NEWS & CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS

A performance by a professional poetry and drama group, visits to local African-American churches, an African American author Read-In and a Soul Food Banquet are among the ways that Black History Month is being commemorated during February on the Tusculum College campus.

Near-daily events and activities, both on and off campus, have been scheduled through the efforts of the Office of Multicultural Affairs, a division of Tusculum’s Office of Student Affairs.

New to the program this year is a campus African American Literature Read-In, sponsored by Dr. Taimi Olsen, professor of English at the College.  The event will be held all day in the Niswonger Commons Living Room on Feb. 3, and students and faculty will be reading selected titles throughout the day. According to Olsen, more than 30 students have already signed up to participate. The event is part of the national African American Read In, sponsored by the National Council for Teachers of English.

Some of the students participating in the Read-In may be choosing to read selections from the Monday Memoir Series,  that include “The Color of Water” by James McBride and “Open Wide the Freedom Gates” by Dorothy Hight. The series is sponsored by the Tusculum College African American Book Club.

Students will have the opportunity to test their knowledge of African-American history facts at the Black History Bowl at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 3, in Chalmers Conference Room in the Niswonger Commons.

Other events scheduled throughout the month include a performance by the Black Sunshine Poets, who will perform on Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pioneer Perk in the Niswonger Commons. The professional poetry troupe uses their lyrical skills, creativity and talent to perform original pieces that are both thought provoking and entertaining as they display the originality of African-American literature.

According to Student Life Coordinator Bonnie Taylor, during Sundays in February, Tusculum College students will also invited to take a closer “Look at the History of the Black Church.” On Feb. 8, students will visit Tabernacle Presbyterian Church, on Feb. 15, Tate Memorial Chapel and on Feb. 22, Friendship Baptist Church.

For a celebration of the culinary aspect of Black History Month, the College will sponsor a Soul Food Banquet in the dining hall on Feb. 17 from 5 – 7 p.m. And on Feb. 24, “Dessert and Discussion: Women’s Panel” will be held. At this event, students are able to interact with professional minority women from the Northeast Tennessee area. Topics will include networking, making and utilizing contacts and other professional preparation information and advice. The event will be held in the Hurley Room in Niswonger Commons at 7 p.m.

On Saturday, Feb. 21, the College will sponsor a “Service on Saturday” event in conjunction with the Bonner Leaders Program. “Students are going to be working with elementary school children in the area teaching the basics of basketball and interacting as mentors,” Taylor said. Participants should meet in the Pioneer Gym at 2 p.m.

Tusculum College students and the community are also encouraged to visit the special Black History exhibit in the Living Room of the Niswonger Commons. The “mini-museum” features information about African-Americans who have made significant contributions in the history of the nation as well as its cultural, sport and political life.

The Multicultural Affairs Office also has offered students the opportunity to participate in the fourth annual Black Issues Conference at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.  Transportation will be provided for registered students to attend the conference and attend a series of workshops throughout the day. Taylor said the workshops will focus on issues in African American community and personal development workshops. “This is an annual event that we find offers a wide variety of options and provides sessions that touch on many issues within the minority community,” said Taylor.

On campus, there will be Thursday Film Series, beginning on Feb. 12, with the featured film “Voices of the Civil Rights.” On Feb. 19, the film will be “Fisk Jubilee Singers,” and on Feb. 26 the featured film will be “Marcus Garvey.”

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With the popularity of cooking television programs, the apron is making a big come back in American kitchens, and the Doak House Museum will soon be offering an opportunity for cooks to make and personalize their own waist aprons.

The museum, located on the Tusculum College campus, will offer three waist-apron making workshops in February. Workshops will be held Thursday, Feb. 12; Saturday, Feb. 14; and Wednesday, Feb. 18. Each workshop will be 10 a.m. to noon with light refreshments and an “apron fashion show” to follow from noon to 1 p.m.

Individuals looking for a fun activity to get out of the house and escape the winter blues, those wanting to learn a new skill or perhaps make some special gifts for family or friends can find what they are seeking at this workshop. Groups and clubs are also welcome to reserve an entire time slot.

All supplies and instruction will be provided as part of the workshops. The cost for the workshop is $20 per person with advanced registration.. Proceeds from the workshops will benefit the educational programs of the Doak House Museum.

