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Association’s Board of Directors, including Rebecca Bentley

Hall (’86), Morgan Lloyd (’13), Howard Mayo (’88), LeAnn

Lane Montgomery (’05), Zachary Smith (’08), and Sarah

Wheeler (’93). The Alumni Board also thanked departing

members Violet Meade (’53) and Daniel Schroeder (’10)

for their service. In addition, the Board acknowledged

outgoing alumni director Mark Hipes (’03) for his work for

the school and introduced incoming alumni director Josh

Grubb (’07).

Day two of Homecoming weekend also included the

traditional Scholarship Auction. Under the direction of local

auctioneer Eric Crawford of Twin City Auctions, alumni and

friends offered up live bids and purchased 122 donated items

to the tune of $11,107 — all for the BC Fund for Scholarships.

After the auction, alumni took part in campus tours, seeing

for the first time BC’s new Bluestone Commons apartment

complex and a recently renovated Harman Chapel, among

other facilities. Later in the day, alumni made their way

to Mitchell Stadium for tailgating and Rams football, a

new mainstay event for Homecoming. The tailgating

fun featured the Third Annual Homecoming Tailgate

Challenge, sponsored by Food City of Bluefield. The

winner of this year’s coveted championship banner as the

best Homecoming tailgate: alumnus Kris Hardy (‘07).

After tailgating, alumni and friends watched the Rams

football team make history with a 17-6 Homecoming

victory over the Apprentice School, the first home win since

BC revived its football program in 2012 after a 70-year

hiatus. During the game, current BC students crowned the

2015 Homecoming Court, including Delaini Middlebrooks

as Homecoming Queen, David White as Homecoming

King, Whitney Browning as Junior Princess, Alexandra

Mocarski as Sophomore Princess, and Channel Flores as

Freshman Princess.

Day two concluded with a Student Homecoming Dance and

an Alumni Awards Dinner-Dance where Dr. Tim Sharp (’74)

received a BC Hall of Distinguished Graduates distinction,

Dr. Jennifer Jones Powell (’93) was named Alumna of the

Year, Dr. Wayne Massey (’59) took home the Primitivo

Delgado Christian Service Award, and BC friend Steve

Bickford was named an Honorary Alumnus. In addition,

longtime men’s basketball and baseball coach Mark Blevins

and three of his former men’s basketball players, Dan Brown

(’85), Howard Mayo (’88), and Lamont Woods (’92) were all

inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame.

The three-day Homecoming weekend concluded with a

Campus/Community Worship Service, featuring music and

worship provided by the newly planted campus church,

Highlands Fellowship.

Top:

Homecoming Queen Delaini Middlebrooks (right) and Homecoming King

David White.

Middle:

The new Alumni Board: (back, left to right) Morgan

Lloyd (’13), Zachary Smith (’08), Howard Mayo (’88), (front, left to right) LeAnn

Lane Montgomery (’05), and Rebecca Bentley Hall (’86).

Not pictured:

Sarah

Wheeler (’93).

Bottom:

Alumnus Kris Hardy (‘07) (second from left), the 2015

Homecoming Tailgate Champion.