Class Notes

and wife Camille, a girl, Emilia Coley Ball born May 11, 2016.

recently moved to Northwest Arkansas to pursue careers at the Walmart Home Office. Matthew was recently hired as a Planning Analyst for Hardlines within the Home Office, while Myranda works within the Global People Division as a Program Manager for Women’s Development Initiatives.

Was recently promoted to a new role within the Walmart Global Talent Management team. In her former role she was integral in the communication and assessment measures of a new Walmart up-skilling training program called Pathways. She is now a Senior Manager on the Global Talent team leading the Corporate Intern Program. She has responsibility for all programmatic and communication efforts for approximately 300 interns that come into Northwest Arkansas each summer to get the full Walmart experience.

Myranda Bertrand was recently promoted to Senior Talent Manager II at the Sam’s Club Home Office in Bentonville, Arkansas. In this role she will have oversight and responsibility for talent and succession planning, performance metrics, talent programming and culture and diversity initiatives.

Matt and Myranda Bertrand ’09, a baby girl, Lydia Caroline, September 16, 2017.

Matt Bertrand recently accepted a role at the Lowe’s Corporate headquarters as a Merchant in the Electrical Department. With this new adventure, he, his wife Myranda and 2 children will be leaving their home of the last 8 years in Bentonville, Arkansas and relocating to Mooresville, North Carolina.

will become the the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship’s full-time Co-Director, with the current Co-Director, Rick Ufford-Chase, stepping into a volunteer leadership role as Co-Moderator. Founded in 1944, the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship is a nation-wide community of Presbyterians who seek to follow the nonviolence of Jesus by working to reduce war and violence in the world. Ufford-Chase, Moderator of the 216th PC(USA) General Assembly, has served since 2006 as Executive Director and more recently as Co-Director with Fritz Gutwein of Washington DC. This series of changes includes long-time Co-Moderator Roger Powers, Pastor of Light Street Presbyterian Church in Baltimore, MD, stepping down in September 2015. He currently shares that role with Elizabeth Shannon, Director of Campus Ministries at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, FL. Shannon will continue as Co-Moderator with Ufford-Chase. Gutwein, who also works as Development Manager at Jubilee Housing in Washington, will work as part-time Co-Director with Brewer. If it sounds like a fruit-basket-turned-over, there is good reason and a long-sought goal achieved. “In 2006,” said Ufford-Chase, “PPF set the goal of becoming younger and building a partnership of generations for nonviolent action and advocacy. Emily Brewer has already shown that she is one of the peace leaders of the next generation. This is a great moment for PPF.” A graduate of Maryville College and a PC(USA)Young Adult Volunteer in Guatemala, Brewer (left), receives her Master of Divinity on May 15, 2015 from Union Theological Seminary in New York City. She is under care for pastoral ordination with the Presbytery of East Tennessee. “In college I studied the tragedy of Latin America in the 1980s and wondered why Christians from other countries did not go to help protect the church leaders across Central and Latin America. And then I learned that the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and the PC(USA) were doing exactly that in Colombia today.” She volunteered in the Colombia Accompaniment Program and other PPF projects, including service on the PPF National Committee and as a member of the 2014 Young Adult Delegation to Israel-Palestine. During the Gaza siege in the summer of 2014, Brewer helped lead a weekly Sunday night vigil at Union Seminary in New York. “We gathered rocks from the park and then read the names of each Israeli and Palestinian killed that week, placing a rock for each name on a pile in the Seminary quad. We thought it would be short-term. It lasted all summer-over a thousand rocks. Sometimes it took an hour to read all the names. It was a way to make the cost of violence visible in that community.” During Ufford-Chase’s work as Director and Co-Director, the Peace Fellowship led efforts to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, launched and managed the Colombia Accompaniment Program, began a nonviolent presence and advocacy for ending the Occupation of Palestine, joined in nation-wide efforts to reduce gun violence and racism in the United States and completed an Endowment Campaign that serves as a model for Occupation-Free investing. The leadership changes will phase in over the summer and be completed by September. For information on the ministry of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and opportunities to support and participate in that work, see www.presbypeacefellowship.org . CONTACT: Rick Ufford-Chase (845) 608-4056 rickuffordchase@gmail.com Jan Orr-Harter (817) 291-3952 JanOH4@aol.com

Rev. Emily Brewer ’09, executive director of Presbyterian Peace Fellowship participated in the PC(USA) Walk for a Fossil Free World. She was joined by her mother and MC Board of Church Visitor member, Sherry Brewer. The walk, a joint project of the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Fossil Free PCUSA, began June 1 at the Presbyterian Center in Louisville. It ended June 16 at the start of the 223rd General Assembly. Read more here: bit.ly/2l5VUaD

Doug Carter ’09 and his wife Britianny welcomed a son, Harrison Lee Carter, on February 11^th. He weighs 7.3 lbs and is 20.25 inches long.

joined Korn Ferry as the Director of Client Solutions. Korn Ferry is a talent management consulting firm that helps organizations design, build, and attract talent. They are a one-stop shop for leadership development, enterprise learning, succession planning, and recruitment process outsourcing.

