Leadership
Alumnae Association Board of Directors
Linda Kay Hudson McGowan '65
President
Atlanta, Ga. |
Tina Carr '89
Immediate Past President
Reston, Va. |
Ann Glendinning '68
President-elect
Acworth, Ga. |
Mary Jervis Hayes '67
Secretary
Atlanta, Ga. |
Kim Vickers '87 (Ex-officio)
Director of Alumnae Relations
Atlanta, Ga. |
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Elizabeth Ansley Allan '57
Atlanta, Ga. |
Lisa Amaker '07
Atlanta, Ga.
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Genet Heery Barron '47
Newnan, Ga.
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Anne Miller Boyd ‘63
Atlanta, Ga.
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Trish Fling Byers '98
Atlanta, Ga.
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Kecia Cunningham '87
Decatur, Ga. |
Elizabeth Hanson Duerr '58
Houston, Texas
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Sally Mairs Dugan '88
Decatur, Ga. |
Krista Lankford Hillyer '88
New York, N.Y. |
Emily Henderson Konouchi '03
Nashville, Tenn.
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Annie Chanpong Kuo '99
Anaheim, Calif.
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Alicia Paredes Laramy '84
Alpharetta, Ga. |
Addie Price Mathes '78
Atlanta, Ga. |
Kate Miller '05
Atlanta, Ga. |
Helen Nash '93
Decatur, Ga.
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Anne Thomson Sheppard '53
Laurens, S.C.
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Allison Grigsby Spears '75
Atlanta, Ga. |
Lizanne Edwards Stephenson '84
Atlanta, Ga. |
Susan Skinner Thomas '74
Rome, Ga.
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Martha Thompson '66
Washington, D.C. |
Judy
Maguire Tindel ‘73
Atlanta, Ga. |
Tawana Lee Ware '96
Chesterfield, Mo.
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Student Members (Ex-officio)
Heather Drew '10
Senior Class Co-President |
Jenée Gaskin '10
Colonnade Club President |
Justine Schwartz '10
Senior Class Co-President |
Member biographies
Linda Kay Hudson McGowan ’65, President
McGowan received her B.A. in English and her master’s degree in communications from Georgia State University. She recently
retired after 32 years of service at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where she worked in policy,
program and partnership development. For the last six years she was vice president for programs at the CDC Foundation. She
served on the alumnae board shortly after graduation and was class president for 10 years.
Tina Carr '89, Immediate Past President
Carr received her B.A. in economics and in 1995, she received an M.S. in Information Systems from George Mason University
in Fairfax, Virginia. She recently celebrated her 20th year as a senior consultant with Hewlett-Packard (HP) in their
Enterprise Services division, focused on Integration and SOA Services. Ms. Carr has her Project Management Professional
(PMP) certification and serves as Project Manager for HP’s eTravel project, a vital part of the federal government’s eGov
initiative. During her time with EDS, Ms. Carr has developed large-scare software solutions for government agencies,
branches of the military and private industries in both the United States and Europe. Carr is active with the Alumnae Chapter
of Washington, D.C. and is a member of St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Reston, Virginia, where she is an active
volunteer. Ms. Carr also participates in a local book club and recently began knitting lessons. She has run four marathons
and is actively involved with the Reston Runners Club as a Coach for their Women’s Training Program. She and her husband,
John J. Buckreis, Jr., have a son, Charles.
Ann Glendinning '68, President-elect
After graduating with a B.A. in psychology, Glendinning worked at the Georgia Mental Health Institute for three years. She
then completed her M.Ed. and Ed. S. degrees in special education in the areas of emotional and behavioral disorders and
learning disabilities and her Ph.D. in special education administration from Georgia State University. She taught students
and was an administrator until she retired from the Cobb County School District in 2001 and was Assistant Superintendent for
Special Student Services at the time. She has been on the part-time faculties of several colleges and universities and
worked for the University of Georgia for three years on a grant with the Georgia Department of Education. She served on the
Atlanta Steering Committee for the building campaign, coordinates the Agnes Scott College Book Award for young women in the
Cobb County area, and established two awards that are given annually to Agnes Scott students, the Sara Glendinning Journalism
Prize (named for her mother Sara Wilson Glendinning ‘33) and the John Hudson Prize in Special Education. She is currently
fund chair for her class. She is married to Dale Kelly and has one stepdaughter and grandson.
