The Tennessee Executive ResidenceFIRST LADY CRISSY HASLAM REFLECTS ON LIVING IN THE GREEN HILLS AREAPAGE 6

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By John Lowry, J.D.

Every neighborhood and community has its own unique personality. The Green Hills/Oak Hill community is a rich tapestry of culturally diverse residents, a variety of retail establishments and restaurants, music venues, businesses, beautiful homes and stately trees among many other features.

What also makes the community a great place to live and work is the presence of a number of public and private K-12 schools, including our own Lipscomb Academy, as well as a university—Lipscomb University, where I serve as vice president of external affairs.

Since Lipscomb University moved to the community in 1903, we have been proud to be a part of the culture of Green Hills. We hope to continue to make an impact by being a good neighbor to those around us and by being a valuable

resource to this community.

One of the benefits of living in a community that a university calls home is that its residents are able to access the many resources of that institution. What a unique opportunity to claim a neighborhood university as your own!

I hope you will stop by the Lipscomb campus soon to enjoy one of our many music, theater, art, film, athletics and other events that happen right here in your own backyard. Many of these events are free, and you can find a list of the exciting activities coming up by visiting events.lipscomb.edu.

We also invite you to take a stroll around the walking path that encircles Lipscomb’s Reese L. Smith Athletic Complex located at the corner of Lealand and Caldwell lanes. It’s a safe place to enjoy a morning jog or an early evening walk with

your dog. Indoor track and other fitness options are available in our Student Activities Center or at the Lipscomb Racquet Club.

Visit our Beaman Library to peruse the latest journals or to find a quiet place to read. Bring your family to Bennett Campus Center to enjoy dinner in our food court or Bison Café. And you won’t want to miss our annual Independence Day fireworks and concert coming up July 3! Make plans now to bring your family and friends to this special celebration.

The bottom line is…we are here for you too…to be Green Hills’ university. I hope you will claim us as your neighborhood university, and I hope to see you on campus!

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Left: The Lipscomb Racquet Club offers memberships through the Green Hills YMCA and will begin tennis clinics for youngsters this coming April.

By Karen Robichaud

Though it is a catchy tune, most of us don’t actually agree with King Julian’s “I like to move it, move it!” refrain from the “Madagascar” movies.

Crisp winter weather and packed spring calendars can make physical activity seem too daunting. Blankets, couches and pillows beckon us to hibernate until summer.

Still, numerous exercise options abound to help kick start your 2015. Experiment this upcoming year with invigorating movement. Keep an open mind concerning new, active ways to engage in your environment. Here are a few suggestions for people of any age:

Ages 2-5 – Hop scotch, duck-duck-goose, soccer, tickle tag, bean bag tosses Ages 5-10 – Visit BounceU or Sky High, swimming at the YMCA, dance parties, visit a local park, sledding Ages 10-15 – Hiking at Radnor Lake State Park or Percy Warner Park, ice skating or roller skating, obstacle courses, hand ball, hoola-hooping

Ages 15-20 – Volleyball, biking, roller blading, horseback riding, ultimate FrisbeeAges 20-25 – Skiing, rock climbing, kickball, basketball, Zumba®Age 25-35 – three-on-three pickup basketball, running club, barre Classes, Spinning®, kickboxingAge 35-45 –Yoga, rowing, run the stairs at Percy Warner Park, jogging, mixed martial artsAge 45-55 – Pilates, aerobics classes, Body Pump™, tennis, bowling Age 55-65 – Swimming laps, racquetball, golf, bocce ball, canoeingAge 65-75 – Badminton, swing dancing, croquet, darts, horseshoes, tai chi Ages 75 and up – Water aerobics, shuffleboard, line dancing, lawn bowling, gardening

In 2015, embrace a variety of exercise modalities! Cease limiting activity to grinding out 30 minutes on a treadmill. Instead strive to move forward with unconventional, fresh and exciting patterns of movement.

Play! Dance! Less structure and more freedom may inspire even more sustainable, functional movements and an invigorating perspective towards physical activity. The world is your playground. Indulge. Karen Robichaud is assistant professor and director of the exercise and nutrition science program at Lipscomb University. Before teaching at Lipscomb, she taught and coached at Brentwood High School. She is a mother of three elementary students.