Reservations are required, and tickets will be sold on a first-purchased, first-served basis. Tickets at the door will be $25, if available.  Please call 423-636-8554 for ticket information.  No refunds will be given.

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Dining, dancing, parading, picnicking, celebrating a big Pioneer football victory,giving honor to outstanding alumni and friends and lots of other activities were part of Homecoming 2007, “Pioneers Through the Years,” held Oct. 5 and 6 at Tusculum College.

Numerous honors were given out during the weekend. The most visible was, of course, the crowning of the 2007 Homecoming King and Queen at halftime of the Saturday afternoon football game. Dexter Carr of Newport, Tenn., and Tamara Wynn of Hendersonville, N.C., both seniors, were crowned as Homecoming King and Queen. Carr is a physical education major, and Wynn is an English major. Both are members of the Bonner Leader student service organization on campus.

Retired faculty member Wess duBrisk and alumnus Nicholas Hirschy ‘02, along with former Director of Athletics Ed Hoffmeyer and his wife, Linda, were among those honored at Tusculum College on Saturday during special Homecoming events, as were alums Roger and Sanda Abramson ‘64 ‘65.

Other local honorees during the weekend were former TC men’s basketball coach and athletic director Mike Hollowell of Greeneville, who was named to the College’s Sports Hall of Fame, as was All-American golfer and Greenevillian Todd Ricker ‘96. Also entered into the Hall of Fame was All-American kicker and punter Paul Czerniak ‘03, a Californian.

The Sports Hall of Fame honors were presented in ceremonies held in conjunction with the Sports Hall of Fame/All-Alumni Breakfast in the Niswonger Commons.
HOFFMEYERS HONORED

The Hoffmeyers were jointly presented the Sports Benefactor Award at the Saturday breakfast. The Sports Benefactor Award was established by the Executive committee of the Alumni Association in 1995 and is presented each year to a friend or friends of the college in recognition of outstanding support of the Tusculum College athletic program.

Ed Hoffmeyer spent nine years as Director of Athletics at Tusculum College until leaving earlier this year to take over the admissions program at Mars Hill College in North Carolina.

Presenting the award, Interim President Dr. Russell Nichols said, “Since their arrival at Tusculum, Ed and Linda attended almost every home athletic eventŠ that’s for all 14 sports, which comes out to almost 1,100 home games, and not including the numerous road contests the couple traveled to in supporting the Pioneers. All this while maintaining two residences, one in Tennessee and the other in North Carolina.

“Many a day or night, Linda would make the trip from Asheville to Tusculum for a football, volleyball or basketball game or attend a college function with Ed, this after a full day of teaching. She would either head back to North Carolina after the game or early the next morning; sometimes in good weather and sometimes not.”

The Hoffmeyers accepted the award together, with an emotional Ed Hoffmeyer praising his wife for her loving support of him and the athletics program he oversaw for nearly a decade.

duBRISK LAUDED AS EDUCATOR

Wess duBrisk, who retired in 2005 after a 22-year career at Tusculum College, was presented the National Living Faculty Award by the Tusculum College Alumni Association, which held its annual meeting on Saturday. Presenting the award to duBrisk was one of his former students, Tusculum College 2004 alumnus B.J. Roberts, now a graduate student at the University of Tennessee.

Roberts described duBrisk’s career in broad strokes, noting his wide range of professional and personal activities, most of them dealing in some way with media or the performing arts.

Roberts further said, “Whatever he does, Wess is always true to the phrase he used to sign off on his radio shows in Southeast Asia during the Viet Nam ConflictŠ ‘Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, do it well, and above all - keep smiling!’”

Roberts, who attended South Greene High School before attending Tusculum, said that duBrisk has become a personal friend and mentor over the years, and has inspired him to become a college professor someday. duBrisk expressed his thanks for the honor to the assembled Alumni Association.

Present to see her husband honored was Marilyn duBrisk, artist-in-residence at Tusculum College.
HIRSCHY WINS MAJOR HONOR

Receiving the Frontier Award of the Alumni Association was Nick Hirschy, a branch manager with American Patriot Bank and a 2002 graduate of Tusculum College.
The Frontier Award was established in 1995 and is presented each year to an outstanding alumnus or alumna in recognition of outstanding or meritorious career advancement. Consideration is given to former students who have been graduated from the college at least five years, but no more than 15 years, and who have demonstrated continuing and loyal service to Tusculum College.

