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Thomas J. Quigley has joined the architectural staff of Gobbell Hays Partners Inc. as a project manager. Quigley has more than 30 years’ experience and was most recently employed by Cassetty Architecture.

Amy Anderson has joined the firm of Gobbell Hays Partners Inc. as an accounting assistant. She attended the International Academy of Design & Technology, has over four years of experience in accounting and had worked for Take Care Health Systems.

STG Design said Jay W. Purkey has joined the firm as an architect. Purkey has 18 years of experience. He spent six years at H. Michael Hindman Architects as director of design.

Nashville Bank & Trust has promoted two senior members of the bank’s staff. Jamie Nicholson has been promoted to senior vice president and team leader within Nashville Bank and Trust’s wealth management services. Andrew May has been appointed team leader of wealth management’s portfolio strategies team.

Valerie Green has joined Franklin Synergy Bank as a lending assistant based in the bank’s downtown Franklin office. Her most recent role was as commercial/consumer loan processor with Community First Bank & Trust in Franklin.

Russ Simons , Mike Wooley and Tom Williams have formed a new company, Venue Solutions Group. Headquartered in Nashville, the firm will offer consulting services in facility operations, evaluation and analysis to public assembly facilities and other industries. All three men previously worked at the global design firm Populous. Simons is a former senior principal. Wooley is a former principal, and Williams is a former facility operations consultant.

Watkins College of Art, Design & Film has named three new trustees to its board: David H. Berryman , president of Gibson Guitar Corp.; James R. Kelley , a partner with Neal & Harwell, PLC; and John M. Steele , senior vice president of human resources at Hospital Corporation of America. Each will serve three a year term.

Chuck Brown has been named as a member of the Battle Ground Academy Board of Trustees. A 1984 Battle Ground Academy graduate, Brown is vice president of sales for Nashville-based Circle Delivery Service Inc. He is a former president of the school’s alumni board.

Rob Wigington has joined the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority as executive vice president and chief operating officer. Wigington replaces Monty Burgess who retired in June. He joined the staff from Houston, where he served as deputy director of the Houston Airport System since 2007.

Emil Narick: Letter from a builder that knew Mr. Nay (Becky's dad)

Mr. Nay was instrumental, along with Mr. Ray Fisher of Carnegie Tech (now Mellon), also an architect, in securing a CSI charter for Pittsburgh. This was prompted by a chance meeting of myself and Mr. Fisher at the Pittsburgh Builders' Exchange. Other that I don't recall Mr. Nay being very active in the Pittsburgh chapter. My better recollections of him are from my visits to his office in Wheeling. As you probably know he was quite, large man, perhaps approaching more than 250 pounds. He always wore both a belts and suspenders, but most of all I recall him being a pleasant man, almost jovial. As a representative of ceramic tile companies I visited his office on several occasions. He had a separate room set aside to visit with sales people. He called it "Peddlers' Roost". I am not certain of roost, but peddlers' is for certain. Mr. Nay would offer a drink, coffee or water, usually. Occasionally there would be a dish of cookies. This, I assure you is not the way we were usually greeted. He seem to respect us and was interested in what we had to say.

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