Class Notes

I have recently retired, and my dog and I will be using my little travel trailer as home when we are in the Adirondacks in the summers and someplace warmer in the winters! We hope to be near Maryville most of those cooler months!

has been happily married for 55 years to Alec Boozer! She is retired from teaching elementary school, working at Macy’s and Customer Service for Southern Living. She is active in McCalla Bible Church and in neighborhood activities. She says she is praising God for His blessings every day!

Kristin Bosco ’11 has taken a teaching position at John Sevier Elementary starting fall 2018. She is returning from Florida with her husband, Michael Bosco ’10 who will be the new head track coach and assistant football coach for William Blount High School.

Michael Bosco has taken a position with William Blount High School as head track coach and assistant football coach. He is returning from Florida with his wife, Kristin Bosco ’11 who will begin teaching at John Sevier Elementary starting fall 2018. Read more: https://www.thedailytimes.com/sports/michael-bosco-tabbed-william-blount-track-coach/article_280ff247-e668-5fde-8685-75981ac90928.html

Foothills Elementary School in Maryville welcomes new principal. Kristin Bosco.

Bosco has worked previously as an assistant principal and summer school director at John Sevier Elementary School, which like Foothills is within the Maryville City Schools district. She’s also taught first grade at the school, first, fourth and sixth grade in other schools in Tennessee and Florida.

A press release from MCS states that in her interview for the Foothills position, Bosco said, “I am a learner, first. I enjoy growing as an educator and leader every day. I believe our greatest heroes are our teachers. It is an honor to be the heart, hands, and feet to support and lead our heroes.”

is currently Staff Interpreter/Educational Interpreter at Sign Language Specialists of Western, PA, Inc. and has interpreted at Overbrook Regional High School.

Billie Ruth Bowen (Wright), who was honored by Royal United Methodist Church in Virginia for 75 years of active service in the church choir. The choir loft was named in her honor and a reception was held after the worship service.

and husband, Harold will celebrate 55 years of marriage in September 2014. They are proud great grandparents of Janie Marie Bowman born 7/9/2012 and great grandson- Jacob Matthew Bowman born 1/1/14. The parents are Matt and Annie Bowman

Attended 50th class reunion in October, 2015. Says is was a wonderful event and missed all who couldn’t make it.

Updated the College with the following information: “It’s been almost 59 years, since I and my ’57 classmates graduated from MC. Since that time, I have engaged in 5 careers: a)assistant minister (of education) at 3 large churches (Raleigh, Norfolk and Miami Shores); b) dean of students of two, small, church colleges (Lenoir Rhyne, NC and King College, NC (also assistant professor of philosophy); c) Director of Special Education & Training at the Western Carolina Center, NC (for 550 individuals with developmental disabilities); d) Director of Training at Temple Woodhaven, PA (center for people with DDs), while earning my Ph.D. in psychology, with a concentration in special education researched) Executive Director of an organization operating group homes for adults with DD; f) Associate professor and Chair of the Department of Child and Family Studies, at the University of South Florida (retired in 1997 to my mountain home in Montreat, NC (near Asheville).”

writes going strong at 81 and counting! Howie!

At the tender age of 87, I recently wrote and published two books in the challenging genre of literary fiction, explicitly exploring the universal themes of: “Love, Flesh, and Spirit,” and “Indecorous Tales.” The first is in the MC library (at least I sent them a copy.) Available on Amazon et al.

Nick Bradford ’06 hired as Hardin Valley soccer coach: See more here

recently retired with a 40 year career in education. Currently still active as a business owner, she looks forward to connecting with friends during alumni weekends and being involved as an alumni.

is now serving as Immediate Past Chair of the Richmond Symphony on whose board he has served for 8 years. He is also Treasurer of the Center for Palladian Studies in America and an advisory board member for Preservation Bath (County, Virginia). Previously, he has served as Chair of the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood and Vice Chair of Comfort Zone Camp, a bereavement camp for children.  

was named Vice President Emerita by the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, upon her retirement in June 2013.  During her 23-year tenure at UMW, she created the College of Graduate and Professional Studies of which she was Dean and led the building of UMW’s second campus in Stafford County, Virginia.  At the time of her retirement she was V.P. for Economic Development and Regional Engagement.

