Class Notes 1960s M ARJORIE CREWS TELERSKI ’62 was
honored for her work as a board member of the Bishop Griffin Resource Center and Food Pantry by the Columbus, Ohio-based Spirituality Network. Telerski has managed the food pantry garden for more than a decade, providing much-needed and hardto-find produce for people in the area. She also started a day care center and more to serve working mothers in her community.
1970s 1 M ABEL COBB ’75 is a retired flight attendant and community volunteer. After 22 years of traveling the world for Northwest/Delta Airlines, she retired from the skies and is working toward her real estate license in Atlanta, Georgia. Her greatest passion is volunteering, including with Habitat for Humanity, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
2 DR. CHRIS BENZ SMITH ’72,
Director of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga School of Nursing, was featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for guiding the campus response to the COVID-19 outbreak. She serves as Chief Health Affairs Office and led the university’s COVID-19 Campus Support Team. Smith and her high school sweetheart and husband, Trip, were also featured in a spring edition of CityScope magazine. U.S. Bankruptcy JUDGE SHELLEY D. RUCKER ’76 was appointed as the chief bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Judge Rucker served as a U.S. bankruptcy judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee since 2010. Prior to that appointment she practiced bankruptcy law with Miller & Martin, PLLC for 27 years. 3 LYN HARRIS ’79,
the national archivist for Chi Omega, was named the 2020 recipient of the Chi Omega President’s Award, the organization’s highest award. This recognizes extraordinary service to Chi Omega. After graduating from Mercer University,
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Harris earned her master’s degree in history at Georgia College & State University. A former high school history teacher and nonprofit executive, today Harris is involved in local nonprofits and serves on the foundation board for Cempa Community Care. 4 CAROL KILLEBREW ’79,
the current Assistant Head of School at Saint Mary’s School, was named Interim Head of School at the Raleigh, North Carolina, school. Killebrew, who has more than 35 years of experience in all-girls education and six years as a head of school, was a natural fit, according to the current head of school. She has been at Saint Mary’s since 2020 after serving as head of school at Salem Academy (2018-20) and The Ursuline School in New Rochelle, New York (2014-18). Killebrew also served at GPS in various capacities for 28 years (1986-2014).
1980s ANNE EVANS BAYS ’81 is a farmer and entrepreneur-owner of Moonlight Meat, a local meat and food shop in the heart of downtown Williamsburg, Kentucky. The Moonlight Meat Shop and Moonlight Meat Processing, a USDA-inspected meat process plant, were two out of 108 markets across Kentucky accepted into the 2021 Kentucky Farm Bureau Certified Farm Market Program. 5 ROBIN STILL WINTRINGHA M ’81
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recently graduated from Elon University School of Law. While she does not know the specific type of law she will practice, Wintringham has a passion for public interest law. Presently Wintringham has a fairly keen interest in practicing bankruptcy law. In summer 2020, she served as an intern for the Honorable Shelley D. Rucker ’76 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
