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Winter 2005 Vol. 22 No. 4 Publication Number: USPS 244-800 Seasons isis publishedpublished quarterlyquarterly byby Samford , 800 Lakeshore Drive, , 35229, and is distributed free to all alumni of the University, as well as to other friends. Periodical postage paid at Birmingham, Alabama. Postmaster: send address changes to Alumni Office, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama 35229. ©2005 Samford University Samford University is an Equal Opportunity Institution and welcomes applications for employment and educational programs from all indi- viduals regardless of race, color, age, sex, disability, or national or ethnic Fans and fireworks greet the Samford origin. Bulldogs as they stream onto Seibert Field for homecoming. www.samford.edu [email protected] FROMTHEPRESIDENT 2 etd reduced to hiskneesandasked melted, my wasemotionally friend condition, his bynerable theutter hopelessnessof madevul- perhaps hisstatement, of whelmed by theunexpected directness Lord can’t forgive.” butyou haven’t doneanything the done, “Idon’t know whatyou’ve simply, friend large handonhisshoulderandtold my driver laida Thetruck malaise. haze of My openedthedoorthrough a friend the tire andreappeared atthedoorstep. hehadchanged In notime, dire need. afellow human beingin of symptoms inmy allthe drugs—discerned friend the 15-y onlythree years removed from himself “Yes.” He over. would beright driver feltkindlyinclinedto answer, thetow-truck sensing someoneinneed, but routine fortow companies, truck into heslurred thephone. a tire?” company. unexplainably dialedatow truck thephonebookand fumbled with he hisincapacity, Foggily aware of a rear tire wasflat. needed theircar, whenhiswife lastspring One morning senselessstupor. many days inaprivate, hespentfartoo addicted, sick, work, S ieMn anUndelivered Speech A FineMan, Strangely andinstantlyover-Strangely driver— thebigtruck On site, Hearing aquestionthatwashardly “Got anybody there thatcanchange ear grip of dereliction and dereliction of ear grip ilr,te loo.Unable to thenalcohol. killers, become habituated to pain- term employee had andfriend along- and personalproblems, through multiple health uffering ee atdt ei alaan thatlife never wanted to beinjailagain, heknewonlythat a Bible injail, reading Three years earlier, out emotion. andwith- straightforward hispast, me of James told smile. and aheart-warming hisshaven headlitupby sincere eyes tie, well-creased trousers and coat, in sport handsomelydressed broad-shouldered, tall, ablackman, of gentle giant looking, good- Richardson wasasurprise—a James laterthey cameto my office, When to forgivecapacity andsetright. theLord’s infinite reminding himof by aman’s inchanging instrument life, atire whoinchanging wasthe truck, thetow wanted to meetthedriver of my friend’s recovery, account of foramanwhohasnone.”a fewshirts butIamgoingfrom here to buy myself, “Goodness knows Ihave littleenough He said, was findinginhelpingothers. thejoy he my spoke friend of triumph, his telling meof Weeks later, Park. Birmingham’s Linn the homelessin including persons, to needy ministry passionately joinedin and and addictions, doned hisbadhabits aban- faith, forming his way to atrans- my found friend driver, by thetow-truck mentored many weeks, events over of turn In a and to restore him. the Lord to renew hislife

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SAMFORD Dthe Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education and Professional Studies report at Samford since the fall of 2004, was named dean of the education school, SAMFORD effective Sept. 15. Buchanan Winner Sanders Believes A member of the Samford education faculty since 1989, Box also in Giving Italian Music Its Due served as associate dean of curriculum and instruction and chair and pro- r. Donald Sanders firmly believes 18th-century keyboard music and 17th- fessor in the award-winning teacher that good students challenge century Italian church music. On his education department of the edu- teachers to be better. “Everything most recent tour in 2004, he led the D cation school. about teaching is reciprocal,” said the group to an Italian opera house in Box is a longtime music faculty member. “Good Mantua where Mozart performed as a member of students are absolutely part of the reason 13-year old student. the board of for a teacher doing a good job.” “Betty Sue Shepherd [his piano- examiners for But this year’s Buchanan Teaching teaching colleague at Samford] was the National Award winner also subscribes to pianist along, and I asked her to perform,” he Council for the Leon Fleischer’s definition: “The said. “She played some Mozart. It was a Accreditation of teacher’s role is to inspire.” wonderful experience.” Teacher Education Sanders has worked to do that over Sanders performs regularly as a [NCATE]. She has the years in two distinctly different chamber music player and accompanist been a team settings, the lecture course and the with his colleagues in the Division of member on performance skill class. He teaches music Music, and also speaks and writes about Dean Jeanie Box numerous history to lecture sections and piano to NCATE reviews throughout the U.S. individual students in the School of She received her B.S. degree from Performing Arts. and her M.S., Ed.S. “I try to get the students talking in and Ph.D. degrees from the University lecture courses,” he said, calling the shift of Alabama at Birmingham. away from the 50-minute lecture in the Box received the George Macon direction of class participation the Teaching Award at Samford in 1992.■ biggest teaching change he’s seen in 31 years at Samford. “In one-on-one performance classes, it’s a matter of getting students to Samford Gets Its improve, no matter where they start. “I like the mix of teaching both Highest Ranking kinds of classes,” he said. Sanders’ academic specialty is 17th- amford University vaulted into and 18th-century Italian music, which Sthird place in the South among he believes gets credit for less influence master’s degree schools the 2006 U.S. in the formation of classical music than News & World Report rankings of it deserves. America’s Best Colleges, its highest “There is the feeling in some circles ranking in history. Samford ranks that German and Austrian music had higher in its peer group than any more influence than Italian,” he said, Alabama school. “but Mozart’s music was actually an Dr. Donald Sanders leads one of Samford moved up from fifth amalgamation of German and Italian his music history classes. in the South in its category, Best styles. That’s just one example.” —Master’s, which includes Sanders joined the Samford music 17th- and 18th-century Italian music. He schools offering undergraduate, faculty in 1974. He holds a bachelor’s in is a contributor to the current edition of master’s and some doctoral programs. piano performance from the University the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Samford also ranks 13th in the of South Carolina, a master’s in piano Musicians. South in the Best Value category. performance from Michigan State He also is completing a modern “Public recognition for academic University and a Ph.D. in musicology edition of the first music written for quality and effectiveness is hard to from the University of Kansas. piano in 1732, a work entitled 12 Sonatas come by, so it means a great deal to be The South Carolina native has led by Lodovico Giustini. Sanders’ edition is acknowledged by peers and other Samford music students on tours of scheduled for publication by Carl experts,” said President Thomas E. Italy, where he has done research on Fischer Publishing in early 2006. ■ Corts. ■

3 Went SPECIALREPORT Noted ScholarGerges Explains Why JIHAD Oct. 13atSamford. J. Roderick DavisLecture Fawaz Gerges delivers the Global Why JihadWent Global. many books, outlined inthemostrecent ofhis bedefeated—themes might finally a globalphenomenonand howit (“armed struggle”),how itbecame origins ofthemilitantIslamistjihad Lecture Series. Gerges discussed the speaker intheJ.Roderick Davis Samford Oct.13 asafeatured Lawrence returned College, to Middle EasternStudiesatSarah Chair inInternationalAffairs and Fawaz Gerges, ChristianA.Johnson The Far Enemy: by SeanFlynt Medina. Saudi Arabia was the birthplace is decentralized, and local affiliates are of the Prophet Mohammed. This is now acting on their own. where Islam was born.” Unfortunately, the war in Iraq has

The third major development in the given Al Qaeda “a new lease on life,” REPORT jihadist movement’s growth outside the Gerges said. In addition to toppling a region was, ironically, its defeat in the secular dictatorship once allied with the local struggles that had been its focus since U.S., the war in Iraq has achieved the Al the 1970s. By the late 1990s, Gerges said, Qaeda goals of alienating the main- SPECIAL most jihadists had declared a “unilateral stream Muslim world from the U.S., and cease fire,” essentially surrendering. “Of serving as a rallying point and training course,” he added, “a small minority of ground for a new jihadist army. “I jihadists, mainly in Afghanistan, decided wonder sometimes if the way we defined to expand the war away from the near the threat, the way we reacted to the enemy to the far enemy.” threat, the way we still define the threat, he noted author, analyst and Gerges said this fringe-of-a-fringe plays exactly into the hands of Al Qaeda commentator said the calculated that, having been defeated at and Osama bin Laden,” Gerges said. jihadist movement was born home and rejected even by other in the mid-1970s in Egypt jihadists, they could galvanize support Practicing What We Preach and for two decades was for their cause by attacking the U.S. and “The worst thing you can do in this T particular war is fight a unilateral war,” primarily focused on replacing existing provoking a violent response that would Middle Eastern regimes—“the near alienate and radicalize the mainstream Gerges said. “Every single major break- enemy”—with Muslim theocracies. Muslim world. They had already defeated through against Al Qaeda since 9/11 has Several developments turned a portion one superpower, so why not take on occurred as a result of multilateral coor- of the movement down the path toward another? So, Al Qaeda emerged in 1998 dination and collaboration with our direct attacks on “the far enemy”—the with the express intent of attacking the allies—every single one. We must create and its allies. U.S. directly. a highly complex, highly viable, multi- lateral coalition to engage the inter- The Road to 9/11 Playing into bin Laden’s national community in order to slay the The jihadist defeat of the Soviet super- Hands? monster.” Doing that, he said, will “com- power in Afghanistan in 1989 was of plete the internal encirclement of Al The good news, according to Gerges, is critical importance because it left Qaeda.” that “there were few takers for Al Qaeda’s 100,000 U.S.-supported, -trained and Gerges said such coalition-building project in the Muslim world.” The group -armed jihadists in search of a new fight, must include reaching out to the 70 remains far outside the Muslim main- Gerges said. “What do you do with a percent of the Muslim world’s popu- stream and even outside the jihadist huge army of seasoned, professionalized, lation under the age of 20, nurturing mainstream. Gerges noted that U.S. empowered and emboldened jihadists their hope for the future and their intelligence agencies estimate the on the move?” attraction to the American ideal. But he maximum number of Al Qaeda members As the jihadists pondered that warned that this will be difficult to do if at approximately 10,000. The Egypt- question, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded the U.S. also defends the oppressive based jihadist group Jamaa Islamiya, by oil-rich U.S. ally Kuwait. Saudi jihadist regimes that seek to limit the futures and contrast, has a membership of more Osama bin Laden proposed to the Saudi rights of those young people. than 100,000, and its leaders have Arabian government that he assemble an “I would say one of the most criticized Al Qaeda for endangering army of fellow jihadists to expel the important ideas in this particular war is remaining local jihadist movements by secular tyrant Hussein from Kuwait to keep a healthy distance from dictators,” attacking the United States. As a result of without resorting to U.S. military inter- Gerges said. “Look who our friends are such disagreement, Gerges said, “there is vention at the of the Muslim in the Middle East even after 9/11. Our a major civil war taking place within the world. The Saudi government rejected friends are the sheiks and the princes and jihadist movement.” bin Laden’s offer and engaged the U.S. to royal families in Saudi Arabia. Our friends Al Qaeda’s strategy failed in drive Hussein’s army from Kuwait. are the dictators in Algeria and Egypt, Afghanistan, bringing down Al Qaeda’s Suddenly, the far enemy had a perma- who have tens of thousands of political Taliban allies and severely weakening the nent military presence in the most prisoners. How do you reach out to this organization. “I think we have done sacred of Muslim lands. huge constituency—the 70 percent of magnificently against Al Qaeda,” Gerges “Our stationing of troops in Saudi the Muslim population—while, on the said. “Al Qaeda now is a shadow of its Arabia in 1991 was the most important one hand, you invade a country and say, former self.” He noted that the U.S. catalyst in enraging religious sensibilities ‘We want to liberate you, to liberalize estimates that 65 percent of Al Qaeda’s throughout the Muslim world and, in you, to democratize you,’ and on the leaders are dead, almost every Al Qaeda particular, in alienating Osama bin other hand you welcome the king of lieutenant involved in the 9/11 attacks Laden and the radicals of his ilk,” Gerges Saudi Arabia, the dictators of Egypt and has been arrested, 5,000 Al Qaeda foot said. “Saudi Arabia isn’t just another Algeria? To practice what we preach—I soldiers have been arrested or killed, and country. Saudi Arabia is the heart of the think this would be one of the most Osama bin Laden and other top Al Muslim Oma, or community, world- effective tools in trying to defeat the Qaeda leaders are in hiding and out of wide. Saudi Arabia is the home of the serial killers who visited death and havoc contact with their remaining lieutenants. two holiest shrines in Islam—Mecca and upon our shores on 9/11.” ■ The result, Gerges said, is that Al Qaeda

5 REPORT SPECIAL

Reflections on EGYPTby Mary McCullough or the past 10 years, I have been The Fulbright seminar was based in Cairo, interested in the cultures of North Africa where we attended lectures on ancient Egypt, pre- and the Middle East, especially their con- Islamic literature, contemporary Christianity in temporary literature and music. After Egypt, Islamic art and architecture, Islam in Ftwo days of orientation at Yale University Egypt, bedouin culture, the feminist movement in in late June, I traveled with 15 other educators on Egypt and contemporary Egyptian art. a long-awaited journey to Egypt. We were par- One surprising issue that surfaced during our ticipants in a Fulbright-Hays Summer Seminar lectures had to do with democracy, which Abroad. I had looked forward to the experience Egyptians seem to feel must spring from the since learning of my appointment in the spring. people of a country and not be imposed as a Our preparatory lectures on women’s issues, disguised form of Western imperialism. We current Egyptian politics, music and dance, discovered that the Egyptian political scene is very Dr. Mary McCullough’s Egypt’s connection to its past, and Egyptian complicated, and there is the feeling that the Egyptian travels as a literature only whetted my appetite. Western media sometimes focus too much on Fulbright-Hays Scholar Landing in Cairo June 30, we settled into our marginal groups such as the Kefaya movement, included visits to the hotel and later enjoyed an expansive dinner which is not seen as important by many Egyptians. Great Pyramids, the hosted by the Egyptian Fulbright staff. The con- Many of the lectures coincided with cultural tomb of Ramses II at tinuous hospitality amazed all of us; the generous, activities and tours. With our well-trained, enter- Abu Simbel (Page 7 genuine spirit and sense of humor for which taining and knowledgeable tour guide, Mohammed top, with McCullough Egyptians have a reputation made us all feel at Ossama, we visited the pyramids and the Sphinx; in foreground) and a ease within the culture. Not only did the the Egyptian Museum of Antiquities, where the market at Khan el Fulbright staff and our tour guides welcome us, treasures from King Tutankhamen’s tomb are Khalili in medieval Cairo. but everywhere we went, Egyptians of all ages exhibited along with numerous ancient Egyptian shouted, “Welcome! Welcome to Egypt!” when artifacts such as mummified animals; and the they learned we were from the United States. Mummy Room, where mummies of Ramses, People were so much more welcoming than I ever Nefertiti and others are on display. We saw Islamic thought possible. Cairo, the Coptic Christian neighborhoods of

6 Cairo and a synagogue. We went to a perform- ance of rolling dervishes and a concert by Wasat el Balad, a popular, socially and politically minded contemporary Egyptian band, much appreciated by Egypt’s youth. We took a weekend trip to Alexandria, where we visited the recently rebuilt library and learned about Egypt when it was dominated by the Roman Empire. We went to Sharm el Sheikh, a resort on the Sinai Peninsula, where we went snorkeling in the Red Sea and visited Egypt’s oldest monastery, St. Catherine’s. Our final trip was a four-day cruise on the Nile, where we visited Upper Egypt (the southern part of the country, so called because the Nile flows north), the Valley of the Kings, Luxor and Aswan, and Abu Simbel. We also spent several days discussing current events and issues of the region with VIPs. We visited the Arab League (the Arab world’s equi- valent to the United Nations), where we were given a tour and attended a lecture on the role of the Arab League in the Middle East peace process. On the same day, we met Israel’s ambassador to started early in Islam to distinguish between Egypt after his talk and question-and-answer women who had converted to Islam and those session, arranged especially for our group. who had not, and to distinguish between the The Arab League is obviously interested in wives of Mohammed and other women. The style peace between Israel and Palestine but seems to varied widely from region to region. Women have see a side not always shown in U.S. media. The started veiling recently for several reasons: league sees the withdrawal of troops from Gaza as economic (they don’t need a hairdresser), familial problematic because without an airport or sea- or peer pressure, religious, and others. The Koran port, and with Israeli soldiers still posted at the states that both women and men should lower border, Gaza will be like a prison for Palestinians, their gaze and be modest, so the “hidjab” (the with no free access to the outside world. Koranic term for the veil, which can also mean The league was not in favor of the U.S. “screen,”“partition” or “curtain”) can be inter- invasion of Iraq but would work with the United preted as a symbol of modesty. States to stabilize the country, sending its troops As I reflect on my monthlong experience, I in if the U.S. would withdraw. Thus far, however, think of how my perceptions about Egypt shifted. the U.S. seems unwilling to do so. I learned quickly that Egyptians feel very con- Each seminar participant proposed a cur- nected to their ancient past, and they see their ricular project to be completed at the participant’s identity as Egyptian, not Middle Eastern, Arab or respective institution upon returning to the African. The stereotypes, the misinformed and United States. My project focuses on the history incomplete images so many people have unfor- of women in Egypt and issues facing contem- tunately taint opinions about people who are porary Egyptian women, with particular focus on similar to us in more ways than we might think. I the Islamic practice of veiling. would like to return to the area to learn more Veiling is a complex question. It existed in about the complex interactions that make up pre-Islamic societies in the Middle East but was Egyptian society, whether they be cultural, political, social, artistic—or simply human. I am grateful that I was able to experience Egypt firsthand, and my interest in this area has increased. I am proud to have been an unofficial representative of the United States, to promote cultural exchange and understanding of this much misinterpreted part of the world. ■

Dr. Mary E. McCullough is assistant professor of French in the world languages and cultures depart- ment at Samford University. She traveled in Egypt during July as a Fulbright-Hays Scholar. She has documented her research in a booklet for Samford cultural perspectives courses. The booklet is available from Dr. McCullough.

7 Applebaum Study of Gulag Shows LECTURE Vastness of Soviet Repression RUSHTON by William Nunnelley

One of the most pervasive elements of Soviet life during the mid-20th century was the Gulag system of work camps that constantly threatened the lives of ORussian citizens at all levels of society. Soviet premier Vladimir Lenin began the system of forced labor camps in the early ’20s, but they reached their zenith under dictator Joseph Stalin between 1929 and his death in 1953. The mass labor system ended after Stalin’s death, although smaller, and in some cases, more brutal political prisons for dissidents stayed open through the 1980s. Yet the West had little broad knowl- edge of the Gulag before Russian novelist and Nobel Prize-winner Alexandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about it in his three- volume work The Gulag Archipelago in 1973–75. Solzhenitsyn’s exhaustive study was based on his own eight years in Soviet prison camps, his memories of other prisoners’ stories, and letters and other documents. Two years ago, a Washington Post LECTURES RUSHTON columnist, Anne Applebaum, provided a Applebaum stressed at Samford that one made up of hundreds, even further picture of the system in her book the topic of her book was not new and thousands, of individual camps, or Gulag: A History, for which she received that although Solzhenitsyn “had no lagpunkts, sometimes spread out over the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for general non- access to archives,” he did “get the thousands of square miles of otherwise fiction writing. The first study to make general outline of the history right.” But, empty tundra.” use of recently released Soviet archives she concluded, “archives can make a The majority of prisoners were on the Gulag system, Applebaum’s work difference.” peasants and workers, she said, “not the not only substantiated Solzhenitsyn’s Among other documents, she used intellectuals who later wrote memoirs account, but added significantly to the the day-to-day archive of the Gulag and books.”With few exceptions, she public’s knowledge of the Gulag. It is administration, with inspectors’ reports, noted, the camps were not constructed being translated into more than financial accounts and in order to kill people; Stalin preferred 20 languages. letters from camp firing squads for mass executions. Even Applebaum, a directors to their super- so, the camps could be lethal. Nearly one Bessemer, Ala., native, visors in Moscow. By quarter of the Gulag’s prisoners died delivered the annual reading these documents, during the years of World War II. Ray Rushton Lecture at “the full extent of the Gulag prisoners came and went, and Samford’s Cumberland system, and its impor- camp rosters were very fluid, she said. School of Law this fall. tance to the Soviet They left because they died, escaped, had She spoke on a program economy, comes into short sentences, were released to the Red with her husband, Radek focus,” she said. Army or because they were promoted Sikorski, a native of “We had always from prisoner to guard. There were Poland and an official of known that there were amnesties for the old, for pregnant the American Enterprise many camps,” she women and for anyone no longer useful Institute in Washington, said. “Thanks to in the forced labor system. D.C. Shortly before their archives, however, we “These releases were invariably fol- Oct. 10 appearance, Sikorski now know that there lowed by new waves of arrests,” she said. was elected to the new Polish were at least 476 As a result, some 18 million people Senate. (See separate story.) camp systems, each passed through the camps during the

8 Common Voice Makes U.S. and Europe ‘Seem Legitimate,’ Says Sikorski LECTURE

adek Sikorski, elected to the new RPolish Senate in September, under-

scored his nation’s stance as a staunch RUSHTON U.S. ally during an October appearance at Samford. He described Poland as “trans-Atlantic minded” and noted that in the recent election, voters actually exchanged one pro-U.S. government for another that is even more pro-American. Sikorski has been a resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute and executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative in Washington, D.C., for the past three years. He returned to Poland in late October to take his seat in the Senate, representing his native region of Bydgoszcz. Speaking as part of Samford’s Ray Rushton Lecture Series at the , Sikorski said the United States now has a willingness to talk with European allies. “Only when Europe and the United States speak together does it make them seem legitimate,” he said. His hope is for a more united Europe because that would mean “a more effective Europe.” Sikorski spoke on a program with his wife, author Anne Applebaum, whose book Gulag: A History was awarded the Ray Rushton Lecturers Anne Applebaum and Radek Sikorski speak at Samford. 2004 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction Stalin era, and another six to seven But if the Gulag played such a large writing. (See separate story.) million were deported to exile villages. part in Soviet history, Applebaum asked, Europe needed the U.S. as an ally “in The camps began as part of Stalin’s why did people in the West know so the old days,” Sikorski said, to protect it effort to increase industrial output and little about the system for so long? After from the threat of Soviet Russia. Now, he collectivize agriculture, and spread to all, she said, in the terror famine of the said, it needs its American ally, because virtually every sector of the economy. 1930s, “Stalin killed more Ukrainians while the population of Europe will They were located all across the vast than Hitler murdered Jews.” shrink during the next few years, the country, from cities such as Moscow to Her answer was twofold: partly number of terrorist-minded jihadists will power plants above the Arctic Circle to because the archives were closed and the grow dramatically. Poland has a peace- fishing camps on the Pacific coast. Soviet camps were never filmed, as the keeping tradition through the North Prisoners did everything from digging German concentration camps were at Atlantic Treaty Organization [NATO], he coal with a pickax to running nuclear the end of World War II; partly because noted, and that continues with Polish power plants to building apartments and the Soviet system of socialism had its troops in Iraq. designing airplanes. defenders in the West through the 1930s Sikorski said that even though “In the Soviet Union of the 1940s, and ’40s, vestiges of which remained as Poland has held elections since the fall of the decade the camps reached their zenith, late as the 1980s. communism 15 years ago, the recent it would have been difficult, in many Why study the Gulag system? election was the first “that is about the places, to go about your daily business “The more we understand how future.” One reason, he said, was that it and not run into prisoners,” she said. different societies have transformed took the people of Poland a long time to While the camps were designed as their neighbors and fellow citizens into get away from their “Gulag vision” that places for people to work, they also were objects, the more we know of the stemmed from almost half a century intended “to terrorize and subjugate the specific circumstances which led to each under Soviet control. population,” said Applebaum. “It was a episode of mass murder, the better we Now, he said, Poland needs to living threat [of being sent to a camp] will understand the darker side of our concentrate on such internal issues as that every Soviet citizen would have own human nature,” said Applebaum. ■ repairing its roads, eliminating cor- ruption and doing something about its known about and everyone would have ■ feared.” 18 percent unemployment figure.

9 2005 HOMECOMING

Reunions, Balloon Rides, Music, Football, Cosby and More: Samford Homecoming Celebration Has It All

by Mary Wimberley

10 What a 2005 lumna Pat Barnes Gillespie ’55 recalls that her senior homecoming, in the fall of 1954, was celebrated in the red mud of the new Homewood campus. A“We still had classes at East Lake, but we had our parade through downtown

Homewood, and then laid the cornerstone for HOMECOMING Samford Hall,” said Gillespie, who was a member of the Homecoming Court that year. By the fall of 1957, students had started classes on the new campus, beginning a new chapter in the history of Samford and subsequent homecomings. Alumni and students by the thousands celebrated a fun-filled Homecoming 2005 on a picture-perfect fall weekend Oct. 28–30. Activities ranged from a gala homecoming banquet and fireworks Friday through Saturday reunions on a tent-filled quad to an exciting win for the Samford football team to an evening of laughter with comedian Bill Cosby. Sunday’s worship service in filled-to-capacity Hodges Chapel completed a great weekend. Former band member Bonnie Bolding Swearingen ’55, back for her 50-year class reunion, reprised a role she first enjoyed as an undergraduate. Tapped as “honorary drum At the brunch, 1949 classmates June Baggett major” for the day, she conducted the Samford and Pat Scofield, both of Birmingham, tied for marching band in the Fight Song during the Lockmiller Award given to the female present Samford’s 31-11 win over Tennessee State. from the earliest class who has not won the prize Afterward, Swearingen recalled that during previously. Retired chemistry department chair the 1954 football season, she was the drum major Leven Hazlegrove ’47 received the male and a cheerleader. “I would wear my cheerleader Lockmiller Award. outfit during the first half of a game, change into During the day, alumni from classes ranging the drum major uniform for halftime, and then from the early 1940s, such as Florrie Hurtt—who put my cheerleading clothes back on for the hasn’t missed a homecoming since her graduation second half,” she said. in 1942—to the newest grads of 2005 returned to The quick-change routine got even trickier at their alma mater to reconnect with friends and homecoming, when she was in the court and the professors. women wore eveningwear. “Then I also had to Saturday morning events included an on- change into my long dress for the halftime cere- campus parade featuring the band, cheerleaders Top: Former drum mony,” said Swearingen, who lives in Chicago, Ill. and eight floats, all led by the grand marshals, major Bonnie Bolding One of her 1955 classmates, Pat Powell of President Thomas E. Corts and wife, Marla, Swearingen ’55 leads the Birmingham, was among those who enjoyed a full riding in a horse-drawn carriage. Samford Band during the day of events, beginning the morning high above Judges picked Zeta Tau Alpha’s float, themed homecoming win over campus in the gondola of a colorful hot-air “Cage the Tigers” in reference to the afternoon’s Tennessee State. balloon. “The balloon ride was a lot of fun,” she opponents from Tennessee State University, for said as she prepared to reminisce with friends at the first-place $1,000 prize. Phi Mu won second Adjacent: Student Saturday’s Golden Reunion banquet. and Alpha Delta Pi won third. organizations welcome Pat Gillespie also was celebrating her 50-year Pleased parade watchers included Michael back alumni and friends reunion at the Golden Bulldog brunch with her ’92 and Paula Martin Fargarson ’93 of on the quadrangle. brother, Bob Barnes ’52 and sister-in-law, Judy Birmingham, and their three children, Anna, Brown Barnes ’56. She had introduced the two Caleb and Mary Claire. “We’re just hanging out while she and Judy were practicing organ at and going on to the game,” said Michael, Ruhama Baptist Church. They all live in the describing a schedule that many would duplicate. a Birmingham area. Zeta Tau Alpha’s “Cage the Tigers” wins float competition. Samford’s Justin Ray gains ground against Tennessee State. Above right: The Samford Marching Band swings into action as part of the Homecoming parade.