New bills help control community growthBy Sean McGuire

As the days begin to grow longer, our thoughts turn to warmer weather and signs of spring, including growth and activity in Green Hills.

But with growth sometimes comes a few growing pains. Recently the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County passed two bills that have an impact on that growth.

The duplex bill defines duplexes as two-family structures connected along at least 80 percent of their common wall or as two separate structures separated by at least 6 feet. The height is limited to one-and-a-half times the width of each structure. This prevents future construction of the tall, narrow duplexes with the 8-foot connector.

The contextual overlay bill creates a new type of overlay that can be used by neighborhoods to set guidelines for height and size of new infill homes so that they are similar to the existing homes. The height of the new home is limited to 1.25 times the average of the existing homes. This only affects homes in areas that go through the full council process to adopt it.

As our community continues to grow, it is important for our schools to be able to accommodate its students in thriving learning environments. Metro Nashville Public School officials have commissioned a site study to examine the nearly 60-year-old Hillsboro High School campus and available options for possible relocation and rebuilding.

A series of community input meetings were held last fall to solicit feedback from our community members.

The Hillsboro study offers the possibility of making approximately 11 acres of the current campus closest to Hillsboro Road available for mixed-use redevelopment, a new, six-story school facing Glen Echo Road, an underground parking garage, new athletic fields and an MTA minihub. I’ll share more details on the project in coming months. (To see the study go to http://bit.ly/FutureOfHillsboroHS.)

Sean McGuire represents the 25th District in the Metropolitan Council of Nashville and Davidson County.

Just move it in 2015!

The YMCA of Middle Tennessee, located in Green Hills at 4041 Hillsboro Circle, offers personal training, fitness classes and aquatics programs as well as healthy activities and wellness programs for any age. A free guest pass is available online at ymcamidtn.org/green-hills.

The Lipscomb University Student Activities Center offers community memberships with full access to all the facilities including an indoor track, weight room, group fitness classes, Spinning® studio, racquetball courts, basketball courts and locker rooms. Services include personal training, health and wellness consultations and group fitness classes. 615.966.1648, lipscomb.edu/campusrecreation.

Join the Green Hills Run Club and enjoy a 3- to 5-mile run or walk each Monday at 6 p.m., starting at the Green Hills Fleet Feet location at 3900 Hillsboro Pike. Get more details on the club’s Facebook site at fb.com/greenhillsrunclub.

The Lipscomb Racquet Club, One University Park Drive, offers beginner programs for both youth and adults, clinics that help experienced players gain a competitive edge and fitness classes such as

Cardio Tennis and Tennis Fit. Members of the Green Hills YMCA can add tennis to their membership and receive discounted rates and priority placement at the Lipscomb Racquet Club for all clinics, priority court rentals and no court fees. 615.966.5611, racquetclub@lipscomb.edu.

If you like Spinning, try Krank Cycle Studio located at 2148 Bandywood Drive. Krank offers small group personal training using timed intervals. Every exercise is modified to fit individual fitness levels. The studio offers more than 40 classes each week. 615.549.0240, info@kranknashville.com.

The Lipscomb Racquet Club, One University Park Drive, is home to the Pickleball Nashville Club. Pickleball is one of the fastest-growing sports in America. In warm weather, four courts are exclusively held for club members during evening hours and during the winter indoor play is offered in Lipscomb’s McQuiddy Gym on Sundays. Classes and tournament play are also offered. Nicole Hobson, club president, 615.394.7121, Facebook site at fb.com/PickleballNashville.

CrossFit Nashville, located at 3628 Trousdale Drive, suite C-F, offers classes and workouts that make up a core strength and conditioning program of functional movements performed at high intensity and constantly varied. CrossFit incorporates movements from weightlifting, gymnastics, running, biking or rowing. The gym offers introductory classes one week per month. 615.756.5771, info@CrossFitNashville.com.

You don’t have to drive far for plenty of opportunities to move it.

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Children have unique summer experiences without leaving the Green Hills/Oak Hill neighborhood.It may still be winter, but when it comes to picking a summer camp experience, it’s already time to thaw out and start researching the best summer camps for your kids this year.

