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SunTrust Banks, Inc. announced that effective June 14, David Stevens '81 will become President and Chief Executive Officer of the company's Central Carolina Region. The position covers the I-40 corridor from Wilmington to Morganton and includes both the Triangle and the Triad areas of North Carolina.

The Jackson (Miss.) Free Press featured 2009 alumnus Jordan Mohr as its "Person of the Day" in an April 27 article that highlighted his work with Americorps NCCC in Yazoo City, Miss.

Members of the Class of 2010 aren't the only people leaving Elon's campus this month. Several faculty and staff will be leaving Elon for the next chapter of their lives, too. Celebrate the legacies of Jane Romer, George Troxler, Anne Cassebaum, Jim Pace, Jerry Tolley, Frank Harris '65 and Lamar Bland in the following profiles and videos.

A renowned scholar in the field of religious studies, a respected Elon colleague and an influential teacher of Elon students for more than two decades, Jeffrey Pugh, Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies, has been named the 2010 Distinguished University Scholar.

April Post, a 2001 Elon graduate, returned to North Carolina in 2004 and immediately made an impact in her classes, her church and for local Hispanic students and their families. In recognition of her efforts, Post, lecturer in Spanish, has received the 2010 Periclean Award.

To those who know Eric Hall, associate professor of exercise science, it should come as no surprise that he has been named the 2010 Ward Family Excellence in Mentoring Award recipient. He lives to mentor students. Literally.

Karen Clark Holmes '08 was among 38 women selected to join the Flight Crew, the cheerleading squad for the NFL's New York Jets.

If you haven’t made your gift to the 2009-10 Faculty/Staff Campaign, don’t worry. There is still time to participate! All gifts received by May 31, 2010, count toward the Faculty/Staff Campaign as well as to Ever Elon: The Campaign for the Future of Our University, which seeks to build the university’s endowment, increase annual and planned giving, and build and preserve the campus. To date, donors to Ever Elon have contributed more than $77 million toward the $100 million comprehensive campaign goal.

Faculty and staff in Elon's School of Communications, School of Education, Elon College, the College of Arts and Sciences and the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business were honored over the past few weeks for excellence in teaching, scholarship and service.

What gives Mike Kennedy '91 an edge in coaching? And what might he be doing if he weren’t a baseball coach? Kennedy shed some light on those topics in his interview with The Magazine of Elon.