Brad Daniell ’09 was recently admitted into Columbia University’s Summer Principal’s Academy (SPA) after a rigorous application process. SPA is a one-year program that provides students with a Master of Education in Educational Leadership. Brad is currently an 8th grade science teacher at Peachtree Charter Middle School in Atlanta.

completed legal interpreter training and passed the national written legal interpreting test in spring 2014. She is now NIC (National Interpreter Certification) Advanced certified. She continues to work as a contract interpreter in Minnesota in legal and medical settings, among others.

will also be starting a masters program at the University of Iowa for Music Therapy at the end of this month.

will also be starting a masters program at the University of Iowa for Music Therapy at the end of August 2013.

writes in to say that she graduated with her Master of Arts in Music Therapy from the University of Iowa in Aug 2016 and has accepted a new position working at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights, OH.

writes in to share that she graduated from the University of Tennessee's College of Social Work in 2015 with a Master's of Science in Social Work. She is currently the Director of the Rape Crisis Center in Chattanooga, TN, where she gets to work alongside her therapy dog, Quinn, who gets to comfort clients and get a lot of pets. She has been called to ministry and has been accepted to the historic Chicago Theological Seminary and will start the program in Fall 2019.

Huntsville, Ala. – Head Coach Roy Heintz and the UAH women’s basketball program announced the hiring of Amber Lee to be the team’s next assistant coach. Lee comes to the Rocket City after spending three seasons as an assistant at Maryville College in Maryville, Tenn. “I’m very excited to have Amber Lee join my staff,” said Heintz. “She is a rising star in this profession ” with a great basketball IQ at such a young age, a hunger to learn more, a strong teacher on the floor, and an incredibly hard worker in everything she does.” Lee was a four-sport athlete in high school – she participated in basketball, golf, softball and track – before she played basketball for the Scots. After graduating in 2009, Lee served as an assistant at Berry College and returned to Maryville as a member of the coaching staff the following season, and the Scots were quite successful during the next three seasons, employing a system similar to that of the Lady Chargers. “She comes to us from a championship program that was 66-17 over the past three seasons and from an offensive system that is nearly identical to the system we’ve used,” stated Heintz. “Her great personality has made her a talented proven recruiter, and her teaching and hard work has brought her success on the basketball court.” In addition to her duties as the assistant women’s basketball coach, Lee also served as a game event manager for football, soccer and volleyball.

graduated with honors from the Florida State University College of LAw in MAy 2012. Hannah accepted a federal clerkship for the Honorable Robert L. Hinkle.

has been named a finalist for Tennessee Teacher of the Year, appointed to the first-ever Governor’s Teacher Cabinet, and is in line for a presidential math teacher’s award. The journey began with being named Teacher of the Year for Central Magnet School in Murphreesboro, TN where he teaches, then he was chosen as Teacher of the Year for Rutherford County. The next step was Teacher of the Year for the mid-Cumberland region, and finally nominated for Teacher of the Year for the entire state. All this led to his being chosen as a representative on Gov. Bill Haslam’s new Teacher Cabinet. For this honor, each county selected a teacher for the cabinet and then the teachers had to fill out applications online, telling why they wanted to be on the cabinet and explaining their thoughts and opinions on several educational issues. Prince was one of only 18 teachers selected statewide for the cabinet, which will meet four times a year for two years.

joined the Capital Financial Group, LLC. in 2009. Chelse works primarily with pharmacists and other medical professionals in Eastern Tennessee. She understands the financial pressures and concerns her clients’ have and is especially attuned to helping them develop strategies and solutions for budgetary constraints, risk management, and appropriate investments as well as concerns such as debt repayment, saving for retirement, and college. She is well versed in the areas of life, disability income, and long term care insurance in addition to investments which in turn help her focus on comprehensive financial planning. Chelse puts forth every effort to earn the trust and respect of her clients. Her love of helping individuals, meeting new people, and constructing effective plans allows her to develop strong relationships with clients for the long term. Chelse has been seen on WBIR-TV answering questions about Financial Issues and is a candidate for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Women of the Year. .

Melissa “Mel” Uner, age 35, of Sevierville, passed away Friday, November 19, 2021. Mel graduated from Sevier County High School where she played basketball, including playing on the 2002 State Championship team. She then went on to attend and play basketball at Maryville College.

Melissa is survived by her significant other, Krista Beck; children, McKinley and Katlyn; parents, Maria and Kevin Gregory, Timothy Uner; sisters, Catherine Tagg (Luke), Alexi Gregory (Jon Janutolo); brothers, Kyle Verde and Wally Requena; special family members, Amy Newman, Linda, Ashley, and Sheria; grandparents, Sharon Uner, Alan Uner (Blanche); extended family and friends, Heidi Davenport (Stephen), Minda Spinney (John), Joseph Norris and family, Joanne Cook and family, Troy Uner, and Todd Uner. Melissa is also survived by her dog, Byntlee, who she loved so much.

is currently attending University of Cincinnati on a full scholarship plus stipend for a graduate degree in communication.

is currently deployed to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. His rank is 1st Lieutenant.