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A P U B L I C A T I O N F O R A L U M N
F R I E N D S O F M A R Y V I L L E C O L L
SPRING 201 VOL. 111 | NO.
3 NEW MINORS ANNOUNCED
5 SUTTON GETSEQUIPMENT UPGRADES
11 HAYES NAMED HEADFOOTBALL COACH
Anderson H A New Era for An Old
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A Publication for
Alumni & Friends of Maryville
PRES IDEN TDr. Tom Bogart
EDITO RIAL BO AR
Chloe Kennedy, EditoAssistant Director of Commu
Karen Beaty Eldridge Executive Director for Marketing and
Suzy Booker Vice President for Institutional A
Angela Miller Director of Alumni Affairs and S
ART D IRECT ION & DMary Workman
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MARYVILLE COLLEGE BOARD O
Rev. Dr. Emily J. Ander
Dr. William T. “Tom” BoMs. Elizabeth A. Bulet
Mr. Hulet M. ChaneDr. Bryant L. Cureton ’6Mr. C. Michael Davis, J
Mr. Joseph M. Dawson ’Ms. Jenny Jett Erwin ’
Mr. William E. Harmon ’Mr. G. Donald Hickman
Ms. Diane Humphreys-BarloMr. Mark S. Ingram
Mr. J. William JohnsonMr. Rufus B. King
Mr. Wayne R. Kramer ’7Ms. Sherri P. Lee
Ms. Cheryl S. MassingaMr. Adriel McCord ’00Ms. Virginia K. MorroMr. Alvin J. Nance ’7
Mr. J. Douglas OverbMs. Judith M. Penry ’7Dr. Timothy A. Poole ’8
Ms. Ann L. Rigell ’69Dr. T. Bryson Struse, III ’
Dr. Mary Kay SullivaMs. Kristine Tallent ’96Dr. Kenneth D. Tuck ‘
Ms. Debra WillsonMr. Charles Wright
Rev. Sharon K. Youngs ’
Dr. C. Edward Brubaker *H
OUR LAST MYSTERY PHOTO must have stumped everyone; we did not receive any
responses. We found the photo in the collection of historical images donated to the
College by the late Ken Kribbs ’68, who wrote The History of Athletics at Maryville
College 1866-1968 as his Independent Study. In the process, he amassed a l arge
collection of sports photos.
We checked with Martha Hess ’67, MC archives volunteer and former MC
registrar, and she had a few ideas. She thought she recognized the smoke stack in the
background as the one on the practice house that was behind Thaw Hall, so the photo
could have been taken on the old football field.
“I assume the gentleman in the middle is her father but maybe not,” Hess said. “If
she is the Homecoming Queen, why isn’t the
president doing the honors? And the most
curious question: who are those six young men
behind the three in the foreground? Maybe she
is presenting the trophy to the young man on
the right, and the young men in the back were
receiving some kind of athletic recognition. So
many possibilities...”
She also wondered whether the photo is ahigh school picture – and that Kribbs was
perhaps a photographer for local football
games when he was a student? Maryville High
School also has a smoke stack that looks like
the one in the picture, she said.
For now, the photo is still a mystery.
LAST FALL, HOLLY GIBSON YALOVE, daughter
of President Emeritus Dr. Gerald W. Gibson and
Rachel Gibson, traveled to Boston for a conference. While there, a business associate gave her this jug and
explained that she had purchased it in a Bostonian
antique shop. Returning to Tennessee with it, Holly
showed her dad, who said he had never seen a piece
like it. Holly donated the jug to the College’s archives,
mystifying the volunteers
who work there, as well.
So, our first question has
to do with this newest
gift to the archives: Does anyone know if these were
produced en masse and if so, when were they
made, who made them and for what occasion?
Our second question has to do with the
Maryville College seal printed on the jug. Without
a doubt, this insignia has evolved over the years,
but does anyone know the history of the Maryville
College Seal? What symbols are featured, and how
were they chosen? Can anyone explain the seal’s
evolution?
Email us at [email protected] or
send us a letter – FOCUS, Maryville College,
502 E. Lamar Alexander Pkwy., Maryville, TN
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2 MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
6 OPERA TAKES CENTER STAGE MC’s January Term Opera Scenes course gives students an
opportunity to work with professionals – and talented MC alumni –
to learn about performing opera.
10 COOPER WEIGHT ROOM UPGRADED Cooper Athletic Center recently received an
upgrade with the complete overhaul of the entire
weight room.
12 A NEW ERA FOR AN OLD ICON Twenty months after it was closed for a major interior
renovation, Anderson Hall reopened for the start of
the 2015 spring semester on Jan. 28.
18 1907 SCHOLARSHIP INSPIRES DONOR,HELPS STUDENTS
A scholarship from a generous donor allowed
Nell Ross Kirkpatrick to attend Maryville
College in 1907. Over 100 years later,
the gift is still inspiring others.
| COVER PHOTO BY BRUCE COLE |
ABOUT THE COVER: Students use
the staircases in the newly renovated
Anderson Hall. Aesthetically, the
renovation preserved many of the
building’s historic and iconic features,
including wide, open staircases.
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MESSAGE from THE PRESIDENT
At Maryville College, we believe strongly in the importance of direct interaction among p
use online communications and other technologies to enhance face-to-face contact rather
replace it. It is vital, therefore, for the campus to be an inviting, comfortable and effective
environment for our students.
A major improvement is the completely renovated Anderson Hall. This state-of-the-art ac
facility is once again full of students and faculty. Renovating rather than demolishing and
has multiple benefits, although it is admittedly a challenging approach. By keeping the fam
beloved exterior, we emphasize the continuity
of Maryville College through the years,
showing to the surrounding area and to our
returning alumni that the institution continues
in a familiar way. In addition, there is nothing
more environmentally friendly than reusing an
existing building, giving us the opportunity to
showcase how we live our ethos of
environmental stewardship.
Another comprehensive renovation project is Pearsons Hall. Again, we are keeping the ou
building while completely rebuilding the interior. I like to tell people that in 2015, Maryv
will have two brand-new buildings – each over 100 years old! We emphasize our residenti
a key dimension of educating the whole person. Pearsons Hall, as the main dining room o
provides a space for the community to enjoy fellowship over food, and thus a chance to m
develop relationships that will last a lifetime.
Because we continue to be ambitious in providing the best possible experience for our stu
natural to look at what is on the horizon too. Last summer, we worked with an architect t
the campus master plan and identify priorities for improvements that would contribute to
wellness, recreation and athletics. This spring, we are working with an architect to review
Science Center and identify what renovation, expansion or new construction will be neede
serve the academic program. This is the same approach that resulted in such a positive out
Anderson Hall, as faculty and staff who are experts in education worked together with des
professionals. I am grateful to the donors who underwrote the costs of collaborating with
professional partners. The early support for planning these projects is imperative to help u
the most effective ways of accomplishing the College’s mission.
Although actual construction projects at Cooper or Sutton are likely to take time to fund
organize, we have been able to make important enhancements recently. In February, a tot
renovated weight room opened in Cooper. This facility serves all of our student-athletes,
being a resource for students who are following a fitness regimen. Also in February, we de
more than 60 new microscopes and three completely upgraded computer labs in Sutton. T
improvements were made possible by generous donations from people who understand th
investment is to help talented and hardworking individuals reach their full potential.
INVESTING IN THE PLACE for People
It is vital for the campus
be an inviting, comforta
and effective environme
for our students.
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campusNEWS
PRESIDENT OBAMA shares MC STUDENT’S STORY She’ll remember it forever.
Mentioned by name by
the President of the United
States and presented as a stellar
example of what investments
in education and self can
mean for the future of the
U.S., Caitlin McLawhorn
’16 broke down in tears when
she heard Barack Obama share
her story.
“It was amazing. Absolutelyamazing,” said the Maryville
College senior. “It was an
unforgettable experience. I
never expected this would
happen.”
During President
Barack Obama’s address at
Pellissippi State Community
College (PSCC) on Jan.
9, McLawhorn was sitting in the Goins Auditorium on the Hardin Valley campus,
the place where the Halls High School graduate got her start in higher education in
2012. Transferring to Maryville College last January, she is completing a writing/
communication major and business minor.
A first-generation college student who was reared by a single mother, McLawhorn said
higher education was always a goal but one she never thought would become reality.McLawhorn, who has been an advocate for access to higher education, said she was
contacted by the White House the week before and asked about her educational path in
anticipation of President Obama’s trip and promotion of “America’s College Promise,”
a matching grant program that would make two years of community college free for
qualifying students. The program is modeled on Gov. Bill Haslam’s “Tennessee Promise”
initiative that, starting in the fall of 2015, will make the first two years of community
college or college of applied technology free for high school graduates of the state. The
funding source is the Tennessee lottery reserve. Tennessee Promise is modeled after
tnAchieves, which McLawhorn took advantage of as a PSCC student.
Much of Obama’s talk centered on the importance of community colleges in helping
citizens achieve middle-class status, and he praised the work of PSCC students, faculty
and staff – including McLawhorn.
“… I just want to use one person’s story as an example, Caitlin McLawhorn,” Obama
said. “She was raised by a single mom. She helped make ends meet, getting her first job
almost the minute she could – two days after her 16th birthday. When it came time for
college, the money wasn’t there. But Caitlin lives in Tennessee, so she knew she had a
great, free option.
“She completed two years at this institution. Now she’s a senior at Maryville
College,” the president continued. “She’s working full-time, just like she has since her
first day of college. And Caitlin says, ‘A lot of people like me got discouraged. I get
discouraged. But I can look back and say, you’ve made it so far. I’ve learned that things
aren’t always what you want, but you can make them what you want.’ That’s wisdom. …
That’s what America is about. We can make of our lives what we will.”
A reporter interviews Caitlin McLawhorn ’16 prior
to President Barack Obama’s address at Pellissippi
State Community College on Jan. 9.
MC announces NEW MINORS,CHEMISTRYDEGREEStarting in fall 2015, Maryville College will offer a
bachelor of science degree in chemistry and two
new minors: outdoor studies and tourism, andsustainability studies.
The College already offers a bachelor of artsin chemistry, which meets the requirements of
many graduate school programs and for studentswho would like to have some flexibility to double
major or have minors. The bachelor of science inchemistry is geared to students who are heading
to graduate school in chemistry or the chemical
workforce and requires hours in all five of the majorchemistry disciplines, allowing students to get both
depth and breadth in the major, explained Dr. MaryTurner, associate professor of chemistry.
“Many of our students did all of the requirementsfor the B.S. degree already, but they received the
B.A. degree,” Turner said. “The new B.S. degreewill hopefully encourage our higher achieving
students to push themselves in chemistry, and it is
better preparation for a career in chemistry.”The new minor in outdoor studies and tourism
responds to a growing interest in sustainabletourism and outdoor studies.
“The impact of the outdoors on humanwellbeing is an emerging area of interest,” saidBruce Guillaume ’76, founder and directorof Mountain Challenge. “Connected to that,
tourism, especially outdoor sustainable tourism,
is a fast-growing industry. Managing travel andadventure with their impacts on the environment
is becoming increasingly more important in themodern economy.”