Ed Brea ’80, has been appointed Managing Director at Rosewood Yangon, Myanmar. With more than 30 years of experience in the luxury hospitality industry, Ed has managed prestigious properties in Asia, most recently for Kempinski Hotels, as well as for Hyatt, Shangri-La, and One&Only Resorts. Scheduled to open in Q4 2018, the Rosewood Yangon, housed in a meticulously restored colonial-era building dating back to 1927, is located on the Strand riverfront in the heart of the city’s historic district within walking distance to the city’s most notable attractions and business district

Hong Kong-based Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Asia Pacific’s leading luxury hotel group, announces the appointment of J. Edward Brea as general manager of Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok. Prior to this appointment, Mr Brea spent two years as general manager of Jing An Shangri-La, West Shanghai. An Australian-American national with more than 30 years in the hospitality industry, 14 of which were spent with Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, Mr Brea brings to Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok extensive management experience gained in five-star international hotels and resorts in Hawaii, Australia, the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong SAR, Malaysia and Canada. He first joined the Shangri-La family in 2000 at Island Shangri-La Hong Kong as hotel manager before moving through the ranks to senior management positions in various Shangri-La hotels, including Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore as hotel manager, Shangri-La Hotel, The Marina, Cairns; Traders Hotel, Kuala Lumpur; Shangri-La Hotel, Vancouver; and Kerry Hotel, Pudong, Shanghai, where he was the general manager of these properties. Mr Brea graduated with a degree in Business Administration from Maryville College’s School of Liberal Arts, Tennessee, USA and attended the Executive Management and General Manager Programmes at Cornell University. In his new capacity, Mr Brea will oversee one of the group’s flagship properties in Bangkok. The 7.2-acre lush tropical city resort by the legendary Chao Phraya River has 802 guestrooms and suites, nine restaurants and bars, and a signature spa.

will become the the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship’s full-time Co-Director, with the current Co-Director, Rick Ufford-Chase, stepping into a volunteer leadership role as Co-Moderator. Founded in 1944, the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship is a nation-wide community of Presbyterians who seek to follow the nonviolence of Jesus by working to reduce war and violence in the world. Ufford-Chase, Moderator of the 216th PC(USA) General Assembly, has served since 2006 as Executive Director and more recently as Co-Director with Fritz Gutwein of Washington DC. This series of changes includes long-time Co-Moderator Roger Powers, Pastor of Light Street Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, MD, stepping down in September 2015. He currently shares that role with Elizabeth Shannon, Director of Campus Ministries at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL. Shannon will continue as Co-Moderator with Ufford-Chase. Gutwein, who also works as Development Manager at Jubilee Housing in Washington, will work as part-time Co-Director with Brewer. If it sounds like a fruit-basket-turned-over, there is good reason and a long-sought goal achieved. “In 2006,” said Ufford-Chase, “PPF set the goal of becoming younger and building a partnership of generations for nonviolent action and advocacy. Emily Brewer has already shown that she is one of the peace leaders of the next generation. This is a great moment for PPF.” A graduate of Maryville College and a PC(USA)Young Adult Volunteer in Guatemala, Brewer (left), receives her Master of Divinity on May 15, 2015 from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is under care for pastoral ordination with the Presbytery of East Tennessee. “In college I studied the tragedy of Latin America in the 1980s and wondered why Christians from other countries did not go to help protect the church leaders across Central and Latin America. And then I learned that the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and the PC(USA) were doing exactly that in Colombia today.” She volunteered in the Colombia Accompaniment Program and other PPF projects, including service on the PPF National Committee and as a member of the 2014 Young Adult Delegation to Israel-Palestine. During the Gaza siege in the summer of 2014, Brewer helped lead a weekly Sunday night vigil at Union Seminary in New York. “We gathered rocks from the park and then read the names of each Israeli and Palestinian killed that week, placing a rock for each name on a pile in the Seminary quad. We thought it would be short-term. It lasted all summer-over a thousand rocks. Sometimes it took an hour to read all the names. It was a way to make the cost of violence visible in that community.” During Ufford-Chase’s work as Director and Co-Director, the Peace Fellowship led efforts to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, launched and managed the Colombia Accompaniment Program, began a nonviolent presence and advocacy for ending the Occupation of Palestine, joined in nation-wide efforts to reduce gun violence and racism in the United States and completed an Endowment Campaign that serves as a model for Occupation-Free investing. The leadership changes will phase in over the summer and be completed by September. For information on the ministry of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and opportunities to support and participate in that work, see www.presbypeacefellowship.org . CONTACT: Rick Ufford-Chase (845) 608-4056 rickuffordchase@gmail.com Jan Orr-Harter (817) 291-3952 JanOH4@aol.com