The quadrangle was dotted with said the Spanish/ white tents as gathering points for biology double major. members of classes and organizations. “I spent the full 10 The Pi Kappa Phi tent was the weeks that summer. happening place for brothers and alumni We stayed in three raising awareness for their philanthropy, towns, and I received which supports disabled Americans. Jim 16 credits,” she Stephens ’73, M.B.A. ’75, enjoyed the remembers. A music camaraderie. minor, McArthur also “I have been reminiscing, remem- enjoyed visiting with bering how beautiful the campus was music alumni who and how much more beautiful it is now,” happened by the tent, Comedian Bill Cosby (in Samford shirt) chats with Samford said Stephens, who lives in Bessemer, which was set up near football players, from left, Brad Booth, Ossie Buchannon, Steve Ala., and teaches business education at Buchanan Hall music Wisdom, Kevin Pughsley and Cortland Finnegan at Art Gallery Hueytown High School. He enjoyed a building. reception. brief sidewalk visit with Dr. Corts. “He’s Alumnus Mitch leaving a legacy,” Stephens said of Corts, McCoy ’92, J.D. ’95, 1:30 p.m. kickoff. “We are members of who will retire this year. Stephens’ own went to Spain after graduating as a the First and 10 Club,” said Brake, a legacy includes his son and fellow Pi Spanish minor. The trip had such an football supporter and familiar face at Kap, Matt, a Samford sophomore. impact on him that Samford athletic events. The siblings live Joe Wingard ’66 enjoyed an he is now finishing a Ph.D. in Spanish in Huffman. impromptu visit with retired English literature at the University of Georgia. Another avid sports enthusiast, Ed professor Ray Atchison ’43. It was The 45-member Samford Gospel Holcombe ’65, spent the morning in Wingard’s first time at homecoming Choir performed a well-received concert Seibert Hall. “I enjoyed watching both since his graduation. of gospel favorites on the Beeson the men and women’s basketball “I waited 40 years to come back University Center steps. scrimmages,” said Holcombe, a Cullman because I couldn’t attend while I was Inside Beeson University Center, the pharmacist who also was looking working,” said Wingard, who made up Bulldog Glee Club kicked off a barbecue forward to the football game. for lost years by registering for all events lunch with a miniconcert. The 15- Football fans were not disappointed, through Sunday brunch. He retired this member club of alumni, faculty and as the handily year after a career teaching English at students premiered their talents at a defeated Tennessee State. Andalusia High School. football game two weeks prior. The Off-the-field activities included a The “Samford in Spain” tent cele- group is led by music professor Timothy brief pregame dedication ceremony at brated the program’s 20th anniversary. Banks ’74, its organizer, and includes Spirit Plaza, which includes a bronze “We had 17 in the first group, and at such alumni as physics professor Tommy medallion of the Samford bulldog and least 500 students have gone in all,” said Tarvin ’70 and retired communications named bricks honoring individuals. world languages and cultures depart- director Jack Brymer ’67. Spirit Plaza, located between Seibert ment chair Myralyn Allgood ’61,who The midday meal was a popular Stadium and Joe Lee Griffin Field, was has led most of the trips. draw for alumni, students and parents. initiated by the Class of 2003, repre- Pamela McArthur ’99 of West Palm James Brake ’50 and his sister, sented at the ceremony by class member Beach, Fla., was on the 1998 trip. Estelle Brake Teal, who attended in the Sara Ellison, who flew from her home in “Traveling in Spain was one of the most early 1970s, enjoyed the barbecue before New York, N.Y., to cut the celebratory exciting education experiences I had,” heading to for the ribbon.

12 Sara Ellison cuts ribbon at dedication of Spirit Plaza.

Children of alumni and students enjoyed the FunZone with the popular MoonWalk and other options. Halftime activity included the presentation of the Homecoming Court Homecoming Court members enjoy the day. They are, from left, freshmen Lauren and crowning of senior Emily Morris of Smith, Brookhaven, Miss., and Paul Anderson, Jacksonville, Fla.; sophomores Stephanie Memphis, Tenn., as queen. She and Elliott, Birmingham, and Bobby Smith, Pensacola, Fla.; juniors Suzie Hornor, senior honor escort Jacob Simmons of Germantown, Tenn., and Chad Robison, Knoxville, Tenn.; queen Emily Morris, Memphis, Hendersonville, Tenn., were elected by Tenn., and honor escort Jacob Simmons, Hendersonville, Tenn.; and seniors Olivia vote of the student body. This year’s Keaggy, Nashville, Tenn., Brian Cook, Decatur, Ala., Ann Claire Vaughn Paris, Tenn., and queen, a sports medicine/premed major Brandon Foltz, Nashville, Tenn. Morris and Simmons also are seniors. and goal keeper for the women’s soccer team, was crowned by 1989 queen A memorial choral evensong on Philip Wise, senior pastor of Second Rachel Corts Wachter ’90 of Spanish Friday honored the life of Andrew Baptist Church, Lubbock, Texas, spoke at Fort, Ala. Gerow Hodges ’42, a Samford life trustee a Sunday morning service. The pulpit Homecoming 2005’s guest enter- who died Oct. 13. The event was held in from which he spoke, he noted, was not tainer Bill Cosby may have set a record Andrew Gerow Hodges Chapel, dedi- 40 yards away from where he and room- for foot traffic in 2,600-seat Wright cated in 2003. mate Bill Stevens would sleep until five Center, which was almost sold out for Beeson School of Divinity Dean minutes before class. both of his back-to-back shows. Wearing Timothy George recalled that when “We were two jocks who didn’t hold a Samford sweatshirt, Cosby held forth trustees voted to name the chapel for the much promise, so there’s hope for all of from a stage that was bare except for an retired Birmingham businessman, the you,” he joked to the students in the easy chair and small side table. honoree, known by his middle name, room, noting that Stevens is now chair- The perennial favorite delighted two insisted that his first name be included. man of the Samford board of trustees. audiences of students, alumni, parents In the Greek language, the name The 1970 graduate observed that and community members with jokes Andrew connotes valor and courage, although Americans live in the most and stories on the trials of parenthood, traits that George noted earned Hodges prosperous, most democratic and safest being a student and grandparenting. He a bronze star for his heroic actions as an country in the world, most are not ended each two-hour show with his American Red Cross volunteer in World content. classic dentist-chair routine, to which War II. “I believe what every human being audiences responded with appreciative In the Bible, Andrew, Jesus Christ’s wants is the kind of contentment that ovations. first disciple, was known as an encour- lasts,” said Wise. To find contentment, “My face hurt from laughing so ager and an introducer, exemplified by Wise said, “Jesus says to look around you much,” said one audience member, his introducing Peter and Jesus Christ, and don’t worry, seek God’s kingdom, whose sentiment was echoed by many. and introducing the boy with the loaves and live your life today, not tomorrow or Todd Heifner ’91, ’98 M.B.A., was and fishes to Jesus. yesterday.” Cosby’s host for the day. “He couldn’t “Our Andrew had a gift of intro- “Dream about tomorrow and learn have been nicer,” Heifner said of Cosby, ducing, as in Samford to the Beeson from yesterday,” advised Wise, “but don’t whose only food request was for Coney family,” said George, referring to the let that keep you from living today.” ■ Island-style hotdogs. connection that resulted in the school’s “He was most generous with this largest gift from a single benefactor. time and comments, and asked me a lot “In his quiet way,” George said of of questions about Samford. It was a Hodges, “he was bringing people homerun hit for Samford,” said Heifner, together and introducing them to Jesus who was Samford student government Christ. He would want us to keep intro- president during 1990–91. ducing people to Jesus Christ.” Special worship services bookended In the same chapel, located on the the three-day homecoming celebration. site of a former men’s dorm, alumnus

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HOMECOMING on a Life of Their Own’ by William Nunnelley Robert McCammon graduated from journalism school during the Watergate era of the mid-’70s. He dreamed of becoming a reporter, but because of the glut of young journalists seeking to become the next Bob Woodward or Carl Bernstein, he couldn’t find a job. Finally, he was hired by the advertising department of a Birmingham department store, Loveman’s. He delivered the store’s daily ads to The Birmingham News. It was “as dead-end a job” as one could imagine, he said. But McCammon still wanted to write. He enjoyed read- ing science fiction as a youth, and after reading an early RStephen King novel, decided he could write horror fiction. He had developed a vivid imagination as a youngster, partly, he thinks, from being reared by his grandparents in a rambling old house of Spanish architecture, now known as Gabrella Manor, in Birmingham’s Roebuck section. By the late ’70s, publishers were looking for another Stephen King. About the same time, in 1977, McCammon decided to try his hand at fiction writing full-time. His first book, Baal, was bought by Avon Books, the paperback publisher, and published in 1978. “It was a terrible book,” the author said at Samford during Homecoming. “But they liked it and it sold.” Speaking on the Live at the Library series, he likened the experience to “learning to write in public.” Author Robert McCammon McCammon quickly turned out a second book, and encountered “the sophomore speaks on Live at the Library. curse.” The publisher said the manuscript too closely resembled a film script currently being shot and rejected it. But after seeing the completed movie, Avon decided the resemblance wasn’t there after all. The company bought not only the second book, Night Boat, but a third he had ground out in two months time, Bethany’s Sin, for a combined price of $30,000. These books appeared in 1980, and McCammon was on his way as a novelist. Over the years since, he has written 10 additional novels of horror and general fiction. Several have appeared on the New York Times best-seller list, including Boy’s Life and Gone South. He told his Samford audience he didn’t know how many books he had sold, but one Web site estimated four million were in print. His latest book, Speaks the Nightbird, is a historical novel about a witchcraft trial in early South Carolina. It sat on a shelf for several years because he disagreed with a New York publisher’s proposed changes. After he read from the manuscript on a program at the in Birmingham, River City Press of Montgomery, Ala., published a hardback edition (with- out the changes) in 2002. Avon picked up the paperback rights, and that publication led to a number of favorable reviews. “A writer works alone,” McCammon said. “I don’t work with an outline. It’s just a leap of faith. It’s fun not fully knowing where you’re going. It can be kind of mystical. These stories take on a life of their own. When your work comes out well, it’s one of the most gratifying feelings you can have.” What should aspiring writers do? “They should read,” said McCammon. “That gives an appreciation for language. It helps you to think. And they should practice writing every day. “They can’t expect not to have to struggle and push,” he said. “But it’s wonderful to see your name on the cover of a book.”And when the author has reached the sta- tus of having his name above the title, as McCammon has, “it’s even more wonderful,” he added. ■ 14 ALUMNI OF THE YEAR ALUMNI OF THE YEAR ALUMNI OF

“Dear God,” began the University profes- Her students at Woodward the small Alabama community where sor in prayer, “thank you for these young Academy improved under her steady her father had been raised, opened its people who have chosen to respond to instruction, but she noticed a decline in doors to 34 students. Today, the school 2005 Your calling to the ministry of teaching.” their skills during the summer. In 1980, has an enrollment of 134 children in first It was Betsy Box’s first day in her Box launched Squirrel Hollow Camp, a through ninth grade on its own 45-acre first education class at Samford summer program designed to address campus in Fairburn, Ga. Her goal is to DUniversity, and the professor started the the academic needs of learning-disabled develop each child into an independent class with a simple prayer. For the first students in a camp-like setting. Several learner who can be successful in a tradi- time in her young life, Box began to parents, pleased with the improvements tional school setting. understand that her desire to be an in their children, urged her to start a Looking back, Box credits Samford HOMECOMING educator was “a calling from God, a full-time school. University with giving her the con- mission.” Today, more than 30 years “Well, that was my dream!” fidence needed to bring her dream to later, that conviction continues to exclaimed Box. She prayed and sought reality. “The professors set a wonderful compel her to dream and to act. wise counsel, sharing her dream with her example,” she said. “For them, teaching While a college student, Box had Sunday school teacher at Southwest was a ministry. For me, that was vital.” opportunity to travel to Berea, Ky., to Christian Church in East Point, Ga. He Today, Box, 2005 Samford Alumna assist in a research project investigating asked Box two questions: “Do you feel of the Year, supports her alma mater with why some children learn differently. there is a need?” and “Are you the best financial gifts to the Samford Fund, ear- Learning disabilities were just beginning person to fill that need?” Box enthusias- marked for scholarships. “I want others to be recognized in academic circles, and tically answered yes to both questions. to be able to have the education that was Box was intrigued with the possibility of “Take it as a green light from God so meaningful to me,” she said. ■ helping children who struggled in school. and pray that He will stop you if it’s not She personally understood their struggles. what He wants you to do,” said her “In the first grade, I’d sit in Mrs. teacher. Murphy’s class and write my Bs and Ds In 1985, in the basement of her backwards and wonder why Dick and church, the Bedford School, named after Jane had a pet cat and a pet ‘god.’ I’d go home, and my mom, who was a teacher, would re-teach me all the information that I had been unable to learn in class,” she recalled. With her mother’s persist- Taking ence, Box ultimately succeeded. “My mom was definitely my a inspiration,” she said, to help GreenLight children who struggled with learning disabilities. The first student for Box in from Kentucky was a 21-year-old welder who could read only at a second-grade level. His goal was to read at a sixth-grade level so by MargaretGod Dempsey he could fill out job applications. “We worked hard for eight weeks,” recalled Box, and the result was that the young man was reading at a seventh- grade level. He thanked his teacher with dream-launching words. “Thank you for my life,” he said. “At that moment, my dream for a school was born. I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I wanted to develop a school for children with learning disabil- Betsy Box ities, so they wouldn’t have to struggle,” she said. After graduating from Samford in 1971, Box moved to Atlanta, landing a job at Woodward Academy, where she pioneered a program working with Margaret Dempsey is learning-disabled children. She also a freelance writer earned a Ph.D. in education. from Atlanta, Ga.

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William E. Hull enrolled at the University of ethnic group, had no women deacons and had Alabama in 1948 as a premedicine major but never ordained a woman,” said Hull. 2005 realized that the profession was not his “calling.” Before he left in 1987, the church included a “I was good at biology and chemistry, and racially diverse membership, and he was privi- my mother wanted me to be doctor, but I didn’t leged to preside at the ordination of his daughter, feel a sense of calling to medicine,” recalled the the first woman to be ordained in a Baptist 1951 Samford graduate and retired provost who church in . Wwas honored as a 2005 Alumnus of the Year for Remembered still in Shreveport for a 1977 his life as a Baptist educator, minister, author and sermon in which he challenged the city’s restric- HOMECOMING lecturer. tive social structure, conservatism and worship of Early in his junior year at Alabama, a clari- the status quo, Hull was a strong force in north fied call to ministry that he had first heard several Louisiana’s religious and political communities. years earlier resulted in a midyear transfer to Active in the city’s Futureshape Commission, Howard College. Interfaith Committee and other civic causes, he “I hit the ground at East Lake and never received the Shreveport Bar Association’s Liberty looked back,” said Hull, who switched his major Bell Award in 1984 and other awards. to religion and, at age 20, took his first pastorate His many other honors from academic and at the one-room Beulah Baptist Church near denominational organizations include the pres- Wetumpka, Ala. He was paid $20 a week. tigious Outstanding Educator Award from the “I was definitely green,” he said of his Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and preaching experience at the time. “They had Schools in 1999. heard me give an H-Day sermon and asked Hull has written seven books on theology or me to be their preacher.” higher education, as well as numerous book chap- Hull went on to earn a master of ters and articles in scholarly and denominational divinity and then a doctorate at Southern publications. He has spoken on The Baptist Hour Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Ky., radio program, and at many national and inter- where he taught and held administrative national Baptist conventions. posts for more than 20 years. His return to Birmingham came at the behest While pursuing his master’s degree, Hull of Samford President Thomas E. Corts. He was married his Howard College sweetheart, named to the new post of provost in 1987, serving Wylodine Hester ’52. They have two grown until 1996, when he was named University pro- children, David, a minister in Huntsville, Ala., and fessor. In his position as research professor, he Susan Hull Walker, an ordained minister in writes and lectures at a pace that some of his Charleston, S.C., and two grandchildren, Emily younger colleagues would find hard to match. Hull and Andrew Hull, a junior history major at “I am swamped in writing projects,” admitted Samford. Hull, whose latest book, Strategic Preaching: The Hull was dean of the School of Theology Role of the Pulpit in Pastoral Leadership, will be and provost at the seminary in 1975 when the released in 2006. For 15 years, he has been the congregation of First Baptist Church, beloved minister in residence at Mountain Brook Shreveport, La., asked him to become their Baptist Church, where he preaches one Sunday a preacher. He had led a revival and Bible month and leads all Wednesday night services. studies for the church, and just as the Beulah Hull admits he’s never been one for purely congregation had been years earlier, the recreational pursuits. “I like to read and write,” he Shreveport membership was immediately said. “I enjoy world travel and occasional trips to taken with him. He found a congregation the beach and mountains. I love my family, but I that was challenged with many societal also enjoy my work.” ■ changes of the mid-70s. “They had never integrated a single Continuing to Set an William Hull EnergeticPace by Mary Wimberley

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For close to half a century, he chronicled the daughter volunteered for the student unfolding of history, tackling such diverse topics at the University of Georgia. “I thought it might as racism, political corruption and the develop- be a way to have fun and meet interesting people,” 2005 ment of the South. From 1948, when he first she said. “After all, every journalist I had ever met accepted his pencil and notepad as a police was fascinating.” She soon discovered she loved reporter at The Birmingham Age-Herald, until the work, not just the people, and changed her F1992, when he finally turned off his computer as major. The elder McAlister encouraged his editor of The Atlanta Journal, Luther Durwood daughter to consider other careers, citing jour- “Mac” McAlister ’49 quietly acknowledges that nalism’s long hours, low pay and public criticism, journalism gave him an opportunity “to have an she said. “But it was too late by then. I’d caught HOMECOMING impact on change in Atlanta and the South.” the journalism bug,” smiled his daughter, who Now retired, the 2005 Alumnus of the Year graduated with a journalism degree from Georgia traces the roots of his life’s work to Howard in 1978. Durwood College and the faculty members there who McAlister met his wife-to-be, Fay Curenton McAlister developed personal relationships with the ’50, at Howard, thanks to a snowball exchange. students. “They cared about us as students, One snowy day, an anonymous female with red interacted with us,” he recalled. hair hit him with an unexpected snowball. Two faculty members Thinking she was a winsome redheaded in particular encouraged classmate from his French class, in McAlister two lifelong Knowing McAlister “returned the favor passions that would birth by throwing a snowball” at and nurture his career. Fay the next time he Anne Crittendon saw her. He soon dis- Martin, his first covered that Curenton journalism teacher, What’s had “inculcated in me a neither consuming curiosity begun the and the desire to snowball accumulate knowledge exchange nor through that curiosity,” Going On would be he said. “That served outdone by it, delivering me very well for the in the her own version of a next 45 years.” Dean World windowsill snowball Percy Burns, an by Margaret Dempsey to him right in English professor, lived the middle of out his belief that, “It was a very good thing to be French class. In 1950, they were educated in a broad field. His joy of learning was married. infectious, and he set a course for me in wanting The McAlisters give con- to learn, be educated, know what was going on in sistently to the Samford Fund. the world.” “Dr. Corts certainly has main- The Birmingham Age-Herald and The tained that atmosphere of Anniston Star, where McAlister honed his craft morality and faith on campus from the late 1940s to the early 1950s, were that will lead an entire gen- training grounds for the budding journalist to put eration in the right direction,” into practice his classroom learning. In 1954, said McAlister. McAlister moved to Atlanta and joined the staff of He and his wife live in The Journal, where, during the next 38 years, he suburban Atlanta, where they served in positions ranging from copy editor to are members of First Baptist women’s editor to managing editor. Church, Decatur. McAlister During his tenure, McAlister mentored is a “multifaceted believer Cynthia Tucker, current editorial page editor for who thinks well and acts The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Mac represents often. He is warmly faithful the old-fashioned, hardworking, straight-arrow as well as intellectually newspaper man,” said Tucker, who was hired by faithful,” said pastor Gary McAlister in 1976, fresh out of college. “He has Parker. In addition to unquestioned professionalism and high ethical their daughter, the standards. Whatever I have become, I owe in part McAlisters have two to Mac.” sons and seven Another closer-to-home McAlister protégé is grandchildren. ■ daughter Jane McAlister Pope, deputy editorial Margaret Dempsey is page editor for The Charlotte Observer. Not a freelance writer intending to study journalism, McAlister’s only from Atlanta, Ga.

17 “The Promise for All Generations” was the theme of the event, held at HealthSouth Conference Center in Birmingham. Robert Holmes of Birmingham, chair of the board of trustees’ University Relations committee, presided. Giving Student and faculty perspectives were presented by senior Zachary Harter and Ida V. to Moffett School of Nursing Dean Nena Sanders. a Harter, an accounting major from Acworth, Leave Ga., expressed appreciation to the donors for the investment they have made in his life. They would never know, he said, the extent of the contributions they have made. “You’ve invested in more than stocks and bonds. It is remarkable to see how people have taken what Legacy God has given them and invested in our lives,” said Harter. Sanders, noting the rich legacy the nursing school has celebrated for 83 years, cited the lives Samford Honors Its Donors of two remarkable women, Ida V. Moffett and by Mary amford University said thank you to Lucille Beeson. A unique synergy resulted, she Wimberley donors who provided generous gifts said, when the lives of the nursing educator and ranging from scholarships to new the Birmingham philanthropist crossed. “They facilities at its annual Philanthropy had much to give, although in very different SDinner Oct. 6. The dinner featured ways,” she said. several exciting announcements for the more than “What would the Ida V. Moffett School of 350 guests, who were saluted for their significant Nursing be if there had not been an Ida V. Moffett financial support during the 2004–05 academic or a Lucille Beeson, or you, who have given so and fiscal year ending May 31. much? Your gifts allow us to continue to dream Special honorees included members of dreams, and I believe the world will be a better Samford’s four lifetime giving societies, which place for it,” said Sanders. recognize cumulative contributions of $100,000 “The Promise” was celebrated musically by or more to the University. the A Cappella Choir, which performed F. Melius

18 Christiansen’s “Offer unto God the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving” and the spirited “Go! Tell It!” arranged by alumnus Ken Berg ’77, ’81 M.Mus.Ed. Conducting duties were shared by Samford School of Performing Arts Dean Milburn Price, who retires this year, and

music professor Timothy P. Banks ’74. LEGACY Commenting on “The Promise for All Generations” initiative, Holmes noted that while Samford is a blessed institution, its story has not been without hardships. “Our present is built upon yesterday’s promise, no matter the GIVING odds, to endure and to flourish for future generations,” he said. “Through the years, this legacy has been developed by leaps of faith taken by alumni, friends and supporters, who put their shoulders to the wheel.” His remarks resonated with those attending, all of whom share his views on the importance of the University. Since he became a trustee in 2000, he said, “This institution has moved me in a way I can’t express in words.” Holmes, senior vice president—ethics and business practices at Alabama Power Company and chair of the Alabama Power Foundation, noted the commitment he and his wife, Camelia, have made to Samford, and urged others to “get on board” with them. “What we’re doing here is something that will leave a legacy,” said Holmes. “Look at me as someone who wants to do some- thing, to leave Samford better than we found it.” Holmes and Vice President for University Relations Michael D. Morgan recognized donors who have contributed at various giving levels. Morgan announced that three donors qualified as Sherman Society members just days before the dinner and will be inducted next year. The Sherman Society, named for Samuel Sterling Sherman, founding president of the college, is the highest lifetime giving recognition at Samford. Boyd and Sara Christenberry of Montgomery, Ala., were Robert Holmes, above, emcees the Samford Philanthropy recognized for their recent major gift commitment to “The Dinner. Top (left), Samford A Cappella Choir entertains; Promise,” which resulted in the Oct. 8 dedication of the (center) Ruth and Homer Floyd; (right) Lonnie Funderburg Christenberry Planetarium in Samford’s Sciencenter. and James Stivender. Bottom, from left, Margie Bolding, Christenberry is a life trustee. Bonnie Bolding Swearingen, Thomas and Marla Corts and Joseph and Jenna Cassese of Birmingham were acknowl- June Bolding Llewellyn; (2) Nena Sanders; (3) Marla Corts, edged for their generous funding of the instrumental rehearsal Genie and John Morris; (4) Malcolm Miller, Jenna and hall in the new music building under construction on campus. Mrs. Cassese is a Samford trustee. Joseph Cassese; (5) Sara Christenberry, Stella Stivender. Bonnie Bolding Swearingen of Chicago, Ill., was thanked for her commitment of a major gift to benefit the Samford theatre

19 20 GIVINGLEGACY Joe Dean. Boyd Christenberry, Barnes; (right)Sara and Wanda Lee, Kay and DavidGeorge, are, from Allyson left, Philanthropy Dinner Enjoying the Valley. II andtherelocation from EastLake to Shades theGreat Depression through World War math of after- initshistory—the periods the mostcritical the president wholedthecollege oneof during namedfor Davis Society, includes theHarwell G. Ruhama group atthedinner. 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Sacred Space: by David Bains Shaping Samford’s Campus

Women’s Residence

Women’s Athletic What the Campus Academic Facilities Facilities Might Have Been: Howard College Preliminary Site Plan 1947

22 n the heart of Samford’s campus, at the good old days and to be again at the president, Harwell Davis, sought a new the head of Centennial Walk, is one place that helped make them what they campus for the school, his top choice of the most poignant monuments to are. Charged with meaning, story and was the Roebuck Golf Course, just over a

the importance of the college cam- ritual, a campus is a sacred space. mile to the northeast of the East Lake BACK pus in American culture. There, one Colleges are also the guardians of campus. Howard would have moved Ifinds a bronze plaque memorializing not treasured goods, centuries of accumu- there had the City of Birmingham been a person, an idea or an event, but a lost lated wisdom and beauty, cutting-edge willing to sell the 100-acre site. place—the East Lake campus of Howard scientific knowledge, the dispassionate Many other possibilities were College. The plaque maps Old Main, the search for truth and the disciplines for considered, as Susan Ingram Hunt Ray LOOKING other buildings and the famous “Sherman forming character. Church-related explained in The Major: Harwell G. Oak.” colleges, like Samford, include Christian Davis: Alabama Statesman and Baptist On the opposite side of the plaque faith among these. Campus planners Leader. These included land adjoining dedicating the walk is a map of the seek to express all these things in their Birmingham-Southern College and Lane Lakeshore Drive campus, not as it is designs and, most importantly, create Park, the present site of the Birmingham now, but as it was when the walk was space that facilitates the research, Botanical Gardens. dedicated in 1988. Visitors who try to community, study and prayer necessary While sites 10 to 15 miles from use it to find the Sciencenter or Hodges to develop and transmit these treasured Birmingham were suggested, Davis Chapel will be frustrated, but alumni goods. insisted that, because of the many com- with fond memories of life in the muting students, the new campus be inauspiciously named Residences A, B Shaping Samford’s Campus accessible by public transportation. Once and C will here find a token of their Many have judged Samford’s campus to an extension of a bus route was guaran- former presence. be quintessentially collegiate. Some first- teed, the land for the present campus As these plaques suggest, college time visitors remark that the campus is was purchased in the spring of 1947. campuses have a special hold on the “the most beautiful” they have seen. In selecting and planning the site, American imagination. Their buildings Others comment that with its green Davis and other Howard leaders drew on point beyond themselves to ancient lawns, large trees, columns and sym- the expertise of Olmstead Brothers, the traditions of learning, their grounds to metrical red brick buildings, it looks famous Brookline, Mass., landscape the beauty of the natural world. As they “just like a college should.” To under- architecture firm. In planning the site, participate in the rituals and activities of stand how the sacred space that is Olmstead collaborated with the school’s college life, students enjoy campuses as Samford has been fashioned and why it architects, the Birmingham firm of E. B. unique places of freedom, community appeals to so many, one must consider Van Keuren and Charles F. Davis, Jr. In and personal discovery. Alumni return to its particular history of vision, planning, the fall of 1947, the site plan was enthu- them to relive fond memories, marvel at investment and adjustments to prag- siastically approved by both the board of improvements, bemoan changes from matic realities. trustees and the Alabama Baptist State While generations of Samford Convention in a resolution that solemnly alumni cannot imagine the school any- called on “future boards of trustees, where else, others remember the East however constituted, to abide by the Lake campus and know that Howard plan.” College only moved to this site in Yet the campus was not developed 1957. After World War II, according to this plan. It would have Administration when the college utilized the entire tract of land the Chapel school had purchased north of what was soon renamed Lakeshore Drive. Entering the main gate, motorists would have found the college chapel at the head Men’s Residence of the drive. To the right would have been a quadrangle containing the men’s dormitories, and beyond them,

