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RADFORD, Va. -- Martee Buchanan was invited to the Wesley Foundation as an 18-year-old college freshman in 1968. She loved it so much that she didn't leave for five decades. After 48 years of serving as secretary, assistant director, and then ...
MADISONVILLE, Tenn. -- Eighteen months after Hiwassee College was closed, the 284-acre property has been sold to Bruderhof, an international Christian communal organization. The purchase was finalized Nov. 30 for an undisclosed sum, said the Rev. ...
Press release ALCOA, Tenn. – For years to come, students at two United Methodist colleges affiliated with the Holston Conference will know the name of William “Ed” Harmon. An endowment providing scholarships to students at Tennessee Wesleyan ...
KINGSPORT, Tenn. -- The name "Chikomb" is fairly well-known in the Holston Conference. Rukang and Fresie Chikomb are missionaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Rukang is a pilot who transports bishops, mission teams, and supplies ...
Holston Foundation gives $100,000 to support transfer ALCOA, Tenn. (May 17, 2019) -- The Holston Foundation has given $100,000 to Tennessee Wesleyan University to support its acquisition of Hiwassee College’s dental hygiene program. Tennessee ...
MADISONVILLE, Tenn. (April 9, 2019) – The county police came to Hiwassee College on April 5. Nicole Fritz was one of several students who was not happy about that or any of the other turmoil related to the leadership's recent decision to close the ...
March 29, 2019 (UMNS) -- Hiwassee College, a United Methodist-related college founded in 1849 to educate first-generation college students in rural Appalachia, is closing May 10 for financial reasons. The college’s board of trustees voted this ...
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Aug. 30, 2017) – Madeline Wimmer was curled up with her textbook on a sofa at the Wesley Foundation. She was safe with her friends on a Saturday afternoon, yet a half-mile away, thousands of protesters were gathering around a ...