Rev. Emily Brewer ’09, executive director of Presbyterian Peace Fellowship participated in the PC(USA) Walk for a Fossil Free World. She was joined by her mother and MC Board of Church Visitor member, Sherry Brewer. The walk, a joint project of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Fossil Free PCUSA, began June 1 at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville. It ended June 16 at the start of the 223rd General Assembly. Read more here: bit.ly/2l5VUaD

is among those honored by the Greater Knoxville Business Journal in its “40 under 40” list for 2015. The annual list recognizes “diverse young leaders who share a passion for making a difference.” News Release: Chrissy Newton Brooks, 37, Senior director of national accounts, DeRoyal Industries Chrissy Newton Brooks equips doctors across the country with medical devices from DeRoyal Industries. Newton Brooks, DeRoyal’s senior director of national accounts, represents the medical manufacturing company with one of the largest group purchasing organizations (GPO) in the country. “The vast majority of our products are sold through GPOs, and Chrissy is the face of DeRoyal to our largest, longest-standing GPO partner,” wrote DeRoyal CEO Brian DeBusk in nominating her. “Chrissy’s commitment to excellence and ever-present professionalism, coupled with her endless supply of energy and dynamic personality, are key attributes that make her so successful within our company. She represents a broad portfolio of products and services across a large base of over 2,500 hospitals, which requires her to identify and solve customer challenges on a daily basis.” Newton Brooks manages GPO contracts for DeRoyal, allowing its medical devices and equipment to be purchased at negotiated prices by hospitals and physicians’ offices. “I enjoy interacting with the key decision-makers in health care,” she says. “We meet with all of the people that represent all the major hospitals and listen to what they need. A lot of these hospitals are having to do a lot more with a lot less, so we try to find ways to add value.” DeRoyal leaders hired Newton Brooks as a business analyst in 1999 after they heard her present her senior thesis from Maryville College on the economic impact of an interfaith clinic to a hospital’s board of directors. She joined the company’s product management department, where she spent a decade learning about different products and worked with product engineers, including a team that was trying to improve medical fluid suction devices used during surgery. “The seal around the top of the canister is what the issue was,” Newton Brooks says. Newton Brooks suggested using an adhesive similar to the kind used on flypaper to provide a better seal. She is credited on the patent for her part in designing the device. DeRoyal leaders promoted her to her current role in 2010, where she’s been guiding the company’s sales and marketing strategies and pursuing opportunities to expand the business into new markets. “Most recently, we implemented a new revenue enhancement system,” she says. “We have learned from hospitals that they have to do things quicker and better with less people and we believe technology is the way to do that.” Newton Brooks also chairs Maryville College’s Business Advisory Board, where she hopes she’s helping the school’s graduates get a successful start in their careers. “At a time when career services is competitive, we want to make sure our students have the best opportunities moving forward,” she says. BIO Education: Bachelor’s degree, business and organization management, Maryville College; MBA, University of Tennessee Professional service and recognition: Member, Association of National Account Executives and Healthcare Industry Supply Chain Institute; inaugural member, Value-Based Medical Technology Association Community service: Chair, Business Advisory Board, Maryville College; violinist, Maryville College Orchestra; co-chair, United Way of Blount County Young Leaders Society campaign What she likes to do in her free time: Spend time with friends and her husband, Jason, and their children, Mary-James and Hall Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