Many of the most popular camps fill up quickly, especially if they participate in events like Nashville Parent magazine’s Camp Fair, already held this year at the Cool Springs Mall on Feb. 7. Generally, the events draws almost 100 day camps, academic camps, sleep-over camps and sports camps, just to name a few, said Stewart Day, publisher of Nashville Parent.

“It used to be that people took long summer vacations, but with a lot of parents working, their vacations are just one week, so often they need to fill up 10 to 11 weeks with camp

activities for their kids during the summer,” said Day, who has been compiling the Nashville Parent camp guide for 19 years. “The average Nashville family will probably participate in four to five camps during one summer.”

To meet this growing demand, summer camps have become increasingly diverse in topic and format. In the Green Hills/Oak Hill area, there are camps focused on sports, dance, academic enrichment, the arts and business topics.

“In today’s world, parents want one location where they have access to a variety of quality camps so they can find the experience that fits perfectly with their child’s interests or hobbies,” said Franklin Bennett, coordinator of Lipscomb Academy’s Summer Experience, which offers more than 40 camps ranging from cooking to football for multiple ages all in one location.

“Parents want quality, high-level camps where their children will not only have fun but also better themselves in some way,” he said.

It’s time to start planning for summer

Nashville Dance Center, 4004 Hillsboro Road, offers half-day and whole-day program options at its Princess Dance Camp. The camp offers daily sessions in dance activities, tumbling, arts and crafts, story time, table etiquette and social manners, plus participants will be treated to a tea party with a princess character each day.

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Lipscomb University, One University Park Drive, offers a range of camps from athletics camps coordinated by NCAA coaches to unique academic camps in robotics, forensic science and the law. Camps include half-day, full-day and residential options.

summerprograms.lipscomb.edu

lipscombsports.com/camps

At JA BizTown Summer Camp, 120 Powell Place, campers build and participate in their own vibrant community. They apply and interview for jobs, manage their own bank accounts, hold elections and work as part of a business team…all in a life-size replica of a city.

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The Historic Travellers Rest Plantation Summer Camp allows kids to travel through history participating in unique hands-on activities at camps such as Tennessee Tales and Legends, Stitching History, History’s Mysteries and Time Travelers.

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The YMCA of Green Hills offers transportation to its popular Camp Widjiwagon with pick-ups at the Green Hills YMCA at 4041 Hillsboro Circle.

www.campwidji.org

Lipscomb Academy’s Summer Experience offers many camps to keep academic skills strong over the summer, such as Grammar Essentials and Math Review, and others that will meet any interest of a child: painting, Legos, magic, cheerleading, cooking and drama. Sports camps are also available.

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Club West Volleyball offers clinics in outdoor sand volleyball from May 1 to July 31 at the Granny White Park sand courts for grades 6 through 12. Other camps for indoor volleyball and other fundamental skills are held throughout the summer at the club’s facility on Old Hickory Boulevard.

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Alison Rinner, former Coca Cola marketer and Brentwood Middle School English teacher, will bring her Ms. Biz Youth Entrepreneurship camps to the Lipscomb Academy campus, 3901 Granny White Blvd., this summer. Four coding camps will be offered for grades 3-7 and eight entrepreneurship camps for grades 4-8. Campers will learn how to start and run their own business, including art and music ventures.

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Green Hills and Oak Hill have many such offerings. Check out some of the camps located just around the corner:

Camp Widjiwagon

Lipscomb Summer Experience

Travellers Rest

JA BizTown

Photo Credit Larry McCormack

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Haslams make ‘Far Hills’ a hub of civic activity in the neighborhood

The Green Hills area is one of those unique neighborhoods. Since Bill Haslam was elected Tennessee’s 49th governor and sworn into office in January 2011, he and his wife, Crissy, have lived in Tennessee’s Executive Residence, located just outside the Green Hills neighborhood proper in Oak Hill on South Curtiswood Lane. In January, Haslam began his second term as governor. So the Haslams, who originally moved here from their home in Knoxville, will be calling the area home for four more years.

Tennessee’s Executive Residence, a classic example of stately Georgian architecture, was originally known as “Far Hills” because of the beautiful view from the home’s 10-acre site. The three-story, 16-room home was built for businessman William Ridley Wills, founder of National Life and Accident Insurance Company, and completed in 1931.

