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(con't.) Joan's interest in higher education extends to service as vice chairman of the Board of Trustees for Virginia Wesleyan College. She was president of the President's Advisory Council and a member of the steering committee for Virginia Wesleyan's capital campaign, Consider The Harvest, which ended in December 1998 after raising $36.5 million. The goal was $25 million. Another volunteer commitment, as a docent for the Chrysler Museum of Art, encouraged her to attend Old Dominion University, from which she received a Master of Arts in humanities (focusing in art history) in 1991. Joan is a trustee of the Museum and has served as secretary of the Chrysler Council. She was named the Judeo-Christian Outreach Center's 1999 Woman of the Year, and she and her husband were presented last year with the 2000 Hope Award by the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Joan and Macon, a Randolph-Macon College alumnus, have known each other since the 8th grade and were married in November 1964. Joan taught math for three years after she graduated from Longwood, first at J.R. Tucker High School in Richmond, where she'd student-taught, then at a junior high school in Beaufort, South Carolina, where Macon was stationed with the Marine Corps, and finally at Northside Junior High in Norfolk. "I moved back home when Macon was in Vietnam," she says. "He spent 11 months in Vietnam, in 1965-66, as a ground officer with the Air Wing of the Marine Corps." They have three children. Kathryn Everett, a Virginia Commonwealth University graduate who worked in advertising in Baltimore for 10 years, lives in the Detroit area and in September of 1999 gave the Brocks their first grandchild, Lucy. Younger daughter Christy, who has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Virginia and worked in the corporate world in New York, became a yoga
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instructor and now is a student in an 18-month program at a yoga institute in Oakland, California. Macon Brock III, a Randolph-Macon graduate, moved to San Diego last June after working in Denver in the marketing field. He started working for Dollar Tree in September and will be based in San Diego as a merchandise close-out buyer.
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announcement of Brock Commons Joan has a pair of unconventional hobbies. She has a black belt in karate "My daughter Christy fostered my interest in karate and also cultivated my yoga practice" and, through her husband, has become a Harley-Davidson enthusiast. That interest began when she surprised Macon with a Harley for his 50th birthday "and I didn't know what I was doing," she adds with a laugh. "For the last five years Macon has taken an annual motorcycle trip out west. I've accompanied him twice, including last August. We're involved in a very loose association of Harley-Davidson owners. In last year's trip, we went from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, through Idaho to Glacier National Park in Montana and finally to Sturgis, South Dakota, where a convention of approximately 500,000 bikers is held the first week in August. Our trip lasted 10 days and we traveled 1,800 miles on a motorcycle."
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