Lisa Morrissey LaVange ’71 highlighted in New York Times Square
Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ’75 with Gray Oliver Thornburg ’72 and past parent Deborah Tate
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Kathy Clark Lord ’60 published a cookbook Out of the Frying Pan after 17 years of catering with her company, The Traveling Skillet. Kathy also received a Lifetime Achievement Award before retiring from the Executive Director position of the Bayou Preservation Association and Trees for Houston. Lenis Hopkins Northmore ’62, a retired art historian and world traveler, has downsized from her 6,000-square foot home in Newark, DE to a smaller home in Williamsburg, VA. Her home was filled with artwork, artifacts, and mementos she collected over the years, and her story was featured on the PBS show Legacy List. Jeanie Nelson ’65 was one of three women to spearhead a new exhibit at the Nashville Public Library honoring the legacy of the women’s suffrage movement in Tennessee and the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 as part of the 100th anniversary of its passage. Judy Quinn ’69 who lives in France, enjoys hosting her classmates and others for trek-hiking around the base of Mont Blanc.
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Susie Andrews ’70 still practices family medicine with her husband in Murfreesboro, and she delivered one of her own grandchildren in August 2019. Dr. Lisa Morrissey LaVange ’71 joined the Board of Directors of SimulationsPlus.
Lisa is a Professor and the Associate Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina. She also was the recipient of Harpeth Hall’s Distinguished Alumna Award in 2010. Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle ’75 accepted the 2019 Outstanding Community Service Award on behalf of the Davidson County Chancery Court Part III from the Southeastern Association of Area Agencies on Aging. The Association bestowed this award in recognition of a $36 million court program aimed at helping senior citizens that arose out of the settlement of two cases in Davidson County. In its first year, that court program delivered dental, transportation, housing, and legal services to over 17,174 elderly Tennesseans. It also has resulted in the production of senior-focused
programs on Nashville Public Television that have attracted over one million viewers. Congratulations to Beth Porch Scruggs ’75 and the Nashville Dolphins on receiving the 97th Daryl Waltrip’s Hometown Heroes Award. Capitol Christian Music Group (CCMG) gave a surprise award to Amy Grant Gill ’78 for surpassing one billion global music streams. Amy also received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the T.J. Martell Foundation at their annual gala on February 24. The T.J. Martell Foundation is the music industry’s leading foundation that funds innovative medical research focused on finding treatments and cures for cancer. For the fourth time, BMI’s Executive Vice President of Distribution, Publisher Relations and Administration Services, Alison Smith ’79, was named to Billboard’s 2019 Women in Music Top Executives list. SPRING 2019 2020
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