Every neighborhood in America is filled with interesting residents. Some have high-profile jobs. Others are known for their unusual homes or beautiful gardens. But only 50 of them across the country can claim the governor as a resident.

The property became the Volunteer State’s official governor’s home when the state purchased it in 1949 following Wills’ death. To date, nine governors and their families have lived and worked in the Tennessee Residence, including Gordon Browning, Frank Clement, Buford Ellington, Winfield Dunn, Ray Blanton, Lamar Alexander, Ned Ray McWherter, Don Sundquist and Bill Haslam.

During Phil Bredesen’s term (2003-2011), the Tennessee Residence underwent a major renovation led by then-First Lady Andrea Conte and the Tennessee Residence Foundation. Conservation Hall, a 14,000-square-foot subterranean meeting and banquet facility, was built under the front lawn of the Tennessee Residence during the renovation project. The addition made the home much more functional for the state. The new space is used to entertain for large events on the property and includes artwork created by Tennessee artists throughout the hall.

Over time, the Tennessee Residence and grounds have been a welcoming point for tens of thousands of Tennesseans, as well as host to official functions for distinguished guests,

Photos by State of Tennessee Photographic Services

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including Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore; legislative leaders; numerous governors; and other distinguished dignitaries from around the world.

The Haslams have welcomed many dignitaries, politicians, friends and other guests, as well as their three children, their spouses and their four grandchildren, to their Nashville home in the Executive Residence. Crissy plays a key role in making sure the home represents not only the Green Hills area well, but also the entire state as she serves as chair of the Tennessee Residence Foundation, which raises funds for the renovation, restoration, reconstruction, expansion and upkeep of the home.

“The Tennessee Residence has played an important role in the history of our state,” says Crissy, a Memphis native. “It’s truly a beautiful place that we can all take pride in. Bill and

coming growing season.”

Neighbors are welcome to visit the home during public tours twice a week and as part of other special occasions. One of the First Lady’s favorite new traditions is hosting an open house in December for visitors to tour the home and see the holiday decorations.

“It has been fun to uphold some of the traditions of former first families and start a few new traditions of our own. We have loved hosting preschool and daycare children for an annual Easter egg roll,” says Crissy. “We also traditionally host third-grade students from Glendale Elementary School, located less than one mile from the Tennessee Residence, for an annual Halloween reading event.”

In addition to her work with the foundation, the First Lady has introduced an initiative that focuses on the relationship between family engagement and literacy improvement in the state. She travels across Tennessee to stress the importance of parents as a child’s first teacher, parents as education partners and to raise awareness for the value of reading on grade level by the third grade. As part of this initiative, Crissy launched the First Lady’s Read20 Book Club that gives families a fun goal of reading together with their children for 20 minutes every day.

“Bill and I feel very blessed to be a small part of the home’s history. We hope that we have been good stewards of the home and good neighbors to the community.”

I feel very blessed to be a small part of the home’s history. We hope that we have been good stewards of the home and good neighbors to the community.”

Over the last four years, Crissy has devoted her time to a project to renovate and restore the Tennessee Residence grounds aimed at bringing them back to their original design, focusing on vegetation original to the home and native to Tennessee.

“We wanted the grounds to reflect the beauty of the home and its interior,” Crissy says. “My favorite part of the landscape project has been the addition of a kitchen and cutting garden. Last year was the first full season in the garden, and we harvested approximately 2,600 pounds of fruits and vegetables. It was wonderful to be able to serve fresh, homegrown food to guests and use the flowers in arrangements around the home.”

Crissy is excited that students from across the state have had the opportunity to visit the gardens and to learn from them.

“We launched a free field trip program for students to learn about gardening and healthy eating,” she says. “We hosted more than 500 students last year, and we hope to have even more visitors this

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Crissy says the couple enjoys living in the Green Hills area. They can sometimes be spotted walking along the neighborhood streets near the residence, and the governor enjoys running and biking throughout the neighborhood. He even borrows the campus exercise facilities at Lipscomb University on a regular basis.

“He also loves all kinds of history,” says Crissy, who has a bachelor’s degree from Emory University and a master’s degree from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. “He really enjoyed visiting The Bluebird Café, particularly because of its interesting role in songwriting and music history. I wish we had time to go there more often.

Crissy says that she has enjoyed being a part of this community.

