From Crain's Akron Business: Jennifer Highfield will take the job starting in September. She'll join Stan Hywet from the National First Ladies' Library in Canton. Highfield from 2006 to 2010 was Stan Hywet's director of fund development.
AA began in Akron in 1935, when two men had a conversation about their alcoholism in the Gate Lodge at Stan Hywet Hall. Founders' Day, which is held annually at the University of Akron, returns this year after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.