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Produced by Samford Office of Communication FROMTHEPRESIDENT 2 President Andrew Westmoreland prayers. As always, pleasekeep Samford inyour the institution. thelifeof elementof most important to jointheminthe opportunity members, the butIcherish faculty ourgifted so many of possessedby mastery level of complexingly society. government inanincreas- aboutthe roleed theories of reversed, especially aswe trad- which Ifeltthattheroles were ed. In fact, there were momentsinthecourse in be ready forrobust dialogue. Iwasn’t disappoint- leans toward discussion, soIexpect the students to by themintheclassroom thisfall. My teaching style py. dents. Yes, thera- I’llacknowledge of thatitisaform stu- bright ininteraction with tion andlosemyself those hours, administra- Icanescapetheproblems of andIcan’tprise, theclassroom. resist thepullof During the finishingtouches onmy Samford migration. thathelpedput purpose) (andareaffirmation of equilibrium of element.important My return to theclassroom gave measense in thispresidency, my lifewasmissingan of sotherhythm new state, itwasimpossibleformeto teach my during firstyear toWith anewinstitutionand thetransition thechallenges of my schedule sothatIcould teach onecourse each semester. F Matter: Teaching the At theHeart of I’ll never to rise the students, bright Iwassurrounded Speaking of ourenter- The teaching-learning process of istheheart Before coming to Samford lastyear, Iwasableto arrange confess theexperience. thatIenjoyed minute of every asmy serve card, report thestudentswill course I of evaluations studentsforacourse in American politics. While the graduate - under theSamford presidencyroutine 19 by of meetingwith hourseach week thissemester,or aboutthree andone-half Iescapedthe ‘Her Samford

Roots Run Deep’ REPORT

SAMFORD amuel Chambliss of Atlanta, Ga., Sdidn’t know much about Samford report University when his daughter, Carter, decided to attend the school. He and SAMFORD his wife went to college elsewhere and had no particular tie to Samford. All First SMG Production they knew was that the school had a Christian commitment, and that made Charles Wesley Documentary Premieres them happy with their daughter’s on 300th Anniversary of His Birth decision. As it turned out, the Chamblisses harles Wesley was one of history’s had more of a tie to Samford than most prolific hymn writers, they realized. Ccomposing more than 5,000 hymns Carter enrolled at Samford in over a 50-year period in the 18th century. 2006. About halfway through her Among the best known are “Christ the Lord freshman year, her father learned that Is Risen Today” and “Hark! The Herald Samford originally was Howard Angels Sing.” College. The discovery was like a beam Wesley and his older brother, John, of light in a dark room. It was a were cofounders of the Methodist “remarkable” discovery, Chambliss movement in England. The sons of an said. Anglican minister, both studied at Christ Chambliss knew Howard as the Church, Oxford, and were ordained as alma mater of his great-great- Anglican clergy. But Charles is chiefly grandfather, John Alexander remembered for his many hymns. The Chambliss, who graduated first in his Methodist hymnbook of today, Hymns Class in 1859 and became a well- and Psalms, contains more than 150 known preacher in South Carolina Wesley compositions. after the Civil War. December 18 is the 300th anni- That meant that Carter, without versary of Charles Wesley’s birth in 1707. Charles Wesley any prior knowledge, had chosen the Coinciding with the anniversary is the same Christian school that attracted release of a new documentary film, A acclaimed features on Dietrich her great-great-great-grandfather Heart Set Free, about Wesley’s life. It is Bonhoeffer, a German pastor who more than 150 years ago. “That is the first production completed by opposed and was martyred by the Nazi divinely inspired, to me at least,” said Samford Media Group, which is regime during World War II, and Chambliss. affiliated with and has offices at Samford Samford graduate Gerow Hodges, an He shared the story in a note to University. American Red Cross official responsible Samford President Andrew Produced and directed by veteran for the release of 149 Allied prisoners Westmoreland. At that point, the story filmmaker T. N. Mohan, the 90-minute from German prison camps during became a bit more remarkable. feature written by Angela Burchett was World War II. In a Samford history, Dr. scheduled to air globally on at least five “Wesley was the same kind of Westmoreland found that one A. W. cable and satellite television networks. strong, dedicated figure as some earlier Chambliss of Marion, Ala., made the Faith TV plans to carry the documentary subjects of my documentaries,” said motion at the November 1841 during the Lent season of 2008. Mohan. “He made a great journey in his meeting of the Alabama Baptist State Mohan invested hundreds of hours religion. His first hymn spoke of his Convention to establish the “theo- filming the documentary in Great conversion in 1738, and he continued to logical institution” that became Britain and the United States, traveling write hymns based on his life experi- Howard College. A. W. Chambliss was to Wesley’s birthplace of Epworth, to ences for another 50 years. John Alexander Chambliss’ father. Oxford and London to interview Wesley “His was a fascinating story of “The bottom line, of course, is experts and film sites. He also filmed dedication to his beliefs in the face of that Carter’s great-great-great-great- sites in Savannah, Ga., where Wesley violence against him and his brother grandfather was present for the first visited for several months in 1735 as during the early years of Methodism.” breath of Samford’s existence,” secretary to James Oglethorpe, founder Wesley died at the age of 80 in 1788. Westmoreland wrote to Samuel of the colony of Georgia. The Wesley documentary was Chambliss. Mohan heads the Digital Video coproduced by Christian History “I’d say that her Samford roots Center and teaches filmmaking at Institute of Worcester, Pa., Christian run deep.” ■ Samford. He has produced more than 20 Television Association of Bristol, multiple award-winning fiction and England, and Leader Cinematographica documentary films, including critically in Italy. ■

3 NEWS Trustee Commits to Seeing $100 Million

BUSINESS Endowment for Business School

amford University’s business school is being named for longtime Samford trustee and Alabama banking legend Harry B. Brock, Jr. The Brock School of Business name is effective immediately. SThe announcement was made Dec. 4 by the university’s board of trustees. Board chair William J. Stevens of Birmingham said the trustees voted to honor Brock’s more than 45 years of trustee service to Samford, his longtime generosity to Samford and the community, and his professional achievements. Brock is considered a banking pioneer in Alabama, Stevens noted. Brock triggered a chain of events in the 1960s and ’70s that resulted in Birmingham becoming a nationally recognized banking center. Joining Stevens and Brock in making the announcement were Samford President Andrew Westmoreland, business school dean Beck A. Taylor and Brock’s wife, Jane. “Samford has always been an inspirational part of my life, and this is my opportunity to give Harry B. Brock, Jr. back to the school and help influence the lives of young people,” said Harry Brock. “My desire and vision for the school of business is to be a little different and to find a niche that will help these young people fulfill their dreams.” Brock announced his personal commitment to help the Brock School of Business build an endowment that will reach at least $100 million. “All aspects of business education will be signifi- cantly impacted,” said Brock. Included will be an initiative to establish a world-class program in entrepreneurship. One of the immediate goals will be to add three full-time faculty positions to support the entrepreneurship Brock program. The business school currently has 23 full-time faculty members. “The trustees and Mr. Brock have identified an enhanced entrepreneurship emphasis as a key focus for the school of business, and we plan to work on this immediately,” Stevens said. “What Harry Brock did for banking, he is about to do School of for business education in Alabama and across the nation.” The endowment also will provide for expanded research and scholarship opportunities for business school faculty and students, and greatly enhance the school’s service to the community through opportunities such as Business by Philip Poole partnerships and internships, Westmoreland said.

