Point of Inspiration

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.)

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.

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. 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.

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.

2010s

Mark Gagliano ’10 married Lauren Nichols on October Liam Kern 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 Michigan University in August Peter and Janis Schwartz 2018 with a concentration in litigation. He has also been accepted into Phi Delta Phi National Legal Honor Society.

IN MEMORIAM

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

IN MEMORIAM

Barbara Ethel Hale Edwards ’49, Anderson, S.C., September 20, 2018 Betty “Jean” Scott Gunn ’49, Burlington, N.C., November 12, 2017 Harry Franklin Jackson ’49, Fuquay-Varina, N.C., September 24, 2018 Reba Juel Swink Jones ’49, Pfafftown, N.C., November 6, 2018 Martha Jean Norman ’49, Hampton, Va., October 13, 2018 Margie Lee Packard ’49, Cliffside, N.C., September 13, 2018 Betty Gene Sanders Snyder ’49, Greensboro, Ga., December 13, 2018 William “Mac” McNeil Woody ’49, Durham, N.C., April 10, 2017

1950s

Theodore “Ted” Floyd Adams, Jr. ’50, Midlothian, Va., January 24, 2019 Wilfred “Earl” Holman ’50, The Woodlands, Texas, October 21, 2018 Dr. Fred Carroll “F.C.” Ellenburg ’51, Pineola, N.C., October 25, 2018 Dixie Virginia Foshee Hardin ’51, Dunedin, Fla., October 8, 2018 Helen Elizabeth Turner Penland ’51, Candler, N.C., October 28, 2018 Etta Eugenia “Jean” Jarvis Phillips ’51, Laurens, S.C., August 10, 2018 Walter Thomas “Tom” Wood, Sr. ’51, Columbia, S.C., November 26, 2018 Mary “Wanda” Peek Brantley Sykes ’52, Charlotte, N.C., August 22, 2018 Edward “Ed” W. Nuckolls ’52, Hendersonville, N.C., July 23, 2018 Wanda Louise Hart Haga, ’53, Charlotte, N.C., November 26, 2018 Eliza Mae Jarvis Norris ’53, Vilas, N.C., May 12, 2018 Martha Jo Dillingham Carter ’54, Mars Hill, N.C., November 7, 2018 Oie Hall ’54, Weaverville, N.C., July 26, 2018 Ernest “Ernie” Eugene Hendrix ’54, Statesville, N.C., January 12, 2019 James “Jim” Robert Jester ’54, Charleston, S.C., August 22, 2018 Betty Ellen Pearson Austin ’55, Concord, N.C., November 28, 2018 Joyce Pearl Baldwin Swafford ’55, Franklin, N.C., September 19, 2018 John Burns Bailey ’56, Green Mountain, N.C., November 26, 2018 Dr. Charles Parks Bentley ’56, Wilkesboro, N.C., October 23, 2018 Joyce Bishop Cook ’56, Belmont, N.C., December 16, 2018 Jerry Crowe ’56, Purvis, Miss., October 1, 2018 Eleanor Elaine Reese Huneycutt ’56, Inman, S.C., September 13, 2018 William Avery Huneycutt ’56, Inman, S.C., January 16, 2019 Jo Ann Phelps Wilhelm ’56, Winston-Salem, N.C., November 14, 2018 Margaret Ann Hood Howell ’57, Greer, S.C., September 6, 2018 Carolyn Louise Lewis Moore ’57, Signal Mtn., Tenn., December 23, 2017 Addison “Judson” Rotan ’57, Asheville, N.C., October 8, 2018 Lloyd Funk “L.F.” Wood, Jr. ’57, Charlottesville, Va., October 11, 2018 William “Scott” Torrence ’58, Lenoir, N.C., August 13, 2018 Lucinda Carol Pace Watkins ’58, Mars Hill, N.C., January 4, 2019 Joseph Holly Case ’59, Greenville, S.C., August 16, 2018 Mary “Linette” Harwood Watkins ’59, Raleigh, N.C., November 3, 2018

1960s

Francis “Frank” Beatty Fishburne, Jr. ’60, Asheville, N.C., January 3, 2019 Richard Elbert Buzhardt ’61, Leesville, S.C., October 15, 2018 Judith “Judy” Deanna Clodfelter Dodge ’61, Gainesville, Ga., December 5, 2018 Thomas “Tommy” Mast Hayes ’61, North Wilkesboro, N.C., November 14, 2018 Jeanette Metcalf Gwinup ’62, Mars Hill, N.C., December 7, 2018 James Vannoy “Van” McIntosh ’62, Troy, N.C., November 21, 2018 Russell Eugene Webb ’63, Candler, N.C., August 17, 2018 Ted Lee Mathis ’64, Asheville, N.C., January 5, 2019 Betty Ann Sherrill Oates ’64, Hendersonville, N.C., November 16, 2018 Harold Coy Earley ’65, Rutherford College, N.C., August 8, 2018 Linda Lou Davis Rutherford ’65, Winston-Salem, N.C., December 31, 2018 David Hardwicke McElroy ’66, Marshall, N.C., August 29, 2018 Kathleen Johnson Penland ’66, Memphis, Tenn., September 29, 2018 Robert “Bob” Guinn Whisnant, Jr. ’66, Albuquerque, N.M., July 10, 2018 Karanne “Kandy” Georgette Garland Tucker ’67, Waynesville, N.C., October 18, 2018 Douglas “Thomas” Worsham, Jr. ’67, Waynesville, N.C., October 17, 2018 Wayne Allen Barber ’68, Chattanooga, Tenn., August 29, 2016 Earl Thomas Eller ’68, North Wilkesboro, N.C., September 16, 2018 Teresa Gail Metcalf Stern ’68, Retired Faculty, Mars Hill, N.C., December 7, 2018 James Sumner Healy ’69, Sanford, N.C., September 7, 2018

1970s

Roy “Garland” Hill, III ’70, North Wilkesboro, N.C., September 21, 2018 John Cyril “J.C.” Cousart ’72, Bedford, Va., March 21, 2017 James Robert Phillips ’73, Mars Hill, N.C., December 8, 2018 Donald Keith Long ’75, Durham, N.C., November 30, 2018 Janella Hall Boone ’79, Granite Falls, N.C., December 6, 2018 Melinda Ann Brown Howell ’79, Savannah, Ga., November 3, 2018 Alvin Conley Morgan ’79, Fuquay-Varina, N.C., January 13, 2019

1980s

Carol Elaine Beasley ’80, Fresno, Calif., October 28, 2018 Marie Jaquelin Watters Colton ’80, Asheville, N.C., September 25, 2018 John Ridley Steele ’82, Mount Ulla, N.C., September 29, 2018 Linda Greene Chapman ’83, Lake Toxaway, N.C., November 2, 2018 Frankie Miller McMillan ’86, Murphy, N.C., February 25, 2018 Ann Corn Briggs ’89, Mars Hill, N.C., December 19, 2018

1990s

Marcia Lynn Young ’99, Burnsville, N.C., December 31, 2018

FACULTY/STAFF

Pauline “Polly” Cheek, former director of the MHC MMY (Madison, Mitchell, Yancey) program, Mars Hill, N.C., February 1, 2019