The new minor in sustainability studies isdesigned to complement any major and provides
a lens into the economic, environmental and
social tiers of any field of study.
“This minor provides the opportunity forstudents to pursue a major field of study andthen richen it with a sustainability perspective,
which will make them more sought-after in the job market as an increasing number of companies
and organizations are seeking employees whoare socially responsible and well-versed in
sustainability principles,” said Adrienne Schwarte,
associate professor of design and the coordinatorfor the new minor.
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MCBRAYER ’86 is commencement
speaker W. Neal McBrayer ’86, a judge for the
Tennessee Court of Appeals, will deliver the
commencement address to Maryville College’s
Class of 2015 during a ceremony
scheduled for 6 p.m., Sun., May 17
on the Anderson Hall lawn. During
the ceremony, McBrayer will also
receive the honorary doctor of laws
degree from the 196-year-old liberal
arts college.
McBrayer was appointed to the
bench by Gov. Bill Haslam and sworn
in on May 5, 2014. He was elected to
a full eight-year term in August of 2014.
Previously, McBrayer practiced law for 25 years in
Nashville, representing clients in commercial
litigation, bankruptcy and aviation matters. As a
partner with Butler Snow LLP, he was listed in
The Best Lawyers in America® and recognized as
a Mid-South Super Lawyer®.
McBrayer graduated in 1989 from the College
of William & Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of
Law, where he was an editor of the William &
Mary Law Review . He currently serves as a
delegate to the Tennessee Bar Association House
of Delegates and is a fellow of the American Bar
Foundation and the Nashville Bar Foundation.
He is also a member of the Belmont UniversityCollege of Law American Inn of Court.
NOSW TO HOST SECONDPROGRAM THIS SUMMERThe New Opportunity School for Women(NOSW) at Maryville College is accepting
applications for its second program to be held
on the MC campus July 12 through Aug. 1.The school, which was established at
Maryville College in 2014, is designed toimprove the educational, financial and
personal circumstances of low-income,under-educated, middle-aged women
in the Appalachian region. NOSW willaccept 14 women into the 2015 program,
which is offered at no cost to the participants.
The Women’s Fund of East Tennessee and thePresbyterian Women in the Presbyterian Church
(USA), along with donors, are providing supportfor the 2015 program.
FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS learn tnetwork , GET CAREER ADVICEThis year’s freshman class, the Class of 2018, is the first class to participate in Maryville
Works, a new comprehensive career preparation program designed to help all MC stud
college and career. Newly integrated into Maryville College’s four-year, liberal arts cur
and launched on Sept. 10, the program delivers career preparation, professional experiementoring to all MC students.
On Jan. 15, approximately 300 students had the opportunity to network with local p
and business and community leaders – including several MC alumni – during a network
which was a requirement of students enrolled in FYS 120: Communications Strategies , a
January Term course that explores human communication in theory and practice.
“Our goal was to have students understand that networking is an essential communi
strategy they will need outside of – and after – college,” said Christy McDonald, direct
career resources. “In this course, professors shared personal
experiences of networking, instructed students in networking
protocol and provided an outlet for ‘peer networking’ to
practice for the event. “They came prepared to speak to
professionals about their career paths and interests,” she
continued. “The event was a success by connecting students
to professionals to help lead into careers.”
On Jan. 20, first-year students heard valuable career advice
from Ben Carpenter, Wall Street veteran, entrepreneur and
author of The Bigs: The Secrets Nobody Tells Students and Young
Professionals About How to Find a Great Job, Do a Great Job,
Be a Leader, Start a Business, Stay Out of Trouble, and Live a
Happy Life .
During his presentation, Carpenter told students about
how he progressed from a naïve liberal arts graduate to the
CEO of a major international investment company, and he
shared advice he learned along the way.
“We found Ben through a New York Times op-ed piece,
where he argued that colleges should offer a four-year
developmental program focused on getting students from
college to career,” said Dr. Karen Beale, associate professor of
psychology and chair of the Maryville College Works program. “As soon as we saw thasaid ‘He has got to know about Maryville College. He has got to know what we’re doi
contacted him, and he offered to come speak, which I thought was incredible.”
Carpenter concluded his presentation with the announcement that all MC first-year
who wanted a copy of his book would receive one free of charge.
“Maryville College is the only college that I know of in the country that is saying tha
important for us to give our students the tools to be able to translate this fantastic liber
education that they’ve been given into the commercial world and how they can help th
both sell themselves into the job and then to do the job,” Carpenter said. “I think that
College is specifically addressing a crying need at a liberal arts college, and I applaud th
Top: Students part
networking mixer he
the Clayton Center
Above: Wall Street
author Ben Carpente
his book and gives c
to students on
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MC announces NEW BOARD MEMBERS Maryville College’s Board of Directors recently
approved four new board members during the
fall meeting: Emily Anderson, Mary Kay Sullivan,
Ken Tuck ’54 and Charles Wright.
Anderson, who was previously on the board
from 2000 until 2011, has served as pastor of
New Providence Presbyterian
Church in Maryville since
1999. After graduating
from Vanderbilt University
and Princeton Theological
Seminary, she went on to earn
a doctor of ministry degree
from Columbia Theological
Seminary. Active in various
church and community initiatives, she is a
member of Maryville College’s Faith and
Learning Committee, a vice moderator for the
Presbytery of East Tennessee and a member
of Columbia Theological Seminary’s board of
trustees.
Sullivan, professor emerita of business at
Maryville College, retired from the College in
2010 after 21 years of teaching.
She is a member of the board
of Helen Ross McNabb Center.
She is the author of Study Guide
to Finance and has published a
number of articles in academic
journals and textbooks.
She holds degrees from the
University of Arkansas, Bryn
Mawr College and the University of Tennessee.
She and husband William live in Knoxville.
Tuck, who recently retired after a 50-year
career as an ophthalmologist, previously served
on the board from 2004 until 2014. After
graduating from MC, he earned his medical
degree from the University of Virginia School
of Medicine. In 2004, he was awarded Maryville
College’s Alumni Citation, and in 2010, he
received the Maryville College Medallion –
Maryville College’s highest
honor. He and wife Sara live in
Roanoke, Va., and have three
daughters, 11 grandchildren,
including Peter Coats ’09 and
two great-grandchildren.
Wright is vice president and
associate general counsel for A&E Networks in
New York. After graduating
from Vanderbilt University,
he went on to earn bachelor’s
and master’s degrees from
Oxford University and a law
degree from the University
of Pennsylvania. A member
of Drama Desk, Inc.’s board
of directors, he has served as
an adjunct faculty member at the Metropolitan
College of New York and as a Maryville College
National Advisory Council member. He and wife
Anne have one daughter.
DONORS help with upgrades , PLANS FOR SUTTONSutton Science Center now has high-tech upgrades, and plans are being
made for the future of the building, thanks to the generosity of two donors.
Steve West, former board member and longtime supporter of the
College, and Dr. Ken Tuck ’54, current board member, funded the cost of
a master plan to outline priorities for improvements for the sciences. This
spring, the College is working with an architect to review Sutton Science
Center and identify what renovation, expansion or new construction will be
needed to best serve the academic program.
To help meet immediate needs in the 47-year-old building, Tuck made a
donation to fund the purchase of 62 new microscopes, four HDMI
television displays, 64 desktop computers and eight laptop computers.
“I get excited about opportunities to help faculty and students, especially
when it comes to students having a more meaningful academic experience,
and it is well known that math, science and technology are huge
opportunities now and in the future,” said Tuck, who toured Sutton
Science Center to see the new equipment during a recent visit to campus.
The computers were installed in three computer labs, which are used bystudents for labs, projects and Senior Study work. The new microscopes
have LED illumination, which is brighter, uses less energy and lasts longer
than the light bulbs of the old microscopes. A new, user-friendly
fluorescence microscope was also acquired.
HD cameras are mounted on the teaching microscopes, which are
connected to HDMI television displays. The televisions also have a split
screen feature, which allows faculty to compare the image on the
microscope to an image that was previously captured.
“We now have the ability to show students what they should be seeing
with their own scopes, we can show demonstrations in lecture of what we
have on the scope in real time, we can create videos of what’s happening
under the microscope with the HD camcorder attachment, and we can
grab pictures from the scope cameras that can be used for lectures and
testing purposes,” said Dr. Jerilyn Swann, associate professor of biology and
chair of the Division of Natural Sciences. “The set-up enhances our ability
to create an effective and engaging learning environment for students.”
PHASE II OF PEARSONS HALL RENOVATION UNDERWA
In response to growing enrollment and the need for more on-cam
living spaces for students, Maryville College has begun Phase II ofrenovation of 105-year-old Pearsons Hall. When completed, the
second and third floors should provide rooms and suites for 78students. The large dining hall kitchen will also be totally gutted a
replaced, brought up to code and outfitted with new appliances a
equipment. The building will open for the fall 2015 semester.
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op Era sC E Ne sOPERA takes CENTER STAGE
Taking notes on a yellow pad, Delores Bowen
Ziegler ’73 nods her head in approval and
mouths the words as two students rehearse a
scene from Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.”
“That was very good! You both have plenty of
volume,” Ziegler said at the end of the scene,
stepping on the stage in the Clayton Center for
the Arts’ Harold and Jean Lambert Recital Hall
to move a bench two inches to the right.
It’s a cold morning in early January, and Ziegler
is working with students in Maryville College’s
January Term Opera Scenes course. They are
rehearsing selections from several operas for a Jan.
29 performance of “An Evening of Mozart.”
The three-week course gives students an
opportunity to work with professionals to learn
about the complex process of performing opera while preparing for a public performance of opera
scenes. Due to the challenge of producing a stage
program in less than one month, students in the
course have a rigorous rehearsal schedule that
often includes 12-hour days. In addition to
staging, vocal coaching sessions, choreography
and other musical essentials, the students are
responsible for researching the history of the
opera, the scenes and the characters involved.
Ziegler, an American mezzo-soprano with a
repertoire that extends from bel canto to verismo,
has performed in the world’s greatest opera
houses. She is a professor of vocal per formance at
the University of Maryland School of Music.
Ziegler and MC Coordinator of Choral Music
Stacey Wilner came up with the idea for the Opera
Scenes course three years ago, when Ziegler was
on campus to deliver the Commencement address
to the Class of 2012. Together, they came up with
an outline for a course that mirrored an artist-in-
residence program offered when Ziegler was an
MC student.
The first Opera Scenes course was held in
2013, and several Maryville College alumni and
friends have provided support for the course.
For this year’s class, several MC alumnae returned
to campus to assist the 10 students enrolled in the
course. Melanie Kohn Day ’75, who also helped
with the course in 2013, served with Ziegler as
artistic director. Day, who has performed inCarnegie Recital Hall, the Athenaeum in Boston,
the National Cathedral and the French Embassy, is
an assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth
University, where she directs the VCU Opera.
Jennifer Olander Anderson ’05, who teaches
at LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis, served as
collaborative pianist, and Ashley Abbott ’12,
choral assistant and fine arts recruiter at MC, was
the production manager. “It’s rejuvenating for me
to work with these students,” Anderson said.