4 Once reached, the $100 million endowment would place Samford’s Brock School of Business NEWS among the top 25 accredited business schools in the United States in terms of total market value of endowment, according to Taylor. Samford would be in the top five among faith-based universities with endowed business schools, he added, based BUSINESS on current information from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business [AACSB]. “We are honored and humbled to carry the Brock name and legacy,” Taylor said. “Our partnership with Mr. Brock will enable Samford’s school of business to move to national promi- nence in business higher education. Furthermore, Jane Brock, center, chats with well-wishers following the Brock School of the Brock School of Business will immediately Business announcement in Jane Hollock Brock Recital Hall. become a recognized leader among business schools with an explicitly Christian mission.” Brock was instrumental in the passage of the Westmoreland also noted the importance of Statewide Bank Merger bill of 1980, allowing having the Brock name associated with Samford’s bank branching across county lines. This made it business school. possible for Brock to merge his banks into one “Harry Brock is synonymous with Alabama bank with branches throughout the state. business and banking, and fortunately for us, with In 1987, Central Bancshares purchased a Samford University for more than 50 years,” said bank in Texas, thus becoming the first bank in Westmoreland. “He is the consummate example Alabama to own a bank in another state and the of the entrepreneurial spirit and ethical business first out-of-state bank to own a bank in Texas. He practice, and it is fitting that his name will be named the Texas operation Compass Bancshares affiliated with Samford’s Christian mission.” of Texas and later changed the name of the parent Brock first became associated with Samford organization to Compass Bancshares. Brock when he moved to Birmingham in the mid- served as chairman and CEO of Compass 1950s. He served on the committee that raised Bancshares and Compass Bank of the South until funds for the university’s current campus in his retirement in March 1991. suburban Homewood. Through the years, the Brock, an innovative leader in the banking Brocks and their family foundation have sup- industry, has given his time, expertise and financial ported several endowed scholarships, renovation resources to help make Birmingham, Jefferson of what is now Brock Forum in Dwight Beeson County and the State of Alabama a better place in Hall, gardens along Centennial Walk honoring which to live and work, Westmoreland noted. He Brock’s parents, Samford athletics, capital has been an active board member of numerous projects, the Samford University Auxiliary and a charitable and civic organizations in Alabama. In long list of other projects. The Brocks provided 1962, Brock became a member of the Samford the lead gift in 2006 for Jane Hollock Brock Hall, University board of trustees and was named a the location of the Dec. 4 announcement about member of the Executive Committee in 1963. He the newly named Brock School of Business. served as board chairman from 1985 until 1989. Brock and Westmoreland both committed to He received an honorary doctorate from Samford plans to pursue the endowment funding. in 1994. “We will work together to bring the vision Taylor noted that the Brock announcement is for the school of business to reality,” said Brock. “I the latest in a long history of achievements for am honored to have my name attached to the business education at Samford, which has offered Samford school of business.” degrees in business and commerce since 1922. In “The Brock name is legendary and com- 1965, the school of business was established to municates innovation and greatness among those offer both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in busi- in the business world,” said Taylor. “Our faculty, ness. Alabama’s first part-time master of business staff and students have a new vision for the administration degree program was established at future, and it begins today as the Brock School of Samford, and the first M.B.A. degrees were Business.” awarded in 1967. The master of accountancy Spearheading the multibank holding com - degree was approved in 1995. The business school pany concept in Alabama, in 1971, Brock brought was fully accredited by AACSB International in Central Bank and State National Bank of 1999, a recognition earned by less than 10 percent Alabama together to form a registered bank of business schools worldwide. ■ holding company, Central and State National Corporation of Alabama. As more banks joined Additional reporting was provided by Kara Kennedy, the Central family, the name changed to Central director of external affairs, Brock School of Business. Bancshares of the South, Inc. To view more photos, go to www.samford.edu/business. 5 HOMECOMING

6 F hot-air balloon rides, footballand 2007 attended. from theearly 1940stoclasses ranging for thefestive occasion. Alumni of nations aswell as present-day students Columbia and several foreign of District Samford alumnifrom ninestates, the asmile. Gelaina saidwith someday bealumnithemselves. Samford might inthehopesthey andintroducefriends theirchildren to anniversary,10-year graduation old visit Brandon, Miss., to Gelaina’s observe members, camefrom theirhomein ’97 Allen Davis and parents her brother, Myers, 7, baby sister, Chloe, Lake. wasenjoyingAnsley theday with Samford’s of celebration move from East October. perfect, blue-skyhomecoming day in A Perfect Day The schedule of reunions,The schedule of parade, The Allens joinedthousandsof “We’ve gotto planttheseedearly,” The couple, BSUChoir former It was, after all, the50thanniversary and-blue balloonsgalore ona Samford!” asshetook inred- “It’s for celebration abirthday hardly befaulted forherquip, ive-year-oldcould Allen Ansley Robert ’98andGelaina . for Storytelling ’89 president for catching upandreminiscing. ball stadiumasalumnifound each other quadrangle, inthedininghallandfoot- outthroughout thedayborn onthe that “Everybody here isastoryteller,” was Her upbringing. her Southern promise Windham andauthor storyteller chuckled program as Live attheLibrary on theEastLake campus. recall theirgoodtimesinInflation Hall ’47 Stewart roommate former with intorolled areunion hercampusvisit Tenn., wasthefemalerecipient. Thomas Wade Thomas’45 earliest classatthebrunch. Lockmiller Award asthemalefrom the retired educator took homethe football guard, studentsenator and Vestavia Hills, Ala. Bulldog Theformer ’43 Cooper 1957 andearlierincluded everyone. by LittleBig Town offered somethingfor Grammy Award–caliberentertainment , now inJacksonville, an attorney Fla., Former studentgovernment Alumni andstudentsatthepopular Graduates for classesof atabrunch Joey Vaughn ’86, M.B.A./J.D. regaled them with stories of stories regaled themwith , U.S. Marine Corps, ret., of of Birmingham, whohelped of of Hendersonville, of Kathryn TuckerKathryn Inez Whitt Col. Carl Magdalene by MaryWimberley dropped by on herway to asound check alumna when visitor groups. decade andaffinity seeking othersfrom their graduation spotforalumni agathering formed the parade. State University, in wasjudgedbestentry homecoming gamerival Austin Peay the Governors” over float, victory urging Jr. ’52 D.C., and cardiologist aide professor ’56 Barnes insurance executiveBirmingham convertibles theyear: includedalumniof Birmingham. of Samford’s move from theEastLake area the50-yearsymbolized anniversary of The Homewood mayor’s leadrole floats andtheSamford Marching Band. 28units,a procession includingnine of thehomecomingview parade. Jonathan, 10, andnephewPayne Frost to Walk forhischildren, Jordan, 13, and staked outagoodspotonCentennial The ADPi tent hada celebrity The lunchtime festival onthequad Alpha DeltaPisorority’s “Impeach tossing candy fromDignitaries their marshal Grand Carol Guthrie ’93 of Charlotte,of N.C. Sigurd Bryan ’46 Sigurd Bryan , retired Samford religion Samford , retired performs. Samford GospelChoir parade. Top The left: enjoy thehomecoming right: Samford people Opposite page andtop Barry McCulley Barry Karen Fairchild ’90 George V.George Irons, of Washington,of , U.S. Senate , U.S. Walter led 7 HOMECOMING HOMECOMING

with her Little Big Town band, which At Seibert Stadium, pregame cere- would perform that evening. monies included a flyby by the U.S. Air The Sigma Chi tent was a hit with Force 23rd training squadron from Fort its flat-screen television, which allowed Rucker, Ala. Helicopter pilots included sports fans to follow the progress of Daniel Denney ’05, who was commis- midday football action. sioned an officer through Samford’s Air Paralegal graduate Bonnie Casey Force ROTC Detachment 012. Turner ’91 of Chatom, Ala., found the Halftime activity included the lunch tent a convenient food stop with introduction of former queens Jean her husband, Tracy, and their family. Wallace Bush ’57, Angie Wooten Smith Art alumni honored longtime ’82 and Christina Knox ’06, all of professor Lowell Vann ’57, who has Birmingham, and Amy Chandler served more than 37 years on the Simpson ’07 of Niceville, Fla., and the faculty, 35 of them as department chair. 2007 Homecoming Court. Senior religion A ceremony included the reading of a major Ellen Donze of Birmingham was proclamation from Alabama Governor crowned homecoming queen, and Bob Riley, and the announcement of senior journalism/mass communication the Lowell Vann Endowed Art major Jason Morales of Daytona Scholarship honoring his long tenure Beach, Fla., was named honor escort. and status as a true “Samford icon.” The honorees were elected by vote of Graphic design major Randy Sims the student body. ’87, M.T.S. ’97, of Birmingham recalled Unfortunately, the Bulldogs lost to his former professor fondly. “Dr. Vann Austin Peay, 28-25. Homecoming queen always had a story to tell, and if you Kathy Wallace Echeverri ’90 of Ellen Donze and honor told a story, he could always one-up Gadsden, Ala., enjoyed the game with escort Jason Morales. you with a better one.” More seriously, her husband, Alberto, and daughters he noted, “He was always an inspiration Natalie and Lilly. “The kids got to slide and an encouragement.” down the hill,” she said, referring to the Storytelling abounded in the caf, second favorite activity in Seibert where alumni lingered for hours to Stadium on a football Saturday. They mingle and chat. had earlier met friends for their own Joe McDade ’61 of Montgomery, picnic on the grassy quad. Ala., who was a freshman during the Little Big Town country music school’s final year in East Lake, recalled band christened the newly dedicated water fights and other mischief that Pete Hanna Center as a music venue Little Big Town performs in ensued during his last night in the with its performance to about 1,700 Pete Hanna Center. soon-to-be-demolished men’s barracks alumni, students and others. The band on the old campus. includes former Samford students Classmates later regained decorum Fairchild and Kimberly Roads, who first when, in a nod to continuity of campus sang together as members of the A spirit, they walked a mysterious box across Cappella Choir and Samford Singers in town from East Lake to Homewood. the late 1980s. They ceremoniously presented the The audience included Roads’ contents, a stuffed bulldog that now former Vail Hall roommate, Susan resides in the library’s Special Collection McGaha Wideman ’90. Longtime psy- department, to the student body as a chology professor Charlotte Freeman, gift from the Sophomore Class. who taught both Fairchild and Roads in

