alumni profile


Emily Nielsen Robinson ’03 is the new co-host of WSET’s Living in the Heart of Virginia program, which airs weekdays at 12:30 p.m. Emily had been producing the program for three years. She lives in Forest, Va.


Melanie Chidester Askey ’07 received her master’s degree in business administration from Loyola University Maryland in May. Melanie works as a marketing analyst for Constellation Energy in Baltimore, Md. She lives in Bel Air, Md.


Evan Durrer ’07 earned a doctor of chiropractic from Life University in Marietta, Ga., in March. Evan graduated cum laude and was awarded the Integrative Change Award by his classmates. He will open a private practice in Plymouth, Mich., but currently lives in Smyrna, Ga.


Jacqueline Lubin ’07, ’08 M.Ed. and Edward Polloway, dean of graduate studies and vice president for commu- nity advancement at Lynchburg College, co-authored the entry on “feebleminded” for the Encyclopedia of American Disability History. Jacqueline lives in Vieux Fort, St. Lucia.


Summer Kanode Tetterton ’07 M.Ed. passed the Virginia Licensed Professional Counselor examination in June and is the president-elect of the Virginia Coun- selors Association. She has a private practice in Lynch- burg, Va., and lives in Madison Heights, Va.


Laura Clements ’08 graduated in May with an M.A. in English with an emphasis in creative writing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She successfully defended her creative nonfiction thesis, The Devil You Know, about the academic life she left behind on the East Coast. While at UAB, she received the 2011 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies, the Tom Brown Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and the Gloria Goldstein Howton Scholarship in Creative Writing. She currently lives in Trafford, Ala.


Brian Hadden ’08 is the director of sports for the World Scholar-Athlete Games (WSAG), a division of the Institute for International Sport. Held once every five years since 1993, the WSAG seeks to cultivate relationships among international scholar-athletes who will serve as future leaders of sports, business, education, and government throughout the world. Students, coaches, and educators from all over the world gath- ered in Hartford, Conn. from June 26 to July 4, 2011 in a festival of sports and the arts; and Brian managed all twenty-one participating sports. He lives in Goshen, Conn.


Kelly Mantegna ’08 graduated in May from Towson University with a master’s degree in science in health science. She lives in Baltimore, Md.


Kathryn Crowder Yarzebinski ’08 M.B.A. earned her Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) designation earlier this year and joins a distinguished group of pro- fessionals nationally who have earned this prestigious designation. Kathryn is the director of the annual fund and special gifts at Lynchburg College. She and her husband, Ryan ’10 M.Ed., live in Lynchburg, Va.


Mister LC B by Shannon Brennan


y the time Sherwood Zimmerman ’64 came to Lynchburg College in 1960, he had already


served in the u.s.Marine Corps in northern Africa and in a special twenty-man unit assigned to protect President Dwight Eisenhower during his last year in office. He came to know Ike as very focused, but appreciative and courteous as they traveled through the Suez Canal to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and later to every country in South America. Such heady experiences might have made lc


seem pretty tame, but Sherwood made the most of every moment in college and then went on to make the most of every moment since. He worked for the Centers for Disease Control (cdc) in five states and nine cities, served as mayor and police chief in Sherman, Illinois, and spent a total of forty-one years in public health. During this time he received lc’s T. Gibson Hobbs Memorial Award


for outstanding service to his community, church, and alma mater. After retirement, Sherwood headed home to the Lynchburg area and embraced his


alma mater, where he now serves as president of the Westover Alumni Society, member of the Alumni Board, and a flag bearer for the John D. Bower ’57Veterans Scholarship Committee. He is also on the board of directors of the Jefferson Choral Society and president of Leesville Lake Association. He and his wife Patsy (formerly Patricia Walker ’63) had wisely bought a lot on Leesville Lake for $800 while they were in college, paying $10 a month when they could. He says his post-military life began at lc where he worked for The Critograph, ran


track, sang in the lc touring choir all four years, and did theater. The diversity of people he met made a lasting impact on his life. “To experience all these things is Lynchburg College,” he said. During his sophomore year, Sherwood realized that the College had limited provisions


for student health care or the means to get students to the hospital when the one practical nurse was off-duty or away for the weekend. So he passed around a petition for a renovated, 24-hour infirmary with transport and presented it to the Campus Council in spring 1962. By fall 1963, all his suggestions had been implemented. Sherwood was a physical education major and had applied for a job with the cdc,


but they told him he needed a degree that included health. He researched health majors at other colleges and realized he had the same coursework. So two weeks before grad- uation, he went to Dean John Mills Turner Jr. ’29 and the faculty to ask them to add the word health to his diploma. Starting in 1964, health and physical education became the name of the major. He got the job with the cdc. Sherwood’s health career started in venereal disease control in Richmond and Norfolk,


Virginia, and then changed to immunization. He gave childhood immunizations to countless schoolchildren from Kentucky to Texas. In Texas, he worked to bring diph- theria and polio epidemics under control and ended up heading immunization programs in Minnesota and Illinois. He retired from the federal government only to go to work for the State of Illinois to establish and administer the Chronic Disease and Organ Transplant programs. He spent the last seven years of his career helping determine who in a five- state region should receive liver transplants from the scarce supply of donated livers. That was the hardest job he ever had. The easiest job was deciding to return to the Lynchburg area. “Virginia had so much


to offer: four distinct seasons, lakes, ocean, mountains, history,” he said, noting it’s a great place to host his two children, Sherrie and Chip, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren, and it brought him back to his alma mater.


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