“We come here for the students,” Ziegler
added. “We want to share our experience with
them, but we also get a lot from them.”
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Top to bottom: Students in the 201
Scenes course pose for a photo
rehearsing “An Evening of Moz
students rehearse a scene from M
“Don Giovanni” in January 2015; s
give a toast prior to a performance
Fledermaus” in January 201
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Top: Fifteen students were selected for the first Opera Scenes course in 2013. Seated on the couch are (L-R) Stacey Wilner, Michael Sakir, Delores Bowe
and Melanie Kohn Day ’75. Above: Students rehearse scenes from (L-R) “The Magic Flute,” “The Mikado,” “Così fan tutte” and “La Clemenza d
Below: 2014 Opera Scenes performers get hair and make-up ready in the Clayton Center’s Fred and Sharon Lawson Make-Up Room.
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BY THE NUMBERS
FULL-TIME 78.6%
PART-TIME 8.9%12.5% REPORT FULL-TIME GRADUATE SCHOOL
ENROLLMENT OR “OTHER”
EMPLOYMENT
93.2%
of survey participantseither completed an
advanced degree or
were pursuing one
would “absolutely”
or “very likely”
choose MC again
Of those who pursue
advanced degrees, 97.
reported that the Colle
prepared them “very we
“well” for graduate sch
Master’s degrees,
including MBAs = 66.9%
Doctoral degrees,
including medical = 21.8%
Other (J.D., Ed.S., etc.) = 8.6%
B R E A K D O W
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M A S T E
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survey participation
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97.9%
SENIORSTUDY
FACU AS MEN
ORALCOMMUNICATION
WRITTENCOMMUNICATION
ANALYTTHINK
Hallmarks of MC educa
deemed “very importa
to career success
IN A SURVEY conducted
last fall, young alumni of
Maryville College gave their
alma mater high marks in
graduate school preparation,career preparation and other
skills needed to succeed in
the workforce.
The survey was emailed to
2,359 alumni who graduated
in the last 15 years. A healthy
31 percent responded. Some
statistics from the surveyare presented at right. Visit
maryvillecollege.edu for more
on the survey and its findings.
Editor’s Note: “By the Numbers” is a new feature that presents statistical information about Maryvil
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BOOKS BY FACULTY
MEMBERS published Three MC faculty members are celebrating
the publication of their research.
Dr. Aaron Astor, Civil War expert and
associate professor of history, wrote The
Civil War Along Tennessee’s Cumberland
Plateau , which will be published by the
History Press in May. Astor, who has
written extensively on the Civil War
era, is also the author of Rebels on the
Border: Civil War, Emancipation and the
Reconstruction of Kentucky and Missouri,
1860-1872 .
“The people of the Cumberland Plateau experienceda civil war within a civil war,” Astor said. “No area
in Tennessee encountered more divided loyalties
or guerrilla conflict during the Civil War than the
Cumberland Plateau.”
In December, New City Press released Structures
of Grace: The Business Practices of the Economy of
Communion by Dr. John Gallagher, professor of
management at MC, and Dr. Jeanne Buckeye of the
University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
The book, which is the result of a multi-
year research project involving more than
a dozen companies in both the U.S. and
Canada, explores the business practices of
a group of companies “who are dedicated
to changing the world.” The companiesparticipate in the Economy of Communion
(EOC), an initiative of the international and
ecumenical Focolare movement that began
in Brazil in 1991. Gallagher and Buckeye
focused on the day-to-day business practices
of the participating businesses, finding that EOC
companies are indeed different.
Dr. Jason Troyer, associate professor of psychology,
wrote Counseling Widowers , which is part of The
Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with
Boys and Men . The book, published in May
2014, builds on the latest developments in
grief research and men’s studies to bridge
the gap between counseling practice and
the needs of bereaved men. Written for
therapists, the book includes tools for
adjusting clinical strategies to work more
effectively with bereaved men.
Troyer, whose research focuses on the
grief experiences of widowers, has taught
college courses on death and dying and has
provided individual and group counseling for bereaved
college students and older adults.
BRUCE leads study OF
ASIAN CATHOLICS IN U.S.Dr. Tricia Bruce, associate professor of sociology at Maryville College, is assisting the
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) with a project that will help inform
the development of a broader national pastoral plan for Asian and Pacific Island (API)
Catholics.
Bruce is working with the USCCB’s Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Island
Affairs and the Secretariat of Cultural Diversity in the Church to conduct a nationwide
assessment of the pastoral needs of API Catholics. Maryville College is the “home”
for the project, said Bruce, who is leading the assessment. She also has involved
Georgetown’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), Dr. Jerry Park
of Baylor University and Dr. Stephen Cherry at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
Changes in immigration law
after 1965 introduced higher
numbers of migrants from around
the world, and the U.S. CatholicChurch has seen a rise in Asian
migration, Bruce said.
“In more recent years, the
rate of Asian migration has
surpassed the rate of Latino
migration, so this is a moment
that is introducing new challenges
for the church,” said Bruce,
whose research interests include
the sociology of religion, social
movements, Catholicism,
immigration, organizations
and applied sociology. “While
the U.S. Catholic Bishops have
acknowledged the numerous
and diverse contributions of Asian and Pacific Islanders, they would like to move from
awareness to action with a national plan identifying strategies to meet the needs of API
Catholics. They need social scientific research to help identify those needs and new
demographic realities.”
The team formulated questions for the survey, which was translated into 14
languages and launched online. For the survey translations, Bruce, who often provides
her students with opportunities to assist with her research, also enlisted the help of MC
international students and alumni. Students in Bruce’s research methods course helped
enter the survey into Qualtrics, an online survey platform, and helped field test it.
Sophomore Halle Hill ’17, who is double majoring in sociology and religion,
assisted with the development of the survey, online survey entry and outreach efforts.
“Working with Dr. Bruce on this research project has been a wonderful, informative
and encouraging experience,” Hill said. “Seeing that I am studying religion and
sociology, being able to see firsthand how the two co-exist in this research is such a
rare and awesome experience, and I am very thankful. I am encouraged to see that
what I am passionate about and love to study has serious application in the real world
and is much needed.”
This spring, the research team has been following up with focus groups and
interviews with key leaders.
Bruce will submit a report to USCCB in August 2015, and the team will present its
findings during the USCCB conference in Baltimore in November. “The USCCB will
take the results and get a sense of how best to minister to this community, and they’ll
write the pastoral plan from there,” Bruce said. “That’s the end goal of this project.”
Dr. Tricia Bruce (right) is leading a nationwide
assessment of the pastoral needs of Asian and
Pacific Island Catholics. Halle Hill ’17 (left)
assisted with the development of the survey,
online survey entry and outreach efforts.
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COOPER WEIGHT ROOM upgraded Cooper Athletic Center recently received an upgrade with
the complete overhaul of the entire weight room.The weight room, which reopened in February, includes
power cages, three-way benches, bumper plates, Olympicgrip plates, dumbbells, kettle bells, medicine balls, a glute/
ham machine, a Vertimax speed and jump training systemand battle ropes. An Everlast Infinity flooring surface was
installed, as well as a special turf inset for speed, agilityand quickness drills. The upgrades meet new safety
standards and equip the facility for elite training.
“The weight room is a space utilized by all student-athletes and other students, so there was a great need
to update the space and equipment,” said MC AssociateAthletics Director Heather Mathis Bryan ‘06. “The
College works diligently to recruit and retain talentedstudent-athletes, and we were eager to upgrade the
facility to attract future students and provide a well-equipped training facility for our current students.”
MC Athletics Director Kandis Schram ’85 said the
weight room project had three goals:
■To be more efficient with space. “Unfortunately we
could not add square footage, but we were able tobe much more efficient with the space that we do
have. The new cages along the wall give each
adequate space with weights that allow for gusers to work at an efficient pace and the are
middle for agility training,” Schram said.
■Equipment that allowed for more programm
addition of a Vertimax, rower, pull-up bars anpulley devices allows for creative programmin
■Safer environment for users. “The Infinity floprime example of how much safer the weight
for our users. This, in addition to the cages thfor safety, are all added enhancements,” Sch
Members of the Maryville College Gridiron Cmany generous donors contributed to the proje
exceeded the $105,000 goal.
“As an athletic department, we wanted to raiand renovate the space within a short timeframesaid. “We met with several alumni and alumni g
order to raise the $105,000 needed for the projeraised $115,000 through cash and pledges in ab
months. The response from our MC alumni is a m
boost for our department, and we are looking fomore projects in the future.”
The upgrades in Cooper Athletic
Center’s weight room include all
new equipment, an Everlast
Infinity flooring surface and a
special turf inset for speed,
agility and quickness drills.
sportsNEWS
KELLEY NAMED head softball coach Leah Kelley ’11 was named Maryville College head softball
coach in December.
Kelley was previously an assistant softball coach at MC.
A stellar student-athlete at Chattanooga State Community
College (CSCC) and Maryville College, Kelley also has
served in assistant coaching positions at CSCC and East
Carolina University.
After receiving her associate’s degree in allied health from
CSCC, where she was a two-time all-conference selection
for the Tigers, Kelley chose to conclude her playing career at
Maryville College, earning a bachelor of arts degre
education. As the Scots’ shortstop, Kelley earned a
Great South Athletic Conference all-conference acc
and was named the league’s player of the year follow
senior season in 2011. The 1st Team All-Region ho
finished her senior year ranked in the top 10 within
Division III in seven different offensive categories,
leading the nation with her .522 batting average.
Kelley’s staff includes assistant coaches Taylor D
and Courtney Elrod.
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HAYES named
HEAD FOOTBALLCOACHShaun Hayes ’06 has beennamed the 29th head football
coach in Maryville College’s
storied 122-year collegiatefootball history. He will begin
his eighth season with the Scotsin the fall of 2015. He replaces
Mike Rader, who left in Februaryfor a coaching position at East
Tennessee State University.Hayes, a native of Rutledge,
Tenn., and former Scot standout on thegridiron, was a seven-year member of theScots’ coaching staff, serving as the running
backs coach, quarterback coach, recruitingcoordinator, video coordinator, offensive
coordinator, and, most recently, as assistanthead coach, co-offensive coordinator and
director of player personnel.“We make this announcement after a
thorough process that gathered input from
staff, players, alumni, boosters and communityleaders on a tight timeframe,” MC Athletics
Director Kandis Schram ‘85 wrote in a memoto the campus on Feb. 18. “With recruiting
underway and spring practices around the
corner, it was important to fill the positionquickly – but fill it with the right person. Thissearch revealed that we already have the right
leader within the program. Shaun has the
dedication and passion to lead the programand the knowledge of what type of student-
athlete will thrive within the Maryville Collegecurriculum while excelling within the football
program.”Hayes has appointed Ryan Hansen as the
program’s co-offensive coordinator, director of
player development and wide receivers coach;and Zach Hufford as co-defensive coordinator
and linebackers coach.Philip Bailey will begin his fourth season with
the Scots this fall as co-offensive coordinator,strength and conditioning coordinator and
offensive line coach; Paul Humphries will enterhis third year with the Scots as co-defensive
coordinator and special teams coordinator; and
Ian Harris continues as defensive line coachand recruiting coordinator.