Hirschy moved back to his hometown of Blacksburg, SC after his graduation from Tusculum, but returned to Greene County to enter the banking business. He began as a teller but advanced quickly to his current bank manager position.

Hirschy and his wife, the former Crystal Lynette Codgell ‘04, live in Afton. Crystal Hirschy works with the Admission Department of Tusculum College.

ABRAMSONS HONORED WITH PIONEER AWARD

Presented the 2007 Pioneer Award, given to someone who represents Tusculum’s vision on civic service to not only the college but in the community in which they reside, were Roger and Sanda Abramson ‘64 ‘65, who now live in Antioch. Presenting their award was their daughter, Lauren Abramson ‘02 of Nashville.

The Abramson couple met at Tusculum and have been married 41 years. Both have been extraordinarily active in community service.

Roger, a retired regional marketing manager for the Dr Pepper Company, volunteers on the Red Cross National Disaster Team, where in recent years he has traveled to Florida to assist tornado victims and Pennsylvania to help flood victims. He helped Hurricane Katrina victims find new opportunities in Nashville. He volunteers for the Nashville Sports Council and is involved with the Boy Scouts of America, receiving the Wood Badge Award, the Long Rifle, and the Silver Beaver, the highest local council award given to a leader in the Boy Scouts. He currently oversees a cub scout pack at Arlington United Methodist, where he is also a member.

Sanda has been a member the Girl Scouts of the USA for 57 years, and has received the Thanks Badge — the highest award given to an adult leader. She is an assistant leader of a troop at the Tennessee School for the Blind. For the last 28 years, she has been a member of the Boy Scouts of America where to this day she is leading two cub scout packs in Nashville. Her enthusiasm in Scouting has led to 35 young men to receive the Eagle Award as well as a number of Girl Scouts receiving the Gold Award-the highest award in Girl Scouting.

The Boy Scouts have also honored Sanda by giving her the Wood Badge Award, the Long Rifle and the Silver Beaver award, making her one of the few women in the State of Tennessee to receive the highest leader award in both Scouting Associations. She has volunteered with Saddle Up!, a therapeutic horseback riding program. She received the lifetime PTA award and has volunteered with the 4-H clubs in the area. Both Abramsons volunteered for the Nashville Dog Training Club, and are involved in animal rescue. She is a retired Girl Scout Executive.

The Abramsons are charter members of Priest Lake Presbyterian, where Roger is an Elder. Presently, they are members at Arlington United Methodist where each have served on a variety of committees, and are active volunteers.
TRUSTEE BROTHERTON ADDRESSES ALUMNI

Also participating in the Alumni Association meeting was Dr. Larry Brotherton ‘70, a member of the Tusculum College Board of Trustees who addressed the Alumni Association on behalf of the trustees. Brotherton grew up in Romeo in Greene County and now is a successful industrialist in South Carolina.

Brotherton discussed his “passionate” belief in his Alma Mater and shared an anecdote from his first meeting as a trustee, which occurred the day after fellow trustee Scott M. Niswonger ‘87 H’06 had just announced a major challenge pledge to a Tusculum College capital campaign under way at that time. The chairman of the board when Brotherton joined it was Dr. Stanley R. Welty Jr. ‘51 ‘H05, who passed away this year.

Brotherton recalled that Welty, reacting to Niswonger’s gift of the previous day, told the trustees that he had been unable to sleep well the night before, thinking about Niswonger’s challenge. Welty then announced a major pledge of his own. That was the start of a sequence of large pledges made by several other board members present that day, Brotherton said, noting that each of the givers echoed Welty’s comment regarding not having slept well the night before.

“I was sitting there hoping they wouldn’t get around to me, because I’d slept real well the night before,” Brotherton said, drawing laughter.

Brotherton then challenged his fellow alumni to also be passionate about their college and to support it not only through gifts (as Brotherton himself has done as a major donor for many years) but also through giving of their time and personal expertise.

PAXTON SCHOLARSHIP RENEWED

Honored by her daughter and son-in-law during the Homecoming event was Greeneville’s Mary Helen Paxton, who graduated from Tusculum in 1948 and also worked in the college’s business office for much of her life.