“I have loved getting to know Green Hills and all of Nashville,” she says. “I have enjoyed learning about the history and arts community in this area and meeting so many wonderful people.”

Editor’s note: Public tours of the Tennessee Residence are currently offered free of charge on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, depending on house availability. For more information about touring the Tennessee Residence, visit www.tn.gov/firstlady/residence.

“Our home is also conveniently located to the Capitol downtown, which is especially important to Bill. I like being close to Radnor Lake—it’s one of my favorite places to walk! The Residence is also convenient to the many stores and restaurants in Green Hills.”

Having the convenience of Green Hills shopping nearby has been handy the last four years with two of the Haslams’ children getting married and four grandchildren being born during that time.

“The Green Hills Mall and the entire area makes for quick, convenient shopping. That has been very helpful to me as our family has grown during our time in Nashville,” she says.

“Last year was the first full season in the garden, and we harvested approximately 2,600 pounds of fruits and vegetables. It was wonderful to be able to serve fresh, homegrown food to guests and use the flowers in arrangements around the home.”

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Still here after all these years

Oak Hill used to be the site for Glendale Park, a more than 200-acre park that included a popular zoo. It’s not too difficult to imagine, as the remnants of the popular park can be seen all over the Oak Hill neighborhood from Scenic Drive to General Bate Drive.

The park opened in 1888 with 64-acres and was known as Woodstock Park. By 1889, the park was increased to over 200 acres and in 1890 was named Glendale. The park was

established by Nashville businessmen Percy Warner and James Caldwell, who lived in

Longview Mansion, which still stands today on Caldwell Lane between Crestridge Drive and Franklin Road.

Located adjacent to the Noel and Caldwell farms, Glendale was considered the outskirts of Nashville and definitely out in the country. Originally, rail cars pulled by mules and later steam engine trains carried passengers to Glendale. In 1893,

It’s easy to see that Oak Hill is a popular spot when it comes to home buying these days, but the Glendale area has actually been a popular destination long before that…more than a century ago, in fact.

Glendale began offering transportation to the park on an electric streetcar. Part of the charm of visiting Glendale was seeing the countryside as the car made its way out of Nashville and across the rolling hills to the rural part of the city.

Glendale Park closed in 1932, but on warm days as I drive down Lealand Lane on my way home, I sometimes roll down the window and think of what it would have been like to feel the wind blow in your face on that streetcar headed for Glendale. One of the highlights of my research adventures was my four-year-old (at the time) daughter LeEllen finding a railroad spike from the streetcar tracks in a wooded area that years ago was home to the Glendale streetcar bed.

A few things remain in this Nashville neighborhood from the days of Glendale, including the giant oak and elm trees scattered throughout the streets. When turning onto Crestridge Drive, drivers can see the row of trees that lines the neighborhood homes where the Glendale streetcar, years ago, cut through, as it left the park headed for downtown Nashville.

When I make the turn from Lealand Lane to Tower Place and pass the historical marker for Glendale Park, I think that it was not that many years ago that music rang from the Flying Jenny, a carousel with 42 hand-carved animals and a 342 organ pipes. The park also included a zoo, a roller skating rink, a roller coaster, tennis courts and a huge playground.

Each spring when the grass turns green and begins to grow tall, I begin thinking of all the children years ago who looked forward to the

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Glendale Easter Egg hunt, held up on the hill near Coral Road or where today’s sprawling front yards run along Lealand Lane. Children would hunt for bronze, silver and gold eggs among the regular eggs. These special eggs were redeemable for prizes.

Just around the curve of Tower Place and Scenic Drive, passersby today can walk up the remaining concrete steps that served as the entrance to the park years ago. The zoo’s bear pit, with a rock cave where twin bears Zana and Zerle performed tricks for visitors and bear cubs Zip and Zora squeezed through their cage bars to allow children to pet them, is still easily identifiable as an indention into the hill on Scenic Drive.

Tower Place to the west runs right between the site of the park water tower, where water for all the zoo animals was stored, and the site of the Casino Theatre, where Indian princess Two Feathers performed her high dive act on horseback.

The Glendale Easter Egg hunt was held where today’s front yards run along what is now Lealand Lane.

