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Coffee Break
Whitni Rolfes enjoys much of her success as a young businesswoman and entrepreneur in her bare feet. Perhaps that is a good thing, since the only embarrassing moment she could quickly remember had to do with high heels. Enjoy a Coffee Break while meeting Whitni Rolfes.
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Losing a legend Longtime community activist Mary ary Lou Horner passed d away on New Year’s Day. Mary Lou served on County Commission (and its predecessor, the County Quarterly Court) from 1976-2006 and was a shareholder in Shopper-News prior to our selling to Scripps. The paper pays tribute to a true local legend we’ll never forget.
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Touring Old Ironsides Dr. Bob Collier toured the USS Constitution, nicknamed “Old Ironsides,” on a recent trip to Boston. Dr. Collier was particularly fascinated by the ship, a key to the U.S. victory over England in the War of 1812, because it was made out of “lots and lots” of wood.
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We are fam-i-lee In March 1980, Phil Garner and Dave Parker were doing their salt-and-pepper act. Trash talk was clubhouse raw. Marvin West thought they might come to blows.
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This is the year A new year starts with a clean, fresh calendar, and 365 days available to each of us (at least so far as we know). Filled with promise and possibility, we use this time to try to live up to the resolutions we so bravely made, just last week.
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VOL. 7 NO. 1
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January 7, 2013
Crashing success
Farragut grad at helm of NASA project
By Suzanne Foree Neal Christmas came early for Cavan Cuddy, bringing with it a bang “heard” around the world. On Dec. 17, the 1999 Farragut High School graduate watched with pride and excitement as two washing machine-sized gravity probes successfully crashed into a mountain on the moon. Cuddy, a Clemson University graduate, was the spacecraft team systems lead for NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, or GRAIL. The purpose of the mission was to create both gravity and high resolution maps of the moon. “We did achieve our goal and were able to produce the highest resolution gravity map of the moon or any planetary body,” Cuddy said during a holiday visit home to see his parents, Mike and Carolyn Cuddy. Cuddy lives in Denver and works for Lockheed Martin in Waterton Canyon. The team named the probes, which were launched in September 2011, Ebb and Flow. “It was four years of hard work, Cavan Cuddy (seated) watches the screen as two gravity probes crash into the moon Dec. 17 as a colleague Steve and everything came together,” said Odiorne celebrates and Erin Roethlisberger looks on. The Farragut High School graduate was the team systems lead Cuddy. “The mission was over when for NASA’s GRAIL project. Photos submitted the probes impacted the moon, but it all went as planned.” that even as a child he was always The probes got such good “gas just a piece of that is very reward- school students around the world. “It was most rewarding to get to fascinated by space. mileage” that their orbiting was ing.” His career choice has afforded Cuddy has a mission of his talk to these students,” said Cuddy. extended from what the team thought it would be. When they ran own outside the walls of his of- “Students need to see the reward him an opportunity to embrace out of fuel, the plan was to crash fice. He says he gets extra satisfac- that can come from studying sci- another area that he has enjoyed them into the moon, away from any tion when he can speak to middle ence and math and the applications most all his life: “playing” outdoors in the Denver mountains. He does historical locations like the Apollo school students in Denver area they have in our world. “It’s amazing to see their eyes trail running, half-marathons, bikschools about the mission, science landing sites. light up when they wrap their ing and skiing. He plays guitar and The ultimate goal of the mission and engineering. “Getting our kids interested in brains around what I do. These attends music festivals at every opwas to understand the structure of aerospace and science is a priority subjects require hard work, but portunity. moon, its composition and what for our country. We need to get our the reward is great. Engineering Cuddy and his crew aren’t restmakes up its core. wasn’t the easiest thing for me, but ing on their laurels. The next NASA “To date we’ve made significant kids inspired.” NASA assisted with that goal, I liked the challenge.” mission, named Insight, is headed progress to meet that,” he said. “SciCuddy got his insight into engi- to Mars in 2016 to study the planet entists will study this around the and each probe had a camera. As world for years. The overall purpose part of a public outreach program neering from his father, Mike, who and its interior. He will be the lead is to understand how the Earth was sponsored by NASA, about 150,000 worked in Oak Ridge with K-25, fault protection systems engineer created. To know that we provided images were returned to middle Y-12, SAIC and Tech2010. He said on the project.
