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F featured an article revealing the strange favorite to win the championship, which only Amagic of Norway’s Bislett Stadium. The old enhanced the pressure of each performance. With stadium was replaced by a newer version in 2005, each meet, they worked to give their best. but the original venue functioned for most of the Perseverance. The weather was a factor 20th century. Obviously something was special almost every week of the season, from extreme about the old facility, because more than 65 world heat and humidity to rain. Hillary Neal, a junior records were set there in track and field and speed nursing major from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., skating. No other stadium even approaches such a said, “It’s been a crazy season. We could’ve gotten claim. Researchers traced the cause of the down on ourselves, but we persevered . . . and got phenomenon, known to athletes as the “Bislett it done.” effect,” not to the cold weather, nor to the wind Balance. Members of the team are committed resistance, nor the altitude, but to the design of athletes and committed students. The team has the stadium itself. The narrow lanes were achieved a perfect score of 1,000 on the NCAA surrounded by steep grandstands, placing the Academic Progress Report each year since the spectators remarkably close to the athletes. The inception of the ratings, measuring academic roar of thousands of fans—such a great cloud of progress, persistence and graduation. witnesses—propelled each runner forward. Commitment, perseverance and balance: Although, given the nature of their sport, qualities that will serve these young women well they weren’t pressed on every side by fans in the in the years beyond their cross-country careers, grandstands, the members of our women’s cross- and qualities to which we all aspire. country team must have experienced a version of As always, please keep Samford in your the Bislett effect this fall as they ran away with prayers. Samford’s first championship since joining the Southern Conference. What lessons can we learn from these remarkable student-athletes?

Andrew Westmoreland President

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S 4,658 rep ort Samford Enrolls a Record amford, Alabama’s largest private university for many years, has Vann Works To Avoid the Pitfall of the Stale S gotten even larger. The university’s official enrollment for 2009 is 4,658 hat challenge does use in our lives.” students. That exceeds the previous Dr. Lowell Vann Students nominating record of 4,630 in 1995. Last year’s total Wface after teaching Vann for the Buchanan was 4,469. full-time since 1970? award described him as a Samford enrolled 2,908 under- “Striving to stay fresh, “hard, productive and graduates and a record 1,750 graduate avoiding the stale, realizing learned teacher who gives students this fall. each new year’s class has his all and more to his Dr. Phil Kimrey, vice president for never been down this road students,” and as a pro - student affairs and enrollment manage - before,” he said. fessor “who makes art fun ment, noted that this year’s freshman Vann received the 2009 and opens the eyes of those class had an average ACT college John H. Buchanan Award for who take his course for entrance exam score of 26, significantly Excellence in Classroom even just an elective.” higher than the national average of 21. Teaching at Samford during He holds the master of About one-fourth of the class ranked in the semester-opening convo - fine arts degree from the the top 10 percent of their high school cation Aug. 25, about the University of Alabama and graduating class. Fifteen were National same time he met his latest Dr. Lowell Vann the Ph.D. from Florida State Merit Scholarship finalists. group of new students. University. Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing A 1957 Samford gradu - Does anything sur - recorded the largest increase in enroll - ate, Vann joined the faculty full-time in prise Vann in the classroom? ment, growing from 403 students to 1970 after teaching part-time for several “A student’s unexpected forward 509, Samford President Andrew years. He served as art department chair progress, a venture on their part that Westmoreland noted. This reflects for 36 years. really pays off,” he answered. “It makes increased national interest in health-care The veteran professor defines you wonder what the impediment was education, and aggressive recruitment teaching as “an interaction with students before and how it could have been I efforts by the nursing school, he said. in a quest for learning.” He added, “This is moved aside earlier.” Samford’s pharmacy and law not a mere accumulation of information, schools also have increased enrollments. but the application of what we learn to “I’m grateful to every member of the campus community for these great efforts to maintain and enhance enroll - ment during a period of economic stress,” said Dr. Westmoreland. I Brock National Finalist amford’s Brock School of Business SEntrepreneurship Program was select - ed as one of three national finalists for the Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Program by the U.S. Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship [USAS - BE]. The award recognizes top programs in existence three years or less. “One strategic goal at Brock School of Business is to build one of the top pro - grams in the country for training aspiring entrepreneurs, and this award validates our efforts to date,” said Franz Lohrke, the Brock Family Chair in Entrepreneurship. Other finalists include the University of Rochester and Creighton University. Mike Roylance, principal tubist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, performs with the The top program will be selected at Samford Wind Ensemble Oct. 22 in Brock Recital Hall at Samford. Roylance also has USASBE’s annual conference in January performed with the Chicago Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra and Seattle Symphony. 2010. I 3 A C AMPAIGNFOR S AMFORD REPORT Largest Fund-raising SPECIAL Effort Seeks $200 Million

$84 Million Already Given or Pledged by Philip Poole

4 REPORT amford University has launched the most C AMPAIGN ambitious fund-raising campaign in the ABINET university’s 168-year history with a goal C of raising $200 million over the next five SPECIAL Albert Brewer, Chair years. The campaign, several months in Former Governor, State planning, was announced publicly Oct. 9. of Alabama A total of $84 million already has been given Retired Law Professor, or pledged, noted Samford President Andrew Samford University Westmoreland. Birmingham, Alabama The campaign provides financial support for Samford’s multifaceted, multiyear strategic plan Paula Hovater ’69 that was approved and announced by the university’s President, Public Affairs board of trustees in September 2008. The strategic Atlanta, Georgia plan and the campaign both support the academic priorities of the university and provide for the Eddie Miller ’74 needs of students, said Dr. Westmoreland. Bodine, Inc. Key components of the campaign are funds Birmingham, Alabama for scholarships, academic programs such as endowed chairs and professorships, annual sup- Vic Nichol ’68 port of university operations and capital projects. CEO, Alabama Bankers Bank University administrators and campaign We believe that people recognize the needs that we Birmingham, Alabama leadership acknowledged the unusual economic have, that they recognize the importance of what climate in which the campaign launched. But, we’re trying to do for our students by way of John Pittman ’44 campaign leaders are convinced that the effort can scholarships and enhanced research and facilities Retired Insurance Executive be successful. here. I believe that people are going to respond Birmingham, Alabama “We are aware that these are tough economic affirmatively and positively to what we’re trying to times, and people might ask ‘Isn’t this a strange do because it is so essential that we do it now.” William Stevens ’70 time to be starting a capital campaign?’” said The largest campaign component, about $65 CEO, Motion Industries campaign chair Albert P. Brewer, former Alabama million, is designated for scholarships. Funds will Birmingham, Alabama governor and retired Samford law professor. be used for existing scholarship programs, ranging “Our needs are even greater and more in vintage from the one-year-old University Clark Watson, J.D. ’81 pronounced now, and the needs of our students Fellows for top academic students to the 80-year- Attorney, Balch & Bingham and the opportunities that we have to minister to old Samford marching band. Additional endow- Birmingham, Alabama them are greater now because of these [economic] ment will provide new program-specific and circumstances,” said Brewer. needs-based scholarships, Westmoreland noted. Elouise Williams “This is a time when we must go forward Officials said scholarship funding is critical, Community Volunteer with our campaign in view of those conditions. especially in today’s economy, as Samford and Philanthropist Birmingham, Alabama

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Andrew Westmoreland President

Randy Pittman Vice President for University Advancement

Douglas Wilson ’83 Executive Director of Advancement I

5 SPECIALREPORT 6 Where the MoneyWhereWill the Go enrichmentand academic programs. isearmarked inthe campaign for faculty programsand faculty. About$25 million thecampaign also willsupport academic andhave this life-changing experience.” inneedassistance of to come to Samford scholarshipsto enable qualified students thispart of campaign isdedicated to beingcan have. That iswhy significanta life-changingexperiences that any human legeeducation, which isonethe mostof fiedstudents to beable to receive col-a ProvostJ. Bradley Creed. “Wewant quali- campaignisscholarships,” said Samford competesto attract top students. specific and needs-based scholarships. needs-based and specific program- new provide will endowment band.marchingSamford Additional old 80-year-the to students academic top one-year-oldthe University Fellowsfor from vintage in ranging programs, ship scholar- existing for used be Fundswill Samford’sschools. eight million $10 of each in programs academic new or existing support to used be Fundswill AcademicPrograms faculty.recognized Samford’sjoin to nationally faculty quality retain and attract to help and research,fund professorshipswill and Million $25 chairs academicendowed Incomefrom Enhancements Faculty Scholarships “Asthe largest private university in Inaddition to scholarship funding, “Onevery important goalthis of $65 Million $65 www.samford.edu/campaign. to go information, Formore crucial. is needs instructional to-day day- support to Samford,giving annual as suchuniversity major a support cannot revenuealone tuition because projects,but new or capital on focus million $60 campaigns institutional majorMost FundSupport Annual available. is funding as undertaken be will projects population.Capital student burgeoning Samford’sfor buildings academic center,and residencefacilities and renovatedstudent and expanded an are considered being projects Other paign. million $40 cam- the in included project capital a 2009,is summer in football,completed Housefor FieldFamily Cooney The Facilities Campus oncapital ornew projects, but because Mostmajor institutional campaigns focus paignis$60 million for annual support. Samford’seight schools. newacademic programs ineach of fundswillbeused to support existing or esteemedprofessors,” Pittman said. Other qualityfaculty “tojoin our team of research,and help to attract and retain chairsand professorships willfund universityadvancement. Pittman,Samford’s vice president for reflectthat status,” said W.Randall ourfaculty and academic programming schoolsinthe region, itis imperative that Alabamaand onethe topof private Anunusual component the cam-of Incomefrom endowed academic I enrollment. mustbeavailable for growth instudent nologyneeds must bemet. Resources replaced.Continuously changing tech - andschool-based equipment must be careand maintenance. Library resources explained. “Asprawling campus requires tionalneeds are just ascritical,” he instructionalcosts, but ongoing opera- needsiscrucial, Pittman said. givingto support day-to-day instructional majoruniversity such asSamford, annual tuitionrevenue alone cannot support a “Tuitionrevenue isdesignated for facilitiesand academic buildings for vatedstudent center, and residence consideredare anexpanded and reno- Westmorelandsaid. Other projects being capitalproject included inthe campaign, football,completed in August,isa continued. givingisso important,” Pittman andother needs. That iswhy annual fundsfor the university’s physical plant moststudents while providing adequate fortuition costs to remain affordable for financialmanagement, itis challengea garneredthe accolade for his implementation medication of implementnew forms pharmacy of services. Specifically, he graduation. hasmade differencea inpharmacy within five years of Shaddix Award,anhonor given to recognize graduatea who agingpharmacist atthe company’s Bessemer, Ala.,location. clinical of services atFamily Medical Services, Inc., and man- Pharmacists Association,”hesaid. pharmacyschool, especially the National Community throughmy involvement withstudent organizations in McWhorterSchool Pharmacy. of nicheafter entering the professional curriculum atSamford’s andpatients,” said Devereux, whoidentified his particular inSt. Augustine,Fla. careerwhile working atpharmacya ashigha school student vocationwhen heentered Samford, having been drawn to the Universitystudent days. Club,hecan trace his passion for the activity to his Samford W howmedicationa fits inwith their health-care plan. theirdoctor withlittle orno guidance asto what to expect, or trulydone my job aspharmacist,”a said Devereux. eliminatingdrug interactions and adverse reactions, haveI withtheir medications, while atthe same time reducing or patientsmake the best health decisions. patients,says Devereux, because informed and empowered helppatients improve their medication use. patient-specific of and specialized services—all designed to therapymanagement [MTM]. MTM encompasses varietya Pharmacist,Believes Patrick Devereux SamfordMade Him a Well-Rounded TheCooney Family Field House for “EvenwithSamford’s prudent Devereuxwas cited for his efforts to create and Earlierthis year, hereceived the pharmacy school’s Advancingquickly inhis career, heis now vice president “Idecided onindependent community pharmacy “Iliked the personal interaction between the pharmacists Hehad already claimed the profession for his future “Thatiswhere we come inand why medication therapy Toooften, heexplains, patients are given prescriptions by amI“Ifable to provide some peace mind of to patients TheMTM concept isimportant to him and to his mentoringstudenta orpresiding athis Rotary counselingpatienta athis community pharmacy, hetherPatrick Devereux, Pharm.D. ’05, is Samfordcampaign,” Brewer said. shouldbeinvolved inor support the Samford’s of board trustees. of hasbeen endorsed by unanimousa vote constituencies.The campaign already patestrong support from all Samford campaign.(See listing onpage 5.) university’sadministration withthe chairedby Brewer, isassisting the fundingisavailable. Capitalprojects willbeundertaken as Samford’s burgeoning student population. “Onemight ask why the community Westmorelandand Brewer antici- steeringA committee volunteers, of andfriendship that helped meto get where amItoday.” mater. hisdesire that his younger sister choose to attend his alma amIstill very close to and see regularly.” undergraduateGreek life formed friendships withpeople that campusactivities outside pharmacy. of “Myexperience in pharmacist,”said Devereux, whoparticipated invarietya of withhis choice. mewhen madeI campusa visit. It felt like home to me.” country. “Iwas convinced that Samford was the school for saidDevereux, whoresearched possible schools around the bothmy undergraduate work and attend pharmacy school,” becausehehad already made his career choice inhigh school. presidenthis 2005of pharmacy class. communitythrough service,” said Devereux, whoserved as toshape the future our professionof and give back to the developmentcan betraced back to his Samford roots. thepharmacy school’s newly formed leadership team. AssociationDiabetes of Educators. He isalso membera of CommunityPharmacists Associationand the American Countyand Alabamapharmacy associations, National MountainSunrise Club, Devereux isactive inJefferson pharmacyopen to them,” said Devereux. studyingand shows them that there are different avenues in students.This helps reinforce what they are currently store. preceptorto pharmacy students whodo rotationa athis encesinto lectures hegives oncampus and inhis work asa managementisso important,” hesaid. Notbada endorsement. “Ithink she willbenefit from the sense community of PerhapsDevereux’s strongest testimonial for Samford is “Ibelieve emergedI from Samford well-roundeda Now,five years outschool, of heremains very happy “Iwanted to attend schoola where wouldI beable to do Devereux’sdecision to attend Samford came easy, inpart “Manymy of professors taught methat this was the way Thiscommitment to community service and professional President-electRotary of International’s Shades “Idothis to offer some real-world perspective to the Devereuxgladly incorporates his patient-care experi- y e l r e b m i W y r a M y b ralliesaround this great cause.” attainablethe Samfordif constituency thesegoals are lofty, but they are helpall friendsof Samford. of Certainly, Samford.” becausewhat we’reof doing at realstake inthe success our campaignof thecommunity. So, the community has a citizens. Weeducate the young people of thecommunity. We’regood corporate providemany the culturalof activities of thecommunity. Weparticipate inand communityand proud to bepartaof “Samfordisan integral thispart of Westmorelandadded, “Weneed the I I 7 SPECIALREPORT Giving Back to Samford a Hallmark of Campaign Chairman Brewer by Mary Wimberley

ormer Alabama governor Brewer and his late wife, Martha, said the nominator. Albert P. Brewer has served underscored their long-standing appre- Brewer was lieutenant governor of Samford University in many ciation for the school by establishing Alabama during 1967–68 and governor ways through the years: distin- scholarships for undergraduate and law during 1968–71. He is recognized for guished professor of law and students. achieving much-needed reforms and government,F founding president of the “We wanted to help students who new programs for the state. Historians Samford-based Public Affairs Research might otherwise be unable to attend have called him Alabama’s first New Council of Alabama, trustee and Samford,” said Brewer, noting that the South governor. unofficial goodwill ambassador. couple delighted in following the careers His numerous honors and acco- The partially retired Brewer found of recipients and having pride in their lades cite, among other things, his it hard to refuse Dr. Andrew accomplishments. commitment to state constitutional Westmoreland when the Samford presi- An additional scholarship has been reform efforts. He has been a board dent asked him to take on one more established in his honor, and in 2008, member of the Alabama Citizens for role: that of steering committee chair for the striking Martha F. and Albert P. Constitutional Reform and the Alabama “A Campaign for Samford.” Brewer Plaza at Samford was made Citizens Constitution Commission. “Samford has meant much to many possible by statewide contributions Brewer retired from full-time of us, and the campaign is a way of from a broad cross-section of people. teaching in 2005 but continues to giving back to this great university,” said The site in front of the law school teach a law course in professional Brewer.” The opportunities here are building, Robinson Hall, is enjoyed by responsibility. impressive and can be realized only with all Samford students and faculty. Although a graduate of the additional resources.” Brewer, who has taught Samford University of Alabama with bachelor’s His appreciation for the school law students as well as undergraduate and law degrees, Brewer is never shy began several decades before he joined history and political science students, about his pride in Samford, its mission the faculty in 1987. was honored in 2001 with Samford’s and its worthiness of support. “I have known Samford all my life, George Macon Memorial Award for “Samford is a special place,” said Brewer. first as Howard College, then as outstanding performance as a teacher. “Its ability to provide a Christian higher Samford,” recalled Brewer, who, as a One nominator hailed Brewer for education is dependent upon our young attorney and Baptist layman in his generosity of time as he patiently providing the resources to achieve our Morgan County, was a campaign leader helped students understand the intri - campaign objectives. to raise funds for the school’s move from cacies of the legal and political systems “Every contribution is an invest- East Lake to Homewood in the 1950s. of Alabama, and also for his many ment in the future of the outstanding In the 1960s, he was a member of admirable personal attributes. young people who attend Samford, and the Alabama legislature when the name “He exudes from the core of his of our state and nation, and even the was changed from Howard College to being an unwavering commitment to world, where they will serve with Samford University, and in 1968, he the highest ideals of the legal profession: character and ability.” I received an honorary degree from the justice, compassion and the importance school. of contributing to one’s community,”

