Alum News Michaela “Kay” Keefe ’89 was named president of Keefe Plumbing & Heating Co., Inc. in Chattanooga last May. Kathryn Primm Gressett ’89, a veterinarian in Chattanooga, has recently published a collection of her firsthand experiences with cats and dogs. Tennessee Tails: Pets and Their People has received five-star reviews online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble for her funny, sad, and moving stories. Proceeds from the first year of sales go to animal rescue. Friend and “client” Anna Katherine Buckner Camp ’96 describes Kathryn as “the very essence of what a GPS girl is and can become…smart, a business owner, and a philanthropist.”
90s The 2012 Elise Chapin Moon Sustainer Service Award from the Junior League of Chattanooga was presented to Missy Griggs McKenna ’93. Amber Cavanaugh Dyson ’95 is pursuing her master’s in Marriage and Family Therapy in the Cratis D. Williams Graduate School at Appalachian State University. She was awarded the Chancellor’s Fellowship, one of the school’s top awards for which only a small number of entering graduate students are selected. Katherine Giles ’96 is an assistant editor and freelance social media director at Bas Bleu, Inc. Agusta (Cassie) Calloway ’97 has moved to Nashville from Hattiesburg, MS, where she taught at the University of Southern Mississippi. Agusta has a master’s in health science from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Katie vonWerssowetz Gooden, MD, ’98 has joined the Galen Medical Group in Chattanooga as a family medicine specialist.
’00-’05 Lauren Bishop Howard ’00 graduated from UTC in 2012 with her MSN degree and is a family nurse practitioner at the Chattanooga Kidney Center. Rachel Boston ’00 has a new starring role in the television drama “Witches of East End” on the Lifetime network. She has had guest appearances on a number of television shows, including “Grey’s Anatomy,” “The Closer,” and a featured role in “Plain Sight”; and been in several movies, such as the Golden Globe-nominated “500 Days of Summer.” After several years coaching at Brown University in Providence, RI, Channing Kimball ’00, a graduate of the University of Wyoming, was looking for a way to move back to the West. In July she accepted the position of head diving coach at the University of Denver, where she reports that the university community there is “a great fit.” Betsy Pinchak Gentzler ’00 is supervisor of product development at Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in Chicago. Laura Webster ’00 earned a biomedical engineering degree from UTK and works for Fillauer LLC, an orthopedic and prosthetic company where she designed prosthetic and orthotic devices before being promoted last year to Production Engineering Manager. Now she checks the work of the design engineers, keeps manufacturing operations running smoothly, and fixes any problems with existing products. Laura was scheduled to receive her MBA this past December.
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In Memoriam Grace Jarnagin Cooley ’39 Maxine Block Alper ’42 Elizabeth Blane Petroutsin ’42 Hilda Taber Davis ’43 Martha Jean Hill Haynes ’43 Edith “Warren” Blackard Meadows ’44 Carol King Baker ’46 Patricia “Pat” Mills Hutcheson ’49 Martha Hackney Pennybacker ’49 Eleanor Dixon Macy ’54 Joy Wesenauer Mercado ’54 Judy Finley Stone ’54 Kay Lively Hansen ’58 Mary Charles McPhail Forshay ’60 Mary Gail Robinson ’68 Joellen Wood, former faculty (2000-2006)
Brooke Hixon Pribble ’01 was promoted last May to benefit program manager for MAU Workforce Solutions in Augusta, GA, a staffing and recruiting company for which she’s worked for over three years. In her new role as regional director, external affairs, for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Tyler Thurston Jeffrey ’02 had the honor of being photographed with Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam. “It’s an honor to represent the State of Tennessee and serve under his administration,” says Tyler. Jennie Berglund ’02 was recently hired as an exhibit developer for the Harvard Museums of Science and Cultures. Jennie continues her work creating documentaries for Prehensile Productions and recently contributed an article to Discover magazine on Antarctica’s dry valleys. Joanna Church Finch ’02 has moved to the Minneapolis area and taken a job with Target Corporation as a specialist in FRS product design. Mae Cooper ’02 is now a trainer and project coordinator with CISV International. Emily Montague Ellis ’02 is a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in Atlanta. Michelle Repici ’02 is a freelance photographer in the Washington, D.C., metro area specializing in residential and commercial real estate listings, products, portraits, event and corporate photography. Check out her website: www.michellerepiciphoto.com Mae Mae Barnes ’03 graduated from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and is putting her MBA to work as a consultant at Bain & Company in Atlanta. Kate Brennan ’03 is the marketing manager at Remington Industries in Chattanooga.