Mary Jervis Hayes ‘67, Secretary
Secretary Mary Jervis Hayes graduated in 1967 with a B.A. in art. In the 1970’s she was president of the young Atlanta
alumnae club. She also is a former alumnae board member. Recently retired from residential real estate sales, she is active
with her church’s mission for the homeless. She is also vice president of her class and currently serves as secretary of the
Atlanta alumnae club steering committee. She and her husband, Craig Hayes, are the parents of three adult children: John,
Alexander and Kathleen.
Elizabeth Ansley Allan '57
Allan graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in history. After graduation she
taught history in the public schools of Tennessee and Georgia for 30 years.
While her husband was Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Atlanta, she received
recognition for her work with and care for the spouses and families of clergy.
Following retirement, she and her husband founded The Work of Our Hands,
a nonprofit arts support and education organization. In 2001 she published a
book of poetry, On the Way to the Water Well, and currently volunteers with the
Poetry in the Schools Program of the Georgia Poetry Society. Allan has held
leadership positions in the Greater Atlanta Archaeological Society and annually
participates in “digs”—most recently along the Savannah River. She served as
reunion co-chair for the 50th reunion of her class. Allan has four children and
nine grandchildren
Lisa Amaker '07
Amaker, a Woodruff Scholar, graduated with a B.A. in women’s studies. She
decided to remain in Georgia and returned to her previous career in medical
education and communications and is now director of the Lupus Initiative at the American
College of Rheumatology (ACR) in Atlanta. An active member of
the college community, Amaker was involved in community service and served
as a representative to Honor Court, co-president of the Woodruff Scholars
Organization, “Triota” treasurer, a representative to the Women’s Studies Advisory
Group and hostess of the Anna I. Young Alumnae House.
Genet Heery Barron '47
After graduation, Barron came back on campus as a Lupton housemother and
biology lab assistant while attending graduate school at Emory University. At
the end of that year she married Lindsey Barron and moved to Newnan where
she has lived 61 years full of church and volunteer work. She was state president
of Georgia Baptist Woman’s Missionary Union and an adult Sunday school
teacher for 50 years. She also served as president of the all women Kiwanis Club
of Coweta County and is currently president of the Newnan Reading Circle,
which is celebrating its 100th anniversary. At Agnes Scott, Barron was a member
of Mortar Board and president of the Athletic Association. Recently she served
Agnes Scott as a class fund chair and is presently president of her class. Barron
has been a widow for two years. Her two sons and their wives live in Newnan and
she also has four adult grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Anne Miller Boyd '63
After graduating with a BA in Economics, Boyd began life in Atlanta as a wife, mother and volunteer in her community and
church, St. James United Methodist. She has served the College as Co-Fund Chair 1997-2003, served on the Selection Committee
for Outstanding Alumnae Award Winners and served on the Selection Committee for Alumnae Director in 2005. She also served on
the Atlanta Committee for the Comprehensive Campaign. Her most active community involvement is with Achievement Rewards for
College Scientist, serving on the board of this organization which provides scholarships to advance science in
America.
Tricia “Trish” Fling Byers '98
Byers owned an interior design business in Dallas, TX for 20 years. Upon retirement, she moved to Atlanta and enrolled in
Agnes Scott's "Return to College" (now Woodruff Scholars) program, majoring in international relations. She most recently
served on the steering committee of the college's capital campaign, Bold Aspirations.
Kecia Cunningham '87
Cunningham is a three-term commissioner for the city of Decatur, Ga., and
the recipient of Agnes Scott College’s Outstanding Young Alumna Award in
1999. She chairs the DeKalb Rape Crisis Center, serves on the Georgia
Municipal Association’s Legislative Policy Committee and Congressional
Action Team, and is vice president of her class. She’s a graduate of
Leadership Georgia, Leadership Atlanta and the Regional Leadership
Institute and is employed by New England Financial as a financial advisor
Elizabeth Hanson Duerr '58
Duerr received her B.A. degree in German and then returned to Houston where
she worked for Humble Oil (now Exxon) in the production research department
as a research librarian and document translator. After living in Germany for a
year with her husband and children, Duerr became active in music, pursuing
post-baccalaureate studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. A lifelong
Presbyterian, Duerr was a member of a church music staff for 18 years as well
as having served as an ordained deacon and elder. Current activities include
serving on the Institutional Review Board of M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
and on the Board of The Houston Friends of Music as well as other civic and
cultural organizations. Always active with the Houston Chapter of the Agnes
Scott Alumnae Association, she has served as chapter president. Now a widow,
Duerr has a son and grandchildren in Atlanta and a daughter, also an Agnes Scott
alumna, in Greensboro, N.C.
