Thornley to retire from Trident Tech after 50 years - Charleston City Paper
Trident Technical College President Mary Thornley is an educational whirling dervish. For 50 years, she’s been an innovator who brought a dizzying array of programs to the campus as enrollment grew from 8,000 students in 1991 to more than 13,000 this year.On June 1, she’s retiring, according to a Sept. 26 announcement to the college’s area commissioners. But it’s a safe bet she won’t disappear.