Men’s Athletic Football Facilities Field Library Entrance

Lakeshore Drive 23 the football field. To the left of the aspects is how it carefully balances the uniform use of sand-faced bricks, entrance drive would have been the three most common focal points of Flemish bond, limestone trim and academic quadrangle, arranged at an American college campuses—the library, double-sash windows with white trim

BACK angle to Lakeshore Drive, with the administration building and chapel. and mullions marked the campus as administration building, not the library, Baptist colleges planning new being in the colonial Georgian style. at its head and the performing arts campuses in the 1940s and ’50s almost The colonial revival was before any- center at its foot. Beyond the academic invariably chose the colonial tradition. thing else a style for domestic architec- quad on the west side of the campus was Architectural historian Richard Guy ture. Its use at Samford helped associate LOOKING another quadrangle of women’s dormi- Wilson termed Williamsburg the 20th the school with the home. The inclusion tories and a back gate opening onto century’s “great tastemaker.” By all of dormer windows in the roofs of Salter Road. accounts, President Davis’ wife, Lena Vail almost all the buildings highlighted the This plan was rooted in the land- Davis, was a strong supporter of the domestic character of the campus. Even scape design approach established by Williamsburg style. Thus, it was no large buildings were given a more Frederick Law Olmstead (1822–1903), surprise when in 1950 the Howard domestic sense of scale by being broken the firm’s founder. He is best remem- College Alumnus featured a drawing of into smaller parts. The flat-roofed wings bered as a designer of parks and estates, the proposed campus (according to the of some buildings such as Samford and including New York’s Central Park and Olmstead plan) that used colonial Ingalls halls suggested to viewers that an the Biltmore Estate in western North revival buildings. older building had received more Carolina. Olmstead also made major The primary desire of faculty and modern additions. contributions to campus design. He students, however, was for modern, The inclusion of cupolas on large believed campuses should be composed functional and efficient buildings. As late buildings with significant functions of small groups of buildings positioned (Samford, Ingalls, Davis Library and independently wherever they could take Beeson University Center) further best advantage of the topography and cemented the link to colonial scenery. The Olmstead Brothers buildings, especially to site plan for the Howard cam- Williamsburg. The only pus reflected this picturesque building that evoked a approach with its three specific colonial refer- independent groups of ence was the chapel. buildings arranged at Its spire was pro- various angles to one moted as copying another, the faculty that of the First houses along the ridge at Baptist Church in the back of the campus, Providence, R.I. (built and the gently curving roads 1775–76), founded by that ran though the campus. Roger Williams in 1638 as When college officials began the first Baptist Church in to prepare the site, however, they soon America. discovered that grading the land to con- The colonial revival typically form with the plan would be prohibi- combined classical buildings in a lush tively expensive. The campus was as February 1953, the trustees considered garden-like setting. While Samford had restudied twice, by Olmstead Brothers in adopting modern architecture because of few trees in its early years, the landscape 1949 and by Van Keuren and Davis, its “functional use and cheaper cost of was an important part of the campus. apparently independently, in 1953. It was construction.” But they decided that “the Boxwoods were moved from the East the 1953 plan that was built. It substan- architecture remain of the formal type,” Lake campus to create a large formal tially reduced costs by only requiring the though changes could be made “for the garden in the center of the campus. This development of the central portion of sake of economy and functional pur- was later replaced by Centennial Walk, the site, and gave the campus a more poses, provided that the aesthetic beauty which was similar to the plaza depicted formal and impressive public face. of the conservative architecture was not on the school’s 1953 plan. While the initial plan had used a thereby impaired.” Samford’s campus was remarkably formal classical plan of the type promot- Maj. Davis later explained that conservative in its treatment of the ed by early 20th-century architects for potential benefactors had expressed a colonial Georgian style. There are few the academic quadrangle, the final plan preference for a classical style. The archi- modern elements present in the exterior utilized this classical approach through- tects assured Davis that the Georgian of the older buildings. Glass was only out. The central quadrangle was style was the appropriate choice because used in the traditional fashion. Interiors arranged parallel to the road. The it could provide impressive buildings remained firmly separated from exteriors. entrance drive, while still curving like with functional interiors. The monu- Most subsequent buildings maintained those on Olmstead Brothers’ picturesque mental plan developed by Van Keuren the colonial Georgian style, though plan, led into the quadrangle. The open- and Davis displayed this traditional several more recent ones, including the ness to the road, elevated site and com- architecture to maximum effect. Rotunda, Hodges Chapel, the law library pact nature of Samford’s campus make it Within a few years of its opening in and the Sciencenter, diverged from it more impressive than many other similar 1957, the campus was celebrated as “the while staying within the classical tradi- campuses. One of the most successful Williamsburg of the South.” The tion and maintaining the major exterior

24 elements of sand-faced brick, mullioned While visitors are initially impressed Samford’s immediate environment. windows and limestone trim. by the exterior of Samford’s buildings, Despite these challenges, the style Beeson Law Library and the the inside of some buildings provide a and shape of Samford’s campus give it a

Sciencenter reflect different directions jarring contrast. Painted cinderblock and certain dignity and associate it with BACK within the classical tradition. The law ceramic tile show what the architects times and places that help make it sacred library relates to the other buildings on meant when they promised that colonial space. Most fundamentally, however, the campus with its arches and rectangular Georgian exteriors could be combined campus provides a place for community mullioned windows. The oversized with functional and economical interiors. and learning. It is the rituals and elements on its exterior, like those on the There are fewer informal spaces for activities of this community, official and LOOKING east side of the extension to the gathering than on many other campuses. unofficial, that do the most to invest the University Library, reveal the large Ben Brown Plaza provides one informal campus with sacred meaning. At the end volumes that make up its interior. Its outdoor space, but in academic buildings, of their college careers, in academia’s massive size is displayed, not hidden offices and classrooms are placed along most distinctive ritual, students process, through apparent additions. corridors, not around lounges that foster not in a solemn march but in a jubilant The Sciencenter is masterfully inte- interaction and informal learning. The walk, across the campus invested with grated into the symbolic core of the large, open spaces and various groupings years of personal and communal university through its pavilions that of easy chairs and tables in the University meaning, gathering as they go the values, terminate the walks running the length Library are the most intentional efforts memories and spirit of the place and of the quad. It brings Reid Chapel more to provide more contemporary, informal taking them into the world. ■ into the center of the campus. Like the space. law library, it departs from the colonial The campus most significantly Dr. David R. Bains is associate professor of revival by clearly being one complete departs from the American college ideal religion at Samford University. He large building without the illusion of in that there is no college town across developed this article from his 2005 major additions. Unlike the law library, it the grassy lawn. To go anywhere, Samford Faculty ShopTalk. includes itself in the exact style of the students need a car. At East Lake and in older buildings by imitating their sash Marion, Howard’s quadrangle opened to These 1955 campus renderings show windows and dormers. On the west side, a walking neighborhood. When the how portions of the Samford campus its massiveness is broken down through school moved to Lakeshore, it moved might have looked. On the opposite the addition of dormers, false balconies into the world of the automobile suburb. page, the fine arts center entrance faces and well-placed downspouts. While it Through various programs such as the rear of Samford Hall, with a plaza appears domestic, there is no humble Samford-in-Mission, Samford seeks between the two, unlike the actual domesticity of scale. This is a palace, the to help students pierce the campus’s arrangement, in which the fine arts architecture of empire, not of humble bubble and connect with the entrance faces Montague Drive. Below, colonials. broader community. The bridging of Shades Creek in the 1990s, the a large plaza area surrounded by box- Challenges development of the pedestrian woods connects Montague Circle Although the campus is widely praised, greenway in 2000 and the with Davis Library, similar to several shortcomings might be noted. pending construction today’s Centennial Walk. First, one of the distinctive aspects of the of the Village at American collegiate experience has long University been the integration of classroom Park are learning and residential life. Samford has beginning pursued this goal by seeking to house to change more students on campus. Yet, with the transformation of Crawford Johnson Hall into Beeson Divinity School and the construction of Beeson Woods and West Campus, residential space has grown more distant from academic space in both real and symbolic terms. COMMUNITY

by Mary Wimberley “I expected it to be pretty bad, but the devas- tation is beyond belief,” said Catlett. “We saw what ntil recently, most Samford used to be multimillion dollar homes that are University students could not now slabs of concrete and rubble. Despite their Helping clear hurricane explain what “mudding out” meant, loss, many of the people we met were so positive. debris in Pascagoula, much less claim experience doing it. It was amazing to see their good attitudes.” Miss., are Samford That changed once Hurricane Katrina Protected with face masks and gloves, Catlett students, clockwise, Usent tons of mud and water into thousands of and others in her team tackled four houses in five from left, Andrew homes along the Gulf Coast in late August. days. “We used crowbars to check ceiling tiles for Garnett, Andy Farmer, Students and faculty responded to helping mildew and moved rubble, which was every- Ryan Blakesley, Randi Katrina victims in many ways, including hands- where, to the street for the city to pick up,” said Windham Gardner and on assistance in the flood-damaged areas of Catlett, whose group bunked each night at a Caroline Catlett. Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Their work local Episcopal church. often included scraping mud from the interior The largest number of Samford volunteers, surfaces of homes and buildings. about 50, was stationed in Slidell, where they More than 200 Samford students and faculty/ assisted two churches on relief projects. staff volunteers joined the effort along the Gulf Ellen Kiel has an emotional attachment to Coast during late October. Divided into 12 the Slidell, La., site where she and 30 other vol- groups, they spent their four-day fall break unteers slept and worked. First Baptist of Slidell is cleaning, mudding out homes, bleaching, ripping her home church, where she grew up and attended out sheetrock and performing other tasks in New before enrolling at Samford. “Every building had Orleans and Slidell, La., Pascagoula and Gulfport, from two to six feet of water,” reported Kiel. Miss., and Bayou La Batre, Ala. Her group also worked at three houses, Caroline Catlett, a senior from New Albany, tearing out wet sheetrock and ruined appliances. Ind., worked in Pascagoula, Miss. “One house will be bulldozed because it is not

26 salvageable,” said Kiel. “Since it has been two Law students also helped the Salvation Army months since the event, we’ve had time to forget organize and distribute clothing and other items about it some at Samford, but these people are to Katrina evacuees in late September. They look still dealing with it. forward to helping in other ways using their “On Sunday, we had worship service, and the specific area of expertise. church, even with its dirty concrete floors and The law school’s Community Service fold-out seats, was packed,” said Kiel, amazed at Organization is working with the Alabama State the spirit displayed by the residents who have lost Bar, Legal Services of Alabama [LSA] and other

so much. groups to assist Alabama residents, as well as COMMUNITY Samford history professor Jonathan Bass residents of Louisiana and Mississippi who have called his experience in Bayou La Batre “one of taken refuge in the state. the most meaningful, humbling and heart- Cumberland’s Robinson law building will breaking endeavors” he had participated in during house a Hurricane Disaster Relief Call In-Take his eight years at Samford. Center, which LSA will operate as part of its “We worked with a young couple—Josh, Tracy statewide network for providing legal assistance to and daughter, Ariel—who were so overwhelmed hurricane victims. The center staff will include a by the scope of the devastation that they were lawyer, a paralegal and an administrative assistant. paralyzed,” said Dr. Bass. “They simply never knew With a Spanish-speaking lawyer on site, the center where to start because the task was so daunting. will offer the state’s first dedicated line for “Our small group cleaned out their ruined Spanish-speaking victims. Cumberland students belongings, removed flood-damaged floors and and other volunteers will help staff the center, walls, and treated a horrific mold problem. More screen incoming calls and provide assistance to important, our team demonstrated God’s grace, evacuees. mercy and humility in the time we spent getting During the fall break, law students assisted to know this family.” the LSA at field offices around the state and at the Checking ceiling tiles for In early October, the Samford track team FEMA Disaster Recovery Center. They are also in mildew are, from left, traveled to south Mississippi to assist with relief line to assist the Calhoun County Bar Association Brooke Ratchford, Katie efforts, taking with them about 25 boxes of with the legal needs of the many evacuees housed Baird, Megan Delaney donated shoes and clothes for distribution at Fort McClellan in Anniston. and Randi Windham through Volunteers of America. University Students in business professor James King’s Gardner. Minister James Barnette accompanied the team, graduate and undergraduate human resource and the group worked on houses in Escatawba management classes found a unique way to assist and Pascagoula, ripping out paneling and drywall, and encourage hurricane victims who found removing insulation, clearing fallen trees and themselves in Birmingham without work. cleaning up debris. Through a project they dubbed Hurricane The Samford community began mobilizing Occupation Placement Effort [HOPE], students to help Katrina victims with an outpouring of helped dozens of people prepare for their job volunteerism and financial generosity in the search. Based at the relief center at Boutwell immediate aftermath of the hurricane in Auditorium in downtown Birmingham, they September. helped job seekers prepare résumés and skill In a fund-raising effort sponsored by the sheets for prospective employers. Each person offices of student involvement and student received 25 free copies of their résumé. Students ministries, the campus contributed $11,182 to the also collected information from agencies and American Red Cross for storm relief. Compass companies looking for workers, in hopes of Bank matched the gifts dollar-for-dollar, doubling making a connection. the total to $22,364. Soon after Katrina struck, students and Cumberland School of Law students raised faculty at Samford’s McWhorter School of $2,700 for the Red Cross, and Compass matched Pharmacy responded to the health-care needs of that amount as well. many evacuees. Pharmacy faculty helped coor- The Samford volleyball team had been dinate primary-care services at the special scheduled to play in New Orleans, but Katrina medical needs clinic at the Birmingham forced cancellation of their matches. The team Fairgrounds and organized a systematic way to took up donations at on-campus athletic events meet prescription drug needs for people housed At left: Pascagoula in early September, raising another $771.30 for at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention homes show the relief. Complex Arena. devastation wreaked Postdoctoral residents and student phar- by Katrina’s wind and macists, led by pharmacy faculty Roger Lander storm surge. The first and Michael Hogue, assisted in the project. Being story of the house on able to help evacuees who had run out of medi- the left was washed cine and had no prescriptions gave the pharmacy away, leaving the roof students an unusual opportunity to experience line almost at ground real-life public health pharmacy practice. ■ level.

27 National League for Nursing Designates Moffett a

HONORS Center of Excellence First in Alabama, One of Seven Nationally

he National League for Nursing [NLN] has taken the lead in establishing and maintaining high standards of nursing education for more Tthan 100 years. Half a century ago, in 1955, the Birmingham Baptist Hospital School of Nursing—the forerunner to Samford’s Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing—became the first nursing school in Alabama to achieve NLN deliver professional presentations at Lafayette and the University of North accreditation. national and regional forums; deliberate Carolina at Greensboro. Now, Samford’s nursing school has efforts to promote the health of the poor Features the NLN judges considered become the first in Alabama and one of in surrounding communities; and inter- included the nursing school’s out- the first in the nation to be designated a active teaching/learning activities in both standing program of undergraduate and Center of Excellence in Nursing nursing and non-nursing courses.” graduate research, innovative and Education by the NLN. Moffett was Samford nursing Dean Nena creative teaching strategies and program recognized for its demonstrated excel- Sanders accepted the award during the designs, and faculty engagement in lence in “creating environments that NLN Education Summit in Baltimore, student learning, service learning, port- promote student learning and pro- Md., Oct. 1. Samford Provost Brad Creed folio development and capstone projects fessional development,” according to the and 14 nursing faculty members also for all undergraduate and graduate NLN. traveled to Baltimore for the award students. The NLN initiated the Center of presentation. Steps in the competitive process also Excellence [COE] program in 2004 “to “This designation validates the included extensive documentation of publicly acknowledge nursing schools quality of the Ida V. Moffett School of programs, activities, policies and that distinguish themselves by out- Nursing’s faculty and their dedication to initiatives, and a site visit by an NLN standing achievement in the promotion student learning,” said Dr. Sanders. “In representative. “This was a yearlong of excellence in nursing education,” said addition, it highlights the outstanding process,” said Sanders. Dr. Ruth Corcoran, chief executive accomplishments of our students and The nursing school, founded in officer of the NLN. their commitment to learning and 1922 by the Birmingham Baptist Three nursing schools earned COE professional development. Association as a diploma school of designation the first year and four this “The dynamic learning environ- nursing, joined Samford in 1973 and year, including Samford. Schools carry ment at Samford is complemented by a began offering associate and bacca- the COE designation for three years, mission-focused, nurturing community,” laureate degrees in nursing. It now offers during which they are expected to be she added. “Faculty feel valued and baccalaureate and master of science in available to other nursing schools supported to create many opportunities nursing degrees, as well as nurse seeking to move their programs toward whereby both they and students, often anesthesia and postmaster’s programs. ■ distinction. working together, continue to grow According to NLN officials, professionally.” Samford’s “inventive program is distin- Also in Baltimore, the NLN guished by a stellar level of student- awarded COE designations to nursing faculty collaboration, a faculty that schools at Excelsior College in Albany, encourages and guides students to N.Y., the University of Louisiana at

28 From top, students Ryan Hollingsworth, Catherine Henderson and Amanda Hamil participate in Drug Formulations class. LETTER FROM THE DEAN LETTER FROM

orty-seven years ago, at the age of ■ home infusion practice ■ community-based independent 18, I began pharmacy school at ■ three times more women than and chain pharmacies offering Howard College, now Samford men enrolled in pharmacy school refill processing from their Web F ■ University. My immediate goals at that long-term care pharmacies sites with actual distribution from time were to graduate and eventually own ■ mail service pharmacies a subcontractor mail service or a drug store. At 21, I graduated from ■ clinical practices in community central filling facility pharmacy school, and at age 27, opened and institutional settings my own pharmacy in a small town. My ■ pharmacists prescribing and Are we seeing the electrification of goals were realized. Or were they? adjusting dosages via physician pharmacy? Nearly 50 years of education and protocol agreements practice as a pharmacist and admini- ■ government involvement in health Could it be that pharmacists will strator illustrate a myriad of changes in care for the needy (Medicaid) truly become primary care providers of pharmacy. It is now clear that upon ■ patient education and disease health care, accepted by the health graduation from pharmacy school, I had management programs professional team as partners in patient not been challenged and informed about ■ managed care care? Some of these new movements what was on the horizon for the phar- ■ pharmacists giving immunizations already include: macy profession. With the passage of ■ chain pharmacies time, I have the benefit of reflecting back ■ pharmacies in grocery stores ■ independent and chain-based and seeing the emergence of an entirely ■ pharmacies in mass merchan- community pharmacies redefining new landscape of pharmacy and a fore- dise/department stores the role of the pharmacist in telling of the next wave of change likely ■ PBMs community-based care delivery to transform the profession. ■ postdoctoral residencies ■ free-standing disease management When I owned my own drug store, ■ Pharm.D. degree centers serving patients with not the now politically correct “inde- ■ salaries for staff pharmacists ranging chronic illnesses being piloted in pendent community pharmacy,” the from $90,000 to $110,000 per year all areas of the country chain drug industry was in its infancy; ■ Board of Pharmaceutical ■ pharmacists forging partnerships hardly anyone could imagine something Specialties certification with physicians to design effective other than a local drug store, owned by a treatment protocols which often self-employed pharmacist. Hospital These all are realities in 2005. incorporate prescriptive prerogatives pharmacy practice was even less a career So, what new changes are on the ■ pharmacists hiring nurses, consideration during that time. Hospital horizon today? It doesn’t take the clearest dieticians, physical therapists and practice was mostly isolated in the base- crystal ball to imagine: respiratory therapists to extend ment of a hospital building, and the their services to patients pharmacist had little, if any, interaction ■ Internet pharmacies offering fee-for- with anyone outside the concrete walls of service consultation on prescrip- Will the drugs of tomorrow be like that basement cubicle. tions in a virtual pharmacy setting the drugs we are familiar with today? What could I not see on horizon? ■ mail service pharmacies meeting Pharmaceutical companies are reinvesting My limited perspective did not include the drug distribution needs of a profits in research and development at an these now everyday expressions of the majority of patients with chronic impressive rate. Designer drugs are the profession of pharmacy: diseases name of the game. Genetic engineering

30 PHARMACY NEWSLETTER offers promise for identifying the causes McWhorter School of Pharmacy Admission Picture of diseases that may then be treated with targeted drug delivery systems. Will these treatments come in traditional pill vials Reflects Nationwide Rise in Applicant Pool and bottles, or might they be biologicals with storage requirements and enormous harmacy practitioners are keenly represented 74% of the 2005 applicants. per unit (or dose) costs? What if cures Paware of the dramatic increase in the The nonresident applicants that were are found for our most formidable number of young people interested in a accepted and matriculated for Fall 2005 chronic diseases? Not too recently, the pharmacy career. Most pharmacy represented 56% of the entering class.” herbals and natural products industry schools have witnessed a surge in the Each year, many applicants say they was looked at with disdain by most applicant pool since 2001. Despite 10 were referred to the school by an alumnus, health professionals. Today, comple- new pharmacy schools that have come Foster noted. mentary medicine and alternative medi- into existence since 1995, admission to “We encourage you to continue to cine are respected health fields heralded pharmacy school has become more send young people our way that have an by patients and professionals alike. competitive than at any time in recent interest in entering the pharmacy pro- Will pharmacy education go history. fession,” he said. “The committee seeks ADMISSION through another change in program “Competition for limited class space students who are academically prepared, length or prerequisites? Since the has resulted in many good applicants not possess good social and communication McWhorter School of Pharmacy began gaining admission,” said C. Bruce Foster, skills, and have a knowledge and com- in 1927 as the Department of Pharmacy director of external relations and phar- mitment to the pharmacy profession and at Howard College, the program has been macy admission for McWhorter School its future. In addition, we expect appli- structured as a three-year pharmacy of Pharmacy [MSOP]. “The Admission cants to be guided by an ethical standard graduate (Ph.G.) degree, the four-year B.S. Committee works diligently each year to that reflects the mission of the MSOP in pharmacy, a five-year program with two make the best possible decisions when and Samford University, and that is preprofessional and three professional choosing applicants for this program. essential in the health-care arena.” years, and now as a first professional Currently, we receive more than 1,000 The Office of Admission is available doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree applications annually, interview 300, and as a source of information to alumni requiring a minimum of two preprofes- accept 120–125.” who seek to assist students in their appli- sional and four professional years. More Academic credentials are the cation to pharmacy school. In addition, and more of the nation’s 92 pharmacy primary focus of the committee in deter- the MSOP Web site provides the most schools are enrolling a majority of students mining which applicants are invited for accurate information to prospective with a prior baccalaureate degree. When an admission interview, said Foster. pharmacy students regarding the will that become a requirement to study Traits such as insight into pharmacy, admission requirements and application pharmacy? interest in others, ethics, and verbal and procedures. For information, go to So, What’s Next? written skills are the focus of the www.samford.edu/schools/pharmacy. ■ The facts are that change is inevitable, admission interviews during the final that change is positive and that change admission selection process, he noted. will shape our profession for tomorrow. I Foster provided a statistical analysis will soon complete 27 years of service at of the 2005 application cycle. A total of Samford University, including 15 years as 1,067 qualified applications were dean of McWhorter School of Pharmacy. received with 316 applicants interviewed Change will continue for the school and to fill a class of 123. The number of qual- the next generation of students. These ified male applicants was 376, representing changes or others like them will affect 35% of the qualified applications. A total and continue to impact how we provide of 37 male applicants entered the Fall an education to improve society’s health 2005 class, representing 30% of the and the well being of humankind entering class. through example, scholarship and serv- The number of applicants with ice to others as we strive to assume the prior bachelor’s degrees has increased leadership role in meeting the challenges during the past decade, with 51% of the of health care in the future. 2005 MSOP applicants holding a prior What’s next?—only time can tell. degree. In the 2005 entering class, 29% of the class had an earned bachelors degree or higher. The average entering GPA for those accepted was 3.57/4.0, the third consecutive year that the entering GPA exceeded 3.5. “The McWhorter School of Pharmacy continues to receive the majority of applications from outside Joseph O. Dean, Jr., Ph.D., R.Ph. Alabama,” said Foster. “Qualified appli- Dean and Professor cations from nonresidents of Alabama McWhorter School of Pharmacy Student pharmacist Blake Roddenberry practices laboratory technique.

