CLASS NOTES named Offensive Coordinator at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Pizzo came to UTC from Mercer University. He has had a 30-year coaching career which includes five seasons as the offensive coordinator at North Greenville University in South Carolina, and 14 seasons at Gardner-Webb University (Boiling Springs, N.C.)
IN MEMORIAM Jeff Miles ’01 has been named the Head of School at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School, a private boarding school in Rabun Gap, Ga. He will assume his new job as head of school on July 1, 2019. He and his family will reside on the Rabun Gap campus.
Scott McKinney ’89 has joined West Virginia Wesleyan College as its new chief financial officer. He was previously at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, N.C.
Erin Babb ’04 and her husband, Bill Kern, welcomed their first baby, Liam, on December 28, 2018. Erin is a music teacher in Shanghai, China.
1990s
Dr. Rachel M. Desmarais ’92 has been chosen as the next president of Vance-Granville Community College. She is the 7th president in the history of the college, which is located in Henderson, N.C. Previously, she was the executive vice president and chief operating officer of Forsyth Technical Community College in Winston-Salem, N.C. Mike Houston ’94 has been named as head football coach at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. Previously, he coached at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va. Jim Beatty ’95 has been hired as the head football coach of North Henderson High School in Hendersonville, N.C. Beatty was a member of North Henderson’s coaching staff last year and previously coached at McDowell High School in Marion, N.C. He also spent eight years as head coach at Roberson High School in Asheville, N.C. Jeff Whitt ’96, principal of Chesterbrook Academy Elementary School in Cary, N.C., has been named K-12 Principal of the Year by the Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. NLCI is a national network of 200 private schools across the nation. 2000s
Richard Stubbs ’01 has been hired at Brevard High School as a civics/economics teacher and women’s tennis coach.
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2010s
Mark Gagliano ’10 married Liam Kern Lauren Nichols on October 6, 2018 at the Laurel Ridge Country Club in Waynesville, N.C. The couple lives in Statesville, N.C. Brittany Marcum ’12 is the new branch manager at the downtown office of United Community Bank in Brevard, N.C. Marcum is a native of Transylvania County and enjoys volunteering with United Way and the Brevard/Transylvania Chamber of Commerce. Jacqueline Magalhaes Rouquet ’12 has recently been chosen as the supply leader of Decathlon Brazil. She will be working with international logistics for 30+ racket equipment stores in Brazil. Janis Michele Hendrickson Schwartz ’12 married Peter Schwartz on December 16, 2018. The couple lives in Fort Mill, S.C. Eric Stephen Schiffhauer ’13 graduated cum laude from Cooley Law School at Western Peter and Janis Michigan University in August Schwartz 2018 with a concentration in litigation. He has also been accepted into Phi Delta Phi National Legal Honor Society.
Since the last issue of Mars Hill, the Magazine, we have learned of the following deaths of alumni and other members of the MHU community.
1930s
Clara Mae Shoffner Ross ’37, Forest City, N.C., September 2, 2018 Hattie “Kitty” Elizabeth Bass Ulmer ’37, Jacksonville, Fla., September 13, 2018 Georgia A. Bailey DeForge ’38, Hermitage, Tenn., February 8, 2018 George Thomas Dickie ’39, Richmond, Va., September 5, 2018 Dr. Mary Elizabeth “Liz” Coppedge Krebs ’39, Tucson, Ariz., October 20, 2018 Dorothy Rebecca Drake Sutton ’39, Lexington, Ky., September 7, 2018 Lou Alice Hamrick Whisnant ’39, Shelby, N.C., December 23, 2018
1940s
Willie Frank Stubbs Rogers ’40, Fort Mill, N.C., November 29, 2018 Cicely Anne Laws Anderson ’42, Tampa, Fla., August 3, 2018 Edgar “Hatcher” Crenshaw, Jr. ’42, Richmond, Va., October 14, 2017 Ormand Carvel Williams, Sr. ’42, Weaverville, N.C., December 7, 2018 Dorothy “Dot” Marietta Robbins Bounds ’43, Knoxville, Tenn., September 14, 2018 Patti Sue Lewis Farris ’43, Jefferson City, Tenn., October 19, 2016 Margarette “Alline” Rhoads Dermid ’44, Richardson, Texas, March 11, 2017 Hunter Dalton Heggie ’44, Signal Mtn., Tenn., December 22, 2018 Sadie Elizabeth Wallin ’44, (former member, MHU Board of Advisors) Mars Hill, N.C., January 30, 2019
Nan “Carolyn” Reed Grobe ’45, Greenville, S.C., October 4, 2018 James Emmett Johnson ’45, Marion, N.C., April 11, 2018 Robert “Bob” Horace Jones ’45, Dunn, N.C., October 26, 2018 James “Jim” Merritt Winstead ’45, Greensboro, N.C., September 14, 2018 Dorothy Davis Carpenter ’46, Dahlonega, Ga., July 22, 2018 Mildred “Millie” Frances Fox Greer ’46, Hickory, N.C., December 27, 2018 Mary Lela Sparks Sherburne ’46, Charlotte, N.C., July 16, 2018 Gretchen Louise Philbeck Jones ’47, Memphis, Tenn., August 30, 2018 Doris Elizabeth Brown McKinnish ’47, Clyde, N.C., December 5, 2018 Boyce Conway Medlin ’47, Raleigh, N.C., December 25, 2018 Carol Suzanne Reagan Pyron ’47, Asheville, N.C., October 8, 2018 Doris “Jean” Ayers Rymer ’47, Rogersville, Tenn., July 17, 2018 Wanda Mae Sams Winecoff ’47, Clyde, N.C., January 2, 2019 Alma Lee Casey Winkler ’47, Boone, N.C., December 21, 2018 Ruth Virginia Childs Brown ’48, Laurens, S.C., October 25, 2018 Mary Elizabeth Marshall Finger ’48, Lincolnton, N.C., February 15, 2018 Dowd Litton Primm, Jr. ’48, Harrisburg, N.C., April 3, 2017 Edwin Benjamin Stokes ’48, Lafayette, Calif., November 28, 2018
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