The Scots will open the 2015 campaign onHonaker Field on Sept. 5, when they host
Berry College.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM
makes history WITH 26-4 RECORDThe Maryville College women’s basketball team finished the season with a No. 15 national ranking
from the USA TODAY Sports Division III women’s basketball coaches poll.
Recording the most wins in the history of the program and finishing the season with a 26-4
record, the Scots claimed their third consecutive USA South Southern Division regular season
title. The team returned to the NCAA tournament for the 21st time in program history, but it was
defeated by the DePauw University Tigers by the score of 76-53 in the second round of the post-
season in Greencastle, Ind.
In his fifth season, MC Women’s Head Basketball Coach Darrin Travillian became the first
in school history to attain 100 career victories in five seasons and the first to collect USA South
Coach of the Year honors. Named one of the 2015 Uni ted States Marine Corps/Women’s
Basketball Coaches Association NCAA Division III Regional Coaches of the Year, he is now a
finalist for the Pat Summitt Trophy and national Coach of the Year honors.
Junior guard Mackenzie Puckett ’16 led the Maryville College Scots with 415 points on the
year, averaging 13.8 per game – a statistic that ranked her fifth within the USA South AthleticConference. She eclipsed her 1,000th career point on Feb. 21 with an offensive put back at the
14:00 mark against the Huntingdon Hawks. She
was named a member of the 2015 WBCA Division
III Coaches’ All-America Team and was named
to the 2014-15 D3hoops.com All-South Region
Team following her stellar junior campaign.
Above: Junior guard
Mackenzie Puckett ’16
led the Scots with 415
points on the year,
averaging 13.8 per game.
She eclipsed her 1,000th
career point on Feb. 21.
Top: MC women’s head
basketball coach Darrin
Travillian was named USA
South Coach of the Year
and claimed his 100th
career coaching victory.
Left: Senior captain Alex
Bond ‘15 earned second
team All-USA Southhonors this season.
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O NE YEAR , eight
months and one
day after it was closed
to the Maryville College
community for a major
interior renovation, Anderson Hall reopened
for the start of the spring
semester on Jan. 28.
A NEW ERA FOR AN
To commemorate the historic moment,
faculty, staff and students gathered outside that
day at noon to hear the Anderson Hall bell ring
145 times – a toll for each academic year the
building has served the campus.
This semester, the majority of the College’s
1,213 students will take at l east one class inside
the newly renovated building, which now has 31
offices, 11 classrooms, three seminar rooms, three
team rooms, a student lounge and a faculty lounge.
The $7.6 million renovation, funded with
donations from alumni, friends and bequests,strengthened the foundation and took the
interior back to the supporting structure. Interior
walls were removed, as well as existing flooring
and all ceilings. An elevator, sprinkler system,
security system and high-efficiency heating
and cooling system were installed. Johnson
Architecture designed the 25,500-square-foot
interior space; Joseph Construction ha
demolition and construction; and Law
LLC, was hired as the owner’s represen
the project.
Aesthetically, the renovation preserv
of the building’s historic and iconic fea
including wide, open staircases, tall wi
wide baseboards, transom windows an
entrances.
“Faculty and staff who had not seen
building since its interior demolition h
me that the renovated Anderson exceehighest expectations,” said Dr. Barbara
vice president and dean of the College
general, I think everyone knew it woul
updated and functional, but they did n
would be what many describe as ‘beau
The College’s iconic building will b
rededicated during a ceremony on Ma
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“It was a challenging, fun project.It’s rare to save a building of this ageand vintage. Most buildings thatwere in this state get razed,not saved. Now, the College has a
19th-century building with a21st-century interior.”
– Barry Brooke
Executive Vice President of
Lawler-Wood, LLC(owner’s representative for
Anderson Hall renovation)
WE ASKE D Maryville College
alumni, faculty, staff and students
to tell us what they think about the
renovation. Some had spent years in
the building, while some, includingmost freshmen and sophomores,
walked through the building for the
first time this semester. Read their
responses here.
“Walking up to Anderson for the firsttime, it felt like the same old buildingit was before, but as soon as Iopened the first door, that feelingwent away. Everything—from the
stairs, to the walls, to the desks insidethe classrooms—felt brand new andclean. Anderson Hall is definitelymuch improved and has a verymodern feel to it while still beinghistoric on the outside.”
– Sierra Siegel ‘16
Hannah Sharp ’17 (left) talks toDr. Alesia Orren, associate
professor of elementary education,in Orren’s new first-floor office in
Anderson Hall.
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“I like the fact that the exteriorlooks almost exactly the same asthe original, and the interior hasbeen transformed, yet it retains theessential structure, specifically thehigh ceiling and windows that let inlots of light.”
– Kim TrevathanAssistant Professor of Writing/
Communication
“I love the seamlessly integratedtechnology in Anderson. We don’tneed to spend precious class timetrying to get the system poweredup and working. The volunteers inthe campus archives have createda fabulous display of artifacts from
Isaac Anderson himself. It is nice toremember these beginnings as weuse this new and high-tech space.”
– Diana Curtis
Instructor, Division of Languagesand Literature
“I’m so happy that the architectsaw fit to keep the integrity ofbuilding. Even though everythis new, you can still see the oldAnderson in the stairs, the cromoldings and the transoms. Theven left a little peep hole to s
old brick, and in the main entris even a display case crafted the old flooring.”
– Dr. Karen
Associate Professor of PsycholoChair of Maryville College
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(Clockwise from far left) Dr. Terry
Simpson, professor of secondary
education, teaches a class in one
of the new first-floor classrooms;
the building’s new features
include an elevator; Kim
Trevathan, assistant professor of
writing/communication (left),
talks to student Emilie Perez ’16
from his third-floor office.
Bottom: A cutout in the wall
on the first floor shows the
building’s original brick structure.
“I like that they left the piece ofexposed brick in the wall.”
– Taylor King ’15
“I’ve been amazed with the newAnderson Hall’s beauty and a senseof familiarity. I recall the first timeI stepped into the building in thespring of 2006. The spirit of the oldAnderson Hall remains, even thoughthe building looks new. Here is an
old soul.” – Dr. Phillip Sherman
Associate Professor of Religion
“It feels like coming home to a newand improved house. I like the factthat the building is now structurallysound and the fact that so muchof the architectural integrity waspreserved, with the staircases, thetransoms over the doorways, the
big wide windowsills and the deepbaseboards. There’s so much ofAnderson still here, and that’s one ofthe most important things.”
– Bonnie West ‘13
Administrative Assistant,
Division of Education
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(Clockwise from left)
The renovation preserved some of
the building’s familiar features,
including the windows and landing
on the third floor; a student lounge
on the second floor gives students
a place to take a break between
classes; new technology, including
wireless internet, allows people to
connect anywhere in the building.
I think it’s been very tastefully doneand seems to be very appropriatefor a building of this age – the colorsand the fact that the moldings havebeen kept or replicated in variousplaces. One thing I laughed aboutis that the stairs no longer squeak.I am very happy that Anderson isbeing taken care of and cherished.It’s important to me that the College
is still respecting what we did when itwas placed on the National Registerof Historic Places.”
– Dr. Sarah ‘Sally’ Brown McNiell ’53
Professor Emerita of History
“The first thing I did when I toured thenew building was ride the elevator.I spent many semesters makingarrangements for students whocouldn’t climb the stairs by movingclasses from second and third floorclassrooms to the ground floor or tobuildings with elevators. It means somuch to me that now these studentsand faculty members who could not
climb the steps can now get to thesecond and third floor. I miss the oldbuilding, but it’s part of my heart.I can appreciate the new buildingbecause of what it provides.”
– Martha Hess ’67 , Former Registrar
“It’s up to date, which is importAnd the fact that they could dowith a building this old … it’s ex
– Jane Huddles
Former Assistant to the Academ
“It has that ‘new’ building smelEverything is fresh, new and rereally pretty. All the philosophhistory professors are all toget
one space (in the Humanities sBefore the renovation, you’d hgo to two different floors to visSo the faculty facilities are my fpart – faculty deserve a nice sp
– Nick Ro
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DISPLAY CASE showcases MC HISTORY
While it was important to preserve many of Anderson Hall’s historic and iconic features
during the renovation, it was also important
that the plans included a way to showcase
Maryville College’s rich history.
The College’s team of dedicated archives
volunteers, which includes Polly Cox Bowers
’58, Julia Bird Cooper ’72, Charles Craven
’77, Gail Bradley Hafner ’60, Martha
Hess ’67, Jane Huddleston ’49 and Rob
Kennedy ’71, requested a display case for
the building. The volunteers spend hours
every week in the basement of Fayerweather
Hall, responding to requests and sorting
through the College’s extensive archives
collection, which includes a variety of uniqueitems, including MC publications, diaries,
photos, catalogs, blueprints, art collections
and meeting minutes. The display case would
give them the ability to display these items for
the entire MC community to see, because “a
lot of people don’t realize that the archives
collection is here,” Hafner said.
“We wanted a chance to show the MC
community some of the things that we
have in our collection,” Kennedy said. “It’s
our collective heritage, and it belongs to
everyone.”
Unbeknownst to the volunteers, Jim
Merritt, general superintendent of JosephConstruction (which handled demolition and
construction during the project), had decided
to take it on as a side project.
Using original heart pine flooring that
was removed from the building during
demolition, he spent several afternoons in
his shop at home, refinishing the wood and
preparing it for installation in the building.
The result is a 3-by-7-foot display case,
located on the first floor of Anderson Hall.
When the volunteers saw the display case
for the first time, they were thrilled – and
immediately put it to use. The first display
focused on the building’s namesake, Isaac
Anderson, and the current display is about theCollege and the Civil War.
“I wanted to help out, and it made the
project more personal for me,” said Merritt,
who admits that he likes to add personal
touches to all of the construction projects he
oversees. “It was an honor to be able to do
this project.”
The first archives display focused on the
building’s namesake, Isaac Anderson, and
included his Bible, communion set, powder
horn, sermons and photos. Archives
volunteers plan to create new displays
throughout the year.
“It’s really well renovated. It’straditional and historic, yet it haselements that are modern. It’s nice toreflect that things change and evolveto accommodate the now.”
– Aley Goodlett ’18
“As a historian, I’m so happy to behere again. The new design pays
tribute to the College’s legacy whilebringing us to the present.”
– Dr. Doug Sofer
Associate Professor of History
“Maybe like any of the classroombuildings, we have Anderson Hall inour minds as a symbol of all of theprecious interactions with studentsover the years – students whose livesand careers we’ve tried to nourish,foster and cherish. So this is continuitywith a great tradition of the past, goinginto the future, and rebuilt new so as tohelp us do the job really well. The fact
that it’s the same building gives usthe continuity with a tradition that weshould be proud of.”
– Dr. Sam Overstreet
Chair, Division of Languages
and Literature
“Anderson Hall has vastly improvedsince my first year at MaryvilleCollege. The interior is now bothtasteful and practical. Despite themodern design, relics from the past,such as the bell out front and theportion of exposed brick inside, area reminder of the building’s rich past.And while I acknowledge that therenovation was absolutely necessary,
I still sometimes miss the creakystairs and confusing layout of myfreshman year.”