Sally Mairs Dugan '88
Dugan received her B.A. in Math and Economics in 1988. Upon graduation, she spent almost five years as Assistant
Director of Admissions at ASC. For the past fifteen years, she has been working both full and part time in the Office of
Undergraduate Admissions at Georgia Tech. In 2005, she organized The Whisper Foundation and currently serves as Vice
President. Since graduation, Sally has served as Reunion Chair and Fund Chair for the Class of '88. Actively involved in
St. Thomas More Catholic Parish and School in Decatur, organizing blood drives for the Red Cross, directing Catholic Schools
Week and coaching the school's Girls on the Run team. Never moving more than one mile from campus since graduation, she and
her husband, Michael, have three children, Brian, Mary and Jimmy.
Krista Lankford Hillyer '88
Hillyer graduated with a B.A. with honors in biology and went on to
obtain her M.D. from Emory University School of Medicine. After
completing her residency at Emory, she took the position of assistant
medical director of the blood bank at Grady Memorial Hospital in
Atlanta. In 2000, she became the medical director at the American Red
Cross Blood Services, Southern Region, also in Atlanta. Most recently she served as
chief medical officer of the region and as assistant professor in the Department of
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University School of
Medicine. She is married to Dr. Christopher Hillyer and they have five
children: Whitney, Peter, Margot, Jackson and James. In the summer of 2009 the Hillyers moved to New York City.
Emily Henderson Konouchi '03
After graduating with a degree in Classical Languages & Literatures, Konouchi joined the ASC Development Office, where
she
led the efforts of the Student Calling Program and Senior Gift Campaign. In 2005, she moved to Nashville to work as a major
gifts officer for the ophthalmology and diabetes programs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Konouchi was hired as a
community relations associate by Emma, Inc., an email marketing company, in November 2007. In addition to serving as fund
chair for her class, Konouchi also volunteers in Nashville as a Meals on Wheels driver and at the Humane Association and is
newly wed to husband Neil.
Annie Chanpong Kuo ‘99
After graduating as an International Relations and Spanish double-major, Kuo became an arts administrator with the Kennedy
Center’s jazz department in Washington, DC followed by Portland Taiko, an Asian American drum performance company in Oregon.
Kuo then worked at Edelman, a global communications firm, focusing on consumer brands and public affairs. Kuo was recently
awarded a M.S. degree in Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. She is
Editor-in-Chief of the 2009 Journal of Integrated Marketing Communications and an Agnes Scott admissions volunteer and
regional representative. She and husband Victor reside in Anaheim, Calif.
Alicia Paredes Laramy '84
Laramy graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in economics. She
received her M.B.A. in finance from Georgia State University in 2001.
She joined Wachovia Bank in 1984 and is currently Senior Vice President in credit lending.
She is active in her community, serving on the boards of several
nonprofit and education-related organizations. She also serves on
Congressman Lynn Westmoreland’s banking and financial services
advisory council.
Addie Price Mathes '78
Addie graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1978 with a B.A. in History. In 1987, she and her partner started Prime Power,
Inc., a company that provides critical support services to standby emergency power generation systems. With offices in
Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, Prime Power Services distinguishes itself as the largest independent generator
service provider in the southeast and was named Cobb County’s Small Business of the Year as well as Small Business of the
Year for the state of Georgia. In 2003, Mathes was named Atlanta’s Woman Business Owner of the Year. Mathes is married to
Richard Knittel and has two sons: Benjamin, 28, who is an actor in Los Angeles, and Adam, 26, who is a Marine Infantry
Officer, veteran of three combat tours in Iraq, and future employee of Prime Power Services.
Kate Miller '05
Miller graduated Summa Cum Laude in 2005 with a double major in mathematics and economics. Upon graduation, she decided to
pursue a legal career and in 2009 she graduated Magna Cum Laude from Mercer University’s Walter F. George School of Law,
where she was a Woodruff Scholar.
In September 2009, she joined the construction and government contracts department of Alston & Bird, LLP, located in the heart of midtown
Atlanta.
Helen Nash '93
Nash graduated with a B.A. in English with a minor in French and then joined
The Coca-Cola Company in 1993. After more than 15 years with the company,
she has served in a variety of communications roles, ranging from editor to
speechwriter to blogger. She’s currently in the media relations group working
on sustainability issues. Since graduation, Nash has served as class secretary and
currently is class president. She also helped form After-Hour Readers, a book club
for alumnae.
