Alumni Awards go to citizen leaders
Alumni award recipients (2nd from left, from left to right) Brig. Gen. Joe Bass ’83, Ann McCants Carter ’62, Dr. Jim Thornton ’85 and Lisa Brodie Williams ’91 were congratulated by President Patrick Finnegan (far left) and Steve Meyers ’83 (far right), president of the Longwood Alumni Board.
Four Longwood alumni were honored in March 2011 with Alumni Association awards that recognize citizen leadership. Brig. Gen. Joe Bass ’83 received the Ruffner Alumni Award; Dr. Jim Thornton ’85 and Lisa Brodie Williams ’91 received the Jefferson Professional Achievement Alumni Award; and Ann McCants Carter ’62 received the Curry Humanitarian Alumni Award.
Bass is commanding general of the U.S. Army’s Expeditionary Contracting Command; Thornton is superintendent of the Mecklenburg County public schools; Williams is an English teacher at the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School in Richmond and the author of two novels; and Carter is an active community leader in the Petersburg and Richmond areas.
