PC FAMILY
Class Notes Class of 1961
Class of 1967
Class of 1976
Dr. James Monroe Jr. ’61 retired from higher education after 51 years of teaching. He is now serving as rector of Holy Cross Anglican Church in Cleveland, Texas. James earned a master’s degree in political science from Wayne State University, a master’s of divinity degree from the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Kentucky and a Ph.D. from the University of Miami.
Hugh ’Skip” Weldon, ’67 and Ann Harwell ’70 celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on May 30, 2020. They were married on May 30, 1970 in Macon, Ga. PC President Marc Weersing performed the ceremony. Classmate Carson Rhyne ’70 was the organist. Other PC classmates in the wedding party were Lilbet Vass Wilkerson ’70, Joy Glenn Shackelford ’70, David Wyatt ’67, and Allan Weldon ’71.
Kim Hellenga ’76 retired on April 3, 2020, after a 41-year career in the pharmaceutical industry in the midwest. For the last 25 of those years, Kim was employed at Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals in St. Louis, where he began in quality, then product and compliance, business support, research and development, and finally lifecycle management, retiring as senior principal biologist. Kim participated on and later chaired the examination development committee for the Specialist Microbiologist certification for the National Registry of Certified Microbiologists. He has since resumed a new career as a “professional grandpa.” His wife, Linda, is retired from her career in tax and accounting. They have two grown children. Their home is in Edwardsville, Ill.
Class of 1962 Henry Maxwell (Max) Clyburn ’62 was posthumously inducted into the S.C. Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Greenville, S.C., on November 14, 2020. Max coached golf at Lancaster (S.C.) High School for 27 years, where his teams produced two undefeated seasons, 14 region championships, nine region runner-up finishes, and an overall record of 556–93–3. He was named South Carolina Coach of the Year four times and was named Southeast District 3 Coach of the Year in 1984. Throughout his life, Max showed a life of service by being involved at church, heading local fundraising golf events, and volunteering with the Special Olympics, in adult education, and at MUSC-Lancaster.
Class of 1970 Candler G. Matthews Jr., ’70 and his wife, Renee, have been married since 1987. Candler retired from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control in 2007 after 35 years of service. In 2009, Candler became the Water Program Manager for the USAF at Shaw Air Force Base near Sumter, S.C. Candler and Renee have two children, Candace and Candler. Candace resides in Columbia, S.C., and is a second grade teacher. Dr. Candler G. Matthews III and his wife, Brooks, reside in Little Rock, Ark., where he is in his second year of residency.
Hugh “Skip” Weldon ’67 and Ann Harwell ’70
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PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE
Clay Dykes ’76 and Cindy Kimball Dykes ’77 are proud first-time grandparents of grandboy twins born on Thanksgiving Day 2019 to their daughter, Mary Kathryn Dykes Endicott ’10. Dwight McInvaill ’76 had his book, “Alice: Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, Charleston Renaissance Artist,” released by Evening Post Books on March 1. The work is a coffee-table book enhanced by more than 200 illustrations of paintings, prints, sketches, and photographs. Many are shared for the first time. All net proceeds from the sales support the Middleton Place Foundation. Related art exhibits will soon thereafter occur in Charleston, S.C., at Middleton Place, the Edmondston-Alston House, and the Gibbes Museum of Art and additionally in Florence, S.C., at the Florence County Museum. Other virtual and in-person activities will
likewise be featured later throughout the state. To learn more about Alice, its images, upcoming events, and so forth, please visit the website https:// aliceravenelhugersmith.com.
Class of 1977
David Tribble ’77 was elected to Laurens County Council in November 2020. David and his wife, Dr. Leta Meole Tribble ’76, live in Clinton, S.C. Leta continues to serve as the director of education for the Greenwood Genetic Center.
Class of 1978 In the fall of 2019, PC Sigma Nu alumni and spouses got together for a fun reunion weekend at Litchfield Beach. Lex and Lib Reynolds hosted the event. Pictured are Jeffrey ’78 and Becky Goforth Reynolds ’80, Marshall Vann ’80 and Anne Marie Vann, Lex Reynolds ’77 and Lib Reynolds, Andy ’77 and Maryellen Mulkey Horton ’78, Edmund ’79 Holmes ’79 and Carletta Holmes, and Mark ’79 and Susan Stevenson Kaltz ’78. Treasured friendships and longtime marriages! All were dating at PC in the late 70s!
Class of 1979 Grant Jaquith ’79 was approved by the Senate last summer to serve as a judge on the Veterans