who owns Brown’s and Hardware store is an old-time country store with newfangled ideas. While the groceries are fresh and up to date, the same can’t be said for the items for sale in the hardware section of the store. “We have old fuses and stuff that you just can’t find at Walmart,” said Jonathan Kent. Much of the hardware in stock was designed to fit plumbing and electrical fixtures from the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the store’s customers travel from North Carolina and Virginia to purchase hard-to-find items. That includes apple butter kettles and two-man apple peelers and all sorts of unusual gadgets. 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. Row after row of new solar panels crowd the roof of the hardware section and the nearby warehouse. The panels have been installed over the past three weeks by one man, Josh Guy of Mountaineer Electric of Vilas, N.C. Guy finished the installation Tuesday. The panels should be connected to the grid by the end of this week. As a result of Guy’s installation and the vision of store owner Sutton Brown, the old-timey store now has bragging rights in Carter County. Its solar panels can generate 44 kilowatts of electricity from the sun. That is remarkable because when the system is connected to the grid this week, Ken Markland of the Elizabethton Electric Department said Brown’s output will be three times larger than Security Federal Bank, which produces 15 kilowatts from its panels. Guy said the installation of the wiring for the panels was difficult because the store and other electric customers were on an old 120/240 volt three-phase delta line, but Markland said it was not a problem for Elizabethton Electric engineers, and they worked with Guy on the connections. Markland said the system will have its own meter to measure how much power the panels are producing. The readings from that meter will be subtracted from the amount of electricity the store consumed each month. If the store used more electricity than the panels produced, the electric bill will be the reduced figure. If the panels produced more electricity than Brown’s consumed, the store will not have to pay anything for that month and credit will be applied to the next month’s bill. At the end of the year, the meter readings will be added up and if there is a credit of more than $200, Markland said Brown will receive a refund check. Guy said there are grants available for the installation of solar panels. He said Brown’s was unable to qualify for a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture because Hampton was not considered rural enough at the time of the grant application. He said that has now changed and the USDA now considers Hampton to be rural, and its grants can be awarded to homes and businesses in the Hampton area. Markland said that even with grants and Tennessee Valley Authority incentives, solar panels have a long return on investment, but that is not the main concern of most people installing them. “It is not really a business investment. You can’t use them to make a profit, but they can reduce your carbon footprint,” Markland said. That means that Brown’s can have a big impact on the market for 1930s implements, while its carbon footprint leaves a small impact on the environment. (Article on Facebook, sent in by Ed Best) http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/article/120868/old-time-country-store-goes-solar

Equal Justice Award Honors Legal Legacy of Vanessa Pettigrew Bryan, BA’76

Vanessa Pettigrew Bryan, BA’76, was honored by Tennessee’s 21st Judicial District Office of the Public Defender with the establishment of the Vanessa Pettigrew Bryan Equal Justice Award. The award is given to a recipient in recognition of a commitment to the relentless pursuit of justice. Vanessa retired as Public Defender of the 21st Judicial District in November 2020 after a career that spanned 35 years in the judicial system.

She was the first Magistrate in Williamson County, Tennessee. She joined the Public Defender’s Office when it was created by the Tennessee state government in 1989. While in office, she traveled a four-county circuit to represent indigent clients in Hickman, Lewis, Perry, and Williamson counties. Her district included the wealthiest and poorest counties in the state of Tennessee.

She was elected to two eight-year terms as the Public Defender in 2006 and 2014, winning both times with a 70 percent margin of victory over her opponents.
While in office, she was instrumental in the creation of misdemeanor and felony Recovery Courts as well as a Mental Health Court and a Veteran’s Court. She was on the Board of Directors for two Recovery Courts and served on the team for more than 20 years.

In May, Allison will receive her Masters in Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the University of Tennessee, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She is a member of The National Society of Leadership and Success. Allison continues to volunteer with numerous non-profits in the region and is currently helping with the upcoming 10th anniversary celebration of the Clayton Center. She is looking forward to beginning her doctoral studies this fall.

Jennifer earned a Master of Music degree, specializing in piano performance, from Middle Tennessee State University. She graduated December 12, 2015.