PHARMACY NEWSLETTER 31 ike most beginnings, it didn’t seem particularly significant at the time. L In 1955, a 15-year-old boy named Joe Dean went to work at the soda fountain at Kessler’s Pharmacy in Tarrant City. When he turned 16, he got to make deliveries. Soon, Dean decided he wanted to own a drugstore. He knew there was a good pharmacy school in Birmingham at Howard College, so he decided to go there. He graduated from Phillips High School one Friday night and started college the following Monday morning. It was June 9, 1958. That day marked the beginning of a relationship that would touch six decades. It hardly seems that long to Dean, the soon-to-retire dean of the McWhorter School of Pharmacy, who as a young man became president of his freshman class, graduated to become a pharmacist, and returned to Samford in 1975 to fill an administrative and teaching post in the pharmacy school. Dean didn’t consider himself an academic then and still doesn’t, despite his doctorate and his global influence on students and the profession. Instead, he looks back on McWhorter’s progress with a mixture of awe and pleasure. “It has been a good run,” he reflects. “I have enjoyed it.” The school has enjoyed a good run under his leadership. In 1991, Dean became dean. In 1992, the school made a breakthrough, fulfilling plans of previous administrations to implement Total Quality Management principles into teaching and administration. “I kind of fanned those embers a bit,” said Dean, encouraging what became the Samford Plan, an innovative approach to designing a curriculum structure that met acclaim through a national meeting presentation and coverage in the American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education.Problem- based learning methodologies soon followed. From 1992 to 1994, the Samford Plan positioned the school as an inno- vator. Faculty led workshops and con- sultations, and the school was redefined and gained national exposure. Then came the next breakthrough, one that Dean and Samford President Thomas E. Corts had worked toward for 10 years. In 1995, pharmacy alumnus Clayton McWhorter granted the school $10 million, a gift that “redefined who we were. It was a transforming event, a

32 PHARMACY NEWSLETTER catalyst that helped us grow closer to our potential for our school,” said Dean. Suddenly, the school—now the McWhorter School of Pharmacy—was nationally recognized. An international reputation followed. Dean was asked to present the Samford Plan in Great Britain and the Netherlands. “We were seen as a place ahead of the curve,” he remembers. Although it may have seemed that the pieces simply fell into place, the process was not accidental. Dean began pondering an inter- national role for Samford in 1991, speaking with friends in national organi- zations about strengthening its influence. It seemed to Dean, and to colleagues, that international relationships were a logical step. Samford had purchased a study centre in 1983. By the MISSIONS PHARMACY late1980s, a course in “Pharmacy and Health Care in Great Britain” had become part of the Samford in London January Term curriculum. “I could see our program progressing internationally,” said Dean. And progress it did—to the other side of the world. Dean Joe Dean admires his likeness on the winning entry of McWhorter’s annual Soon, word about Samford’s pumpkin-carving contest. learning techniques moved east. Japanese pharmacy school officials were interested in the contemporary American models Looking back over his Samford innovative teaching techniques are not of clinical pharmacy and intrigued by years, Dean sees a melding of professional all that Dean is proud of. He is gratified the problem-based learning approach. skills and faith. The school has made a that minority recruitment has diversified Dialogues with Japanese pharmacists global impact, potentially affecting the the school. Daily contact with that mix expanded into work with schools in physical and spiritual health of millions. of students will be what he misses most. Korea and China. Samford’s experience Dean’s work has earned numerous “I will miss those individual rela- influenced their programs. New ideas accolades. He received the inaugural tionships with students and faculty,” were exchanged. Outstanding Dean Award from the Dean said. What he won’t miss is having Samford organized an invitational American Pharmacists Association his schedule determined by others. He’s East Asian conference on pharmacy Academy of Students of Pharmacy. Most looking forward to “looking at every day education and practice in Birmingham recently, he received an honorary doctor as Saturday,” a still unrealized luxury. His in 1997. A second meeting followed in of pharmacy degree from Meijo retirement at the end of this academic Shanghai in 1999. The group eventually University in Nagoya, Japan. The degree year comes after a post-65 bonus year, as broadened to include professionals from honored Dean’s leadership as program he served for an additional time to see Malaysia and Thailand. Today, it con- adviser in the pharmacy school’s assis- the school through its scheduled accredi- tinues to grow. In July 2006, the Asian tance in developing Meijo’s faculty in tation self-study and program review. Conference on Clinical Pharmacy will establishing clinical practice models. The Dean admitted he hasn’t yet again convene, continuing a global Meijo award is just one benchmark in processed all the emotions connected to dialogue that began in Birmingham. the school’s extension of its Christian leaving Samford. But he knows he will “It was an opportunity unclaimed. mission. always be grateful for a home where he It’s been amazing,” said Dean. “We were a catalyst for something,” could “live life in ways that made a Not only did Samford gain new Dean said. He credits the success of the difference. ideas from its eastern counterparts, but school’s international venture to humility. “At Samford, I realized I had found the school’s Christian mission of helping “We never tried to change our col- myself in a very fortunate place. A faith- others was fulfilled. Dean’s personal leagues. We taught them and learned based institution made it easier to live mission also was realized. from them. They do some things better out that calling. The University was a than we do.” Interestingly, however, an vehicle for living out my calling in a way “Early on, when I was a young teen ■ trying to decide what life would be for American school was able to trigger I never would have imagined.” me, I had one of those spiritual dialogue among Asian nations that rarely moments when I decided I could be a asked each other for advice. Jean M. McLean is a freelance writer in Christian businessman,” he recalled. “I The McWhorter School of Montevallo, Ala. didn’t have to be a missionary to serve.” Pharmacy’s international efforts and

PHARMACY NEWSLETTER 33 Pharmacy School Commits to Helping Perry County Improve Health Care

erry County, where Samford the students to work with 12 patients MSOP graduate, owns York Drugs, and University was founded as Howard suffering from diabetes. The students Dr. Pettway, one of the three initiators of PCollege in 1841, is one of the 100 called the patients weekly and met with the pharmacy school involvement in poorest counties in the nation. One them monthly. Perry County, practices pharmacy there. characteristic that reflects this is health “A major focus of this diabetic pro- The early activity related to the care. Perry has disproportionately high gram is to develop personal relationships diabetes problem stimulated an onslaught incidences of cancer, diabetes and hyper- with the diabetic patients, to listen, to of pharmacy school involvement in Perry. tension. It also has no hospital. establish trust, to become friends, to Dr. Charles D. Sands, chair of the Samford has committed to helping convey to the patient that they really pharmacy practice department, started a the county and Black Belt area where the care,” said Bumgarner. hypertension clinic at the Perry County school began, and McWhorter School of “This approach is exemplified every Health Department. Every Wednesday Pharmacy [MSOP] faculty and students day by many of our alumni as they prac- afternoon, he and several fourth-year are among the most active in this endeavor. tice pharmacy. The relationship that the pharmacy rotation students screen and With the help of Perry County pharmacist has with the patient con- advise patients with hypertension. He health-care coordinator Francis Ford, tributes to the healing along with the works closely with the local physicians, COMMUNITY OUTREACH R.N., the pharmacy school began proper use of the medicine. The patient and county and state health departments. working with diabetic patients in the is more inclined to comply with a med- Dr. Condit Steil, a certified diabetic county several years ago. Since then, the ication regimen, and to take that walk educator and faculty member in the school has added hypertension clinics, and eat that healthy food that was pharmacy practice department, began a geriatric information programs, a phar- discussed.” diabetic clinic that meets Monday after- macy residency and involvement in The students, now graduates, noons at the Perry health department. health fairs in Perry. presented their research project as a Dr. Patricia Naro, a member of the “Alabama has the greatest incidence poster at the second annual Black Belt practice faculty specializing in geriatric of diabetes in the nation, and Perry Health Care Summit in Montgomery, pharmacy, takes her fourth-year rotation County has the third highest incidence Ala., in August 2005. They also received students to Perry County once a month in the 67 Alabama counties,” said Dr. jointly an award from the U.S. Department to provide presentations to senior Gary Bumgarner, assistant professor of of Public Health for this work. citizens on topics ranging from nutrition pharmacy. “The two higher counties also Now, MSOP is working to expand and hypertension to dementia. are in the Black Belt.” the diabetic support group throughout The pharmacy school also estab- Bumgarner worked with students the Black Belt. Student Demetri Holmes lished a one-year residency program in Tonia Thornton Glover, Latricha Hagler is developing a master plan to accom- Perry County in rural public health. and Rosa Pettway to initiate a diabetic plish this as his fourth-year research and Recent graduate Maryanna Brooke is education and support group in Perry anticipates starting the next diabetic serving as the first resident. County. Begun as their fourth-year support group in Sumter County at York Dr. Bob Henderson, vice chair of research project, the program enabled Drugs in York. Eddie Davis, a 1985 pharmacy practice and director of the pharmacy school’s experiential program, developed a rotation site in Perry County for the advanced practice experi- ential program that will start next June. MSOP student organizations took part in a health fair in Perry County last spring and plan additional health fairs in the future. “The Perry County work of our pharmacy students certainly seems to be infectious,” said Bumgarner. “Invariably, the student reaction when they work in Perry County is, ‘This is why I went into pharmacy in the first place.’ They want to help others.” ■

Tonia Thornton Glover, Pharm.D., right, reviews the medication regimen of a Perry County resident at the County Health Department Clinic.

34 PHARMACY NEWSLETTER Students Stay Active in Professional Organizations

cWhorter School of Pharmacy Mstudents engage in numerous activities through their professional organizations. Kappa Psi recently hosted the province meeting for Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. Members also attended the national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa., where Kali Jernigan was elected graduate member at large. The fraternity worked on a diabetes screening project and arranged a pie-throwing fund-raiser. The Alabama Society of Health System Pharmacists sponsors an ongoing drive to buy teddy bears for children at

Children’s Hospital in Birmingham, PRACTICE PHARMACY Carrie Lewis Kreps, Pharm.D., left, and P-4 student pharmacist Liz Gilbow Collins supporting the charity with bake sales discuss medications at a Bruno’s Pharmacy experiential site in Birmingham. and stethoscope sales. This group also began a student emergency relief fund. Rho Chi has been involved with Samford’s recycling project. Samford Pharmacy Practice Program The Students of the National Pharmacists Association participated Offers More than 250 Clinical Sites in health fairs in churches and at Jefferson County’s Cooper Green amford’s McWhorter School of Birmingham Metropolitan Area, both in Hospital. They assist the indigent in Pharmacy [MSOP] Department of institutional and community practice. Perry County, Ala., supporting various SPharmacy Practice continues to Training sites are also located through- clinics and patient counseling. They also develop and expand in response to the out Alabama, and around the Southeast.” work in immunization efforts. increase in student enrollment and Dr. Sands noted that selected The National Community society’s demand to prepare competent opportunities are available in the United Pharmacists Association [NCPA] also pharmacy practitioners. Kingdom, Korea, Macau, Japan and China. assists in Perry County. NCPA’s major The department teaches courses More than 250 affiliated clinical charitable project is collecting for the related to pharmacy practice and is teaching sites are used in the experiential Salvation Army Angel Tree each Christmas. responsible for all student learning at program, he said, and the program has The Academy of Student clinical teaching sites (experiential sites). almost 400 preceptors of record, including Pharmacists [ASP] organizes the annual To help handle this increased load, two all full-time, part-time and adjunct faculty. school picnic. ASP also organized the new faculty positions were created in “The department is continuing its White Coat Ceremony. Samford hosted 2004, bringing the total in the depart- international efforts and will send about the midwinter regional ASP meeting. ment to 24 faculty members, four staff seven advanced practice students to Asia These students contribute to diabetes members and four pharmacy residents. (Japan, Macau, Korea) for one-month screening and heartburn awareness New clinical teaching sites were clinical experiences during the 2005–06 events. They worked with the Jefferson created at St. Vincent’s Hospital and academic year,” Sands said. “Ten students County Health Department to provide Cooper Green Hospital in Birmingham, from the College of Pharmacy, Meijo prescriptions and medications to as well as the Jefferson County and Perry University, Nagoya, Japan, visited Samford victims of Hurricane Katrina. County health departments. this fall for a two-week clinical experience.” Christian Pharmacy Fellowship The mission of the department, The international program gives [CPF] sponsors weekly meetings and adopted in 2002, is to educate phar- MSOP students a chance to meet with lunches. A monthly “Missions Monday” macists “to assure the optimal use of pharmacy students from another raises support for mission field workers. drugs in society.” country and discuss items of mutual Its fall festival is a tradition. “The increase in class size has interest, and provides the Japanese Phi Lambda Sigma and the presented challenges to the experiential students an opportunity to observe Academy of Managed-Care Pharmacy program as it seeks to place students in MSOP pharmacy practice faculty as role sponsor lunch-and-learn sessions for the quality sites and with quality preceptors models in the clinical setting, he noted. entire school. A recent speaker discussed for both the Early Practice Experience “The department takes very the critical topic of Medicare Part D [EPE] and the Advanced Practice seriously its vision to nurture and and the role of pharmacists necessary to Experience [APE],” said Dr. Charles D. prepare students and pharmacists to be its successful implementation. ■ Sands, pharmacy practice chair. leaders, lifelong learners and practitioners “At MSOP, we are fortunate to have who optimize the safe use of drugs in excellent experiential sites in the greater society,” Sands said. ■

PHARMACY NEWSLETTER 35 Reassignment of Social, Administrative Sciences Produces More Equity in Sizes of Departments

new name emerged within the ■ Dr. Andy Webster mentored ■ Dr. Susan Alverson was honored framework of Samford’s Birmingham high school student by the graduating Class of 2005 as A McWhorter School of Pharmacy Thanh P. Le of the Jefferson the Margaret Self Propst Teacher [MSOP] recently: the Department of County International Baccalaureate of the Year. Pharmaceutical, Social and School, who won the Alabama ■ Drs. Mary Monk-Tutor and Sims Administrative Sciences. competition in the Junior Science were invited speakers at the The change followed the reassign- and Humanities Symposium International Clinical Pharmacy

UPDATE ment of the social and administrative Program. As the Alabama winner, Education Symposium and sciences disciplines from the MSOP Ms. Le represented the state at the Workshop at Meijo University, Department of Pharmacy Practice to the national competition in San Diego, Nagoya, Japan. In addition, the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences. Calif., in May. Webster was pro- MSOP monograph on problem- “This reassignment created more moted to professor this last year. based learning edited by Monk- equity in the size of the departments, ■ Dr. Amy Broeseker received her Tutor and originally published in and placed the faculty in groups with Ph.D. in educational research from 2002 was translated into Japanese. similar education, training and experi- the University of Alabama. She She is currently on sabbatical ence, as well as similar curricular respon- studied spirituality and moral (the first in the MSOP history) sibilities,” said Dr. Pamela J. Sims, chair development in pharmacy studying the history of pharmacy. of the newly named department. students. Broeseker joins doctors Professional Organizations—Spies As part of the change, Sims noted Wilborn and Sims as faculty serves nationally as the treasurer for Phi that Dr. Roger Parker moved from the holding both the Pharm.D. and Lambda Sigma, the pharmacy leadership pharmacy practice department in 2004 Ph.D. degrees. In addition, society. He serves MSOP students as to return to his roots in teaching physi- Broeseker advises the Christian adviser to the Academy of Student ology and pharmacology. Pharmacy Fellowship. Pharmacists [ASP] of the American Sims shared an update on depart- ■ Drs. Gary Bumgarner, Alan Spies, Public Health Association [APhA] and ment activity: Valerie Prince and Scott Asbill coadviser to Phi Lambda Sigma. Dr. Curriculum—The 16 full-time initiated a project to use literature John Sowell serves on the board of faculty deliver 22 required courses, to encourage the professionalism directors of JCPA and as faculty adviser representing 74 credit hours of the P-1 of pharmacy students. Spies and for NCPA. Dr. Bruce Waldrop serves as through P-3 professional curriculum, six of his pharmacy law students adviser to Kappa Psi and as adviser/ and seven elective courses. Three are new proposed changes in Alabama law coordinator for the student relief fund electives covering topics in recent to the State Board of Pharmacy. annual fund-raiser.■ advances in pharmacology, immunology and current topics in pharmacy practice. In response to student interest, a course in herbals has been revived. Facilities—Recent renovations of Ingalls and Russell halls have provided faculty with classroom teaching, labora- tory teaching and laboratory research space, as well as up-to-date offices. Dr. Teresa Wilborn provided the first scien- tific presentation of work conducted in the new research laboratories in June of 2005 at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society in San Diego, Calif. Faculty Activity—Fifteen of the 16 faculty in the department are registered pharmacists. “This understanding of the practice of pharmacy provides students with a unique education in the sciences— when faculty can link, for the students, the practical reasons for learning science as a foundation for their future practice of pharmacy,” said Sims.

Student pharmacist Mary Kunyiha works in the Michael Propst Pharmaceutics Laboratory.

36 PHARMACY NEWSLETTER Each gift is important. Samford’s annual budget: $115,815,697 Tuition revenue covers only 2/3 of the actual costs of a Samford education. Gifts help make up the difference.

Your gift helps make it possible for deserving students to Annual giving requirement: experience the distinction of a Samford education. Tuition covers only $71.5 million of the Samford’s estimated costs of 10% of budget $115.8 million. That leaves a gap of $44.3 million! Every gift makes a difference. Alumni donors needed: 4,000 Every year, gifts from faithful alumni and friends help close that gap and make Samford stronger for future generations. Gifts not only make Samford stronger—they are essential to keeping Samford’s tuition charges at 30% below the average for four- year private colleges.

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37 38 The Baltimore Oriole ALUMNI Former ‘Spike’ Mike Milton Makes the Majors by Mary Wimberley

he bridegroom at the fancy New from the former Montreal Expos and the “Some people would rather have the York City wedding had a longtime San Diego Chicken. Bird’s autograph than Sammy Sosa’s,” he T wish granted when a large, orange- While he and two part-time Oriole said, referring to the former National and-black bird wearing a baseball cap Bird mascots switch out duties during League star slugger who joined the entered the reception hall. games, Milton handles most outside Orioles in 2005. “He was a huge Baltimore Orioles appearances, which total more than 400 For all his cool antics, things get fan, and it was his dream to meet the a year. heated up inside the bird’s suit, where Oriole Bird,” explained Mike Milton ’03. The New York reception, which the air can be 40 degrees hotter than “The bride wanted me to present the featured the Oriole logo on the groom’s outside. Milton recalls one summer day groom’s cake at the reception.” cake, was his first wedding event. “I when the reported temperature Since April, Milton has been head danced with guests for about 45 approached 100 degrees. bird and mascot coordinator for the minutes. It was a lot fun,” said Milton, “On the field, it’s about six to 10 American League team, putting in 55 to who drove the official bird van from degrees hotter than that,” said Milton, 70 hours a week during games and other Baltimore, Md., for the event. who drinks lots of water during a game. appearances. As a Samford student, he More common are visits to A veteran mascot, Milton was the was “Spike,” the Bulldog mascot, for two hospitals, nursing homes and elementary cougar at Northview High School in and a half years. schools, where he presents a “Bird Get Dothan, Ala., before enrolling at Milton won the head bird job after Healthy” program that emphasizes the Samford, where he majored in business submitting tapes and auditioning in food pyramid. Senior citizens are loyal management. While a student, he was person with two other finalists. In pro- supporters, he says. “Older people love also the “Noid” for Domino’s Pizza fessional mascot circles, it’s considered a baseball,” observes Milton. “They are promotions and the Easter bunny at the plum job. The Oriole Bird is one of four lifelong fans.” Summit shopping center. mascots in the Baseball Hall of Fame. During a game, Milton hams it up He continues to serve as alumni The others are the Philly Phanatic, Yupee with fans and sometimes with players. adviser to Samford’s Spike. “People revert to their childhood when On Orioles’ road games, he is they get around a mascot,” said Milton, mindful of his actions in airports, where who enjoys helping people act a little security checks may involve displaying wild and “let go.”While in character, he the costume that he carries in a large doesn’t speak, but makes a whistling bag. “I try to make sure no children are sound. around to see it,” said Milton, who He gives many autographs, always doesn’t want to spoil the mystique for signing “The Oriole Bird” and some- young fans. times drawing a picture of a bird. What about the future, when his Fans at the ballpark will spend $40 birding days are over? He would like to on a souvenir doll just to have some- study law, he said, preferably at thing for the Oriole to sign, he says, Samford’s Cumberland School of Law. ■ adding that autographed objects are sometimes used for charity auctions and fund-raising activities.

Mike Milton keeps the fans smiling as the Baltimore Oriole.

39 Karon Bowdre’s Mission Field Came to Her Front Door by Mary Wimberley ALUMNI aron Bowdre reached into her “The term ‘legacy’ may not appear as a ministry, pointing out that in a legal childhood and college experiences in the Bible, but the concept does,” said career, she could reach people that K to explain to Samford University Bowdre. “It is about teaching life lessons workers in ministry could not. Auxiliary members that a legacy is much to the young and learning life lessons “I realized that my call was not more than an insurance policy. from elders.” necessarily to seminary but to surrender “Lasting legacies are not those of Bowdre’s mother, Belva D. Owen, to God’s purpose,” she said. She entered the financial kind,” said Bowdre ’77, J.D. grew up with limited means, but with Samford’s Cumberland School of Law ’81, U.S. District Court judge for the dreams of attending Howard College after receiving her bachelor’s degree cum Northern District of Alabama and former and becoming a missionary or teacher. laude. Cumberland faculty member. She was “There was no money, so she went “Like my mother, I found that my the presiding judge at the high-profile to work, but she never lost her love of mission field came to me,” said Bowdre, trial of former HealthSouth chief execu- learning and missions, and she passed who was associate editor of the tive Richard Scrushy earlier this year. that on to her two daughters,” said Cumberland Law Review and a member The 2003 Samford Alumna of the Bowdre, who as a girl watched her of the Moot Court Board. Year used stories of her late mother’s life, mother lead church activities and teach She told auxiliary members how she as well as dreams and recollections of a English to Vietnamese refugees in was introduced to urban missions cold January spent in New York City on Montgomery, Ala. during an undergraduate preschool an urban missions project to “Belva’s foreign mission field came retreat with Samford Director of make her point at the to her door,” said Bowdre. “Her prayers Campus Ministries Esther Burroughs. auxiliary’s fall for me are a large part of her legacy to During a Jan Term course in 1975, she luncheon Oct. 13. me. She also imparted to me the legacy traveled to New York with 18 others to of wanting to attend college.” renovate a small storefront building in a Through scholarships, Bowdre ghetto area on the Lower East Side. attended Samford, which her mother “The eyes of these naïve Samford “attended vicariously” with her. Bowdre’s students were opened wide,” she said of leadership experiences in Zeta Tau Alpha her first encounter with drug addicts sorority, student government and other and dealers. “Now, I deal with them on a campus activities, she said, gave her regular basis in my court.” acceptance and confidence. She and the others worked hard Following a call to mission service sheetrocking, wiring, replacing ceiling that she first felt at a Girls in Action and flooring, and building a puppet camp at Shocco Springs Baptist stage in the unheated building. Knowing conference center, Bowdre majored that the exterior would soon be drawn in religion to prepare for seminary. on by area residents, they dubbed the She felt religion classes “were the new mission “Graffiti.” most interesting courses on “We returned home deeply campus,” she said. changed,” said Bowdre, who later visited Bowdre was challenged churches in Alabama, Georgia and through study with professors Tennessee to tell the story of Graffiti and who made her think and seek the need for urban missions. answers for herself. “The faith I This summer, 12 Graffiti cohorts grew up with became my own celebrated the 30th anniversary of the personal faith and beliefs,” said project with a reunion trip to the mission. Bowdre, now married and the They found the work still flourishes and mother of two sons. has grown extensively to impact the city It was a sociology course in and spark other ministries. juvenile delinquency, however, that “The experience this summer altered the course of her life’s illustrates that God calls us to work work. During a class visit to where He is already at work,” She said. family court, a chaplain “We were humbled to see what became encouraged her to consider law of that work.” ■

Judge Karon Bowdre speaks at the Samford Auxiliary fall meeting.

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wo years separated their ages and in the real estate section of the local Young, after illness forced him to move more than a century their hopes newspaper, “something I had not done from his childhood home. T and dreams, but recent events in in years,” he said. He discovered that On Sept. 17, 2005, Whisenant the life of Samford alumnus Michael the Little-Young House in nearby married Paula Whitaker of Harlan, Ky., Whisenant ’91 reveal a “common thread Fayetteville, just across the Tennessee donor relations coordinator for the of sorts” with Confederate Col. Thomas border, was for sale. University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. Little in humanity’s pursuit of success The size and beauty of the house Michael and Paula feel as though and happiness. was all it took. After looking it over, he they have been entrusted with an impor- Whisenant was 18 when he left purchased it, without any knowledge of tant chapter in the history of Fayetteville home in 1987 in search of life’s dreams its historical value, and started his own and the Little-Young family. Both love and goals. Little was only 16 when he business—the Little-Young House Bed- history, and they take seriously their joined the Confederate Army in 1864. and-Breakfast. charge. “The Little-Young House has a One common thread their lives share is a Research revealed that the property wonderful past and story that we love to century-old home in Fayetteville, Tenn. at 210 Bright Avenue was purchased in share with our guests,” said Paula. The Whisenant, or “Whiz” as he is 1869 by Confederate Col. Thomas house is listed on the National Register known to his closest friends, chose Cheatum Little for his wife, Elizabeth of Historic Places. Samford because of his interest in Agnes Goodrich. Michael said he finds a “common graphic design. Researching the school, A native of Bedford County, Tenn., thread” in the guests who stay at the he learned that Samford not only won Little moved to Fayetteville after the Little-Young House Bed and Breakfast. the top awards of the Birmingham Ad Civil War and became one of the town’s “It is truly amazing how everything has Club, it won practically all of them. leading citizens. As minister of the come together.” ■ A visit to the campus with some Congregation of the Church in friends for a design workshop ended the Fayetteville, he went on to preach 5,000 search. “It was not just the workshop,” he sermons, conduct 1,600 funerals and said. “There was just something unique perform the marriage ceremony for about Samford.” more than 400 couples, many in his Four years later, Whisenant house. He also helped establish the city graduated with what he describes as an school system. excellent education and was immediately Whisenant purchased the house employed as a graphic designer by from Little’s great-grandson, Dr. Richard Hoffman Media in Birmingham. Time passed, and he enjoyed his work. But he began to feel something was missing. Michael and Paula Whisenant enjoy During a visit to his mother in sharing their home’s historic past with Huntsville in 2001, Whisenant looked guests.

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1935 1947 Rev. Charles B. Smith** Dr.T.B.Stringfellow,Jr. Mrs. Mayda W. Hindman** Mrs. Angeline H. Florence** Mrs. Loretta R. Cunningham** Dr. Pheroba A. Thomas* Dr. Charles H. Talbert*** Mr. Eugene A. Mattox (P) Dr. William J. Williams*** Dr. William D. Peeples, Jr.*** Mrs. Nell J. Vaughan** Ms. Henri-Ann Taylor*** Mr. L. Reed Polk, Jr.* Mr. James N. Pittman*** Rev. Clinton M. Wood*** Dr. Charles T. Workman*** Mr. John W. Weeks, Sr.*** 1936 Dr. Albert B. Stephens, Jr.** Miss Sandra Elaine Mrs. Mildred W. Whitman*** Mr. James H. Wade, Jr.* 1952 1957 Williamson** Mr. James A. Zitzelberger** Mrs. William Henry Bancroft* Rev. Rayferd B. Bowman*** 1939 Mr. Eltis N. Brown Dr. Chriss H. Doss (L’68)*** 1961 Dr. Charles E. Clark** 1948 Mr. H. Wallace Garrett** Mr. Donald A. Garcia* Dr. Myralyn F. Allgood*** Mrs. Rose W. Sutley*** Mrs. Marie N. Fowler (P)** Mrs. Janie C. Greene Mr. William G. Garner*** Mr. Stephen C. Allgood*** Mr. George R. Yeager*** Miss Pauline E. Gravlee*** Mrs. William E. Hull** Mrs. Jo Hampton* Mr. George H. Bedwell* Dr. David A. Nelson*** Mrs. Gloria R. Kelley** Mr. J. T. Lindsey (P)** Mr. Major Tom Cannon*** 1940 Mrs. Jo Griffin Nelson** Mr.T.J.Kelley** Mr. C. Aubrey Lowry (P)*** Dr. Robert F. Crider* Rev. Charles D. Mullins** Dr.G.Davis O’Kelley** Dr. Lawrence W. Kendrick (P)* Dr. Ronald E. Peake** Mrs. Betty S. Eason* Mrs. Genie R. O’Kelley* Mr. Harold M. Langston*** Mr. James W. Stinson (P)* Ms. H. Frances Ferguson** 1942 Dr. C. A Shepherd, Jr. (L’66)*** Miss Odette Ramsey* Dr. M. Malissa Turner*** Dr. J. Wayne Flynt*** Mrs. Ann W. Armstrong*** Mr. Wayman G. Sherrer** Dr. Lowell C. Vann*** Dr. C. Norman Rice** Dr. Grace E. Marquez*** 1949 Rev. Charles D. Whitson** Mrs. Julia Alice G. Rice*** Dr. Ruth H. Peet** Mrs. Hudson D. Baggett** 1958 Rev. Edmon L. Rowell, Jr.** Mrs. Kathryn A. Robins*** Mr. Charlie B. Dickinson* 1953 Mrs. Betty H. Barnett** Mr. John W. Russell** Mr. Spurgeon R. Thrower Mr. Harry C. Evans** Mr. David Anshel** Dr. William F. Chilton** Dr. George F. Scofield** Mr. Harold L. Bodie*** Dr. J. Roderick Davis** 1962 1943 Mrs. Patricia T. Scofield*** Mr. James L. Holland, Jr.*** Mr. Ron Ellison*** Mrs. Joan S. Bailey** Mr.R.H.Gaddy Mrs. Graham Shovelton*** Mr. Charles R. Kennedy (P) Howard Lawrence Allison Mrs William E Burkett** Mr. Horace M. Hagood* Mr. James C. Stivender, Jr.*** Mrs. Wynema J. Lowry** Estate*** Mrs. Carol H. Collins* Mrs. Mary Louise Shirley Mr. Cecil E. Wanninger*** Rev. David B. Richardson** Mr. Trenyon H. Gamble*** Dr. Roderick H. Conrad** Hodges*** Mr. Frank M. West Mrs. Clinton Wood** Mr.S.H.Inzer,Jr.** Mrs. Barbara W. Crider** Mrs. Mary V. Lee** Mrs. Jean D. Williams** Dr. Raymond L. King*** Dean Joseph O. Dean, Jr. (P)*** Dr. John E. Wintter (P)*** 1954 Mrs. Shirley S. Langston* Mrs. Mary A. Glazner 1944 Mr. John L. Armstrong, Sr.*** Mrs. Ruth Liles Rabby* Mr. William B. Heard*** Mr. William Baker 1950 Rev. Henry F. Campbell, Jr.** Mrs. Patricia A. Rush** Mrs. Martha Green Isom*** Mrs. Ruby M. Bissett*** Dr. Hugh C. Bailey*** Dr. Toxey E. Dorsett** Mrs. Charleen N. Sims** Mrs. Bobbie C. Lancaster** Mrs. Louise M. Gaddy Mr. James E. Brake*** Mr. Clifton C. Hinds*** Mr. William O. Smith, Jr. (P)** Mrs. Harriet A. Mattox Dr. Martha Hagood** Lt. Col. Vernon E. Mr. Joseph W. House* Mr. Alan M. Voges (P)** Mrs. Carolyn W. Sheumaker* Mrs. Charles Mullins* Cunningham** Mr. Harold L. Hunt*** Mrs. Peggy F. Shores** Mrs. Darlene F. Patton (P)** Mr. David W. Glover** Dr. Harold D. Mixon** 1959 Mrs. Selwyn E. Simmons* Mrs. Xanthi H. Grammas (P)** Mrs. Sarah J. Smith** Dr. Jerry W. Batson** Rev. Charles E. Sims* 1945 Mr. Austin S. Graves*** Mrs. Mary H. Hudson*** Mr. Bennie B. Storie Mrs. Frances C. Baker Mr. Roy A. Graves*** 1955 Mr. John D. Humphreys (P) Dr. K. Bryant Strain Miss Mildred Blankenship** Rev. Charles E. Gray** Dr. Charles E. McGee** Mrs. Anne Moore Laws** Mr. Joe W. Wildmon Dr. Ira L. Myers** Rev. John G. Green* Dr. Clayton McWhorter (P)** Dr. Gerald H. Lord* Mr. Escar G. Wood (P) Mrs. Nell B. Propst*** Mrs. Peggy J. House* Mrs. Velma L. Sebring** Mr. Edward R. Pascoe** Mrs. Carole K. Woodall Mrs. Katherine R. Sims* Mrs. Dorothy Davis Jenkins* Mr. Neal L. Peyton** Rev. John W. Woodall Rev. Fred J. Martin, Jr.*** 1956 Ms. Sandra D. Smith*** 1946 Mr. Malcolm K. Miller, Jr.*** Mr. Joseph C. Brown Dr. Ronald Snow** 1963 Mrs. Margaret A. Brown Mrs. Margret H. Oakley*** Mr. Ronald K. Hampton** Ms. Minna R. West Mr. Harold E. Aycock (P) Mrs. Martha Purser Brown*** Mrs. Helen J. Peacock* Rev. David B. Howle Mr. Bennie W. Bumpers** Mr. William H. Gamble* Mrs. Patricia H. Johnson* 1960 Mrs. Sonja J. Bumpers** Mrs. Jo T. Kallenborn* 1951 Dr. Thomas R. King** Mrs. J. Carmichael** Mr. J. Ray Collins* Mr. William S. McGinnis, Sr.*** Mr. William H. Bancroft, Jr.** Mr. James D. Knight* Ms. Martha Ann Cox*** Dr. M. Richard Cross** Mrs. Jacqueline S. Pittman** Dr. Doris C. Carney*** Mrs. Joann S. McGee** Ms. Judith E. Dean* Mr. Anthony P. DeMarco* Mrs. Janette W. Heard** Dr. Jerry K. Medlock** Rev. O. Thomas Eason* Mr. John W. Duren*** Dr. William E. Hull*** Mrs. Ann P. Peake** Rev. Ronald F. Euler*** Mr. Richard F. Fendley Mr. Lou Mayer, Jr.* Mrs. Betty S. Stringfellow Mr. Richard S. Gilliam** Mr. Walton Garrett (L)*

