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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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January 7, 2013
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 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,
Nicholas Chase with his family: Stephen Chase, Lauren Gaston, Katie Barnett, Jackie Barnett; Bill Gaston, Kelsey Chase, Tyler Gaston, Nicholas J. Chase, Laurie Barnett, Mary Alice Rooks, Jordan Rooks; Michael Gaston, Joey Gaston, Nicholas Gaston, Kara Chase, Nick Chase II, Sydney Rooks. Photos by Betty Bean who was born Nichoin Chase & Williams with junior partner las J. Chiascione, Edward Bennett Wilson of Italian immiliams, a flamboyant grants who settled in attorney who would Connecticut. much later represent He graduated from Bill Clinton during high school and was his impeachment orawarded a college deal. scholarship when Chase & Williams he was 14, but his proved to be a shortmother believed he lived partnership due was too young, and to the sketchy nature made him wait until of some of Williams’ he was 16 to enroll in associates; the last Catholic University straw being his deof America in Washtermination to repreington (CU) in 1929. sent deported mobHe was the editor of ster Lucky Luciano. the school newspaChase objected, and per, president of his was quoted in mulclass and was named tiple accounts as sayPhi Beta Kappa when ing that he couldn’t he graduated at the go home and look top of his class before his children in the he was 19. Mike Chase and his father, Nicholas J. Chase eye if he represented He went on to earn Georgetown University in 1934 “skunks” like Luciaa master’s degree in philosophy there before going to and later spent almost 20 years no. Among clients he did not cull work at the Brookings Institu- as a professor there, teaching was labor leader John L. Lewis. tion for a couple of years before trial practice. He still found time for his own law practice, and in deciding to go to law school. He finished first in his class at 1947 became the senior partner To page A-3
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
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Cavan Cuddy (seated) watches the screen as two gravity probes crash into the moon Dec. 17 as a colleague Steve Odiorne celebrates and Erin Roethlisberger looks on. The Farragut High School graduate was the team systems lead for NASA’s GRAIL project. Photo submitted and Flow. when the probes impacted the “It was four years of hard work, moon, but it all went as planned.” and everything came together,” The probes got such good “gas said Cuddy. “The mission was over mileage” that their orbiting was
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