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10 Step her desire to attend. Day, an experience that only strengthened attended the school’s Academic Options Samford’s nursing program when she studentbody and campus. whoimmediately “fellin love” with the himon Step Sing weekend,” said Harter, however,I made a big mistake by visiting IfI wanted to continue in that mindset, inher home state Georgia.of ferredto attend a large public university enjoyedhis time at the school, she pre- olderbrother, Zach Harter ’06, had Samfordfor her education. Althoughher afinancial obstacle. involveda giant leap faithof to overcome Samfordto study nursing, however, headingto the mission field. andbecome a nurse practitioner before tuallywants to earn a graduate degree medicalcare,” said Harter, who even - Jesusof in needy places by providing callingto participate in sharing the love asa translator/nurse only confirmed my Ministryof Alabama. “Thatexperience Republicwith Christian Medical medicalmission trip to the Dominican forthe challenges of medicalmissions. TheER, she reasons, will best prepare her completesrotations through five units. towork in an emergency room after she Alabamaat Birmingham, Harter hopes nurseintern program at the University of L “Onesignificant problem was in my She was later impressed with “Iwanted to discover new territory. Harteroriginally had not con sidered Hervery first step, enrolling at InJune, she participated in a Asa participant in the registered step—tofulfill her goal. graduateis preparing—step by the2009 Samford nursing careerin medical missions, and indsayHarter feels called to a Fulfilling a Goal pelling. possible.Her words gratitudeof are com- presidentialand auxiliary scholarships generositythoseof who made both her shipsfrom the endowment. providedmore than $65,000 in scholar- andfoundations. This year, the auxiliary additionalsupport from corporations fundedprimarily by individuals with fund,in excess $1of million dollars, is auxiliaryscholarships. The endowed Samfordstudents have benefited from Hartersaid. dis beliefand another lesson learned,” thatwould help cover her senior year. SamfordUniversity Auxiliaryscholarship shelearned that she had received a elsewhere. tocomplete her nursing education PresidentialScholarship, she would need Harterfearful that, even with her asignificant tuition increase made membersaof rebel army. Ugandamake to avoid being captured by commutethat children northernof Commute,a simulation theof nightly organizethe citywide Global Night JusticeCommittee. She later helped initiativeUniversityof Ministries’ Social years,she led the Invisible Children Duringher freshman and sophomore campuslife and community causes. brotheralso had received. PresidentialScholarship, which her selectedto receive a highly com petitive wereanswered in a big way when she was way,however—money,” said Harter. by Harteris appreciative theof Throughthe years, scores gratefulof “Iwept at the feet Jesusof in Shortlybefore that tuition was due, Justbefore her senior year, however, Shequickly became involved in Herprayers for financial assistance Step y e l r e b m i W y r a M y b thesame one day.” saysto donors. “Ihope to be able to do butan even greater privilege for you,” she adolescenceto independent adulthood. studentsmake the transition from criticaltime” for all theseof things as growthand their entire outlook on life.” possiblywho they marry, their spiritual manor woman’s life—their career, tocompletely redirect the course a of Harter. “Youare someone who God uses justgives money to Samford,” said wouldbe this: Youare not someone who “IfI could say anything to donors, it “Thatis an enormous responsibility, College,she says, is an “absolutely I 11 SPECIALREPORT E R U T C E L S I V A D ‘He Revolutionized Personal

Freedom in the U.S.’ by William Nunnelley

braham Lincoln proclaimed Civil War. “In order to understand Southern habits as speech, storytelling, early in 1865 that the secession, and to understand how men literary references and others, said Emancipation Proclamation thought about dying in the Civil War, Burton, including a sense of honor. was “the central act of my and women sending their men off to die, “Critical to his life’s decisions and to administration and the as well as to understand the nineteenth his handling of the crisis to come was gAreat event of the nineteenth century.” century, one has to understand how Lincoln’s understanding of and respect But Lincoln historian Orville Vernon religion was interwoven into the culture for Southern honor,” said Burton. Burton disagrees. and thinking,” he said. “Lincoln’s very yeoman Southernness “Instead, it was Lincoln’s under - Even though religious reformers in contributed to his defense of the Union standing of liberty that became the the mid-19th century attacked various against a cabal of slave-holding oligarchs. greatest legacy of the age,” Burton said at evils, eventually most reform efforts in “For Lincoln, it was more than just Samford University. “He revolutionized the North lined up to declare slavery as the preservation of the Union. It was personal freedom in the U.S. He assured the greatest evil in the country, while also a matter of honor.” that the principle of personal liberty was slave owners in the South were just as protected by law, even incorporated into certain that their society was ordained by When Did Reconstruction End? the Constitution. God. Burton said he never accepted the sepa - “Thus Lincoln elevated the founding Both North and South “were sure ration of Reconstruction from the Civil fathers’ (and Andrew Jackson’s) more they understood God’s will, and all War, or the traditional dating for the end restricted vision to a universal one. thought they were obeying it, unwilling of Reconstruction as 1877, when the last Basically, Lincoln inserted the mission to compromise,” said Burton. federal troops were withdrawn from the statement, or Declaration of Lincoln was not a member of a South. Independence, into the Constitution, or church, but scholars agree he was a man “We have book-ended American rule book, of the United States.” of “undoubtedly great faith,” Burton says History so that the Civil War closes out Burton is author of The Age of in his book. In his talk, he added, “I one era of our history and Reconstruction Lincoln, which won the Chicago Tribune argue that Lincoln was not only the begins the next period or second half of Heartland Literary Award for Nonfiction greatest president, but the greatest American history,” he said. “And yet, in 2007. He delivered Samford’s annual J. theologian of the nineteenth century.” Reconstruction is part and parcel of the Roderick Davis Lecture Oct. 22, basing Lincoln did not appreciate “the emotional Civil War.” his talk on his book. excess of frontier evangelicals,” but Burton contended that rather than The historian’s identification of preferred a reasoned approach and ending in 1877, “the gains of freedom Lincoln’s greatest legacy was one of four developed his own theology, “more during Reconstruction were not legally areas he focused on in which he either pragmatic and less doctrinaire,” Burton undone till sanctioned by the Supreme offered new arguments or differed with said in The Age of Lincoln. Court in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, and most Civil War scholars. The other areas But the president’s “reasoned toler - the former Confederate state constitutions were the influence of religion, Lincoln’s ance deepened into a profound religious of the 1890s and early 20th century.” In “Southernness” and history’s conven - feeling during his term as president,” his view, Reconstruction carried on until tional treatment of the Civil War and Burton added. He came to believe that then. Reconstruction as separate periods. God was working out a plan for human Burton also offered several thought- history, and that he was an instrument What If? provoking “what-if” interpretations to in that plan. After America’s experience with the events of the period. Vietnam War, historians now “grant “History is an interpretation,” he Lincoln the Southerner? contingency to the Civil War, arguing reminded his audience of about 1,000 “I emphasize the importance of seeing that there were moments and times that students and others in Wright Center. Abraham Lincoln as the Southerner he the Confederacy could have won,” said was,” Burton said at Samford. He was Burton. One such moment was in the Lincoln and Religion born in Kentucky, a Southern state, and summer of 1864. Burton stressed the importance of even though he eventually settled in What if Confederate President religion as a factor in the coming of the Springfield, Illinois, he retained such Jefferson Davis had not replaced

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and gave Johnston’s army to Hood. D The new commander was known as a bold fighter, but even Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee described him as “too much the lion and not enough the fox,” said Burton. Hood first lost 15,000 troops hammering Sherman’s lines around Atlanta, then left the area and marched to Tennessee, leaving the Georgia capital unprotected. Sherman took Atlanta Sept. 2. After more than three years of bloody civil war, Lincoln had been prepared to lose the upcoming ’64 presidential election. In August, he wrote, “It seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be reelected,” as quoted in Burton’s book. In his Samford talk, Burton agreed with that assessment, saying he believed Lincoln would have lost except for Sherman’s seizing of Atlanta and sub - sequent March to the Sea, “and we would have a different outcome on slavery and a different America.” And what if Lincoln had accepted an invitation to participate in the raising of the American flag over Fort Sumter in Charleston, S.C., harbor on April 14, 1865? Burton thinks he would have sur - vived. But the president was advised not to go to Charleston because it would be too dangerous for him. Instead, he went to Ford’s Theater in Washington on that date, and was killed by John Wilkes Booth. I

rville Vernon Burton is the Burroughs Professor of OSouthern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. He is also an officer in the Congressional National Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Foundation. He taught previously at the University of Illinois, where he was University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar and director of the Illinois Center for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Science. He has written or edited 15 books and numerous articles. The Age of Lincoln not only won the Heartland Award but was a Book of the Month Club, History Book Club and Military Book Club selection as well. I

13 HOMECOMING 1 4 G N I M O C E M O H

‘I Was Way by Mary Wimberley Overdue for a Homecoming’ Alumni by the Thousands Enjoy Big Fall Weekend

aughter rang out across the quadrangle honor recognizes a distinguished graduate under as Samford alumni renewed longtime age 40 who has received a degree within the last 15 friendships, showed off babies, and years. caught up over barbecue and grilled Throughout the weekend, Samford graduates burgers on a glorious fall Saturday. of all ages found something to celebrate. BLy the time the final benediction was sung at Two were this year’s recipients of the Sunday morning’s homecoming worship service, Lockmiller Award given to the male and female the estimated head count for the three-day alumni representing the earliest classes at the celebration ran near 5,000. Golden Bulldog brunch for graduates of 50 years On Friday evening, three alumni were singled ago or more. out for special honors at the homecoming Winners Howard Foshee ’50 of Spanish Fort, banquet. Ala., and Doris Teague Atchison ’48, M.B.A. ’69, Mike ’61 and Carolyn Yeager Robinson ’60, of Birmingham took home Samford clocks to enthusiastic supporters of Samford on many remember the occasion. levels, received Alumni of the Year awards. Making her first trip to the brunch was Eric Motley ’96, managing director of the Golden Anniversary class member Betty Bigham Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship ’59 of Mobile, Ala. Now retired after a teaching Program in Washington, D.C., was named the career, Bigham offered a testimonial for Samford inaugural Outstanding Young Alumnus. car tags, which she has proudly displayed since “Mike and Carolyn, we appreciate your steady they were first offered. presence and all the ways you support Samford,” Once, while driving with her dog along the coast, said President Andrew Westmoreland after she said, she pulled off the road for a quick stop. Alumni Association President Greg Powell “A graduate of the law school spotted my ’81 made the presentations. Samford tag and stopped to see if we needed help,” Addressing Motley, a former Samford student said a grateful Bigham, one of seven cousins who government president and White House assistant, claim the school as alma mater. They all enjoy the Westmoreland quipped, “Eric, Alabama casts its family story that their great-grandfather baptized a nine electoral votes for a future president of the teenage Harwell G. Davis, who later served as United States.” Samford president. Each year, alumni honorees are nominated by Some traveled a distance to enjoy home - other Samford graduates and selected university coming, and others found their way “home” after and alumni leadership. The new young alumnus many years away.

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Below: Alumni of the Year Mike and Carolyn Robinson join Young Alumnus of the Year Eric Motley at the home - coming banquet. Far right: Miss Homecoming Mary Laura Rogan and Honor Escort Bee Frederick are recognized at halftime.

16 out of our class,” said Strickland, who had read

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man. “We got better by the end of the season,” he M said, recalling the season-ending 38-33 win over O Sewanee. He has always appreciated his Samford H experience. “The pros of graduating from Samford are great. When you say you graduated from Samford, people think you’re smart,” said the teacher and coach whose daughter, Megan, is a Samford freshman. This year’s football team added to the success of homecoming, defeating Georgia Southern, 31-10, before more than 7,700 fans in Seibert Stadium. At halftime, senior English major Mary Laura Rogan of Vestavia Hills, Ala., was crowned Homecoming Queen, and senior communication Tim Beiro ’04 made a special effort to attend, studies major Bee Frederick of Montgomery, even though he began a new job in Newark, N.J., Ala., was named Honor Escort. I less than a year ago. “I couldn’t miss it,” he said. “Samford is my family.” For more images from homecoming, go to Gary Mhoon ’82 of Atlanta, Ga., made his www.samford.edu. first homecoming since graduation. “I began reconnecting with classmates on Facebook, and decided I was way overdue for a Updating Alumni homecoming,” said Mhoon as he joined other former A Cappella members for a reunion at Homecoming sing-along in Reid Chapel. The songfest included a memorial tribute to former choir amford Alumni Association president member Andre Ashley, who died this year. Greg Powell ’81 offered a challenge to Outside the chapel, 10-year reunion class Salumni attending the first event of member Carrie Tomlinson Stevenson ’99 didn’t homecoming: join Facebook. “I encourage mind waiting in line with her children for the you to sign up, and invite others to join,” popular hot-air balloon ride. he said at the annual Alumni Association “I wanted the kids to see the campus, and I meeting. wanted to enjoy the colorful scenery,” said Powell hopes 5,000 of Samford’s Stevenson, who met her husband, Eric Stevenson, 47,300 living graduates soon will be on J.D. ’98, while they were in school. the popular social media network. “I really miss Birmingham this time of year,” Currently, about 1,500 friends are on the said the Pensacola, Fla., resident, who had enjoyed Samford Facebook Fan page, he said. a Friday evening cooking demonstration by New Alumni also received updates on York chef James Briscione ’01, also from Pensacola. recent accomplishments of Samford’s The roster of affinity groups reuniting on the eight schools and on their own successes quadrangle and other areas included most frater - related to annual giving. nities and sororities, cheerleaders, Black Heritage Three classes were cited for out - Association, academic schools and many others. standing participation in the fiscal year More than 250 members of Sigma Chi happily 2009 fund-raising effort. Winners of the crowded under a tent to celebrate their 25th Challenge of the Classes were: Class of anniversary on campus, as did a like number of 1996, highest number of donors (56); Chi Omega members. Class of 1961, most dollars given Members of the 1984 football team, which ($5,084,509); and Class of 1942, highest brought the sport back to Samford after a 10-year percentage of givers (52.1 percent). hiatus, gathered on a knoll overlooking Seibert Alumni Association members Kathy Stadium. White Curtin ’94 and Kimber Burgess ’06 Former teammates Michael Strickland and were named to the executive committee of Monte Montgomery ’89 reminisced about the the Alumni Council. trials of the 1-7 season that began with an 82-9 The annual Alumni Association loss to Salem College. meeting is open to all Samford graduates. “It was memorable, and a lot of fun. We had The next meeting will be held at goals we tried to keep, but we played teams way Homecoming 2010. I

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H Journalism and Mass Florida Scholastic Press SCommunication [JMC] inducted Association. Samford journalism professor Jon Nunnelley, as projects Clemmensen, newspaper journalist director for Associated Press Carol Nunnelley ’65 and book pub - Managing Editors [APME], lisher Randall Williams as inaugural led NewsTrain, a training members of its new Wall of Fame program for editors that during homecoming Nov. 7. worked with more than The Wall of Fame recognizes 4,000 journalists across the people who have “made exceptional country. The program also contributions to the department or to developed a national online the field of journalism and mass com - journalism credibility munication,” according to JMC depart - project. She formerly led and investigated cases of racism. ment chair Bernie Ankney. The event APME’s National Credibility Williams, who lives in Montgomery, also celebrated the 25th anniversary of Roundtables Project, was managing Ala., was a Samford student in the the reestablishment of the journalism editor of The Birmingham News and 1970s, and editor of The Crimson. A curriculum as a department. cochaired the Alabama Center for Open conflict over the definition of news cost Dr. Clemmensen joined the Government. Nunnelley, who resides in him his scholarship his senior year. Samford faculty in 1985 to reestablish a Birmingham, was editor of The Samford The honorees were nominated by journalism program that had been Crimson as an undergraduate. the JMC faculty and voted on by the dormant for a decade. He served as Williams, a writer, editor, publi - department’s advisory council, which department chair for 12 cation designer and book publisher, is includes alumni, faculty, students and years and continues editor-in-chief of New South Books, area media professionals. I as a full-time Inc. A former reporter, editor and pub - faculty member. lisher of daily and weekly newspapers, He previously he also worked at Southern Poverty Law taught at the Center, where he produced publications University of Florida and was

JMC Wall of Fame honorees Randall Williams, left, Carol Nunnelley and Jon Clemmensen enjoy induction at homecoming.

