Guilford Alumni Association Honors Four with Awards

The Alumni Association presented its annual awards to two college alumni and a former Guilford president and his wife as part of Homecoming and Family Weekend, held Sept. 24-26.

James R. Lomax, a 1954 graduate, received the Alumni Excellence Award, which recognizes alumni who have contributed outstanding service as humanitarians and professionals in their chosen field. Lomax, who lives in Greensboro, is retired from the U.S. Navy. He has served the college in a number of capacities, including on the Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Kelly Hannum, a 1993 graduate, received the Young Alumni Achievement Award, which recognizes graduates under the age of 40 who have demonstrated outstanding accomplishments in their careers or volunteer service. Hannum is a manager of research at Greensboro’s Center for Creative Leadership and a faculty member at Catholic University’s IESEG School of Management in Lille, France. She has also received the Marcia Guttentag Award from the American Evaluation Association and the Young Alumni Award from UNC Greensboro, where she earned a Ph.D. in education, research, measurement and evaluation.

The association also honored Don McNemar and his wife, Britta, with the Charles C. Hendricks Distinguished Service Awards, recognizing persons who have given outstanding and prolonged service to Guilford.

Don McNemar was president of Guilford from 1996-2002, during which time the college completed a $56 million campaign, built the Frank Family Science Center, revamped its curriculum for the first time in three decades and established a comprehensive first-year program. A professor of international studies at Bentley College (Mass.), he remains involved in Quaker activities, serving on the advisory committee to the Quaker United Nations Office and on the national board of the American Friends Service Committee.

During her husband’s presidency, Britta McNemar was active in local literacy programs, founding the Teen Families Reading Together program based at the Greensboro Public Library and Greensboro YWCA. Currently she is the coordinator of the Waltham Family School in Waltham, Mass., a program of the public school system which immigrant children and their parents for success in school.

Sept. 28, 2009