– Evy Linkous ’16
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the importance, purponobility of a career as
servant in the United S
Rebecca Reed has retire
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taken on a new adven
moved to Cascade, C
enroll in Charis Bible C
study Scripture and is
about her new advent
1971
Suzanne McCulloch Frie
has now retired and is
this new adventure.”
James Showalter just co
his 25th year teaching
Langston University, a
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University in Oklahom
remains the sole histo
for 1,500 students and
elected by fellow facu
the interim faculty
1963Dorothea Saint Hanton submitted
news about her sister, Hazel
Saint Kolb Collins ’67. Hazel’s
husband John passed away on
Nov. 15.
1965
Carol Sue McNabb Hutchinson
and husband Robert
Hutchinson ‘64 have relocated
to Winter Haven, Fla. Carol is
the pastor at Asbury United
Methodist Church in Bartow,Fla., and has retired from the
Florida Methodist Conference
as assistant director of ministry
to small churches after 15 years.
Robert retired from the United
States Air Force after 24 years,
last worked as a bus driver for
Disney World and is now the
Methodist Christian educator
and program director.
1953Richard Kerr became a great-
great-grandfather on April 17,
2014. His oldest grandson Jason
Brasel and wife Carolyn gave
birth to Hope Elizabeth.
1966Sue Haldeman Bergman and
husband Eric are the proud
grandparents of 34 grandchildren
ranging from age 21 to one born
in January 2014.
1969
June Rostan was awarded the
Lifetime Achievement Long
Haul Award by the Tennessee
Alliance for Progress on May 15
in Nashville. This award is given
to those who have made asignificant contribution over a
period of years to social change
in Tennessee.
1970
Robert Durant released a book,
Why Public Service Matters:
Public Managers, Public Policy,
and Democracy , which conveys
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Corita Erwin Swanson ’58 received a 2014 Spirit of
GoodNeighborslifetime
achievementaward for herwork withBlountCounty GoodNeighbors,
which she started in 1996and served as directorfor nine years.
1907 SCHOLARSHIP inspires donor , HELPS STUDENThe amount was only $50, but it meant so much more.
The check came in at the last minute – just before the start of the 1907-
08 academic year – from a Mrs. George Jones of Massachusetts. Maryville
College Scholarship Secretary Margaret Henry asked Jones to provide a
scholarship for Nell Ross Kirkpatrick of Mooresburg, Tenn., who wanted to
enroll at the College but couldn’t afford it.
In 1907-08, tuition was $18, room was $36, and it cost $1.50
per week for meals through the Cooperative Boarding Club. A $50
scholarship and a work-study position on campus would pay for a
year at MC. Jones’ scholarship gave Kirkpatrick a foot in the door –
and a chance to start a college education.
Kirkpatrick was 19 when she arrived on the MC campus in 1907.
At 6 feet tall, she played on the basketball team and was “one of
the tallest girls in college and towers above almost every other girl
in Baldwin Hall,” Henry wrote in a letter to the scholarship donor.
Throughout her time at MC, Kirkpatrick continued to receive
scholarship support, thanks to the hard work of Henry, who was
dedicated to the education of children in the Appalachians and would
go out into the field to raise money for scholarships.
The oldest of three sisters, including Marivine Kirkpatrick (MC class
of 1912), she took a break in the middle of her college career to work to
support her family but returned to complete her teaching degree in 1914.
Her 1914 classmates included Edwin R. Hunter, former dean of the
College, and Wiley Rutledge, former Supreme Court Justice.
After graduation, Kirkpatrick accepted a job at Nicholas Coun
School in Summersville, W.Va., teaching home economics and G
married Charles Alexander Marshall, and the couple had a daugh
Jones Marshall – named after Jones, the woman who made Kirkp
MC education possible in 1907. Last year, Marshall, inspired by h
mother’s story, decided to send a gift to financially support two M
College students with financial need.
One of the student recipients, Loudine Louis ’16, said Marsh
made it possible for her to attend Maryville College this academi
without paying any money out of pocket.
“It’s been almost a year since I found out about the
gift, and I am still in awe that someone wanted to pay
forward the gift that her mother received while she was
a Maryville College student,” said Louis, a theatre and
psychology double major from Fort Myers, Fla. “I can’t
believe that the person who received the blessing was me.
The gift means more than I can say in words, but what I
can say is that I can’t wait until I have the opportunity to
pay forward this blessing from a stranger.”
Editor’s Note: Sadly, the College learned that Nell Jones
Marshall passed away in December.
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MARRIAGES
& UNIONS
Jean King ’71to Victoria Riccitiello
June 1, 2014
Jackie Dye ‘83to Joe Sprigg ‘80
Aug. 30, 2014
Julia Hurley ’03
to James DalrympleSept. 21, 2014
Amy Norris ’04to Chad Richards
July 13, 2014
Jessica Pope ‘05to Scott Flinchum
June 22, 2012
Anthony Bennett ’08to Kayla HaysJuly 12, 2014
Emily Headrick ’11to Eric JohnsonJune 28, 2014
Amanda Lawhorn ’13to James Dallas Clark III
March 31, 2014
Brittany Self ’13to Steven Purdy
Oct. 12, 2013
representative to the President’s
Administrative Council in 2012,
the first elected representative
of the LU faculty in the history ofthe school.
G. Marcus Woodward was
recently appointed by Kentucky
Governor Steve Beshear to the
Board of Directors for the
Kentucky Health Benefit
Exchange, which is Kentucky’s
state-based exchange for health
insurance under the Affordable
Care Act. Marcus continues to
lecture and oversee training of
insurance agents on the
exchange as well as promoting
KYnect across Kentucky inaddition to running his own
insurance agency, Woodward &
Associates.
1972
Nancy Kennedy Wallace signed a
multi-book contract with Harper
Collins’ UK office for an adult
fantasy series. The first book,
Among Wolves, will be released
in May 2015. Her second series
of Readers’ Theater books, A
Year of Holiday Scripts for
Schools and Libraries, will be
released Sept. 1, 2015. She has
a total of 13 published children’s
books, including The Christmas
Cats and Abby and the Book
Bunch.
1973
Carol Newill retired from the prac-
tice of internal medicine in June2013. Since then she has been
traveling all over the U.S. with
her husband for his contracts in
architectural photography, enjoy-
ing museums, gardens, arbore-
tums and good food along the
way. In September she started
helping (part-time) as a visiting
scholar at the Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health, where
she earned her Ph.D.
Diane Wood has had a lot of
changes in the past year. Her
mother’s health had deteriorated
to the point that she had to go
into a nursing home but she has
welcomed her niece and her
8-year-old daughter into a new
home she bought in August. She
enjoys time spent with her
4-year-old kitty, Maynard, and
her herding breed mix, Katie.
Her transcription job is
improving all the time.
1974
Carolyn Graham Bradley recently
retired after a 40-year career ineducation. Currently still active
as a business owner, she looks
forward to connecting with
friends during alumni weekends
and being involved as an alumna.
Assistant Director of Financial Aid Barbara Cloud Hutchison ’71 retiredfrom Maryville College in January, aftera decade of service. During her time at
the College, Barbara helped manystudents find work-study jobs andreceive the aid they needed to thrive intheir studies and complete degrees.The Maryville College communitygathered to bid farewell to Barbara
during a reception on Jan. 5.
Carol Veltman Kariotis took an
early retirement from her
position as director of
residential life at the University
of Missouri - Kansas City at the
end of 2007. She has since
served as the executive director/
CEO of two arts organizations:Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities
and The Writers Place. Carol has
now left working for pay and is
volunteering as a grant writer for
the Liberty Arts Foundation, Inc.
Jean Erhardt ’76 is theauthor ofthe KimClaypoole
mysteryseries, whichis largely setin the Great
Smoky Mountains. Herprotagonist is a MaryvilleCollege graduate whofrequently wears her MCScottie Dog t-shirt. Thefirst book in the series,Small Town Trouble, wasreleased in paperbackand e-book in 2013. DeepTrouble was released inMay 2014 and is nowavailable everywhere ine-book and paperback.
ZANE WINDERS ’13
& CALLIE BLACKFORD ‘1
July 4, 2014
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1976
G. Sutton Brown Jr. owns a gro-
cery and hardware store recentlyfeatured in the Johnson City
Press due to the environmental
updates to his unique store.
While the inside of the hardware
section of the store looks like it is
still the 1950s, the store’s roof is
definitely 21st century – its solar
panels can generate 44 kilowatts
of electricity from the sun. That
means that the store can have a
big impact on the market for
1930s implements, while its
carbon footprint leaves a small
impact on the environment.
Lori Schirmer ‘94and husbandDavid Couch,
a daughter, Nova Leah,May 22, 2014
Daniel Simmons ‘98and wife Brandi,
a daughter, Emma Kate,
April 9, 2014 Sarah Stutzman Ray ‘02
and husband Justin,triplets,
Layton Charles,Pressley Caroline and
Emery Catherine,May 12, 2014
BIRTHS &
ADOPTIONS
1977
E. Keith Goodwin and wife
Annalisa Goodwin ‘79 havereturned to the U.S. after
spending two years as an
administrator and volunteer
working for HOPE worldwide at
the Sihanouk Hospital Center of
HOPE in Phnom Penh,
Cambodia. Now living atop a
mountain in Sylva, N.C., Keith
will continue to work for the
Health and Social Services
Division of HOPE worldwide,
and Lisa will enjoy the peace
and serenity of mountain living.
1980
Virginia Andrews has ju
the graduate programTennessee State Unive
working toward an M.
public history.
1981
David Evans retired in 2
the USAF/ANG follow
years of service. Post
he has joined Profess
Project Services (Pro2
serves as vice preside
National Security Prog
IMBERLY MILLARD LOVINGOOD ‘05AND HUSBAND
CRAIG LOVINGOOD ‘06,A DAUGHTER,AVERY GRACE
OCT. 27, 2014
ALUMNA publishes book , USED IN MC CLASS
Career success in sign language interpreting combined
with a passion for academic work resulted in an
opportunity for Robyn Dean ’90 to give back to a next
generation of interpreters – including those studying at
Maryville College, her alma mater.
Dean has helped pioneer the demand control
schema for interpreting, a tailored variation of existing
occupational research that studies the balance between
job demands and the powers that workers are granted to
fulfill them.
Peggy Maher ’78, associate professor of sign language
and interpreting at the College, uses Dean’s most recent
book, The Demand Control Schema: Interpreting as a
Practice Profession , to teach AEI 303: American Sign
Language - English Interpreting Skills II.
In Maher’s course, students use Dean’s book to prepare
for their off-campus internships, in which they practice
interpreting in walk-in customer service businesses such as
stores, banks, real estate offices and visitor’s centers.
“Learning demand-control strategies before an
internship is essential to students’ skills and wellbeing,”
Maher said. “Interpreting is highly demanding –
interactively, cognitively, interpersonally, emotionally and
intellectually.”