Paxton’s daughter, Jackie Rose, and Jackie’s husband, Glen, announced near the close of the Alumni Association meeting that they were renewing the Mary Helen Paxton Annual Scholarship, established last year, with a gift.
OTHER HOMECOMING HIGHLIGHTS

• Presented a certificate of thanks from the Institutional Advancement Office on Saturday were Jeff and Sharon Muncy of Greene County, who have worked as volunteers for Tusculum College Homecoming and other college-related functions.
• Tusculum College alumni who have passed away since Homecoming 2006 were remembered in a memorial service held prior to the meeting of the Alumni Association. Several relatives, classmates and friends of deceased alumni were present.
• Preceding the football game was a Homecoming parade through campus, this year featuring floats made by current students. Winning the float competition was the senior class, whose float closely followed the “Pioneers Through the Years” theme, contrasting a covered wagon with a modern automobile. Serving as grand marshals for the parade were members of the class of 1957, this year’s “Golden Pioneer,” or 50-year anniversary class.Classic vehicles were provided by the Ridgerunners Auto Club for use in the parade.
• Also contributing to the success of Homecoming was Myers Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze in the Bulls Gap area, whose Vera Ann Myers, Tusculum class of 1987, hosted several of her fellow alumni on Friday morning.
• A tea and reception for alumni was held on the terrace of the Library at Tusculum College on Friday afternoon, and alumni dinners were held at the General Morgan Inn and Conference Center on Friday and the Link Hills Country Club on Saturday.
• Also during Homecoming 2007 was an exhibit about college architecture in the Andrew Johnson Museum and Library, a picnic lunch joining alumni and students, an alumni/student tennis tournament, a golf tournament at River Trace Golf Course, an on-campus door decoration contest and a Pioneer Club Tailgate event prior to the football game.

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Two area Tusculum College educators received major honors from the college’s Alumni Association during Homecoming events on Oct. 14, as did a local TC staff member who is herself a Tusculum College alumna. Professor of Psychology and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Melinda Dukes of Johnson City received the National Alumni Recognition Award from the TC Alumni Association during its annual meeting Saturday morning on the campus.

Professor of Education Dr. Jim Fields of Chuckey received the National Living Faculty Award, honoring him for outstanding contributions to Tusculum College and the field of education. Director of Development and Alumni Relations Susan Vance of Greeneville, a 1991 Tusculum College graduate, received the Alumni Association’s Frontier Award, presented each year to an alumnus or alumna in recognition of outstanding or meritorious advancement in his or her career.

The awards were made in the Chalmers Conference Center of the Niswonger Commons on Saturday morning at an annual meeting of the Tusculum College Alumni Association.

Presenting Dr. Dukes’ award was Bob Riser of the class of 1962, a member of the Alumni Executive Board. He praised Dr. Dukes, who joined Tusculum College in 1989, for her ability to combine academic theory with “civic engagement.” She has led her students in working in several notable community projects, including one that helped a regional non-profit organization secure a sizable grant.

She received the Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award in 2001 from her fellow faculty members. During 2006 she served as interim Provost for the college until the arrival of Provost Dr. Kim Estep. Dr. Dukes is now Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, working closely with Dr. Estep.

Presenting Dr. Fields’ award was Paige Mengel, a class of 1988 alumna and member of the Alumni Executive Board. Dr. Fields, she said, came to Tusculum in 1993, and has taught in both the undergraduate and graduate level program. He holds a doctorate in educational leadership from East Tennessee State University, and has approximately 11 years of collegiate teaching experience.

He has been extensively involved in the Tusculum College governance process and has worked with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Also receiving a major alumni award was Peggy Brewer, a former two-year president of the Tusculum College Alumni Association. Brewer received the Pioneer Award, the highest honor given by the Alumni Association. Tusculum College President Dr. Dolphus E. Henry presented the award.

Brewer, of Morristown, retired from TVA to become president of a family business, Twi-Lite, Inc.

Presenting Vance’s award was Tusculum College Vice President for Institutional Advancement Mark A. Stokes, who is Vance’s current supervisor and also was her supervisor when she was a TC work-study student in the early 1990s.

Vance is well known in Greeneville for her earlier work on the staff of the Greene County Partnership and as Marketing and Corporate Development Manager at Freewill Baptist Family Ministries, a nonprofit Christian child and family care ministry in Greene County. She has been a successful fundraiser both at Family Ministries and at Tusculum College.

Highlighting Homecoming activities was the Saturday afternoon football game between the Pioneers and the Blue Hose of Presbyterian College. The final score was 30-21 in favor of Presbyterian.

