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Also, please exercise your right and go to the polls and vote in the Catawba County primary on May 6. Several candidates are vying for a number of countywide races.

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10 • Remembering Mom This Mother's Day

12 • Lenoir-Rhyne University: Hickory’s Hometown University Moves From Success To Success

18 • A Woman's View Healthcare For Women, By Women

22 • What's Cooking?! Sweet ’n Savory Teriyaki Kabobs

24 • The Job Search Following Graduation22

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By Jessica Fox

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Remembering Mom this

Mother's DaySunday, May 11th is Mother’s Day.

It truly brings back memories of my

own mother and how grateful I am

for all the sacrifices she made for my

brothers, my sisters and me.

Now, my mother had five children. I

was next to the youngest, headstrong

and independent. Each Mother’s Day,

my brothers, sisters and I would give

my mother a corsage. We would all get

dressed up and head to church. The

thing I remember most about Mother’s

Day at our small, country church was

the pastor would recognize the woman

who had the most children and present

her with a Bible. There was one lady in

our church who actually gave birth to

about 17 children. Needless to say, she

always got the Bible. I guess she needed

all those Bibles for all those children.

One year, I imagine the church board

decided it was a bit unfair recogniz-

ing the same lady every year. They

decided to give several Bibles based on

how many children these fine women

were raising, and my mother received

one. I remember thinking, “Finally! I

mean really, just how many Bibles does

a family need?” Of course our Bible

didn’t get enough use, but I was glad

my mom didn’t have to have 12 more

children to compete. I was very proud

of my mom when she received the

token gift for her service as a mom, and

I’m sure the advice in the Good Book

helped her raise us.

I look back at all my mother endured

while caring for us. With five children,

one of us was always needing discipline

for something we had done. We hear

a lot about tolerance today, but she

learned that lesson years ago by being

mother to my brother with his long

hair and us girls wearing our dresses

too short. If you were a teenager in the

70s, you will remember the dresses that

came with matching underwear for ob-

vious reasons. Once my grandmother

made me a dress, and, of course, it hit

about the top of my knee–a respect-

able length. I loved the dress, but it was

way too long for my taste. So I took it

home, turned the hem up two or three

times and wore it to school the next

day. When I came home that evening, I

stopped by my grandmother’s house to

thank her for the dress. Her response

was, “What happened to the other half

of that dress?” I teased her and told her

she could have made my younger sister

a dress to match if she hadn’t made

mine so long. Even though my mother

and grandmother both disapproved of

our “stylish” attire at times, they always

let us be who we wanted to be and

loved us in spite of our generational

differences. And, God forbid anyone

say anything about their children!

Rumors traveled fast through the party

lines, and I remember my grandmother

picking up while someone else was on

the line to put a few of them to rest.

Times have changed quite a bit since

then, but the love of a mother for

her children has remained consistent

throughout history. You will never have

a stronger ally than your mom. Let her

know you appreciate her this Mother’s

Day!



By Kristie Darling

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LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY: Hickory’s Hometown University Moves

From Success to Success

University Rising…the theme that

Lenoir-Rhyne University has embraced

in its successful campaign to enhance

the school’s capacity to educate its

growing student population. With a $65

million goal, the $9 million final portion

of the campaign–Taking Charge of To-

morrow–is expected to be achieved by

the end of 2014. This ambitious cam-

paign has sighted several programs and

projects for expansion. It will build and

develop new academic programs, ma-

jors, and facilities, and has engaged the

entire Hickory community in sharing

and enjoying all that Lenoir-Rhyne has

to offer. The future couldn’t be brighter

for the university’s multiple campuses

and its 2,000 students.

“With three campuses in two states,

Lenoir-Rhyne is expanding at an un-

precedented rate,” University President

Dr. Wayne Powell said. “We offer more

majors and master’s degree programs

than ever before, and our programs are

designed specifically to meet the needs

of our community.”

New at Lenoir-Rhyne University:

Master of Arts in Teaching–The MAT

program enables those who have earned

a non-education undergrad degree to

become, in as little as one year, highly

qualified and licensed middle or second-

ary English, math, social studies, or

science teachers, while also earning a

master’s degree. Conveniently, full- and

part-time, online or face-to-face sched-

ules can be arranged.

Lenoir-Rhyne’s Teaching Scholars–

“The Teaching Scholars program, which

begins this fall, financially supports top

students who aspire to teach our chil-

dren,” Dr. Powell explained. “In addition

to maintaining high academic achieve-

ment, these students will be required to

work in a number of ongoing profes-

sional development programs during

their enrollment.” With application time

upon us for this fall, incoming freshmen

interested in applying for scholarships

of $5,500 per year for four years, should

go now to edu.lr.edu/teachingscholars

to learn about this exciting new oppor-

tunity.

