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Class Notes
Are you an alum? Share your personal and profes- sional news with friends and classmates in the Class Notes section of our next magazine! Submit your information about spe- cial milestones in your life, including births, marriages, careers, family events, etc. to Director of Alumni Rela- tions Gid Rowell at gidrowell@clayton.edu.
1973
GORDON BAKER (A.A. Education ‘73)
manent sterilization procedure, en- abling an option for women that might change their minds about pregnancy. Their innovative treat- ment documented the first preg- nancy in the United States occurring after Essure reversal.
1984
H. TIM CRAWFORD (A.A. Business ‘84)
Baker, of McDonough, was recently voted president-elect of the Henry County Retired Educators. Baker, who currently serves as Director of Libraries for Clayton State, worked 29 years in the public school systems of Clayton and
Henry Counties.
1975
CLAUDIA (TARVER) MELEAR (A.A. Biology ‘75)
Melear, of Riviera Beach, FL, re- cently retired from the University of Ten- nessee, where she was an Associate Professor of Science Education. She re- ceived the College of Education’s Out-
Crawford, of Douglasville, was named the Clayton State Alumni Associ- ation Overall Distin- guished Alumnus of 2009. For the past six years, Crawford, who is also a member of the Clayton State Foundation, has been the President and Co-Owner of Heritage Cadillac Saab in Morrow. The dealership was the 2007 Clayton County Business of the Year. He and his wife, Sab- rina, have four children and two of their daughters are enrolled at Clay-
ton State.
1985
LANELLE U. LARUE
(A.A. Business Administration ‘85)
LaRue, of Lake City, was named the Clayton State Alumni Association Secre- tary to serve from 2009 through 2011. A charter member of the Board of Direc- tors in 1991, LaRue served as President from 1997- 1999. She has also served as Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary over the years. She recently retired from the Atlanta Airport Marriott after 31 years of service. During her tenure with Marriott, she received many awards, including the Bill Tiefel award, one of the most cov- eted corporate awards. LaRue and her late husband, Herbert, were
married for 46 years and had three children.
1990
JAMES (JAMEY) E. HICKS (A.A. Business Management ‘90)
Hicks, of Douglasville, was named the President of the Clayton State Alumni Association for the 2009/2011 term. He is currently the man- ager of Randstad, an employment services provider in Morrow. Hicks was a Business Management major at Clayton State and also served in the Marine Corps. He and his wife, Melissa, have two children. He is an accomplished scuba diver and en- joys teaching lessons in his spare
time.
1991
CHRISTI (MUSE) ZUNIGA (A.A. Music Performance ‘91)
Zuniga, of Omaha, NE, returned to Clayton State earlier this spring to perform a piano recital of Schubert classics during “An Evening of Schubert” at Spivey Hall. She is the princi- pal keyboardist for the Omaha Symphony Orchestra. Be- fore moving to Omaha, Zuniga was the staff accompanist and classical piano instructor at Clayton State. She later received a Master of Music
standing Faculty Award in 2008.
1978
DR. WENDELL A. TURNER (A.A. ‘78)
Turner, of Gainesville, was named the Clayton State Alumni Association Distinguished Alum- nus of 2009 for the College of Arts & Sci- ences. He has prac- ticed medicine in Gainesville since 1986 and founded Gainesville Gy- necology. He is a Diplomate with the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. In collaboration with Dr. William Greene, he developed a method to reverse the Essure per-
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