ABOUT THE ALUMNI/AE ASSOCIATION

All persons who attended Scarritt College, Scarritt Graduate School, or National College are considered to be members of the Alumni/ae Association.There are no dues for membership.

The president of the Alumni/ae Association is an ex-officio member of the Center's Board of Directors. The Institutional Advancement department administers a database for the association and also provides requested transcripts.  

The association officers have also held reunions at the Center.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS
The Alumni/ae Association database is administered through the Institutional Advancement Office, Scarritt-Bennett Center. Please notify this office of changes of address. Send them to:

Buddy Mason
Scarritt-Bennett Center
1008 19th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212-2126
Tel. 615.340.7506
Fax. 615.340.8807
email: bmason@scarrittbennett.org

RESULTS FROM THE 2014 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTION

The following persons have been elected to serve a three-year term on the Executive Committee of the Scarritt/National Alumni/ae Association.
Sarah Goolsby
Mike Hodge
Jim Polk

Thanks to all!

2011 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Scarritt & National Colleges International Alumni/ae Association

Class of 2011
Winona Campbell (first term)
National College 1956

Richard Davy (first term)
Scarritt College 1964

Michael Hodge (first term)
Scarritt College 1977

Class of 2012
Warren Day (first term)
Scarritt College 1960

Rev. Jean Marie Grabher (first term)
Scarritt College 1964

Phyllis Wolfe (first term)
National College 1959

Class of 2013
Joaquin Garcia (first term)
Scarritt College 1964

Mary Pless Hicks (first term)
Scarritt College 1965

Mark Stewart (second term)
Scarritt College 1966

Class of 2014
Sarah Goolsby (first term)
Scarritt 1980

Mike Hodge (second term)
Scarritt College 1977

Jim Polk (first term)
Scarritt 1973

Ex-Officio Members
Buddy Mason (SBC, alum relations)
Scarritt College 1968

Sharon Howell (Pres., SBC)
Scarritt College 1964

Lynne Westfield (Chair, SBC Board)

Alumni/ae Executive Committee Officers
Convener - Mark Stewart
Chairperson of Meetings - Mike Hodge
Secretary/Treasurer - Jean Marie Grabher
Alumni/ae Relations Secretary/Newsletter Editor - Phyllis Wolfe

NEED A TRANSCRIPT?
Send a request, in writing, with your signature to:
Alumni Transcripts, Scarritt-Bennett Center
1008 19th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37212-2126

Include a $10.00 payment per transcript. Women: Please be sure to give the name you studied under while in school.

Questions? Call 615-340-7543.

With Looking Upward
A new (old) novel by Dr. Alice Cobb

The original manuscript for Alice Cobb’s novel With Looking Upward was actually written in the 1940s.  Alice gave Louis Miles, later a professor at a small college in North Carolina, the manuscript to read in 1956, after she had endured several setbacks in her attempts to get it published.  Louis read it that summer while he was working at a resort hotel in the Adirondacks.  

For some time Alice had been living in disappointment because Doubleday of New York, who had initially agreed to publish the book, decided against it because it was “a little too controversial”.  There is the prospect of homosexuality hinted at obliquely in the plot and it was this element that Doubleday feared was too dangerous to publish in the years 1950-52.  The storyline deals with the different life choices of two brothers, one a soldier in World War II, and the other a missionary to China.

This manuscript sat on the bookshelf of Lewis Miles many years and when he would approach Alice about what to do with it she would tell him to hold on to it and
they would do something with it one day.  That day didn’t happen until 2011, the year her long dormant book finally was published by Stone Ivy Press. 
           
Copies of Dr. Alice Cobb’s novel are available at the Front Porch at Scarritt-Bennett for $25 plus tax. You may also order a copy by emailing bmason@scarrittbennett.org. (Please note, an additional shipping charge will apply.)

Dr. Cobb taught for many years at Scarritt College in the Social Science Department beginning in 1952.   The publication of this novel owes much of its life to the dedication and perseverance of Ruth Pool Moore. 

THE BELL TOWER AT SCARRITT-BENNETT

After several years of fund-raising in tough economic times, and more recent delays because of the flooding in Nashville in May and the needed repairs to roofs, compressors, woodwork and floors here at Scarritt-Bennett...

We are now well underway in the restoration of the Scarritt Tower. Thanks to the generous donations from Scarritt College Alumni/ae and other friends of Scarritt-Bennett Center, we have been able to remove the biohazard of pigeon droppings that had built up and make what repairs were necessary. We are now going on to install a system which will prevent the pigeons from roosting in the Tower to protect it. When that is complete, we will be repairing and re-installing the chimes. After so much waiting, very soon now those chimes will ring out across our campus. We hope to have everything completed by sometime this fall.

A special thanks to all of you who gave your donations to make this possible and to our Chief of Operations, Terry Elliott, who is overseeing the entire project. These are the first photos from the Tower in quite awhile, courtesy of Beth Kindig, our Director of Marketing.

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