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Chef Briscione Shares Chef James Briscione entertains a homecoming audience with help Homecoming from Samford’s Culinary Secrets Chris Vizzina, below. n attentive audience packed into Samford’s in the kitchens of world-class French restaurants. newly refurbished nutrition and dietetics “We don’t eat that way every day, and I enjoy Afood lab at homecoming to learn some long walks with my wife, pushing our daughter’s cooking secrets from New York chef James stroller,” said the trim Briscione, who is also Briscione ’01. working on a cookbook with his writer wife, “I never expected to come back in this capacity,” Brooke Parkhurst. quipped the chef, who served as grand marshal of He complimented the dramatic change in the 2009 homecoming parade the next morning. Samford’s updated foods lab that includes gas A repeat champion on the Food Network’s ranges and state-of-the-art food preparation Chopped! program and instructor at the Institute equipment. of Culinary Education in Manhattan, Briscione “I can’t believe how this kitchen looks,” teamed with Samford chef Chris Vizzina to he said. “The students are lucky to be demonstrate the preparation of Chicken Apple studying here.” I Sausage with Celery-Apple Slaw. The dish was a hit with 200 guests at the homecoming banquet later in the evening, where Vizzina paired it with arugula salad with pome - granates, braised chicken, autumn vegetable puree and pumpkin tiramisu. Briscione came to Samford from Pensacola, Fla., as a sports medicine and exercise science major before his love for cooking won out, prompting his switch to a foods and nutrition major. Following graduation, he worked with noted chef Frank Stitt at Birmingham’s celebrated Highlands Bar and Grill before taking his talents to the Big Apple several years ago. He said he often is asked how he balances his foods and nutrition background with frequent stints

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E Modern Literature: Fiddes U S S I elebrated English theologian and god of appetites sated at the expense of author Paul Fiddes took the stage others. He is cut off from compassion, a Cin Reid Chapel Sept. 17 to deliver prisoner of nonconscience. the Department of Religion’s annual Howard L. and Martha H. Holley A Communion of Love Lecture in honor of university professor Finally, Fiddes described E. L and former provost William E. Hull. Doctorow’s City of God. The novel In that setting, the bewhiskered presents another priestly crisis, this time Oxford professor would have looked at focused not on the existence of God but home in Victorian frock coat and high on the inadequacy of religious doctrine collar, yet his address focused on the rel - and ritual. When the theft of a cross atively recent phenomenon of the search unites the troubled priest with a rabbi, for self and God in the modern novel. they become “God detectives,” seeking In the early 20th century, Fiddes documents of the Holocaust, evidence said, humans were confident in the of horrific crimes against humanity. power of the individual self to explain, As in Flaubert’s Parrot, the mysteries solve and create. War and other of City of God remain unresolved, but catastrophes so thoroughly shattered Fiddes said there emerges from that confidence—and the religious faith Doctorow’s novel a sense of God not as that was its counterweight—that neither domineering and capricious, a sense of has been fully restored. The result is an self not shut away and narcissistic. anxious, ongoing search for replacement Instead, he said, characters find personal understandings, as represented in the meaning and definition of self in four novels Fiddes discussed. relation to others, respecting others as they find them rather than as they Missing Persons manipulate them. Julian Barnes’ Flaubert’s Parrot is the Fiddes finds in this personal engage - story of a modern writer’s obsession ment, sympathy and empathy not a New with the 19th century French author. Age replacement for God but modern Seeking to reveal the essence of expression of the Christian Trinity. This SELF Flaubert’s self, the modern writer tries concept of self and God, Fiddes said, to determine which of dozens of stuffed emerges from engagement rather than and parrots in museum collections is the one observation. He described this process that actually belonged to the author. variously as “a dance,” “mutual inter - The search for the parrot, and thus penetration” and “giving and receiving the search for Flaubert’s self and the in humble love.” modern writer’s self as well, is unre - “All of these popular novels show solved at the book’s end, as it remains in characters in search of self and the modern society, Fiddes said. In this case, problems of finding a proper place for God, as stuffed parrot, is mute, missing the self in our world today,” Fiddes said. GOD and of uncertain influence anyway. “They ask: Must the self just disin- At whim, the chief character and tegrate under the pressure of life? Must by Sean Flynt narrator of Ian McEwan’s Atonement it just disappear into the words and both destroys and restores the relation - stories of others? Can it give attention to ship between her sister and her sister’s others and what is good and escape lover. As a domineering God, “the being enclosed in itself?” ultimate storyteller,” she allows alternate Fiddes concluded that the Christian realities. Having that power, she recog - response is for believers to open them - nizes no one with whom she can be selves to be held with God and others in atoned, Fiddes said. “a communion of love.” Theologian Paul Fiddes Iris Murdoch’s The Time of Angels “The hope is that as we experience a visits Samford. deals more explicitly with the subject of different form of knowing with regard religious faith. Its central character is a to God, we may be able to open up new priest who believes that without God dimensions of empathy and indwelling there can be no good, and who emerges in our knowledge of our world as well,” from a crisis of faith not as a humanist he said. I but as a self-centered, flesh-and-blood 20 21 As a result of the pharmacy school’s life of the school. In addition to advice extensive activity in the area of global and financial support, a very important health, I have been asked to serve on the role that alumni play is to refer excellent 2009–10 American Association of students to us. In my recent meetings Colleges of Pharmacy’s [AACP] Research groups, about 80 percent of them tell me and Graduate Affairs Committee. This they were first introduced to Samford committee has been charged with University by one of our alumni. We rely examining the roles that AACP and its heavily on recommendations by alumni. member institutions currently perform In recognition of alumni, let me person - and should play in the future develop - ally thank Clayton McWhorter and Bill

N ment of pharmaceutical sciences, phar - Propst for their very significant contri -

A macy practice educators and researchers butions to Samford University this year. E

D in developing and developed countries. McWhorter School of Pharmacy has

E The pharmacy school’s strategic been operating since 1927 and has been H

T plan serves as a blueprint to lead us into accredited since the first site visit by the

M the future, and we are making great accrediting body in 1940. Continuing in

O progress in achieving our goals and this robust tradition through the past R

F objectives. In this academic year, we are eight decades, the school has become

R xciting things are happening at focusing especially on five of our 10 nationally and internationally recognized E

T Samford University’s McWhorter goals. The first relates to the new cur - as a leader in teaching, scholarship and T

E School of Pharmacy. You will read riculum that we implemented for the service. It is a privilege and honor to be L E about many of these in this insert: first-year students in the fall of 2009. the dean in this institution, and to be NAPLEX pass rates, student involve - From day one in pharmacy school, associated with such a great faculty, out - ment, research, publich health and inter - emphasis will be on the patient and the standing students and supportive alumni. national programs. patient’s drug-related problems. An In September 2009, the Asian additional emphasis is on integration of Conference on Clinical Pharmacy was subject matter, vertically and horizontally, held in Seoul, Korea, and McWhorter across the curriculum. Another goal is School of Pharmacy had four faculty and related to improving communication Charles D. Sands III, Pharm.D. two fourth-year students among the 750 within the school among faculty, staff Dean and Professor participants from 15 different countries. and students, and outside with alumni. McWhorter School of Pharmacy This emphasis on global health is one of I have been most impressed with the the school’s distinctions. vital importance that alumni play in the Students Excel on NAPLEX A Note from the Office by Michael Kendrach of Pharmacy Advancement cWhorter School of Pharmacy hanks to all of you who already are to participate with an annual gift, a M2009 graduates once again participating at McWhorter School major capital gift or a legacy/planned exceeded national and state averages on Tof Pharmacy by net working for gift, we pledge to be good stewards of the North American Pharmacist students, teaching in the experiential your support. Areas of financial assis - Licensure Examination [NAPLEX] program, providing career opportunities tance for the pharmacy school are administered by the National Association and certainly by giving financially. As limitless; however, a few specifics are of Boards of Pharmacy [NABP]. you can readily see through the articles scholarships, lab equipment to sustain All 120 graduates who took the by Dean Charlie Sands and others, the renovations, student organizations and NAPLEX for the first time passed the exam. pharmacy school is on the move. The enhanced travel opportunities for both The national passing rate was 97.5 per - successes are numerous, and the achieve - students and faculty. cent. The state average was 98.15 percent. ments of our alumni, friends, employees The aforementioned areas of net - The average score for Samford’s and students are legend. working, teaching and employing are pharmacy graduates was 117.21, which There are many faces to philan - equally critical to the future successes at exceeded national and state averages of thropy; however, Penelope Burke, author McWhorter School of Pharmacy. We 114.65 and 114.40, respectively. of Donor Centered Fundraising, says hope each of you will continue to The passing rate for pharmacy “philanthropy is simply a way of sharing participate, return as a participant or school graduates who took the NAPLEX one’s good fortune.” As we move forward become a new participant at whatever for the first time has been greater than in the Samford University Capital level is comfortable for you. 93% for the past six years, exceeding the Campaign, we trust this concept of Thanks, and please call on me if I national passing rate. philanthropy will be contagious. We can ever be of assistance. I These NAPLEX results continue the hope your experiences with the phar - long-standing achievement of the macy school have been both positive and Monty Hogewood school’s graduating pharmacists who rewarding enough to motivate you to Development Officer consistently exceed national averages on give back. McWhorter School of Pharmacy licensure exams. I We ask for and covet your support and participation. Whether you choose Dr. Michael Kendrach is professor and associate dean in McWhorter School of

22 PHARMACY NEWSLETTER Pharmacy. Implementation of New Pharmacy Students Active on Many Fronts Curriculum Begins with by Susan Alverson Entering Class of 2009 amford pharmacy students continue This year, students have selected one by Mary Monk-Tutor Sto be involved in school activities, or two month-long, fourth-year experi - service projects and professional events, ences in foreign countries. They are In 2007, the Accreditation Council for and McWhorter School of Pharmacy anxious to trek around the world to Pharmacy Education [ACPE] published continues to be proud of their accom - learn about comparative health-care new standards for pharmacy schools that

plishments. Student NAPLEX pass rates systems, but also to aid underserved S E included some markedly different were 99% last year and 100% this year. populations and to represent the mission I T requirements from the past. Examples Samford’s pharmacy students have of Samford University. Rotational experi - I V are for programs: I

always had pass rates above state and ences have been in Africa, China, Korea, T

I To provide at least 300 hours of national averages, but the one extra Indonesia and Macau. C A offsite Introductory Pharmacy Practice point, pushing to 100%, does look good. Involvement in professional T

Experiences [IPPEs] during the first Even more remarkable is the extent organizations also flourishes. A record N E

three years of the professional curriculum of charitable and service work conducted number of students attended the D

I To integrate content material by pharmacy students. Last year, and Alabama Pharmacists Association U T across the curriculum again this year, members of the Academy summer meeting. The school continues S I To provide opportunities for of Students of Pharmacy provided a to be well represented at national interdisciplinary learning health screening and immunization meetings, including the National I To evaluate student learning lon - function at homecoming. Working with Community Pharmacists Association gitudinally using a professional portfolio CVS, students immunized anyone par - [NCPA], American Pharmacists McWhorter School of Pharmacy ticipating in homecoming and interested Association [APhA], American Society of faculty and staff, with input from in receiving a flu shot. For a number of Health-System Pharmacists [ASHP] and student representatives on the years, immunization certification has Student National Pharmaceutical Curriculum Committee, have been been part of the pharmacy school Association [SNPhA]. Students held working diligently over the last few years curriculum, and many graduates have office or received awards in ASHP, NCPA to design a new curriculum that meets developed immunization programs at and the American Pharmacists or exceeds the new ACPE standards. their practice sites. Association Academy of Student This curriculum was implemented Students also have participated in Pharmacists [APhA-ASP]. with the entering class of students in the the Southern Women’s Show held each After a full year of continuous work fall of 2009. fall at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic last year, four Samford chapter members While many components of the Center. placed second in the NCPA national previous curriculum have been retained A smaller group of students donates business plan competition. because of their proven effectiveness for Saturdays to participate in diabetes McWhorter School of Pharmacy student learning, new components also patient groups in Perry County. continues to be impressed with the have been added. First-year students now Students have raised money for giving spirit of its students, their interest spend the initial five weeks of their first other students who are facing financial in furthering the profession, and their semester (termed “The Foundation”) in challenges due to illness or personal compassion for fellow students and a miniterm that assures their readiness to crisis, have participated in runs for patients wherever they are found. I apply pharmacy calculations and basic diabetes, held bake sales, collected toys drug information skills throughout the and food, and volunteered to build Dr. Susan Alverson is associate dean and rest of the curriculum. playgrounds and build homes. the Anthony and Marianne Bruno A new course, Integrated Pharmacy If there is a call for workers, Professor of Pharmacy in McWhorter Applications [IPA], was designed to pharmacy students answer that call. School of Pharmacy. allow students to better integrate what they are learning across all of the didactic Student John McKay mixes ingredients to compound an oral suspension in lab. courses during each semester, as well as with the IPPEs they are having off campus. The IPA course will occur every semester of the first three years, as will the IPPEs. The pharmacy school will continue to teach both the old and new curricu - lums through May of 2013, when the transition to an entirely new curriculum will be complete. During this time, funds generously donated by alumnus Clayton McWhorter are being used to add adjunct or supplemental faculty to help meet the need for increased personnel resources. I

Dr. Mary Monk-Tutor is professor of pharmacy and director of assessment in McWhorter School of Pharmacy.

PHARMACY NEWSLETTER 23 transportation, Best and the students make frequent home visits to offer medication therapy management. “The students get a greater under - standing of the needs of the Black Belt after they participate in a home visit. A home visit brings the student face to face with poverty,” said Best, who was intro - duced to Perry County when she did a rotation there as a fourth-year student.

H With few distractions or entertain - C ment in the rural setting, she was able to A

E fully absorb life in the community. R

T “I really connected with the people

U at the clinics,” said Best, who felt led to O

Y move to Perry County for a one-year T

I residency program after graduation in

N 2008. She joined the faculty this year. U Charlie Greene, a fourth-year M pharmacy student from Corbin, Ky., M Pharmacy student Chris Coogler checks Dee Dee Billingsley’s blood pressure as clinical

O recalls the first home visit he made

C instructor Ashlee Best looks on at the Perry County Health Clinic in Marion, Ala. during his rotation this fall. At one stop, a wheelchair-bound man lived in house where ground could be seen through the floor. “When questioned about his diabetes, he showed Pharmacy Students us a calendar with four or five glucose readings throughout the month,” wrote Greene in a weekly report, adding that Serve Community Needs there was no notation whether the readings were taken after fasting or after meals. in Perry, Woodlawn The man, with his extremely high glucose readings, is typical of many dia - by Mary Wimberley betic patients in the area, says pharmacy professor Gary Bumgarner, Pharm.D., who has led monthly diabetes education ural Perry County and the urban from Samford’s campus, the county in support groups in Marion since 2003. Woodlawn area of Birmingham Alabama’s Black Belt counts some of the Patients are frequently unaware of Rwould seem to have little in state’s highest rates of hypertension, the importance of daily readings and common, other than the challenges that diabetes and related health issues. recording when the readings were taken, are attendant to extreme poverty. Each semester, two or three he says. What the two population groups pharmacy students live in the Holley- “Every diabetic has to learn that,” can both claim, however, is a com - Hull House, a Samford-owned home in said Bumgarner, adding that the meet - mitment by McWhorter School of downtown Marion, during a pharmacy ings help patients understand the need Pharmacy to improve the health care of practice rotation. Supervised by clinical for record keeping as well as adopting the underserved. instructor Ashlee M. Best, Pharm.D., good nutrition and exercise habits. The school’s mission statement they engage in a variety of activities, “We seek to develop relationships, squares nicely with the goal to provide including free weekly hypertension and so that they develop better glucose each pharmacy student with at least one diabetes clinics. control through accountability,” said advanced pharmacy practice experience At these clinics, the Samford team Bumgarner. “We’re taking on the big in a medically underserved area. monitors the blood pressure, blood sugar problem of changing behavior.” Each semester, Samford pharmacy and cholesterol of patients, reviews lab He is assisted each year by a group students are on-site and hands-on as results and medications, and collaborates of fourth-year pharmacy students who they serve a rotation in a locale that may with health-care providers to ensure that participate as part of their senior open their hearts as well as their eyes to they are receiving optimal care. research project. He and the students the needs of the underserved. They also assist in local physicians’ also hold monthly support sessions in offices and the county’s two pharmacies, York, Ala. Perry County and conduct a weekly program on radio The school’s public health efforts in In Perry County, the pharmacy school station WJUS 1310 to discuss diabetes, Perry County earned national recog - works in conjunction with Sowing Seeds hypertension and timely topics such as nition in 2008 when it received the of Hope ministry, county and state the H1N1 virus. Twice a month, the American Association of Colleges of health departments, and the local med - students hold a diabetes clinic in the Pharmacy’s Crystal Apple Award. ical community to provide patient care small Perry County town of Uniontown. to area residents. Located about 70 miles Because many residents are without

24 PHARMACY NEWSLETTER The CHC pharmacy will serve as a model pharmacy so that students can Pharmacy Has learn how to provide integrated patient Presence at Health care in a community setting, say school administrators. Department The intent is to place 2 –4 students at this site monthly. cWhorter School of Pharmacy As the first pharmacy resident at M faculty and students are familiar CHC, Anna Meador, Pharm.D., called faces at the Jefferson County her work a “baptism by fire” as she laid Department of Health, where they

the groundwork for the dispensing engage in services ranging from smoking S pharmacy’s fall launch date, counseled cessation treatment and counseling to N O I

patients on a variety of health issues, and assisting with immunizations against the S S assisted the nursing staff in giving flu H1N1 virus. I shots when needed. Working with professors and post - M Y

In the few months she has been on- graduate pharmacy residents, about C Professor Gary Bumgarner discusses site, Meador’s patient roster has run the one-third of all fourth-year students A complete a one-month ambulatory care M diabetes education with students. gamut from newborns through people in R their nineties. pharmacy rotation at the public health A H

“Many are disabled. They may work facility. P Christ Health Center two jobs and still can’t afford proper Currently, three professors and two Christ Health Center [CHC] in insurance,” said Meador, who says that residents engage in a variety of phar - Woodlawn is the pharmacy school’s 39 percent of the patients seen at the macy services that allow students to newest initiative. The center, on property center are uninsured. “Most of the rest participate and learn varied skills. purchased by Birmingham’s Church of are on Medicare or Medicaid.” Services include a diabetes edu - the Highlands, opened to the public in Meador does celebrate the occasional cation clinic that includes drug moni - March with a goal to provide excellent success story. toring and adjustment, dietary and and compassionate care to the residents She recalls a woman in her 40s who exercise counseling, and counseling to of Woodlawn, one of the poorest and visited the clinic for her first checkup in improved quality of life and reduce most medically underserved communi - 10 years. “She was diagnosed with several disease com plications; and osteoporosis ties in Birmingham. diseases, including high blood pressure screening and counseling. The center is staffed by a physician, and diabetes,” said Meador. “She knew The international travel medicine a dentist and other medical professionals, that her kids were on their way to a life - clinic sees patients who want advice and volunteers and a pharmacy school time of poor health, also.” any necessary vaccinations prior to trips, resident. Since the woman’s first visit, she has many of which are being made for The pharmacy school is establishing brought in all of her children for preven - missions or business purposes. a community pharmacy within the tative care and made positive lifestyle Students also work with adult health center to provide seamless patient care. changes. physicians at the department to provide The vision is to assist with patient care “She is on a walking program, and additional health services, typical of a through the provision of low-cost med - has changed her cooking and eating primary care medical practice. ications, medication therapy counseling, habits,” said Meador. “It’s exciting to see Pharmacy school personnel have drug therapy monitoring, patient edu - that potential.” I been on the forefront of several recent cation classes and other services. public health emergencies, including response after disastrous hurricanes and current preparedness to deal with the H1NI virus. Faculty and students have been instrumental in assisting the Jefferson County Health Department in emer - gency response, says a grateful Heather Hogue, Pharm.D. ’96, director of emer - gency preparedness and response for the health department. “During hurricanes Katrina in 2005 and Ike in 2008, McWhorter faculty and residents were engaged in performing triage assessment and prescribing main - tenance medications under a special emergency protocol with the county health officer for evacuees from the Gulf Coast,” said Dr. Hogue. To help the county avoid a potential H1N1 crisis this flu season, the Samford contingent is included in plans for mass Dr. Robert Record examines a patient at Christ Health Center in Woodlawn as immunization efforts. I pharmacy resident Anna Meador observes.

PHARMACY NEWSLETTER 25 Pharmacy Broadens International Focus by Mary Wimberley

in Christlike love Since the early 1980s, hundreds of across the globe.” Samford pharmacy students have spent In 2009, a part of January in Great Britain. This record 23 student year, a record 24 students will join

E experiential courses professors Mike Kendrach and Mary C I were conducted Monk-Tutor in the two-week elective T with partner insti - course. C

A tutions in China, While based in London, students R

P Korea, Japan, the will learn about United Kingdom phar - Y United Kingdom, macy research projects, and differences C

A Vietnam, and, for in U.S. and U.K. pharmacy education

M the first time, in and licensure. They also will attend R

A Zambia and patient rounds at London hospitals.