8 Last East Lake Class Enjoys 50th Reunion

here was no shortage of conversation at the Golden Reunion homecoming Tdinner for members of the Class of HOMECOMING 1957, who will forever carry the banner as the last class to graduate from the East Lake campus. Class president Fred Slaughter presided as he did five decades ago. Other class members helping with the program were 1956–57 student body president Bill Baggett, Baptist Student Homecoming scenes, top, Union president Jim Auchmuty, Alumni from left: Riding student- Council class agent Mel Deason and center bull, gaining ground Chriss Doss, who emceed the against Austin Peay, reminiscences. meeting Spike, ADPi Doss recalled how his work as a welcoming Little Big Town’s student chauffeur for the president, Karen Fairchild, float Major Harwell G. Davis, made him competition. privy to the Major’s low-key arrangements to acquire the Homewood property that would be the site of the education courses, beamed with pride at their Canadian home to attend college new campus. a preconcert meet-and-greet with the band. in North Carolina. “He gave me a legacy He also relived an incident during The Sunday service in A. Gerow that day,” she said. their final semester on the East Lake Hodges Chapel drew a large crowd for Beth Crowe Webster ’75 of campus, on Valentine’s Day 1957, when worship led by Esther and Bob Gadsden, Ala., was among the singers in two students were hurt in a “row” over a Burroughs, former campus minister the BSU Reunion Choir that presented basketball game with rival Birmingham- and music faculty member, who now special music. Southern College. “It was one of the few live in Greer, S.C. “Being able to see Esther and Bob times I ever saw the Major befuddled,” Esther advised worshippers to leave was the drawing card,” the former BSU remembered Doss. legacies of a love for God’s word, faith- choir and campus ministries member Betty Harris Gross, who graduated fulness, prayer, service and grace. She said of her early morning drive to from the Birmingham Baptist Hospital noted that her father advised campus. “That, and being able to sing in School of Nursing, which later became her to lean on her heavenly this lovely chapel.” Samford’s Ida V. Moffett School of father rather than on She was accompanied by others Nursing, came from Oklahoma for her herself when she left who share her Samford family legacy: first visit to the Homewood campus. her husband, David Webster J.D. ’74, Mary Ann Granger Weston reported and father, 89-year-old Richard G. that she has a healthy young Sherman Crowe ’41. ■ Oak growing on family property in Coosa County. The seedling was grown from acorns that Samford botanists col- lected before the East Lake campus landmark was felled in the late 1990s. “Sherman Oak was very special, the gathering place, the hub,” said Weston. “The campus was small then, and we knew most everybody.” Her son, David Weston, Jr., ’88, J.D. ’92, and his wife, Deena Haynes Weston ’91, had given the seedling to her after several hundred were distributed at his 10-year homecoming in 1998. “It is growing nicely in the middle of a deer field,” said Weston, who lives in Montgomery, Ala. ■

9 10 HOMECOMING 5,000-seat arena. features agrand foyer, Pete HannaCenter entrance. room, court-level classroom/meeting ness/wellness center, ticket fit- office, from spacious left, Facilities include, Center entrance, fitnessequipment. Pete andBarbara Hanna.Oppositepage: Pete Hanna Multipurpose Facility Called aDream amford inaugurated its grand new “We come to give thanks to Pete Pete Hanna Center with a series of and Barbara Hanna, and to many men events during homecoming weekend and women who have turned a vision Oct. 18–20. More than 3,000 people into something greater than our attended a lecture, a dinner and a dreams,” said Samford President Andrew S concert on successive nights, under scoring the Westmoreland during dedication cere- multipurpose nature of the new facility. monies preceding the dinner. Alumni, students, faculty and Hanna is a Samford alumnus and friends seemed duly impressed with the former Bulldog football player. He is HOMECOMING spacious structure and its 5,000-seat chairman and chief executive officer of centerpiece, an arena for basketball, Hanna Steel Corporation and a member volleyball and other events. The first of the Samford board of trustees. games were played in the $32-million “Twenty-five words provide the structure in mid-November. rationale for hundreds of people to About 1,000 people showed up for gather tonight to celebrate the opening the first event in the new building, an of a magnificent facility on our campus,” Oct. 18 lecture by Einstein biographer Dr. Westmoreland continued. “Twenty- Walter Isaacson. Another 500 attended five words that changed Pete Hanna’s life the Oct. 19 dinner, and about 1,700 and gave him reason for hope. Twenty- enjoyed the Oct. 20 concert by the five words that bring humility and today.” Grammy-nominated country music inspiration . . . .” The 132,000-square-foot facility is group, Little Big Town. Westmoreland referred to Hanna’s the largest single construction project in favorite Bible verse, John Samford history. Its capacity can be 3:16: “For God so loved the enlarged to 6,000 for concerts, world, that he gave his only graduation ceremonies and other pro- begotten Son, that whosoev- grams with the addition of 1,000 seats er believeth in him should on the arena floor. At Hanna’s request, not perish, but have the arena within the center is named for everlasting life.” Samford President Emeritus Thomas E. A bronze plaque Corts and his wife, Marla Haas Corts. emblazoned with these The center houses athletics facilities words hangs in the con- with fitness and weight rooms, sports course level of the center. medicine and training areas, locker Hanna said the com- rooms and meeting rooms for teams, a pletion of the structure was student-athlete academic center, offices proof that dreams come true. for coaches and administrators, a chapel “I have three best days and other athletics facilities. in my life,” he said, “the day I In addition, the structure has a gave my life to Christ, the 12,000-square foot fitness/wellness day I married Barbara and center for all Samford students with the latest fitness training equipment, rooms for aerobics and other activities. Hospitality areas in the new center are available for special events. Hanna’s father started the steel company that bears their name. Pete Hanna borrowed $80,000 from a Birmingham bank to buy his first batch of stock in the business in 1962. He went Center to work for the company after college and gradually took on responsibilities Come True for its operational and personnel matters. After buying the business in 1984, he led it to unprecedented growth. Hanna Steel Corporation, with headquarters in Birmingham suburb Fairfield, is a privately held company that operates coil-coating facilities in Fairfield and Pekin, Ill., and steel tubing operations in Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Pekin. It also owns Hanna Truck Line, which delivers its products. ■

