The Sewanee Children’s Center (SCC) will say goodbye to director Larry Sims when the school year comes to an end on May 28. Sims came to the Sewanee Children’s Center as the interim director in the fall of 2012 and assumed the position of director in 2013. Sims came to Sewanee from Middlebury, Vt., where he was a longtime educator, having been a teacher, curriculum coordinator and elementary school administrator.
The SCC has named Harriet Runkle as its new director. Runkle received her B.A. in art history and museum studies from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and she began her teaching career as a museum educator. She received a master of arts in teaching degree from Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va., and has 14 years of teaching experience in kindergarten and first grade. She moved back to Sewanee last June after being away for 16 years. She, her husband, John, and their son, Jac, lived in Sewanee in 1996–99, while John was a student at the School of Theology. Runkle was an active SCC co-op parent, when Jac was in Carrie Mauzy’s class.
The Sewanee Children’s Center is constituted as a parents’ cooperative and operated by parents through a board of directors. The school offers a comprehensive early learning program designed to meet the developmental needs of each child and is responsive to the needs of local families and children. SCC is generously supported by Otey Parish and the Sewanee Community Chest.
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