Nick Chase turns 100 By Betty Bean At 99 and 11/12ths, Nick Chase can still swing a golf club. He proved that last week when his family and friends threw him a golf-themed early birthday celebration at Calhoun’s on the River, the flagship establishment of the restaurant chain founded by his son Mike in 1973. Nick turns 100 on Jan. 9. Nick Chase, who came to know nine presidents during a long career as one of the most prominent lawyers in Washington, D.C., has lived in Knoxville since 1994 when Mike bought him and his wife, Louise, a house on Deane Hill Drive. They split their time between Knoxville and their summer home at Rehoboth Beach, Del., until Louise was diagnosed with dementia and suffered a string of illnesses in the winter of 2003 that left her needing full-time care. Nick and Louise moved into Elmcroft of Knoxville, where Louise was cared for in the Alzheimer’s unit and Nick had a suite upstairs. Louise passed away the following year, and Nick has become well known for playing the piano for his fellow residents. He specializes in the classics, particularly Chopin and Mendelsohn. Incredibly, Mike Chase says his father doesn’t read music. One of Elmcroft’s advertisements features a photograph of
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Nick at the piano. “He plays by ear,” Mike said. “My dad was born with an exceptional brain, but now his ability to take in new information has been compromised, so he does this other stuff to keep his mind busy, working and moving,” Mike Chase said. Exceptional accomplishments are the standard for Nick Chase, who was born Nicholas J. Chiascione, son of Italian immigrants who settled in Connecticut. He graduated from high school and was awarded a college scholarship when he was 14, but his mother believed he was too young, and made him wait until he was 16 to enroll in Catholic University of America in Washington (CU) in 1929. He was the editor of the school newspaper, president of his class and was named Phi Beta Kappa when he graduated at the top of his class before he was 19. He went on to earn a master’s degree in philosophy there before going to work at the Brookings Institution for a couple of years before deciding to go to law school. He finished first in his class at Georgetown University in 1934 and later spent almost 20 years as a professor there, teaching trial practice. He still found time for his own law practice, and in 1947 became the senior partner in Chase & Williams with junior partner Edward Ben-
Mike Chase and his father, Nicholas J. Chase
nett Williams, a flamboyant attorney who would much later represent Bill Clinton during his impeachment ordeal. Chase & Williams proved to be a short-lived partnership due to the sketchy nature of some of Williams’ associates; the last straw being his determination to represent deported mobster Lucky Luciano. Chase objected, and was quoted in multiple accounts as saying that he couldn’t go home and look his children in the eye if he represented “skunks” like Luciano. Among clients he did not cull was labor leader John L. Lewis. In 1961, Attorney General Robert Kennedy offered him an appointment as U.S. attorney for the Dis-
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trict of Columbia, a position that Chase, who says the Kennedy brothers “were all-right fellows,” turned down because he didn’t want to be a government lawyer. Dwight D. Eisenhower was his favorite of all the presidents he has known, and a scrapbook on display at his party showed photographs of Ike with Chase at the ceremony awarding the former president an honorary doctorate from CU. There are also photos from that period of Chase with Bishop Fulton J. Sheen and J. Edgar Hoover. Despite a long and storied career teaching and practicing law, it is clear what means to most to Nick Chase, who is called “Pop-Pop” by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He and Louise had five children, eight grandchildren (seven of whom are living) and nine greatgrandchildren. Grandson Nicholas J. Chase II is a Knoxville attorney. Great-grandson Joey Gaston, a freshman football player at the Naval Academy, made a special effort to get to Knoxville last Sunday after suiting up for a bowl game in San Francisco Saturday night. Dapper, as always, in a custommade suit from John H. Daniel, Nick gave a brief speech that brought the crowd to tears when he thanked them for coming and told them always to remember that they are parts of “a wonderful family.” “I’m a very lucky man. A very fortunate man. A very proud man. Thank you, ever so much.”
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