UT SPORTS ATTORNEYS REAL ESTATE Vols-Gators not A more stable Now it’s the the same game career choice art of the deal It once led to SEC, David Barry leaves media Organizing arts events national titles. For the last volatility behind, fi nds for 25 years helps prepare decade, not so much. home in family business. for career in real estate. P17 P2 P13 Volume 105 | No. 38 Single Copy 50¢ CHATTANOOGA, HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE September 21 – 27, 2018 ‘They keep coming What was going on in Chattanooga in 1968? Friday, September 20: and I A special planning com- mittee headed by Dr. Jo- seph E. Johnson, pertaining to the merger of the Uni- versity of Chattanooga and can’t get the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, has been announced by UC Presi- dent William H. Masterson and UT President Andrew them out’ W. Holt. e merger will become eff ective July 1, 1969. Dr. Johnson is UT’s Vice President for institu- tional research. Mrs. Herbert H. Hum- phrey, wife of the Demo- cratic presidential nominee, visited briefl y in Chattanoo- Some rural jails at twice capacity ga today. She held a news conference and appeared at as counties struggle to build more a reception in her honor at Lovell Field. She was here for about one hour. e Chattanooga Postal System placed fi rst in a region-wide man-power controlled program contest in the Tennessee, Ala- bama, and Mississippi area. e award was presented to Postmaster Frank C. Stories by Jeannie Naujeck Moore and his team of begin on page 5 postal workers by Percy L. Coleman, director of the Memphis Bureau of Oper- ations, who came here for the ceremony. See 50 YEARS, page 16 INSIDE ■ FINANCIAL FOCUS P10 ■ REAL ESTATE P13 shutterstock.com Find Public Notices inside & online: www.HamiltonCountyHerald.com 2 | September 21 – 27, 2018 Hamilton County Herald www.hamiltoncountyherald.com News and notes from the Chattanooga Bar Association Bar Association Barry follows father’s path – eventually Journalism career gives way to law “I’m a lawyer and I’m practice, stability proud to say that.” By Vincent Troia David L. Barry, embracing his post-journalism career ome people arrive at their jobs by following in the foot- steps of a parent, by blazing their own trail or persevering Sdespite unexpected events. Chattanooga attorney David L. Barry experienced all of those before landing a spot with Spicer Rudstrom PLLC. Barry, 40, a native Chattanoogan, grew up admiring his father, longtime lawyer John D. Barry, but he didn’t give much thought to pursuing law school, and his dad didn’t push the issue. “I always adored his dedication and passion, along with his view that peo- ple deserve justice,” he says. “Giving people a voice was important to him.” at philosophy was shared with David but in a journalistic sense. e younger Barry saw newspapers as a tool for giving voice to the voiceless and pursued a journalism career. As a history and English major at UT Chattanooga, he began working at the Times Free-Press, first as a library archivist (“my first title,” he Photograph by David Laprad says), then, after graduating in 2001, as a writing coach for reporters and recalls. He was 25, alone, and started young man who’s single,” he says, but the bold step of quitting his job to finally on the technical staff for its looking for a way out of Jackson. he was hoping to settle down with prepare for the LSAT, the standard- CHATTANOOGA BAR ASSOCIATION CHATTANOOGA online news. “ere were no mountains or something “more important” in Chat- ized test needed for admission to law “I was good with words and read- lakes; it was too flat and dry.” tanooga. He took a job with Brewer school. For five months he waited ing,” he points out, adding that he A little betrayed Media, headed by the late media tables and studied. He passed, and didn’t see those skills as something executive Jim Brewer. enrolled at Nashville School of Law. In late 2008, the Times Free-Press en came an Easter Sunday 2012 “I wasn’t afraid of law school. It that would translate into a career in offered him its online editor job and law. It turns out, according to Barry, chat with his dad and the words ‘you was the LSAT that scared me more the chance to return home. He didn’t can do this.’ Barry’s father asked how than anything,” he says. they are crucial skills for a successful hesitate. e homecoming was short- attorney. the new job was going, and when Feeling like an attorney lived, however. His job was elimi- Barry answered with a half-hearted “But journalism delayed my inter- nated in 2011, and he was laid off. While attending school, Barry est in law, I guess.” affirmation he then asked his son, Although the newspaper industry was “Have you ever thought about law would take a Tuesday-ursday class e multimedia aspect of online in the throes of editorial downsizing, schedule, spending a couple of nights journalism gave Barry “a greater school?” he thought the online folks would Barry, after telling his dad he really a week sleeping in a relative’s con- chance at advancement,” and he survive. His termination from his verted garage in Nashville, and then wasn’t wrong. In 2005, the Jackson hadn’t thought about it, then spent hometown newspaper really stung. the better part of a week thinking returning to Chattanooga to Regina, Sun hired him as its online editor. “I felt a little betrayed, to tell you family and his job. Splitting his week “at was unexpected,” he re- about it. He let his dad’s reply of “You the truth,” Barry acknowledges. can do this” sink in. and getting back to Chattanooga on members. He also didn’t expect to Convinced that he was done with weekends prevented another Jackson suffer from homesickness, but it hit After talking with his then-fiancé journalism, he pondered his future. Regina (now his wife) and getting type of homesickness. hard. “It was the first time away from “Journalism is a great career for a Chattanooga and it was tough,” Barry her encouragement, as well, he took See BARRY, page 3 Executive Committee Board of Governors Ex-Officio Member Lee Ann Adams Marc Harwell The Honorable J. B. PRESIDENT Sheri Fox Bennett Robin L. Miller George G. Hixson JUDICIAL REPRESENTATIVE TREASURER Steven M. Jacoway Thomas M. Horne PRESIDENT-ELECT William G. Colvin Jeffrey W. Maddux John C. Harrison PAST PRESIDENT Jimmy Rodgers SECRETARY Lynda Minks Hood Drew H. Reynolds, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR YLD REPRESENTATIVE Chattanooga Bar Association | The Pioneer Building | Suite 420 | 801 Broad Street | Chattanooga, TN 37402 | 423-756-3222 | Fax: 423-265-6602 |www.chattanoogabar.org www.hamiltoncountyherald.com Hamilton County Herald September 21 – 27, 2018 | 3 Chambliss forum explores difficult aging decisions By 2030, the Census Bureau Gray, has been educating fami- to leave behind. I’m honored to projects there will – for the lies internationally for years on be a part of their experience by first time in history – be more the benefits of being proactive inspiring and guiding families residents 65 and older than in having the tough conversa- through those difficult conver- children in the United States. tions around aging. sations.” is change in demograph- “To live fiercely is to live Gray is the chief executive ics will fundamentally change proactively,’’ Gray says. “How officer for Hospice and Health- the delivery of products and we live, up until that very last care Communications, official services to meet the needs of breath, is largely a matter of spokesperson and board mem- today’s aging population. choice. It is quite freeing to ber of the Elisabeth Kubler- at’s why Chambliss, care for one’s family by making Ross Foundation and chief Bahner & Stophel, P.C. is host- decisions on end of life, which innovation and patient advoca- ing the 2018 Embrace Aging is really about life itself.’’ cy officer for Acclivity Health Forum to connect older adults “e good news is once Solutions. and boomers to resources and these conversations are shared, She is also an award-win- health, wellness, financial and most people see that it really ning writer and journalist and legal experts in Chattanooga. wasn’t that painful anyway. a global expert on hospice and Open to individuals, fami- Fear is what caused the ret- palliative care. lies, caregivers and profession- icence not having the actual Forum attendees will have als in aging, the second annual conversation itself. the option to attend sessions forum will be held Oct. 5, 9 “e Embrace Aging Forum on topics covering current Photograph provided a.m.-4 p.m., at the Doubletree offers a proactive space for trends, transference of wealth, Dianne Gray in downtown Chattanooga. individuals and families to e keynote speaker, Dianne decide on the legacy they want See AGING, page 4 BARRY From page 2 CHATTANOOGA BAR ASSOCIATION CHATTANOOGA It took a semester for Barry to feel like he could be an attorney. A professor, Marshall Davidson III, had told a class he was “convinced that anyone could be a successful attorney if they are willing to do the work.” Barry had always put in the work and effort wherever needed, so this eased his nervousness and gave him more confidence. Four years later, Barry – now a full-time husband to Regina after their January 2015 wedding – had his Juris Doctor degree. As a graduation present of sorts, Spicer Rudstrom hired him, and Barry now works with his father and lawyers with 20-40 years of experience that he can “lean on” for advice as he pushes headlong into his new career.