Emily Florence (Flo) Gunn Goolsby, 95, departed this life Thursday, March 16, 2023 surrounded by her family at her residence, Our Lady of Hope in Short Pump, after several respiratory complications. She was born January 29, 1928, in Clay Bank, Gloucester, Virginia to George W. and Emma Rilee Gunn. As many families suffered during the
Julia McDonough ’20 had an ambitious education plan: A bachelor’s degree; five years of related internship experience, high school to college; and involvement in major-related extracurricular activities. . That’s right, high school to college. Julia’s first internship, at Corning Optics in Keene, was in engineering. She was a tool and die maker apprentice and CNC operator, and she had just turned 18, the required age to run equipment at the company. . “Getting all of those things under my belt … that was big for me,” says Julia, now a sales associate for the Robert E. Morris Company, a leading machine tool.