Graduation speakers announcedThe keynote and students speakers for Guilford’s 165th commencement have been selected. Mary Ann Akers, a 1991 graduate who is currently one of National Public Radio’s leading reporters, will deliver the keynote address.

The three students speakers, as chosen by the senior class, will be Wendy Lam, an economics major from Hong Kong; Scott Pryor, a religious studies and sociology/anthropology major from Virginia; and representing CCE, Aaron Griffiths, a community and justice studies major from High Point, N.C.

Commencement will take place on May 11 at 10:30 a.m.

Library opens digital classroom dedicated to Betty Place

Gifts totaling almost $90,000 have enabled Guilford to open a digital classroom and made possible the purchase of computer hardware including 20 new laptop computers for use in the wireless library network.

The college dedicated the new classroom on March 5 to former library director Betty Place, who worked for the school for nearly 17 years.

Students can now check out laptops for use within the library from the digital classroom located in the basement area previously occupied by media services.

Guilford art professor exhibits work in D.C.

The work of Adele Wayman, Hege professor of art, was exhibited at the Kogod Center for the Arts in Washington, D.C. from March 3 to 21. The exhibition, entitled “Sacred Cycles: Paintings and Altars,” featured paintings and other media focused on women as the bearer of sacred life.

“Nature is my inspiration,” Wayman said. “I am moved to make art by the natural rhythms of woman, seeds, flowers and fruit, the shift from light to dark and back again, form to formlessness, life and death, and the wheel of the seasons.