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Tipoffs for Asheville, North Carolina (Smoky Mountain) Newsletter for Sunday May 08, 2022 ( 1 items )  

- Austin Peay State University: The Record - Sharon Mabry Retires After a Historic 52 Years
CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, May 6 (TNSPer) -- Austin Peay State University issued the following news: On a gray November afternoon in 1970, a young pianist named Sharon Mabry received a frantic phone call. The Austin Peay State University Music Department needed her help. The program's popular voice professor, Jack Hurt, had died suddenly that week, and someone had to take over his classes and finish out the semester. Three months earlier, Sharon's husband, Dr. George Mabry, joined the University   more