H Indonesia. During visits to various medical and P Dr. Hogue science museums, they will view items believes these such as early medical devices used in the courses contribute first women’s hospital in London, and to the complete one of the world’s largest collections of pharmacy medical specimens. Pharmacy student Emily Hawes, right, visits with Yulia Trisna, education. It’s not just students who represent pharmacy director at Cipto Hospital in Jakarta, Indonesia, “The students Samford on foreign soil. This year, eight during an experiential course. are able to compare pharmacy faculty members lectured or and contrast health provided clinical teaching services ike never before, Samford’s care globally, and outside the United States. McWhorter School of Pharmacy is more specifically, the role of the phar - McWhorter School of Pharmacy Lreaching around the globe to offer macist in the health-care system, to also puts out the welcome mat to inter - its students an in-depth look at inter - practices in the U.S.,” said Hogue. national visitors. For the past 20 years, national health care. “This perspective on health care the pharmacy school has hosted student In the process, these international enriches the education experience for groups from Meijo University in Nagoya, relationships allow Samford students and our students. In addition, the students Japan. In addition, partners in Korea, faculty to demonstrate what international working in the developing world learn China and Malaysia have sent pharmacists rotations program director Michael ways to care for patients with very to Samford for longer training periods. I Hogue calls “the heart of our profession limited resources.”

Student Becomes developing Muslim country, and also in hospital’s pharmacy director traveled the her receiving permission from Samford to country to teach seminars at hospitals and Indonesia Trail Blazer embark on the opportunity alone. schools of pharmacy. “It was exciting to be a part of the In Bali, she gave her first-ever mily Morris Hawes blazed a trail for beginning of something,” said Hawes, pharmacy lecture as part of a workshop at ESamford and American pharmacy who said she often was asked, in a Sanglah Hospital in Denpasar. education when she spent five weeks last confused manner, by the Indonesian “It was four hours, through a summer as the first McWhorter School of physicians, pharmacists, medical directors translator, and the 40 participants were Pharmacy student at one of the school’s and others why she would want to come practicing pharmacists and pharmacy newest partners, Cipto Hospital in to Indonesia to learn. professors, not students,” said Hawes, who Jakarta, Indonesia. “This question gave me great oppor - earned a degree in sports medicine from No American university ever has had tunity to share my heart with them,” said Samford in 2006. an affiliation with the facility, the largest Hawes, for whom the conversations with One Saturday in Yogya, she lectured government-run hospital in Indonesia. her new friends became a highlight of two hours on pharmacy practice and The nation is home to the largest Muslim each day. education in the United States to 30 population in the world. The former Samford soccer player pharmacy students and professors, visited “It was amazing to see the doors that spent weekdays at the hospital, where a a hospital intensive care unit to discuss health care, and pharmacy in particular, priority was to introduce the medical and patient medications, led a workshop on open in a country like Indonesia,” said pharmacy staff to clinical pharmacy. She interpreting and treating acid base dis - Hawes, who grew up as a missionary kid also was expected to evaluate the hospital orders for clinical pharmacists, and then in another Muslim country. and make a presentation on her sugges - lectured an hour on patient counseling. Her background played a part in her tions for improvement. In her first two weeks in Indonesia, wanting to experience pharmacy in a Each weekend, Hawes and the she made nine presentations. I

26 PHARMACY NEWSLETTER Zambia Experience Pharmacy Application Numbers High Revealing to Davis While Admission Rates Remain Competitive

n Zambia, pharmacy student Margaret by Marshall Cates IDavis was able to experience pharmacy practice abroad as well as focus on her cWhorter School of Pharmacy University, while 71% attended other aca - intended specialty while in the clinically continues to enjoy strong demic institutions. based rotation program at University application numbers, and Although typically more than half Teaching Hospital [UTH] in Lusaka. M compe tition for admission is high. of pharmacy students are Alabama “The experience taught me that while E

During the past three admission cycles residents, geographical diversity continues C we in the U.S. rely on and incorporate a I (2006–09), an average of 1086 completed to be the norm. Students of the most T lot of technology in primacy practice, C

applications per year were received, repre - recently admitted class hail from 13 states A other areas of the world, such as Zambia, senting 8.7 applications per available seat. and three foreign countries. R do not have that option,” Davis said after P Of those, on-site interviews were offered Academic qualifications of students Y spending September in the African C to approximately 300 applicants per year. admitted into the program during the nation. She hopes to pursue a career in A

The pharmacy school normally past three years reveal the strongly com - M clinical pharmacy. admits about 120 students per year. petitive nature of the pharmacy school’s R “I learned ways of practicing phar - A

Demographic characteristics of admission process: H

macy and medicine in situations where P students admitted into the program Prior bachelor’s degree 42.7% advanced technology is not available,” said during the past three years include the Average math/science GPA 3.44 Davis, who said her biggest surprise was following: Average overall GPA 3.47 the hospital’s lack of sterile practice Female 61% Average PCAT composite 61% facilities for reconstituting and drawing Male 39% Average ACT 26 medicines. Average age 22 1/2 Most differences between pharmacy Minorities 3.1% Dr. Marshall Cates is professor and in the U.S. and Zambia, she said, boil Twenty-nine percent of students assistant dean in McWhorter School of down to the differences in resources and admitted into the program completed Pharmacy. technology. I their prepharmacy studies at Samford PSAS: A Department on the Move by Amy Broesecker

he Department of Pharmaceutical, and enhance their learning. Phasing out active research program that will better TSocial and Administrative Sciences the old curriculum while implementing utilize their vast expertise and training. [PSAS] at McWhorter School of the new one over the next few years will Service Pharmacy consists of a highly trained staff require much planning, and faculty across PSAS faculty are very involved in service of 13 full-time faculty, three adjunct both PSAS and practice departments are to the profession through national, faculty, a laboratory manager and two diligently making this happen. regional, local and university oppor - administrative staff. The department The entire pharmacy school faculty tunities. These include efforts in Perry focuses on three areas: teaching, research looks forward to working together to make County with the underserved, the and service. the curriculum the best that it can be. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, the Alabama Society of Teaching Research Health-System Pharmacists, the Centers While practice faculty are involved mostly Research interests in PSAS are intriguing for Disease Control and Prevention, the in therapeutics classes and experiential and varied, including areas such as American Pharmacists Association, the courses, PSAS faculty deal primarily with apoptosis, mitochondrial injury, American Diabetes Association, the only didactic courses of the curriculum. pharmaco genomics, drug metabolism and National Home Infusion Association, the Teaching areas of concen tration for PSAS drug-drug interactions, structure-activity National Science Foundation, Samford’s faculty include physiology/pathophysiology, relationships and determinations, language interpreter program, and other cellular and molecular biochemistry, drug pharmacokinetic studies, ophthalmologic areas. Several PSAS faculty also are delivery and patient-care systems, sterile considerations in drug delivery, edu - involved in serving as class and organi - compounding, pharmacology, pharmaco - cational research, home health care, end- zational advisers at the pharmacy school, kinetics, medicinal chemistry, infectious of-life care, and moral development. The and are members of various committees diseases, financial and human resource department aims to create a research across many venues. I management, pharmacy law, and ethics. institute that will foster the growth of Using a revised curriculum that research and scholarship in these areas, Dr. Amy Broesecker is associate professor began this fall, faculty have worked hard primarily in pharmaceutical sciences. and interim chair of the Department of to coordinate topics and integrate con - Alumnus Clayton McWhorter has pro - Pharmaceutical, Social and Administrative cepts to help connect the dots for students vided funds to help faculty develop an Sciences in McWhorter School of Pharmacy.

PHARMACY NEWSLETTER 27 Fascinated by the Weather Pharmacy Grad’s Recordings Help Monitor Climate Change

by Jack Brymer

ong before he earned a degree in counties in central and north Alabama. talked about subject in the world.” pharmacy in 1960, James B. Price As a high school student in the early Price’s eye for exact detail and con - E

T of Pinson, Ala., was fascinated with 1940s, Price applied to the Meteorology sistent readings gained him a reputation

A L weather. School at Vanderbilt University. But the as one of the foremost observers in the D

P His love of weather, and especially school closed before he was 18. He then country, according to hydrologist Roger U of snow, began at an early age. He nearly joined the Army Air Corps for flight McNeil of the NWS. “Mr. Price has died of pneumonia as a child, and the training as a pilot during World War II. stayed up all night when weather events doctor told his parents not to let his feet After the war, Price returned to required it,” said McNeil. “He makes 21 touch the ground the next winter Pinson and the family general merchan - numerical entries in his weather record because “he surely wouldn’t survive if he dise store his grandfather established in daily.” got pneumonia again.” 1898. The store became a pharmacy, Sumrall described Price as “an When snow fell that winter of Price’s Drugs, in 1947, occupying a new amazing person and one of the most 1926–27, Price was transfixed, looking building Price built on the corner of dedicated, conscientious observers we out his window, watching the other Main Street and Bradford Road in the have, always available to us, day or children play. Finally, his father carried community his family helped found. night.” him outside, leaned over and let him After operating the store with a The walls of Price’s den are laden touch the snow. hired pharmacist for almost a decade, with certificates and plaques of appreci - Price earned his living as the Price decided to attend pharmacy school ation. Some relate to pharmacy, but the proprietor of Price’s Drugs in Pinson. himself. He entered Samford in 1956 and majority are for his weather work, But weather has been his avocation. Over graduated with honors in 1960, the including the Cooperative Observer’s the past 59 years, he has made 64,650 oldest member of his class. He continued most prestigious citations—the Thomas weather observations and reported them to operate this family-owned business Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin awards. to the National Weather Service [NWS], for the next quarter century, retiring in A special honor, National Observer recording the temperature and rainfall 1985. of the Month, was awarded to Price on from a rain gauge and thermometers Throughout this time, Price served national television by the Weather housed in his own instrument shelter. as a volunteer Cooperative Observer for Channel in Atlanta, Ga., in May 2002. Not only has he recorded the the NWS, one of 128 people across the Pharmacy, however, continues to weather, he has kept a diary of weather state and 11,000 nationwide who supply play a vital role in his life. Although notations since January 1, 1944. “Facts the NWS with weather data. He calls the retired, he is still a registered pharmacist are one way we hold onto life,” he NWS office in Calera at 6 a.m. and 6 and continues to support Samford’s explained. “Sometimes, just one word p.m. daily, and files a written report each scholarship programs, which he has will bring back the whole event.” month. One goes to Calera and the other done since 1964. Price had no formal training in the to Asheville, N.C., where it is archived A member of Samford’s Montague study of weather but established his own into the nation’s weather history. Society, he funded the remodeling of a weather station by using NWS-approved Over the years, conversation in the room in the pharmacy school, which is instruments in a shelter he acquired on Price household has revolved around now the James B. Price Lecture Hall. I his own. “All these years, I’ve collected rain, snow and the falling barometer. weather data from the same instruments “Why not?” he said. “Weather is the most James Price ’60 uses professional gauges in the same location and under the same for weather measurements. conditions,” he noted. “My friends at the NWS say that no one lives in the same place for 50 years any more, much less keeps weather records all that time.” That’s one reason Price’s meticulous observations are important. “Anytime we can have a record for such a length of time in our national database, it helps us get an idea of how our climate is changing,” said NWS official Kristina Sumrall. “Also, having an observation from a particular spot is the best source of information we have for historic climate data.” Sumrall is Cooperative Program manager at Birmingham’s NWS office, which is located in Calera and covers 22

28 PHARMACY NEWSLETTER 29 I N M U L A ‘This is My Father’s World’ Bobby Horton Preserves Music for Future Generations ’

by Jean M. McLean

Giant sequoyahs tower over Yosemite National Park.

30 he simple tunes only gradually at specific Civil War campsites, who I know where my skills come from. I’m trickled into the viewer’s con - wrote them and why. His recordings, not smart enough to have done all this. T sciousness. “Land of Rest” and sold from Gettysburg to Berlin, pull past When I’m coming up with an idea and “This is My Father’s World” so naturally into present in a way printed words and it’s working better than I dreamed it accompanied the stunning visual images sepia photographs could never master. would, I thank God for everything—not during the premiere of Ken Burns’ The The songs educe folks’ feelings just for the idea, but for the machine not I

National Parks: America’s Best Idea last when the mine shut down, the lover breaking down.” N fall that they seemed intrinsic to these returned or the boys went away. Each is Although he’s performed for the M U

magnificent destinations. Yosemite, the recorded on Horton’s vintage instru - President of the United States and could L

Grand Canyon and Appalachia’s Smoky ments in his Vestavia Hills, Ala., home. pick up the phone and call a number of A Mountains are lands of rest, part of our He also performs in places as varied as celebrities he knows, Horton laughs that Father’s world. barns, symphonic halls and statehouses. he’s never been accused of being a Maybe that’s the whole point. “I’ve been blessed to have opportunities singer. “I sing so I can pick or play the Although Burns starts with the music come my way,” Horton said. horn, or whatever,” he said. “For every and then fits the pictures around it, Back in 1972, when Horton gradu - instrument I play, I have a hero that Bobby Horton’s film scores are meant to ated from Samford in accounting, he plays that instrument, and I’m not enhance others’ stories, not overwhelm couldn’t imagine how God might inter - worthy to even carry that hero’s case.” them. The National Parks marks weave his love of music, history and One of his heroes is Stephen Foster, Horton’s 10th collaboration with Burns’ people. whom he calls the first American Idol. Florentine Films on such subjects as the “After all, everybody knows you Horton admires Foster for his prolific Civil War, baseball, Mark Twain and can’t make a living as a musician,” writing and efforts toward minstrel stage World War II. Burns used two and a half Horton joked. “I didn’t major in music, reformation. Horton’s latest recording, a hours of Horton’s recordings, but those because I figured I’d have to be a band compilation of Foster’s tunes, is another were only a portion of the long list of director, and I hate to march.” attempt to preserve historic music. projects for which he has written and So he got a “real” job at Liberty Since Horton never really planned performed music, scoring 16 films for National Insurance, married Lynda, and all this out, he’s not sure what comes National Park Service welcome centers began programming mainframes. He next. He enjoys playing every musical alone. spent evenings and weekends per - genre, from classical to jazz. He remains Horton does more than make forming with Three on a String, the grateful to Samford for his education movie music. As the man whom The now-renown folk music group he started and supportive friends, and for every Birmingham News calls a “self-made with then-Samford basketball coach opportunity to play, sing, perform and music scholar,” Horton uses songs to tell Jerry Ryan. But by 1978, when his first research the music that saw so many stories. He knows which tunes were sung child was born, Horton knew through so much. something had to give. Three “People ask me if I’m going to on a String was shoehorning 350 retire, and I ask, from what? I’m just annual shows around the members’ doing my hobbies for a living.” I full-time jobs. Jean M. McLean is a freelance writer in “I went to talk with my grandfather, Montevallo, Ala. the smartest man I’ve ever known, and the man who taught me how to play the banjo,” said Horton. “I said, ‘Papa, here’s the problem. I’m making more money with music, but I’ve also got this job Horton’s Favorite Songs with the security of a big company.’ from National Park Series “‘Wait a minute,’ Papa said. ‘The (Notes from Bobby Horton) only security you have is how many things you know how to do, how hard “Land of Rest” you can work and knowing the Lord.’” This melody is from The Sacred Harp Thus the accountant-computer (1844). I wrote a B Section to make programmer-musician/historian spun the piece a little longer. his hobbies into a vocation. “This Is My Father’s World” It was only natural that Horton’s One of my favorite old hymns focus was researching and recording his - toric tunes. Nine years old at the Civil “Pretty Polly” War’s centennial, he grew up hearing Traditional mountain tune matter-of-fact stories of sacrifice. His role models were veterans of the “The Shores of Ogygia” Depression and World War II. Their Written by Will Duncan patriotism and the dedication of today’s “The Teddy Bears’ Picnic” troops continue to inspire Horton’s This cut did not appear in the body of faith-filled music, some of which he the film, but is an extra on the DVD. I writes himself. recreated a 1930s recording after “We’re all guilty of thinking, ‘Hey, listening to it about 50 times. It took a look at me, ain’t I something?’” said day and a half to play all the instru - Horton of the success he’s received. “But ments and do the vocals. A lot of fun!