42 Mrs. Ola F. Gilliam** Mrs. Aster W. Garrett** Mrs. Dorothy Westbrock*** Mrs. Gayle S. Miller** Major Pamela L. Parker Mr. Robert L. Jackson Mr. Thomas E. Hamby** Dr. Shirley A. Wilkerson** Mrs. Jane D. Mitchell** Mr. Scott A. Powell (L)** Mr. Aubrey F. Lancaster*** Mr. Ben B. Henderson, Jr.* Mrs. Eleanor W. Zieman** Mrs. Eunice C. Price* Dr. Randall K. Stewart Mr. William A. Nunnelley*** Mr. Warren W. Hilson* Mrs. Camilla B. Reid** Mrs. Donna L. Stokely Dr. Paul D. Robinson** Mr. Hewlett C. Isom, Jr. (L)*** 1971 Ms. Evelyn G. Shaw** Mrs. Jane W. Young* Mr. Carl E. Shepherd Dr. Henry A. McGuffey, Jr. (P)** Mr. John A. Armstrong* Mr. Bobby A. Shugart (P)** Dr. Philip D. Sheumaker* Mrs. Mary J. Penny* Mrs. Judy A. Bourrand*** Mr. J. Michael Souders (P)* 1979 Mr. Bobby P. Short (P)** Mr. Glenn A. Shepherd** Rev. Sidney M. Burgess*** Mrs. Carol E. Toner** Mr. Dexter R. Alexander** Mrs. Barbara J. Smith Mrs. Florence R. Stephens Mr. A. Jackson Clark (P’76) Mr. Teddy C. Wallin (P)* Mr. Edward R. Arnold (P)** Mrs. Doris R. Strain (L) (L’71)** Ms. Patricia G. Duckworth Mr. J. Birch Bowdre, Jr. (L)** ALUMNI Dr. Corley M. Thompson** Mrs. Anne G. Stone*** Dr. H. Marguerite Kelley*** 1975 Mr. James A. Clement** Mrs. Sandra L. Thrash* Mr. James L. Leadbeter Mrs. A. Alisa Boone*** Mrs. Mary J. Clement* 1964 Mr. William A. Thrash* Mr. James W. Lucas** Mrs. Carol D. Donaldson* Mr. Glenn E. Estess, Jr. (L) Rev. R. Edgar Ables** Mr. Thomas B. Tindall, Jr.** Dr. Curt Newell, Jr.*** Mr. Barry W. Foshee Rev. Kenneth L. Maddox Mr. George L. Frey** Mrs. Janis P. Nichol*** Ms. Brenda J. Gann* Mrs. Barbara V. Money** Dr. Helen J. Gillikin** 1968 Dr. Marlene H. Rikard*** Mrs. Annette W. Garrison** Mr. Donald A. Sullivan** Mrs. Nancy H. Jackson Mr. James H. Douglas** Mrs. Jana J. Shultz*** Dr. William C. Garrison Jr. (P)** Mrs. Lori L. Sullivan* Mr. Fred Johnston, Jr.** Mr. Lynn W. Easterling** Mrs. Marcia L. Hamby* Mr. Douglas B. Nunnelley Mrs. Karen B. Everage* 1972 Mr. Miles A. McGrane III (L) 1980 Mr. Jerry H. Partridge Mrs. Vivian H. Howard** Mr. Anthony W. Allen** Ms. Susan L. Mease** Ms. Marigene Chamberlain** Mr. Thomas F. Rogers, Jr.*** Mr. James R. Jackson (P)*** Mrs. Patricia B. Clark (P) Mrs. Marilyn Murphree (P)* Mr. A. Lamar Davis Mrs. Betty J. Royal Rev. Larry H. Lee* Mr. Billy T. Gamble*** Mr. Steve Murphree (P)* Dr. Leisa Watterson DeVenny** Mr.J.Bonwell Royal,Sr. Mr. Victor E. Nichol, Jr.*** Dr. J. Francis Garner Mr. John M. Paty** Mrs. Maria C. Fandetti (P)** Mrs. Mary Jean B. Thomason** Mrs. Marjorie Kay Nix** Mrs. Ann K. Holman* Mr. Michael S. Ray (P) Mr. William M. Franey (P) Mrs. Mary M. Underwood* Lt. Col. Paul V. Richter*** Mrs. Mary M. Randall** Dr. Billy J. Strickland*** Mr. Perry H. Hickman Mrs. Charlene C. Vaughn (P)** Mrs. Nancy W. Ryan** Dr. W. Randall Richardson*** Mr. John H. Tyrone* Mr. Gregory S. Hilton** Mr. J. Lamar Vaughn (P)*** Mr. John M. Taylor (L)*** Mrs. Rebecca J. Richey** Mr. Vernon H. White*** Mr. Jerry L. Jansen* Mrs. Emily S. Zimmet* Mrs. Lee Ann L. Thompson** Mrs. Gloria T. Russell** Mrs. Rebecca K. Lander (P’94)* Mrs. Phyllis A. Woodall** Mr. James P. Siragusa, Jr. (P)** 1976 Mrs. Jan Law (P)* 1965 Mrs. Shirley L. Smith** Mr. Bruce Bannister*** Mr. Timothy W. McEachern Mrs. Linda W. Ables** 1969 Mr. Jeffrey D. Stamper* Mr. Lloyd W. Gathings II (L)** Mr. Chetan P. Patel (P)* Mrs. Jane W. Bearden* Mrs. Jo Ann W. Armstrong*** Mr. David T. Whitt** Mrs. Rebecca R. Griffith* Ms. Julia A. Pugh* Mrs. Ozilene S. Cartee** Mrs. Margaret Sampson Dr.Michael D.Hill,Sr. Mrs. Evelyn S. Stough** Dr. James R. Chasteen* Binder* 1973 Mrs. Suzanne J. Johnson Mrs. Deborah L. Talley*** Mrs. Melba M. Chasteen* Mr. Clovis W. Box* Mrs. Mary N. Blake** Mrs. Kay E. Kinnard-Steele* Mrs. Elizabeth D. Crowther* Mr. William E. Cash, Jr. (P)** Mrs. Carol J. Byrd* Mrs. Mary Ann B. Moon*** 1981 Mrs. Judith E. Duncan*** Mr. John T. Coleman** Mrs. Donna G. Covey** Mrs. Madelyn B. Olson* Mrs. Marian W. Carter Dr. W. Jack Duncan*** Mr. Gerald D. Colvin, Jr.* Mrs. Teresa B. Crawford* Mr. Ira S. Silver (L)** Mrs. Willette C. Carter Mr. Ed Holcombe (P)** Mr. William P. Crowther (P)* Hon. Joel F. Dubina (L)*** Mr. Dale L. Skelton* Mrs. Donna W. Caruso* Mr. J. Bruce Hoven (P)*** Mr. James V. Gaines*** Mrs. Rebecca M. Duvall** Dr. David R. Terrell (P) Mrs. Mary E. Cox Mr. Charles E. Jacob Mrs. Donna D. Gray** Mr. Robert W. Duvall** Dr. Ron Wilson** Dr. R. Lee Franklin III** Mr. Robert F. Jones** Mrs. Charolette Hamby** Mrs. Lynn P. Gillespie* Mr. Mark Fuller* Rev. J. Dewayne Lasseter** Dr. Billy E. Heaton* Mrs. Anna L. Keith** 1977 Mrs. Jane W. Killian (L)** Dr. Janice M. Lasseter*** Dr. Calvin M. Howard (L) Mr. Brian T. Keith** Mr. Alton R. Averette* Hon. John E. Ott (L)* Mr. Robert W. Moulton (P)** (D’94)*** Mr. Jimmy Moore III** Hon. Karon O. Bowdre (L’81)** Mr. Harold William Wasden (L) Mrs. Carol F. Nunnelley*** Mrs. Donna Fowler Jackson** Mrs. Marione E. Nance** Mrs. Nora E. Cammack** Mr. W. Clark Watson (L)** Mr. C. Richard Queen* Dr. Betty Lou Land*** Dr. Jo B. Newton* Mr. Chad S. Cohenour (P) Mrs. Jan B. Queen* Dr. Wanda S. Lee* Mr. Robert W. Newton* Mr. William T. Coplin, Jr. (L)*** 1982 Mrs. Patricia L. Ronning* Rev. Joseph G. Mason** Mr. Jimmy Nipper Mr. John D. Czachurski Ms. Deborah K. Bentley (P)** Dr. Sharron P. Schlosser*** Dr. Michael W. McKenzie (P)** Mr. David M. Patterson* Dr. Rosemary M. Fisk*** Dr. Jacqueline L. Goldstein** Mrs. Anita D. Taylor** Mrs. Cynthia F. Mims** Mr. Phillip S. Schmidt** Mr. Stan Graves Mrs. Nancy G. Harris Dr. Joy H. Whatley*** Mr. R. Eddie Oliver*** Mrs. Sherry L. Starling (P)** Mrs. Deborah P. Holmes*** Mr. James A. Hartin* Mr. Raymond C. Winston (L’68)* Mr. Ollie S. Powers III*** Mrs. Debra S. Josof* Mrs. Le-Ann S. Little* Mrs. Elizabeth N. Still* 1974 Mrs. Myra J. LeMieux*** Dr. Timothy E. Lovett** 1966 Mrs. Pearl Tropper* Mrs. Nancy T. Acuff** Ms. Joan W. Lightfoot*** Ms. Gloria K. Parvin* Mrs. Evie S. Balch* Mr. John W. Vick*** Rev. E. Guy Anderson** Mr. J. Anthony McLain (L)* Mr. Glenn T. Schneider* Dr. James M. Castleberry** Mrs. Carlene H. Walker* Dr. Timothy P. Banks*** Mr. Rickie D. Moon*** Dr. Charles D. Cole (L)*** 1970 Mrs. Wanda Banks** Mr. Al Niles, Sr. 1983 Mr. Bruce E. Coshatt* Mr. Jesse M. Bates III** Mrs. Sharon D. Bull** Mr. William H. Satterfield (L)*** Dr. James R. Barnette** Mrs. Judith McMichael Frey** Mrs. Mary Lynn Bates (L’78)*** Hon. John L. Carroll (L)*** Mr. Stanley N. Woodall*** Mrs. Diane H. Jensen** Ms. Peggy P. Kelly* Mrs. Jenna Cassese** Dr. David H. Chestnut*** Mrs. Mary Lyn W. Woolley Mrs. Beth Leach Ms. Judy B. Prince Mrs. Charlotte L. Coleman*** Dr. Robert F. Crawford** Mrs. Loretta S. Littlejohn** Dr. Patrick B. Ryan (P)*** Ms. Judith S. Crittenden (L)*** Dr. Steven F. Donaldson 1978 Mrs. Karen E. Lowry* Mr. George R. Stewart** Mrs. Catherine M. Davis*** Mrs. Melinda H. Dressler*** Mr. James D. Allen** Mrs. Constance H. Macon* Mr. Norman D. Tarter (P) Mrs. Vicky B. Gailey** Mr. Robert H. Engram* Mrs. Mary J. Allen Mrs. Cynthia R. Slate-Cook* Mr. William C. Walker Mr. R. David Gillespie* Mrs. Jill J. Foshee Mr. Stan Davis (L)** Mr. Michael R. Tucker (L) Dr. Ray C. Williams** Mr. John B. Holley*** Mrs. Deborah G. Hill Mr.W.R.Ezell* Mr. Douglas E. Wilson* Mrs. Rona W. Zarovsky** Dr. Willis E. Howard III* Mrs. Elizabeth B. Howard** Mrs. Billy Gamble** Mr. Wayne M. Kendrick** Mrs. Karen A. Howell* Mrs. Honora M. Gathings (L)** 1984 1967 Mr. Ron Mims (P)** Mr. Trevor W. Howell (L’81)* Mr. Timothy A. Hodges (P) Mr. Jeffrey D. Bramer** Ms. Carolyn B. Chalkley* Mrs. Dale S. Shepherd*** Mr. F. William Keith, Jr.* Mrs. Faith A. Jansen* Mr. Glenn E. Goldstein (L) Dr. J. Norfleete Day (D’93)*** Mrs. Kimeran B. Stevens** Mr. Michael H. Lingerfelt (P)* Mrs. Melinda M. Mathews Mrs. Marion A. Kellough Dr. Christina H. Duffey** Mr. William J. Stevens*** Mr. Eddie Miller** (L)*** Mr. W. Mark Meadows*

43 Ms. Gina Micalizio (L) Mrs. Katie R. Dieterich 1994 Mr. Stephen W. Rizzo 2001 Mrs. Sandra E. Musgrove* Mr. Timothy E. Francine* Dr. Ronald P. Beasley, Jr.* Mrs. Danielle P. Rogers Mr. Ronald L. Burgess Mr. G. Edward Newberg* Ms. Kimberly B. Kleman Mrs. Nicola C. Bradburn-Fuller Mr. Joshua L. Rogers Mr. Andrew J. Byers (D) Mr. Chris D. Owens* Mr. Byron A. Lorrier (L) Mr. Scott Gray Carter (D’97) Mrs. Rebecca S. Roland* Mrs. Jennifer E. Coleman Mrs. Marquetta O. Thompson* Mrs. Edith F. Lyon** Mrs. Barbara H. Cartledge Mrs. Ruth Somerlot Ms. Kristin M. Conniff Mr. Paul J. Moseley Mrs. Carolyn P. Cohen Mr. Jason L. Sterling Mr. Donald W. Crowson 1985 Mr.M.Kirk Perry Mrs. Kyra L. Emerson* Mrs. Katharine S. Willard Ms. Melanie R. Dotson Mrs. Cathy S. Beasley* Mr. Earl G. Pitman III Mr. Robert E. Emerson* Mr. Mark A. Willard Mrs. Heidi L. Drake Mr. Kevin E. Collins (L) Mr. James T. Wallace** Mrs. Lisa M. Harris Mrs. Melissa I. Wimberly Mrs. Corri A. Edwards* ALUMNI Mr. John M. Floyd (L’88)** Mrs. Jill J. Wallace** Mrs. Connie M. Hogewood** Mr. Nathan D. Edwards* Mrs. Marsha M. Floyd** Mrs. Rebecca M. Jacobs 1998 Mr. Adam N. Glass* Rev. Barrie M. Kirby** 1990 Mrs. Susan B. Little* Mrs. Jennifer N. Boyett (P) Mrs. Lisa E. Gurley Mr. J. Frank Martin* Mrs. Laurie G. Aderholt Mrs. Andrea M. Northcut Mr. John C. Boyett (P) Mr. David A. Hedges Mrs. Kathleen B. Peeples** Mrs. Cynthia C. Bailey Miss Michelle D. Pender Mrs. Amy O. Bryant Mrs. Allison B. Hooks Ms. Sandra H. Peterson Rev. Ernie Carroll (D) Mrs. Kelly S. Preston* Mrs. Dawn M. Burgess Mr. Ryan H. Hooks Mr. David L. Corts, Jr.** Mr. Robert E. Sharp* Ms. Jennifer J. Coleman* Mrs. Carrie L. Morgan (P) 1986 Mrs. Shannon L. Hendrix Dr. Bruce A. Waldrop (P) Mrs. Rebecca E. Edwards* Mrs. Jennifer D. Ochoa Mr. M. Kent DeWitt* Mr. Will E. Morgan III** Mrs. Debra R. Whitcomb** Mrs. Melissa K. Fox* Mrs. Angela B. Parsons Dr. Leslie S. Ennis (L’92)* Mr.C.Cade Peeper Mrs. Tasha Whitehead (P) Dr. Elizabeth B. Holloway* Ms. Irene Pendleton Mrs. Jennifer C. Fuller** Mrs. Laurie B. Sharp (L’93)* Mr. Peter M. Lacy Mr. Jeremy S. Perkins Mr. C. Keith Herron Mrs. Bethany P.Welch 1995 Mrs. Darlene P. Mathis* Mrs. Paula M. Polinski* Ms. Karen A. McCall* Mr. Thomas G. Arlotto Mrs. Courtney H. McCrory* Ms. Christina A. Rogers Mrs. Leonard Nelson III** 1991 Dr. Jennifer W. Beall (P) (P’96) Mr. Scott McCrory Ms. Dianna E. Sanders* Rev. Peggy Sanderford Mr. Scott E. Camp* Dr. Kimberley W. Benner Mr. Tim Nabors Mrs. Tina R. Strickland Ponder** Mr. Brian C. Cook (P) (P’96)* Mrs. Nanette B. Pettry Ms. Melissa L. Walker Rev. Leslie Spiller** Mrs. Suzanne B. Davidson Mrs. Ellen B. Bishop Mr. Benjamin J. Sprouse (D) Ms. Melissa K. Ward Mrs. Traci A. Spiller** Mr. Sean A. Flynt* Mrs. Heather P. Copeland Mrs. Ashley N. Spurling* Ms. Lauri J. Strimkovsky Mrs. Shannon R. Flynt* Mr. Andrew B. Cundiff* Mr. David T. Spurling* 2002 Mrs. Ann T. Yates* Mr. Richard V. Johnson Mrs. Janet T. Goodwin** Mr. Douglas J. Walter (L) Mr. William C. Akin Mrs. Melody B. Lovvorn Dr. Heather B. Hogue Dr. Heather M. Warhurst (P) Ms. Lorah L. Bond 1987 Mrs. Anethia A. Reliford** (P) (P’96)* Dr. Robert D. Warhurst (P)* Mr. Daniel N. Craft Mrs. Sheri B. Boston (P)** Mr. Thomas P. Rohling* Dr. Michael D. Hogue Ms. Jennifer J. David Mrs. Martha A. DeWitt (P)* Mr. George W. Smith (L) (P) (P’96)* 1999 Ms. Elizabeth E. Evans Mr. Patrick F. Dye, Jr. (L)** Mr. John M. Whitcomb** Mrs. Karen H. Hubbard** Mr. James C. Baldone, Jr. Mrs. Adrian H. Fitchpatrick Rev. Dr Thomas L. Fuller** Mr. Kyle E. Petteway (L) Dr. Russell D. Clemmons Mr. Craig L. Fulton Mrs. Stacia Gaines 1992 Mrs. Melody D. Petteway Mr. Scott G. Denaburg (P) Mr. Jason M. Garmon Dr. James D. Graham** Ms. Daphne R. Carr* Mr. Justin M. Petty Mr. Clayton M. Estes* Mrs. Jacqueline J. Green Mr. John W. Hennington Mrs. Donna K. Flight* Mrs. Adrienne R. Pitts (D’98) Mrs. Reble A. Foy** Ms. Amy E. Harold (D’91)* Mrs. Tanya B. Hendrix (P) Mr. Mark D. Pratt (L) Mr. R. Tyler Hand (L’03) Mr. James A. Kling Mrs. Amy M. Houston Mr. Robert W. Hensarling, Jr.* Mr. Jason D. Preston* Mr. Joel J. Landry* Mrs. Stephanie R. Kling Ms. Nicole V. Johnson Mrs. Heidi P. Holt (L) Mrs. Tammie D. Williams Mrs. Elizabeth P. Peters Ms. Natalie A. Lochridge Mr. Lawrence C. Kasten (L)** Mrs. Dea G. Mathews* Ms. Allison Yeager** Mr. Ryan T. Potter Ms. Amy E. Menefee Mr. Theodore J. Leopold (L)** Mrs. Melba E. Maudlin Mrs. Sarah D. Sprouse Ms. Kimberly A. Michael Mr. David L. Lyon** Mrs. Kristin L. Morris* 1996 Ms. Constance L. Moore Rev. David K. Mann Mr. Robert S. Morris* Mr. Timothy A. Coleman 2000 Ms. Kelly A. Novay Mrs. Lavonda V. Mann Mrs. Tara S. Peeper Mr. Joey D. Davenport Mrs. Janet G. Alexander* Dr. Patricia A. Outlaw (D)* Mr. Alan B. Morris** Mr. Gregory A. Rader** Mrs. Allison Lee Dearing (L’00) Mrs. Christy L. Allen* Ms. Darlene L. Robbins* Mrs. Andrea B. Mullins Mrs. Christine F. Rohling* Miss Patrice R. Donnelly* Dr. Geri W. Beers** Ms. Julie S. Robinson Mr. Stephen R. Peeples** Ms. Connie Romero (P)* Ms. Jennifer E. Dunn* Mr. Aaron Bryant Mr. Luke F. Schrimsher Mr. Jeffrey P. Price** Mrs. Jennifer J. Sands* Mr. Todd R. Epps Mr. John R. Buhrman (L) Mrs. Brooke S. Senter (P) Mrs. Linda D. Schock (P)* Ms. Anne R. Strickland (L)** Mrs. Anna M. Goodwin* Ms. Julie W. Buhrman (L) Ms. M. Lauren Sheehan Mr. Brian A. Sharp* Dr. Paula A. Thompson Mrs. Megan E. Hensarling* Ms. Mary C. Burrett Miss Laura M. Smitherman Mrs. Lynn D. Sharp* (P) (P’93)** Mr. James T. Holloway Ms. Jennifer A. Crabb Ms. Keiran M. Walsh Dr. Shari L. Skinner (P) Mr. Richard B. West Miss M. Ruth Hudson* Ms. Daria E. Grandy Mr. Robert B. Watson Mrs. Dawn C. Stephens Dr. Ellen Witt* Mr. William R. Ivey Mr. Brian M. Holmes Ms. Michaelle E. Wells Mrs. Mary Ann Tomlinson** Ms. Shea N. Merriweather Mrs. Francoise H. Horn* Ms. Elizabeth B. Wilson 1993 Dr. Eric L. Motley* Mr. Chad E. James 1988 Mr. Hunter C. Carroll (L’97) Mr. J.P. Philpot* Mr. Robert R. Maddox (L) 2003 Mrs. Patricia S. Beckham (P) Mrs. Cheryl S. Cecil* Mr. Brian C. Pitts (D’99) Mr. Taylor R. McCoy Mr. Joshua R. Albertsen Mrs. Karen D. Carlisle* Mrs. Sherri C. Crowe Mr. Scott K. Randles Ms. Elaine Y. Metzger (P) Mrs. Mary S. Baldwin* Mr. W. Todd Carlisle (L’91)* Mr. Richard Flight* Rev. John A. Roland* Mrs. Tabitha S. Moore* Ms. Amanda L. Beavers Mrs. Karen M. Carnes Dr. Bradley E. Jacobs Mr. Jonathan R. Murray Ms. Lindsey D. Bell Ms. Linda D. Connor (L)** Mr. Donald B. Kirkpatrick II (L) 1997 Mrs. Sarah E. Murray Ms. Jennifer D. Bohler Mrs. Ann Goldstein (L) Mr. Fred T. Lovvorn II Mr. Alvin L. Barber Mr. James C. Pounds, Jr. (D)* Mrs. Lauren M. Caldwell Mr. Lee Rudd** Ms. Lisa A. McNeal* Mr. Adam R. Bishop Mr. Robert L. Roller** Ms. Heather L. Cash Mr. M. Andy Parrish** Mrs. Suellen W. Epps Mrs. Bridget C. Rose (D)* Mrs. Melanie M. Castleberry 1989 Rev. April L. Robinson* Mr. Seth A. Gibree Mr. Dennis L. Self** Mrs. Mary M. Craft Mrs. J. Ellen Bailey Ms. Candace M. Rutledge Mrs. Shannon R. Gibree Mrs. Susan E. Sterling Mr. James B. Drake Mr. William M. Black** Dr. Charles D. Sands IV* Mrs. Trisha S. Holmes Mrs. Adrienne E. Wiggins Mrs. Cristine T. Ferguson Miss Lissa R. Burleson* Mrs. Kimberly M. Sims* Mr. Stephen C. Inman Mr. E. Geoffrey Wolfe (L’00) Ms. Kimberly D. Ferguson (P) Mr. Paul E. Carter* Mr. Ian Thompson* Mr. Michael D. Mann Mrs. Victoria H. Floyd Dr. Stephen L. Davidson Dr. Lee T. Wimberly Mr. Gregory A. Mausz, Jr.* Ms. Erin E. Giesa Mr. Richard E. Davis (L)** Ms. Julie D. Pearce (L) Mrs. Charlene F. Gossett

