NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Mary Thornley, the transformative president of Trident Technical College, announced her plans to retire next summer. “It is with deepest gratitude and humility I submit this retirement letter. I realize I will never be ready to leave, so I must leave Trident Tech without being ready,” Thornley said in her […]
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.
It’s time to take a more realistic approach to the fact that all of us lucky enough to live that long will become ever more dependent as we age. It’s time to face reality and place caring for one another at the heart of the human endeavor.