Halftime was marked by the annual crowning of the Homecoming Queen and King and the presentation of the Queen’s Court. Seniors Anup Kaphle of Nepal, an English major, and Angel Connell of Waynesville,Ga., a political science major, were named King and Queen, and crowned by President and Mrs. Dolphus Henry.

Representing the Freshman class were Alex Smith and Ashley Shoults. Sophomores were represented by Erin Moore, Randi Williams and Caitlin Castainca.

Representing the Junior class were Octavious Love and Jessica Love, and Cody Greene and Sudipa Shrestha. Representing the Senior class in addition to Kaphle and Connell were Rodney Peebles and Melina Villarreal, Glen Black and Amy Carlson, and Justin Higgins and Maureen Cathers.

A Homecoming Parade featuring antique vehicles provided by the Ridgerunners antique car club and music from the award-winning Greeneville High School Greene Devils Marching Band preceded the football game. The band also played a pregame program in the stadium.

The parade’s grand marshals were members of the Class of 1956, this year’s “Golden Pioneers.” They and other alumni were hosted in a Friday night alumni dinner at Link Hills Country Club, a Friday afternoon tea at the residence of President and Mrs. Henry, and a Saturday evening dinner and dance at the General Morgan Inn and Conference Center.

Other Homecoming activities included campus tours and a Sports Hall of Fame/All-Alumni Breakfast on Saturday morning, where three former Tusculum College student-athletes and coaches were inducted into Tusculum Sports Hall of Fame: the late Tusculum basketball coach George “Folly” Malone and former Pioneer baseball players Chad Busch and Anthony Mercurio.

A golf tournament, round-robin tennis event, oral history workshop, and a memorial service for alumni who died within the past year were also part of the weekend. Other activities included a trip to Myers Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze, storytelling at the Doak House Museum, a “Century of Style” architecture exhibit at the President Andrew Johnson Museum and Library.

More than 200 alumni participated in the event, with many more friends of Tusculum College also taking part in at least part of the weekend festivities. The theme of the weekend was “Explore the Past, Experience the Present.”

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A new gallery of photographs of Tusculum College All-American athletes graces the lobby of the Pioneer Arena, honoring not only the pictured athletes but also the memory of the late Andrew “Andy” Kmetz, a 1935 TC graduate who was a noted athlete.

Family members of Kmetz, who died in 2005, funded the display through a gift to the college, and have since made another gift for its upkeep. Included are photographs of most of Tusculum College’s 39 All-Americans. Other photographs will be added as future All-Americans are named and as photos of not-yet-pictured past All-Americans are located.

Giving brief comments at the recent dedication ceremony for the display were Susan Vance ‘91, director of development and alumni relations at Tusculum College; President Dr. Dolphus E. Henry, Director of Athletics Ed Hoffmeyer, and Tusculum College baseball All-American Greg Stotser.

With the Nov. 11 football game between Tusculum College and rival Carson-Newman College looming ahead, Dr. Henry noted that Kmetz is remembered at Tusculum College for kicking the winning field goal in the 1934 Tusculum College victory over Carson-Newman, a 3-0 game.

All the speakers from Tusculum College deeply thanked the Kmetz family for the new exhibit. Vance praised the Kmetz family for finding an appropriate way to honor Andy Kmetz, and Hoffmeyer and Stotser spoke of the honor of achieving All-American status, an honor now heightened further through the Kmetz family’s generosity.

Glen Black of the TC Pioneer football team gave the prayer of dedication.

Speaking on behalf of the Kmetz family was Andrea Kmetz Payne, daughter of Andrew Kmetz, who reminisced about her father, one of nine children in an immigrant family. Kmetz, she said, did not graduate from high school until age 21 because he so frequently had to drop out of school to work to help support his family.

Kmetz was coached in track in high school by a Tusculum College alumnus, Art Argauer, who also introduced Kmetz to his future wife when he arranged for Ida Krug to become Kmetz’s tutor in French.

Payne described her father’s college experience as one that was rewarding to him, but also difficult because of financial challenges. She recalled his stories of pushing his old Model T Ford up East Tennessee hills because it lacked power to climb them, then coasting down the far side of the hill to save gas.

Kmetz went on to a career in education and coaching, and in 1982 was inducted into the Tusculum College Sports Hall of Fame as well as a similar sports hall of fame at his old high school in New Jersey.