44 Ms. Deborah J. Hart Mrs. Carlissa Strong Mr. Michael H. Estes Ms. Freddie M. Sims Mr.Stephen Hill,Jr. Mrs. Jill M. Hedges Ms. Anna P. Teel (D) Ms. Tommie A. Fridy Ms. Heather N. Sims Mr. Jeffrey S. Howard Ms. Sarah R. Hedgspeth Ms. Kristin M. Timm Mrs. Marisa N. Frizell Mr. Stephen B. Stake Ms. Lee A. Ketcham (D) Mr. Jarod S. Hinson Ms. Analyn D. Van Brink Dr. Clara Gerhardt* Mr. David M. Stark Ms. Cheryl G. Knight Mr. Bradley J. Landry Mr. Michael J. Verlander Ms. Andrea F. Golden Dr. Patricia M. Thomas Ms. Mary G. McDonald Mrs. Rebecca E. Landry Ms. Amanda G. Ward Ms. Amanda R. Hambrick Mrs. Lauren C. Verlander Ms. Brittney B. Mensen Mr. Brad Lewallen Mr. Michael J. Ward Dr. Cynthia A. Hardee (P) Mr. Joseph B. Wells Mr. Zachary E. Nichols Mrs. Julia B. Lewallen Mrs. Ginger L. Hogeland Ms. Sarah L. Wilcox Ms. Laura S. Onstott Mr. Steven M. Link 2004 Mr. Adrian D. Horstead Mr. Stephen M. Peairson, Jr. (D) Mrs. Corinne M. Maleski Mr. Dustin T. Allen* Mr. Daniel A. Ledford 2005 Mr. Nathan S. Rice ALUMNI Ms. Shirley D. Mitcham Ms. Lindsey R. Arnold Mr. Mitchell D. Love Mr. Adam S. Borneman Ms. Kimberly S. Stumpf Ms. Christina L. Peterman Ms. Carmen E. Avery Mr. Grant P. Lyons Ms. Delores Brown Mr. Jeffery C. Townsley Mr. Steven B. Powell Mr. Kevin W. Barberio Mrs. Hannah V. Lyons Mr. Scott R. Crews Mrs. Jennifer B. Watson Ms. Eliza Rhoads Ms. Elizabeth A. Cobb Mr. Tommy McAllister Ms. Christina M. Dortch Mr. Chase D. Williams Mr. Bradley H. Rowe Ms. Lananh P. Dam (P) Mr. Paul N. McDaniel Ms. Noel Forlini Mr. Matt Wilson Ms. Julia E. Schenk Mrs. Tracy L. Debord (P) Mr. James M. Monsarrat Ms. Hannah L. Harlow Mr. James D. Senter* Ms. Delauné M. Dugas Mr. Ty Neil Mrs. Cristina M. Hasha Mrs. Laura W. Sharpe Mrs. Judy Durham (D) Ms. Stefanie L. Pickett Ms. Connie S. Hataway*

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’55 Frank Sidney Wells recently retired as ’66 Clarence and Frances W. Duncan live in ’74 Camilla Brown Reid is associate director, minister to senior adults at First Baptist Ocala, Fla. He is senior adult minister at Reese Library, Augusta State University, Church, Enterprise, Ala., completing a First Baptist Church. She recently retired Augusta, Ga. ALUMNI 50-year career as pastor, missionary and from Marion County schools after 33 years. denominational employee. His wife, Jo Evelyn Shaw retired from teaching after 30 Ann Fossett Wells ’56, is a retired speech Jim Gibson was named a 2005 distin- years and is an ombudsman with the language pathologist. guished alumnus of New Orleans Baptist Jefferson County Council on Aging. She Theological Seminary [NOBTS]. The lives in Morris, Ala. ’57 Jesse Drew Harrington retired as chairman retired music publisher at LifeWay Christian of the history and social sciences depart- Resources was cited for his impact on ’75 A. Alisa Boone, M.B.A. ’80, is advertising ment at , Montgomery Southern Baptist worship and music. His manager for Southern Living magazine, campus, in June. He and his wife, Maria, career included serving as executive project published in Birmingham. now live in Cumming, Ga. manager for the Celebration Hymnal, released in 1997. He earned a master’s in ’76 Clyde Walker is strategic account manager ’59 Frank C. Galloway, Jr., is included in the church music from NOBTS in 1970. with Education Finance Partners, 2006 Best Lawyers of America list for real Brentwood, Tenn. estate law. He is a partner in the Birmingham ’67 Rod Hovater was named one of Computer law firm of Hand Arendall, L.L.C. Associates’ top sales executives at the ’77 Paul Garrard is director of education loan company’s annual meeting this summer. management with Sallie Mae, Reston, Va. ’60 John C. Bush is interim pastor and head of He and his wife, Paula Smith Hovater ’69, He develops products and services to staff at First Presbyterian Church, live in Roswell, Ga. ensure a successful repayment experience Birmingham. He and his wife, Sara L. for Sallie Mae’s eight million student and Fulton Bush ’59, live in Decatur, Ala. He William E. Lee of Waverly Hall, Ga., sold parent borrowers. retired in 2004 after 42 years of active his drugstore and is a pharmacist with ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA). Walgreen’s Drug Store in Columbus, Ga. ’78 Judy Farrington Aust of Atlanta, Ga., He and his wife, Wynne, recently celebrated recently retired after 20 years in the prac- ’61 Nancy James Sayers will represent the their 35th wedding anniversary. They have tice of law. She devotes time to her sixth- Department of Research and Development three children and six grandchildren. grade son, Owen, and her new career as an of the North Texas VA Medical Center at artist. Her series of oil paintings, “Garden Dallas at two national meetings in Julian Ray Smith, president of Fair Havens Rhythms,” was the subject of an opening December: Public Responsibility in Publications, is publisher and cowriter of reception in Atlanta, Ga., in September. Medicine and Research, and Applied Too Busy to Live: The Addiction America Research Ethics National Association. Applauds. The book explains how culture James Clay Fielding is the author of The meetings, both in Boston, Mass., are drives people to be excessively busy and SongStar, the first book in a series, Cycle of sponsored by Boston University School of offers practical suggestions to achieve the Songs, based on Native American lore Medicine and the Association of American physical, emotional, and spiritual balance and myth, and the Old West. He lives in Medical Colleges. She serves on the Dallas and wellness. He and his wife, Dianna Joan Lakeland, Fla. VA Internal Review board, which protects Peterson Smith ’67, live in Lake Kiowa, Texas. the rights of human subjects in research. Delane Tew is chair of the humanities ’71 Ruth Ann Carpenter Siegler of Cincinnati, division at , Marion, Ala. ’64 Crawford Cinyard Conway, Sr., of Ohio, is visual arts coordinator for Cleveland, Tenn., recently retired from the Sycamore Community Schools. ’79 T. K. Kieran will present workshops on Bradley County school system and com- strategies for accelerating growth at two pleted an interim position at First ’72 Ann Butler, M.S.E., of Decatur, Ala., has international association meetings this fall: Cumberland Presbyterian Church. been organist and pianist at the city’s the Executive Committee International Ninth Street United Methodist Church for Leaders’ conference in Washington, D.C., Sandy Autry Ignatonis of Marietta, Ga., 42 years, taking only one year off while and the National Business Incubation recently retired from teaching. She is listed working on her master’s degree at Association in San Diego, Calif. She is in several Who’s Who publications. Samford. The retired music teacher was consultant and owner of T. K. Kieran & accompanist for the Decatur Civic Chorus Associates, Atlanta, Ga. James William Tidwell of Cullman, Ala., for 25 years. retired from the trucking industry. ’80 David Carson was elected to a one-year William Sumners, director of the term as chairman of the Florida Fertilizer ’65 Saralyn Monroe Collins of Winter Park, Southern Baptist Historical Library and and Agrichemical Association in July. He is Fla., is senior executive managing director Archives, received a Society of American president of Chemical Dynamics, Inc., and national training director of Archivists’ Award for his significant con- Plant City, Fla. He and his wife, Lei Ann, eWomenNetwork. She was honored as tribution to the field of religious archives. have two sons, Nathan and Ben. 2005 Managing Director of the Year for He is the author of many publications, North America. including Documenting the Spirit: Manual Charles Davis of Hendersonville, Tenn., is and Guidelines and the Church Archive a pharmacist at Publix. series. He lives in Franklin, Tenn.

46 Elizabeth Cruz Fandetti and her husband, John, live in Weston, Fla. They have two Campbell Memoir Centers on Flying children enrolled at Samford, Elizabeth hen Julian to have a navigator in the lead plane, and the Gilbow, a pharmacy student, and John Paul Fandetti, a freshman. WCampbell’s other planes would follow. However, no daughter, Robin navigator showed up. ’82 Karen Faircloth, director of the Wilhelm, encour- After several days, Campbell asked the Emergency Department at Montclair aged her father to operations officer at Morrison Field in West Baptist Medical Center, Birmingham, was record an oral Palm Beach, Fla., for permission to fly to North named a fellow of the Emergency Nurses history of his first 50 Africa, navigating himself. The officer said yes, Association Academy of Emergency years, he did even and off Campbell flew, with one other plane ALUMNI Nursing. She has been a leader in more. He wrote a following him, across the Caribbean, down the emergency and trauma professional book and had it coast of South America, across the south organizations at state and national levels. Julian Campbell printed, a 380-page Atlantic and ultimately to Marrakech, North volume he titled Africa. ’83 John D. Brock is administrator of Memories That Must Not Vanish. “It’s frightening to think how little flying NorthStar Surgical Center, Lubbock, Texas. Memoirs provide a firsthand view of experience we had and how ill-equipped we He is active in civic activities and is a history, and that’s what Campbell ’52 does with were for this undertaking,” he admits in his member of the American College of his descriptions of growing up in rural north memoir. Campbell flew the required 40 Healthcare Executives. Alabama and his 28 years in the U.S. Air Force. missions in the Mediterranean theater, and One episode details an epic journey he took then finished out the war as a flight instructor. Salam A. Shorrosh is pastor of Lagoon flying a B-26 bomber from south Florida to The Cullman, Ala., resident wrote his Baptist Church, Gulf Shores, Ala. He and North Africa during World War II without a book primarily for family but gave a copy to his wife, Sherry, have a son, Michael. navigator. The route covered 10,000 miles, took the Samford library. Special Collection 13 days and required 10 stops for rest and Librarian Elizabeth Wells placed it with other ’84 Richard Sample of Fremont, Calif., is assisting the Cooperative Baptist refueling. memoirs of local history. Fellowship with Hurricane Katrina disaster Campbell was part of a group of B-26 “These volumes serve a valuable purpose relief in Louisiana. crews assigned to ferry bombers on the trans- of providing a firsthand view of history,” said Atlantic flight to the war zone. The B-26 Wells. “In this case, it fits in well with a recent ’85 A. Brantley Harwell, Jr., received the 2005 normally carried no navigators; pilots used project in which Samford students are seeking Fred Ford Excellence in Teaching Award at short-range navigational equipment to find interviews with World War II veterans to Martin Methodist College, Pulaski, Tenn., their way. But for this long flight, the plan was record their experiences.” ■ where he is an English professor. He earned a Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee. ’89 Kate Ray Dieterich owns and operates John Philip Gray, M.B.A., received an Simply Sage Interiors in Purcellville, Va., LL.M. in Taxation from the University of ’87 Charles A. Douglass, a lieutenant colonel where she lives with her husband, David, Alabama Law School in August. He is in the U.S. Air Force, is stationed at and twin daughters, Addison and assistant professor of legal studies and Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Courtney, 9. criminal justice at , Montgomery, Ala., where he is director of David Kelley Mann of Harlingen, Texas, ’90 Laurie Green Aderholt is a teacher in the master’s degree program in criminal recently received board certification by the Sylacauga, Ala. She and her husband, justice. Association of Professional Chaplains. Jamie, have a son, Rhett, 7, and a daughter, Ryan, 2. Sheri Lobach Spivey and her husband, Rick McKee, editorial cartoonist for The Donnie, are church planters in Kamloops, Augusta Chronicle (Ga.), won first place for Sheila Galvez teaches middle school British Columbia, for Mission Service editorial cartooning in the 2005 Georgia students in Jefferson County Schools’ Corps, a division of the North American Press Association’s Better Newspaper alternative program. She is a certified Mission Board. Contest. His cartoons are syndicated to 400 Turbo Kick instructor and member of through King Features and Birmingham’s volleyball league. She holds ’92 Charles Howard and his father recently have appeared in Newsweek and USA a master’s degree in agency counseling opened an employee leasing company, Today. His work has been featured on from the University of Alabama at Howard Leasing, in Bradenton, Fla. CNN and Fox News channels. While a Birmingham. student, he was a cartoonist for the ’93 James M. and Kimberly P.Huston live in Samford Crimson. ’91 Chris and Susan Neville Blazer work with Lilburn, Ga., with their three children: Campus Outreach—Brazil. They have James, 10; Lauren, 8; and Matthew, 6. Robert Parker is principal of Bob Jones three children: Hannah, 8; Joshua, 5; and High School, Madison, Ala. Jonathan, 3. M. Patrick Lowe completed a three-year fellowship in gynecologic oncology at the ’88 David Weston, J.D. ’92, is coauthor of the David Thomas Cade was a Hurricane University of Southern California Keck book Step by Step: Looking at the New Katrina disaster relief volunteer with the School of Medicine. Dr. Lowe and his wife, Testament Beatitudes through the Old American Red Cross in Jackson, Miss., in Kimberly, live in Memphis, Tenn., where he Testament Feasts. He practices law in September. He is a real estate agent in practices medicine at the West Clinic. Montgomery, Ala., where he lives with his Birmingham. wife, Deena Haynes Weston ’91, and their Brian Robert Randles married Nichol three children. Simmons in February. They live in Orlando, Fla.

47 ’95 David Fuerst earned a master of business ’97 Hunter and Vicki Klauser Brewer ’99 live Julie Cills Crocker and her husband, administration from Wake Forest in Brandon, Miss. He is starting a Michael, live in Spring, Texas, with their University’s Babcock Graduate School of Presbyterian Church of America near son, Justin Michael, 1. Management. He and his wife, Melissa Madison, Miss. She is a senior sales associate Bootes Fuerst ’92, and their three children with Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals. Andrew Woodall Pohl is director of live in Charlotte, N.C., where he is a education at Brasfield Technology, district sales manager for Vulcan Materials Rachel Blake Fry received a Ph.D. in Birmingham. He and his wife, Anna, live in Company. clinical psychology from the University of Alabaster, Ala., with their son, Everett Alabama in August. She is a postdoctoral Matthew, born in June. Daniel Ray Manning, a major in the U.S. scholar in the Department of Preventive ALUMNI Air Force, is an A-10 instructor pilot at Medicine at the University of Alabama at ’99 Kristen Farmer married Dugald Hall in Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. Birmingham. Reid Chapel in early November. She is assistant director, Lister Hill Center for Adrienne Carol Sullivan Maxson lives in Angela Dougharty Porada lives in Public Policy, Birmingham. Norcross, Ga., with her husband, David, Cordova, Tenn., with her husband, Mark, and three children, twins Anna and Joshua, and their two children, Will, 2, and Liana Celeste Holmes Wrenn is Internet and Katie. Annalise, 1. banking product manager at AmSouth Bank, Birmingham. She and her husband, Stephanie Zito of Tampa, Fla., recently Jason Lee and Susan Elizabeth Carlberg Gabriel, own University Skateboards and returned from West Darfur, Sudan, where Sterling ’00 live in Birmingham. They Cycles in Montevallo, Ala. she served with World Relief as com- received master’s degrees from Reformed munications officer of the Darfur Relief Theological Seminary, Orlando, Fla., in Jason Zinn works for Young Life. He and Collaboration. She worked with popu- May. He is Reformed University Fellowship his wife, Amanda Grace Teague Zinn ’99, lations affected by conflict in the volatile campus minister at Samford. They have a live in Birmingham with their daughter, region of West Darfur. daughter, Katherine Ann, born in July. Katelyn, 1.

’96 Kendra Sawyer Haddock of Hoover, Ala., ’98 Michael Jeffrey Brannon is pursuing a ’00 Lisa Andreone was on the NBC reality TV was selected for inclusion in the silver Ph.D. in Biblical studies at the University show The Biggest Loser in October 2004, anniversary edition of Who’s Who of of Edinburgh, Scotland. and more recently on The Biggest Loser, American Women. She holds a master’s season two, and The Biggest Loser Family degree in art education and teaches at Sarah Beth Brasington received a master Edition, which aired this fall. She lost 83 Valley and Helena intermediate schools. of divinity degree from George W. Truett pounds during the three-month stay in a Theological Seminary, , California house with other contestants, Becky Sanders Malcom is a psycho- Waco, Texas, in August. finishing among the top five. She will appear therapist in Atlanta, Ga. She and her in another upcoming episode. She is a husband, Steve, have a daughter, Madeline Adam Wade Greenway of Lexington, Ky., motivational speaker based in Orlando, Fla. Grace, born in May. was elected a trustee of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Jennifer Bearden married Richard Timothy Davis Reeves of Knoxville, Tenn., Convention. At age 27, he is the youngest Franklin Thorn in October. They live in received an educational specialist degree trustee. He is on staff at the Baptist Church Memphis, Tenn. from Lincoln Memorial University. at Andover. Michael and Elizabeth Creech Giddens Eric W. Sawyer is a geographic information Cherington Love Shucker taught a year at live in Loganville, Ga. He is an agent with specialist with the U.S. Agency for Inter- Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, First National Insurance in Duluth, Ga. She national Development’s Office of Foreign China, and married Darin Gehrke in April. received a master’s in education in May Disaster Assistance in Washington, D.C. He They live in New York City, where she is a and teaches third grade in Gwinnett coordinates the use of geographic infor- member of the client relations team at County. They have a daughter, Wryeton mation systems in international disaster relief. Eagle Capital Management, LLC. Elizabeth, 1.

Russell and Amy Yvette Maddox Lowe ’01 Guthrie Named Communications Director for Senate Finance Committee live in Birmingham. arol Guthrie ’93 was named communi- announcement Amy Marion Seay and her husband, Jon Ccations director of the Senate Finance Oct. 20. “She will Hall, opened a landscaping business, Ten X Committee in Washington, D.C. Guthrie will keep the public Properties, in Colorado Springs, Colo. lead day-to-day press operations for the well-informed Democratic staff of the committee. She of the action Jill Troglen is marketing and public assumed her duties after Thanksgiving. happening in relations coordinator at the Alabama Guthrie served previously as communi- the Finance School of Fine Arts, Birmingham. cations director for Finance Committee mem- Committee. I look ’01 Tara D’Ann Bourque earned a master’s in ber Ron Wyden [D-OR], handling his nation- forward to having elementary education at the University of al and local press relations for more than four her join our staff.” Alabama at Birmingham in August. She years. Before working for Sen. Wyden, Guthrie An honors Carol Guthrie lives in Homewood and teaches second worked in broadcast journalism and on politi- graduate of Samford, grade at Oak Grove Elementary School. cal campaigns. she earned a bachelor of arts in journalism/mass ■ “Carol brings a wealth of press communication and English. Elizabeth Anne Brown is a freelance writer experience to our Finance Committee team,” who also teaches American literature and said Sen. Max Baucus [D-MT] in making the 48 creative writing at Southside Christian Hospital. He is pursing a master’s at Samuel Phillips Jones, a second lieutenant School, Greenville, S.C. Samford’s Beeson Divinity School. and student naval aviator in the U.S. Marine Corps, is in pilot training in Fran Gardner married Jason Cooper in Michaelle E. Wells is pursuing a master’s in Pensacola, Fla. January. They live in Newnan, Ga. divinity-social work, a dual degree, at Baptist Theological Seminary at Scott Larimore and his wife, Jennifer, live David King is in his second year of a Richmond, Richmond, Va. in Mountain Brook, Ala. pastoral residency at Wilshire Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas. ’03 Maribeth Stuart Ball and her husband, Daniel Adam Ledford is an account Clint, live in Winter Park, Fla. manager with UniShippers, Atlanta, Ga. Pamela Garner is an accountant with ALUMNI Capstone Building Corporation, John and Julie Marie Chovanec Bowles Theresa Smith Mack of Birmingham Birmingham. live in Duluth, Ga. recently retired from the Jefferson County Board of Education after 30 years of Jennifer Graham is a secretary with Peninsula Adriane Culpepper and Justin Ireland service. Medical Associates, Bradenton, Fla. married in May. They live in Helena, Ala. Adriane is pursuing a master’s in social Rebecca Lee Rowe, M.M., is associate Jeffrey Garrett Miller, J.D., is an attorney work at the University of Alabama and director of music at Middlebrook Pike with Sirote & Permutt, P.C., in Mobile, Ala. works in the Samford admission office. United Methodist Church, Knoxville, Tenn. He and his wife, Dana, have a son, Garrett Justin works for Student Life as conference Bozeman (“Bo”), 1. tour director and director of Student Life Kimberly Sanders married Ian E. Davey at the Beach. in August at Samford. She is pursuing a Katie Partain Patterson and her husband, master’s in diplomacy and international Seth Patterson ’02, live in Miami, Fla. She Dana Bryant Duell is an admission adviser relations at John C. Whitehead School of is pursuing a doctor of musical arts degree with Clayton College of Natural Health, Diplomacy and International Relations at at the University of Miami. He is an Birmingham. Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. elementary music teacher in Miami-Dade They live in Short Hills, N.J. County schools. Kevin T. Gunter earned a master’s in piano performance and pedagogy at Southern Shellie R. Tillman is a registered nurse in David Wildes earned a master’s in divinity Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, in May. the cardiology unit at Vanderbilt Children’s at New Orleans Baptist Theological He is class piano coordinator for the music Hospital, Nashville, Tenn. Seminary in May and married Carrie Siska division at SMU and a faculty member in in July. They live in Waukegan, Ill. the piano preparatory department. ’05 Catherine Brumfield is a nurse in the special care unit at St. Thomas Hospital, Jason and Gini Hallquist Young live in Jessica Litwiniec won first place in solo Nashville, Tenn. New Orleans, La., where he attends New auditions in the graduate division of the Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. 2005 Alabama Music Teachers Association Emily Dockery married Daryl White, They are church planters with the Bridge competition and second place in the piano M.Div. ’04, in January. They live in Church Communities of Greater New division of the 2005 Alabama Federation of Murfreesboro, Tenn. Orleans. They have a daughter, Mercy Music Clubs scholarship auditions. She is a Reese, born in July. graduate student in piano performance at Brandy Allison Smith married Matthew the University of Alabama. Dunn in June. They live in Ozark, Ala. ’02 Amanda Foster married Phillip Coleman in September. They live in Starkville, Miss. Abby McWhorter married Adam Estes in Meredith Ingram McDonough received a She is an outpatient therapist with August. They live in Madison, Ala., where Graduate Council Fellowship to pursue a Community Counseling Services. she works at Youth Villages. master’s in library and information studies at the University of Alabama. The fellow- Leah Fuller, J.D. ’05, married Craig Allison Yvonne Reid-Lumbatis is a third- ship is the most competitive at the William Dube in March. They live in year student at Samford’s Cumberland graduate level in the university. Birmingham, where she is an attorney with School of Law. Environmental Attorneys Group. Dana Mitchell of Murfreesboro, Tenn., is Jessica Ashlee Richie taught English for a pursuing a master’s degree and teacher’s Candice Nicole Griffin is minister of year in Ostrava, Czech Republic, with ESI license at Middle Tennessee State children and students at University Baptist International and is now with the University. Church in Montevallo, Ala. Department of the Army in training as a public relations media specialist. She lives Missy Polhemus, M.B.A., is associate Brian Smith is in his third year in the in Seattle, Wash., where she is assigned to Internet director for consumer marketing clinical psychology program at Fuller the Corps of Engineers for one year. at Southern Progress Corporation. She is Theological Seminary, Pasadena, Calif. responsible for leading and planning ’04 Amanda Elizabeth Drissell married David online promotion strategies for Southern Keiran Walsh received a master’s in Baca in 2004. They live in Rolla, Mo., Progress magazine titles. physician assistant studies from the where she teaches at Wyman Elementary Medical University of South Carolina in School. Jennifer Pratt is pursuing a master’s degree August. She lives in Gastonia, N.C. and teaching fourth grade in Atlanta, Ga. Katie Hall and Baxter Bentley ’05 married Robert Brian Watson married Jennifer recently. They are enrolled in seminary at Jenn Rizzo married Joel Collins in June. Anne Beard ’05 in June. They live in Baylor University, Waco, Texas. They live in Lexington, Ky. ■ Pelham, Ala. She is a nurse at Children’s

49 Steve and Deborah Franklin Guin of Jeremy and Tara Gravette Vice of Helena, Ala., a son, Evan David, born Feb. Birmingham, a son, Wesley Brooks, born 5, 2005. July 29, 2005.

Elizabeth and Patrick N. Millsaps of Camilla, ’99 Tommy and Rebecca Ricketts Gladney of Ga., twin daughters, Kendall Elizabeth and Bessemer, Ala., a daughter, Katelyn Gayle, ’85 Annesley H., J.D. ’88, and Ashley Harris Alison Neill, born May 6, 2005. born Aug. 22, 2005. DeGaris, J.D. ’99, of Birmingham, a daughter, Eva Margaux, born July 27, 2005. Michael Damon and Ann Elizabeth Jonathan Altman and Cara Leanne

ALUMNI Armistead Moore ’96 of Franklin, Tenn., a Doxtater Hyde ’00 of Glasgow, Ky., a son, John and Lisa Robbins Haynes of Beaver daughter, Olivia Cate, born July 21, 2005. Jack Altman, born May 29, 2005. Dam, Ky., a daughter, Emma Jean, born Aug. 16, 2005. ’96 Eric and Kim W. Benner, Pharm.D., of Katie and John David Yingling of Helena, Birmingham, a son, William Carson, born Ala., a daughter, Joy Olivia, born Aug. 18, ’90 Jonathan David and Lisa Ruth Robertson Aug. 18, 2005. 2005. Cooper of Knoxville, Tenn., a daughter, Anna Hays, born April 22, 2005. Steven and Christy Langford Gum ’97 of Jason and Amanda Grace Teague Zinn of Knoxville, Tenn., a daughter, Callan Birmingham, a daughter, Katelyn, born Timothy Brett and Joy Davis Reeves ’91 of Virginia, born May 28, 2005. Feb. 23, 2004. Trussville, Ala., a son, Daniel Sterling, born June 22, 2005. David, J.D., and LeAnna Carr ’00 Michael and Elizabeth Creech Giddens of Huddleston, J.D., of Birmingham, a Loganville, Ga., a daughter, Wryeton ’92 Jim and Marla Hearn Boren of Atlanta, daughter, Nancy Ellen, born July 29, 2005. Elizabeth, born March 23, 2004. Ga., twin sons, William Wynn and James Watson, born Aug. 18, 2004. Steve and Becky Sanders Malcom of Shane Gregory and Christina Norris Atlanta, Ga., a daughter, Madeline Grace, Williams of Marietta, Ga., a son, Owen Jason K. ’93 and Leslie Henry Sasser of born May 26, 2005. Shane, born May 26, 2005. Birmingham, a daughter, Rachel Elizabeth, born April 25, 2005. ’97 Bethany Joy and Clay Patrick Berish of ’01 Dana and Jeffrey Garrett Miller, J.D., of Helena, Ala., a daughter, Abigail Elizabeth, Mobile, Ala., a son, Garrett Bozeman ’93 Christopher W., J.D. ’97, and Amy Harrell born Nov. 29, 2004. (“Bo”), born Sept. 14, 2004. Deering of Birmingham, a son, Michael Christopher, born June 7, 2005. Mark, M.Acc. ’98, and Carol Hinson of Scott and Michelle Clark Newman of Birmingham, a daughter, Abigail Grace, Trinity, Ala., a daughter, Olivia Nicole, Greg and Kim Haralson Gagliano of born April 4, 2005. born June 28, 2005. Birmingham, a son, Nicholas Gregory, born March 4, 2005. Ingrid and Bill Lunsford of Huntsville, Brian and Jamie DeLoach Scott of Ala., a son, William Lucas (Luke), born Birmingham, a son, Owen Andrew, born Jason and Karen Marie Jakoby Gudgen ’96 May 24, 2005. March 7, 2005. of Spring Hill, Tenn., a son, Ryan Joshua, born Feb. 10, 2005. Stephen Blake ’98 and Nikki Topham Jason and Gini Hallquist Young of New Miller of Pelham, Ala., a son, Caden Reid, Orleans, La., a daughter, Mercy Reese, born Gregory L., J.D. ’94, and Lynn Hogewood born Jan. 22, 2004. July 6, 2005. Schuck, J.D. ’03, of Birmingham, a daughter, Garner Lee, born Sept. 20, 2005. Jason Lee and Susan Elizabeth Carlberg ’02 Joseph and Sheri Harbison of Trussville, Sterling ’00 of Birmingham, a daughter, Ala., a son, Lester Paul, born Dec. 27, 2004. Bob and Heather Ann French Watters of Katherine Ann, born July 28, 2005. Bessemer, Ala., a son, Larkin Zane, born ’03 Mike and Heather Hackett Leger of North May 10, 2005. Phil and Debbie Helton Wright of Lauderdale, Fla., a son, Joshua Peter, born Roswell, Ga., a son, Tanner Allen Lee, born July 10, 2005. Matthew and Shannon Howell Wrenn of Feb. 26, 2005. Maylene, Ala., a daughter, Riley Taite, born ’04 Wesley Quick and Anna Kate Intraboona July 15, 2005. ’98 Michael and Julie Cills Crocker of Spring, of Hanceville, Ala., a son, Jay Collin Quick, Texas, a son, Justin Michael, born Jan. 19, born Feb. 1, 2005. ’94 Scott and Lisa Fields Harris of 2004. Birmingham, a daughter, Lucy Marie, born ’05 Sarah and Gregory Vander Wal of Dec. 9, 2004. Beth and Mark Damron of St. Louis, Mo., Northport, Ala., a son, Peter Reuel, born a son, Stratton Luke, born Aug. 23, 2005. June 27, 2005. ■ ’95 Richard and Amy Jordan DiPrima of Rome, Ga., a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, Anna and Andrew Woodall Pohl of born Aug. 3, 2005. Alabaster, Ala., a son, Everett Matthew, born June 12, 2005.

