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and a doctorate degree in
education. He started the
Liberty Christian Academy,
a K-12 private school in
Fayetteville, in 1999 and
moved back to California in
2005 to teach at the college
level. He continues to teach
as an adjunct professor, part
time. Salazar has been married
for 23 years to the former Lisa
M. Schoffler (Sampson) of
Pembroke. The couple has four
children, two boys and two
girls, ranging in age from 15
to 22.
1998
Uwe Beltz is employed with
Texas Tech University School of
Law as an associate director of
the law library and computing.
He resides in Lubbock, Texas.
Elzetter Maria Oxendine
is employed with U.S.
Department of Agriculture in
the Food Safety and Inspection
Service. She resides in
Pembroke.
Allison Alvarez-Hedrick
has been appointed vice
president of communications
for WEDU Public Media in
Tampa, Fla. She is married to
Jimmy Hedrick '98, who is a
team leader for The Nielsen
Company. They reside in
Gibsonton, Fla.
Sonja P.
Anderson
of Atlanta,
Ga., formerly
Sonja R.
Pearson of
Red Springs,
married
Lynn Anderson on June 4 at
Hillcrest Church of Christ
in Decatur, Ga. Anderson is
employed as a law clerk in
Atlanta. Her husband is a
law enforcement officer. He
proposed last June 5, 2010, in
his hometown, Chicago, IL, in
the John Hancock Building on
the 95th floor in the Signature
Ballroom. Sonja was a spring
1997 pledge of Zeta Phi Beta
Sorority, Inc. Felicia Renee
Treadwell `98
served as
bridesmaid. Their honeymoon
consisted of a New York trip,
cruise to Canada, a Myrtle
Beach, S.C., visit, and a trip to
Lumberton where the two took
bridal portraits with the bride's
grandmother. The couple
resides in Atlanta, Ga.
Renee Drakes is employed
by SAIC as a consultant
supporting the Defense
Information System Agency
in Fort Meade, Md. She is a
retired major in the U.S. Air
Force. Drakes is a consultant
in direct sells with Cookie
Lee Jewelry; she earned a
Mercedes ML350 from the
company in two years of
employment.
1999
John Charles Peal Jr. is self-
employed and resides in
Chadbourn.
Amanda Neely is a grants
development coordinator with
Cumberland County Schools.
She resides in Hope Mills.
Christiane Fluellen is
employed with Schulzentrum
Marienhöhe as a teacher.
In 2003, she became a U.S.
citizen. She obtained her
Master of Arts degree as
a reading specialist from
Fayetteville State University
in 2007. Fluellen resides in
Germany and is teaching at her
old high school.
2000
John Dial is a car salesman
at Rick Hendrick Toyota of
Fayetteville. He resides in
Rowland.
Class
Class
Alumni profile: Bundy Locklear
"Nine of us finished out here," Bundy R. Locklear '58 said
of his brothers and sisters. "Mr. Bundy" is a regular visitor on
campus.
He remembers his student days well. He took an agricultural
course taught by English Jones, who became the school's first
American Indian president. "I thought it would be a crib course,
but he made us work," he said.
Locklear's family played an important role in the community
and the university. His father Rev. C.E. Locklear was Pembroke's
first elected American Indian mayor. He was a university trustee.
"This university is a blessing, not only for me but for the
whole community," said the retired school teacher.
Mr. Bundy recently came back to join the university's legacy
bench program. "My bench is in front of Old Main," he said.
"That was the main building in my day."
Locklear's grandson recently graduated from UNCP and did
research at the Biotechnology Lab at COMtech. "He's got a
good job and enjoyed his work in the lab here. The science that
goes on out here is a well-kept secret."
Former Brave great dies in auto accident
F
ormer Brave basketball great Dr. Everette Hambric '74 died
on August 4, 2011, from injuries received in an auto collision
in Detroit, Mich. He was 58.
Dr. Hambric grew up in Montgomery County and played
basketball at UNCP for coach Lacey Gane. He had practiced
family medicine in Michigan for 20 years.
Before attending medical school at UNC-Chapel Hill, he
taught high school science in his home county, according to
his former principal Ray Oxendine. "He was one of the best
teachers I ever had," Oxendine said. "He had an
intense desire to become a doctor."
Dr. Hambric's last job was as a home-
visiting physician. "He was known
as a generous and caring doctor. He
was a deeply spiritual man, and an
ordained minister and a member of
Holy Faith Tabernacle Church in Detroit,"
according to Pye Funeral Home.