Dean, who co-authored the book with fellow
University of Rochester researcher Robert Pollard,
recently returned from the Heriot-Watt University in
Edinburgh, Scotland, where she finished her Ph.D.
dissertation in Translation & Interpreting Studies.
VITAL TOOLThe demand control schema helps interpreters multitask
and carry out mental processes necessary for them to
work efficiently. Dean’s approach is uniq
draws on an interdisciplinary approach,
isn’t surprising for a Maryville College g
“One of the things I did early on that
work stand out is I took an interdisciplin
recognizing collaboration and borrowin
disciplines. Really, I would say that appr
early on at Maryville College.”
Having spent a significant portion of
working as a staff interpreter at the Univ
Rochester Medical Center in New York,
publishing academic articles on the side
familiar with psychiatric practice.
“I started looking at American Sign L
interpretation outside of the sociologica
sociolinguistic framework because I was
Department of Psychiatry, working with
training to be psychologists and psychiat
Dean added that psychologists and ps
to constantly reflect on their work.
“In the textbook, we talk about the im
interpreters going through a similar proc
are asked to reflect on their decisions. W
certain way? How did they understand a
said. “You have that extra layer of ‘Are y
work?’”
The demand control schema provides
with a framework of thought for analyzi
effectiveness before and after a job.
“The job of an American Sign Langua
to meet a Deaf individual in what we cal
world’ and try to bring the other individ
‘thought world’ as well,” she said.
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more recently as interim
executive director, since 2007.
Prior to joining the SC-SIC staff,
Tom had a 20-plus-year career in
communications, public
information and media/
constituent relations in the
public, private and education
sectors. He and wife Alisha live
in Columbia, S.C., with daughter
Emily (18). Tom’s sons, Matthew
(26) and Palmer (26), live in
Athens, Ga., and Lancaster, S.C.
1987Norehan Abdullah has been
named associate professor of
economics at the University of
Northern Malaysia.
1994
Joseph McCay recently graduated
from Southern New Hampshire
University with an M.S. in
information technology.
1995Amy Lee Baggett just moved from
Bangkok, Thailand, to Lusaka,
Zambia, with husband Kip and
three children, Elisi (9), Selah (7)
and Isaac (4). Kip works for the
CDC, and Amy continues to work
part-time as a physical therapist
for American Embassy employees
and their family members.
1996Christopher Noe received a
doctorate of philosophy in global
leadership from Lynn University
in Boca Raton, Fla., in May 2014.
His dissertation research was in
corporate social responsibility
by small business for economic
value. He began his own global
management consulting firm,
CNoeLimits, LLC, in 2014 as a
nonprofit and social enterprise
advisor working with corporate
and non-profit enterprises.
1999Adam McCall is president and
CEO of TennEra LLC, a for-profitsubsidiary of the University of
Tennessee Research Foundation.
He was featured in a September
2014 Knoxville News Sentinel
article about the company’s use
of advanced separation technol-
ogy to convert streams of bio-
mass into high-value products
such as carbon fiber, plastics and
other advanced materials.
BIRTHS &
ADOPTIONS
Amy Ralston Vagnier ’86 isprincipal at Foothills
Elementary School, whichwas recently named a 2014National Blue Ribbon Schoolby the U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan inSeptember, based on its overall academic excellence orprogress in closing achievement gaps among studentsubgroups. The school is the first Maryville school toreceive the award in a decade and the first BlountCounty school to receive it in four years.
Charles Davis II ‘03and wife
Lora Brandt Davis ‘05,a son, Liam,July 24, 2013
Eric Weatherbee ‘06and wife Brittany,
a son,
Brooks Taylor,July 10, 2014
Lindsey Brown Adams ‘07and husband Corey,
a daughter,Emma Mae,Jan. 26, 2014
Marilu Ladd Brewer ‘07and husband Kyle,
twins,Harper Rose andHazely Elizabeth,
Nov. 13, 2013
HEATHER MATHIS BRYAN ‘06AND HUSBAND MARK,
A DAUGHTER,HADLEY NORA
OCT. 24, 2014
1981
Timothy Sasscer teaches intro and
advanced Spanish in a middleschool by day, but music, art,
history and culture are his night-
time passions. He wants to say
hello to past friends, acquain-
tances and ships in the night.
1983
Thomas Hudson has been named
executive director of the South
Carolina School Improvement
Council (SC-SIC). He served as
SC-SIC associate director, and
Robyn Dean ’90 co-authored
The Demand Control Schema:
Interpreting as a Practice
Profession with Robert Pollard.
Published in 2013, it is now
being used in an upper-level
interpreting class taught by
Peggy Maher ’78.
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MIKE MINNIX ’74Major at MC: Philosophy and
Religion
Senior Thesis Topic: History and
Religion in the Time of the Judges
Current Town/City of Residence: Carlisle, Pa.
Occupation: Pastor
Family: wife, Wendy Pehl Minnix;
son, James Minnix; and daughter,
Kelly Minnix Evans
Describe your career path since graduating from MC. After graduating in 1977 from The Divinity School at Duke University
with a master of divinity degree, I returned home to Central Pennsylvania
to take my first appointment as associate pastor in a large congregation in
Lemoyne, Pa. Since that time I have served the United Methodist Church
in local, regional and international roles. I have served as pastor of four
congregations, a term as district superintendent, elected as delegate to two
general and three jurisdictional conferences, chaired three conference agencies
(Committee on Camping and Related Ministries, Board of Trustees and
Council on Finance and Administration), and served on two general agencies
of our church (General Commission on the Status and Role of Women and
General Council on Finance and Administration). I have also had many
opportunities to serve on boards of directors of local agencies; most notably I
was the founding president of the board of directors of Parents’ Anonymous
of Central Pennsylvania and currently serve on the board of directors of the
United Methodist Home for Children in Mechanicsburg, Pa.
What has been your most exciting/enjoyable professional experience to date?
From 1980 until 1988 I served as a member of the United Methodist
Church’s General Commission on the Status and Role of Women. This is a
body that pulls its membership from all around the world and seeks to have
an impact on the lives and ministries of women globally. I was privileged to
be one of the few men at that table. During that time I had the opportunity
to meet women from many countries who are working diligently and
sacrificially in their nations and regions to be in viable ministry and to make
that ministry significant, relevant and helpful to women.
How did your MC experience prepare you for your vocation and/or life?
After 40 years I still find that the courses I took and the things I learned
at MC are an essential resource each day. Among the most important waysthat MC prepared me for vocation and life was in giving me the opportunity
to know, interact with and learn from the incredible faculty.
What are your hobbies?
I restore antique furniture, making repairs, refinishing and recaning the
seats of chairs. I have rebuilt many pump organs from the mid-19th century
and have furnished my house (and as much of my children’s houses as they
will allow) with my projects. I have a large workshop at my home filled with
tools and projects, where I plan to spend many hours after I retire.
FOCUS on Alumni
STEVEN RODNEY DIGGS ’88Major at MC: Business
Management
Senior Thesis Topic: M Youth from a Christia
Perspective
Current City: Knoxvill
Occupation or Title: Pr
CEO of Emerald Yout
Foundation
Family: wife, Sabrina
Diggs ’90; son, Adam
and daughter, Abby D
Describe your career path since graduating from MC.
I have worked with non-profits, Christian youth and communi
development. My current job consists of external facing with the
community, donors, organization leaders and stakeholders; devel
new initiatives; and most recently, supporting the launch of Knox
public charter school.
What has been your most exciting/enjoyable professional experien
Watching our current team grow together and assume more o
leadership of Emerald Youth.
How did your MC experience prepare you for your vocation and/or
MC helped me establish a foundation for understanding comm work ethic, social capital, and most important, spiritual and life d
from faculty, coaches and friends.
Since graduating from MC, what has made you the most proud?
My family is special and the best at supporting my community
organizational role.
What are your hobbies?
Youth sports coaching and playing with my children, but not e
little racquetball too.
Professionally or personally, what’s still on your “bucket list?”
Simply trying to enjoy everyday.
What’s your best memory from your years as a student at MC?
Meeting my wife is #1!
Complete this sentence: I’m glad Maryville College still …
holds to Christian values and high expectations for learning.
Complete this sentence: My classmates may be surprised to learn t
will have a son beginning this fall at Maryville College.
New Feature for
Be sure to check out the
online at maryvilleco
alumni/stay-connected/
a suggestion for a “FOCU
profile? Email Angel
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LAURA GIBSON OWENS ’97Major at MC: Psychology
Senior Thesis Topic: Dating Violence on College
Campuses
Current City: Alcoa, Tenn.
Occupation: Production Manager, Mary Beth West
Communications
Family: husband, Casey Owens; parents, Gerald and
Rachel Gibson; daughter, Annabelle (due July 2015);
sister, Holly Yalove; brother, Paul Gibson ’00; and
sister-in-law Amanda Smeltzer Gibson ’01.
Describe your career path since graduating from MC. After graduating I began working as a relationship manager at a major
credit card processing company. I left there to pursue my marketing
dream at a not-for-profit professional association. I then moved on to
be the eCommerce manager at Maggie Bags. In 2012-13, I earned my
certificate in social media marketing from the University of Tennessee and
my certification in inbound marketing from HubSpot. In October 2014, I
joined Mary Beth West Communications as the production manager.
Describe your job or a typical day “in the office.”
In my role as production manager, I enjoy working with clients,
brainstorming with my team and acting as an internal agency liaison with all
departments in an effort to keep projects on time and on budget. Most days
I am putting together timelines, working with staff on creative problem-
solving, obtaining estimates and procuring services from third party vendors.
What has been your most exciting/enjoyable professional experience to date?
Though I haven’t been in my current role for long, I’ve had the
opportunity to work on several campaigns for United Way of Greater
Knoxville. In working with United Way, I’ve learned so much more about
the lives they touch through the agencies they support. It’s been rewarding
to see them succeed in their fundraising goals because I now know how
many people benefit from their financial support.
What are your hobbies?
I’ve been practicing yoga for over seven years and truly enjoy the balance
and awareness that brings to my everyday life. I also enjoy reading - no one
can pry my Kindle away from me! My most favorite “hobby,” however, is
spending time with my two smart nieces.
How did your MC experience prepare you for your vocation and/or life?
Because of my liberal arts education, I’ve been able to quickly adapt to
changing work environments.
What’s your best memory from your years as a student at MC?
I made such dear friends at MC, and I’m so thankful for that! Probably
my best memory was Spring Fling 1997.
PETER COATS ’09Major at MC: International Business
Minor: Spanish
Senior Thesis Topic: The Recession and
Its Effect on Dubai
Current City: Salt Lake City, Utah
Occupation: Business Development for
InsideOut Development
Family: mother, Kathryn Coats; and
grandparents, Ken Tuck ’54 and
Sara Tuck.