Photos–On the cover, from left to right:

Dr. Wayne Powell, president of the university;

Dr. Larry Hall, university provost; Rachel

Nichols, vice president for enrollment man-

agement; Peter Kendall, senior vice president

for administration and finance.

Photo by Shane Greene Photography

Left–Dr. Wayne Powell is the 11th president

to lead Lenoir-Rhyne.

© 2014 Shane Greene Photography


Photos–Top, left: LR entrepreneurship student and

Chief Marketing Officer for Fanaticmasks Alex Freeman

practices his sales pitch with a fellow student.

Above, top to bottom:

• Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship Dr. Ralph

Griffith gives business advice to students looking to start

their own business.

• Once the new science building is complete students will

enjoy more hands-on opportunities to conduct research.

• Professors at Lenoir-Rhyne often have the ability to work

one-on-one with students to ensure their success.

Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship–Dr. Ralph Griffith

is assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Lenoir-Rhyne’s

Charles M. Snipes School of Business. Also serving as business

director of the Center for Commercial and Social Entrepre-

neurship, Dr. Griffith says, “We hope to create new LR-friend-

ly businesses by both incubating and offering resources to

our student organized businesses.” The center has produced

at least six new small businesses on campus that didn’t exist

last year. One new enterprise, Fanaticmasks, manufactures

licensed masks in the style of Mexican wrestlers’ masks for

sports teams and famous bands. It has an upcoming contract

with a reality TV series and was recently featured on My

Carolina Fox 46. Lenoir-Rhyne’s entrepreneurship majors are

exciting–so much so that some students have changed their

major to get into the program before its official launch.

LR Partners Program–Lenoir-Rhyne has developed a new

program to partner with area businesses by providing dis-

count incentives to support employees pursuing a master’s

degree. This mutually beneficial agreement will help business-

es build a more highly prepared workforce, while LR works to

build graduate programs that are relevant to today’s market.

Additional details on this program can be found at lr.edu/

graduate/lrpartners.

Master of Science in Sustainability Studies–Dr. Keith Mc-

Dade at the Asheville campus and Dr. John Brzorad in Hick-

ory are the guiding presence for this innovative and critical

field of study. “Our program is the only one of its kind in the

region,” Dr. Powell noted. “We address sustainability on three

levels: with a broad base, a business focus, and on a solid eco-

nomic foundation.” The MSSS degree will prepare students to

lead the way in research, knowledge and advocacy in support

of a healthy and sustainable global environment now and in

© 2014 Shane Greene Photography © 2014 Shane Greene Photography


Photos–Left, top to bottom:

• The Daniel Efird Rhyne Memorial Building is the main

classroom building at Lenoir-Rhyne

• Students in the school of Journalism and Mass Communica-

tion take time to edit video in the on-campus TV studio.

• Cheering for the Bears

•Members of the LR football team take the field in front of

a packed house at Moretz Stadium. The Bears won their

third straight Southern Atlantic Conference title in a row

during the 2013 season before going on to compete in the

NCAA National Championship game.

the future. The classroom is extended into the greater Asheville

and western North Carolina regions, building partnerships and

networks with business, government, educators and nonprofit

organizations.

TEACHING SCIENCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Carl Sagan once said, “We live in a society exquisitely dependent

on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows about

science and technology.” Lenoir-Rhyne University took note. As

part of the Taking Charge of Tomorrow campaign, the 1960s era

Minges Science Building will see a complete renovation of its

35,000 square feet and will double in size with the addition of

state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms for biology, chemis-

try, zoology, anatomy and physiology, botany, ecology and con-

servation, physics, and genetics. The additional lab space and

technology up-dates add expanded research capacity in projects

such as blueberry genomics (partnering with the NC Biotech

Center) and tracking great blue herons (partnering with the NC

Natural History Museum and the Catawba Science Center). The

impact of this new facility in our region is tremendous: industry,

medicine, healthcare, education, research, science and technol-

ogy, astronomy, ecology, energy, the environment and our overall

economy and quality of life will be beneficiaries of the cutting-

edge work done here, the extraordinary faculty and the profes-

sionals who train here.

Lenoir-Rhyne is also creating North Carolina’s newest master

of science in physician assistant program. Pending provisional

accreditation, a requirement for a new PA program, classes will

begin in June 2015. Starting with classroom study in the first

year, students will complete clinical rotations in area healthcare

facilities. Physician Assistant Program Director Dr. Helen Martin

explained this partnership, “We are very excited by the support

from the local medical community through the hosting of


clinical sites. We are here to educate stu-

dents to be good stewards and service

professionals for their community and

the world.”

