Bob Bailey '48 H'84
’40s
Bob Bailey '48 H'84
Robert H. Bailey ’48 H’84 of Greeneville, TN, received the Robert C. Austin Award for Distinguished Service to the Community during the 27th annual Farm-City Banquet on December 3. The banquet is a project of the Greene County Partnership’s Agribusiness Committee. Bailey was honored for his extensive community service activities, which includes his long membership in the Baileyton Ruritan Club. He has also served as the Ruritan zone governor, the organization’s national president, and is a Ruritan Forever. Bailey is a former president of the Greene County Heritage Trust and remains active in coordinating the organization’s Early American Christmas Dinner. He is a Life Trustee of his Alma Mater and also served on the board of directors for WSJK TV, the regional public television station, from 1983-2002. Bailey was also instrumental in the formation of the Baileyton Community Scholarship, which is awarded to students of North Greene High School. He has also helped with the Baileyton Community Chest and helped bring a medical clinic to the town. Bailey is a member of the First Church of God in Greeneville, where he serves on the church’s board of trustees, its board of elders and is a Sunday school teacher. He was also instrumental in the creation of the Locust Springs Christian Retreat Center, which is located on more than 160 acres of his Baileyton farm.
’90s
DeAnna Martin ’93 ’98 of Greeneville, TN, has been named the principal at Tusculum View Elementary School and will begin her new position in January. Martin will fill a position opened when Pat Donaldson, wife of Tusculum Board of Trustees member the Rev. Dr. Dan Donaldson, was been named the new Teaching and Learning Coordinator for the Greeneville School System. Martin has been serving in the position of instructional specialist at Hal Henard Elementary School and as elementary math coordinator for the Greeneville School System for the past six years. During her tenure at Hal Henard, the school received top marks in both achievement and growth for three years in a row on the school’s report card from the state. She was selected as one of 20 educators to take part in the state of Tennessee’s mathematics coaching team and received extensive training from the University of Pittsburg’s Institute for Learning. Martin was the recipient of the school system’s Excellence in Professional Learning Award for 2015. Her husband, David ’93, is director of facilities at Tusculum.
’40s
Lt. Col. Charles L. Goode, USMC (Ret.) ’44 passed away on November 12, 2014.
Ben Kevin Britton ’76 of Morristown, TN, passed away November 30, 2015, from ALS. Mr. Britton worked at Holston United Methodist Home for Children, where he enjoyed his career as an educator. A member of First United Methodist Church of Morristown, he enjoyed singing in the choir and helped with the youth for many years. Mr. Britton was an avid sports enthusiast, outdoorsman and birder.
Faculty
Adrian Craig Sherman, who taught psychology at Tusculum, passed away on October 10, 2015, at Duke University Medical Center. As a clinical psychologist, he was a staff psychologist at Johnson County Mental Health in Tennessee and the Family Guidance Center in Hickory, NC. Mr. Sherman was also a clinical resident at Deer Oaks Mental Health in San Antonio, TX. At Tusculum, in addition to his teaching duties, he served a chair of the Psychology Department, dean of International and Travel Programs and director of the Wellness Center. He also taught at Appalachian State University, the Governor’s School of South Carolina and the School for International Training in Vermont. His interest in international education led him to become director of International Programs at Ithaca College, director of the Office of International Education and Programs at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater and assistant provost for international programs and professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Mr. Sherman was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Romania, a fellow at the Salzburg Seminars, and an interviewer for the Fulbright Foundation. Traveling extensively around the world, he spent a year as a visiting professor at Northeast University in Shenyang in China. Mr. Sherman was a writer, presenter, and consultant for programs on mental health issues in international education in this country and Europe. He was also a member of NAFSA (Association for International Educators) and the European Association of International Educators. Mr. Sherman loved culture and travel, nature and the outdoors, singing and harmonizing, swimming, surfing and boating, yoga, ice and his beloved dogs.
Former Trustee
Ellen Worthy Campbell of Johnson City, TN, a former Tusculum College Trustee, passed away on December 9, 2015. Mrs. Campbell moved to East Tennessee when she married Dr. Edward Malcom Campbell in 1950, becoming an active contributor to the community, both charitably and socially. The Campbells joined Watauga Avenue Presbyterian Church in Johnson City, where she served as an elder and a weekly volunteer. At the time of her passing, she was the longest standing member of the congregation. Mrs. Campbell served on Tusculum’s Board of Trustees from 1976 through 1982. She also served on the Board of Directors for the Dawn of Hope Foundation and was active in the Junior Auxiliary (now know as the Junior League-Johnson City, Inc.) where she served a term as president. She enjoyed her weekly game of bridge and all her partners and opponents. Mrs. Campbell loved to read and savored her participation in the Fortnightly Book Club and the Dilettantes Book Club. She helped found a monthly women’s lunch group, FOF. Mrs. Campbell was one of the early members of the Mountain View Garden Club and served as its president in 1954, and she was recognized for her many years of involvement at the club’s 60th anniversary.