Class Notes

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.

has a new book co-authored with her late friend and mentor Virginia Pounds Brown, that was published this spring. She will always credit Maryville College with teaching her how to conduct and organize research. “There was indeed something special about “special studies” that has stayed with me for almost fifty years!” The book has been published in paperback and eBook by NewSouth Books. Drawing by Stealth: John Trumbull and the Creek Indians is a brief account of the events in 1790 when a party of Creek Indians went to New York to meet with President George Washington and by chance had their images sketched by the President’s portrait artist John Trumbull. In their research the authors discovered and corrected a mistaken theory that one of the images is that of Alexander McGillivray, the powerful Creek leader who made his home in the area that is present-day Wetumpka, Alabama. www.newsouthbooks.com/drawingbystealth

husband Bill, passed away on April 19, 2015 after a long illness.

Lynn Ramsey Cole ’68 retired at the end of the 2017-18 school year after 34 years as a math teacher at Farragut High School.

Jenny was recently named as the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient by the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE). NAPE is a consortium of state and local agencies, corporations, and national organizations. Through its four lines of business-professional development, technical assistance, research and evaluation, and advocacy-NAPE strives to achieve its mission of building educators’ capacity to implement effective solutions for increasing student access, educational equity, and workforce diversity. She will receive the award in April 2017. Jenny Erwin was trained as an elementary school teacher, but her career path led her out of the classroom and into the role of advocate for education and employment equality for girls and women. The transition was necessary because she unexpectedly became a single parent when her son was an infant. She quickly learned first-hand the value of education as a means to avoid a life of low-wage jobs and poverty. She realized that many other displaced homemakers required education and marketable skills to move forward. This time also instilled in her a commitment to ensuring that young women have access to training for nontraditional, high-wage jobs so that they can maximize their potential. As Gender Equity Administrator for the Arizona Department of Education, Jenny was well positioned to both educate and advocate. For 17 years, she developed creative gender equity programs including the Equity Intern Program, Connection’s Newsletter, Equity Pioneer Poster project, and a data collection tracking system for Arizona’s displaced homemaker programs. In 1993, she developed Expanding Options, Gender Equity Resource Guide, which was adapted for the Mississippi, Arizona, Iowa, and Nevada vocational education systems. In 1999, Jenny expanded her advocacy/education work by joining the USDOL Women’s Bureau as the Regional Administrator in San Francisco. For the 13 years she worked on programs focused on workplace flexibility, financial literacy, green jobs, the Native American Cultural Trail, and homeless women veterans issues. After retiring, she joined a tiger team to expand and institutionalize employment services for women veterans. As a result, the first Women Veteran Employment Program Manager was hired within the USDOL Veteran Employment and Training Services in 2013. Today, Jenny supports equity efforts in several ways. She established the Women of Courage Scholarship Fund at her alma mater, Maryville College, which helps nontraditional female students start or complete their degree. With the International Women’s Forum of Northern California, she created the Early Leader Series, which documents the career stories of early women leaders in San Francisco.

updated the College to say, “All three of our children are married and have children, which means we have 11 grandchildren, whom we thoroughly enjoy. I am involved in our church as a volunteer, helping out from home administratively.”

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.

Davis Miller retired after 26 years as CEO of New Ventures, Inc., a job training business for persons with disabilities and other employment barriers. Highlights include a 50th Anniversary with Judy Hannah (’69); spending time with their grandson Cameron and granddaughter, Autumn Rose, and prepping for another grandson,Charlie, to arrive latter September.

has been appointed Executive Director of the Georgia High School Athletic Assn. He also had a Grand daughter Bryann Hayden born July 3, 2013 whom has a brother Payne Hamilton, age 4.