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Class Notes 1960s
Gene Davis ’63 just finished a two-year term as District President of the Big Sandy Kentucky Retired Teachers Association.
1990s
Appalachian Regional Healthcare (ARH) has named Tim Hatfield ’92 the new community chief executive officer (CCEO) for the Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center in Prestonsburg, Ky. Twenty-one of his 23 years in healthcare have been spent in administrative positions with ARH. Most recently, Hatfield served as the CCEO for the Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center in South Williamson, Ky. In addition to Tug Valley ARH, he has also served as CCEO of Morgan County ARH Hospital and interim CEO for the former Man ARH Hospital. He also previously served as Assistant Vice President for Pikeville Medical Center. For the past 14 years, he has been the lead with physician recruitment efforts for the ARH system. Hatfield and his wife, Joni, have two children, Haley, (15) and Carson (11). Andrea Humphries ’97 was hired as the new assistant principal at Betsy Layne Elementary School in Kentucky. She has spent most of her 21 years as an educator in a high school English classroom where she taught all levels of English. Humphries says she is so thankful for the opportunity to work with the students and families of the Betsy Layne community. She and her husband Jason live in Pikeville with their 12-yearold sons, Cooper, Corbin and Cole.
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Carrie Hamilton Lepore ’06 has joined Coldwell Banker McMahan, a regional real estate company serving Kentucky and Southern Indiana, in Georgetown, Ky.
2000s
Philip Leipprandt Jr., D.O., KYCOM ’07 was recently named Pikeville Medical Center’s (PMC) new chief of staff to the Board of Directors. He joined PMC in 2013 to its Gastroenterology Physician Practice. He will continue to practice medicine as he assists the board in overseeing the operations of PMC. Leipprandt completed his internship in internal medicine at Sun Coast Hospital in Largo, Fla. He completed his residency and fellowship in internal medicine at Largo Medical Center. He says it is his goal to provide fair, effective and reliable leadership. He specializes in capsule endoscopy, a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of the digestive tract, as opposed to the more invasive traditional endoscopy. He treats a wide variety of gastrointestinal diseases. Leipprandt resides in Pikeville with his wife Tabatha, a Pikeville native. Jeremy Ratliff ’09 and Kristin Leah Bowens were married on October 17 at Sandals Emerald Bay Resort located on the Great Exuma Island of the Bahamas. Kristin earned a Bachelor of Science degree in communication sciences and disorders from Radford University in 2009 and earned a Master of Occupational Therapy degree in 2011. Kristin works as an Occupational Therapist, Registered (OTR) at Appalachian Regional Healthcare. Jeremy graduated from Pikeville College in 2009 with a Bachelor of Science degree in communication. He is a Senior Dealer Success Consultant for AutoTrader & Cox Automotive. The couple resides in South Williamson, Ky.
