Combat veteran gets Air Force promotion

A salute to Capt. Robert W. Scott IV, who will be promoted to major today at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska. The 1999 Manatee High School alum and 2003 Air Force Academy grad has been on active duty for 10 years, most recently serving with a bomb squad as an explosive ordnance disposal officer in Iraq and Afghanistan
Parents Bob and Janna and sister Sarah will be on hand for the ceremony.
Scott’s next posting will be at Wright Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.

Lindsay Harper

• Shirley Rampart enjoyed a recent whirlwind weekend.
Between granddaughter and Southeast High alum Lindsay Harper’s graduation with a masters in social work from the University of Tennessee, daughter Kerry Harper’s 63rd birthday, Mother’s Day and a trip to Dollywood, Grandma was on the go.
“I needed a rest!” she jokes.

• Angela (Faith) Faust, Sheri Jacobs, Pamela Ross and Katherine Turenne were initiated into Delta Kappa Gamma’s Kappa chapter, which promotes the professional and personal growth of women educators.

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