Class Notes
Christy Weir Krueger ’85, Rossville, TN Rhodes College Alumni Association President
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1956 R EPORT ER If you are interested in serving as the Class of ’56 reporter, please contact alumni@rhodes.edu.
time friend and religion colleague Bible in a high school released-time Milton Scarborough. Eric noted, program; college at Texas Woman’s “Milton played at Ole Miss just University; management-develafter I played at Southwestern. We opment training with consulting were volunteer coaches of the men’s firms: TDFSystems, Management tennis team together for 11 years, 21, and at Kaiser-Permanente Texas; and I coached for four additional and human relations coaching. She In response to our request that years (all of this between 1967 and helped develop and implement alumni share 20 words of encour- 1981). Our plaque stated that we four innovative new programs. agement to the Class of 2020, John coached three teams with the most After retiring in 2013, she lived for R. McKinney shared the follow- wins in school history, including six years in an independent senior ing: “If old geezers like us from the 20 wins and the conference cham- living facility in Carrollton, TX, class of 1956 can make it in this pionship in 1974 and 16 wins in but then decided to move back to pandemic, you have no problems! both 1971 and 1972. We coached Denton, TX, to be nearer two of her In any event, a higher power loves four of the top 10 seasons with the sons and their families; a third son you and you will be OK!” most wins and the highest winning lives in Houston. percentage. Our overall record as a 1957 pair was 135-97.” “Now I am looking forward to reconnecting with four grandchilR EPORT ER In recent years Eric has written a dren and four great-grandchildren Mary Frances Files Silitch monthly column on the opinion as well!” she said. “Another blesssilitch@gmail.com page of Danville, K Y’s Advo- ing has been reconnecting with a cate-Messenger. good friend from Rhodes, Jean At Centre College’s homecomMcLean Tunnell ’55. She has been ing last fall, Eric Mount was Peg Carter reports that her working most helpful in my resettling in inducted into the Centre Athletics career has totally been in the edu- Denton. We have been wondrously Hall of Fame along with his long- cation field. She taught third grade; connected through the years while
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