Meet My Partner: Tiffany Rhoades Earl Tiffany Earl is the most brilliant woman I have ever met. She is a true visionary. She can look far into the future and prepare for anything. I first met Tiffany in 1998. At the time she was just finishing up her master’s degree at George Wythe College. I was the new kid on the block and scared stiff about getting a real scholar education. Tiffany took me under her wing and that is where I have stayed ever since. She says I am the wind beneath her wings but what good is the wind without the beautiful wings to lift? Tiffany graduated from high school with several scholarship offers. She had a bright future in academia. While considering the different possibilities for getting her undergraduate degree she was introduced to George Wythe College, a tiny new college in Cedar City, Utah. This college was so new that it had very little scholarship money to offer back then. George Wythe could not offer her the monetary support that the other colleges could. But it was everything she was looking for. Already a budding stateswoman in her own right, she could see the potential for the great education offered at George Wythe College.

While still getting her degree at George Wythe College, she met and married the love of her life, Rick Earl. Tiffany and Rick were expecting their first child when they graduated Co-Valedictorians with their Bachelors Degrees.

As Tiffany watched the youth in her community struggle to find a way to get the kind of education she yearned for as a youth, she decided to create a program to facilitate their needs. Combining her brilliance, educational background and fine mentoring by Dr. Oliver DeMille, she developed the Thomas Jefferson Youth Certification course. Her dream was to spread the program all over the United States. At this critical time in her path I came on the scene. She wanted to test her program by training me to teach it. That first year together was one of the hardest, most challenging years of my life. Tiffany inspired me to heights I only dreamed of reaching, and when I got to the top of a summit she rejoiced with me over my success, and then kindly pointed me to the next summit and said, “Go for it girl!”

Tiffany has 5 beautiful children. She dedicates most of her time to the nurturing of her children. She fully understands that her example is the most powerful tool she can use to inspire them to greatness. Every day she continues to set the example of scholarship, for her children, myself and all the others who are fortunate enough to fall into her path of mentoring.

Meet My Partner: Aneladee Johnson Milne To come across someone as talented and charismatic as Aneladee Milne was luck. To come across someone as dedicated to her family’s success and determined to live a life worthy of emulation was God’s hand. It wasn’t easy to act on all I’d been taught and leave the cushioned world of academia where its safe to make mistakes and enter a new world and try to make a difference. Aneladee was one of the first people in the country to actually apply A Thomas Jefferson Education, not only in her family, but in her local community. As I saw the fruit, Aneladee’s students entering Self-Directed scholar phase, I was so impressed; children as young as 12-14 were studying 8-10 hours a day, I knew it was worth it! What we were doing worked.

To describe Aneladee is to describe her life. She is the dedicated wife of Don Milne and the happy mother of six incredible children. When I met her she was an accomplished seamstress, cellist, actress, and teacher of Shakespeare and Drama. And her graduation from George Wythe College with a B.A. in Statesmanship, serves as a great example to other scholar moms.To sit in her living room is to witness the essence of the American family. Her children are never idle, I always hear an instrument playing, whether it is daughter Larisa on the viola, daughter Tatiana at the piano, son Brady on the guitar, or even herself on the cello. And it’s never because mom nagged!

I see the door shut to her Young Scholar’s rooms. Why? Because they are behind it studying!

At the dinner table I enjoy an incredible family conversation asking about Tocqueville, Sowell, Plato, McManus, Tolstoy, their national book, current events or other venue he and the children digested that week.

In the evening I see dad on the couch with the small children, fifty or more books are piled around them. Meanwhile, mom and Larisa sit on the bed and read together. Then mom kisses her children goodnight, and pulls out her her own books.

I am truly amazed at Aneladee Milne, all who know her would say it’s her heart. She cares deeply for all around her, it never ends, there is always room for one more.

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Last updated March, 2008