Lifetime Members
Welcome to our newest Vanderbilt Woman's Club Life Member, Lynne Siesser.
Lynne was inducted in January 2019. For forty years Lynne has been an indispensable member of the Vanderbilt Woman's Club. She is often called "the glue that holds the Club together," and she has served in just about every capacity, including President, Magnolia News editor, Membership Chair, and Cocktail Club coordinator, to name a few. We are proud to welcome her into this amazing group of women!
Seven Things to Know About Lynne Siesser
1. Raised on a cattle farm in the Grahamstown area of the Eastern Cape, South Africa where the family settled from England in 1820. After majority rule, Woodlands was sold to a Norwegian and is now a 25,000 acre game farm managed by my youngest brother.
2. Attended boarding school at the Diocesan School for Girls, followed by a Primary Teacher’s Certificate in Grahamstown.
3. Taught Maths and Afrikaans at various Prep Schools in the Eastern Cape; also a stint at St. Edburg’s near Oxford while brother Pete was a Rhodes Scholar, and ending up in Cape Town where I met Bill (a Kansan) finishing up his Ph.D. in Geology.
4. Wanderlust had us on a three-month camping tour of Southern Africa, sabbaticals in Cambridge [England], London and Melbourne [Australia] and finally, a year’s World Tour after Bill’s retirement after 25 years at Vanderbilt.
5. Besides teaching, I had a short trial in Real Estate, ten years as administrative assistant for TPAC-FRIENDS, five as an executive assistant to the president at TPAC and until retirement, administrative assistant in the Retina Division of the Vanderbilt Eye Institute and coordinator of the Retina Fellowship Program.
6. Volunteer work has included VWC president, recording secretary, membership, hospitality, Magnolia News founder and editor, VUMC Auxiliary, Cumberland Museum, Ensworth Second Season, MBA’s Spaghetti Supper ticket sales, English-Speaking Union board, The Churchill Society of Tennessee, and chair of the Cheekwood Bridge Marathon.
7. Son #1 is Bill, a Ph.D. in Neuroscience and a medical writer for Contract Research Organization. He is married to Priscila of Campinas, Brazil, a Ph.D. in Cell Biology and a Research Associate in a Cancer Lab at UNC. They have Thomas and Lucas.
Son #2 is Kyle, an Environmental Geologist who owns a Consulting Company in Durango, Colorado.
Life members shall be those women who have been members of the Club for forty consecutive years.
| Mary Nelle Bryant | Roberta Maguire |
| Anne Carr | Suzanne Miller |
| Mary Dickson | Jennie Mills |
| Janet Exton | Margaret Norris |
| Shirley Forstman | Sara Plummer |
| Anne Gulley | Elizabeth Regen |
| Kay Hall | Lieselotte Regen |
| Carol Hazlehurst | Evelyn Richmond |
| Polly House | Anne Roos |
| Jane Jones | Lois Scholes |
| Shirley Jones | Lynne Siesser |
| Shirley Lachs | Betty Thackston |
| Judy Lefkowitz | Jean Wright |