Bobby Horton ’72 31 Samford Pointed Smiths Toward Life of Music by Jack Brymer I N

M horal music has been a way of life for Tom Smith ’64 to teach nine years at Opelika Junior High and Opelika High U

L and his wife, Gayle Brown Smith ’67. Both enjoyed long School, and 15 years at Auburn Junior High School before A C and successful careers directing choirs and teaching retiring from public school teaching in 2006. music in Auburn, Ala. In fact, their careers might be likened to That same year, Tom retired from Auburn University and a living musical score. was named Professor Emeritus. Although both sang in church choirs as youngsters, their Retirement was not the end of the Smith’s living musical formal musical training began at Samford. They majored in score. Earlier this year, Tom was honored by Providence Baptist music, sang in the A Cappella Choir, and experienced the Church for 35 years as minister of music there, where he con - skillful tutelage of such talented teachers as Eleanor Ousley and tinues to serve. Gayle served as children’s choir coordinator and others. director of the church’s Junior Choir, and continues to do so. The Smiths retired in 2006. Tom was a member of the The Smiths have an active retirement. Gayle teaches part- music faculty at Auburn University for 34 years, directing the time at Chattahoochee Valley Community College, where she Auburn University Concert Choir and Auburn Singers and also conducts the choir, teaches a voice class and piano labora - teaching choral music courses. Gayle taught music in junior tory, and is in her sixth year as director of the 85-voice Alabama high and high schools in Auburn and nearby Opelika, Ala. Singing Women, the Alabama Baptist Convention’s choir for Even so, they continue to be active in church and denomi - women. In 2007, she began East Alabama Children’s Choir for national choir programs. children in grades four through nine. Tom, from Decatur, Ala., came to Samford in 1961 to Likewise, Tom continues as conductor of the Alabama satisfy a calling into the church music ministry. “One of the Singing Men, which he has done for the past 10 years. This fall, most valuable lessons I learned at Samford was that excellence he started the East Alabama Youth Chorale, a group of 24 and spirituality can coexist,” he said. singers, grades 9–12, in the east Alabama area who are mostly “The quality of the musical experiences was second to home-schooled or come from schools with no choral music. none, and the spiritual dynamic that was present on campus The Smiths have two children and two grandchildren. strengthened my relationship to God as well as the relationship They always have credited Samford with pointing them on with the students and faculty with whom I worked.” the road to their successful musical careers. Tom said the value Gayle came from a family of seven children in of their Samford experience was brought home this past Birmingham. All were active in Woodlawn Baptist Church, summer when a group of former Samford music majors who especially in the choirs, and eventually, all graduated from had studied voice with Eleanor Ousley joined her on campus Samford. Her four sisters were or had been members of the A for lunch. Cappella Choir directed by the late Dr. George Koski. “Each of us had the opportunity to share how our Samford “My goal in life was to be a member of that choir,” she said. experience had made such a lasting impression and continues “It was just a part of my heritage, and for that, I am extremely to be part of our life’s work,” he said. “How blessed we are to be grateful.” called graduates of Samford University.” I She enrolled at Samford in 1963, and realized her life’s goal almost immediately as she was accepted into the A Cappella Choir her freshman year. She also met her husband-to-be the same year. Tom was the choir’s student director. Following graduation, Tom earned a master of arts in music theory and composition at the University of Iowa, and Tom and Gayle Smith began his teaching career in the Fairfield City Schools. After Gayle’s graduation, they married in 1968 and moved to Boulder, Colo., where Tom earned the doctor of musical arts degree in choral conducting and literature at the University of Colorado. In the fall of 1972, they returned to Alabama when Tom was named director of choral activities at Auburn. “My high school choral director and Auburn graduate, Mr. Roy L. Wood, recommended me to Dr. Bodie Hinton, chair of the music depart - ment,” he said. “I will always be grateful to both men for giving a 28-year-old choral musician the opportunity to teach at Auburn.” In the meantime, Gayle taught in public schools. She earned a master’s degree in vocal performance from Auburn in 1976, and went on

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’56 Thomas King of Tallahassee, Fla., is Anne Glaze Stone and her husband, ’85 Katherine N. Barr, M.B.A./J.D., was M U

retired. He was a professor at Florida State William, live in Huntsville, Ala. She is a selected for inclusion in the 2010 edition L University. retired teacher. of The Best Lawyers in America in the area A of trusts and estates. She is an attorney Sherry Joann McCain Prichard com - ’71 Sandra Lynn Matthews Embry, M.S. ’72, with the Birmingham law firm of Sirote & pleted 40 years as a teacher of kinder - is a licensed professional counselor in Permutt. garten and after-care at Briarwood Muscle Shoals, Ala. Christian School. She and her husband, Vaughn Pruett Bell of Louisville, Ky., is Ray, live in Hoover, Ala. ’73 Jim and Cheryl Payne Landreth ’75 live account service director for Humana, Inc. in Birmingham. He is proprietor of She and her husband, John, have three ’59 Beecher B. Creasman, a pharmacist at Mount Laurel General Store, Mount children, Taylor, who is a Samford fresh - Gibson Pharmacy in Birmingham, Laurel Grocery and Deli, and Jimbo’s man, Meredith, 14, and Jackson, 7. recently was elected president of the board Soda Fountain. She is officer manager of of directors of Baptist Medical Center Intermark Group. R. Scott Pearson is M.B.A. program Princeton Towers and was recognized by director and assistant professor of busi - the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy for ’75 Judy Hames of Fayetteville, Ga., earned a ness at Charleston Southern University in his 50 years in the profession. He and his Ph.D. in educational leadership at Mercer Charleston, S.C. He recently earned a wife, Ann, live in Hoover, Ala. University in August. She is a teacher at Ph.D. from Ohio State University in agri - Woodland Middle School. cultural, environmental and development Jeri Barber Jackson, a retired teacher, lives economics with a focus in micro finance. in Huntsville, Ala., with her husband, ’76 Glen McGriff of Little Rock, Ark., is He publishes an investment blog: Benny. An avid hiker, she has hiked the founder and director of Christian investorsvalueview.com. Appalachian Trail from Springer Endeavors Foundation, a hospitality Mountain, Ga., to Vermont over the ministry. ’86 Darrell Owen Baker of Brooks, Ga., is course of 20 years. She plans to continue vice president of Thomas Enterprises, hiking the trail through Maine. ’77 Connie Williams Coulianos is head of the Inc., in Newnan, Ga. He and his wife, Speyer Legacy School in New York, N.Y. Cheryl, have three children, Joshua, Donald Johnson of Auburn, Ala., is pastor Jonathan and Jared. of Tuskegee First Baptist Church. Harry Bruce Sherrer is pastor of Eastern Heights Baptist Church in Statesboro, Ga. Tim Thompson is an associate professor ’60 Tom Cox was honored for 50 years of He and his wife, Rhonda Burk Sherrer at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West service to the North American Mission ’77, have two children. Palm Beach, Fla. He and his wife, Katey, Board of the Southern Baptist have two sons, Nicholas and Benjamin. Convention. He lives in Mountainburg, ’79 Michael C. Dowling is pastor of Highland Ark. View Baptist Church in Trussville, Ala. He ’87 Samantha Lynn Jennings Clark of and his wife, Sandra, have seven children Alabaster, Ala., is a registered nurse at ’64 George and Judy McMichael Frey ’66 of and three grandchildren. Brookwood Medical Center. She and her Sanford, Fla., are retired. They will cele - husband, Chuck, have two daughters, brate their 45th wedding anniversary in ’80 Thomas DeWitt Ariail, M.M.Ed. ’82, is Bevin Elise and Caroline Michelle. December. minister of music at First Baptist Church in LaFayette, Ga. He and his wife, Jada, Kathryn Parrish Cushman is the author ’65 Warren Farrell Waggoner, J.D. ’68, is a have three children, Jonathan, Michael of her third Christian novel, Leaving freelance writer/editor in Washington, D.C. and Kayla. Yesterday (Bethany House). She lives in Santa Barbara, Calif., with her husband, ’66 Elmer Leonard “Len” Holland of ’81 Lori Lynn Horton Ashba ugh, M.A. ’86, Lee, and their two daughters. Birmingham works with Association of and Michael Ashbaugh ’85 live in Edison Illuminating Companies as man - Cullman, Ala. She is an English as a Heidi McKinley Moody travels the United ager, AEIC Services. He retired from second language teacher at Brookhaven States with her daughter, Ivy, who is cast Southern Company after 32 years in pub - Middle School in Decatur, Ala. He is a as the orphan Pepper in the Broadway lic relations, training and media produc - sales manager for Filters for Industry. national tour of Annie. The family lives in tion. He and his wife, Teresa, have three They have two children, Loren and Cally. Mason, Ohio. children. ’82 Steve Cole and his wife, Stacy, live in ’88 Jena Forehand is a minister, counselor Ray C. Williams is dean of Stony Brook Birmingham, where he is worship/execu - and event speaker with Stained Glass University School of Dental Medicine in tive pastor of Inverness Vineyard Church. Ministries. She and her husband, Dale, live New York. An internationally known educa - They have two daughters, Halle Kate, 2, in Birmingham. tor and researcher in dental medicine and and Anna Claire, who they adopted from an expert in periodontal disease, he is the China in April. Michael Carl Ivey is a certified senior author of 140 papers on his research and paralegal with Burr & Forman, LLP, in sits on the editorial boards of seven jour - ’83 Jerry Tapley is director of program inno - Birmingham. nals. He was a Samford Alumnus of the vation and performance management for Year in 1991. H e and his wife, Joan Lash, the Federation of Neighborhood Centers ’91 J. Timothy Downard, M.B.A., earned the live on Long Island. They have a son, Lee. in Philadelphia, Penn. Certified Forensic Accountant designation

33 from the American College of Forensic at Moultrie Technical College and is 2009 Representative. She was a 2007 Samford Examiners Institute. He is a partner in chairman of the board of directors for the Alumna of the Year. Birmingham’s Haynes Downard, LLP, Moultrie-Colquitt County Chamber of accounting firm. Commerce. Ben is principal of Pelham Timothy Sowell is a clinical pharmacist High School in Pelham, Ga. They have with Centennial Medical Center in ’92 John Brewer, a physician, is a regional two children, Blake, 16, and Leah Grace, Nashville, Tenn. He and his wife, Denise,

I medical officer with the U.S. State 10. have a son, Aiden Erol, born in April.

N Department in Washington, D.C. He, his

M wife and two daughters, Molly and Sadie, ’93 Adrienne Gantt Baker was listed in “40 Autumn Baggott Toussaint of Excelsior, U

L live in Arlington, Va. under 40” for 2009 by Georgia Trend Minn., is assistant director of music—

A magazine. As principal agent of the State contemporary, at Wayzata Community Stephen Louis A. Dillard recently was Medical Board in Atlanta, Ga., she travels Church in Wayzata, Minn. She and her appointed by Georgia Governor Sonny the state to discuss safe and legal medical husband, Chris, have a son, Kevin Perdue to the Georgia Judicial practices regarding prescription drugs. Thomas, 5. Nominating Commission. An attorney in She is also a state firearms instructor and Macon, Ga., he was named a Rising Star president of the National Association of ’94 Jennifer Abreu is a volunteer missionary by Super Lawyers of Georgia. Drug Diversion Investigators. with Porch de Salomon in Panajachel, Guatemala. Amy Fowler Murphy of Leeds, Ala., is Catherine M. Griffin is a dental hygienist. Alabama Science in Motion chemistry She and her husband, Terry, live in Kathryn Clayton is a social worker at St. specialist at the University o f Montevallo. Maylene, Ala. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

Lori Ann Connell Seymour is a third- Carol Guthrie is assistant U.S. Trade Vivian Vanessa Smith of Plantation, Fla., grade teacher at Faith Academy in Mobile, Representative for public and media is an independent representative with Ala. She and her husband, Matt, have affairs with the Executive Office of the Primerica. three children, Maddie, Jay and Gracie. President in Washington, D.C. She is responsible for keeping the nation and the ’95 Chad Cronon, an attorney in Orlando, Jana Allison Reeves Wiggins and Ben nation’s businesses informed of all poli - Fla., is in his third term as president of Wiggins ’93 live in Moultrie, Ga. She is cies, decisions, actions, negotiations and Orlando International Fringe Theatre director of marketing and public relations other activities of the U.S. Trade Festival.

Nursing Class Holds 50th Anniversary Reunion

irmingham Baptist Hospital School of Nursing’s Class of Betty Gould Shahine, Sylvia Wright Rayfield, Linda Martin B1959 held its 50th anniversary reunion Oct. 4–7 in Pine Stewart, Roma Lee Taunton, Jo Snider, Judy Taunton, Peggy Mountain, Ga., with 29 of 43 members attending. BBH School of Weed Willingham, Martha Ann Phillips Eisenberg, Sylvia Barber Nursing was the forerunner of Samford’s Ida V. Moffett School Weis, Eula Mae Abbott Connell, Barbara Wilkerson Frix, Barbara of Nursing. The Samford nursing school sponsored the closing Burks Griffis, Joann Hayes Dunn, Shirley Smith Hendrix, dinner at the reunion, and nursing dean Nena Sanders was one Dorothea Harriman Claunch, Sharon Bush Kleeschulte, Joan of the speakers. Returning for the reunion were, from left, Linda Taylor Youngblood, Bobbie O'Kelly Clark, Delarris Atkinson Newton Betz, Mildred Dykes Greene, Anita Gullatt Gray, Marsha Reeves, Barbara Harper Whitman and Sue Ann Vickers Mitchell White, Patsy Hays Schmith, Martha Bumpers Slate, Morrison. I

34 ’96 Angela Waddill is pursuing a master’s Teresa Eve Mishler works with Pre-Paid ’03 Shelley Elizabeth Sager Blocker and her degree in international security at the Legal Services. She and her husband, Guy husband, Allan, live in Birmingham. She is Elliott School of International Affairs, Ale, live in Valley Village, Calif. a teacher in Vestavia Hills, Ala. George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. She is focusing on Daria Grandy Mayotte of Birmingham Alexander Raymond Goodman and transnational security and East Africa. and her husband, Steve, are missionaries Courtney Fenwick Goodman, Pharm.D.

with Global Outreach International. In ’07, live in Columbia, Tenn. He is a self- I

Aimee Denise Maudlin Williams and her January, they will move to Cape Town, employed dentist and she is a pharmacist N

family live in Tuscaloosa, Ala. She and her South Africa, to work at Pollsmoor at Kroger. M U

husband, Lonnie, have four children, Juvenile Prison. They have a son, Ethan L

Tyler, Joshua, Nicholas and Andrew. Alexander, born in August. Mary Anne Garner Sahawneh received a A Ph.D. in neuroscience from Weill Cornell ’98 Jay William Gilbreath, Pharm.D., of Emily Shupert is pursuing a doctorate in Graduate School of Medical Sciences in Cottondale, Ala., is assistant chief of phar - counseling. She is a member of GROW New York City, and is a postdoctoral macy at Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center. counseling group in Atlanta, Ga., and a associate at Weill Cornell Medical College. speaker on women’s issues. She and her husband, John, live in Carolyn Jean Nelson, a commissioned Brooklyn, N.Y. provisional elder in the Alabama-West ’01 Mark Flores, M.Div., is a chaplain at Florida Conference of the United Bedford Hospice Care in Bedford, Va. He Ehren Wassermann was on the gold Methodist Church, is associate pastor at and his wife, Julie, have two children, medal–winning team that represented the St. Luke UMC in Pensacola, Fla. Andrew and Alexandra. United States in the recent international Baseball Federation World Cup in Europe. Robert Edward West of Roswell, Ga., is Benjamin Michael Mingle and his wife, The U.S. team won the gold medal with a training and communications director for Jillian, live in Chattanooga, Tenn. He is 10-5 win over Cuba in the final game. The Kingdom Advisors. He and his wife, Julie director of accounting at CBL & team finished with 14 straight wins to take Smith West ’98 have four children, Colby, Associates Properties. the title. Wassermann had a 1-0 record Mason, and twins, Abby and Emma, born during the World Cup and did not allow in March. Susan Clemmons Smith and her hus - an earned run in nine innings. The former band, Lee, live in Atlanta, Ga., where she Samford Bulldogs pitcher plays for the Todd Veleber, M.Div. ’03, and Brooke works at Georgia State University. They Charlotte (N.C.) Knights, the Chicago Belcher Veleber ’04 live in Tallahassee, have a son, Landis Mack, born in August. White Sox’s Triple-A affiliate. Fla., where he is Next Generation pastor at Wildwood Church. They have three chil - Mark Adam Smith, M.Div. ’05, and Beth ’04 Karen Hieb Duvall earned a doctor of dren, Brock Jackson, Jake Taylor and Cole Ann Rice ’08 married in May. They live in osteopathic medicine degree at the Hunter. Bloomington, Ind., where she is pursuing Georgia campus of the Philadelphia a master’s in music education with an College of Osteopathic Medicine in May. ’99 Megan Rutledge Bunting is an anesthesia emphasis in string pedagogy at Indiana She and her husband, Jonathan, live in nurse at Veterinary Specialty Hospital of University’s Jacobs School of Music. He is Orlando, Fla., where she is completing a the Carolinas in Cary, N.C. a chaplain and captain in the Tennessee family medicine residency at Florida Air National Guard, with recent assign - Hospital East Orlando. Carrie Lee, J.D. ’01, is director of the ments to Guam and the National Guard Juvenile Justice Center at Barry Bureau in Washington, D.C. He deploys to Ashley Floyd earned a master’s in higher University’s Dwayne O. Andreas School of Antarctica this fall. education administration from the Law in Orlando, Fla. A longtime child University of Alabama in August. She is advocate, she works to create change in Brian Smothers of Somerville, Mass., is a assistant director of the University Fellows the quality of representation of children in psychologist at Boston University. program at Samford. delinquency court. ’02 Alexis Keene Aday and her husband, Dana Garcia Jackson is a proposal Jeff Windham is general counsel and a Justin, live in Montgomery, Ala. She is a specialist with NaphCare, Inc. She and her certified fraud examiner with registered dietitian at Rehab First and husband, Kent, live in Hoover, Ala. Forensic/Strategic Solutions, P.C., Capitol Hill. accounting and consulting firm in Daniel, Pharm.D., and Jamie Bullington Birmingham. He and his wife, Kimberly, Jed Miller was technical director for the Jones ’05 live in Murray, Ky., with their have a child, Connor Lee, 1. movie, Molecules to the MAX, which will daughter, Annie, 2. He is a pharmacist at show at Birmingham’s McWane Science Gibson’s Pharmacy in Mayfield, Ky. ’00 Robert David Alley is director of technical Center next spring. The movie was pro - services at Miles, LLC, in Nashville, Tenn. duced by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Rachel Victoria Lally of Lafayette, La., is a He and his wife, Catherine Golden, live in Nanotechnology Center. Miller holds a kindergarten teacher at St. Charles Franklin, Tenn. diploma in 3D animation and visual Elementary School. effects from Vancouver F ilm School in Janet Lynn Mosley Matlock is a senior British Columbia, Canada. Matthew Shay O’Hern of Merritt Island, auditor with the Social Security Fla., is e-commerce marketing coordinator Administration’s Office of the Inspector Lindsay Weidinger Murray works in with Space Coast Credit Union in General in Birmingham. She and her client relations with Wicker Park Group in Melbourne, Fla. husband, Jimmy, have a son Noah James, Birmingham. She and her husband, Lee, born in May. They live in Warrior, Ala. have two children, Margaret Loran, 2, and ’05 Havilah Gale Helms is a registered nurse William Harvard, born in March. at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital in Nick and Sarah Roberts Hilscher ’02 live Nashville, Tenn. in Smyrna, Ga., with their two children, Kristin Marie Davis Simpson, Pharm.D., Annie and Will. of Birmingham is a pharmacist with CVS Christopher Randall Smith and Rachel Caremark. Summer Holland, M.M.Ed. ’09, married

35 in July. He is a musician and guitar Jennifer Kay Hitt of Lexington, S.C., is a and is being reassigned to Nellis AFB in instructor in Birmingham. She is choral graduate assistant at the University of Las Vegas. director at North Jefferson Middle School South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. in Kimberly, Ala. Lindsay Greer and Jonathan Frazier ’08 Kristen Howard married Austin Booth in married in August. They live in Knoxville, ’06 Hilary Gary Bryan is a registered nurse at May. They live in Columbia, S.C. She Tenn., where she is a family nurse practi -

I Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, recently earned a master’s in architecture tioner for the Skin Wellness Center, and

N Tenn. She and her husband, Alan, live in from University of North Carolina— he works for PME Communications.