Describe your career path since graduating from MC. After graduating, I began working with several nonprofits in a variety of
roles: fundraising; shooting documentaries; and leading large expeditions
of young and seasoned professionals to Kenya, Guatemala and Peru to
provide sustainable humanitarian service in remote communities. In 2009, I
worked in Ghana with the Carter Center and Rotary International, shooting
documentaries on the eradication of the Guinea Worm Disease in Ghana (it
was eradicated from the country the next year) and providing training on
water sanitation and well maintenance. I worked with a man named Walter
Hughes, a Methodist pastor who worked at AOL until it was bought out and
he decided to retire at age 39 to focus on humanitarian projects. The two
of us worked in over 30 villages across Ghana, traveling in a UN vehicle and
eating nothing but bread and water for weeks at a time. I was then recruited
by InsideOut Development, a leadership training company focused on helping
organizations increase the engagement, accountability and performanceof their teams. Over the last five years, I have seen incredible change in
organizations as I have watched leaders learn how to strategically navigate
performance conversations with individuals on their teams. It has given me
invaluable experience in understanding organizational development as well as
phenomenal experience in marketing and selling to Fortune 1000 companies.
What are your hobbies?
Sailing, snow skiing, wake surfing and scuba diving.
Professionally or personally, what’s still on your “bucket list”?
1. I’d like to get my captain’s license and sail through the Panama Canal.
2. Go salsa dancing in Cuba.
3. Start a school or university in a developing country so that more
young people can have access to better opportunities.
What’s your best memory from your years as a student at MC?
My favorite memory is likely of riding horseback for 12 hours in a
wooden saddle with Dr. Scott Henson as we studied nomadic yak herding life
on the Tibetan plateau. Blake Chasteen ’10 and Blake Vandevender ’10 had
the incredible ability to catch flies with chopsticks during our picnic on the
way to the camp. Once we arrived, we watched with fascination as the yak
herders used every part of the yak to make clothes, leather, food, utensils,
and even a fire. I’ll never forget eating a roll stuffed with blue wild flowers
and yak cheese cooked over a “yak chip” fire. Best class ever!
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BIRTHS &
ADOPTIONS
Kenny Saffles began working in
the U.S. Attorney’s Office in
Knoxville in December 2014. He
was previously a lawyer in
Knoxville with Baker Donelson.
2000
Folami Ford holds an M.A. in
interpretation from Gallaudet
University and is continuing
work on her dissertation in the
Gallaudet Ph.D. program with
concentrations in interpreting
pedagogy and research. This is
the first and only Ph.D. program
in the field of sign language
interpreting. She continues to
work full-time with Gallaudet
Interpreting Services.
2000
Paul Gibson, VIEO Design’s princi-
pal, founder, lead designer and
lead developer, was voted
“Knoxville’s Best Web Program-
mer” for the 4th time. The Amer-
ican Advertising Federation of
Knoxville’s “Big Wig Awards”
recognizes the people behind
the best marketing and advertis-
ing in East Tennessee. Winners
were announced at an awards
gala in October.
2001
Kathryn Ayers has recently
accepted the position of the
lead props technician for Cirque
Du Soleil’s Michael Jackson
ONE in Las Vegas, Nev.
Amy Reed recently completed her
first short film, “Southern Fried
Thanksgiving,” which is
available to view on YouTube. A
special showing of the film took
place at the Maryville PFLAGchapter’s meeting in November.
Amy is also writing a series of
monologues for either a live
performance or web shorts.
2002
Jason Day was promoted to
co-director in the Center for
Academic Technology
Educational Resource
University of Cincinna
of Nursing in June 201role, he is enjoying th
opportunity to lead th
adoption of eLearning
technology at the coll
influencing the use of
across the university. I
December, Jason not
College about the pas
grandfather, Isaac And
who was the closest liv
relative to Maryville C
founder.
2003Julia Hurley has been e
the Tennessee State E
Committee, Senate D
covering Anderson, Lo
Knox Counties. She is
commercial Realtor fo
Williams Realty.
Mark Libell began a job
Hill liaison to the Fede
Reserve’s Legislative A
Office in December 20
that point, he had bee
legislative director for
Rockefeller, who recen
Nicholas Smith received
promotion at Norfolk
Railroad in March 201
relocated with his wife
daughters from the Tu
Ala., area to West Lafa
2004
Erica Johnson Beck, a g
designer for Knoxville
relations firm Moxley
Carmichael, displayed
collection that represeillustration style at the
Center’s Blackberry Fa
in October 2014. She
her work with fellow a
Mary Louise Sullivan
Paul Reed is in the Ph.D
at the University of So
Carolina. His research
on the sociophonetic
MICHELLE WILSONBAILEY ‘08
AND HUSBANDKEVIN J. BAILEY ‘08,
A SON,RYAN MARK
OCT. 10, 2014
Christopher Asquith ‘08and wife
Kathleen WarnerAsquith ‘08,
a daughter, Lillian Virginia,Aug. 4, 2014
Myranda Austin
Bertrand ‘09
andMatthew Bertrand ‘09,
a son, Austin Theaux,Sept. 21, 2014
MC FOOTBALL TEAMS
celebrate 50-YEAR REUNIONMembers of the 1960-64 Maryville College football teams returned
to the College on Nov. 1 to celebrate their 50-year reunion. They
were honored at halftime of MC’s 42-28 victory over N.C. Wesleyan.
The former players also raised over $14,000 to donate toward the
campaign for the new weight room in Cooper Athletic Center (see
story p. 10). During the reunion events, John Forgety ’68, who
has been a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives since
2011, donated a cast of the Tennessee State Seal to the College. He
also donated an American flag, which flew over the Tennessee State
Capitol in Nashville, to the 2014-15 football team.
Other team members present were: Clint Abbott ’66, Archie
Anderson ’67, Kenneth Berry ’65, Ken Christy ’67, Bill Cochran
’64, Mike Dalton ’66, Gary Dutton ’66, Frank Eggers ’67,
Lewis Masingo ’64, Roland McClanahan ’65, Denny Mobbs ’64,
Benny Monroe ’65, William Napier ’65, Jim Renfro ’62, John
Stafford ’63, Don Story ’67, Roger Thompson ’64 and David
Wayland ’65. Former MC Football Coach Lauren Kardatzke, who
coached at the College between 1961-1973, was also present.
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and change in the English
varieties of the American South,
particularly of the Appalachian
region. His ongoing dissertationwork centers on the intersection
of monophthongization,
intonation and place-based
identity in East Tennessee.
Michael Rickman recently traveled
to the remote Cook Islands in
the South Pacific with Global
Volunteers. While there, he
taught literacy and math to
elementary-aged children and
volunteered at a center for
disabled adults.
2005
Marshall McCauley has received
his M.A. and M.S.S.W. and is
director of operations at Home
Helpers of East Tennessee,
which provides professional
in-home care for seniors,
recuperating moms and
patients, as well as those facing
lifelong challenges.
2008
Megan Wylie Potts works in
Knoxville with Sorenson VRS,KCD and other agencies as an
interpreter and at Maryville
College as an interpreter and
AEI interpreting skills mentor
with interpreting students. She
is now NIC (National Interpreter
Certification) Certified.
Sarah Turner Smith works in
Morganton, N.C. as a community
and educational interpreter and
is NIC (National Interpreter
Certification) Advanced.
Emily Winsauer, content
marketing manager at VIEODesign, was nominated for the
“Best Blogger” award during
the American Advertising
Federation of Knoxville’s “Big
Wig Awards” in October.
2009
Diana Getzlaff completed legal
interpreter training and passed
the national written legal inter-
preting test in spring 2014. She
is now NIC (National Interpreter
Certification) Advanced Certi-fied. She continues to work as a
contract interpreter in Minne-
sota in legal and medical set-
tings, among others.
2010
Jessica Melton Tate began work
as an outpatient therapist at
Ridgeview Psychiatric Hospital
in December 2014.
2011
Rebecca Baker is enrolled in UT’s
School of Information Sciences
and is in a scholarship program
called ITRL2 for rural librarians.
She also recently was promoted
to youth services manager at
the Blount County Public
Library.
Austin Riley Finch has accepted a
position as an academic advisor
at Middle Tennessee State
University.
2012
Rachel Bossard is currently staff
interpreter/educational
interpreter at Sign Language
Specialists of Western PA, Inc.
and has interpreted at
Overbrook Regional High
School.
Nikki Wilks graduated from Union
University in May 2013 with a
master’s degree in urban
education through the Memphis
Teacher Residency. She is about
to go into her second year of
teaching English at Kingsbury
High School in Memphis, Tenn.
Shelby Edwards is living and
interpreting in New York City.
She is currently interpreting for
New York’s Department of
Education and freelancing with
Empire Interpreting Services.
She is also assistant stage
FLORIDA AND ARIZONA ALUMNI EVENTS held in January The annual Maryville
College Florida Alumni
Reunion was held on Jan.
17 in Tampa, Fla. The
gathering was co-hosted
by Jim Demer ‘55, Linda
Demer, Ronald “Dock”
Jennings ‘55 and Marilyn
Baumgartner Jennings
‘57. Also attending were
Elizabeth Barrie ‘81, Betty
Lou Cutler Boggs
‘56, Elizabeth Lee Burke ’65, Ruthanne Campbell Chase ‘61, RichardChase, James Cummings ‘56, Alan Davis ‘87, Donna Franklin
Davis ‘83, Sarah Pledger Fechter ‘55, Judith Strahorn Flanigan
‘58, Rosemary Lee Potter ‘60, Anne Childress Ruggiero ‘49, Daniel
Ruggiero ‘50, Katherine Kerns Vousden ‘56, Carol Lee Lacy Wathen
‘57 and Jo Parris. During the event, attendees heard about MC news
from MC Office of Advancement staff members Diana Canacaris ‘02 and
Angela Miller and received a letter of gratitude from a student recipient
of the Florida Alumni Scholarship.
The first-ever gathering of the “MC in AZ” alumni chapter was held Jan.
24 at the home of host Jenny Jett Erwin ’68 and John Malillo in Anthem,
Ariz. Erwin, who is a member of the Maryville College Board of Directors,
had seen exciting movement of the other MC alumni chapters and
wanted to help bring that to Arizona. Those in attendance included
Judith Smith Begun ’63,
Barbara Berg Rago ’64,
Steven Rago ’64, T.
Bryson Struse ’61,
Christine Wald-Hopkins
’68, David Hopkins,
Christian Kaijser ’89, Julie
Kaijser and Jennie Ryan.Also in attendance were
Ann Little Rigell ’69,
representing the Maryville
College Alumni Association
as board president, and
Angela Miller and Suzy
Booker, representing MC’s
Office of Advancement.
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manager for the New York Deaf
Theatre. Their first show, Jekyll
and Hyde, opened Nov. 7, 2014.
Shaynie Palisano Gray works full-
time in educational technology
services at East Tennessee
Technology Access Center
(ETTAC) in Knoxville and does
contract interpreting for
Knoxville Center of the Deaf.
Tyler Herron completed the
national highly competitive
School to Work program at the
Video Relay Interpreting Institute
in spring 2014. He works as a
video relay interpreter with
Sorenson Video Relay in New
York, previously interpreted with
Knoxville Center of the Deaf,
and has interpreted in a local TN
school system. He moved in fall
2014 to New York State and is
interpreting for Empire
Interpreting Service and A la
Orden in Syracuse. He works
among the languages of spoken
English, Spanish, American Sign
Language and English sign
forms.
