Sells, Joyce Green was born on January 7, 1946 in Pensacola, Florida, United States. Daughter of Elbert Paul Green and Ellen (Chandler) Green Shryock.
Education
Intermittent student, Jefferson State Junior College, 1965—1973. Intermittent student, North Carolina State University, 1978—1984. ADN in Nursing, Wake Technical Junior College, 1981. BLS Health Psychology; Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa.
Career
Respiratory therapy technician South Highlands Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama, 1974—1976, Rex Hospital, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1976—1979. Nurse, respiratory therapy technician Wake Medical Center, 1979—1982, Duke University Medical Center Hospital CCU nurse, respiratory therapist CRTT, Durham, 1982—1989, Think Medical, Inc., 1986—1989, president, since 1989. With 106th Army Evacuation Hospital, Alabama Army National Guard, Respiratory Specialist E5, 1973-1976.
Achievements
Joyce Green Sells has been listed as a noteworthy medical products company executive, nurse by Marquis Who's Who; Who's Who of American Women; Who's Who of American Leaders; Who's Who in the South and Southeast.
Works
articles
Several local publications
poetry
Multiple anthologies
short story
The Best Kept Secret
(How AIDS entered into the human population through smallp...)
Religion
No religion has been in existence as long as my own.
Membership
Active Raleigh chapter National Organization for Women, since 1976, chairperson membership, 1978—1979. Member of New York Poetry Society Anthology, American Poetry Association Anthology, North Carolina Association Respiratory Therapy, American Association Respiratory Therapy, North Carolina Nurses Association, American Nurses Association, American Psychological Association.
International Society of Poets
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United States
1990
Triangle Real Estate Investors Association
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Raleigh
2000 - present
Sharp shooter; marksman
National Rifle Association
2016 - 2020
Interests
theater; genealogy; poetry;
gardening; real estate; reading; movie fan; music; writing; ballroom dancing.
Philosophers & Thinkers
Albert Einstein; Galileo; Goethe; Omar Khayyam; Frank Lloyd Wright; Thomas Edison, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Politicians
Donald Trump; Ben Carson MD; Condoleezza Rice; Evita Peron; Margaret Thatcher.
Writers
Stuart Woods; Albert Camus; Nevil Shute; Paul Erdman, Sarah Avery; Jill Shalvis.
Artists
Monet; Rubens; William Harrison Scarborough; Michelangelo; Hans Holbein; Rodin, Caravaggio.
Sport & Clubs
Tae Kwon Do - Blue Belt
Dance
Music & Bands
Rock and Roll; Opera, Classical; Easy Listening; Country Western; Beach Music, Latin; BeeGees; Andrea Bocelli and backup.
Connections
Married James Jerry Smothers, August 12, 1961 (divorced 1972). Children: Sherry, Leigh, Kimberly, James. Married Haskell Lee Sells, February 7, 1976.
Father:
Elbert Paul Green, Jr.
Mother:
Ellen (Chandler) Green Shryock
Spouse:
Haskell Lee Sells II
BA Business; Pfeiffer College, Misenheimer, NC
Spouse:
James Jerry Smothers
child:
James Smothers
child:
Kimberly Joyce Smothers
child:
Leigh Ann Smothers
child:
Sherry Lynette Smothers
BA English and Creative Writing North Carolina State University; AS Culinary Arts, Johnson Wales University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Grandfather:
Elbert P. Green I
General Practioner; Surgeon
Birmingham, Alabama
Colonel in Alabama Army National Guard
Birmingham, Alabama
Born: Dover, TN 1882
Great uncle:
A. Clayton Green MD
Grandfather:
William Franklin Chandler
Born Wilcox County Alabama; attended Jacksonville State College, Anniston, Alabama; Troy College, Troy, Alabama.