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L Mary-Wallace Keown married Blake

A Lauren Colwell received a master of Chris and Abby Archer Ireland ’07 live in Atchley in April. She is a production divinity degree from Mercer University’s Niceville, Fla., where he works for Premier manager for FitzMartin marketing firm in McAfee School of Theology in May. She Rehabilitation. He received a doctorate in Birmingham. They live in Pelham, Ala. received the Scholar Achievement Award physical therapy from the Medical College at graduation and was elected permanent of Georgia in May. Dustin Robert McNew and Danelle president of her class. She is associate Harris McNew live in Mobile, Ala. He is a minister for spiritual formation and ’07 Ben and Cara Pruitt Dennis, both lieu - student and physician assistant with the families at First Baptist Church in tenants in the U.S. Air Force, live in Las Alabama Army National Guard. Savannah, Ga. Vegas, Nev. He is a recent graduate of the U.S. Air Force pilot training program in Taylor West Mullins works at Robinson- Katherine Lantz Feldman is a Spanish Del Rio, Texas, and is a predator pilot Adams Insurance in Homewood. She and teacher with Howard County public assigned to Creech Air Force Base in Las her husband, Josh, have a son, Samuel schools in Maryland. She and her hus - Vegas. She has been a research psycholo - Lucas, born in June. band, Scott, live in Ellicott City, Md. gist at Brooks AFB in San Antonio, Texas, Smith, Thomas Travel Successful Music Paths by Jack Brymer

ichael Smith ’00 and Wade Thomas At Samford, he was a student conductor of the A Cappella M ’98 studied music at Samford and Choir, organist/choirmaster at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church roomed together for several years. Smith and assistant conductor of the Birmingham Boys Choir. concentrated on organ and directing, “I feel very strongly that my Samford education prepared while Thomas focused on voice. The two me for Yale and my current job by allowing me to network with headed to graduate school in different other alumni such as Ken Berg, director of the Birmingham Boys directions, but their music recently Choir, whose assistant conductor I was while at Samford.” brought them together for a reunion. He also stressed how much organ professor Ted Tibbs and Smith attended Yale University, music dean Milburn Price influenced where he was Divinity School chapel him. organist, a teaching assistant in the Thomas came to Samford from Michael Smith School of Music and assistant conductor Calhoun, Ga., where he sang in choirs at of the famed Yale Glee Club, among other Belmont Baptist Church and Calhoun positions. High School. He planned to be a music After earning two master of music degrees (in organ and education major, “but decided singing conducting), he accepted a post as organist and music director at was a lot more fun,” even though he the prestigious Groton School in Massachusetts, prep alma mater never had taken a voice lesson. He cites as of Franklin Roosevelt, Dean Acheson and other leaders. mentors Dr. Sharon Lawhon, head of the Thomas went to Ohio State, where he earned a master’s voice faculty; Dr. Bill Bugg, director of degree in vocal performance. Samford Opera; and Dr. Gene Black, Wade Thomas When Smith was planning this year’s annual spring concert retired director of the A Cappella Choir. at Groton, he chose as the final work composer Ralph Vaughn Thomas received his first professional Williams’ Five Mystical Songs for baritone, choir and orchestra. experience singing at Opera Columbus while attending graduate His soloist of choice: Wade Thomas. school at Ohio State. He did a number of Young Artist Programs “I knew this was one of his signature pieces because of our there, including Lyric Opera Cleveland, Central City Opera, Samford connection,” said Smith. “We did concerts and per - Natchez Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Carnegie Hall. Later, he formances together while at Samford.” moved to Binghamton, N.Y., and performed as a resident Artist Smith and Thomas followed similar paths to Samford, at Tri-cities Opera. beginning their musical journeys in church and school Music recently brought Thomas back to his alma mater for programs. Smith hailed from Auburn, Ala., where he became a a reunion of his own. He appeared this fall in the Samford Opera church organist at age 13. When he auditioned, he brought music production, The Merry Wives of Windsor , by Otto Nicolai, from Bach and other classical composers as his tryout pieces. performing the role of Sir John Falstaff. Currently, he serves as “It was not hard to recognize Michael’s extraordinary gift in soloist at several churches throughout the country and is on the music,” said Gayle Smith ’67, wife of Providence Baptist Church music staff at First Presbyterian Church of Atlanta, Ga. I choir director Tom Smith ’64. “We knew great things were ahead for him.”

36 Margaret Elizabeth Rogers is a registered Isaiah Joel Same and his wife, Brittany, Andrew Westover is an eighth-grade nurse at Trinity Medical Center in live in Birmingham, where he is art English teacher with Teach for America in Birmingham. director of Think Positive creative services Phoenix, Ariz. He is pursuing a master’s firm. degree at Arizona State University. ’08 Callie Aldridge is creative arts director at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham. ’09 Audrea McKay Dooley, M.S.N., of Guin, Amanda Jean Worshum Williams,

Ala., is a certified registered nurse practi - Pharm.D., is a pharmacy resident with I

Melissa Gale Caudill of Brentwood, tioner at Winfield Children’s Center in University of Virginia Health Systems. She N

Tenn., is a financial analyst with Winfield, Ala. She and her husband, and her husband, Matthew Ryan, live in M

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Healthways in Franklin, Tenn. Wade, have one child, McKenzie, 9. Charlottesville, Va. L A Emily Rebecca Burns King, Pharm.D., is Gaines Johnson is a fifth-grade U.S. a pharmacist with Walgreens in Starkville, history teacher with Teach for America at Miss. KIPP Academy in Houston, Texas. Robert Pendergraft, M.M.Ed. ’09, and his wife, Rachel, live in Dalhart, Texas, where he is minister of music at First Baptist Church.

Robert and Julie Smith West of Roswell, ’03 Kevin and Deanna Resmondo Conner of Ga., twin daughters, Abby and Emma, Odenville, Ala., a daughter, Cheyenne born March 14, 2009. Alexis, born July 15, 2008.

’99 Chris and Christa Choate Callaway of Reed and Lora Densford Jarvis of Monroe, N.C., a daughter, Adaline, born Murray, Ky., a son, Jack Thomas, born March 16, 2009. March 5, 2009. ’92 Lynn and Mark Davidson of Mobile, Ala., a daughter, Marianna Claire, born Sept. 2, Scott and Julie Mims Hunter of Michael and Heather Hackett Leger of 2009. Cumming, Ga., a son, Rhett Davis, born Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a daughter, Eliyah June 29, 2009. Hope, born Feb. 25, 2009. ’93 Denise and Timothy Sowell of Nashville, Tenn., a son, Aiden Erol, born April 26, Jennifer and Hadden Smith IV of ’04 Charlie and Melissa Ward Buchanan, 2009. Trussville, Ala., twins, Hadden Bass V and Pharm.D., of Springfield, Mo., a son, Katelyn Cooper, born Aug. 19, 2009. Samuel Charles, born May 31, 2009. ’94 Leslie and Chris Corts of Birmingham, twin sons, Conwill Hewitt and Thomas Kimberly and Jeff Windham of Scotty and Sylvia Austin Hollins of Edward, born Sept. 25, 2009. Birmingham, a son, Connor Lee, born Tuscaloosa, Ala., a daughter, Olivia, born Aug. 14, 2008. Aug. 2, 2009. ’95 James, J.D. ’02, and Brooke Dill Stewart of Birmingham, a son, Baker Alton, born ’00 Jimmy and Janet Lynn Mosley Matlock of Simmons and Amy Travis Pankey of April 5, 2008. Warrior, Ala., a son, Noah James, born Birmingham, a son, Collin Samuel, born May 8, 2009. Aug. 17, 2009. ’96 Frank and Audrey Hudson Atkins of Franklin, Tenn., a daughter, Alaina Grace, Steve and Daria Grandy Mayotte of Camille Smith Platt and Daniel James born Jan. 23, 2009. Birmingham, a son, Ethan Alexander, Platt, Pharm.D. ’06, of Chattanooga, born Aug. 8, 2009. Tenn., a son, Aaron James, born July 1, Corinne and Sean Fennelly of Alpharetta, 2009. Ga., a son, Ethan Sean, born Sept. 2, 2009. Seth, M.M.Ed. ’02, and Katie Partain Patterson ’01 of Homestead, Fla., a son, ’05 Rachel and Micah Adkins, J.D., of ’97 Aimee Shackelton Nobs and Derek Nobs Matthew Wayne, born Dec. 29, 2008. Trussville, Ala., a son, Rhett Morgan, born ’98 of Atlanta, Ga., a daughter, Audrey Sept. 9, 2009. Marie, born Sept. 15, 2009. ’01 Andrew and Terra Langston Morrow of Birmingham, twin sons, Logan Andrew Chris and Aimee Seanor Banta of Ben and Bethany Ates Percy, Pharm.D. and William Tyler, born Jan. 27, 2009. Birmingham, a daughter, Rylee Brooke, ’00, of Manchester, Conn., a daughter, Lily born July 30, 2009. Grace, born April 22, 2008. Gavin and Amber Whisonant Rathbone of Warrior, Ala., a daughter, Jenna ’06 Russell and Maree Atchison Jones of Lesley and Greg Sheek of Hoover, Ala., a Caroline, born March 26, 2009. Birmingham, a son, Dalton Russell, born daughter, Madelyn Ruth, born June 22, July 24, 2008. 2009. Lee and Susan Clemmons Smith of Atlanta, Ga., a son, Landis Mack, born James Andrew and Lindsey Denton ’98 Kara and Todd Tittle of Lynn, Ala., a Aug. 13, 2009. Murphy ’08 of Birmingham, a son, Isaiah daughter, Madelyn Kohl, born April 21, Andrew, born Aug. 3, 2009. 2009. ’02 Lee and Lindsay Weidinger Murray of Birmingham, a son, William Harvard, ’07 Josh and Taylor West Mullins of Todd, M.Div. ’03, and Brooke Belcher born March 12, 2009. Birmingham, a son, Samuel Lucas, born Veleber ’04 of Tallahassee, Fla., a son, Cole June 9, 2009. I Hunter, born Feb. 6, 2009. 37 ’50 John F. Miller of Selma, Ala., died Feb. 7, 2009. He was a pharmacist.

Earle J. Osburne, Jr., of Hoover, Ala., died in memoriam Sept. 10, 2009. He served 35 years with State Farm Insurance Companies. An ’27 Jessie Ansley Pollard, age 102, of ’45 Shirley Anderson of Tuscaloosa, Ala., died original proponent to incorporate the city I Martinsville, Va., died July 2, 2009. She Aug. 30, 2009, of cancer. She worked for of Hoover, he served in many civic leader - N taught in Birmingham and Martinsville, Samford deans Percy Pratt Burns and ship roles. As a U.S. Marine, he partici- M and was active in church and civic groups John Fincher, and assisted with secretarial

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L such as the American Cancer Society, the work for Cumberland School of Law Jima during World War II. He was a A Virginia Museum of Art and Daughters of during its first year on campus. member of Sigma Nu fraternity. the American Revolution. ’46 Homer Jackson, age 84, of Birmingham, Homer L. Smiles M.S.E. ’66, age 84, of ’34 Robert Wharton III, J.D., age 94, of St. died Sept. 27, 2009. He received an aca - Leeds, Ala., died Aug. 27, 2009. He was an Simons Island, Ga., died Oct. 10, 2009. He demic scholarship to Samford at age 16. educator for 31 years, including 15 years joined Delta Air Lines in 1936 when the An accountant, he was active in church as head football coach, teacher and assis - company had three airplanes. During and community causes. He was baptized tant principal at Leeds High School. He World War II, he was named director of on an Easter Sunday aboard ship while served four years in the U.S. Navy during personnel and later helped develop the serving in the Pacific Theater during World War II before finishing his senior personnel policies that became a hallmark World War II. He was a member of Sigma year at Samford. He was inducted into the of the company. After retiring from Delta Nu fraternity. Alabama High School Association’s Hall with 25 years of service, he worked 25 of Fame in 1995. The Leeds High School years at Sea Island Golf Course in St. ’47 Leven S. Hazlegrove, age 84, of football field was named in his honor in Simons Island. He was active in Kiwanis. Birmingham, died Aug. 18, 2009. He was a 2008. chemistry professor at Samford for 33 ’36 Arthur A. Weeks, age 94, of Birmingham, years and a longtime department chair. ’51 John D. Stewart, age 83, of Birmingham, died Aug. 22, 2009. He was dean of Widely published in scientific journals, he died Oct. 12, 2009. He worked 40 years for Cumberland School of Law in the 1960s directed international chemistry institutes U.S. Steel. He served on Guam with the when the school was relocated from for the U.S. State Department and gave U.S. Marines during World War II, and Lebanon, Tenn., to become a part of many scientific presentations. He was was in the postwar occupation of China. Samford. He also was dean of Delaware executive director of the Alabama He finished high school after the war, and School of Law at Widener University, and Academy of Science. His studies at later played football for two years at helped both law schools achieve American Samford were interrupted by service in Samford. Bar Association accreditation. He was the Navy during World War II. Memorials most recently visiting distinguished may be made to the Chemistry ’53 Roy Rufus Duncan, Jr., age 79, of professor of law at Cumberland School of Department Scholarship Fund, Samford Cropwell, Ala., died Sept. 18, 2009. A Law. He was a member of Phi Alpha Selta University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, pharmacist and store owner in Knoxville, and Delta Theta Phi legal fraternities. Birmingham, AL 35229. Tenn., and Birmingham, he also owned Livingston Nursing Home in Bessemer, ’37 Agnes Mate Sharpton, age 92, of John Hatton Leath, Jr., J.D., age 88, of Ala. He served with a Alabama National Tuscaloosa, Ala., died Aug. 21, 2009. She Lake City, Tenn., died Aug. 8, 2009. He Guard Medical unit at Fort Jackson, S.C., was a second-grade teacher during World was retired from the federal government. before returning to Samford for his senior War II. He was a World War II and Korean War year. era veteran, and a Mason. ’41 Rose L. Horton, age 90, of Tallahassee, Joyce Hope Revels, age 87, of Fla., died July 14, 2009. She was a member Thea Gray Parker, Sr., age 87, of Leeds, Hendersonville, N.C., died Aug. 23, 2009. of Alpha Delta Pi sorority and a former Ala., died Aug. 23, 2009. He owned and She worked in public and child welfare, president of the Tallahassee alumni chapter. operated Parker Rexall Drugs for 50 years. and psychiatric social work. She was a He served in the U.S. Army during World founder and executive director of Christ ’42 George William Riddle, age 89, of War II. A president of the Jefferson Life Ministries in Hendersonville. Gadsden, Ala., died Sept. 23, 2009. A long - County Pharmaceutical Association and time Alabama Baptist pastor and denomi - Jefferson County Board of Education, he ’56 Roy James Chandler, age 75, of national leader, he was an associate editor also was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Cincinnati, Ohio, died Aug. 10, 2009. He of The Alabama Baptist and moderator of fraternity, and Tile and Mortar honor was a retired high school teacher and Etowah Baptist Association. Most recently, society. coach, and furniture sales representative. he was pastor emeritus at East Gadsden Memorials may be made to the Earl Baptist Church. He was a Mason and ’48 Evelyn Reed Jones, age 84, of Gartman Scholarship Fund, Samford World War II veteran. Birmingham, died Oct. 11, 2009. A University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, psychometrist/counselor with Birmingham Birmingham, AL 35229. ’43 Sidney Grady Fullerton, Jr., age 87, of City Schools, she was active in the Chapel Hill, N.C., died March 2, 2009. He Business and Professional Women’s Club. ’61 William D. Brown of Rossville, Ga., died was director of finance for the city of April 20, 2009, of heart disease and com - Birmingham, county auditor for Harris ’49 Robert Russell Donaldson, age 89, of plications from multiple sclerosis. He was County, Texas, and president of the Birmingham, died Sept. 21, 2009. A long - a pharmacist. Government Finance Officers Association. time Samford administrator, he served as He taught governmental accounting at the director of alumni affairs, purchasing ’62 William T. Davis, age 72, of Acworth, Ga., University of North Carolina at Chapel agent and vice president of business died July 28, 2009. He was a million dollar Hill. He was a Mason. Memorials may the affairs. He was a veteran of World War II, agent for Mass Mutual Insurance, and made to the general scholarship fund at seeing action in the European Theater. He owned Star Cleaners and Star Valet in Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, joined Samford in 1958 and retired in Atlanta, Ga. Birmingham, AL 35229. 1986.

