Fred L. Glimp '50 and L. Fred Jewett '57 were both deans of admission before their tenures as deans of the College.
"[Byerly] is a fun place to work, a good place to work, and it's always interesting," Avery says. "I think it was a good training for my current job, just in terms of the familiarity with the College."
Avery recalls applying for a job in admissions in 1989 while also wanting to attend the Graduate School of Education. Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitsimmons '67 and Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70 solved the dilemma by encouraging her to do both.
"They really worked hard to find a way to let me work there and continue my education," Avery says. "They didn't have to do that."
Avery says she learned a lot about assessing people and organizing information in her years at Byerly.
She says she was amazed by the capacity of the admissions staff to hold a lot of information in their memory--and even more amazed when she developed the same trait in
herself.
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