50 was stationed in the Middle East with the U.S. Army during World War II. He began his pharmacy career at Crow Drug in Jacksonville and was owner and operator inmemoriam of Wikles in Saks, Ala. ’33 Thomas Hendon Blaylock, Sr., age 92, of was president of a personnel management, Daphne, Ala., died Aug. 28, 2005. He served investments and consulting firm. ’56 Sammie Chesley Daniels, age 75, of in the U.S. Marine Corps during World Thomasville, Ala., died Aug. 11, 2005. A War II. In 1947, he founded Blaylock Margaret Saffles Hand, of Gadsden, Ala., probate judge in Marengo County for 20

Investment Corporation in Shreveport, La., died Aug. 4, 2005. She was an artist, public years, he was a past president of the ALUMNI serving as president and chairman of the school teacher and supervisor of art. She Alabama Probate Judges’ Association. He board until his retirement in 1984. He was was the official artist for two-year colleges was pastor of churches in Marengo, Clarke president of the Louisiana Mortgage Bankers in Alabama. and Perry counties in Alabama, and Park Association, and a number of Shreveport- City and Billings in Montana. He was a Bossier realty and economic associations. ’49 Madge Hammond Boling, age 92, of veteran of the U.S. Air Force. He received two of Boy Scouts of America’s Birmingham, died Oct. 2, 2005. She was a highest honors for adult leaders, the Silver teacher in various Alabama school systems. Millard Dual Sivley, age 75, of Vincennes, Beaver and Silver Antelope awards. Ind., died Aug. 12, 2005. He was a retired Herbert M. McClamy, age 81, of Jackson, Presbyterian (USA) minister, having served H. Clayton Waddell, age 97, of Clinton, Ala., died Aug. 25, 2005. He was in the U.S. churches in Indiana, Alabama, Texas and Miss., died Aug. 14, 2005. He was a pastor Army Air Force in World War II, serving in Tennessee. He served in the U.S. Coast in Louisiana and Washington, D.C., before the Pacific and Japan. He was the founder Guard. joining the faculty of New Orleans Baptist of Mac’s Drugs, where he practiced phar- Theological Seminary, where he taught for macy for 40 years. 25 years. He later taught at Mississippi Retired Educator Boyce Albright, Baptist Seminary. Ottis Newton Williams of Decatur, Ga., died Longtime Trustee, Dead at 81 Aug. 6, 2005. An officer and naval aviator ’35 Glendolyn Warren, age 91, of Clermont, in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he r. Boyce S. Albright ’48, who served more Fla., died Aug. 20, 2005. She was president was assigned to the Pacific theater. After Dthan two decades on the Samford board of the Belvedere Club, comprised of retiring from a career in the Navy, he worked of trustees, died Sept. 22 in Haleyville, Ala. He Howard College friends. A longtime for the state of Alaska’s Division of Aviation. was 81. resident of Vestavia Hills, Ala., she was An educator, Dr. Albright was super- active in church and garden club work. ’50 Harry James Dover, Sr., age 84, of Asheville, intendent of education for Winston County N.C., died Aug. 17, 2005. During World schools for 10 years and superintendent of ’38 Marie T. Zilinskas, age 89, of Arlington, War II, he was a radio operator with the Haleyville schools for 18 years. He was a Texas, died Sept. 18, 2005. She was a 8th Air Force in Cambridge, , member of First Baptist Church of Haleyville, teacher and librarian in Center Point and flying 25 missions over Germany and where he served as a deacon and Sunday Mountain Brook, Ala., and helped establish occupied Europe. After earning a degree in school teacher for many years. the E. B. Erwin High School library. pharmacy at Samford, he became a med- Albright served on the Samford board ical service representative for Parke Davis from 1976 until 1990 and again from 1991 ’40 Fred Perel, age 85, of Birmingham died Co. He was a longtime HAM radio operator. until 2002. The board elected him a life trustee Sept. 17, 2005. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 2002. ■ he left Nazi Germany in 1936. He was a ’51 Jean F. Maxwell, age 75, of Dadeville, Ala., Birmingham businessman for more than died Aug. 16, 2005. She was a registered 50 years. nurse in Birmingham and Knoxville, Tenn. Dan Stone, Former Assistant ’47 Bert Ronald Murphree, age 83, of Decatur, ’52 Paul L. Heflin, age 82, of Jackson, Miss., Ala., died Aug. 24, 2005. He was senior died June 22, 2005. He served in the U.S. to President, Dies at 78 pastor at Flower Hill Baptist Church for 21 Navy during World War II. He was owner he Rev. Dan Stone of Cadiz, Ky., who years, and also served churches in of Brent’s Drugs, where his career spanned Tserved as assistant to the president of Kentucky and Tennessee. 42 years. He was a past president of the Samford from 1990 until mid-1992, died Oct. Exchange Club of North Jackson and the 7 at the age of 78. During his tenure, he helped ’48 John H. Burks, age 81, of Cropwell, Ala., Mississippi Pharmacy Association. coordinate a number of activities related to died Sept. 23, 2005. Drafted at age 18, he Samford’s sesquicentennial celebration in served with Patton’s Third Army during John Thomas Poole, Jr., age 85, of 1991–92. World War II. He worked with Alabama Birmingham, died Aug. 3, 2005. He served A native of Hopkinsville, Ky., he was a Power Company for more than 40 years. with the U.S. Army in the European theater graduate of (Ky.) and He was an avid collector of Hull pottery. during World War II. He retired as president Southern Baptist Seminary. He later served as of MASCO Fabrics, Inc. For many years, he director of admission and director of alumni Miles Tillman Dean, age 82, of was treasurer of the Birmingham Baptist affairs at Georgetown. Jacksonville Beach, Fla., died Sept. 27, Association and the Center Point Fire Stone was pastor of Faith Baptist Church 2005. He was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Department. in Georgetown and led a network of home- Navy during World War II and was recalled based Bible studies for more than 30 years, to active duty in Korea. He retired from the ’53 Howard Harris Bishop, Sr., age 81, of becoming a popular Bible study leader and Naval Reserve after 32 years of service. He Jacksonville, Ala., died Aug. 13, 2005. He conference speaker. ■

51 ’57 Margaret Anne Faulk King, age 69, of Blairsville, Ga., died July 27, 2005. She was a teacher and guidance counselor in Service Had a High Priority Atlanta, Ga., and taught many years at Five Forks Middle School in Gwinnett County. A longtime member of the with Andrew Gerow Hodges Decatur Civic Chorus, she also sang in merica was embroiled in many church choirs. AWorld War II when Andrew Gerow Hodges graduated from

ALUMNI ’63 Lucy Frank Barrow Champion, age 64, then-Howard College in 1942. of Lanett, Ala., died Sept. 15, 2005, of Like many young men, he tried cancer. She was a teacher and counselor to enlist for military service. in LaGrange, Ga., and Riverdale, Ga., at He was declared unfit because Clayton Junior College in Morrow, Ga., of a shoulder injury suffered and Southern Union State Community playing football at Howard, so College in Alabama. As a Samford he took a job with an insur- student, she was president of Delta Zeta ance company. sorority, business manager for the Bull “But I saw so many Pup publication, a senior class officer young men my age going to and a member of several honor societies. serve their country, and I just She was a Maid of Cotton twice. wasn’t happy not doing my part,” he said several years ago. ’67 Rita Bailey Hendrix, age 58, of Hodges volunteered in Birmingham, died March 31, 2005. She 1943 with the American Red was a retired oncology nurse at Medical Cross. He was attached to the Center East and also worked with Hospice. 94th Infantry in western Europe and soon found ’69 Thomas B. Dozier, age 58, of Clanton, himself in the middle of the Ala., died July 1, 2005, of pulmonary action. His assignment was to fibrosis. He was retired from sales and get food and medical supplies management, and had served in the to Allied prisoners of war 101st Airborne Unit in Vietnam. He and being held in German prison his wife, Beth, met at Samford when she camps in the Lorient sector of was a freshman and he was a sophomore. northwest France. They dated for four years and were Ultimately, he devised a Samford dedicated Andrew Gerow Hodges Chapel in married for 35 years. plan—which he persuaded the November 2002. Germans to go along with—to ’74 William Albert “Bill” Owens, Jr. J.D., age swap prisoners of war in several camps. In late Hodges was a retired executive vice 62, of Athens, Ala., died Aug. 26, 2005. He 1944, the combatants agreed to a pair of one- president of Liberty National Life Insurance was an attorney in Athens for 31 years, a day truces and exchanged 149 POWs, the only Company (now Torchmark), and was men- municipal judge for Ardmore, Ala., and the such swaps recorded during the war. Hodges tored by brothers Dwight and Ralph Beeson first public defender for Limestone County. was awarded the Bronze Star for his actions. at the company during his early years there. “Thanks to Hodges, we survived,” said Hodges was among the first to draw the Linda Ellis Selman, age 53, of Jasper, Wayne Stewart of Wenatchee, Wash., who Beesons’ interest to Samford, Corts noted, and Ala., died Aug. 7, 2005, of a brain tumor. attended a reunion of the former POWs the family ultimately donated more than $100 A registered pharmacist, she worked at hosted by Samford in 2002. The exchange was million to the University. CVS Pharmacy or its predecessors for the subject of a video documentary, For One A native of Geneva, Ala., Hodges more than 30 years. English Officer, produced several years ago. returned to Birmingham after World War II For Hodges, who died Oct. 13 at age 87, and began his career with Liberty National, ’79 Carol Ann Rasmussen J.D., of Jacksonville, service—to his country, community, church working with the company until retirement in Fla., died Sept. 6, 2005. She was an attorney. and alma mater—was a lifelong commitment. 1984. Throughout his adult life, he worked on Samford University benefited particularly behalf of numerous local charities as well as Retired Faculty/Staff from his generosity and devotion. his church, Dawson Memorial Baptist. He was Harold Edwin Wilcox, age 92, died Sept. Hodges served on the Samford honored with local and national awards from 10, 2005, in Delaware, Ohio. Dr. Wilcox University Board of Trustees for 43 years, the Boy Scouts of America. taught chemistry at Samford from 1939 holding many leadership positions, including Samford honored Hodges by naming until 1946. He later served as chemistry the role of chairman. He was chairman of the Divinity Chapel of Beeson Divinity School the department chair at Birmingham- search committee responsible for President Andrew Gerow Hodges Chapel in November Southern College and taught at Ohio Thomas E. Corts coming to Samford in 1983. of 2002. A campus street leading to Beeson Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio. “His warm smile, gentle spirit and total Woods residential village also bears his name. Memorial contributions may be made to devotion to this University will be sorely Hodges is survived by his wife, the the Harold Wilcox Chemistry Scholarship missed and forever remembered,” Dr. Corts former Mary Louise Shirley; two sons, Dr. Fund, Samford University, 800 Lakeshore said after Hodges’ death. “He loved this place, Andrew Gerow Hodges, Jr., and Gregory R. Drive, Birmingham, AL 35229. ■ realized its true potential, and never hesitated Hodges; six grandchildren and five great to say a good word and to persist in saying grandchildren. ■ good words in its behalf.” 52 Samford Responds to Alumni Calls for Change by Caroline Catlett he results of a survey sent to A strong majority (76 percent) agree said yes, and the same number said no. Samford alumni earlier this year completely that donations are an impor- (Six percent had no answer.) The correct T are prompting leaders of the tant way to strengthen the University, answer is “yes.”Alumni who graduate are alumni association to begin changes to a although only 27 percent say they are automatic members, but those who variety of programs from faculty lectures being well informed about the use of make donations to Samford are to reunions. The 20-question survey was donations to Samford. considered “contributing members.” ALUMNI sent to alumni council members and Director of Development Monty “The last fiscal year, we had 12.33 active participants in Samford clubs Hogewood said, “Alumni donations go percent of alumni give to Samford,” said across the nation. wherever the donor wants them to go. If Hogewood. Contributing members now “We know a lot of alumni come to donors want their gifts to go to scholar- are recognized in every issue of Seasons. campus for homecoming and Step Sing, ships, for example, we always follow The alumni association is producing but we’re not giving them enough their wishes.” new alumni vehicle decals, which will be opportunities to come back throughout “We plan to communicate better to sent via postcard to every contributing the rest of the year,” said Alumni alumni when and where and why to give member. Relations Officer Billy Ivey. “Alumni donations to Samford,” Ivey said. “We Getting feedback from alumni across should always feel welcome on campus, encourage them to communicate with us the nation was most helpful, said Ivey. but we’re working on developing specific as well. We’re eager to hear from alumni.” “We want our alumni and their families activities and programs to encourage Sixty percent of alumni agree com- to know they are greatly appreciated,” he them to come home.” pletely and another 33 percent agree that said. “Our goal over the next year is to be When participants were asked Samford Clubs are a great way to better at communicating with alumni questions about attending various on- become more engaged in alumni not only on an annual basis but a con- campus activities, 50 percent said involvement. Club members enjoy tinual basis. We want them to come back cluster-year reunions (decade of attending athletics events together, to campus but also take a bit of Samford graduation) would motivate them to dining out as groups and holding fund- with them wherever they may live.” ■ come to campus more often. The alumni raising events. association is developing plans to hold “Anybody can start a club,” said Ivey. For more information on the Samford cluster and departmental reunions on “We have a Samford Club leader hand- Business Network, contact Dr. Beck Taylor, days throughout the year, not just book that gives lots of great advice on dean, School of Business, at (205) 726-2364 homecoming weekend. how to start your own club. You can call or [email protected]. The results also revealed 37 percent the alumni office to get your copy, or it of alumni would come to campus more can be downloaded online.” For more information on Samford’s often for faculty lectures. The alumni Currently, Samford has at least eight alumni association or to learn more about association plans to ask schools and active alumni clubs across the nation in starting a Samford Club in your area, con- departments to start their own faculty cities such as Dallas, Texas, Mobile, Ala., tact Billy Ivey, alumni relations officer, at lectures, symposiums and speeches. The Nashville, Tenn., Atlanta, Ga., and (205) 726-2483 or [email protected]. School of Business is developing the Washington, D.C. Three more are being Samford Business Network, which will developed. Caroline Catlett is a senior hold breakfast events and schedule high- Does being a graduate result journalism/mass communication major at profile speakers for alumni groups automatically in alumni association Samford University. several times each semester. membership? Close to half of those Survey participants were asked what responding to this question (47 percent) they wanted to be the focus of program- ming by the alumni association. Alumni had six choices and could check all that applied. More than three-fourths (77 percent) said they would like to see more opportunities to participate in athletics events. Ivey said more alumni events would be scheduled at home games. Two-thirds (67 percent) of respon- dents said they would like to see the alumni association target programming toward Greek-letter organizations, and the alumni association has plans to work directly with Greek organizations to assist with alumni events.

An alumni family enjoys this year’s homecoming luncheon in Beeson University Center.

53 Soccer Team Wins OVC Tournament, Beats Vandy in NCAA First Round SPORTS he Samford soccer team won its third 50-22-11 during his four seasons as coach. consecutive “I’m extremely proud of this team,” said Tregular-season title this fall, and then Yelton. “They worked so hard for this all year won the OVC postseason tournament to long, and they deserved the opportunity to qualify for its first appearance in the National play in the NCAA tournament. This was a Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA] great win for our team.” College Cup tournament. The nation’s best Rebecca Bohler was credited with her 64 teams compete in the College Cup. OVC-leading 12th assist on Young’s winning Samford beat Vanderbilt, 5-4, in the first goal. Bohler, who was named the OVC Player round of the NCAA tournament in Nashville, of the Year, and Birdsell led the team in Tenn., Nov. 11 but lost to Pepperdine, 2-0, in scoring with 20 points each. the second round Nov 13. Winters, a freshman goalkeeper, The Bulldogs defeated Eastern Illinois, recorded her sixth shutout of the season in 1-0, in the OVC tournament championship the championship game. She posted a 10-3-2 Nov. 6 in Charleston, Ill. Sharon Young’s goal record after relieving injured senior Emily in the 78th minute of play was the difference. Morris (5-1-2) midway through the season. The Samford soccer team Young was named Most Valuable Player Samford finished the regular season with celebrates its OVC tournament of the tournament. Samford’s Rebecca Mock, six consecutive wins, and then beat championship. Heather Birdsell and Cayley Winters joined Murray State, 4-3, in the first her on the All-Tournament team. round of the OVC tournament. Coach Todd Yelton’s team put together a Samford outscored opponents, 15-4-4 overall record, best in Samford’s nine- 37 goals to 13, during the year soccer history, and Yelton was named season. ■ OVC Coach of the Year. The Bulldogs are

54 Samford Women Once Again Dominate OVC Cross-Country Championship

or the second consecutive year, the Samford women’s cross-country team dominated the Ohio Valley Conference FChampionship. Lauren Blankenship captured a second SPORTS straight individual crown, and Samford Head Coach Glenn McWaters was named 2005 OVC Women’s Coach of the Year. Blankenship went on to qualify for the NCAA Cross- Country Championship at Terre Haute, Ind., by finishing third in the South Regional Championship Nov. 12 in Gainesville, Fla. Samford women finished first, second (Katherine Herring), third (Robyn DeBenedet), fourth (Michelle Brewer) and 10th (Jessica Brewer) to win the OVC meet with 20 points. Eastern Illinois, which hosted the Oct. 29 meet in Charleston, Ill., finished second with 66 points. More than 70 runners competed. “We’re very excited,” said McWaters. “The women ran extremely well today.” The Samford men finished fifth overall with 115 points. Freshman Cameron Bean finished 18th for the Samford men and was named the OVC Freshman of the Year for men. “Cameron’s been running well all year,” McWaters said. “His consistency paid off today. “Our guys are very young. This men’s field was a senior- laden group. I’m very proud of how well our young men’s team did, and with a little more experience, our guys should contend for the conference championship,” McWaters continued. Both the men’s and women’s teams won a number of individual awards. Following her victory in the 5K, Blankenship was named 2005 OVC Athlete of the Year for the second con- secutive year, and earned first-team All-OVC honors for the third consecutive year. Blankenship ran the 5K course in 17:00.18. “Lauren ran a great race,” McWaters said. “She won by 1:15; she just cruised through this course. She’s running extremely well, and we’re very excited about the way she’s been performing.” Four other Samford women were awarded All-Conference honors. Herring was named first-team All-OVC following her second-place finish with a time of 18:15.47. DeBenedet finished third, running an 18:20.52 to be named first-team All-OVC for the second year in a row. Michelle Brewer finished fourth overall to earn first-team All-Conference honors after running an 18:21.26. Jessica Brewer was named second-team All-OVC following her 18:47.31 time and 10th-place finish. Michael Hanson was the top finisher for the Bulldog men, placing 17th with an 8K time of 26:10.89. Bean finished 18th overall, while Bo Brawner was the number three finisher for the Bulldogs, taking 25th overall with a time of 26.37.45. Drew Anderwald finished 27th, running a 26:28.61, and Christopher West rounded out the top five for the Bulldogs, finishing 28th with a time of 26.39.05. ■

Lauren Blankenship wins the OVC Women’s Cross-Country Championship for the second straight year.

55 NEWS CAMPUS

Samford Trustees Approve $32 Million Multipurpose Center amford University trustees have approved a Thomas E. Corts. “It satisfies our need for The new multipurpose contract for construction of a new $32 spectator sports as well as participation. Every center will be built west Smillion multipurpose center on campus. The student who passes through Samford will know of Seibert Hall and centerpiece of the facility will be a 5,000-seat this building. It should give us as fine a facility as Bashinsky Fieldhouse. arena for basketball and volleyball. any university in the Ohio Valley Conference and The University anticipates breaking ground allow students the joy of cheering intercollegiate on the 132,000-square foot center before the end teams to victory—but also of meeting their of 2005. In addition to the arena, the facility will personal goals in the weight room and on fitness house an athletics center with fitness and weight equipment. rooms, sports medicine and training areas, locker “Being able to hold commencement on rooms and meeting rooms for teams, a student- campus will be especially meaningful to families athlete academic center, offices for coaches and and friends of Samford students.” administrators, a chapel, and other facilities. The arena will be used for convocations such A key component of the structure is a as Samford graduation programs and concerts. 12,000-square foot student fitness/wellness center Seating capacity in this configuration will be for all students. “Lifetime fitness is important,” 6,000, with the addition of 1,000 seats on the said Dr. Richard Franklin, Samford vice president floor. Of the 5,000 permanent seats, 3,000 will be and dean of students, “and our students are eager chair-back seats and 2,000 bleacher seats. to form good habits of conditioning as part of a The new center will be located west of complete education.” Seibert Hall and Bashinsky Fieldhouse and north At its fall meeting Sept. 16, the Samford of Joe Lee Griffin Baseball Stadium. It ties board of trustees approved the design of the new together the major recreation facilities into a west facility, which will be the largest structure on the campus zone. The area is the current location of Samford campus. Trustees awarded the con- Samford’s Hardiston Tennis Complex, which will struction contract to Stanmar, Inc., of Sudbury, be moved further west. Mass., specialists in the design and construction “This new center will take us from ‘worst to of multipurpose facilities. The Samford board of first’ among arenas of this size in the Ohio Valley trustees approved the addition of a multipurpose Conference and the nation,” said Samford facility with an arena last spring as part of some Athletics Director Bob Roller. “It’s designed to $53 million in campus improvements, and fund- keep the intimacy that has surrounded Samford raising is proceeding for these projects. basketball but will have all the modern amenities “The multipurpose center will be a crown that we have lacked for many years.” ■ jewel of the campus,” said Samford President

56 Tireless Chriss Doss Retires,

but Still Wears Many Hats NEWS by Mary Wimberley

hen Chriss Doss ’57, J.D. ’68, returned to Alabama to stay as librarian work that earned him the first Walter

retired in May as director of at the Cumberland School of Law. Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award CAMPUS W Samford’s Center for the Study Doss has served as president of the presented by the Interfaith Alliance in of Law and the Church, it meant no Alabama Historical Association and the 1999. work stoppage for the longtime Alabama Baptist Historical Society. His Troy Morrison, retired executive administrator. current writing projects include books director of the Alabama Baptist State “I am practicing law 14 hours a day on the history of Alabama rivers, Board of Missions, said that as special and having a wonderful time,” Doss said notorious Alabama train robber counsel to the state convention, Doss recently from his Hoover, Ala., office, Rube Burrow, the Nathan Bedford kept money in the denomination that where his clientele includes individuals, Forrest/Abel Strait chase across north could have been lost in court cases. small corporations, churches and groups Alabama, the original 15 trustees of Samford President Thomas E. Corts of many denominational bents. Howard College, and a collection of said Doss “has done a wonderful job for He also is completing several profiles of country preachers he has the Center for Law and the Church,” and writing projects, tending to his ever- known. added, “Very few people understand growing personal library, guest speaking “I have also promised a publisher what he has meant to the Baptists of this and enjoying his grandchildren. The that I would complete a manual on state and to Samford.” tireless Doss also performs an occasional church administration and business As a history buff who has visited funeral and wedding. matters,” he added. countless historic sites and museums, Doss, who became the center’s first At the roast, Doss was commended Doss shared from his vast knowledge of director when it was established in 1987, for his high ethics and professionalism historical characters and episodes. has always worn many hats. He has as a politician and attorney by Ben “I like to get to an historic place been a pastor, college librarian, history Erdreich, who served with him on the late, shortly before closing. Go to the professor, law librarian, law professor, Jefferson County Commission, and bookstore, ask a lot of questions and Jefferson County commissioner and former law partner Charles Gorham, J.D. appear interested. They will say, ‘Wait, state legislator. ’68. Gorham recalled that Doss hung and we’ll give you a real tour.’ It works At a September roast, friends and cowbells on the office door of their every time.” ■ associates spoke to his amazing life, young practice so they would not miss beginning with his youth in north any walk-in clients. Alabama, where he was student body “He is one of the most honest president at Cullman High School. people I’ve ever been around,” said Emcee Randy Overstreet, who considers Gorham. “He’s lived his religion.” Doss a mentor, kept the talk flowing. Gorham noted that Doss wrote the 1973 Cullman and Samford classmate Ethics Act of Alabama while serving as a William R. “Bill” Baggett ’57 noted that state legislator and is credited with its in high school, wherever there was a passage. The legislation is used as a crowd, Doss would be in the middle. model of ethics laws in 14 other states. “Students voted you the most likely to Doss’ reputation as a racial succeed, and you did,” he told Doss. conciliator was noted by Doss earned a divinity degree at presenters J. Mason Davis Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary and Wilson Fallin. and a master’s in library science from Doss was court Drexel University between his two monitor, U.S. District Court Samford degrees. After whetting his for the Middle District of appetite for ministry as a pastor in Alabama, in the DeKalb Pennsylvania’s coal mining area, he County school prayer case,

Chriss Doss speaks at his roast.