Andrew Kmetz last visited Tusculum College in 1997, she said, when he attended a class reunion.

Also speaking was another Kmetz daughter, Alice Kmetz D’Ambrosio, who recalled her father as a friendly man who “always remembered a face, but never a name,” and who would “talk to anyone.” She noted how deeply her father loved Tusculum College and treasured his experiences there.

Al Taynai, a member of the TC class of 1962 and a godson and nephew of Kmetz, also spoke briefly of Kmetz and his love for Tusculum College.

The gallery dedicated to Kmetz is named “Tusculum College’s All-Americans, in memory of Andrew Kmetz, ‘35.” It is free of charge and open for public view at all times that the lobby of Pioneer Arena is open.

Five of the TC All-Americans pictured in the display were present at the dedication. They were Susan Starnes Farris ‘97, Carla Lloyd Weems ‘93, Felix Perez ‘05, Vivian Christopher ‘93 ‘03 and Greg Stotser ‘07.

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More than 100 people attended the “Women in Leadership: A Networking Luncheon for the Next Generation” on Friday, September 22, at Tusculum College.

The luncheon was sponsored by the Offices of Career Development and Multicultural Affairs to provide students the opportunity to meet and learn about their careers of interest from local leading professional women in those fields.

Jacquelyn Elliott, vice president for admission and financial aid at Tusculum, made a brief presentation about women in leadership and challenged those in the room to be both mentors and pupils to others whether they were students or professionals. Elliott is also a grant-sponsored research assistant for the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program hosted at Drexel University, a program advancing women in academic leadership at medical colleges across the nation.

In research of women in leadership, Elliott said she has found that women typically accept the gender stereotypes about leadership such as that female leaders are nurturing of those around them whereas male leaders are focused on the bottom line.

However, she challenged those in the room to follow their heart and be true to themselves as individuals as they assume positions of leadership in their careers and communities, to remember that “the human heart is more than a pump.”

Elliott encouraged the students to seek out mentors, whether it be in the career of interest, in community service, or in spiritual matters. Although it has been traditionally thought that one should seek a mentor similar to oneself, she continued, studies have shown that mentor relationships in which the individuals are different have been successful because people learn much from each others’ differences.

Good mentors listen to their proteges, are understanding, challenge them to exceed their expectations, coach them toward success, help build their self-confidence, provide counsel, teach by example, and offer encouragement, Elliott said.

Mentors should encourage their proteges to communicate openly with them, set guidelines and expectations from the beginning, and establish performance measures because it is a serious business relationship, she continued.

Everyone can benefit from mentoring relationships, Elliott said, encouraging both the professional leaders and students to act as mentors as well as seek out their own mentors.

Sixteen women professionals from the education, business, medical, law enforcement, financial, engineering, and judicial fields participated in the luncheon. They included:

• Michelle Collins Barefield, a physical therapist at Greeneville Orthopaedic Clinic;
• Karen Burke, a deputy U.S. marshal for the Eastern Judicial District of Tennessee;
• Shawn Collins, manager for customer care at Forward Air, Inc.
• Jacquelyn Elliott, vice president for admission and financial aid at Tusculum College;
• Dr. Kimberly Estep, provost and academic vice president at Tusculum;
• Judith Henry, chief executive officer of Worthy Solutions, a firm dedicated to helping business leaders build sustainable, collaborative relationships;
• Dr. Lisa Johnson, director of the School of Education and director of learning support services at Tusculum;
• Jennifer Keller, branch manager at the east Greeneville branch of First Tennessee Bank;
• Dr. Vicki Kirk, assistant director of instruction for Greeneville City Schools;
• Ivy Leonard, treasurer for Leonard Associates, a management company overseeing BTL Industries, LMR Plastics, and several other associated companies and commercial warehouses;
• Cynthia Bibb Pectol, a Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Mediator and an adjunct faculty member at Tusculum;
• Kelly Kreiter Penning, human resource manager for John Deere Power Products;
• Glenda Robinson, director of pharmacy for Greene Valley Developmental Center;
• Helen Smith, assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern Judicial District of Tennessee;
• Cathy Walden, president of W & W Engineering, LLC; and
• Andie Westwood, clinical liaison for Reckitt Benckiser in its pharmaceutical division.

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