Class Acts
of the Missouri Fox Trotting Horse Breed Association. She is the organization’s first woman president. She lives in Lincoln, Ark. J.B. Mountjoy, ’72, and Marcella Faulkner Mountjoy, ’72, celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary Aug. 20, 2014. Wayne Scudder, ’73, has taught in the Gallatin County School District for 41 years. He and his wife, Pamela, live in Warsaw. Jo Helen Cloys Cobb, ’74, ’82, was presented with the first Sarah Rollins Burnam Award for community service. She and husband Ewell live in Richmond. Robert D. Manes, ’74, retired from the Michigan State Police in 2000 and from the Michigan Department of Corrections in 2013. He married Karin Meadows in 1974. They live in Mason, Mich., and have two grown children, son Craig and daughter Kim, and five grandchildren. Jennifer Piatt Mockbee, ’74, ’75, and Stephen Mockbee, who also attended Eastern, are retired educators and live most of the year in Palm Bay, Florida. Wayne Pearsall, ’74, has published “Another Typical Cleveland Experience (and other tales of a baseball junkie),” a book of baseball stories. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where he practices law. He also teaches at the Virginia Marti College of Art and Design in Lakewood, Ohio, and at the Miami Jacobs Career College in Independence, Ohio. Sally Prather Pierce, ’74, of Hot Springs, Ark., retired after 34 years in public education. She spent 21 years in the classroom and 18 as an administrator, the last 13 in an alternative school setting. James Sebree, ’74, joined pharmaceutical supplier Perrigo Company as production supervisor for the second shift Liquid Value Stream. He brings 15 years of food and
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beverage industry management experience to his new role. Sebree is a retired Army colonel, having served on active duty as well as with the Reserves and National Guard. He and his wife, Suzanne, live in Kalamazoo, Mich. Thomas K. Hall III, ’75, is a retired commonwealth attorney and is a practicing attorney. He and his wife, Karen, live in Beattyville. Melanie Rozeman Murphy, ’75, is an art teacher in the Mercer County school system. She and her husband, Kevin, live in Versailles and enjoy hiking, camping and travel. Judith Lubitz Monroe, ’76, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control, returned to her home state of Kentucky in August to participate in the Health Impact Series. The series of public discussions explored solutions to many health issues that plague the eastern Kentucky region. Lorenzo Dow Eads Sr., ’78, reminds us that he and his son, Lorenzo Dow Eads Jr., ’78, both graduated from Eastern on the same day! Mary Jo Baumann Roberts, ’78, married Timothy Roth on Sept. 27, 2014. Her first husband, Roy Lemaur Roberts, ’77, passed away in 1999. Robert W. Robertson, ’78, has been awarded a postgraduate diploma in International Management-China from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He received his master of science degree in geography and planning from Eastern. Ross Ballard II, ’79, has been nominated by the Audio Publishers Association for an Audie Award in the category of Audio Drama for “Screaming with the Cannibals,” the novel by Lee Maynard. Ballard narrated the audio version of the novel, which was also produced by his MountainWhispers Audio Studio. He and his wife, Susan, live in Martinsburg, W.Va.
Nancy Quaack Piercy, ’79, retired from teaching in December 2013 after 27 years. She lives in Coxs Creek. Vickie Tyra Reed, ’79, ’83, of Stanton retired in 2006 and is working on a small farm. She worked as a court reporter for the 89th Judicial Circuit and was elected and served as Powell Circuit Court Clerk from 2000-2006. Geraldine E. Walker, ’79, is a past member of the American Diabetes Association. She has been a church usher, Sunday school secretary and caregiver for more than 30 years.
1980s
Karen Hart Delaney, ’80, ’83, retired as a counselor from Pendleton County Schools after 30 years. She and husband John Delaney, ’84, live in Falmouth. Wyndee Ezell Holbrook, ’80, is director for the Academy of Preachers in Berea. She and her husband, Mitch, live in Berea. Carla Doyle White, ’80, ’82, retired after 32 years with the Fleming County School System. She and husband Tommy live in Flemingsburg. Debbie Bullock Bradley, ’81, and her husband, Bill, recently celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. They live in Berea. Thomas Salyer, ’83, has been named superintendent of Johnson County Schools. He lives in Paintsville. Gordon Cain Jr., ’85, of Santa Clara, Calif., retired from Lockheed-Martin after nearly 30 years. He spent the last 14 years at the company’s advanced technology center. Leigh M. Rose, ’85, published her first novel, “The Third Floor,” about a woman who buys the home of her dreams in the small town where her parents grew up, only to find that she is not the Victorian mansion’s only inhabitant. Rose lives in Clay City.
Brig. Gen. James E. Rainey, ’87, was named commandant of the U.S. Army Infantry School at the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Ga. He is married to Tracy Shrout Rainey, ’89. Another Eastern ROTC graduate is serving under him. Col. William Butler, ’90, is the deputy commandant of infantry at Fort Benning. He is married to Mindy. It’s a great combination of infantry leaders from Eastern doing great things in the Army! Michael Cadore, ’88, has been inducted into the Space Coast Sports Hall of Fame in Brevard County, Fla. Cadore starred on two state high school football championship teams at Titusville High School. He played football for Eastern, was drafted in 1989 by the New Orleans Saints and played in the World League of American Football’s Montreal Machine. He and his wife, Cornelia, live in Rockledge, Fla. Lisa Mouser Moore, ’88, was one of 24 educators across the commonwealth to earn the 2015 Ashland Teacher Achievement Award from the Kentucky Department of Education and Ashland Inc. Moore teaches fourth grade at Vine Grove Elementary School in Hardin County. She and her husband, Randall Moore, ’87, live in Elizabethtown. Russell Romine, ’89, was appointed deputy secretary of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. He has worked for the cabinet for 19 years, first as chief financial officer and most recently as executive advisor to the secretary. Romine and his wife, Margaret, live in Frankfort. The couple has two children, Hugh and Chandler.
1990s
Jill Atkinson, ’90, is now director of college counseling at Boston University Academy. She lives in West Roxbury, Mass. Clay Motley, ’97, received his Ph.D. in English literature at the University of South Carolina. He was promoted to