38 Jack S. Kirkley, age 78, of Birmingham, and music appreciation. At Samford, he H. Evan Zeiger, Sr., age 88, of Pell City, Ala., died Aug. 21, 2009. He was a teacher, was a graduate assistant and sang with the died Aug. 30, 2009. The former Samford vice Baptist minister, and master craftsman A Cappella Choir and the Samford president for financial affairs joined Samford as and artist. He served in the U.S. Army in Singers. He was a member of the A business manager in 1956. Soon afterward, he the Korean War. Cappella Alumni Choir. was involved in the task of moving equipment and university property from the school’s East

’65 Peggy Suzanne White Toifel, age 65, of Other Samford Family Deaths Lake location to its new site in Homewood. He I

Milton, Fla., died Sept. 16, 2009. She was a also was athletics director from 1969 until his N

librarian and business instructor at the James Downs Griffin, age 23, a Samford senior retirement in 1984. M U

University of West Florida in Pensacola, sociology major from Chicago, Ill., died sud - He was then general manager of Jetco, L

Fla., and president of the Piece Makers denly Sept. 8, 2009. He was a forward and Inc., a charter and fixed-base operation at A Quilting Guild of Milton. three-year letterman on the men’s basketball Birmingham Airport. A licensed pilot, he team. taught ground school courses in the Samford ’67 John P. Jackson of Panama City, Fla., died After Sundown program for many years. I Sept. 10, 2009. He owned Jackson Drugs Jane Laroque Slaughter Hardenbergh, age 79, in Springfield, Fla. He served four years of Birmingham, died Sept. 14, 2009. She taught with the Air Force during the Korean War. organ at Samford during 1956–59, and designed the Aeolian-Skinner organ in Reid Linda Clark Keen, age 63, of Kingsport, Chapel and the Holtkamp organ in Buchanan Tenn., died July 18, 2009, of complications Hall. from diabetes. She was active in church and civic work. Ben F. Harrison, age 85, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., died Sept. 26, 2009. He was a Birmingham ’68 Cecil Himes, M.B.A., age 94, of business leader who served 37years on Birmingham, died Sept. 19, 2009. An Samford’s board of trustees, beginning in 1971. Army colonel and graduate of the U.S. He was instrumental in identifying the property Military Academy at West Point, he that became Samford’s London Study Center, received his Samford degree after retiring known as Daniel House, in 1984. from a 30-year military career. Samford’s Ben F. Harrison Theatre was named in his honor in 1987. ’71 Connie Keith Vera, age 62, of Leeds, Ala., During his career, he was chief executive died Sept. 11, 2009. She was a veterinarian’s officer of U.S. Pipe and of U.S. Home, and assistant at Eastwood Animal Clinic in chairman of the board and president of Irondale, Ala. Harrison Industries, Inc. He was a tank driver with the U.S. Army during World War II, ’73 Rebecca Ruth Burdette, M.A., age 69, of serving in the Philippines. Birmingham, died Oct. 14, 2009. She earned master’s degrees in history and in Witold W. Turkiewicz, who died Nov. 4 at age English at Samford. 79, taught piano as a member of the Samford University faculty for 42 years. He joined the ’74 Jake Gary Hagy, of Birmingham, died faculty in 1955 and retired in 1997. He was Sept. 29, 2009. He was a pharmacist at St. associate professor of music and distinguished Vincent’s Hospital for 30 years. artist-in-residence. As director of the Clift Thomas Lee Jones, M.B.A. ’77, age 62, of Learning Center, he was a pioneer at Samford Hoover, Ala., died Aug. 29, 2009. He in the application of music technology to the worked with the Transportation Security learning process. Administration. He served in the U.S. Air Turkiewicz was perhaps best known for Force during the Vietnam War. his numerous recitals over the years. He performed with the Birmingham Symphony, ’78 Robert Wyeth Lee, J.D., age 55, of Huntsville Symphony, Alabama Pops Orchestra Birmingham, died Aug. 16, 2009. His law and others. His annual faculty recital in Wright practice centered on workers’ compensation, Center Concert Hall was a much-anticipated civil litigation and mediation at trial and event, drawing large crowds. appellate levels. He was coauthor of A faculty resolution on the occasion of his Alabama Workers’ Compensation Law retirement described him as a “congenial col - and Handbook. league to fellow faculty members, and a demanding yet caring teacher.” Drew S. Pinkerton, J.D., age 56, of Fort Turkiewicz was born in New Castle, Pa. Walton Beach, Fla., died Sept. 8, 2009, of He held music degrees from the University of cancer. He was a criminal defense attorney Miami (cum laude) and Columbia University, and partner in the firm of Anchors, Smith and a diploma from Curtis Institute of Music. Grimsley. He was a former chief assistant Several of his eight children were Samford state attorney and chairman of the students, as well as his granddaughter, former Judicial Nominating Commission for the Miss Alabama Amanda Tapley, a current music First Judicial Circuit. major. “When he retired, Forbes Pianos gave him ’92 Andre D. Ashley, M.M.Ed., age 45, of a space to use in their store, and he taught all Birmingham died Aug. 10, 2009. He was 27 grandchildren how to play the piano,” said choral director at Jess Lanier High School his music faculty colleague, Bill Bugg. “As a in Bessemer, Ala., where he started a pop - dedicated and committed teacher, there simply ular show choir, and taught mixed chorus was no better role model.”

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E news Roma Rights Centre [ERRC] of Budapest, N Hungary, shared the 2009 Gruber Prize for Justice for “their tireless advocacy of New Shepherd Book Examines human rights” for individuals belonging to oppressed groups with little or no access to Christianity’s Role in Human Rights the justice system. The prestigious international prize of hat is religious and secular human rights move - $500,000 was awarded by the Peter and W Christianity’s ments will be heard,” said Shepherd. “The Patricia Gruber Foundation in a ceremony role in the human movement for human rights has brought Sept. 24 at Samford’s Cumberland School rights movement? out the best in all religions, and stands as of Law. Foundation president Patricia Samford a potent rejoinder to those forces which Gruber presented the awards. University invited would emphasize our differences rather Stevenson’s organization, the Equal scholars from a vari - than our common humanity. I hope that Justice Initiative [EJI], represents indigent ety of perspectives this book will contribute to these efforts.” defendants, death-row inmates, and juve - to examine this issue Essays are included by Thomas niles who have been denied fair and just at its “Christianity Bamat, Maryknoll Catholic mission treatment in the legal system. With his Dr. Frederick M. and Human Rights” movement; Patrick Byrne, Boston staff, he has been largely responsible for Shepherd Lilly Research College; Dana Dillon, Providence College; reversals or reduced sentences in more Conference in the the late Robert Drinan, Georgetown than 75 death penalty cases. fall of 2004. Now, Lexington Books has University; Jean Bethke Elhstain, The ERRC combats anti-Romani published a volume of essays, Christianity University of Chicago; Nico Horn, racism and human rights abuse of Roma and Human Rights: Christians and the University of Namibia; James Lewis, peoples in Europe. It has set in motion Struggle for Global Justice, that draws on Bethel University; Joseph Loconte, the more than 500 court cases in 15 countries that event. King’s College, New York City; Joyce J. to fight injustice against Romani indi - Edited by Dr. Frederick M. Shepherd, Michael, Charles University, Prague, viduals, securing more than two million chair of Samford’s political science Czech Republic; John Sniegocki, Xavier euros in compensation for them. department and conference codirector, University; Johannes van der Ven, “Why do I do what I do?” said the 294-page volume presents 14 essays, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Stevenson during a panel discussion at the most of which were selected from among Netherlands; James Waller, the Auschwitz awards program. “Because problems still the 50 papers presented at the conference, Institute for Peace and Reconciliation; exist.” He cited the increase in America’s plus introductory and concluding chapters Jonathan Warner, Quest University jail population as a significant reason. by Shepherd. The contributors provide Canada; and John Witte, Emory “There were 200,000 people in jail in 1972, diverse perspectives on the theology University. and now there are 2.3 million. We have behind the idea of human rights, the “It’s been a genuine pleasure to have many people who can’t get access to the debate over its meaning and the evolu - the chance to work with colleagues from legal system.” He added, “You judge a tion of the struggle for human rights. a wide variety of fields and backgrounds society by how it treats the poor.” The book is “a clarion call for the as I put the volume together,” Shepherd In a separate program, Stevenson vigorous application of faith to the pressing added. “I was honored to be part of a spoke to Samford freshmen in core cur - injustices of our times,” said reviewer project that included scholars such as the riculum classes. “It is always important to Andrew Christian van Gorder, a Baylor late Robert Drinan, John Witte, Jim have convictions,” he said. “Ideas are not University religion professor. “Readers are Waller, and many others.” enough; you must have conviction in your offered a foundational rationale as well as Shepherd has published widely on heart. You have to be willing to say things a deeply personal challenge to their own genocide, human rights and Latin when it is not convenient.” moral responsibilities.” American politics. He has been affiliated He noted that the United States was a The book presents perspectives from with the United States Holocaust wealthy nation that tolerated poverty. a variety of disciplines, including eco - Memorial Museum and the Holocaust Citing Alabama’s Black Belt region, he nomics, political science, law, history, Education Foundation. His current said, “Poverty creates despair, and you give philosophy and theology. The essays offer research interest is the human rights up quickly. If we don’t challenge poverty, a broad political spectrum, including movement and genocide in Guatemala. I we condemn a lot of people.” specific accounts from activists partici - —William Nunnelley Stevenson reminded the freshmen, pating in the human rights struggle. “You have the capacity to say something Separate chapters focus on cases from For information on the book or to order about issues that matter.” He urged them Africa, Latin America and Asia. copies, go to www.lexingtonbooks.com. to have hope that problems could be “I hope that the call for collaboration solved. “You must have hope.” I among faiths and between the growing

40 Nursing Honors Jernigan, Courage to Care Recipients E P O C S W E N

The inaugural recipients of the Courage to Care Awards presented by Samford’s Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing are, from left, Kim Hurst, Joan E. Walker, Dana Benton, Connie Hogewood, Christy A. Nation, Lindsey M. Harris, Vanessa McNeil, Gloria Deitz, Carol Donaldson, Kathy Livingston, Lorene Hansford, Dr. Carol Ratcliffe and Cecile Cherry. The late Dr. Margaret Millsap also was honored.

man who was cited as an “angel of time of his death in 2008. Lindsey M. Harris ’06, Clinical Level A mercy in the fullest sense” to The award is a replica of the Angel of II nurse and day shift charge nurse on the Samford University’s Ida V. Moffett Mercy statue that stands outside the benign gynecology/gynecology oncology School of Nursing was honored as the Dwight and Lucille Beeson Center for the unit at UAB Hospital. first recipient of the school’s Angel Award Healing Arts, which houses the nursing Connie Hogewood ’06, clinical coor - this fall. school. dinator, perinatal services, at Brookwood The late Thomas Edgar “Tom” The gala also honored alumni of Ida Medical Center. Jernigan was responsible for scholarships V. Moffett School of Nursing and its fore - Knox “Kim” M. Hurst III ’73, ’76, an that will ensure that students for genera - runner, Birmingham Baptist Hospital, anesthesia department clinical manager tions to come are able to receive the who exemplify the “courage to care” of the orthopedic and sports medicine education and training needed as nursing through their past or current nursing center at St. Vincent’s Hospital. professionals, said nursing dean Nena practice. Kathy Livingston ’74, education and Sanders. The term is associated with the bariatric coordinator at Princeton Baptist “Thomas Jernigan had the courage school’s namesake and faculty member, Medical Center. to care for others, and the world is better the late Ida V. Moffett, who noted, “It Vanessa McNeil ’82, nurse manger of for it,” said Dr. Sanders. takes courage to care, to open the heart the medical/surgical oncology unit at The Angel Award recognizes an and act with sympathy and compassion.” Trinity Medical Center. individual or organization that has made The inaugural recipients of the Christy A. Nation ’95, director of a significant contribution to the nursing Courage to Care awards were nominated Women’s Services at Brookwood Medical school. by their peers and coworkers as having Center. Jernigan’s widow, Donna Jernigan, the courage to care, said Sanders. The 14 Dr. Carol Ratcliffe ’09, vice presi - accepted the award at the nursing honorees are: dent of patient care services and chief school’s first Courage to Care Awards Dana Benton ’95, clinical coordi - nursing executive at St. Vincent’s East. Gala, held Sept. 18 in Samford’s Hanna nator, labor and delivery, at Brookwood Joan E. Walker ’66, clinical nurse Center. Her late husband, though a Medical Center. specialist in the Medical Nursing Division humble man, would have appreciated the Cecile Cherry ’01, ’03, a nurse at UAB Hospital. award, she said after the ceremony. educator in the Cardiovascular Operating The late Dr. Margaret Millsap ’45, a “He loved the nursing profession. He Room at UAB Hospital. longtime nurse and nursing educator was very giving, and nurses are very Gloria Deitz ’67, nurse manager of who served on the faculties of schools of giving people,” she said, noting that her the 6 West Surgical Unit at Princeton nursing at Birmingham-Southern husband’s appreciation for nurses inten - Baptist Medical Center. College, Samford and UAB. sified in 2003 during a serious illness that Carol Donaldson ’76, nursing infor - Samford President Andrew included two heart operations and lung mation systems coordinator at Princeton Westmoreland shared his admiration for surgery. Baptist Medical Center. nursing students and professionals whose Jernigan was president of Marathon Lorene Hansford ’67, nursing chosen career puts them “confronted Corporation, a real estate company, and a director of Surgical Services at Princeton immediately with life and death.” I noted Birmingham business leader at the Baptist Medical Center. —Mary Wimberley

41 Arts and Sciences Deans Share E

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N deans. “We have a record of which we can be proud,” said Allen, who joined the faculty as a history professor in 1961 and served the university 40 years before retiring in 2001. Davis became dean after 19 years on the English faculty at the City University of New York’s John Jay College, where he had become frustrated with ongoing hostilities between the administration and riot-prone students. During a particularly trying time at the New York school, Davis noticed an ad in the Chronicle of Higher Education for the dean’s position. “I was startled because I had never seen an ad in the Chronicle for a Samford position. I Retired arts and sciences deans, from left, Ruric Wheeler, Lee Allen and Rod Davis thought then that Samford must be join current Dean David Chapman for Samford program. making strides,” said Davis, a 1957 graduate of the school. uring the five decades since it became Bailey, who served as dean between After a series of interviews indicated Dan academic unit in 1968, Samford’s Wheeler and Allen, graduated from that he and Samford were still a good fit, Howard College of Arts and Sciences has Samford at age 20. He served 22 years as Davis joined the faculty of his alma been led by five deans. Recently, four of history professor and dean at Samford mater. One factor that appealed to him the five who have guided the largest of before joining the administration at was Samford’s interest in curriculum Samford’s eight schools shared memories Francis Marion College in South change. He had just worked on that at at a program moderated by Provost Brad Carolina. Bailey later served as president John Jay. Creed. of Valdosta State University in Georgia “I found that I loved the place more Participating were Dr. Ruric E. from 1978 until he retired in 2001. than I thought,” Davis said. Wheeler (1968–70), Dr. Lee N. Allen Allen shared bits of history about He cited receiving several grants and (1976–90), Dr. J. Roderick Davis Samford as well as Howard College of hiring new faculty members as being (1990–2001) and the current dean, Dr. Arts and Sciences. among his noteworthy accomplishments. David W. Chapman. Dr. Hugh C. Bailey, In 1965, Howard College became About a third of the faculty that currently dean during 1970–75, was unable to attend. Samford University. Allen noted that serve in arts and sciences were hired Wheeler recalled Samford’s difficult President Leslie S. Wright had a hard during his tenure. financial times of the 1950s, when the time convincing the Alabama Baptist Chapman said he had never con - school moved to Homewood from East State Convention to change the name. sidered academic administration would Lake. Competition for students with area “His argument was that it would cost be in his future. “When Dean Davis asked junior colleges and the University of no more to be a university, but that it me to be associate dean in 1996, I was Alabama at Birmingham, all of which would be more prestigious,” said Allen. surprised,” he said. offered lower tuition, provided a chal - Dr. Wright wanted the change to take Chapman joined the Samford faculty lenge, and faculty salaries were lower at affect during the school’s 125th anni - in 1990 as associate professor of English Samford. versary in 1966, but the two local news - and director of the writing across the Wheeler praised Samford’s dedicated papers began using the new name in curriculum program. Now, he heads a faculty. “Any one of them could have left print immediately after the convention college that includes 17 departments and for a state institution and higher pay, but approved it in November of 1965. “So he offers more than 30 majors. they were dedicated to Christian higher was pressed to adopt the new name,” said Glenda Martin is a common denom - education,” he said. He added that they Allen. inator for four of the five deans. She has met his challenge to create new academic Allen, who also served during been secretary for Allen, Davis and programs, which resulted in increased President Thomas Corts’ tenure, con- Chapman, and also served as Wheeler’s enrollment in the school’s various siders the faculty he employed as the best secretary when he was vice president for departments. thing he did while dean. He also noted academic affairs. I Wheeler later served as vice president the quality of arts and sciences students, —Mary Wimberley for academic affairs. who have gone on to success in

42 Global Economist Like a Good Cup of Coffee? Try Quinlan Believes

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Recession Is Over O America, South America and Indonesia, C custom roasted by O’Henry’s Coffees of S inancial and global markets expert W Joseph Quinlan believes the recession Homewood. E

F N is over. Speaking at a seminar hosted by O’Henry’s has been selling premium Samford’s Brock School of Business and coffee in the Birmingham area since Merrill Lynch Oct. 20, he offered a per - 1993. It opened a coffee shop in the spective on the U.S. economy that differs Samford Food Court in 2006. Its newest with many forecasters. offering is Samford Bulldog Blend, on Quinlan, managing director and sale in the Food Court or online at chief market strategist with Investment www.ohenryscoffees.com. Strategies Group and Bank of America, Regular or decaf beans or ground believes the U.S. economy is dynamic coffee are available. A one-pound bag and, although it has gone through a costs $11.99, and a portion of the cost rough period, is in much better shape benefits Samford. than most others around the world. Why Bulldog Blend? Quinlan believes unemployment It’s the brainchild of Stan Davis, will bottom out next spring, although he Samford’s director of gift and estate said it might reach 10 percent (it did so planning, with help from Food Court in October’s national report). On the manager David Montgomery. brighter side, he expects capital expendi - Davis loves a good cup of coffee. As tures and factory production to go up he was enjoying his favorite drink next year. Exports will continue to grow, recently, he was struck by an idea. Why and those worried about a weaker U.S. not develop a special blend of coffee dollar should not do so, because a that would carry the Samford name? weaker dollar helps that growth, he said. “Samford is a unique place, and Compared to China, he added, the U.S. what could be more appropriate than economy is not bad. developing a special blend with the The economist said he was con - Samford name?” Davis said. He talked to cerned with Congress and the $1.4 tril - Montgomery about the idea, and they lion budget deficit because of the bailout approached O’Henry’s. Thus was born of Wall Street. He believes banks were Samford Bulldog Blend. responsible for the economic crisis and The coffee is also available at Samford that the government had to bail them f you love a good cup of coffee, you athletics events and at any event at which out to avoid a repeat of the 1930’s Imight want to try the latest blend avail - the Food Court handles concessions. Depression Era, but he worries about able in the Samford Food Court or online. “We invite the Samford family, and the budget deficit, spending and the It’s called Samford Bulldog Blend. everyone else, to stop by the Food Court government becoming involved in the The new coffee is a unique blend of for a cup of Bulldog Blend,” said Davis. firing of CEOs. However, he believes three premium beans from Central “It’s good stuff.” I Federal Reserve System chairman Ben Bernanke has the right plan for econom - ic recovery. Food Court manager David Montgomery, left, and gift and estate planning director Quinlan differs with Congressional Stan Davis enjoy some Bulldog Blend coffee in Dale Washington Courtyard. representatives who favor protectionism. Exports drive the U.S. economy today, he said, and he thinks protectionism will be detrimental to economic growth. “As a nation, we should not fear economic growth in Brazil, Russia, India and China [BRIC]; we should embrace their growth and hope that they make it,” he said. Foreign investments are coming in, and that is good for the U.S. economy, he added. The South is one of the most dynamic areas of the country for foreign investments and economic growth. Quinlan said he was impressed with the diversification of the economy in the Southeast. I —Kara Kennedy 43 he Samford soccer team posted its Tbest record in school history this Samford Soccer fall. Coach Todd Yelton’s squad fin- S ished with a 12-1-5 overall record and T