57 Old Song Sing-Along:

NEWS A new Samford tradition? by Jack Brymer CAMPUS

Singers enjoy Samford’s latest Old-Song Sing-Along.

hat began as a Samford Tragedy: The Ashtabula Railway Bridge 1873; “I Will Sing of my Redeemer” Auxiliary program of tribute Accident of 1876 and the Loss of P. P. Bliss, (music by Bliss), 1876; “Jesus Loves Even W to the music and memory of which was edited by Corts. Me,” 1871; “Let the Lower Lights Be gospel music composer Philip P. Bliss A companion book, Songs of Bliss: A Burning,” 1873; “The Light of the World has become a popular and growing Old- 125th-Year Remembrance of Songwriter Song Sing-Along tradition at Samford Philip Paul Bliss, also compiled by Corts, University. was printed for that occasion “to per- The idea was born during the petuate the memories of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Corts on Gospel Music summer of 1990 when Samford Bliss, and to honor the Lord, whom the “Gospel music has an incredible President Thomas E. Corts was visiting Blisses served so faithfully,” Corts notes capacity to embed itself in the his parents and in-laws in his hometown in an introduction. deepest recesses of memory and the of Ashtabula, Ohio. An avid old-book The books and music struck a softest spots of our souls. From collector, Corts happened upon a copy nostalgic note with a much larger earliest childhood, I cannot exag- of P. P. Bliss’ Memoirs in a used book- audience than the Auxiliary member- gerate how it has impacted my shop on Ashtabula’s Main Street. ship. Later, at a pastor’s conference, theology, my ethics, my mental Having first learned as a child in Corts said he was surprised to discover equilibrium, my relations with others Ashtabula First Baptist Church of the how many people knew the old songs of and my personal peace with God. famous gospel song writer, Corts Albert Brumley, Marion Easterling and Across the hard places of life, I have purchased the book. He knew some Bliss others. The response inspired Corts to suddenly and subconsciously found songs and knew Bliss had been killed in convene a program of congregational myself whistling songs I had almost Ashtabula when a railroad bridge singing on campus. It was billed as the forgotten. In deepest sadness, some collapsed, but he later realized that he Old-Song Sing-Along. involuntary response has played one and most other people even had the The first sing-along took place Oct. of those great old songs to ease my wrong bridge in mind. 5, 2003, in Reid Chapel under the grief. In times of great joy, I can find After a cache of new material was direction of legendary gospel musician my heart and mind coordinated to found in a local museum, Corts joined Dick Baker of Dallas, Texas. The the celebratory beat of old-time with the Rev. Virgil Reeve, then-pastor of program featured Bliss’ 10 most popular Gospel tunes. The music implanted Ashtabula’s First Baptist Church, in a songs, including: “Almost Persuaded,” in my being has been a lifelong symposium on the 125th anniversary of 1871; “Hallelujah, What a Savior,” 1875; treasure for which I am eternally the bridge disaster. Papers at the sym- “I Gave my Life for Thee,” 1859; “It is indebted.” posium became the book Bliss and Well with my Soul” (music by Bliss),

58 is Jesus,” 1875; “Whosoever Will,” 1870; and “Wonderful Words of Life,” 1874. Galloway Brings a Glittering Record The program was so well-received that a second sing-along was planned for to Coach Tradition-Rich Samford Debate October of 2004. It was directed by Bob

Burroughs, adjunct associate professor ver the years, Samford University NEWS for choral arranging in Samford’s School has made a name for itself in of Performing Arts. A faculty octet was Ointercollegiate debate. Beginning added that performed the gospel quartet as early as the 1950s, the school con-

favorite “Just a Little Talk with Jesus.” sistently has produced winning coaches CAMPUS Once again, the response was over- (Al Yeomans, Brad Bishop, Skip Coulter) whelmingly positive, and a third event and winning debaters. was scheduled in the spring of 2005. During the past 32 years, Samford Brad White of Memphis, Tenn., a full- has been invited to the national debate time music evangelist and former pianist tournament 24 times, regularly com- for the James Blackwood Quartet, peting against such schools as Wake directed the sing-along. Forest, Dartmouth and Harvard. That program also featured the “Any school in the nation could tell music of the late Marion Wesley you about our program,” said debate Easterling of Clanton, Ala. Easterling, a director Michael Janas, who led eight member of the Alabama Music Hall of teams to the national tournament during Fame, composed more than 400 gospel his recent tenure. songs and was host of a gospel music Now, Dr. Janas has turned the radio program on WKLF in Clanton for program over to another coach, Ryan Debate coach Ryan Galloway 40 years. A faculty quartet sang several of Galloway, who brings a sparkling record Easterling’s most popular songs. as a debater and debate coach, and who quarterfinals. Also at Georgia, he was Again, the audience expressed believes, “Debate is one of the most named Graduate Assistant of the Year for support, so another sing-along was educationally rewarding things of my District Six and Critic of the Year in scheduled for Oct. 2, 2005. Brad White life.” 2003 for the CEDA southeast region. He returned as the director and was His most recent position was as also judged at the national finals. featured as part of the program. A debate coach at Augustana College in After his successful run at Georgia, pianist of exceptional skill, White also Rock Island, Ill., where he rescued a he took the directorship at Augustana plays the saxophone and sings. His program that was down and took it to College, leading the team to its first exciting and energetic performance was last year’s national debate tournament. appearance at the national tournament well-received. The audience sang from a “We don’t want to put too much in five years. booklet of 36 old songs and suggested pressure on him,” said Howard College Galloway said hard work is the key other songs as well. of Arts and Sciences Dean David to winning debate. Student debaters are Responses from attendees at the Chapman, “but I am confident we will expected to dedicate 40 or more hours sing-along are many and varied, but a remain one of the top debate teams.” per week and 12 to 15 weekends a year recurring theme is the love for gospel As a college student at George to work with the team. They must music that is fast fading from the music Mason University, Dr. Galloway debated conduct research on a daily basis to have programs of churches. from 1990 until 1994 and was twice up-to-date information. Wendell Prentice came to the most ranked as one of the top 10 teams in the As team director, Galloway has recent sing-along with her Sunday country with his debate partner, Gordon plenty of responsibility as well. He helps school class from First Baptist Church of Stables. As a debater, he qualified three student debaters develop arguments and Tuscaloosa. times for the national tournament. After coordinate information from daily “We’re seniors, so the older hymns finishing college, he decided to pursue a research. He critiques the team at and the more traditional hymns are the professional career in debate. practice debates, helps make travel ones we like best,” she said. “We enjoyed His first position was at Baylor arrangements and attends weekend it very much.” University, where he coached a team that tournaments. Helen Carper of Pelham said she reached the final four of the national Success comes from “doing about 20 prefers the old-time hymns to modern tournament. Two teams he coached little things right,” he said. Among the music. A member of First Baptist there were ranked as top 15 teams in the most important are “having adequate Church in Hoover, she said, “It brings us country. In 1999, he was named Coach research and information on the topic” closer to God.” of the Year for the southern region of the and “day-to-day practice.” Likewise, Mrs. Woodie Glenn, a Cross Examination Debate Association All the effort points toward one member of Providence Baptist Church [CEDA]. While at Baylor, he judged the goal: to qualify for the national in Rockford, said she and her husband final round of the national tournament tournament at Northwestern University Donnie “love gospel music and twice. in March of 2006 and to enjoy some especially the old gospel songs.” He then moved to the University of success at the national level. ■ Again, at the request of the Georgia as a graduate assistant. During congregation, another Old-Song Sing- his four years there, he helped coach a Samford student Caroline Catlett, a senior Along is being planned for the spring of team that went undefeated in the journalism/mass communication major, 2006, featuring White as director. preliminary rounds of the national contributed to this story. A new tradition continues. ■ tournament and reached the

59 NEWS Business School Starts Scholarship Fund to

DONOR Honor Marlene Reed

he Samford University School of TBusiness has established the Marlene Mints Reed Scholarship in honor of the former business professor and acting dean who retired earlier this year. Contributions to the scholarship are being accepted by the business school. Dr. Reed joined the business school in 1981 and was named the Margaret Gage Bush University Professor in 2003, when she also was appointed acting dean. She was named the Alabama Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1994. “There are rare occasions in the life of any institution when it can honor an individual with as much influence and Boyd and Sara Christenberry enjoy the planetarium dedication. impact, commitment to place and person, integrity, and professional excellence as Dr. Marlene Reed,” said Samford Dedicates new School of Business Dean Beck A. Taylor. “Knowing Dr. Reed, all will agree Christenberry Planetarium that there is no more befitting way to honor her than to honor the students amford University honored a long- project and named for Christenberry by whom she loved so much.” time trustee and donor this fall the Samford board of trustees earlier this S Reed is known for her writing of with the dedication of the Boyd E. year. Dr. Corts said he and the University business case studies that found their Christenberry Planetarium in the have been looking forward to dedication way into textbooks and journals. She University’s Sciencenter. day for a long time. focused on case studies because they “This scientific place is also a sacred “This is a wonderful place that show students examples of the appli- place,” said Samford President Thomas deserves to have its own name and cation of theory in real business E. Corts during Family Weekend dedi- recognition, and I am pleased that my situations, she said. cation ceremonies Oct. 8. “This place is dear friends are being honored in this Reed and her husband, Bill, retired part of what it takes to provide a strong great way,” he said. “This man represents to her hometown of Crawford, Texas, in liberal arts preparation for our students. so much of what we prize and so much August. She continues to be active with The Christenberrys have provided a gift of what we seek for young people at the North American Case Research for all time.” Samford.” Association and is in line to serve as Christenberry, a retired executive Christenberry has served as a president of the organization in 2007. with Alfa Insurance Corp. in Montgomery, trustee since 1978 and was chairman for Contributions may be sent to the Ala., is a life trustee at Samford. The son four years. He and his wife, Sara, have Marlene Mints Reed Scholarship, School of sharecropper parents from rural Perry been married for 54 years and are active of Business, Samford University, 800 County, Ala., he rose in the ranks of members of Montgomery’s First Baptist Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL senior executive management in the Church. A son, William, serves on 35229. ■ Alabama Farm Bureau Insurance Co., Samford’s board of overseers, and two now known as Alfa. At his retirement in grandchildren are current students. 1993, he was executive vice president for The Christenberry Planetarium is marketing. the largest such teaching facility in “If my mama were here today, Alabama and one of only six of its type she would be the most surprised,” in the United States, noted planetarium Christenberry said. Director George E. Atchley. ■ The planetarium was completed in 2001 as part of Samford’s Sciencenter

60 Samford Recognizes Scholarship Donors

elping students achieve academic “I am grateful that [Samford] still be disparaged because some lack the dreams through scholarships was a serves a clientele that reaches out to all funds to attend here? Absolutely not. H NEWS common theme for Samford University’s walks of life,” Corts said. “For those of us There are many who have sacrificed for Scholarship Society luncheon Oct. 23 on who similarly had some help getting those of us here.” campus. through school, we should have a sense Sam McBride, a sophomore sports

The luncheon recognized 195 indi- of obligese to provide for those who medicine major, hopes to attend medical DONOR viduals and organizations that provided come after.” school, just as Turner does. annual or endowed scholarships during Two current scholarship recipients “First, I want to thank you for your the 2004–05 academic year. The luncheon spoke of their Samford experiences to generosity in making it possible for also served as the official dedication the capacity crowd in the University’s Samford to be excellent in academics,” for the new Wall of Honor for fully Flag Colonnade. McBride said. “I also thank you for your endowed scholarships of $100,000 or Angelique R. Turner, a junior motivation to give. I’m here because of more. biochemistry major, told of “wanting to your efforts, and that motivates me to “This wall serves as a daily reminder become more than I was.” The former want to succeed.” to Samford students of the generosity of valedictorian from Birmingham’s inner- McBride also said that scholarship so many,” said Michael D. Morgan, city Carver High School, noted that “it is donors provide an example for current Samford’s vice president for University individuals like me who give others students and others. “I realize there is an Relations, moments before a ceremonial hope.” example of academic excellence and of ribbon-cutting in the east lobby of the “Life in the Samford bubble has not giving. I am looking forward to a life- Ralph W. Beeson University Center. always been easy,” Turner said. “I have time commitment to this institution and “There are few feelings more had both bitter and sweet experiences. the day I can give back.” satisfying than to talk to a student who “As a member of the Samford Samford Provost J. Bradley Creed you know is here because of what you family, I believe we won’t grow together noted that “many have walked through and others have provided,” said Samford until we learn to embrace our diversity.” these doors because of someone who President Thomas E. Corts, who was Turner was quick, though, to had the foresight to give. A scholarship is among those honored, along with his express appreciation for those who a gift that will last forever.” ■ wife, Marla. contribute to Samford. “Should Samford

Admiring Staines Art Collection dmiring a painting in the Robert AStaines Art Collection are, from left, Joe and Theresa Wildmon of Birmingham, and Samford President Thomas Corts. The painting, Untitled (Old House), by 20th-century American artist Mary Lewis is one of 189 pieces in the collection donated to Samford in 1998 by Staines. A portion of the collection was on display in the Samford Art Gallery throughout October. A native of Portsmouth, England, Staines emigrated to New York City and ulti- mately settled in Birmingham, becoming a successful merchant. He collected paintings and works of art over more than 40 years. Theresa Wildmon is his daughter, and Joe Wildmon, his son-in- law, is a 1962 Samford graduate. ■

61 withappreciation Samford University expresses gratitude for these additional tribute gifts received Aug. 1, 2005, through Oct. 31, 2005. For further information, contact the Samford University Gift Office at (205) 726-2807.

GIVING MEMORIALS Ficco Memorial Scholarship in Music George V.Irons Endowment Scholarships Arnold, Herman Ross Award in memory of Dominic M. Ficco II in memory of George V. Irons in memory of H. Ross Arnold, Jr. Mrs. Mary J. Allen, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Clifton C. Hinds, Pinson, Ala. Mrs. Margaret A. Griffith, Winston-Salem, N.C. Alto Luther Garner Memorial Scholarship Liles-Fountain Scholarship in memory of Alto Luther Garner in memory of Amber Liles, and W. Grady and Athletic Facility Fund Mr. Major Tom Cannon, Ladson, S.C. Norine Fountain in memory of Dr. A. Gerow Hodges Ms. Daphne R. Carr, Birmingham Mrs. Ruth Liles Rabby, Delaware, Ohio Mr. and Mrs. H. Hobart Grooms, Jr., Birmingham William D. Geer Scholarship End Fund Martha Myers Memorial Scholarship in memory of William D. Geer in memory of Dr. Martha Myers Fred Chestnut Scholarship Fund Dr. W. Jack Duncan, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Jack Harris, Prairieville, La. in memory of Fred Chestnut Mr. and Mrs. Jerry L. Jansen, Kennesaw, Ga. Dr. and Mrs. Ira L. Myers, Montgomery, Ala. Dr. and Mrs. David H. Chestnut, Onalaska, Wis. General Scholarship Fund Pharmacy School in memory of Allison West in memory of Dr. A. Gerow Hodges Children’s Learning Center Mr. and Mrs. Jack Elder, Franklin, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan D. Williams, Birmingham in memory of Justine Mayer Dr. and Mrs. Sidney A. Bell, Rome, Ga. Glenn Fund for Language Missions Preparatory Music in memory of Sybil Frizzelle in memory of Debra Heilman Gravois Christenberry Planetarium Fund Ms. Genevieve Blaudeau, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. James Heilman, Foley, Ala. in memory of Dr. A. Gerow Hodges Dr. Grace E. Marquez, Birmingham Mrs. Mary B. McCullough, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Jack Standridge, Birmingham Charles W. and Betty M. Powell Scholarship in memory of Mr. L. V. Brown David M. Coleman Study Abroad Hellenic Scholars Library Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Sherer, Jasper, Ala. Scholarship in memory of Dean and Christine Sepsas in memory of David M. Coleman Niki Sepsas, Birmingham Religion and Philosophy Department Ms. Frances Lee, Pelham, Ala. in memory of Dr. Arthur Walker A. Gerow Hodges Fund Mr. Major Tom Cannon, Ladson, S.C. in memory of David M. Coleman, John P. Lee in memory of Dr. A. Gerow Hodges and Sybill Frizelle Mr. Donald C. Brabston, Birmingham Religion and Philosophy Scholarship Mr. and Mrs. John T. Coleman, Mr. William T. Coplin, Jr., Demopolis, Ala. in memory of W. Mabry Lunceford Trussville, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Barry W. Foshee, Birmingham Mr. Major Tom Cannon, Ladson, S.C. Mr. and Mrs. George D. Gaskin, Jr., Dr. and Mrs. Charles H. Talbert, Waco, Texas Cox Scholarship Fund Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Queen, in memory of Hezz M. and Suaylor Wyatt Cox Mr. and Mrs. Dan L. Hendley, Birmingham Montgomery, Ala. 3M Foundation, St. Paul, Minn. Mr. and Mrs. Monty Hogewood, Ms. Martha Ann Cox, Talladega, Ala. Birmingham Robyn Bari Cohen Children’s Book Fund Dr. H. Marguerite Kelley, Guin, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. C. Aubrey Lowry, Cullman, Ala. in memory of Robyn Bari Cohen Major Pamela L. Parker, Talladega, Ala. Dr. and Mrs. John T. McCarley, Birmingham Mrs. Carolyn P. Cohen, Birmingham Mr. Edward A. McFarland, Birmingham Davis Library Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Nichol, Jr., in memory of Edna Pinkard in memory of Tom Skinner Birmingham Mrs. Carolyn P. Cohen, Birmingham Mr. Lloyd D. Bockstruck, Dallas, Texas Mr. and Mrs. Philip Poole, Birmingham Mr. Mike Cohen, Birmingham Ms. Catherine Evans, Birmingham Quintus Asset Management, Inc., Birmingham Ms. Marilyn Davis, Metairie, La, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ray, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Ron Froehlich, Birmingham in memory of Todd Stevens Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Richard Goldstein, Birmingham Newman Sunday School Class, Mrs. Katherine R. Sims, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Howard Slaughter, Birmingham Mountain Brook, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Stivender, Jr., Gadsden, Ala. Davis Library—Special Collection Mrs. Evelyn S. Stough, Birmingham in memory of Dr. A. Gerow Hodges Dr. and Mrs. K. Bryant Strain, Birmingham Dr. Chriss H. Doss and Dr. Harriet A. Doss, Birmingham

62 Samford Fund Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sanderson, The Woodward Scholarship Fund in memory of Jane Averette Columbus, Miss. in memory of Dr. Frank Woodward and Mrs. Mr. Alton R. Averette, Greensboro, Ala. Mrs. Evelyn R. Shelton, Birmingham Mabel Woodward Mr. and Mrs. Jere Stokely, Roswell, Ga, South Roebuck Baptist Church, Birmingham in memory of Mr. Sloan Y. Bashinsky, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald A. Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald A. Macon, Birmingham Birmingham HONOR GIFTS Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vianey, Birmingham Alabama Governor’s School in memory of Herbert McClamy ’49 Mr. and Mrs. John B. Walker, Birmingham in honor of Virginia Brown’s 80th Birthday GIVING Mr. and Mrs. J. Bruce Hoven, Jackson, Ala. Mr. Jackson L. Williams, Birmingham Dr. Carolyn Green Satterfield and Mr. Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Williams, Birmingham William H. Satterfield, Birmingham in memory of Glendolyn Warren Mr. Raymond C. Winston, Birmingham Ms. Carroll Barrett, Birmingham Auchmuty Congregational Leadership Fund Samford Auxiliary Scholarship Endowment in honor of Dr. James A. Auchmuty, Jr. Samford University Scholarship Fund in memory of Rosie Jordan and Bee Jones Mr. Joseph C. Brown, Springfield, Mo. in memory of Todd Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Harold Williams, Birmingham Dr. Thomas R. King, Tallahassee, Fla. AmSouth Bancorporation Foundation, Birmingham School of Business Fund Biology Department Fund Mr. and Mrs. Jim Basinger, Birmingham in memory of Dr. Mary Ann Hocutt in honor of Dr. Mike Howell Mr. and Mrs. Robert Broadway, Jr., West Mr. Archie Lockamy III, Birmingham Dr. and Mrs. J. Francis Garner, Boone, N.C. Palm Beach, Fla. Mr. Tommy McAllister, Hoover, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. L. Alan Brooks, Birmingham Cox Scholarship Fund Mr. and Mrs. William E. Cash, Jr., Spirit Plaza Brick Program in honor of Martha Ann Cox Birmingham in memory of J. Leigh Gray Mr. J. P. Philpot, Birmingham Mr. Lewis Cheney, Birmingham Mrs. Donna D. Gray, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Kevin E. Collins, Birmingham Divinity School Discretionary Fund Ms. Yolaine Cousar, Hoover, Ala. Greg Walker Memorial Scholarship in honor of Dr. James Moebes Ms. Dianne N. Crumpton, Birmingham in memory of Dr. Arthur Walker Mr. and Mrs. James C. Kyzer, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Dressler, Birmingham Mrs. Suzanne J. Johnson, Franklin, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn E. Estess, Jr., Birmingham Dr. Eric L. Motley Scholarship Fund Mrs. Nancy G. Harris, Birmingham Cyndi Wells Memorial Art Award Fund in honor of Dr. Eric L. Motley Mr. and Mrs. Dan L. Hendley, Birmingham in memory of Janet B. Hagins Mr. and Mrs. James R. McManus, Mr. and Mrs. Monty Hogewood, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Whit Armstrong, Enterprise, Ala. Key Biscayne, Fla. Dr. and Mrs. Barry C. Howard, Pensacola, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Engram, Dallas, Texas Mr. and Mrs. Larry Kloess III, Mr. Ben B. Henderson, Jr., Enterprise, Ala. Samford Auxiliary Scholarship Endowment Brentwood, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Stempel, Enterprise, Ala. in honor of Pat Scofield Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Lusco, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Jack Washam III, Edina, Minn. Mountain Brook Baptist Church, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Ralph F. MacDonald III, Atlanta, Ga. Whitehead Foundation Scholarship— Spirit Plaza Brick Program Mr. and Mrs. William D. Martin, General and Nursing in honor of Samford Ambassadors Class of 2007 Montgomery, Ala. in memory of Lettie Pate Whitehead Mr. and Mrs. Gene Tatum, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. James D. Neeley, Lawrence, Kan. Lettie Pate Whitehead Foundation, Inc., in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Corts Mr. and Mrs. Douglas B. Nunnelley, Atlanta, Ga. Samford University Ambassadors Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parrish, Birmingham Harold E. Wilcox Endowed Scholarship Fund Women’s Tennis Gift Fund Mr. and Mrs. J. Wray Pearce, Birmingham in memory of Harold E. Wilcox in honor of Calli Davis Mr. and Mrs. Stephen R. Peeples, Birmingham Ms. Sarah B. Hershey, Cincinnati, Ohio Mr. Stan Davis, Birmingham ■ Mr. and Mrs. Banks Robertson, Jr., Dr. and Mrs. G. Davis O’Kelley, Birmingham Gainesville, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sample, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mitchell Prude, Mr. and Mrs. Rance Sanders, Birmingham Birmingham

63 Feb. 2–24 Photographs by Lisa Picket (Part II), Wright Center Art Gallery, Mon.–Fri., 9 a.m.– 4 p.m., free

Feb. 4 Alabama National Board-certified Teachers

CALENDAR OF CALENDAR Network annual meeting, Brooks Hall, events (205) 726-2564 For details or the complete Samford University calendar, go to www.samford.edu/calendars/html. Feb. 9–12 Samford Theatre Dec. 2 Festival of Christmas Jan. 2 New Year’s holiday presents Vincent in Music featuring (offices closed) Brixton, Harrison Samford choirs and Theatre, (205) 726-2853 orchestra, Wright Jan. 3 Jan Term classes begin Center Concert Hall, Feb. 9 Samford Auxiliary 7:30 p.m., free Jan. 8 Opening reception for meeting, featuring silver Artists XII Exhibition, expert Doris Truax, Dec. 3–4, Wright Center Art Wright Center lobby, 9–11, 14 The Alabama Ballet Gallery, 2–4 p.m. 10 a.m. presents The Nutcracker, Wright Center Concert Jan. 9–27 Artists XII Exhibition, Feb. 9 Guest artist recital: Hall (For ticket Wright Center Art Suhrstedt Piano Duo, information, go to Gallery, Mon.–Fri., Recital Hall, 10 a.m., www.alabamaballet.org) 9 a.m.–4 p.m., free free

Dec. 5–16 Graduating seniors art Jan.12–15 Faith in Action national Feb. 11 Music scholarship show, Wright Center Art student conference, auditions, (205) 726-2778 Gallery, Mon.–Fri., 9 sponsored by a.m.–4 p.m., free Samford in Mission, Feb. 13 Alabama Association of (205) 726-4203 Colleges and Research Dec 8 Bells of Buchanan Libraries workshop, concert, A. Gerow Jan. 13 Advanced Placement (205) 726-2161 Hodges Chapel, teacher training, 7 a.m.– 7:30 p.m., free 1 p.m., hosted by Metro Feb. 16–18 Step Sing, Wright College (205) 726-2898 Center Concert Hall, Christmas around the 7 p.m. (For ticket World, Reid Chapel, NurCE test development information, go to 10 a.m., free workshop, 7 a.m.–5 p.m., www.samfordtickets.com) hosted by Ida V. Moffett Dec. 9 Fall semester classes end School of Nursing, Feb. 18 Alabama statewide (205) 726-2626 math contest, hosted by Dec. 16 Ida V. Moffett School Samford’s Department of Nursing pinning Jan. 16 Martin Luther King, Jr., of Mathematics and ceremony, A. Gerow holiday (no classes; Computer Science, Hodges Chapel, 1:30 p.m. offices closed) (205) 726-2449

Dec. 17 Ida V. Moffett School Jan. 19 Jan Term classes end Feb. 21 Faculty trumpet recital: of Nursing nurse Brad Sargent, Recital anesthetists hooding Jan. 25 Spring semester classes Hall, 7:30 p.m., free ceremony, A. Gerow begin Hodges Chapel, 7 a.m. Feb. 23–26 Samford Theatre Jan. 26 University Convocation, presents Inventing Van School of Business 10 a.m., Wright Center Gogh, Harrison Theatre, hooding ceremony, Concert Hall (205) 726-2853 Brock Forum, 7:30 a.m. Feb. 1 Opening reception for Feb. 25 A Cappella Choir Commencement, Photographs by Lisa concert, Baptist Temple, Wright Center Concert Picket (Part II), Wright 10 a.m., Charleston, Hall, 10 a.m. Center Art Gallery, W.Va. 3 p.m.–5 p.m. Dec. 26–30 Christmas holidays (offices closed)

64 Feb. 27 Intelligent Design March 17 A Cappella Choir conference, concert, First Baptist March 30 A Cappella Choir spring (205) 726-2825 Church, Decatur, Ala., concert, Reid Chapel, 7 p.m., free 7:30 p.m., free EVENTS

March 1–4 Alabama All-State OF Choral Festival, hosted March 19 A Cappella Choir For schedules and information by Samford’s music concert, First Baptist on Samford athletics, go to division, (205) 726-2778 Church, Nashville, www.samfordsports.com. Tenn., 10:30 a.m., free

March 2–31 Graphic design students Information is compiled from the CALENDAR exhibit, Wright Center A Cappella Choir University calendar as of Oct. 25, 2005. Art Gallery, Mon.–Fri., concert, Red Bank Dates, times and details are subject to 9 a.m.–4 p.m., free Baptist Church, change. Please go to www.samford.edu for Chattanooga, Tenn., updated information. ■ March 9–12 Samford Theatre Dance evening service, free Concert, Harrison Theatre, 7:30 p.m., March 20–24 Spring break (no classes; (205) 726-2853 offices open)

March 14 Concerto-Aria concert, March 27 Board of Ministerial Wright Center Concert Mentors spring Hall, 7:30 p.m., free meeting, 10 a.m., (205) 726-2807

2005–06 Women’s 2005–06 Men’s Basketball Schedule Basketball Schedule

Nov. 10 UAH (Exhibition) Nov. 10 BERRY COLLEGE (Exhibition) Nov. 18 at Miami (Fla.) Nov. 15 vs. Sacramento State† Nov. 21 at Birmingham-Southern Nov. 16 vs. Texas/Southern† Nov. 25 FLORIDA ATLANTIC** Nov. 19 at Oklahoma Nov. 26 GEORGIA STATE** Nov. 21–22 at Guardians of the Game Classic Dec. 2 TROY Nov. 26 BRYAN COLLEGE Dec. 8 JACKSONVILLE STATE* Cora Beth Smith Nov. 28 at Southern Miss Dec. 18 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI* Dec. 3 at South Alabama Dec. 20 MURRAY STATE* Dec. 8 JACKSONVILLE STATE* Dec. 28–29 at Tulane DoubleTree Classic Dec. 19 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI* Jan. 2 at Tennessee Tech* Dec. 21 MURRAY STATE* Jan. 5 at Tennessee–Martin* Dec. 29 CAMPBELLSVILLE Jan. 7 at Jacksonville State* Jan. 2 at Tennessee Tech* Jan. 12 TENNESSEE STATE* Jan. 5 at Tennessee–Martin* Jan. 14 TENNESSEE TECH* Jan. 7 at Jacksonville State* Jan. 19 at Morehead State* Jan. 12 TENNESSEE STATE* Jan. 21 at Eastern Kentucky* Jan. 14 TENNESSEE TECH* Jan. 26 TENNESSEE–MARTIN* Jan. 19 at Morehead State* Jan. 28 AUSTIN PEAY* Jan. 21 at Eastern Kentucky* Jan. 30 at Murray State* Jan. 26 TENNESSEE–MARTIN* Feb. 2 at Tennessee State* Jan. 28 AUSTIN PEAY* Feb. 4 EASTERN ILLINOIS* Jan. 30 at Murray State* Feb. 11 at Austin Peay* Feb. 2 at Tennessee State* Feb. 16 MOREHEAD STATE* Feb. 4 EASTERN ILLINOIS* Feb. 18 EASTERN KENTUCKY* Feb. 11 at Austin Peay* Feb. 23 at Southeast Missouri State* Feb. 14 EASTERN KENTUCKY* Feb. 25 at Eastern Illinois* Feb. 16 MOREHEAD STATE* Feb. 18 at Bracket Buster Challenge J. Robert Merritt Home games are in BOLD CAPS. Feb. 23 at Southeast Missouri* *Ohio Valley Conference game Feb. 25 at Eastern Illinois*

Home games are in BOLD CAPS. *Ohio Valley Conference game

65 Samford history professor Jim Brown and his class enjoy a mild late-fall day outside the classroom before the onset of winter temperatures.