Class Notes
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Prior to his appointment, English worked as marketing support manager at Marley Engineered Products in Bennettsville, NC. Mike Houston ’94 has been hired as the new head football coach at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Previously Houston was the head coach at The Citadel in Charleston, SC. Jim Smith ’96 has been hired as the Director of the City of Morganton Municipal Auditorium, in Morganton, NC. Previously, Smith was the music and programming pastor at Pleasant Ridge Baptist Church in Morganton.
2000s Jeanann Plemmons Yates ’05 has been hired as the new principal of Central Haywood High School in Clyde, NC. Carling Yvonne Stepniak Wilson ’07 married Joe Wilson on March 28, 2015. The couple lives in Chattanooga, TN. Kenneth Edward Dockery ’08 has been named the new head football coach at Hayesville High School, in Hayesville, NC. Dockery has been an assistant coach with the team for eight years and has served as both an offensive and defensive coordinator. Carrie Elizabeth Vann Renes ’08 and Lance Renes ’09 gratefully announce the birth of their first child, Dollena Ray Renes, born October 4, 2015. The Renes family lives in Charleston, SC, where Lance teaches AP Psychology and is the head boys lacrosse coach (three state championships) at Wando High School in Mount Carrie, Dollena, and Lance Renes Pleasant, SC. Carrie teaches honors mathematics at Academic Magnet High School in North Charleston, SC. Jack Delaney ’09 was accepted in December 2015, as a neurosurgical resident at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, MD. It is the only neurosurgical residency program among the nation’s military medical centers. After a seven-year residency program, he will serve another seven years as a naval doctor.
2010s Rachael Randall ’12 is currently working on a master’s degree in marine biology at Savannah State University in Savannah, GA. She has had the opportunity to participate in dolphin health assessments with NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), the GA Department of Natural Resources, and the Duke Navy project. She has also participated in several research cruises aboard the Research Vessel (R/V) Savannah and was recently invited to go along on the R/V Neil Armstrong. Chelsea Elizabeth Parker ’13 has been named the assistant women’s soccer coach at Lees-McRae University in Banner Elk, NC. Alex Brandt ’14 recently graduated from Northern Illinois University with an M.S. degree in Sport Management. He is currently working with the Harrisburg (PA) Senators Baseball Club as Community Relations Intern. Brooke Elizabeth Johnson ’14 has been hired as a seventh grade teacher at Swain Middle School in Bryson City, NC. Trini Fares ’15 has been hired as a first grade teacher at Hillandale Elementary School in Hendersonville, NC. Kayla Gibbs Lanier ’15 married Jon Lanier, ’11, on October 10, 2015. Cori-LeAnn McAbee Wilson ’15 married Chris Wilson, ’15, on December 23, 2015. Cori is an English Teacher at Chase High School in Forest City, NC, Chris is a Sheriff’s Deputy with Rutherford County Sheriff’s Department.
Cori and Chris Wilson
Trustee Kyle Carver, trustee, of Leicester, NC, a retired Buncombe County science teacher and a trustee of Mars Hill University, has received the prestigious Vi Hunsucker Award from the North Carolina Science Teachers Association. Carver received the award at the organization’s annual conference in November. Carver taught middle school science for 33 years: 31 years in Buncombe County Schools and two years in Madison County Schools. Kyle Carver
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