Hannah Rector spent a year
working as an intern at
SharpTop Cove, a Young Life
camp. She is moving on to a
part-time Young Life staff
position in Peachtree City, Ga.,
where she will be working with
young people at the high school
from which she graduated.
2014
Kathryn Collins was accepted to
the industrial/organizational
psychology master’s degree
program at Austin Peay StateUniversity and will start in spring
2015.
Houston Davis is currently
interpreting at Pellissippi State
Community College and visual
communication interpreting in
Knoxville and East Tennessee. In
the past, he has interpreted at
Maryville College and mentored
interpreting students
study jobs as a studen
Taylor Emerson is now t
coordinator for Birth t
Blount County, an ear
intervention agency se
children between the
birth to 3 who have sp
needs and their peers
Errol Hughes is currently
public policy at Georg
Law School.
Chasity Melton has take
coordinator for the Gr
Communities Coalitio
coalition that targets u
drinking, tobacco usemedical prescription d
Grundy County, Tenn.
Gretchen Schmidt is a fu
interpreter in the Knox
Tenn., school system.
worked at Visual Com
Interpreting (VCI), han
requests and other tas
spring and summer 20
A LUMNI AS SOC IAT IONLEA D ERSH I P
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Ann Little Rigell ’69President
Jason Brooks ’97 Vice President
Martha Cook ’65Recording Secretary
Ross Hamory ’70Chair – Resource Development
Committee
Eric Weatherbee ’06Chair – Marketing & Promotions
Committee
Janet Helwig Fortney ’82Chair – Educational Programming
Committee
2014-15 BOARD MEMBERS
CLASS OF 2015
Amber Burley ’04
Jeff Coghill ’70
Sarah Winbigler DeYoung ’74
Susan Spence Hill ’83
Nichole Johnson McCord ’02
Mary “Sissy” Gravely Reinhardt ’82
Marquita Porter Smith ’03
Staci Kerr Stalcup ’98
Clint Wight ’97
CLASS OF 2016
Adlai Boyd ’57
Lynn Ramsey Cole ’68
Alan Cropper ’69
Ed Hawkey ’70
Marcia Kilby Rethwilm ’89
Dan Rineer ’65
Sue Van Aken ’83
CLASS OF 2017
Pat Dobbin Chambers ’65
Steve Dockery ’68
Diane Hall Edwards ’68
Evan Giordano ’08
Mike Garrett ’63
Tonya Briggs Gossett ’00
Colber Prosper ’08Stephanie Fugate Teague ’95
Rachel Rushworth-Hollander ’08Blount County Chapter President
Wade Knapper ’04Knox County Chapter President
Marissa McInnis ’04DC Chapter Representative
SULLIVAN IS artist-in-residence Mary Louise Sullivan ’06, a bookbinder, printmaker and artist from Nashville, Tenn., was the Mar
College Division of Fine Arts’ artist-in-residence in March. Sullivan, who is the founder and owner
Hens Bindery in Nashville, held workshops for students, covering topics such as bookbinding, linol
carving and letterpress printing. During a letterpress workshop, Sullivan used the College’s Excelsio
The press, which was patented in 1873, was donated to the College in 2010 by brothers Mike and L
along with a Chandler & Price letterpress and complete print shop.
While on campus, she also displayed her
recent work in the Clayton Center for the
Arts’ Blackberry Farm Gallery and gave a
public presentation titled “Crowing Hens
Bindery: Luddite, Meet the Cloud” as part
of the College’s Community Conversations
lecture series.
Sullivan earned a bachelor of arts degree
in art from MC and a master of fine arts
in book arts from the University of Iowa
Center for the Book. She has worked as a
designer and printer at Hatch Show Print,
a historic letterpress poster print shop in
downtown Nashville, and she was a graduate
research assistant to Timothy Barrett at the
University of Iowa Oakdale Paper Research
and Production Facili ty.
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John Fisher ’40Feb. 17, 2015, in Knoxville, Tenn. A renowned
teacher, scholar and medievalist, he specialized in
the study of Geoffrey Chaucer and the 14th-century
poet John Gower. He taught at universities in New
York, North Carolina, Indiana, Texas and Tennessee.
Maryville College awarded him the Alumni Citation
in 1963. He also served on the Maryville College
Board of Directors from 1972 until 1975. Survivors
include wife Audrey, three children and their families.
J. Edward Kidder, Jr. ’43
Nov. 30, 2014, in Crossnore, N.C. He served on the facultyof International Christian University for 37
years, specializing in Japanese archaeology
and art history. In 1977, Maryville College
awarded him an honorary degree. Survivors
include brothers David H. Kidder ’42 and
Paul S. Kidder ’51, four sons, including
David D. Kidder ’74 and James Kidder ’84,
and their families.
Mary ElizabethMcKnight Jackson ’46
Jan. 1, 2015, in Maryville, Tenn. Active in
volunteer work and civic affairs for most of heradult life, she served on many boards, including the
Maryville College Board of Directors from 1983
until 1990. She was president of the Maryville
College Alumni Association. Survivors include four
children, including Nanci Jackson ’81, nephew
John Price ’75, and their families.
Henry Callaway, Jr. ’50 Aug. 14, 2014, in Maryville, Tenn.
He practiced general, thoracic and
vascular surgery in Maryville for 34
years, and he and his brother helped
start the Vascular Lab at BlountMemorial Hospital. In 1979, he was
inducted into the Maryville College
Wall of Fame. Survivors include wife
Martha, brother James Callaway ’52, one sister, four sons,
nieces Margaret Callaway Ramsey ’87, Carrie Callaway
’92 and Carol Callaway-Lane ’92, and their families.
1936 Elizabeth McMurray Felknor July 15, 2014
1938 Annie Raper Berrier Nov. 21, 2014
1941 Roland Anderson Nov. 16, 2014
1942 Odis Abbott, Sr. July 14, 2014
Mary Karg Adams June 29, 2014
1943 Hal Lloyd Oct. 12, 2014
Irma Russell Miser Aug. 5, 2014
Mary Jane Person Walton Nov. 5, 2014
1944 Marion Schanck Houser Aug. 18, 2014
1945 John Kirstein Aug. 10, 2014
L. Lisette Gessert Pemberton July 17, 2014
1946 Sue Clarke Cox Oct. 3, 2014
Catherine Crothers Hodges Oct. 5, 2014
1947 Ann Anderson Moody Nov. 19, 2014
Barbara Wells Pate Dec. 11, 2014
William Sidner Dec. 1, 2014
1949 Mary Wooldridge Gravely Nov. 15, 2014
Katherine Boyer Moore Nov. 7, 2014 Maryjane Blizzard Thurston Oct. 2, 2014
1950 Frank Craig Fisher Oct. 26, 2014
Edwin Jackson Sept. 11, 2014
Herbert McCallum Sept. 2, 2013
Charles Reneau Sept. 21, 2014
1951 George Barber May 15, 2014
Alita Bryant June 25, 2014
John Jordan Nov. 8, 2013
John Moore Oct. 5, 2014
James Thurston July 24, 2014
1952 Mary Lee Snoderly Coleman June 3, 2014
James Kren Dec. 15, 2014
Robert Sprague March 14, 201
1953 G. Edward Scott June 27, 2014
Anne Snider Walton Aug. 6, 2014
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Wayne Dunn ’78Dec. 8, 2014, in Denville, N.J. He worked at
Maryville College from 2000 until 2007 as assistant
dean of admissions, director of
intramurals, Cooper Athletic
Center building supervisor and
head wrestling coach. In 1990,
he was inducted into the MC
Athletic Wall of Fame. Most
recently, he was an assistant
football coach at Morris Knolls
High School in New Jersey. Survivors include wife
Mary Lou, parents, two children, including Matthew
Dunn ’05, and their families.
Eldria “Chief” HurstFeb. 27, 2015, in Maryville, Tenn.
A member of Maryville College’s
security staff for 36 years, he retired
in 1998 as chief of security. From
1967 until 1998, he and his family
lived in Alexander House on the
MC campus. Survivors include wife
Etta Sue Hurst, who was a member of the College’s
housekeeping staff; five children, including Carolyn
Hurst Ierulli ’80 and Teresa Hurst Volkodav
’85; son-in-law Tony Ierulli ’80; and severalgrandchildren, including A.J. Ierulli ’04, Katie
Ierulli Dowis ’07 and Kelli Ierulli Nehf ’10 and
their families.
Jane RichardsonNov. 4, 2014, in Knoxville, Tenn. She worked for
21 years in student development at Maryville and
served many roles, including dean
of students. She also co-founded
the Townsend Artisan Guild.
Survivors include three brothers,
two daughters, one son and their
families, including grandchildren
Chester Richardson ’01 and
Kelley Clark Harris ’05.
1954 Leo Tolliver Armstrong Feb. 21, 2006
William Dartnell March 20, 2014
Carl Drescher June 22, 2014Richard Erickson March 2, 2014
Wayne Feehrer Oct. 24, 2014
Helen Seay Stubblefield July 10, 2014
1955 William Breen Oct. 29, 2014
Herbert Catlin Oct. 12, 2014
1956 Charles Greathouse July 11, 2014
Mary Brasfield Wheatley July 13, 2014
1957 Alice Blackburn Ayers Oct. 7, 2014
P. Ann Yater Moen May 21, 2014 Douglas Stubblefield May 13, 2014
1958 H. Gail Wathen Grady Oct. 6, 2014
1960 Julia Sanderson Smith July 3, 2014
1961 William Crisp Aug. 22, 2014
1962 Robert Johnston Oct. 11, 2014
Donald Stupak Sept. 19, 2014
1964 Ann Thomas Bird Aug. 15, 2014
1965 Jacqueline Lundgren Hubscher May 9, 2014
Kay Rose Main Sept. 23, 2003
Lemuel Swisher Cookman Dec. 8, 2011
1966 Theodore Putnam Aug. 23, 2014
1968 Wanda Hannah Ramage Aug. 2, 2014
Sandra Boatman Wright Nov. 8, 2014
1969 Hugh Livingston, Sr. Oct. 6, 2014
David Ronco Jan. 14, 2014
1972 Kenneth Murr Jan. 11, 2014
2014 Andrew O’Neil Sept. 9, 2014
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Ever wanted to experience the history, culture andlandscape of Scotland?
A “Scottish Heartland Tour” is scheduled for May 17-26, 2016. A trip that
parallels the Concert Choir’s Spring Tour to Scotland, the tour is open and
designed for community members, faculty, staff, alumni, parents and other friends.
The 10-day itinerary includes the Islands of Iona and Mull, Glencoe, Loch Ness,
Inverness, Pitlochry, St. Andrews, Stirling and Edinburgh. Visits include many of
Scotland’s famous castles and cathedrals and the chance to sample a “wee dram”
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The cost per person is $4,390 and includes round-trip airfare, accommodation
in superior tourist class hotels with private facilities, all admissions, a full-timeguide and transportation by private deluxe motor coach. Deposits are due
by Sept. 30, 2015. For itineraries and information session dates, please visit
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