Becky Sharpe

  • M.A., School Counseling, Appalachian State University
  • B.A., Psychology/Secondary Education, Lenoir-Rhyne University

Becky Sharpe is the administrative associate of student life at Lenoir-Rhyne since 1998. In her role, she supports the dean of student life and performs a wide range of clerical tasks focusing on department operations. From 1983 to 1988, Sharpe was a residence director until she moved off campus for five years with her husband and his children. She then returned to LR in 1993, when she continued as a residence director before being appointed to her current position.

In 1999, she received the Jeff Norris Staff Employee of the Year Award, designated to honor individuals who contribute to the university's mission, most notably in developing and improving the student experience related to academics, personal and spiritual growth. Sharpe is also the recipient of the Student Government Association Award. It is given to the person who has made a significant contribution to the well-being of the student body. Sharpe is also a member of the LR Servus Universitas Society. She was inaugurated in 2016 as a notable way of honoring employees who have dedicated the better part of their lives to serve the mission of LR and make it a better place for those who come after them. To be a member of this society, a Lenoir-Rhyne employee must reach at least 25 years of continuous, full-time service. Of literally thousands of individuals who have been employed by the university, fewer than 150 have reached this milestone.

Sharpe has a legacy connection to LR and loves to share her family's story. Her parents, William Edward Hall '44 and Mary Elizabeth Kuhn Hall '41, met at a Luther League Christmas caroling event. Both sets of grandparents also met at Lenoir-Rhyne: Sadie Magdalene Setzer Kuhn (1916) and Jesse Evan Kuhn (her grandfather, who did not graduate as he had to return home to care for family but originally attended college), as well as John Hall (1901) and Lela Fisher Yoder Hall (1896). Sharpe's great-grandfather was Robert Anderson Yoder, one of the university's founders and the first president from 1891 to 1901, so her LR connections go back to the university's foundation.

In her words, Sharpe states, "I literally would not exist were it not for LR."

Plus, as a result of her employment at Lenoir-Rhyne, she met her late husband Robert, who retired from the maintenance department.