a special sit down dinner in honor of BPC’s oldest alumni.

The Alumni Society Award ceremony was held in Gilder Recital Hall. A special musical presentation by Music Alumna of the Year Darlene Thrift Collins, a pianist, complimented the moving ceremony. The Memorial Service honored 21 current and former students and friends of the college who had passed since they had last gathered for Alumni Weekend 2009. The congregation then joined in singing “When I Survey the Wonderous Cross”.

A complete In Memoriam listing will be available on the BPC Alumni & Friends webpage: www.bpc.edu/alumni.

Saturday’s campus events also included the Spring Math & Science Festival, the Montgomery County Historic Village Spring Fling, baseball and softball games and the Miss BPC Pageant. Crystal Belue Adams, a freshman General Business major, was crowned the 2010 Miss BPC.

Brewton-Parker College is the only accredited four-year Christian college in south Georgia. Affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention, BPC’s main campus is located in Mount Vernon and has an external learning site in Newnan.

Old friends greet each other at the National Alumni Society luncheon during Alumni Weekend 2010.

The Half Century Club hosted by BPC President, Dr. David R. Smith (seated left), enjoyed a hot breakfast in the Hall of Fame Room inside the Snooks Student Activities Center.

Coach Shelia Simmons and a luau attendee enjoy the evening.

Quintereal “Q” Kelley’s mother places a rose in his memory at the Alumni Tribute Service. Q Kelley was a senior at BPC and a basketball player for the Barons when he was killed earlier this year while visiting family in Alabama.

 

 

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