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Betty Harlin King ’66 is the proud grandmother of two Harpeth Hall middle school students, Margaret Moore ’26 and Mary Waits Moore ’28.
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Lisa Morrissey LaVange ’71, Ph.D. serves as a professor and associate chair of the Department of Biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and is a member of the Therapeutics Clinical Committee to help identify effective treatments for COVID-19. Leslee Bibb ’76 is the current Chairman of the Tennessee Commission on Aging and Disability, a PAC Certified Dementia Caregiver Trainer, owner of Comfort Keepers in Jackson, Tennessee, since 2003, and a breast cancer survivor. Walton Estes ’77 closed her beautiful home décor store and retired after 20 years as the owner of Harpeth Gallery. Jeannette Charlet Goddard ’77 of ChefWorks and Lee Phillips Oakley ’79 of Oakley’s Southern Delights have released a new book entitled, Tried and True: A Celebration of Food and Friendship. It includes recipes, both old and new, as a distillation of their life and knowledge.
to compete to become this year’s People’s Choice winner. Mary Glynn Williamson ’78 had two entries that made the top 50.
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Dr. Mary Laird Warner Stewart ’82 is a Physician in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the Swedish Medical Center in Denver, Colorado. A local newscast from April 17 featured her, as well as one of her former COVID-19 patients who is now recovered and at home. Bethany Erwin Owen ’83 was elected CEO of ALLETE, Inc., located in Duluth, Minnesota, by its Board of Directors. She previously served as ALLETE’s first woman President, Senior Vice President, and Chief Legal and Administrative Officer. Lela Hollabaugh ’85 was selected for Nashville Business Journal’s Best of the Bar honoree list, and she was named chair of the 2020 Campaign for Equal Justice of The Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands. Additionally, Lela was named to Benchmark’s Litigation’s Top 250 Women in Litigation 2020.
hair accessory company and is part of the Conair family of personal care, health, and beauty products.
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Holly Sears Sullivan ’90 delivered the guest commencement speech for the University of Tennessee Haslam School of Business in May. Holly graduated from the Haslam School of Business with an M.S.P. in Urban and Regional Planning in 1998. Emily Haynes Huff ’91 is a member of the faculty at Seattle Pacific University and was honored as the Graduate Professor of the Year in spring of 2020. Emily is in her ninth year training teachers at SPU in the School of Education, and she serves as the Director of Field Placements, setting up teaching internships for her candidates.
Jacqueline Saturn Dakar ’86 was featured in Rolling Stone as a part of its series “At Work,” where it explored the fast-changing music business from the perspective of a different industry leader each week.
Lisa Hooker Campbell ’78 is a 2020 Academy for Women of Achievement Honoree for the YWCA Nashville and Middle Tennessee. The Tennessee Wildlife Federation announced that from the 3,400+ photos submitted for the 6th annual Wildlife and Landscape Photo Contest, 50 were selected
Shan Overton ’86 is the founding Director of the Center for Writing and Learning Support at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, where she also created and now leads the first Doctor of Ministry program in Creative Writing and Public Theology in the United States. The new and trendy Scünci ColorMatch One PC Multi-Strand Ponytailer was co-created by product and marketing developer Karen Dismukes Cooper ’89. The product is now available in Walgreens, CVS, and Amazon, as well as independent specialty stores nationwide. Scünci is the leading global
Tara Scarlett ’91 was featured as one of the Nfocus magazine’s 2020 Model Behavior honorees for her dedicated service to the Nashville Zoo. FALL 2020
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