A BIT OF HISTORY, A RISING NEW

CHAPEL

Lenoir-Rhyne University and Hickory

have a long-standing partnership and

proud history. Both the university and

the city have made continuous progress

and have accomplished great things

over the last 123 years, and today, each

is supported by the other in numerous

ways. The incorporated town of Hickory

was just 21-years old in 1891 when

Highland College, very soon renamed

Lenoir College, was opened on 56

acres just one mile north of the town’s

business district. Since the opening of

Lenoir-Rhyne, the institution has been

supported by the Lutheran Church and

today enjoys a strong partnership with

the Evangelical Lutheran Church in

America.

“We recognize that our history is with

the church, and we honor that faith

in many ways,” Dr. Powell shared as

we toured the campus. “A highlight of

University Rising’s many projects is the

school’s spacious new Grace Chapel in

the center of campus. Groundbreaking

for this significant addition to campus

was celebrated last March, and the

building will open in the fall of 2014.”

Even as it approaches completion, Grace

Chapel is stunning. The 12-foot diam-

eter rose window, to be framed by a

custom-designed C.B. Fisk pipe organ,

is the focal point of Grace Chapel.

Twenty-six hand-painted, Gothic-style

stained glass windows will chronicle the

life of Christ and filter light onto those

attending services. The 400-seat chapel

will serve the diverse spiritual needs of

all students at Lenoir-Rhyne.

ENRICHING A COMMUNITY

Plan a campus visit soon. The college

you may have known in the past is

undergoing exciting growth and transi-

tion–you might not recognize the place.

Many university events, sports, en-

tertainment and opportunities can fill

your calendar every month. Introduce

the high school students in your life to

Lenoir-Rhyne. Consider enrolling your-

self! Become a Bears fan and support

your hometown team. There’s talk of a

greenway connecting center city and the

university. Spring is the perfect time to

stroll around campus and see just what’s

happening today at Lenoir-Rhyne.

Photos–Above, left to right:

• Students conducting research in the

science lab

• University students, faculty and staff

inscribed messages and blessings on

the final piece of steel before it was

added to Grace Chapel.

• Rev. Dr. Andrew Weisner leads stu-

dents, their family and friends in an

outdoor worship service.

AlluncreditedphotosprovidedbyLR.

LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY625 7th Avenue NE • HickoryOther Campuses: Asheville and

Columbia, SC828.328-7300

LR.edu


Dr. Vickie Lovin opened her own healthcare practice with one nurse practitioner and has watched it grow for 18 years to now include a full medical team of eight physicians.

Established in 1996 by Dr. Lovin as a small gynecology practice, A Woman’s View added primary care in 2005. In 2008, Dr. Laura Faruque and Dr. Claire Harraghy brought their already established and successful obstetric practice to A Woman’s View. Due to tremendous growth over the years, A Woman’s View recently moved into a new, expanded 16,000 square foot space on the front side of their current building on Tate Boulevard. Today, A Woman’s View’s all female staff offers primary care, gynecology and obstetrics all under one roof.

This move has enabled the practice to have the space to per-form in-office surgeries and procedures. With increased health-care costs, patients are very interested in the savings afforded by having their procedure done in the office.

Two of these in-office procedures are NovaSure and Essure. Dr. Lovin explained that NovaSure is a quick procedure to stop or lighten heavy periods, and Essure is a sterilization proce-dure that is just as effective as a tubal sterilization but a lot less invasive. The physicians work with a local anesthesia group to provide heavy sedation so patients are comfortable and pain free.

“Our growth has come about because we offer what women want,” Dr. Lovin said. “I attribute our success to listening to patients and allowing them to guide us. We are always open to new suggestions. It doesn’t mean we can do them all, but we will heed their suggestions when we can.”

Written by Meredith CollinsPhotos by Shane Greene Photography

Healthcare for Women, by Women

Photos, Top–Dr. Vickie Lovin, owner and founder of A Woman’s View

Above–Obstetrics Team, left to right–Nikkia Worrell, MD; Laura Faruque, MD (co-owner); Anita Montes, MD; Dara Curtis, CNM (not pictured: Claire Harraghy, MD)


Each expansion, from the addition of primary care to obstetrics, has come about seamlessly. Patients enjoy being able to visit just one practice for all their health needs. Throughout the expan-sion, one core has remained consistent–all providers at A Woman’s View are fe-male. “There are many women who are comfortable seeing a male physician,” Dr. Lovin said, “but we hear it again and again from our patients, especially in gynecology, that they appreciate seeing a woman. People also appreciate knowing that if for some reason another doctor sees them, it’s going to be a female.” As

women healthcare providers, they are able to relate to their patients since they have experienced many of the same things themselves.

Weight loss is another health aspect pro-vided by A Woman’s View. It’s integral to every time of life, whether it’s pregnancy weight gain or menopausal weight gain. Instead of just promoting pills or pushing surgery, A Woman’s View works with patients individually to lose weight. “Nobody can take your life and give you more hours or the motivation to work out,” Dr. Lovin said. “Sometimes a little

push, some encouragement and be-ing able to see results early on can give people the motivation they need.”

