Eulogy for Madison Taylor March 19, 2022 | Roselee Papandrea Taylor Fate? Destiny? Divine intervention? A mother looking out for her youngest daughter from the heavens above? I don’t know why the stars aligned in 1995 –– the year Madison and I met –– I only know that it changed my life forever. When I … Continue reading A Celebration of Life
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Elon University staff member, former Burlington Times-News editor, dies at 62
Madison Taylor, development writer for University Advancement and career journalist, is remembered by family, friends and the community he served Posted by Roselee Papandrea Taylor | Written by Kyra O'Connor | 1/8/22 12:17pm | Elon News Network Roselee Papandrea Taylor met her husband at a job interview. Madison Taylor, who worked at the Jacksonville Daily … Continue reading Elon University staff member, former Burlington Times-News editor, dies at 62
Death of Elon staff member Madison Taylor
Taylor, development writer in University Advancement, passed away Thursday, Jan. 6, after battling illness for several months. Posted by Roselee Papandrea Taylor / Written by Elon University News Bureau on January 7, 2022 President Connie Ledoux Book sent the following message to Elon faculty and staff following the death on Jan. 6 of staff member … Continue reading Death of Elon staff member Madison Taylor
Elon dedicates bench in memory of late staff member Madison Taylor
Taylor, development writer in University Advancement since 2017, passed away Jan. 6 after battling illness for several months. Posted by Roselee Papandrea Taylor | By Elon University News Bureau | June 17, 2022Friends and colleagues of the late Madison Taylor gathered outside Holt Chapel on Wednesday for the dedication of a bench in his memory. … Continue reading Elon dedicates bench in memory of late staff member Madison Taylor
Elon friends remember Mark Foley with lasting gift
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is a story I wrote a couple of years ago about a very special and unusual scholarship for a football player at Elon. It was first published in the Magazine of Elon in 2019. Ryan Whitehead, pictured above with many of the donors of to the Mark Foley Scholarship, is now an … Continue reading Elon friends remember Mark Foley with lasting gift
Graham ‘looks a lot like Mississippi in the ’60s’
A couple of weeks ago I received a message via social media from a friend who lives in another county. He was curious about what’s going on in Graham, the county seat of Alamance County. At the time only 48 hours had passed following another tense Saturday of protests, counter-protests, shouting and arrests in a … Continue reading Graham ‘looks a lot like Mississippi in the ’60s’
A team by any other name, please
This is a column I wrote in 2013 about the nickname of the pro football team in Washington. There have been calls to change the name over the years and now it looks like it just might happen or at least the owner seems closer than ever before. That is a positive thing. Overlook the … Continue reading A team by any other name, please
A crazy week in Alamance County
The past 10-plus days in Alamance County have produced the greatest amount of sadness, frustration, agitation, outright anger, half-truths, gaffes, misstatements, fabrications, miscalculations, social action, political action, protests, vigils, walks, marches, racism and antiracism that I can remember over such a short period of time in this community --- a place I've lived for 21 … Continue reading A crazy week in Alamance County
Understanding bias, privilege and what really matters
When nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Leonard Pitts spoke at Elon in September of 2015 as part of a lecture series featuring Pulitzer Prize winners, it was only a few months after the massacre of nine African-Americans by a white supremacist during Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. It touched … Continue reading Understanding bias, privilege and what really matters
Blanche Moore: Not the biggest story but the toughest I was involved in
Last fall I sat down with two Elon students for coffee at The Oak House, a popular spot downtown across from the main campus for coffee by day and something a little more potent at night. I was meeting them as part of their newspaper internship with the Burlington Times-News. Elon's School of Communications requires … Continue reading Blanche Moore: Not the biggest story but the toughest I was involved in
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