Thanks to Nashville Business Journal for publishing photos online today from Diane Hayes‘ farewell reception. Click on the link here and see Diane, Lisa Shacklett, Blair Smyly, Matthew Harrison, Glenn Bradley, Eden Afriat, Debbie Robinson, Holly Urbanowicz, Dietz Osborne, Jaclyn Avara, Morgan Stewart, Tanya Bonney, Kenisha L. Rhone, Laini Brown, Justin Luckett and Meredith McKay Luckett on slides 19 through 24. 
Dietz Osborne (Class 58) has been named President/CEO of Miriam’s Promise, after Debbie Robinson, the former Executive Director, retired on June 30. Founded in 1985, Miriam’s Promise is a licensed child-placing agency located in Nashville with the mission to ensure the well-being of the child by nurturing individuals and families. Dietz’s initial volunteer experience was at the organization’s annual golf fundraiser which led to ten years of volunteer service for the organization. He was hired eight years ago and has worked in progressive roles including development and administration. In that time he was responsible for raising over $3.5 million dollars to support the services offered by Miriam’s Promise. Most recently he earned his Master of Science in Management and Leadership from Western Governor’s University. Congratulations to Dietz! We wish him all the best in this new role.
Michael Moscardelli (Class 40) has been elected by the Cumberland University Board of Trust as a new trustee, according to the article here. A Lebanon native, Michael previously owned and operated his family’s manufacturing business, PFP, with his brother before the company was sold in 2018. In addition to being a 2003 YLC graduate, he is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and the University of Tennessee College of Law. He serves on the board of directors at CedarStone Bank and has been involved in the Lebanon/Wilson Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Wilson. Good luck to Michael in this new leadership role!
Thanks to Nashville Lifestyles Magazine for publising some of our favorite photos from the farewell reception of Diane Hayes online. Click on the link here to see Party Pics of Laini Brown (Class 57), Kenisha L. Rhone (Class 68), Jill Robinson (Class 26), Patrick J. Conger (Class 38), Barry Greer (Class 54), Michael Malesick, Paige Anderson (Class 66), Brogan Bunnell (Class 71), Amy Goode (Class 72), Holly Urbanowicz (Class 27), Jamie Weathers, Michelle Lacewell (YLC/Junior League Class 2012), Lyndsay Berry Wilkinson (Class 63), Concetta Smith (YLC/Junior League Class 2016), Ann Taylor Holley (Class 64), Fiona Haulter (Class 50) and Heidi Tieslau (Class 61), Morgan Stewart (YLC/Junior League Class 2019), Brooke Walker (YLC/Junior League Class 2019), Jessie Slate (YLC/Junior League Class 2019), Joshua Livingston (Class 60), Jade T. Sampson, MBA, M.Ed. (YLC/Junior League Class 2012), Kerri Burton (YLC/Junior League Class 2007), Danielle Dupriest (YLC/Junior League Class 2017), Marquinta Harvey (Class 72), Brandon Harvey, Kristin D. Appelman (Class 71), Courtney Hensley (YLC/Massey Graduate School Alumni Class 2017), William Scales (Class 71), Samantha Sanchez (Class 71), and Bryan Steverson (Class 71).
Gary Gaston (Class 42), CEO of Nashville Civic Design Center, is profiled in this week’s Nashville Business Journal. For the past five years, Gary has frequently played an influential role in shaping the city’s conversations around growth and development, while cultivating a board of directors and a donor list that includes a who’s who of Nashville’s real estate power players. When he’s not leading his team of urban designers, you can find him on the dance floor or singing along to John Waters’ “Hairspray.” Our favorite story is when Gary talks about a note from his father that he keeps next to his desk that says “There is a way to get this done”when he was in the difficult process of buying a house. He still looks at that note several times a year for inspiration. If you are a NBJ digital subscriber, you can find out what he would like to be his next profession after he retires at the link here (hint: he’s currently honing those skills at a monthly dance party he hosts). 
In the Summer 2019 issue of Nashville Post, one of the six profiled business leaders who were assembled for the 2019 All-Star Board is YLC alumna Yanika Nikki Smith-Bartley (Class 43). Yanika is Vice President and Special Counsel for Diversity and Inclusion at Asurion, where she brings employment and regulatory expertise to an organization now home to more than 16,000 employees around the world. She is a graduate of Fisk University and Vanderbilt University Law School and this year was also named a Women of Influence award winner by Nashville Business Journaland a nominee for the Nashville ATHENA award by Nashville Cable. Since the All-Star Board was created six years ago to showcase a group of people who could help improve, grow and guide organizations, an additional three YLC alumni have been chosen. In 2018, Harry Allen (Class 62) and Ray Guzman (Class 53) and in 2013, Kevin Lavender (Class 4) made the list. Congratulations to all our YLC All-Stars! Read the entire article here.