Loading...Erica Elizabeth Dean was baptized and confirmed at All Saints’ Church, Morristown. She attended All Saints’ Preschool and was a faithful participant in Sunday School and All Saints’ Children’s Choir for many years. She will always remember being a member of the All Saints’ Choir who sang in the National Cathedral and on the steps of the Jefferson Memorial in 2002.
Erica has been an active member of the All Saints’ Youth Group, helping to fundraise for and attend two mission trips to serve the homeless in Memphis, 2009 and 2011. Manna House in Memphis is where Erica says she decided what she wanted to pursue in life. There she photographed the homeless and got to know their stories. She now wants to pursue a career in photojournalism as a way to help tell people’s stories.
Erica helped design and fundraise for the All Saints’ Youth Room renovation project and helped implement Cups for Cause and the Flamingo Flocking fundraisers.
Besides her talent in photography Erica has considerable talent in music. She has been honored to occasionally accompany the All Saints’ choir with her flute playing and once helped accompany the WSCC Community Chorale. She qualified by audition for the East TN Junior Band Clinic in 2009 and 2010 and Senior Clinic in 2012 and 2013 and has been the first chair flute at Morristown West High for two years. Erica was very honored to lead her band as the West High Drum Major her junior and senior years, learning not only field conducting, but also about responsibility and leadership. In addition she has played in the WSCC Community Band for 6 years along with her grandfather, an experience she says she will always treasure.
Erica was voted “most talented” by her high school peers and has participated in German and Hiking Clubs. She has been taking honors and AP classes as well as dual enrollment classes at WSCC.
Erica was also a competitive swimmer with Jefferson City Swim Club from age 5 to 16 and enjoys tent camping and hiking with her family.
Since last fall Erica has had the opportunity to gain valuable experience taking photos for the Citizen Tribune. She is enrolled at Pellissippi State for the fall where she will be seeking a degree in Media Technologies with a concentration in photography. Erica says she appreciates deeply the needed support given to her through the Mollie Hazen Tucker Scholarship to help launch this next step in her education.
