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Outstanding Alumni


CVCC's Outstanding Alumnus Award

  • Joyce M. Coleman '82 (May 1993)
  • James M. Martin '70 (May 1994)
  • James Payton Moore, Jr. '80 (May 1995)
  • Fred B. Heptinstall, Jr. '71 (May 1996)
  • Susan M. Stimart '69 (May 1997)
  • Garry L. Friend '71 (May 1998)
  • Teressa M. Hood '70 (May 1999)
  • David Michael Bryant '75 (May 2000)
  • Robert Smith, III '87 (May 2001)
  • Arthur Dale Moore '82 (May 2002)
  • Don W. Tosi '72 (May 2003)
  • Emily A. Mayhew '70 (May 2004)
  • Jason Dole Campbell '95 (May 2005)
  • Michele Rae Stone '94 (May 2006)


CVCC's Outstanding Alumni from the VCCS Hall of Fame

Garry Friend

Garry Friend currently serves as vice president-marketing services manager for Bank of America’s Richmond and Chesterfield markets. He previously was vice president/regional sales manager in the Lynchburg area.

He earned his associate’s degree from Central Virginia Community College (CVCC) in 1971. In 1991, he graduated from the Virginia Bankers’ School of Bank Management at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, as well as East Carolina University, for banking, credit and lending seminars.

Friend has spent his entire career with Bank of America (formerly NationsBank), beginning as a manger trainee in 1971 after graduating from CVCC. He is an active community volunteer, and has provided leadership to the region as a member of the Amherst county Planning Commission, the Region 200 Board of Directors, and the Lynchburg Chamber of Commerce. He has been president of the Amherst County Habitat for Humanity and president of Lynch’s Landing Inc. He received CVCC’s Outstanding Alumnus Award in 1998.

Teressa Hood

Teressa Hood is the Nationwide Insurance Service Center Supply and Services Director in Raleigh, North Carolina, serving six states. She has worked for Nationwide since 1973, and was also the service manager for Raleigh and for Lynchburg, Virginia.

She earned her associate’s degree in secretarial science from Central Virginia Community College (CVCC), and a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in business administration from Averett College in Danville.

While in Lynchburg, her community service included membership on the Campbell County School Board from 1991-95, a board she chaired for the 1994-95 year, She served as a Project Balance instructor for the United Way of Lynchburg and was a member of the Campbell County Human Relations Committee as well as Insurance Women if Central Virginia.

She has received the Pinnacle Award from Averett College, a Hall of Fame award from the Campbell County branch of the NAACP, the SOAR Award from the Virginia Scholl Board Association’s School Board Academy Certificate of Achievement. She received CVCC’s Outstanding Alumnus Award in 1999.


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Lynchburg VA 24502

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