Elon Alumni

Rosaline Toney Bush '58 spent more than 30 years in the teaching profession, and she draws upon that experience the recently published children's book, The Journal of Skipper Catt Esquire. The book, Bush's first published work, focuses on the aged Skipper Catt as he looks over his long life and shares what he has learned with his grandkitties.

Anna Davis '10 has been hired as coordinator of the Greensboro College Village 401 program, an outreach effort to benefit communities in the college's 27401 zip code.

Described by reporter Michael D. Abernethy as "firm, fair, level-headed, hard working and even good humored when the moment strikes," J. B. Allen Jr. '63, an Alamance County judge for more than three decades, stepped down from the bench in July. On the eve of his retirement, Allen spoke with Abernethy for a profile in the (Burlington, N.C.) Times-News.

Colin Donohue, coordinator of student media and instructor in the School of Communications, was selected to receive a 2010 Honor Roll Adviser Award from the College Media Advisers organization.

Renovations to Alumni Gym continued this week as work crews knocked out the south wall of the gym to begin building a new main entrance to the home of the Elon Phoenix basketball and volleyball teams.

Two bells with historic ties to Elon University, including one that survived a fire that threatened the future of the school in its early years, were put on display Thursday at two different locations on campus.

Roger Gant Jr., who served on Elon's board of trustees for 20 years, died July 26 at the age of 86. Gant was former president of Glen Raven Inc. and a second-generation descendant of the textile company's founder.

The National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association has voted Texas Christian University head coach Jim Schlossnagle '92 its national coach of the year. Schlossnagle, in his seventh season coaching the Horned Frogs, guided the team to a 51-12 record, its fifth consecutive Mountain West Conference regular-season title and its first berth in the College World Series.

Deborah A. Yow-Bowden ’74, a member of the Elon University Board of Trustees and one of the nation’s most respected figures in collegiate sports, has been named the new director of athletics at North Carolina State University. She becomes the first woman in N.C. State’s history to head the Wolfpack athletics program.