Elon Alumni

Caregivers can face special challenges when helping clients with emotional, behavioral and learning disabilities. Leigh Ann Stutts ’11 explores these challenges and exposes gaps in caregiver training – including the need to learn forgiveness – in a recent edition of the The Open Mind, the newsletter of the Durham, N.C., chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

As the assistant director of Urban Promise Ministry's Camp Saved, Laura Dellicker '12 works hard to put smiles on the faces of underprivileged children in Camden, N.J., a poverty-stricken suburb of Philadelphia. In her second year working with Urban Promise, Dellicker blogs about her experiences at http://encounteringjoy.wordpress.com.

This week, Elon Career Services' LinkedIn profile reached 3,000 1st degree connections with an expanded network of 11,220,000 people.

Elon University professors, students and alumni continue to make news this summer through their research and campus activities. Notable in recent weeks was regional media coverage of Elon University School of Law's full accreditation from the American Bar Association, regional stories and broadcasts on Elon's new head women's basketball coach, and mention of the Elon University Poll by the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune.

Ryan Petitti '11 and Mike Iszard '11 presented a poster on June 9 titled "A Study of the Impact of Injuries on the 2010 Red Sox Performance" at the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) 41st Annual Convention in Long Beach, Calif.

In just his fifth season as head coach, Rod Whitesell '02 guided the Holly Springs Golden Hawks baseball team to the North Carolina 4A Baseball Championship on Saturday, clinching the title with a 11-5 victory over Asheville's Roberson High School at Five County Stadium in Zebulon.

Matt Shingledecker '08 has been cast as Roger Davis in the Off-Broadway revival of "Rent," which opens Aug. 11 at New World Stages in New York City.

Elon alumni Eddie Bridges '57 and the late Claude Manzi '50 will be among 14 individuals inducted into the Guilford County (N.C.) Sports Hall of Fame in the Class of 2011, a group that will bring the total number of inductees since the Hall's creation to 78.