OHIO mourns the passing of devoted public servant and alumna Dr. Mary Anne Flournoy
Dr. Mary Anne Flournoy, PHD ’95, accepts a Lifetime Achievement Award during Ohio University’s 2017 Global Engagement Awards Gala. Photo courtesy of University Communications and Marketing
The Ohio University community mourns the passing of Dr. Mary Anne Flournoy, PHD ’95, whose legacy of service can be found throughout her alma mater, the Southeastern Ohio region and around the world.
Dr. Flournoy served as associate director of OHIO’s Center for International Studies and is credited with integrating global education into local schools, connecting schoolchildren in Appalachian Ohio with Ohio University students from around the world. In 2017, she was presented one of the Ohio University Office of Global Affairs and International Studies’ first-ever Lifetime Achievement Awards.
In retirement, Dr. Flournoy and her husband, Don, founded the Sugar Bush Foundation, a supporting organization of The Ohio University Foundation that fosters and funds campus and community partnerships designed to improve the quality of life in Appalachian Ohio. Since its founding in 2005, the Sugar Bush Foundation has provided more than $2 million in funding to projects that encourage civic engagement and foster sustainable environmental and socioeconomic development in Appalachian Ohio – all with a goal of creating healthy people, a growing economy and a vibrant environment.