Anne Thomson Sheppard '53
Sheppard graduated with a degree in English and became employed as a
cryptographer for the Department of Defense in Washington. After marriage and
the births of four children, she served as an English teacher in the Laurens, S.C.
public school system, a position she held for 25 years. She earned her Master of
Arts in Teaching degree from Converse College in 1965. Since retirement, she
volunteers her time with her church, First Presbyterian, and several non-profit
groups in her community. She served on the S.C. State Board of Education
from 1991 to 1993 and was a trustee of the College of Charleston from 1994 to
2002. For Agnes Scott, she has been vice president of her class and has served on
the Outstanding Alumnae Awards Committee. Sheppard’s sister-in-law is also a
Scottie (they were college roommates) as are her two daughters and one of her
granddaughters.
Allison Grigsby Spears '75
Spears graduated in 1975 with a B.A. in history. She was the Atlanta
representative for Portraits South, a Raleigh based portrait broker, for 13
years. She is enjoying being involved in an antiques business and
singing in the choir at Northside United Methodist Church. She and
her husband, Frank, have two children.
Lizanne Edwards Stephenson '84
Stephenson attended Agnes Scott as a “Return to College” student (now
Woodruff Scholars Program) and earned a B.A. in French while raising
her two young daughters. Her active volunteer work in the Atlanta
community led her to a career in the philanthropic and nonprofit sector
including work for The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, a
private foundation, and independent schools. She is program director of
development for the Imlay Foundation and continues to volunteer and serves as a community
advisor trustee for the Junior League of Atlanta’s endowment fund.
Susan Skinner Thomas '74
After graduating with a B.A. in psychology, Thomas earned her B.S. and
M. Arch. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. As an architect and arborist,
Thomas currently is involved in the real estate and timber businesses. Rome’s
Historic Preservation Commission, Downtown Development Authority, Heritage
Foundation, Tree Board and the Rome Rotary have all been part of her civic
participation. She has also served on the State of Georgia’s National Register
Review Board and was appointed by Gov. Perdue to the Capital Construction
Task Force. Thomas has been involved with Agnes Scott since graduation
including serving as class officer and executive board treasurer as well as serving
on the Outstanding Alumnae Awards Committee and a past presidential search
committee. Thomas also worked with Henry Howard Smith, architect, on the
renovations of Buttrick Hall and McCain Library. She and her husband, Lanny,
have two children, Page and Brightman, and enjoy their involvement with the
First Presbyterian Church and Unity Christian School.
Martha Thompson '66
After graduating as a Mathematics/ English major in 1966, Martha began working at First National Bank of Atlanta. She earned
an MBA in Finance attending Georgia State University at night. In 1979 she accepted a political appointment as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Administration at The U.S. Dept. of Treasury in Washington, D.C. When the administration ended Martha
went to N.Y.C. and worked for ADP Network Services selling software services to banks in Manhattan. After 6 years she
returned to D.C. and, working for Compuware Corp., sold software in D.C., Va. and Md.. Martha “retired” in 1999 and
currently is a substitute teacher in the D.C. Public Schools. She has served as Class Agent several times and as V.P. of her
class. She also served on the Bold Aspirations Campaign Committee.
Judy Maguire Tindel '73
An English major, Tindel joined the college admissions staff upon graduation, served as Director until early 1985, and
worked on the Alumnae Board in the late 80’s. With the Georgia Wildlife Federation from 1990-96, she received an achievement
award for urban wildlife education. Tindel lived in Central Ohio for eight years, was an elder in the Presbyterian Church,
PTO president and board member of the local counseling center. Current activities include boards of the Peachtree Battle
Alliance and Ravenel Lake Association, Highlands, NC, and memberships in the Atlanta Junior League and Trinity Presbyterian
Church. She and husband Terry have two sons who live in Atlanta and New York City.
Tawana Lee Ware ‘96
After completing a B.A in biology, Tawana earned her D.D.S. degree from Meharry Medical College School of Dentistry in
2002. During dental school she was awarded a National Health Service Corps Dental Scholarship and inducted into Omicron Kappa
Upsilon the distinguished dental honor society. She went on to complete her pediatric dentistry training in 2004 at Indiana
University and Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, IN. After residency, she served as the staff Pediatric Dentist at
Samuel Rodgers Community Health Center from 2004-2006. She recently earned her M.S.D. degree from Indiana University. She is
now working in private practice in Nashville, Tenn., where she lives with her husband Jermaine. Currently, she serves on the
Board of Directors for the American Association of Women Dentists.