Loretta Hayes
Executive Director
Loretta taught civics at the high school for nineteen years before she came to Old Main in 2008. She still grades the newsletter in red pen.
Our people
Meet our team
Most of our staff grew up within twenty miles of here. Several had a grandparent live at Old Main.
Our team
The people behind the front desk
Danielle Brooks, RN
Wellness Nurse
Danielle keeps weekday office hours on the first floor and knows every resident's blood pressure from memory. Ask her about the walking club.
Ramon Ortiz
Dining Director
Ramon ran a cafe on Main Street for twelve years. He bakes the Friday cobbler himself and will tell you exactly where the peaches came from.
Wanda Jefferson
Life Enrichment Director
Wanda books the lecture series, runs the bus schedule and has never once let bingo start late.
Claire Whitfield
Move-in Coordinator
Claire helps families measure furniture, plan the move and pick an apartment with the right window.
Rev. Marcus Bell
Chaplain
Marcus leads Wednesday vespers and makes hospital visits for any resident who wants one, whatever their church.
Glenn Mabry
Facilities Director
Glenn oversaw the 2019 renovation and still knows which radiator in the east wing is temperamental.
Sample family reviews
Letters to the front desk
My grandmother lived at Old Main in the seventies. Now my mother is in the same wing, two doors down. The floors still creak in the same spot, and that made us both cry a little on move-in day.
I taught fourth grade for thirty-one years. Half the staff here were my students, and they still won't call me by my first name.
Dad had been eating cereal for supper since Mom passed. Now he has a regular table, two meals a day and opinions about the cobbler.
The lecture series is the best thing in town. Last month a geology professor brought rocks from DeGray and let us pass them around.
When Mother fell in her apartment, the pendant worked, the desk called me in four minutes, and Danielle rode with her to the hospital. I won't forget that.
We moved from a three-bedroom house to a garden cottage. We kept the dog and the tomato plants and lost the lawn mower.
Claire measured my mother's dining table and found the one apartment it would fit in. That's the kind of help I didn't know to ask for.
I came for the dining room and stayed for the porch. Somebody is always out there by four o'clock.
The porch light is on. Come on up.
Call Loretta or the front desk, or book a time online. We'll save you a seat at lunch.