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Carolyn Austin Eubank, Assistant Vice President for Public Relations A native of Lynchburg, Carolyn earned a B.A. from Lynchburg College with a major in English. Following a successful teaching career in Central Virginia public and private schools, she entered the field of higher education as a development officer. She joined the Lynchburg College development staff in 1992 and moved to public relations in 1995. Carolyn is a member of the National Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and Kappa Delta Pi (education) and Sigma Phi Omega (gerontology) honor societies. She and fellow public relations staff member Betty McKinney are co-authors of Lynchburg College: More Than Books and Bricks, a coffee table-style book published in 2006. Carolyn’s keen interest in local history resulted naturally from her lifelong membership of Lynchburg’s historic Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church, where she has served as an elder and is a member of the Chancel Choir. She is a recipient of the Lynchburg Peace Prize for her work as chairperson of the Committee for the Restoration of the South River Meeting House, an 18th century Quaker meeting house located on the church’s property and included on the National Register of Historic Places and a Virginia Historic Landmark. She and her husband Bob, also an LC graduate, are the proud parents of a son and a daughter and have five precocious grandchildren who make them very happy! 434/544-8664 • eubank@lynchburg.edu |
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Anne Nash,Director of Publications Anne graduated from Lynchburg College with a degree in political science and worked as a public assistance social worker, psychiatric social worker, and an assistant economic analyst before settling down to raise her two daughters in Little Rock, Arkansas, her adopted state. In 1979 she joined the University of Arkansas System as a writer and has been in higher education publications or development work ever since (with the exception of a four-year stint at the Old State House Museum, where Al Gore used her office to wait for the 1992 election dog-and-pony victory show). In 2006 she was recognized by the Central Virginia Mental Health Association as volunteer of the year for her work as a co-facilitator for the Suicide Survivors Group for persons who have lost a loved one to suicide. She is passionate about three things: her two daughters, her grandchildren, and sailing, which she learned as a competitor in the sport, spending nearly half her time capsized in the water during the first year of competition. She now owns Layla, a non-capsizing bigger sailboat, which lives at Smith Mountain Lake. 434/544-8538 • nash@lynchburg.edu |
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Shannon Brennan,Director of Media Relations, Editor of Lynchburg College Magazine After spending 14 years in low-paying newspaper reporting jobs from Florida to Maine (most recently at The News & Advance in Lynchburg), Shannon returned to higher education in 2006. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1993 to 1998, Shannon was assistant director of media relations at nearby Randolph College, formerly known as Randolph-Macon Woman's College. After college, she spent a year in the Peace Corps in Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Notice how places change names after Shannon has been there. An avid environmentalist, Shannon serves on the boards of the Natural Bridge Appalachian Trail Club and the Central Virginia Land Conservancy. She also serves on the College's Natural Resources Committee. Her daughter Jessie is an honors student at Old Dominion University. 434/544-8609 • brennan.s@lynchburg.edu |
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Betty Cooper McKinney,Marketing and Communications Specialist A native of Lynchburg, Betty is a graduate of Lynchburg College with a B.A. degree in English and music. A former newspaper reporter, she was vice president and Western Region marketing director of a Virginia bank before joining the Office of Public Relations at her alma mater. She and fellow public relations staff member Carolyn Eubank are co-authors of Lynchburg College: More Than Books and Bricks, a coffee table-style book published in 2006. A choral music conductor, Betty has served as music director at several area churches and currently sings with the Jefferson Choral Society where she is also a member of the board of directors. She is married to Jim McKinney, also an LC graduate, and they have a daughter and granddaughter. 434/544-8834 • mckinney@lynchburg.edu |
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Irene Sterne, Administrative Assistant for Public Relations Lynchburg College, 1992 – present 434/544-8325 • sterne@lynchburg.edu |
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Katharine Stevens, Graphic Designer Through a fortuitous series of events, Katharine landed back in higher ed as a designer for LC. A native of Altavista, Virginia, she graduated summa cum laude from Radford University in 1999 with a B.F.A. with a concentration in graphic design. At the ripe old age of 22, she was awarded Best in Show from the Roanoke Valley Advertising Federation for her design of the Macbeth theatre poster, done while she was a student worker in Radford’s Creative Services office. Since joining the LC staff in 2000, Katharine has earned somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 CASE (Council for the Advancement and Support of Education) and ADDY (American Advertising Federation) awards. She likes to keep them on a dusty shelf, which boggles the minds of her coworkers. A typographic nerd, Katharine’s other design passions include the work of Saul Bass, anything letterpress or silkscreened, and the challenge of a two-color job. One of her other passions in life is amassing a truly ridiculous amount of trivia and factoids. (Fact: The most misused SSN of all time is 078-05-1120. Google it.) And if she were to hit the Mega Millions, she’d take a leave of absence (come on, I can’t really say I’d quit on my employer’s website – ks) to ride roller coasters and redesign — for free — all the horrible menus she comes across on an all-too-frequent basis. 434/544-8626 • stevens@lynchburg.edu |
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Christopher Peterson, Graphic Designer Chris joined the public relations staff in July 2006 as a graphic designer. Born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Chris graduated with a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and worked as a designer at William Longhauser Design and Allemann Almquist & Jones, both in Philadelphia. In recent years, Chris and his wife settled in Central Virginia, where Chris worked as a freelance designer until joining the Lynchburg College staff. 434/544-8149 • peterson.c@lynchburg.edu |
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