Board of Directors

The SME Preservation Fund is a nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes to restore, maintain, and improve the historic Signal Mountain Elementary School for the benefit of the residents of Signal Mountain and nearby communities.

Angie landrum, President

Angie spent her college years studying art and elementary education followed by eighteen years of homeschooling her two children. She spent twelve years managing a publishing business owned by her and her husband. Her work included marketing, sales, accounting, and event planning. That business recently sold, freeing up more time for Angie to spend with her grandchildren and working as a volunteer.

Brooke daniel, secretary

Brooke is currently a partner physician in Tennessee Oncology. Prior to her Chattanooga office joining Tennessee Oncology, she served on the board of Chattanooga Hematology and Oncology Associates. She served on the Hamilton County American Cancer Society for 6 years and as Chairman of the board for 2 of those years. The board focuses on fund raising for supportive services for local cancer patients and caretakers. While on the board she helped establish the Life Inspiration Awards ceremony which annually recognizes the unsung heroes of the Oncology community. Brooke is a mother of two children and volunteers in her free time.

John Harr, TREASURER

John is an Accountant/HR Manager with Remington Industries located in Ooltewah, Tennessee. Currently, he is a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus and has served on the boards of both organizations. Originally from Indianapolis, Indiana, he relocated to Chattanooga in 1981 and moved to Signal Mountain in 1986. He is the founder of the David and Christina Harr Memorial Scholarship Fund, Notre Dame High School. This fund was started in 2005 and has awarded over $30,000 to graduating seniors that are active in theater arts or have exemplified leadership qualities during their high school tenure.

He is actively involved in the Chattanooga and Signal Mountain music community in choirs and as a singer/songwriter. These activities have been the basis of his fundraising activities and new association with the SME Preservation Fund. John and his wife, Joan, love the Signal Mountain life and look forward to the opportunity to serve the community.

Dick Graham

Dick is a lifelong resident of Hamilton County, a graduate of Brainerd High School, and a graduate of University of Tennessee with a degree in Architecture. He practiced architecture for over 20 years. For the past 30 years he has been involved with international adoptions, first as co-founder, along with his wife Cheryl, of an international adoption agency working in Vietnam and China; and from 2017 to 2020 as China Special Needs Coordinator for an international adoption agency based in Hawaii. Along the way he volunteered with Family and Children’s Services (now the Partnership) to teach citizenship classes to refugees and also volunteered, along with his wife Cheryl, with Catholic Charities to resettle refugees from Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Since 2017, he has volunteered with SMEPF in restoring the Signal Mountain Elementary school. He and his wife have five children and seven grandchildren. He has lived in Signal Mountain since 1983.

Snoda Hendricks

Snoda Hendricks was born in North Carolina. She has lived in Signal Mountain for the last 26 years. She is a Registered Nurse and also has a degree in Interior Design from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She has been active in Signal Mountain as a volunteer in its schools, Girl Scouts, Signal Mountain Playhouse and is a member of the Garden Club of Signal Mountain. She is a member of St. Timothy Episcopal Church. She is married to Paul Hendricks and has two children, Nathaniel and Mary Eliza.

gordon inman

Gordon Inman is a Chattanooga native and graduate of Middle Tennessee State University. He plays and teaches clarinet and saxophone all around town, with studio time at Giant Steps Music Store, the Mountain Arts Community Center on Signal Mountain, and Southern Adventist University, where he serves as adjunct professor of clarinet. Gordon also serves as artistic director of the Chattanooga Clarinet Choir and is an active member of the Uptown Big Band, Figment Chamber Ensemble, and the Voci Virili men's choir.

Peggy Douglas

Peggy Douglas is a playwright, performance poet, and musician with various string bands in Chattanooga. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals.

In 2014, Douglas shifted her focus to writing poetic monologue plays about her native Tennessee roots that are set to music and produced as dramatic theatre:

Her monologue play, Twisted Roots was produced at the Signal Mountain Arts Community Center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nBSKGY_1-0 https://youtu.be/aygcr7g6i3E

In 2015, her play, After Work about Chattanooga working class communities in ran at Barking Legs Theater.
Her one woman show: An Afternoon with Mother Maybelle Carter ran in 2016.

https://youtu.be/wirgrCgRLbc

As part of the Signal Mountain, TN 2018 Centennial celebration, Douglas wrote and produced the dramatic monologue play, Deeper Roots based on the life of a famous Tennessee artist and poet, Emma Bell Miles.
In 2020, her poetic monologue play, Southern Exposure, was produced as a benefit for a Chattanooga nature center and was aired on WUTC public radio. https://www.wutc.org/post/southern-exposure-heard-wutc.
She is currently working on a collection of poems that will become a new dramatic monologue play titled, Steel Boots and Hired Hands about Chattanooga’s working class communities in the 1950s.

Douglas has a Ph.D. and has been a college professor in sustainable economics and education pedagogy for thirty-nine years. She has co-written two academic books, Women in Higher Education: Empowering Change and Radical Learning.

She has served on many non-profit boards in Chattanooga such as Chattanooga Writers Guild, Center for Mindful Living, Mark Making, Chattanooga Folk School, and Metropolitan Ministries Advisory Committee.