R 7-1-3 Southern Conference mark, O Posts Its Best Record

P good for second place. S The Bulldogs ended the regular season with a nine-match undefeated string. In the opening round of the four-team conference tournament, they fought the College of Charleston to a monumental 0-0 tie in regulation and two overtime periods (110 min- utes), only to suffer a heartbreaking 6-5 loss on penalty kicks. The match produced Samford’s 12th shutout of the year. “I am very proud of our team this year,” Yelton said. “To lose only one game all year is amazing. I am not cer- tain people really understand what an accomplishment that is. We play in a very demanding conference and faced off against in-state rivals Auburn and Alabama. “In the end, we will be one of the last teams not to receive an at-large bid this year,” he added. “If we could have turned a few of those ties into wins, we would be making our third trip to the NCAA tour nament in the last five years. Although we graduate some great players this year, I believe the future is very bright for the Samford soccer program.” Samford’s Amber Cress, a for- ward, was named one of the SoCon’s two Co-Players of the Year with UNC–Greensboro’s Tabitha Padgett. Cress was one of four Samford players on the All-SoCon first team with mid- fielder Natalie Fleming, defender Theresa Henry and goalkeeper Alyssa Whitehead. Freshman defender Sabbath McKiernan-Allen of Samford was named to the SoCon All-Freshman Team. Samford outscored opponents, 29-6, during the season. Whitehead allowed only six goals in 174 shots by opponents, one of the top marks in the nation. Cress led the Bulldogs in scoring with 23 points on seven goals and nine assists. In its first two seasons in the SoCon, Samford posted a 15-3-7 record. I

Southern Conference Co-Player of the Year Amber Cress

44 S T R O P S

Samford runner Hillary Neal receives her All-Southern Conference cross-country award from Brandon Neff, SoCon assistant commissioner for championships. Cross-Country Women’s Team Wins First Samford SoCon Title he Samford women’s cross-country team ran away with the “It’s just really exciting,” Neal said. “We didn’t really know Tchampionship trophy at the Southern Conference Cross how we did when we finished. Then we got down to the Country Championships in Elon, N.C., Oct. 31. The perform - ceremony, and they told us we won. It’s been our goal all year.” ance won Samford its first Southern Conference championship The Samford women came in first in three of four meets in any sport. despite running in rain in three races (Memphis Twilight, Ole “I can’t really express what we are feeling right now,” said Miss Invitational and Southeast Showdown) and having another Samford Head Coach Rod Tiffin. “Our girls . . . gave everything meet canceled by rain. they had. I could not be more proud.” Ina Ables was Samford’s other All-Conference honoree. The Tiffin was named SoCon Coach of the Year. junior finished fifth in her first appearance at the Southern The women were the conference’s preseason pick to upset Conference Championships. Ables has been plagued with defending champion Chattanooga. The Bulldogs scored 74 injuries for the past four years and has finally been healthy points in the championship, edging host Elon by a scant point. enough to run this year. She finished fifth and ran the course in Appalachian State took third with 83 points, while Furman (93) 18:44.39. and Davidson (110) rounded out the top five. Chattanooga Andrea Seccafien and Jessica Van Ausdall finished 18th and (134) finished sixth. 19th, respectively, while Lauren D’Alessio just made it in the top “It is always hard to be the favorite,” Tiffin said, “especially 30 at 28th place. Cori Christensen (64th), Holly Benson (70th), when it would be the first win, but we really worked hard.” Jillian Klassen (83rd) and Alli Keithan (86th) rounded out the Samford earned the right to compete in the NCAA South field for the Samford women. Regional Championships in Tuscaloosa, Ala., Nov. 14. The Samford men finished 10th in the conference meet. Junior Hillary Neal paced the Bulldogs in the SoCon meet, Senior Patrick Ollinger led the Bulldogs, running the 8,000- taking fourth place and garnering first-team All-Conference meter race in 27:05.40 to finish 44th among the men. honors for the second year in a row. She ran the 5,000-meter Appalachian State won the men’s SoCon championship for the course in 18:32.22. second consecutive year. I

45 with appreciation

G Samford University expresses gratitude for these additional tribute gifts received Aug. 1 –Oct. 31, 2009. For further information, N

I contact the Samford University Gift Office at 205-726-2807. V I Claude P. Rosser, Jr. Moot Court Comp David Michael Coleman Spanish Study G HONORS Beeson Divinity School Scholarship Award in honor of Ms. Marcia Weber Scholarship in honor of Dr. Paul R. House Ms. Randye W. Rosser, Olivette, Mo. in memory of Mr. David Michael Coleman Wanda United Methodist Church, Neosho, Mo. Dr. Myralyn F. & Mr. Stephen C. Allgood, Samford University Auxiliary Operating Fund Birmingham Abe Berkowitz Endowed Scholarship in Law in honor of Mrs. Anne H. Hazlegrove in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Martin Thaler Mr. & Mrs. Billy T. Gamble, Birmingham Thomas E. and Marla Haas Corts Fund Mr. & Mrs. Richard E. Berkowitz, Savannah, Ga. in memory of Dr. Thomas E. Corts Samford University Auxiliary Elouise Wilkins Dr. Myralyn F. & Mr. Stephen C. Allgood, Brock School of Business Excellence Fund Williams Scholarship Fund Birmingham in honor of Dr. Dennis W. Price in honor of Mrs. Elouise W. Williams Mrs. Cathy B. Coe, Birmingham Mr. Daniel A. Bowles, Meridian, Miss. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Gamble, Urbanna, Va. Mr. Franklin R. Plummer, Concord, N.C.

Bulldog Club Baseball Fund University Ministries M. I. and Resa Culpepper CRNA Fund in honor of Mr. Robert Cowan Henderson in honor of Mallory V. & Susan L. Mayse in memory of Dr. Resa Culpepper Mr. & Mrs. Lee R. Henderson, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Jason W. Roland, Columbia, Mo. Mr. Milton I. Culpepper, Jr., Chelsea, Ala.

Cox Scholarship Fund MEMORIAL Mae Moore Flynt Classics Scholarship in honor of Ms. Martha A. Cox in memory of Mrs. Mae Flynt Mr. & Mrs. James O. Bendall, Birmingham Alumni Association Scholarship Mr. & Mrs. Mark E. Meadows, Charleston, S.C. Mr. M. P. Greene, Jr., Talladega, Ala. in memory of Mr. Wayne Crawford Cofield Mr. & Mrs. Don Powell, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Dorsey L. Shannon, Jr., Tulsa, Okla. Marie NeSmith Fowler Lectureship in memory of Mr. Howard and Mrs. Marie Fowler Joseph O. Dean, Jr. Pharmacy Scholarship Brock School of Business Endowment Fund Dr. Page Dunlap, Decatur, Ala. in honor of Dr. Joseph O. Dean, Jr. in memory of Mr. Herbert Evan Zeiger, Sr. Fenelon Club, Birmingham Dr. & Mrs. Harry B. Brock, Jr., Shoal Creek, Ala. Earl Gartman Scholarship Fund in memory of Mr. Roy James Chandler, Jr. Friends of Samford Arts Brock School of Business Excellence Fund Ms. Patricia A. Brunner, Cincinnati, Ohio in honor of Dr. Betty S. Faulk in memory of Dr. Ben F. Harrison Mr. & Mrs. Frederick J. Cox, Nicholasville, Ky. Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Greenwood, Corvallis, Ore. Dr. & Mrs. Harry B. Brock, Jr., Shoal Creek, Ala. Dr. & Mrs. J. Rudolph Davidson, Birmingham Furniture Fair, Fairfield, Ohio William R. and Fay Ireland Governor’s School Chemistry Department Scholarship Mr. & Mrs. Bruce B. Hedrick, Jr., Fairhope, Ala. Endowed Fund in memory of Dr. Thomas E. Corts Ms. Donnette H. Lurie, Birmingham in honor of Mrs. Fay B. Ireland Dr. Christina H. Duffey, Piney Creek, N.C. Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Peterson, New Dr. Carolyn G. & Mr. William H. Satterfield, Albany, Ind. Birmingham in memory of Dr. Leven S. Hazlegrove Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Reis, Cincinnati, Ohio Birmingham Baptist WMU, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. George H. Riegle, Troy, Ohio Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing Dr. Anna Bordenca, Huntsville, Ala. Southern Indiana Realtors Association, Inc., in honor of Elizabeth Cassady Gann Ms. Rosemarie A. Breitenbruck, Blair, Neb. Clarksville, Tenn. Mrs. Marjo Gann, Hoover, Ala. Mrs. Thomas E. Corts, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Stephens, Cincinnati, Ohio Mrs. A. Gerow Hodges, Birmingham Ms. Juda E. Yauger, Hamilton, Ohio Religion Department Fund Mrs. Mary H. Hudson, Birmingham in honor of Dr. Sigurd F. Bryan Ms. Ella Byrd McCain, Birmingham General Scholarship Fund Rev. & Mrs. E. Guy Anderson, Selma, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Rickie D. Moon, Huntsville, Ala. in memory of Mr. William Andrew & Mrs. Flora Mr. & Mrs. William E. Neill, Jacksonville, Fla. Marie Crowson, and U. L. & Mildred Nixon Tea Sam Roe Pharmacy Fund Mrs. Margaret C. Northrup, Birmingham Estate of Mildred C. Nixon in honor of Dr. Tea Sam Roe Mr. & Mrs. Fred M. Slaughter, Wetumpka, Ala. Miss Aiko Fukui, Japan Mr. & Mrs. George W. Stripling, Birmingham in memory of Ms. Mildred Crowson Nixon Miss Yukie Ikuma, Japan Dr. David M. Vess, Birmingham Mr. Harlan R. Butler, Gulf Breeze, Fla. Dr. Yuki Ito, Japan Volkert & Associates, Inc., Birmingham Miss Yukiko Kakumae, Japan Dr. & Mrs. Ruric E. Wheeler, Birmingham History Department Fund Meijo University, Japan Mr. Stanley N. Woodall, Birmingham in memory of Clarence O’Rear Miss Kyoko Mori, Japan Dr. David M. Vess, Birmingham Mr. Taku Morikawa, Japan Classics Fund Mr. Akitaka Murata, Japan in memory of Mary Elizabeth W. Todd William R. and Fay Ireland Governor’s School Miss Yoshiko Nagasaka, Japan Dr. & Mrs. J. Bradley Creed, Homewood Endowed Fund Dr. Mikio Nishida, Japan in memory of Mr. William R. Ireland, Sr. Miss Miho Seko, Japan Robyn Bari Cohen Children’s Book Fund Regions Bank, Birmingham Mr. Takehisa Uchiyama, Japan in memory of Margie Parris Hon. J. Scott & Dr. Cameron M. Vowell, Mr. Yoshihiro Uekuzu, Japan Mr. and Mrs. James Bice, Talladega, Ala. Birmingham Mr. & Miss Yasuhiro & Fumi Yamada, Japan

46 D. Jerome King Scholarship Samford Undergraduate Research Program Demopolis, Ala. in memory of Dr. Jerome King in memory of Dr. Harold E. Wilcox Mr. George D. Evans, Birmingham Dr. & Mrs. Christopher A. King, Richmond, Va. Rete Mirabile Fund of Triangle Community Mr. James A. Holliman, Pelham, Ala. Foundation, Durham, N.C. Mr. & Mrs. Hewlett C. Isom, Jr., Birmingham Joe W. McDade Endowed Scholarship Mr. & Mrs. William C. Roedder, Jr., Mobile, Ala. in memory of Ms. Martha C. McDade Samford University Auxiliary Big Oak Ranch Hon. Steven W. Teate, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Joe W. McDade, Montgomery, Ala. Scholarship Mr. & Mrs. D. DeLeal Wininger Jr, Birmingham

in memory of Mr. William L. Pittman G

McWhorter School of Pharmacy Dean & Mrs. Paul G. Aucoin, Birmingham Whatley Memorial Scholarship N I V

in memory of Mr. John Phillips Jackson Mr. & Mrs. Philip Poole, Hoover, Ala. in memory of Mr. Charles V. Lee, Jr. and Mrs. I

Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Dixon, Jr., Birmingham Shirley M. Busbee G Rev. Sarah J. & Mr. Lloyd C. Shelton, Samford University Auxiliary Scholarship Dr. Myralyn F. & Mr. Stephen C. Allgood, Birmingham Endowment Birmingham in memory of Mrs. Janet D. Bolla Lizette Van Gelder Mitchell Scholarship Dr. Rosemary M. Fisk, Birmingham Harold E.Wilcox Endowed Scholarship Fund in memory of Mrs. Lizette Van Gelder Mitchell Mr. Howard P. Walthall, Birmingham in memory of Dr. Harold E. Wilcox Mr. James L. Holland, Jr., Birmingham Rete Mirabile Fund of Triangle Community Shepherd Legacy Piano Fund Foundation, Durham, N.C. The Mothers’ Fund Scholarship in memory of Dr. Betty Sue G. Shepherd in memory of Belva Dozier Owen Dr. & Mrs. James R. Wilson, Alpharetta, Ga. Philip & Cynthia Wise Scholarship Fund Hon. Karon O. Bowdre, Birmingham in memory of Dr. Philip D. Wise University Libraries Mrs. Clara J. McInish, Dothan, Ala. Samford Fund in memory of Mr. Thomas E. Skinner Mr. Philip Douglas Wise, Jr., Marietta, Ga. I in memory of Mr. Benjamin F. Harrison, Jr. Ms. Catherine Evans, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Gerald A. Macon, Lake View, Ala. Dr. John C. Pittman, Birmingham Arthur A. Weeks Endowed Scholarship Mr. & Mrs. William G. Thompson, in memory of Dean Arthur A. Weeks Birmingham Mr. William J. Baxley, Birmingham Mr. Nicholas J. Cervera, Troy, Ala. in memory of Mr. William L. Pittman Mrs. Sara D. Clark, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Fuqua, Huntsville, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. William T. Coplin, Jr.,

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Concert, 7:30 p.m., Brock www.thunderstruckdance. A

Feb. 26–28 Alabama Ballet presents Recital Hall, com D N

Don Quixote, Wright www.samford.edu/arts E Center Concert Hall, March 30 University Chorale L A

www.alabamaballet.org March 13–14 BravO! National Dance Vespers Service, 7:30 p.m., C and Talent Competition, 8 Hodges Chapel, Model United Nations a.m.–9 p.m., Wright www.samford.edu/arts High School Conference, Center Concert Hall, 205-726-2630 1-877-272-8641, www.bravocompetition.com March 1–12 Visual Arts Achievement Information was compiled from the uni - Program, 9 a.m.–4 p.m., March 15–19 Spring break, no classes, versity calendar as of Nov. 5, 2009. Dates, Monday–Friday, Samford university offices open times and details are subject to change. Art Gallery, Swearingen Hall, 205-726-2840 March 19, 21 Opera Birmingham Please go to www.samford.edu for a present Mozart’s The complete university calendar and for March 2 Alabama Symphony Marriage of Figaro, updated information. Orchestra Concertmaster Wright Center Concert and Friends, 7:30 p.m., Hal, 205-322-6737, For schedules and information on Brock Recital Hall, www.operabirmingham.org Samford athletics, go to www.alabamasymphony.org www.samfordsports.com . March 23 Faculty recital: An March 6 Crimson Classic Evening of Opera Arias, For a list of Samford After Sundown cheerleading competition, 7:30 p.m., Brock Recital classes, go to www.samford.edu/sundown . 8 a.m.–9 p.m., Hanna Hall, 205-726-2505 Center, www.acdaspirit. For a list of Lay Academy of Theology com/crimsonclassic/home March 25–28 Samford Theatre Dance courses, go to www.beesondivinity.com. presents “Impulse: A For a complete academic calendar, go to Alabama Day of Dance Concert,” Harrison www.samford.edu/calendars.html . I Percussion, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Theatre, www.samford. Brock Hall, 205-726-2488 edu/arts/tickets

March 9 Concerto-Aria concert, March 26 A Cappella Choir 7:30 p.m., Wright Center Concert, 7:30 p.m., Concert Hall, Hodges Chapel, www.samford.edu/arts www.samford.edu/arts

Model U.N. Students Headed to Belgrade

amford’s Model United Nations [MUN] team will travel to participants, and a home-stay program allowing students to SBelgrade, Serbia, in March 2010 to participate in the week - spend time with English-speaking Serbian families.” long Belgrade International Model United Nations [BiMUN] In addition to the BiMUN program, the U.S. Embassy has conference and a foreign-service educational program sponsored agreed to host a series of meetings, roundtables and other in part by the U.S. Embassy in Belgrade. As in other MUN con - activities for Samford students, Dr. Konitzer noted. These ferences, the 12 team members will participate in a simulation include discussions with the U.S. ambassador and various where they represent specific countries in discussions of various foreign-service officers where students will have the opportunity key international topics. to learn about life in foreign service. “BiMUN participants hail from locales that would rarely be Embassy officials also will arrange meetings with local represented on the U.S. MUN circuit, thus providing Samford’s politicians, nongovernmental organization leaders, journalists students an opportunity to interact with individuals from a and representatives from other international organizations broader range of cultural backgrounds,” said political science working in the region. professor Andrew Konitzer, team sponsor. Finally, Samford students will participate in a roundtable “The BiMUN staff supplements the conference with a very discussion with students from the University of Belgrade on intensive program of historical-cultural tours, a National Night various key topics related to American politics, culture and at which students share aspects of their culture with other society. I

49 Samford running back Chris Evans (24) gained a career-high 257 yards in the Bulldogs’ 27-24 win at Wofford Nov. 14, establishing a new school career rushing record (3,379 yards). Here, Evans eludes tacklers in Samford’s 31-10 homecoming win over Georgia Southern.