Ellen Burgoyne Hubrig was born in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, the second of six siblings.  She received a B.A. in Communications from the University of Scranton, and has been living in Knoxville, Tennessee for the last twenty-one years with her husband and her son. She is currently the President of a technology transfer consulting company that she and her husband operate. She has been President of the Tennessee Artist Association, President of her son’s high school PTSO, and an organizer and participant in fundraising events within her church and community non-profit organizations.  She is currently a member of the Knoxville Writers Guild and the Farragut Chamber of Commerce. 

As a great-granddaughter of Sidney J. Burgoyne, who wrote the original “Daily Thoughts for Friendly Fellows” in 1925 and founded the “Society of Friendly Fellows”; Ellen began to use the daily thoughts when she was Student Council President in high school. Throughout the years she has found the daily verses to be a wonderful inspiration and she looks forward to sharing the verses and the Good News with you.