George Elliott, C’79, Associate Broker with Shannon Waltchack in Birmingham, specializes in site selection, investment properties, and development. He is an active member of the Birmingham Commercial Realtors Council and a member of the University of the South’s Board of Trustees.

Joel Cunningham is Arcadia’s Vice President. He was the University of the South’s Vice-Chancellor from 2000 to 2010 and continued as a Sewanee mathematics professor until 2019.

Since then he has served as a part-time assistant to the Vice-Chancellor and in several volunteer service roles including as Treasurer of the Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion. He was President of Susquehanna University from 1984 to 2000.

Joel and his wife, Trudy, live in Sewanee.

James “Jim” Dixon, is the president and CEO of Arlington Properties, which he joined in 1998 as a development associate and was named Vice President of Development in 2001. In 2008, he was appointed Executive Vice President and has served as President of Arlington Properties and Vice Chairman of Arlington Construction Services since 2011.

Jim received his Masters of Public and Private Management from Birmingham-Southern College and his Bachelor of Arts in American history from the University of the South in Sewanee, TN.

Jim has served on the Community Board of Operation New Birmingham, Alys Stephens Young Patrons Board, Birmingham Museum of Art Corporate Council and Compass Bank Young Executive’s Board. He is an alumnus of the 2009 class of Leadership Birmingham, a member of the United Way’s Tocqueville Society, and serves on the Highlands School Foundation Board of Trustees, where he served as President from 2014-2016.

After graduating from Sewanee in 2012 with a major in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Spike worked abroad in green energy and micro-enterprise finance before returning as an AmeriCorps VISTA worker for the Babson Center for Global Commerce’s economic development. He founded and directs BetterFi, a non-profit economic justice enterprise focused on ending predatory lending on and around the South Cumberland Plateau. He serves with and on the boards of several local organizations.

Attorney Ann Aitken practiced banking and mortgage law for 40 years in Charlotte, NC. Ann is a retired mortgage banking attorney that served money center banks, covering residential and commercial secured lending, mortgage products, as well as mortgage- and commercial-backed securities. She is also a licensed contractor and real estate developer in the Charlotte, NC area. Ann has her BA from UT Knoxville, her MBA from UNC Chapel Hill, and her JD from Vanderbilt. She and her husband, Tom McCawley, currently live in Sewanee.

W. Marichal Gentry has spent the majority of his professional career as an educator, pediatric social worker, and mentor. Marichal most recently served as Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students at the University of the South, Sewanee. Prior to becoming Dean of Students at Sewanee, Marichal served Yale University as the Associate Vice President for Student Life, Senior Associate Dean of Yale College and Dean of Student Affairs from Middlebury College.

Marichal is a graduate of the University of the South at Sewanee, where he earned a B.A. in Social Science/Foreign Language (Political Science with French). He went on to earn a Master of Social Work degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, focusing on Families and Children.

Marichal also has earned a certificate of completion from the Institute of European Studies in Paris, France, and two certificates of completion from Harvard University’s Institute for Higher Education: The Management Development Program, and the Institute for Management in Leadership in Education.

Frank X. Gladu has served Higher Education for 43 years, most recently beginning in 2012, at the University of the South. Before retiring in April of 2021, Frank served as Sewanee’s Vice President for Administrative Services, then as Special Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor. Frank led a working group that founded and incorporated Arcadia at Sewanee.

Prior to coming to Sewanee, Frank worked at Vanderbilt University for 25 years, first as its Director of Campus Dining, then as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Business Services responsible for a variety of campus services. Earlier in his career he was Director of Dining at Bryn Mawr College after working in the Dining programs at Rutgers University and the University of Pennsylvania. While in high school and college, Frank worked for the Sisters of Saint Joseph in the culinary area for their 300-bed retirement facility.

Walter Merrill, M.D., C'70, is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is Senior Associate Chief of Staff at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and professor of cardiac surgery. He has served on the University’s Board of Regents.

Rob Lamborn has been Rector of the Parish of St. Mark & St. Paul (formerly Otey Memorial) since 2015. A 1994 graduate of the School of Theology, he served churches in Indiana and New York before returning to Sewanee. He is a member of the Community Advisory Board of the Roberson Project on Slavery, Race & Reconciliation, and Chair of the Stewardship Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. Rob and his spouse Amy cared for his aging parents before their deaths in a total of two assisted living facilities and with assistance in their home.

Linda Bright Lankewicz was Provost of the University of the South for ten years and Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science. She was a member of the group working on the founding of Arcadia at Sewanee and one of the three incorporators of Arcadia at Sewanee. Linda has served as president of the board of CUAC (Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion), a world-wide associations of institutions of higher education, as an officer of the Sewanee Emeritus Society, and an officer of the Sewanee Children's Center board. Linda and her husband Frank cared for her mother at home from age 90 to 100.

John was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and came to the US in 1966 to attend college at Sewanee where he graduated with a B.A. in Economics. After receiving a Master of International Management degree at the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management, now part of Arizona State University, he worked in the banking industry for 34 years in international banking, commercial lending, and credit risk administration. In 2008, he was offered the opportunity to teach Pastoral Spanish at the School of Theology and in 2009 he and his wife, Kathy, moved from St. Louis to make Sewanee their permanent home.

Following retirement in 2017, John continues to be very active with hiking, tennis, change bell ringing, and travel. During 2020 he was president of the Monteagle-Sewanee Rotary Club, and he currently is a member of Sewanee’s Community Council and a member of Arcadia at Sewanee and BetterFi’s Boards of Directors.

W.A. (Pete) Stringer, C’71, currently is a member of Sewanee’s Board of Regents and served on its Board of Trustees 2002-2019. He is Senior Vice President and Relationship Manager with First Tennessee Bank, focusing on public institutions and nonprofits. He was one of the incorporators of Arcadia at Sewanee in 2015.

Craig Stubblebine is president of the Board of Directors of Folks at Home, the Sewanee non-profit that coordinates services to enables individuals to live at home. He served for many years on the board of Pilgrim Place, a senior living community in Claremont, Ca. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College where he held the Von Tobel Chair and was founding Director of the Center for the Study of Law Structures.

Mr. Stubblebine served as a Director and Senior Associate of Public Associates, as a Senior Associate of JurEcon, and as a founding Director of the National Tax Limitation Committee. He chaired the national committee which drafted the proposed Federal tax/spending limitation amendment adopted by the U.S. Senate in 1982 and has served as a consultant to various state limitation drafting committees. He was a consultant to the Senate Judiciary Committee during 1981-1982.