Whether you’re 16 and ready to see a gynecologist, 30 and pregnant, or 50 and experiencing menopause, A Woman’s View offers personalized care throughout your life.

915 Tate Blvd, Suite 170 • Hickory828-345-0800

www.awomansview.com

Photos, Left–A few of the pro-

viders at A Woman's View–From

left to right–Jennifer Stauss, NP; Terri Herman, NP; Denise Bil-horn, MD; Kristie Ruff, FNPRight–Dr. Bilhorn sharing a light moment with her medical assistant, Whitney Reese


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and shrimp. Cover or seal and mari-nate in refrigerator at least 3 hours, preferably overnight. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade for basting.

If using bamboo skewers, soak in water at least 1 hour before using.

To prepare kabobs: Drain and dis-card marinade from meat. Thread chicken, yellow and red onion, mango, green pepper and shrimp alternately onto skewers. Be sure to keep enough room at one end of each skewer for a “handle.”

Coat grill grate with nonstick cooking spray. Place skewers over medium coals, and grill for 12 to 15 minutes or until meat is done and vegetables are tender. Brush often with reserved marinade and turn skewers until cooked through. If needed, use

spatula to gently loosen skewers before turning as they may stick.

Arrange skewers on a platter and serve with Ginger Mango Dipping Sauce.Ginger Mango Dipping Sauce

Makes about 1 cup

1 mango, halved, pitted and scooped out of skin (about 1 cup)

1/4 cup frozen orange juice con-centrate

2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger root (or 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger)

Combine ingredients in electric blender and puree until smooth.

Kabobs are a simple way to enjoy many of your favorite fresh flavors in a single meal. With their easy preparation and quick cooking time, kabobs make a perfect weeknight meal when served over rice along with a crisp salad.

Sweet ’n Savory Teriyaki Kabobs

Makes 4 to 6 servings

3/4 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into 1-1/2 to 2-inch cubes

18 medium shrimp, shelled and de-veined (1/2 to 3/4 pound)

1/2 cup olive oil1/2 cup prepared mango chutney,

chopped if coarse1/2 cup bottled teriyaki sauce2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar18 large bamboo or metal skewers

(about 12 inches long)1 medium yellow onion, cut into 1/2-

inch wedges1 medium red onion, cut into 1/2-

inch wedges2 firm,ripemangos,peeled,pitted

and cut into large cubes1 large green bell pepper, halved,

trimmed, seeded and cubedNonstick cooking spray, as neededGinger Mango Dipping Sauce (recipe follows)

DirectionsPlace chicken and shrimp in shallow glass pan or large re-sealable plastic bag. For marinade, combine oil, chutney, teriyaki sauce and vinegar in small bowl with lid. Pour half of marinade mixture over chicken

What's Cooking?!Sweet ’n Savory Teriyaki Kabobs


The Job SearchFollowing Graduation

Many young people will graduate from college this month and look for jobs in their respective fields. Even though the job market is looking much better, it is unlikely they will land their dream job straight out of college. Here are some tips for seeking employment:

Treat the job search as a job itself. Use the Internet to search and apply for jobs. Make appointments with employment agencies in your area. Temp agencies may be able to offer you short-term jobs in your field so you can gain experience. Sometimes employers use these agencies to try someone out before hiring them for a permanent position.

Build experience. Volunteer with nonprofit

organizations, consider an internship or freelance

work to gain experience, references and skills.

These are also great ways to network.

Fine-tune your resumé. Your resumé is more

than a listing of your experience. It may be your

first communication with your future employer.

What do you want him or her to know about you?

If you don’t have very much experience, keep your

resumé to one page. Don’t try to make it longer

than it needs to be. Make sure to have someone

proofread it for errors, and ask a professional to

critique it.

Dress appropriately. When applying for or

inquiring about a job, dress the part. T-shirts and

jeans may be what you are accustomed to but will

not be appropriate for an interview. Likewise, don’t

over dress for the position you are applying for.

Treat everyone with respect, regardless of their

pay grade. You never know who can help you. The

receptionist or others in the company may know

someone you should meet.

Do your best. If you take a job as a temporary

way to make money, do your best with every

opportunity that is presented to you. Your employer

will reward your hard work and good attitude with

a positive recommendation to your next employer.

Learn from your experience. Just because the job is

not your final destination doesn’t mean you won’t

use some of the same problem solving skills and

experiences in a position that is.

Always carry a business card and look for

networking opportunities.

Google yourself. If a potential employer searched

the Internet, what would they find? Take steps to

clean up your profiles and social media pages.

By Cheryl Grant


HickoryLivingMagazine would like to congratulate you on your graduation, and wish you the best in your future endeavors.

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