11 12 HOMECOMING the Galadinner inPete HannaCenter. welcomes Samford alumni andfriendsto President Andrew Westmoreland, top, to Longtime Supporters to Longtime Samford Says Thanks Homecoming Gala Walter Barnes. Samford Alumni oftheYear, from George left, Irons, Jr.,Carol Guthrie,Sigurd Bryan, friends andfamilymembers.friends (See Guthrie andGeorgeIrons, Jr., with Walter Barnes, Sigurd Bryan, Carol I named foralumnus Pete Hanna. centerimposing newmultipurpose fall colors—also introduced the of tables elegantlydecorated inavariety Philanthropy Dinner. Theevent—with Dinnerand the annual Candlelight affair, which combined of thetraditions attendedother Samford the friends things.” to helpSamford achieve somany good others whoprovided financialsupport you andthethousandsof for each of chair Bill Stevens, “and we are grateful year forSamford,” trustees saidboard of ■ Among thehonorees were: More than500donors, alumni and hasbeenanextraordinary “This university. emerge asanationallyrecognized Oct. 19to thosewhohelpedtheschool Pete Hanna Center, Samford paidtribute n agalahomecoming dinneratthenew Samford the Alumni of Year earnings. that At of theheart andendowment financial support Samford’s befundedby will operations Morgan. year,“This almost30percent of for University Relations Michael Samford University,” said Vice President Samford. of milestones intheirlifetimesupport who thisyear achieved significant Seasons alumnus. inFall 2007 (Seestory next day, alsowasmadeanhonorary who celebrated his103rd birthday the building, Samford Hall, in1955. Head, the cornerstone forthefirstcampus campus more than50years agoandlaid funds to buildtheLakeshore Drive alumni. honorary Samfordas AlumniAssociation Haas Corts, whowere inducted into the Thomas E. andhiswife, Corts Marla profiles inFall 2007 “Philanthropy isthecornerstone of donors spotlighted The program ■ ■ James A. Head, whohelpedraise Samford President Emeritus .) Seasons. ) 13 HOMECOMING philanthropy are those who give regularly . . . those whose support is annual.” Morgan recognized the following donors who this year reached significant new levels of giving. Samuel Sterling Sherman Society—Joe and Dena Malugen, HOMECOMING Dothan, Ala., and Marathon Corporation. J. B. Lovelace and W. W. Wilkerson Society—Alabama Power Foundation and Pat Courington, Albertville, Ala. A. P. Montague Society—Russell and Hazel Boren, Pinson, Ala.; Howard and Julia Clark, Durham, N.C.; Henry and Pat Coshatt, Birmingham; James and Nancy Davis, Birmingham; Richard and Elaine Horsley, Birmingham; Marvin Mann, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.; Master Boat Builders and owner Michael Rice, Bayou La Batre, Ala.; and Stancil and Joan Starnes, Birmingham. A portrait of President Emeritus Thomas E. Corts and his wife, Marla, hangs in Pete Harwell G. Davis Society—Buck Hanna Center, where the arena bears their name. Here, the Cortses look over the and Nancy Brock, Birmingham; Lynn portrait with their grandchildren. and Terry Easterling, Birmingham; Jackson, Fikes, Hood and Brakefield law stand. He recognized representatives of President Andrew Westmoreland added firm, Jasper, Ala.; John and Mary Mims, the Alabama Baptist State Convention his thanks, and the program closed with Tuscumbia, Ala.; Victor and Janis and Alabama Baptist Foundation, and the singing of the Alma Mater, played Nichols, Birmingham; Herbert Sawyer, the Harry and Jane Brock Foundation, as and led by the Samford Marching Band. ■ Gainesville, Fla.; Steve and Marlene well as Jenna and Joe Cassesse, Seibert, Daytona Beach, Fla.; the Birmingham; Sara and Boyd Walgreen Company; and Harold and Christenberry, Montgomery, Ala.; Elouise Williams, Birmingham. Barbara and Pete Hanna, Birmingham; “Many here tonight have been John Pittman, Birmingham; Bonnie inducted into the Sherman Society Swearingen, Chicago, Ill.; and Hall and (highest level of giving) in previous Lucy Thompson, Shoal Creek, Ala. years,” Morgan noted, asking them to After the recognitions, Samford

Barbara and Pete Hanna unveil Hanna’s portrait in the lobby of Pete Hanna Center.

14 You’re invited to join THE CIRCLE OF CHAMPIONS

Help complete funding for Samford University’s new Pete Hanna Center by becoming part of the Circle of Champions

dedicated to those who invest in the physical, intellectual and spiritual experiences of the students who are educated at Samford University.

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or go to www.samford.edu/giving/champions.html for more information Isaacson Reveals Rebellious, Creative Einstein by Sean Flynt amford’s 2007 Davis Lecture Oct. 18 interacted with humans or could sus- featured biographer Walter Isaacson, pend natural law. Einstein found his god author of the acclaimed 2007 book, in the astonishing complexity of the

PEOPLE S Einstein: His Life and Universe. Isaacson, universe, and although his views were who also serves as president and CEO of literally unorthodox, he was highly the Aspen Institute, spoke only briefly respected among Jews. Though ever about Einstein’s theories, focusing suspicious of nationalism, Einstein sup- instead on the physicist’s “rebelliousness, ported the Zionist cause and was later his imagination and his creativity.” invited to serve as Israel’s second presi- In his lecture, the inaugural event of dent. As a refugee from an increasingly Samford’s new Pete Hanna Center, anti-Semitic Germany in the 1930s, he Isaacson also described multiple ironies understood the danger the world faced if scaled to the physicist’s influence. his erstwhile colleagues managed to har- Einstein was a genius but struggled to ness atomic energy for the Nazi military. find a job in his field even as he radically Einstein collaborated with other reshaped science. He was a pacifist who physicists on a letter to Franklin inadvertently helped set off an inter - Roosevelt warning about the kind of national nuclear arms race. He made powerful weapon advanced physics great strides in explaining the order of might create. The U.S. government the universe but lived much of his life organized the Manhattan Project as a amidst personal and sociopolitical chaos. result, ultimately harnessing—and releasing—the destructive power of the The Dopey One atom. Einstein did not work on the Describing Einstein’s early life, Isaacson weapon project because, Isaacson said, offered “good news” for parents. “Einstein the U.S. government refused to grant was no Einstein when he was a kid,” Walter Isaacson discusses Einstein in a him a security clearance due to his pre- Isaacson said. “He was very slow in seminar with students. war pacifism. learning how to talk—so slow that they After World War II, Isaacson said, called him ‘the dopey one’ in the family.” that allowed him to overturn accepted Einstein feared the threat of nuclear However, Isaacson said, Einstein did not theories of how the universe works. proliferation, especially as it didn’t seem fail math, as generations of hopeful While still jobless, Einstein fell in to be accompanied by an understanding students have been led to believe. The love with and married Mileva Maric. of the new international reality that truth, Isaacson said, is that Einstein’s They had three children, the first out of accompanied it. “Everything has changed rebellious ways annoyed teachers and led wedlock and apparently given up for except our way of thinking,” Einstein to his dismissal from two schools. “This adoption. The couple soon fell apart, said. “We have to change our way of Einstein, he’ll never amount to much,” and Einstein persuaded his wife to grant thinking.” He sensed the danger so concluded one headmaster. him a divorce in exchange for the cash acutely, Isaacson said, that when he was For many years, Einstein didn’t offer award that would accompany the Nobel asked how World War III might be much reason to believe his headmaster Prize he expected to win—and did fought, Einstein responded, “I don’t was wrong. He ran away from home at win—for the influential papers he know, but I know how World War IV age 17, seeking greater intellectual published while still a clerk. will be fought—with sticks and rocks.” challenge, but failed to gain admittance Einstein worked for world peace to even a second-tier university on the War and Peace until his death in 1955 but not at the first try. He finally was admitted to a Einstein won prestigious academic expense of his work in physics. Even in university, but then openly mocked a appointments in Berlin in 1914, but the the last moments of his life, he sought to professor who declined to teach the outbreak of World War I alienated the develop a Unified Field Theory “that latest work in physics. No wonder, then, leftist, pacifist Jew from nationalist would explain all the forces of nature,” that Einstein wandered jobless for years German society. After the war, Isaacson said. As he lay dying in his after graduation before becoming “a nationalist Germans sought scapegoats hospital bed, he wrote line after line of third-class clerk in the Swiss Patent for their own catastrophic failures, equations that, Isaacson said, “he Office.” blaming internationalists, pacifists and thought could get him and us just one Isaacson said Einstein couldn’t even Jews. “Einstein was three for three,” step closer to that spirit manifest in the hope to rise in his patent work; to Isaacson said. They ridiculed his 1921 laws of the universe.” ■ become a second-or first-class clerk, he Nobel Prize, calling his advanced would need a doctorate, and his disser- theoretical work “Jew science.” tation had been rejected twice. But it was In fact, Isaacson said, Einstein was there that the student who professors not a traditionally religious person. called a “lazy dog” began his life’s work Although he made frequent reference to in earnest—the “thought experiments” “God,” he did not believe in a being that

