ALUMNI NEWS
KRISTIN CHILTON, ’10 Janet Jacobs Brewer, ’81, Lenoir City, Tennessee, has been named senior vice president and chief communications and marketing officer for the Tennessee Valley Authority.
In 98 professional football games, Guyton recorded 10 interceptions. The 2007 EKU Athletics Hall of Fame inductee and his wife, Lisa Booker Guyton, ’90, reside in Thomasville, Georgia.
Mary “Cathy” Clark, ’81, has retired after 35 years with the YMCA — the last 10 as president/chief executive officer of the YMCA of Muncie, Indiana.
Scott Childress, ’91, heads investor relations for Georgia-based logistics firm United Parcel Service.
Dr. Donna L. Burgraff, ’82 ’83, associate professor at Ohio University, had an article published in the January 2016 journal Higher Education for the Future. “No More Textbooks: Changing How We Structure Classes” details her solution to the increasing problem of high textbook costs in higher education. Patricia Boggs Conrad, ’82, a retired Grant County schoolteacher, and her husband, Terry A. Conrad, ’75, live in Dry Ridge, Kentucky. Stella Fugate Baker, ’85, Beattyville, Kentucky, was selected by the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English Board as KCTE Middle School Teacher of the Year. Baker teaches at Owsley County High School. Margaret Hazlette, ’85, Nicholasville, Kentucky, was recently inducted into the University of Kentucky College of Social Work Hall of Fame. Cathy Carrier Bosemer, ’86, has been named principal of Breckinridge Franklin Elementary School in Louisville, Kentucky. Linda Eckert Moser, ’86, and John Moser, ’87, of Louisville, Kentucky, recently celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Their youngest son, Evan, is currently a student at EKU. Leigh Rose, ’86, of Berea, Kentucky, had her first published novel, “The Third Floor,” accepted at the Kentucky Book Fair in Frankfort in November 2015. Anton Reece, ’88, Knoxville, Tennessee, was recently named associate vice provost and director of the student success center at the University of Tennessee. Super Bowl Champion and former Eastern football standout Myron Guyton was recently inducted into the Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame. After five years with the Giants, Guyton completed his career by playing two seasons with the New England Patriots.
Ken Bicknell, ’92, has been named superintendent of Paris (Kentucky) Independent Schools. From 2008 to 2015, Bicknell served as the first principal of B. Michael Caudill Middle School in Richmond, Kentucky. For the past year, he has been the education recovery leader for the Kentucky Department of Education. He and his wife, Lori Tillett Bicknell, ’93, reside in Richmond. David Williams, ’93, Richmond, Kentucky, is the new director of the University of Kentucky Robinson Center for Appalachian Resource Sustainability. Tonya Tarvin Crum, ’95, has been named senior director of education for Kentucky Educational Television (KET). Since 2003, she has served as KET’s director of adult education and workforce development, and currently serves as vice chair of the National Educational Telecommunications Association. She is a former president of the EKU International Alumni Association. Kevin Hub, ’95, Richmond, Kentucky, has been named superintendent of Scott County (Kentucky) Schools. He is a former chief operating officer for Madison County (Kentucky) Schools and spent the past two years as superintendent of Logan County (Kentucky) Schools.
LEXINGTON APPOINTS FIRST FEMALE FIRE CHIEF When Kristin Chilton, ’10, was growing up, there were no female career firefighters. Then, while an undergraduate at Transylvania University, she met Lisa Daley, Lexington’s first female firefighter. Daley encouraged Chilton to sign up to ride along with emergency crews. Soon Chilton had joined the ranks. After 23 years with the department, Chilton was appointed as Lexington’s first female fire chief. Jennifer Mossotti, chair of the City Council’s Public Safety Committee, said Chilton “has literally and figuratively climbed the ladder of success during her more than two decades of exemplary service with the department. She epitomizes the term ‘public servant,’ and I am confident she will provide strong leadership... while serving as a remarkable role model for future firefighters — male and female.” Chilton, who earned a bachelor’s degree in business management from Transylvania in 1990 and a master’s degree in public health from EKU, was selected to serve as fire chief from among a field of 32 applicants, both internal and external. n
Jeremy D. Bates, ’96, has joined Advanced Global Communications Inc. in Louisville as a security services, investigations and asset protection expert. Laura Bayer Dedic, ’97 ’07, Richmond, Kentucky, was recently named assistant director of Model Laboratory School, from which she graduated in 1991.
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