Class Notes

has taken on the role of Takasago’s global coordinator for the Campbell Soup Company. Adair will draw on his 27 years of flavor sales experience. He started his career with Ottens Flavors, where he spent six years as Mid Atlantic regional sales manager calling on Kellogg’s, Post, Hershey and other key regional accounts. He was then hired by Givaudan in 1992 and spent 21 years there, starting as an account executive and then moving into the role of global coordinator, calling primarily on Campbell’s Soup Company and White Rock Distilleries. Adair studied Business Administration at Maryville College and also attended programs in Global Key Account Management at University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business and University of Michigan Ross School of Business Negotiation Training. At Takasago, Mr. Adair reports directly to Brian Buck.

was named Station Manager for WYLA 97.5 FM in Charleston SC. WYLA is a non-commercial FM service of the Charleston County Public Library, where Kevin serves as Media Coordinator.

Writes in to share a cover story from the Charleston City Paper that some may find interesting.

Chris Porter ’85 attended the 100th Pulitzer Prize ceremonies Oct.13 in the Low Library at Columbia University in New York City. As executive editor of Sun Newspapers in Fla., Chris nominated his editorial team for the award. They won the 2016 Pulitzer for a series of editorials on the alarming number of unexplained inmate deaths at the Charlotte Correctional Institution. Chris and Glennis Riedl Porter ’84 live in Englewood Florida. They have two children, Laurel and Sean. He said, “For background, I am just hitting 30 years in journalism, mostly as an editor. I started as a writer for the Highland Echo in 1981 and was sports editor my junior and senior years. My first job was at the Loudon County News-Herald, then I came to work for the Charlotte Sun near where I grew up in Florida. I just finished eight years as executive editor of the daily Sun newspapers, covering Sarasota, Charlotte and DeSoto counties. I’m the editor of the Englewood Sun.”

is President of Puget Sound Pipe Organs in Stanwood, Washington. There, they refurbish the organs and give them renewed life and reliability for much longer than any digital or electronic imitation. They also specialize in organ, chest, regulator, bellows releathering and renewing any portion of the organ to return it to good service. Their special expertise is in older organs particularly of the 19th and early 20th century.

continues to revel in teaching hesitory at Converse College. Her latest book, co-edited with Timothy Grady, “Recovering the Piedmont Past” is just out from the University of South Carolina Press.

writes in to say that she is retiring from her position as the Johnson Professor of History at Converse College after 21 years. She and her husband plan to travel more and she will continue her work on mentoring and empowering women through her personal and career coaching practice, Check it out at heydaycoaching.org.

Melissa Walker ’85 continues to build Heyday Coaching, LLC, her coaching and consulting practice. In addition to work with individual clients, she recently developed a staff development workshop series called “Building a Vital Life” for the Via College of Osteopathic Medicine–Carolinas Campus and facilitated a short-range interpretive planning process for the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution Group of the National Park Service. She keeps her hand in the world of the historian presenting talks including recent ones for the Greenville Chautauqua and Cowpens National Battlefield. Learn more about her work or subscribe to her newsletter at www.heydaycoaching.com.