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About Joy: Joy received his undergraduate degree from Virginia Tech before completing his Masters in Teaching at the Citadel. He has been married to his wonderful wife Susan for over 22 years and resides in Mount Pleasant. They have one daughter who is currently attending Wake Forest. Joy was stationed in Charleston while honorably serving in the U.S. Navy and currently teaches Western Civilization and World History at Trident Tech. He enjoys traveling, cooking, and football.

About Kathy: Kathy was born on July 27, 1962 at Georgia Baptist Hospital in Atlanta. Both her parents were from Atlanta. She considers herself an Atlantan, although her father was in the Air Force, so they lived all over the world. She graduated from Anderson High in Austin, Texas and went to college at Texas Christian University.

She loves TCU. It was the first place she had lived for 4 solid years, and loved the friends she met there. Kathy studied Nursing and earned her BSN in 1984. Her dream was to be a Pediatric Nurse in some capacity. The year she graduated, her parents moved to Europe, then Korea, so she decided to move back “home” to be near her family and sister, who was then going to college at West Georgia University. Kathy was hired by Egleston Children’s Hospital (part of Emory University) to work in Pediatric Oncology. This is where she found her passion. Kathy started June of 1984 and it was there that she met her future husband, Dave. She helped to start the first Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. She remained employed at Egleston until Dave finished Residency and they moved to Bethesda, MD, so he could continue his training at the NCI.

Dave and Kathy met in 1987, and got married in August of 1988. Their first child, Paige, was born in November of 1991. After she was born, Kathy left the world of hospital nursing and worked in a Pediatricians office as a staff nurse. She loved seeing all the healthy kids and working with their parents. Their second child, Andy, was born in January 1994. In August of that year, Dave and Kathy left Bethesda and moved to Charleston, where Dave began his tenure at MUSC. It was then that they made the decision for Kathy to be a stay at home mom. She loved every minute of it. Their third child, Bryan, was born in March 1997. Paige started elementary school in 1998, and Kathy has volunteered her time in the Mount Pleasant schools ever since, working in the classrooms or the front office at all the schools her children attended: James B. Edwards Elementary, Moultrie Middle School, and Wando High School. She has also been the Wando Lacrosse team mom for the last 6 years.

Kathy has loved volunteering her time for these great places. Other volunteer experiences she has had include her church, Mount Pleasant Presbyterian, and MUSC Children’s Hospital.