16 Kathryn Tucker Windham visits Samford. ‘ You Must by Sean Flynt and PEOPLE You Must Remember ’ Famed Storyteller Windham Inspires Laughter, Tears aughter filled University storyteller I have ever listened to any- scandalizing a church by volunteering Library on Homecoming where.” She said even the pauses in her to “shimmy” during the offertory Saturday as famed Alabama own storytelling seem to correspond to hymn. Men in her audience shed tears storyteller Kathryn Tucker the pauses of her father drawing from over a beautiful, hypnotic story about a Windham recruited for her his pipe as he told his own stories. Her former slave, separated from his wife Lpersonal campaigns. She has a few. father also was a great listener, she said, decades earlier when their master lost She insisted, for example, that the “and he taught me early that God gave the man in a card game. Windham’s second meal of the day should be called us two ears and one mouth to use in father gave the man a loan so he could “dinner” rather than “supper.” “I don’t that proportion.” visit his wife and make sure she had know who got us messed up about So, Windham listened to the words, fared as well as he had after emanci - meals,” she said, and cited Scripture in cadences, meanings and comforts of pation. The grateful woman sent support of her cause. “Jesus had the last family stories—some told just for the Windham’s father a wedding wreath supper with his disciples. It was at sake of laughter and some so com- bush that still thrived during night. He did not have dinner with pelling that they can wring tears from Windham’s childhood. them. And please, folks, don’t put sugar an audience of strangers. She said Windham’s final story, inspired by in cornbread or hushpuppies.” That, hearing those stories in the company of a question from the audience, again Windham said, “is a desecration. If you family and friends gave here “a sense of raised the roof. The tale of a traveling want cake, make cake!” She also led the security and well-being no television Passion play became more outrageous charge for naps, more for some people program could ever give—a sense of with every word and ended with the than others. being surrounded by love and people ersatz Jesus running half-naked through But the most serious and poignant who cared for me.” a Selma school building screaming, of Windham’s campaigns concerns As a former reporter for the “they’re trying to kill me,” and the cross story telling and the preservation of Montgomery Advertiser, Birmingham occupied by Judas, wearing green gym family history. “We’ve got to get back to News and Selma Times-Journal, shorts and covered in tattoos. storytelling, get back to talking to each Windham has a great many stories from All of Windham’s stories, funny or other—cut off all these electronic her adult life. Of course, she is best serious, emphasized her vitally impor- devices for a few hours and talk to each known as the author of many books, tant point. “You must listen and you other,” she said. “We’ve almost forgotten including the classic 13 Alabama Ghosts must remember,” she said. “You’re the how to have conversations, even with and Jeffrey. But many of the stories she one who needs to be telling that story people we love. We’re too rushed and shared at Samford related to her idyllic to somebody else in your family before too busy—too busy to listen, too busy childhood in Thomasville, hometown you forget it, before it’s lost forever.” ■ to remember.” of Samford’s own Harwell Goodwin Windham traced her own story- Davis. telling back to her grandfather, an Windham elicited howls of itinerant Baptist pastor, and her father, laughter with several family stories, a Thomasville banker and “the finest including a tale of her 3-year-old self

17 Stevens Travels from Basketball Player to Board Chair illiam J. (Bill) Stevens came to leadership during one of the most His company serves a wide range of Samford 40 years ago as a momentous periods in Samford history. customers in the automotive, chemical, Wscholar ship basketball player. He During the past four years, Samford food and beverage, wood and lumber, earned a degree in business and, several has completed the largest building iron and steel, pulp and paper, mining years later, joined a Birmingham company, program since the school constructed and aggregate, and pharmaceutical

PEOPLE Motion Industries, as director of human the original set of buildings for its industries. resources. Shades Valley campus in the late 1950s. Stevens recalled his basketball Today, Motion Industries is one of It has also gone through a presidential career as being most enjoyable because North America’s leading distributors of transition, only its third since 1939. of the travel and experiences as well as industrial maintenance, repair and Stevens steps down as board chair the competition. “My sophomore year operation replacement parts. It has in December 2007, having served the was my best, as we upset Mississippi more than 500 operations, including maximum four consecutive one-year State at Seibert Hall that year,” he said. nine distribution centers, and serves terms permitted by board policy. As he His time was “consumed” by more than 116,000 customers. rotated out of the position, he reflected basketball and classes, Stevens said, but Stevens has been its president and on his years at Samford and how he he also enjoyed his association with the chief executive officer for 10 years. He came to the school. business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi. credits his business success to the solid “God’s providence brought me to Samford’s Christian affiliation and foundation he gained at Samford. Samford,” he said, recalling his early mission were important to him as a Stevens has been a member of the days at the school. “My sister, Charolette, student, he said, and that has been even Samford board of trustees since 1997. was already attending Samford, and I more true during his tenure as a trustee. He was elected chair of the board in 2003 had visited her there, but I began my He has served on the executive committee, after two years as vice chair, providing college education at Alabama Christian the business affairs and audit committee, College because they offered me a the investment committee and the 2005 scholar ship to play basketball.” (Charolette Presidential Search Committee. Stevens Hamby is a 1969 alumna.) “Samford’s impact was positive for A graduate of Benjamin Russell me as a student, for it provided an High School in Alexander City, Ala., he atmosphere to be with fellow students, transferred to Samford after one semester professors and leaders that lived their faith,” he said. “There were many people that set wonderful examples to follow. These same examples are there for me A as a trustee.” He said he considers it a privilege to have served with such a talented and dedicated group of trustees, as well as Samford with Presidents Thomas Corts and Andrew Westmoreland. “We have been able to support the growth of the university in both the area of programs as well as facilities,” he said. Trekby Jack Brymer “The theme that is a part of every meeting is, we are a Baptist-affiliated institution, at Alabama Christian. He graduat- and our goal is to provide a great ed from Samford in 1970 with a education in a Christian environment.” degree in business administra- The strength of the board, he sug- tion. He said his years at Samford gests, is having trustees from different influenced every part of his life generations who represent varied pro- and continue to do so today. fessions, and bring wonderful insights “I met my wife, Kimeran and always keep the clear motive of Brown, at Samford in biology making Samford a better place as the class,” he said. “I am very top priority. proud of my degree from Samford will continue to grow and Samford, but the best thing prosper if it stays committed to the that ever happened to me was Christian principles grounded in Bill Stevens Kimeran becoming my wife. Baptist faith and heritage, he said. “The education I received “We must be open to the oppor- has served me very well, for it tunities and challenges brought about gave me a solid foundation from by new generations, new careers, new both a practical application as well programs that will always be well-served as the financial aspects that apply to by individuals firmly grounded in the all of business,” he added. Christian faith,” he added. ■

18 M scientific valueto theuniversity, this work,undergraduate determining their ancient specimensof thousands of Davenport. While siftingthrough Samford, butconsider itsays what about student.undergraduate asan specimens gathered by themissionary called attention to thesmallcollection of whenhediscovered herbarium and sity’s out old univer- botanical specimensinthe clinic in Yemen, Dr. Davenport was cleaning after Myers wasmurdered athermedical faculty. biology In 2004, two years versity’s Professor It’s aninteresting about story professor alsowastakingthe Alabama Larry Davenport joined the uni- Davenport joinedthe Larry Samford in1967, decades before Myersartha from graduated Recognizes Davenport Carnegie Foundation of the of time to read thenames of students he of Year never by SeanFlynt Cahaba Lily, swallowtail thegiant about thedeadly oleander, therare ourreaders haveThousands of learned never wantedthey knewthey to know. “Davenport teaches hisaudience things that popularcolumn, shesaid, ongoing column forthemagazine. In through his his passionforbiology to 2001, Davenport’s praised of sharing Alabama Heritage theclassroom. beyond thewallsof ways Davenport extends education Year honoralsorecognizes the many roleinstructional is, the theProfessor of Environmental Management. of the with Alabama Department Edwards isanenvironmental scientist Environmental the Educator of Year, and World/Busch Gardens/Fujifilm National teacher andthe2007Sea inFlorida the honor. school Phipps isahigh Davenport’s of support for nomination and Adam Edwards, wrote letters in award me.” with pushed meto excel andwhoshare this Samford have studentswho always mainly Ithankmy many years of CASE committee forselectingme. But good folkswhonominated me, andthe announced onNov. 15. “I thankallthe career,” hesaidwhenthehonorwas my of honor—definitely thehighlight wonderful, incredible, overwhelming the nation’s top professors. isa “This moreselected than300of from afieldof as the2007 the Alabama Professor of Year. Educationto him select of and Support Teaching andtheCouncil for Advancement Foundation forthe Advancement of pro fession, andthathasledtheCarnegie He isengagedasfewothersare inany hislife. sional statusorintersection with the scholar ship, nomatter theirprofes- knew. He cares aboutthepeoplebehind Suzanne Wolfe, of editor inchief asthetraditional As important Two thosestudents, of Allan Phipps 40educators Davenport wasoneof magazine from 1986 Larry Davenport Business deanMarlene Reed. business professor School andinterim of professor Thomas Woolley, andformer professor Stephen Chew, business Samford recipients includepsychology since beganin1981. theprogram Other the Professor of Year honorsfourtimes Education. Environmental Stewardship and Samford’s Vulcan Materials Center for He recently wasnameddirector of which were basedonstudentvotes.of Outstanding Faculty Award (1989), both Student Government Association Classroom Teaching (1991)andthe Buchanan Award forExcellence in colleagues.” toinspiration hisstudentsand he isacredit to hisdiscipline, andan Davenport forthehonor. way,“In every Westmoreland, whonominated known,” saidSamford President Andrew membershaveSamford faculty been forwhich hundreds of and service teaching, of strong research tradition Howell. and mostrevered professors,” said haveThey Alabama’s selected oneof best havethat they done theirhomework. Davenport thatshows inLarry selection the CASEaward committee madea and intheclassroom. “I canonlysay that him onscientificarticles, fieldstudies for 30years, working sideby sidewith Mike Howell wasDavenport’s colleague Lawrence J. Davenport Day inthestate. Maydesignated 27, 2006, asProfessor Davenport’swith thatit contributions Alabama legislature wassoimpressed acre site inBibb County,” shesaid. The River National Wildlife Refuge, a3,000- theCahaba to thecreation in2002of resourcesunique natural andleddirectly brought nationalattention to Alabama’s habitathas Cahaba Lilyanditsfragile Alabama. “His extensive research onthe to in major contributions conservation othertopics.”among hundreds of spider,butterfly andthesneakytrapdoor Samford professors have received Davenport won Samford’s John H. “Dr. Davenport represents the Retired professor Samford biology Wolfe saidDavenport hasmade ■ 19 PEOPLE 20 BOOKPAGE American constitutionalAmerican The book—Ross’ third on20thcentury personalliberties. role asaguardian of itsmodern lation andtheemergence of economic legis regulatory of arbiter - itslongtimefunctionasan ment of details theSupreme Court’s abandon- Samford’s Cumberland Law, School of defendants. of free press andtherights decisionsonfreeand landmark speech, Roosevelt’s controversy, court-packing legislation, President Franklin including itsdecisionsonNew Deal issues faced by theHughes Court, Hughes 1930–1941. Justiceship EvansThe Chief Charles of William G. Ross wrote inhisnewbook, Samford University law professor injustice,” racial that perpetuated eroded significantly legalbarriers rulings Americans, “more its thanafewof the second-classAfrican citizenship of rendered decisionsaltering nolandmark 1930–41. during led theCourt T for CivilRightsGains:Ross Book Hughes CourtLaidtheGroundwork Professor Ross, whoteaches in The bookalsoaddresses many other theHughesAlthough Court Justice CharlesEvans Hughes, who according Chief to anewstudy of the1930s, decisionsof Court and ’50shadroots inU.S. Supreme the1940s gainsof rights he civil of blackswas of separate and “both white defendants, andthatthetreatment ment wasfarmore harshthanthatof thatblackdefendants’showing treat- of doctrine “separate butequal” by cedures the decisionshelpedundermine faceddants who thedeathpenalty. atnocostattorneys defen- to criminal required states to provide competent Amendment’s dueprocess clause foundthattheFourteenththe court thedefendants, seven of conviction of Scottsboro, Ala., in1931. In reversing the near train female hoboesonafreight Boys,” two raping white accused of asthe becameknown who “Scottsboro involved young blackdrifters, agroup of counsel in capitalcases. Thecase required assistance meaningful of Powell v. Alabama, Court’s justice decisionswas criminal impact,”the mostracial saidRoss. justice decisions criminal “perhaps had butits and publictransportation, nation invoting, service, education jury discrimi againstracial decisions striking - to vote,”their right hesaid. deprived blacksof primaries Democratic by theruses which Southern some of empower blacksby eliminatingatleast proceedings,”in criminal Ross wrote. terror andslipshodprocedures tactics of who were disproportionately thevictims blacks socioeconomic suppression of law criminal to the perpetuate use of Hughes helpedto Court ameliorate the due process trials, oncriminal the 1930s. court’s “evolutionary decisions” the of gainswere rights grounded inthe civil matters,impact onracial Ross saidlater theGreatduring Depression. thenation forces thattransformed and thepolitical, economic andcultural complex interaction between thecourt sources,secondary Ross explores the justices.chief onU.S. itsseries of part Supreme Court University SouthCarolina Press of as publishedthisyear byhistory—was the The Hughes pro criminal Court - theHughes of mostdramatic “The renderedThe court important Hughes alsohelpedto“The Court standards“By of imposingstricter In lookingattheHughes Court’s and Using primary abroad of array ” hesaid, becauseit age of 86in1948. age of HooverHerbert in1930. He diedatthe justice byappointed President chief from 1921until 1925, andwas to Woodrow(277-254) Wilson. president, losingby 23 electoral votes in1916tobut heresigned for run him to theU.S. Supreme in1910, Court President William Howard Taft appointed hishomestate in1906. governor of GlensFalls,native of N.Y., hewaselected distinguished career inpublicservice. A be,” Ross observed. his opponentsinsisted henever could he could be justice that of “just thesort cast thedecidingvote. Thisshowed that Hughes defendantsinwhich of rights speech, thepress andthe freedom of 5-4decisionsexpandinglandmark free the Hughes several handeddown Court tective personalliberties,” of Ross wrote. economic recovery andpro legislation - by Roosevelt wasdeferential toward appointed them, justice appointed every disappointed thepresidents whohave George Washington. but two, more thanany president except Roosevelt hadappointed every justice Hughes resigned atage79in1941, Alabama’s Hugo Black. By thetime more justices liberal suchwith as vacancies court began fillingnormal late 1930s, Ross noted, asRoosevelt court’s direction” occurred the during this planfailed. age, member701/2years but of every one newappointee for to theCourt attempt by to enlargetheCourt naming 1935–36. Thisledto Roosevelt’s 1937 of a17-monthperiod Depression during the statutes aimedatrelieving latory invalidated economic federal regu- eight appointed by Republican presidents— conservative judges of a majority FDR’sDuring firstterm, thecourt—with Roosevelt’swith New Deallegislation. thecourt’straces about-face indealing Higginbotham and William Smith. Minnesota Law Review unequal,” Ross wrote, quotinga Hughes served as secretary of state Hughes of assecretary served Hughes retired in1941after a itsearlyyears,During Ross noted, “Although many justices have However, a “profound shiftinthe thebook, Ross of In otherparts by WilliamNunnelley ■ article by Leon article

Focusing on Learning Through Life are healthy. An organization demon- developing a school-wide strategic plan, strates that it is smart by developing bringing together distinctions that are

DEAN intelligent strategies, marketing plans, unique to the programs offered in our product features and financial models school. We have focused on students THE that lead to the competitive edge over and what they need to be able to know its rivals. An organization is healthy by and do to be the most successful eliminating politics and confusion graduates. FROM which leads to higher morale, lower This is a new era for the school as turnover and better productivity.” we focus on learning through life. From As the Orlean Bullard Beeson the age of six weeks old throughout LETTER School of Education and Professional one’s lifespan, learning is possible. I Studies has focused on collaborating hope that you enjoy a few highlights and finding strengths in a diverse, from our school. complex school with a variety of majors, we have attempted to become healthy. We have done this by cele- n his book, Obsessions of an brating joys and caring in sorrows, Extraordinary Executive, well-known building trust with one another even Iwriter, speaker and consultant on though our disciplines are very dif- Jeanie A. Box, Ph.D. leadership Patrick Lencioni states: “I ferent, and being clearer with each Dean and Professor believe that healthy organizations share other as we communicate better. We Orlean Bullard Beeson School of two qualities: they are smart and they have attempted to become smart by Education and Professional Studies

Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education and Retired Teacher Anne Professional Studies 2007–08 Executive Council Stone Chairs Dean’s Dr. Jeanie A. Box Phyllis Hoffman Executive Council Dean Chief Executive Officer “ feel sorry for Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Hoffman Media Inc. Ianyone who Education and Professional Studies Birmingham, Alabama doesn’t teach Samford University school for a Birmingham, Alabama Anne Stone Former Secondary Education Teacher living,” said Anne Dr. Ruth Ash Huntsville, Alabama Glaze Stone ’67, Deputy Superintendent who spent 25 Alabama State Department of Sherman Suitts years teaching in Education Vice President of Human Resources and secondary and Birmingham, Alabama Business Development, Southern and Anne Glaze Stone ’67 middle schools in Gulf Coast Division Huntsville, Ala. Albert Brewer Vulcan Materials Company Stone is retired now but remains Former Governor of Alabama Birmingham, Alabama close to teaching in several ways. She is Professor, Cumberland School of Law involved in teaching at her church, Samford University Dr. Jeanna Westmoreland First Baptist of Huntsville, and with Birmingham, Alabama Former Dean the Christian Women’s Job Corps of Ouachita Baptist University School of Madison County. Raymond Paul Fitzpatrick Education She also serves as the first chair of Attorney Birmingham, Alabama the Dean’s Executive Council of Orlean Fitzpatrick and Brown, LLP Bullard Beeson School of Education Harold Williams Birmingham, Alabama and Professional Studies. The council Attorney was formed in April 2007 to provide Mary Ann Glazner Balch and Bingham, LLP advice, assistance, an outside perspec- Chief Executive Officer Birmingham, Alabama tive and resources to the education Smith’s Variety Stores school’s administration. Birmingham, Alabama Stone and her husband, Bill, were owners of Stone Engineering Company of Huntsville until retirement in 2006. Cover (page 21): Samford exercise science and sports medicine major Gracie Williams offers They support Samford students in encouragement to a student during a fitness test at Robert C. Hatch High School in several ways, including providing the Uniontown, Ala. Samford ESSM students volunteer periodically to offer fitness and health Anne Glaze and William Stone screening tests to Perry County schools. Scholarship for a teacher education student from Limestone County. ■

22 E DUCATION AND P ROFESSIONAL S TUDIES N EWSLETTER Education School Evolves into One of Samford’s Most Diverse Entities

Five Departments Offer 34 Degree Programs OVERVIEW

uring the past decade, the Orlean and superintendents, teaching in various through Metro Programs, received Bullard Beeson School of Education programs with age ranges of six weeks to national recognition as the 2006 Dand Professional Studies has college adult, working as interior designers Distinguished Noncredit Program from emerged as one of Samford’s most diverse and registered dieticians, serving as the Association for Continuing Higher and complex academic entities, broadening family therapists, and training in coun- Education. The course is part of the its original mission of educating teachers to seling, just to name a few,” he said. Samford After Sundown community include a variety of other programs. The school gained national atten- program. Today, the school is comprised of tion in 2000 when it was named one of Box noted that Samford also had five academic departments and units the top four undergraduate education been selected as one of three “Lead offering 34 degree programs. The programs in the United States by the Universities” in Alabama to pilot the programs and their leaders include: U.S. Department of Education. Its Instructional Leadership Program [ILP] ■ Exercise Science and Sports graduates have received 98 to 100 redesign as required by the new state Medicine, Dr. Alan Jung, chair percent placement in teaching positions standards for leadership. ■ Family Studies, Dr. Clara Gerhardt, over the past 15 years, according to Dean “Now that this graduate program chair Jean A. Box. has been approved, Drs. Maurice Persall, ■ Interior Design, Jeannie Krumdieck, With the school’s added diversity, it Les Ennis and Pattie Neill are providing chair continues to rank high in measurable assistance to other universities in the ■ Teacher Education, Dr. Carol Dean, results. For example, it has placed: state by sharing about the process, ILP chair; Dr. Maurice Persall, director, ■ 100 percent of its interior design stu- redesign requirements and documen - Graduate Studies dents seeking positions in the profession tation of compliance,” said Box. ■ Metro Programs, Dr. Cindy Kirk, for the past four years One challenge that the school’s executive director ■ 100 percent of students preparing to diversity offers is in the area of com - By comparison, Samford’s Howard become registered dieticians for the munication and working together. College of Arts and Sciences, which required dietetic internship program the “We are currently undergoing a provides the university’s core cur riculum, past two years strategic planning process that will allow offers just over 40 degree programs. ■ Close to 100 percent of exercise us to see the specific areas of overlap Associate Dean Chuck Sands science and sports medicine students across the 34 degree programs,” said Dr. provided an overview of the diversity of applying to medical, pharmacy, physical Sands. “We already have seen areas where the education school’s programming. therapy and other graduate programs for there is potential for great overlap. One “The school trains students for the past four years is in the area of aging and another is in physical therapy school, medical school, Also, the Health-Care Interpreter viewing our school as one that promotes working in cardiac rehabilitation, leader- Training certificate program, a 10-month learning for life.” ship in educational systems as principals course for bilingual students offered With the diversity has come added emphasis on research and scholarship, according to Sands. “The emphasis on research can be tied to a very strong undergraduate research program in exercise science and, generally, a very clear, regular emphasis on research and scholarship,” he said. “We have begun to encourage and track our scholarship much more closely than we have in the past.” ■

Interior design majors Sarah Durnya, left, and Kerra Killingsworth complete a design rendering.

E DUCATION AND P ROFESSIONAL S TUDIES N EWSLETTER 23 Learning Center, Young Authors Among Innovative Programs by Jean M. McLean omeone walking across Samford’s The Carters’ sponsorship replaces Dr. David Finn is faculty director of EDUCATION campus might be surprised to hear grants that have enabled the school to the center, which opened in 1998 to Syoungsters’ giggles echoing through host multiple elementary schools each serve as an inclusive school, serving the ivy. But then, those people would be year from one designated school system. children of all abilities. Alayna Tippen is unfamiliar with Samford’s teacher education These schools are eager to send their the coordinator of the center and is TEACHER program. fifth graders for what Dean calls “a responsible for day-to-day operations. There are so many innovations celebration” of writing. Approximately 100 enrolled children within this department that it’s hard for “It gives the department an oppor- from babies to preschoolers are the Carol Dean, chair of teacher education, tunity to connect with the community in children of university employees and to focus on just two. However, she thinks a unique way,” said Dean. area families. This in-demand program is the smiles and giggles from two pro- Dr. Michele Haralson, director of known not as day care, but as a rich grams, the Children’s Learning Center the curriculum materials and technology resource with thematic curriculum that and the annual Young Authors center, oversees the program. Its aim is stimulates learning for every age. Conference, deserve special attention. simple, she said. “We want all students to For the 14 infants, an individualized feel that they can be successful authors.” curriculum is designed specifically for Young Authors Conference This celebration of writing takes its each child to foster physical, cognitive The Young Authors Conference, spon- form in learning centers created and and emotional growth. Once children sored this year in honor of Drs. John and staffed by Samford students. Every room reach the toddler stage and participate in Frances Carter by their children, is a in the building is filled with activities a group setting, they enter a world of morning of opportunity for area fifth that reinforce what these fifth graders themes set for the whole center. Two-year- graders and Samford education students. have read in their standard curriculum. olds may collect leaves on an autumn It continues the outreach tradition set by Through enrichment activities such as day, sorting them by color or size, while the Carters, both of whom began crafts and drama, each center introduces four-year-olds learn to distinguish the teaching in the school of education in children to varied genres, from poetry to difference between deciduous trees and 1956. Frances taught through 1984, while science fiction. In one center, fifth evergreens. Literature, science, math, music John was dean of the school from 1980 graders bring examples of their own and art are all incorporated in each theme. to 1986. writing to read aloud. Samford students learn just as much For many of these fifth as their young charges, says Finn. graders, a walk on Samford’s Nursing students may work at the center campus is the first time they’ve to observe typical and atypical growth. considered college possibilities. Interior design students may plan how The effort is specifically aimed at spaces, textures and textiles should be Birmingham-area systems with crafted for children. Pharmacy students underserved, at-risk populations may document and review procedures and is offered at no charge to the for storing and administering children’s system or students. medications. World language students For some education majors, may teach Spanish to older preschoolers. this will confirm their calling to Each discipline contributes and work in underserved education learns from the permanent staff of pro- populations in urban or rural areas. fessionals who work daily with the chil- For everyone, it’s a day of dren, providing consistency and routine celebration, both of the written for each age group. word and of future possibilities. The inclusion of children of all abilities is an important aspect of the Children’s Learning Center program, says Finn. He is also director of Nestled in the woods adjacent to special education for the university. This campus, laughter and eager laboratory provides a nurturing environ- learning is an everyday affair, as ment for children to learn at their own youngsters from six weeks old pace while Samford students in a variety through age five participate in the of disciplines observe, write curriculum Children’s Learning Center, a and hone their skills to maximize each learning laboratory for all ages child’s potential. and specialties. From young authors to toddling leaf-collectors, Samford’s teacher edu- Student teacher Kelly Hicks talks cation program is making its impact on about pumpkins with students at multiple generations, within the uni - the Samford Children’s Learning versity community and beyond. ■ Center.

24 E DUCATION AND P ROFESSIONAL S TUDIES N EWSLETTER ESSM Students Prepare for Wide Range of Fields STUDIES by Jean M. McLean

ou never know what future profes- of Alabama at sional you might encounter in Birmingham’s med- PROFESSIONAL YSamford’s Exercise Science and Sports ical school, joined the Medicine [ESSM] program. About half of department in these undergraduates plan to be physicians August. “He brings a or physical therapists. Others will be phar- wealth of research macists, physician assistants, dentists, knowledge and lab athletic trainers, fitness specialists, physical experience that will education teachers, nutritionists or other benefit all our stu- specialists. dents, particularly More than ever before, each of these those who plan on students, regardless of anticipated voca- attending graduate tion, is nurtured in a program that “pro- school, medical vides them with unique opportunities, school or physical including service learning, high-level therapy school,” said research, and outstanding faculty mem- Jung. bers who care about the personal and Petrella continues professional lives of the students,” said the school’s estab- Dr. Alan Jung, ESSM department chair lished emphasis on Exercise science and sports medicine major Tan Taylor works and assistant professor. varied student with Josh Kaiser, right, and Thomas Comini in a motor skills It is obvious that these efforts are research worthy of development class for children at Samford. working, as evidenced by the depart- academic journal ment’s extraordinary graduate school publication. Four acceptance rates. Nearly 100 percent of manuscripts from last year’s senior which measures percentage of body fat. all the department’s applicants have been research projects were submitted for In addition to special-request and accepted to medical school, dental school, publication in peer-reviewed scientific research use of these instruments, pharmacy school, physician assistant journals. students soon will have more oppor - school, chiropractic school, physical therapy Students regularly present their tunities for outreach. The department school and other graduate programs. research projects at the Alabama State plans to launch an official Community Graduates currently attend graduate Association for Health, Physical Education, Testing Program in 2008. or professional schools ranging from Recreation and Dance annual meeting, The combination of community Samford and the University of Alabama and will begin presenting at the service, research, consultation with pro- at Birmingham, to Duke and the Southeast American College of Sports fessionals and peers and academic publi- University of Southern California. Medicine and Southeast Athletic cation does more than further these Jung credits ESSM’s success to the Trainers’ Association annual meetings. students’ chances of being accepted in quality of entering students, the quality Research and service opportunities their desired graduate school. It also of committed faculty who make students were furthered when the Exercise helps meet the ESSM’s mission to help a priority and the programs crafted to Physiology Lab recently acquired equip- them become as well-rounded as give undergraduates some master’s-level ment to perform high-level research and possible. research training while still in a bache- conduct physiological testing for the “It’s not just about going to medical lor’s setting. The department emphasizes local community. The metabolic cart is school or other graduate programs,” said service that continues the school’s com- the gold standard for measuring aerobic Jung. “We challenge students to think munity service tradition, which appeals fitness. It can be used to predict the about their purpose, their God-given to a wide range of Samford students, number of calories an individual burns gifts and their calling. We hope this particularly those who see medical at rest during the day (resting metabolic encourages the students to understand missions as part of their future. Many rate) and the number of fat calories how they can make a positive impact on others—individually, locally and students, says Jung, consider their major burned during exercise. ■ as a foundation for a future of serving The lab frequently receives requests globally.” others in the mission field. from individuals in Birmingham who Part of this development is in would like to have a variety of physiolog- Jean M. McLean is a freelance writer in research. Dr. John Petrella, a muscle ical tests performed, including calls for Montevallo, Ala. physiologist formerly with the University an instrument called the “Bod Pod,”

E DUCATION AND P ROFESSIONAL S TUDIES N EWSLETTER 25 Family Studies Programs Range from Local to Global by Mary Wimberley STUDIES amford’s family studies students are familiar faces at M-Power ministries, a Sfaith-based, multipronged ministry. Major components include a literacy program, the only free medical clinic in Birmingham, and a Christian Women’s Job

PROFESSIONAL Corps that equips women in need for life and employment. Emily McAbee is among students in a family life education class who have attended weekly job corps classes to build relationships and understand challenges faced by women in poverty. The Samford students observed classes attended by job corps participants and also made presentations. McAbee and her group focused on encouraging the women to stress the importance of their M-Power classes. The goal of their presentation was to boost the women’s self-confidence. “Many of them don’t have social support at home,” said McAbee. She says she has learned a lot from meeting and getting to know the 14 women in the program. Samford education professors Becky Atkinson, left, Clara Gerhardt, second from left, and “They have inspired me because of David Finn, right, discuss language study with dean Maria Eugenia Maldonado and how motivated they are. Nobody forces education school director Monica Cordero at the University of Cuenca in Ecuador. them to come to M-Power, yet they come every week to learn skills so they mental assets that are defined as good “Many family studies graduates will can make better lives for themselves,” predicators of outcomes for positive get jobs in nonprofit or not-for profit said McAbee, who says the experience youth development. agencies,” explained professor Kristie has taught her a lot about compassion Dr. Davis analyzed data collected by Chandler. “They will have excellent and that “people are doing the best they the YMCA when camps began in June, understanding of family issues, such as know how,” even if it’s not the way she redesigned the survey to measure parenting, but may not have a basic would do it. changes that the children in the YMCA concept of how nonprofit and for-profit It is a valuable lesson the junior experienced over the summer, and organizations differ. They need this from Spartanburg, S.C., knows will help collected a second set of data in August. background to help the nonprofit her in her future career in social services. The project became a good learning succeed at its mission.” “The more compassion I have for experience for Davis’ summer senior A background in concepts of social the people I work with, the more moti- research class members, who suggested entrepreneurship is also helpful to vated I will be to help them the best I other aspects of the YMCA program that graduates who will work for for-profit can,” said McAbee. would be important to measure. “As part companies with socially conscious The Samford students will leave a of their training for program assessment, missions. The academic content includes teaching plan and materials from their they helped enter the survey data,” said mission setting, governance, assessment workshop with M-Power that can be Davis. and fund-raising. used with future classes of job corps The collaboration with the YMCA “Because of its Christian nature, participants. continued in the fall semester as Samford Samford gets students who want to serve students designed a survey for the after- others, and these courses will help them Assessing Progress at Summer Camps school care program. in that mission,” said Dr. Chandler. When YMCA chaplain Tom Rains needed help with program assessment in Understanding Profit Versus Nonprofit Taking Latin American Culture summer camps, he called on Samford An innovative new collaboration with ