news World Language Teacher Earns Highest Teaching Award in Tennessee
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Endowed Teaching Chairs
Lynn Tian, Anne Marie Caskey ’80, Alejandra Lejwa, and Christina Wellford Scott ’69
The Tennessee Association for Independent Schools has awarded Virginia Baird the Hubert Smothers Excellence in Teaching Award. This award is the association’s most prestigious honor and is reserved for outstanding teachers who have had significant impact on their students, schools, and communities. Baird, who has taught Latin for 30 years at Hutchison, joins Pat Newberry Kelly and Leonard Frey as Hutchison recipients of this distinguished award.
Hutchison celebrates master teaching through endowed chairs. The Eleazer Excellence in Teaching Chair was established in 2016 by Katie Dobbs ’67 and Ed Eleazer in honor of their daughter Katie Eleazer Wiener ’91, and their granddaughters, Katie Wiener ’22 and Bailey Wiener ’24. Alejandra Lejwa, world languages department, holds this chair. The Myrna Colley-Lee and E’Dena Hines ’01 Creative Dramatics Chair was established in 2001 by Morgan Freeman to honor Myrna Colley-Lee and his granddaughter, E’Dena Hines ’01. This chair is held by Anne Marie Caskey ’80, theater artistic director. The Margaret Wellford Tabor ’55 Chair in Literature was established in 2005 by the Owen Tabor, Sr. family in honor of Margaret Wellford Tabor ’55. This chair, currently held by Christina Wellford Scott ’69, upper school English instructor, supports the outstanding work of the English department. The Crain Faculty Chair for Chinese was established in 2009 by Brenda and Lester Crain to enhance the school’s ability to provide for rapid growth of the Mandarin Chinese program at Hutchison. The chair is currently held by Lynn Tian, lower and middle school Chinese instructor.
Head of School Honored for Innovation in Education The Girl Scouts Heart of the South and the Memphis Business Journal recently honored Dr. Annette Smith for her role as an innovator in education. Specifically, Dr. Smith was saluted for helping define for the Mid-South community what it means for a private school to have a public purpose through the establishment of the Center for Excellence and the Hutchison Leads and Hutchison Serves programs. Heather Guglietti ’18, Annette Smith, Caroline Grace Hathcock ’22, CeCe Solberg ’22, Betsy Grimes ’22, Ann Grimes ’22, Tracey Zerwig Ford, Melissa Conrad Grimes ’87. Hutchison | 5