With so much of our history fading away each year as the city grows and changes, I am so glad to live in a community where I can still see the giant oak and elm trees of a magical place from the past and pass those stories on to my daughter.

Andy Lane, associate athletic director at Lipscomb University, and his wife, Stephanie, fell in love with Glendale Park while listening to their older neighbors share stories from their childhood about the park. Lane’s book, Glendale: Nashville’s Magical Park, was born as Lane shared those stories with his young daughter at bedtime.

Join Lee and Ellen as they venture back in time to visit Nashville’s magical Glendale Park. Their friend Zana the Bear introduces them to all the other fun loving animals as well as Glendale’s zookeeper Clare Lovett; one of Nashville’s prominent citizens, Percy Warner; and park founder James E. Caldwell. Glendale: Nashville’s Magical Park can be purchased by writing Andy Lane at andy.lane@lipscomb.edu.

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Nashville’s business leaders head to Green Hills

Gathering to share coffee, to network and to hear from a key business leader in Allen Arena, the Nashville Business Journal holds its quarterly Nashville Business Breakfast in partnership with Lipscomb University.

Over the years, the breakfast has featured many local business leaders, several Tennessee governors, country music icon Kix Brooks, and the presidents or CEOs of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Bridgestone Americas, Gaylord Entertainment and Nissan, just to name a few.

A focus on successful leaders who are making an impact on the local economy has made the breakfast a popular event among Nashville’s business leaders, said Kate Herman, publisher of the Nashville Business Journal.

“What’s different about it is that the program is always locally based. Many other organizations bring people in from out of town. We try to keep it to one speaker so the audience can gain insight and get to know that company owner,” Herman said.

Since it was established in its current format in 2007, attendance has grown from an average of 200-300 attendees to an average of 400-600 attendees, said Walt Leaver, Lipscomb’s vice president for university relations, whose office coordinates the event.

“It’s definitely one of the largest business networking gatherings in town, and considering it starts at quarter to seven in the morning, that is saying a lot!” laughed Herman. “It really draws a crowd.”

Coordinators also work to make sure each speaker relates to a current business topic in Nashville, said Leaver.

“This bird’s-eye view into the minds and strategies of these powerful movers and shakers is indeed a rare opportunity to stay informed and learn what moves Nashville,” said frequent participant Kent Cleaver, president of Avenue Bank.

The latest Nashville Business Breakfast was held March 3 and featured Gov. Bill Haslam. In July the breakfast will feature Nashville City Mayor Karl Dean and a retrospective of his service to the city. To attend the Nashville Business Breakfast, visit www.lipscomb.edu/leadership for details of the next event and to purchase tickets.

At 6:45 a.m., while most people are making f inal preparations to get the kids to school or to start a commute to work, a group of business leaders in Green Hills is already on the move at one of the quarterly Nashville Business Breakfast events which draws hundreds of businesspeople to the Green Hills neighborhood for a topical speaker and presentation.

“It’s definitely one of the largest business networking gatherings in town...that is saying a lot!”

Nashville Business Breakfast Past SpeakersWilliam F. Carpenter, CEO, Lifepoint

James Bearden, CEO, Gresham Smith and Partners

Gary A. Garfield, President, Bridgestone Americas Inc.

Michael Burcham, CEO, Nashville Entrepreneur Center

Jim Wright, former CEO, Tractor Supply Company

Carlos Tavares, former Executive Vice President, Nissan Motor Co.

Loucas George, former Producer of ABC drama “Nashville”

Butch Spyridon, President, Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau

Jeff Cogen, CEO, Nashville Predators and Bridgestone Arena

Michael Hyatt, former CEO, Thomas Nelson Publishers

Jim Wright, former CEO, Tractor Supply Company.

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The Lipscomb University Racquet Club offers the community state-of-the-art tennis facilities as well as social and instructional activities for all ages.

Facilities—Eight courts, locker rooms and a pro shop, plus garage parking and a convenient Green Hills location

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Staff—Professional staff with collegiate and/or club industry experience

League Play—The Nashville Ladies Tennis Association, the Middle Tennessee Tennis League and USTA leagues are offered at our club

Spring Junior Tennis Clinics begin April 6!

For more information, to register for programs or to stay connected with our monthly newsletter, visit our website or email racquetclub@lipscomb.edu.