Alumni Profiles
Making wishes come true
Everyday charity donors typically undertake modest physical challenges to raise funds for local causes, such as a 5K jog around town. Not Joe Lariscy, who graduated in 2007 with a degree in finance. Joe, along with two buddies, rode his bicycle …
Against the odds
Robert Lamb. Photo by Bond Nickles In 1962, The Augusta Chronicle needed a reporter. Robert Lamb (BSEd ’61) impulsively responded. This accidental journalist would become a novelist, professor and publisher but famously pass on being a columnist. Born in Aiken …
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Sheila Kahrs. Photo by Andrew Davis Tucker Sometimes it’s Bach, sometimes it’s Mozart, but the classical music playing as students arrive at Haymon-Morris Middle School always sets a calm mood. This purposeful start to the day is just one idea …
Ahead of the game
Jack Head Jack Head (BBA ’75) knows the sooner students at the University of Georgia get involved in campus activities, the more likely they are to be happy and successful during their years in Athens. He knows this on some …
All the president’s kids
Sally Selby. Special photo To the students and teachers at Sidwell Friends Middle School, Malia Obama is just another sixth grader, says Principal Sally Selby. Then again, to Selby (BSEd ’75) President Obama’s daughter is just another student who claims …
He’s number one
Principal Evan Glazer congratulates a winning student at the 2008 Thomas Jefferson High School Science Fair. Special photo Evan Glazer went to college to become a physicist. Or so he thought. He soon discovered an enthusiasm for helping people learn …
Preserving lives
Sheffield Hale. Special photo Even before he was chief counsel for the American Cancer Society, Sheffield Hale was involved in the nonprofit world. “It is my hobby,” says Hale (AB ’82), who earned his law degree from the University of …