Hospitality Education Mourns loss of Kerry Sommerville

I teach online courses at Sullivan University. The person who recruited me and was always there to give me support as I learned how to teach online courses was the chair of the Hospitality Management program at Sullivan University, Kerry Sommerville M.A., CRDE, CHE. We at FELC are sad to report that Kerry passed away at home this past Monday, September 8th, at the young age of 51. Kerry had well over 20 years’ of hospitality management and consulting experience with some of the world’s largest hotel chains. He had been at Sullivan University since 1990. Among his many accomplishments was the 2003 American Hotel & Lodging Association’s Lamp of Knowledge award for outstanding educator; writing online training modules for the ACF-approved continuing education organization, chefcertification.com; and author of the textbook, Hospitality. Kerry was well liked by those who knew him and had a great passion for culinary arts and hospitality education. We will greatly miss him and hope that we can carry on his life's work through those who are in our learning community.