The two-pool and state-of-the-art facility will provide high school students with an on-campus aquatics program and – through a partnership with Sonoma Splash, a local nonprofit – a community pool. Adrian Palazuelos, School Board President Melanie Blake, Sonoma Valley High Principal Jessica Hutchinson and others – joined two board members of Sonoma Splash in turning over the first shovels full of dirt at the construction site on the high school campus that, in less than a year, should become a new aquatic center. 24, representatives of the Sonoma Valley Unified School District – including Superintendent Dr. Among survivors are her brothers Jerry Dunn (’68), Rodney Dunn (’72), and Chris Waters Dunn.On Friday afternoon, Sept. She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank Dunn (’40) and Yvonne Wiggins. She opened Art Song Gallery in Salado, Texas, in 2004, featuring the work of artists with ties to Texas. She toured during her career with Merle Haggard, George Strait, The Judds, Randy Travis, and the Oak Ridge Boys.ĭunn was a country music radio show co-host on where she was named public relations coordinator for the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in 2008 and later became co-owner of Pena-Dunn Gallery with artist Armado Pena. In all, Dunn recorded 10 albums and hit songs with Kenny Rogers, Michael Martin Murphey, Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris. She received BMI’s Songwriter of the Year award in 1989 and helped host TNN’s Opry Backstage show for two years. She earned the Academy of Country Music’s Best New Female Vocalist award in 1986 and the Country Music Association’s Horizons Award in 1987. 1 – and helped her winning three Grammy nominations. She was a member of the Opry from 1989-99, and one of the most popular artists in country music after getting her Nashville career started as a songwriter with her brother, award-winning writer-producer Chris Waters Dunn (’73).ĭaddy’s Hands, the 1986 song she wrote and recorded, was one of 10 Top 20 and eight Top 10 hits – two reached No. She was a member of Sigma Theta Chi women’s social club, the Choral Society, and a staffer on The Optimist newspaper and KACU campus radio station. An ACU Sing Song hostess in 1979 and member of the Hilltoppers musical troupe, she earned a B.A. Funeral arrangements are pending.ĭunn was born Aug. 14, 2016, in Albuquerque, N.M., following a short battle with cancer. Singer-songwriter Holly Suzette Dunn (’79), the only Abilene Christian University graduate to be a member of the Grand Ole Opry, died Nov. Holly Dunn in 1987 at the height of her country music recording career with MTM Records.

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