Class Notes

writes in to share that her latest literary adventure is the newly released publication for the Friends of Blount County Library entitled “Foothills Voices.” This book features 12 writers and their creative non-fiction stories about a person, place, or event in E. Tennessee. Her story, “Call Me Isabella,” tells of the murder of her great-great-Uncle at the hands of his wife in 1893. Being of the Quaker faith, no judicial justice was ever sought as the matter was left up to God. After enrolling in a playwright course at M.C., she wrote a play, in conjunction with Alcoa Historian Shirley Carr Clowney ’58 and field work gathered by students of MC sociology professor Susan Ambler, about the black community working at Alcoa Aluminum plant. That play, “Voices of the Valley: Black Voices of a Company Town Called Alcoa, Tennessee,” will be performed at several local venues as part of the Alcoa Centennial Celebration in 2019.

has a new position as a PRN Resident Advisor for a recovery and sobriety home in Nashville.

Tennis team (Spring 2004, 2005, 2007) Student Chaplain (2005-2007)

a history major from the class of 2003, is moving on to a job at the Federal Reserve. He has been legislative director for Senator Jay Rockefeller, who is retiring. So in December 2014 he will be a Capitol Hill liaison to the Federal Reserve’s legislative affairs office.

Mark Libell ’03 has been named Legislative Director for Alabama Senator-elect Doug Jones. Libell is a native of Florence. He is a graduate of Maryville College and received his JD from the University of Alabama School of Law and a Tax LLM from Georgetown University Law Center. Mark previously served as Legislative Director to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia. Since Senator Rockefeller’s retirement in 2014, Mark has been Assistant Congressional Liaison at the Federal Reserve Board. He has also worked for Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, and Representatives Bart Gordon of Tennessee and Linda Sanchez of California.

Chelsi Hooper Long ’11 has been named assistant principal of Alcoa High School. She started her career at AHS in 2011 as a math teacher, and after earning master’s and Ed.S. degrees, she served as an assistant principal at Lenoir City High School.

writes to tell us that he is still living in his home in New Ipswich, New Hampshire and has been since 1997.

For the last 17 years, Jinny competed in the Huntsman World Senior Games held in St. George, UT, and last year won the gold medal in women’s singles, doubles and mixed doubles. This summer Jinny came home with a gold and two bronze medals in mixed doubles, doubles and singles table tennis from the National Senior Olympics held in Birmingham, AL. Read more about Jinny’s experiences here: http://www.crossville-chronicle.com/news/lifestyles/pleasant-hill-ramblings-longees-enjoy-getting-active-and-want-others/article_525bc254-971a-11e7-9740-e7f511aa133e.html

became a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) in March of 2014.

and wife, Kimberly Millard Lovingood ’05 announce the birth of their son Everett Joseph Lovingood on February 27, 2017.

After I left Maryville College, I worked from 1993 to 1996 in a residential facility for abused children. Then I went to TN School of Nursing to finish pursuing my nursing degree receiving my Nursing Diploma in 1998 and began my work as night shift charge nurse on a Transitional Care Ward at Ft Sanders Regional Hospital. In 2005, I transferred into the field of hospice care. I had finally found my calling. I loved taking care of hospice patient’s and their familes. Then 2008 hit and I had a slipped disc that caused foot drop and an emergency surgery to remove it which lead to working in the intake and triage department. I did not stay there long but my hospice job was gone by the time my lower back had fully healed. I ended up working again with Autistic children as the school nurse for about two years before retuning back to hospice in 2010. Back again in my zone of happiness, until Oct 4th 2012 disaster struck and I ended up with a demyelinating disease called Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder Vs Multiple Sclerosis. That was the last day of my nursing career. I had lesions on my brain and all the way down my spinal cord from C3, C4, C5 etc, to T10. (It all started after a respiratory and gastrointestinal virus combination.) I have been on various medications since to tone down the symptoms of what is now looking more like Relapsing Remitting MS. Some of the damage is permanent. So I began to focus on getting my Reiki II and Reiki Mastership as well as my Animal Reiki Certifications. Then began volunteering at Young Williams Animal Shelter. I often goto physical therapy when my symptoms act up. Water therapy seems to benefit me the most. My balance and coordination are off and my congnitive skills, memory and language get a little strange at times, so I just laugh it off. I try to maintain a positive attitude as best I can by lifting others up. Oh and I forgot to mention, I am now and ordained interfaith minister which had helped me with hospice and helps me understand others with the utmost compassion. If you wish to know more just simply ask. I am not afraid to talk about MS and how it affects my daily life.

has opened up her own business. Integrated Life Design is located at One Lincoln Plaza Suite 30 S in New York City. Her company provides consultation on business growth and development , career advancement and transitions, as well as life planning.

Was promoted to Assistant Finance Director in January 2016 for the City of Alcoa. She began as Accounting Manager for City of Alcoa in September 2014.

and wife Mary recently celebrated their very happy 56th wedding anniversary! They have three children and 3 grandsonsand continue to be active in local community and church activities. They are looking forward to Rhine River cruise with friends in 2016 and say, “We have been blessed!”

He and wife Mary celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary in August. Their health is generally good. “Just the usual slings and arrows of life that everyone experiences from time to time.” They are active in their local community and especially in their church. They have traveled extensively in USA and abroad over many years and are anticipating a Rhine River cruise in 2016. Bill is a Centurion, a graduate of the Colson Center for Christian World View and is active in teaching with the Discovery Institute and adult Christian Education.

recently completed OB/GYN residency and fellowship and moved with his wife Marriah to Oak Ridge, TN.

Stevenson University Director of Athletics Brett Adams announced that John Mackersie, a 2008 graduate of Maryville College (Tenn.), has been hired as the new head strength and conditioning coach. Mackersie has over 10 years of experience in college athletics as both a player and a coach.

Writes in to say that he has been retired since 2007. He spends most of his time collecting antique books and documents, restoring and doing fine bookbindings, private press production, reading, furniture and miniature design and construction, metalworking, graphic design and photography.

Dr. Robert Mahley ’63 says he remains indebted to Maryville College for launching his career in science. Through work on his Special Studies topic and his connections as an MC student, he landed a summer job at Vanderbilt Medical School in the lab of Dr. Virgil S. LeQuire ’43. After MC, Mahley obtained his MD and Phd, continuing his studies in the lab of Dr. LeQuire. His research led him to study a specific protein called apolipoprotein E (ApoE) which he has studied for all of his 40+ years of medical research, initially because of its importance in heart disease and in the last 25 years in the area of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The research determined that a form of apoE, called apoE4, is the major risk factor for AD. This research will continue with recent funding acquired with the hopes of bringing new medication to clinical trials. Dr. Mahley wrote to the College, “Who would have thought when I entered Maryville College in 1959 as an English major that my career would follow such a path.” Who would have thought, indeed! Dr. Mahley, is the founder of Gladstone Institutes, President Emeritus and Senior Scientist, Professor, Pathology and Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. Read more here: <https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/07/12/alzheimers-disease-e-scape-bio-gladstone-ucsf.html>

Rob Malin, JD, EPLS joined Pinnacle Financial Partners as a Senior Trust Officer in Nashville. Malin advises clients in financial, trust, estate and wealth planning matters.

David Marcum, PE, Class of 1987, is the Senior Civil Engineer for the City of Alcoa. Additionally, David has expanded his lifelong interest in mysteries by authoring nearly 120 Sherlock Holmes mysteries, some with Publishers Weekly starred reviews, and editing over 1,000 Holmes short stories in over 80 volumes. Additionally, the funds from some of these edited books have raised over $100,000 for a school for special needs children.

Top anesthesiologists will gather June 13-15, 2014, at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach for the annual conference of the Florida Society of Anesthesiologists (FSA) to discuss trends and practices in the field and tools for safeguarding patient care and safety. Topics to be covered include Ethical Considerations with Drug Shortages and Impacts of Health Care Reform on Patient Care and Kurt Markgraf, M.D., will receive the Distinguished Service Award, the Society’s top honor.

Entrepreneurship for All, a nonprofit which supports entrepreneurship through mentorship and other activities, recently announced that it has expanded to Cape Cod and named Christin Marshall as executive director of EforAll Cape Cod. Marshall is a 2017 graduate of EforAll’s South Coast Accelerator Program where she founded Camp Timeout, a summer camp experience for grownups. Earlier, she worked as a program coordinator for Barnstable County AmeriCorps. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in international business from Maryville College and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. “EforAll, on a basic level, helps people with a business idea to launch those businesses. It does that in two primary ways,” Marshall told NPR for the Cape and Islands. “We have pitched contests that are kind of like Shark Tank. So, if you apply, and you get accepted, you have two and a half minutes to pitch to a panel of judges and win some seed money for your business.” EforAll was founded in 2010 as the Merrimack Valley Sandbox, and rebranded in 2014 as an independent nonprofit organization. In addition to Lowell and Cape Cod, EforAll has sites in Fall River, Holyoke, Lawrence, Lynn, and New Bedford.

premiered with the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst in March. While studying with Vinson Cole at the Cleveland Institute of Music, she starred as Blanche in Dialogues of the Carmelites and as Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel. For her portrayal of Niece 1 in Peter Grimes this summer, the Aspen Times acclaimed her as one of “a fetching pair of nieces in Auntie’s fold. Their Act 2 quartet with Ellen… was a waft of unexpected warmth.” Other major roles include Anne in A Little Night Music, Cathleen in Riders to the Sea, and Naiad in Ariadne auf Naxos. April he has been chosen for summer programs in Austria, Germany, Italy, and the US. In March and October of 2012, she sang the roles of Katrina and the Old Woman with the Canton Symphony in David Gooding’s opera The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. She began work on an Artist Certificate at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in August. April earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Maryville College in 2008. Her mother, Genie Martin, graduated in 1979 with a degree in Sociology. She is the pastor at Springwood Presbyterian Church in Burlington, NC. Ms. Martin will be giving an “informance” this Sunday, January 5 at 7:30 pm in the Lambert Recital Hall. In addition to performing a few selections, she will also discuss the audition process and graduate school experience.

April Martin was the guest soloist for the Homecoming Choir Concert in October.