Class Notes – catch up with the latest about your fellow alumni!

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40s
Dr. Jack Hennessen ’45 and his wife, Yola, have settled in Alexian Village at Signal Mountain, TN.

60s
Linda E. Moore Gudzunas ’66 of Yorba Linda, CA, is enjoying her third year of retirement. She has been married for 40 years and has four “beautiful grandchildren.”

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Bryan Thiry ’09 was recently awarded one of five scholarships offered by Lockheed Martin to attend its Information Networking Institute and to participate in a summer internship program with the global security company. Thiry is currently a first-year graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He is seeking a master’s degree in information technology-information security.
“I’m interested in the prospect of supporting the information security and assurance efforts of the world’s largest defense contractor. Lockheed Martin provides the opportunity to apply my area of study to aid in real, large-scale security efforts,” said Thiry.

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Brad and Angela (Massengill) Whitfield ’96 ’97 of Toccoa, GA, announce the birth of a son, William Baylor, on June 8, 2009, weighing 4 lbs. and 9 oz. Baylor has two sisters, Emma and Erin.
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30s
Eunice Marie Parsons Vittoria ’38 of Abbeville, AL, passed away January 16, 2010. She was a retired librarian/cataloger.

50s
Richard W. Ayers ‘51 of Chuckey, TN, passed away February 10, 2010. Mr. Ayers was retired from Signal Knitting, where he was the personnel director. He was a member of Asbury United Methodist Church, where he served as an usher. Mr. Ayers was a 50-year member of the Lodge No. 688, F&AM, of Kingsport. A veteran, he served in the U.S. Army during World War II. While in the Army, he won the U.S. Army Boxing Championship of the Alaskan Theatre. Mr. Ayers also played professional baseball in Helena, AK, and Kingsport. His survivors include his wife of 61 years and Tusculum alumna Mary Lou Nottingham Ayers ’51.

Frank C. Holtham ’51 of Mahwah, NJ, and Englewood, FL, passed away January 29, 2010. A veteran, Mr. Holtham served in the U.S. Army’s Signal Intelligence Branch during the Korean War. After his military service, he earned a master’s of business administration degree and was recruited to Ford Motor Company as a division manager. He opened Glen Motors, Inc., in 1958, the first of 11 automobile franchises he owned and operated during his lifetime. Mr. Holtham was past president of the Toyota Dealer Council and a member of the National Automobile Dealer Association and NJ Car. He received numerous parts and service excellence awards and the Presidents Award from Toyota in 2000. He was given a 40-year Toyota Commemorative Plaque in 2008, making him one of New Jersey’s oldest standing dealers. Mr. Holtham enjoyed golf and was an active member of the Apple Ridge Country Club in Mahwah, the Venice Golf and Country Club in Florida and the Rutland Golf and Country Club in Vermont.

60s
Linda Crosson Wallen ‘69 of Galloway, NJ, passed away on August 2, 2009, after a two-year battle with breast cancer. Mrs. Wallen was an elementary school teacher. She is survived by her husband, Jerry Wallen ‘68. During her time at Tusculum, Mrs. Wallen was a cheerleader. Mr. Wallen is a charter member of the Tusculum College Sports Hall of Fame, recognized for his excellence on the basketball court.

70s
Jane Carol Voss H’78, wife of past Tusculum President Dr. Tom Voss, passed away February 6, 2010. Mrs. Voss died after a long illness initiated by an incurable brain tumor, which had debilitated her for nearly two decades. In the last years of her life, she received care in a long-term facility in North Carolina. Dr. Voss served as president of Tusculum College from 1972-78 and Mrs. Voss continued to have many friends in the community after they moved away. Dr. Voss stated that his wife “often said she had her happiest adult days during her years living in Greeneville, where her last two children, Kari and Michael, were born, where she received an honorary doctorate from Tusculum College, and where her closest friends still remain.” Correspondence may be directed to Dr. Voss and the family at P.O. Box 6381, 909 Third Ave., New York, NY 10510-6381.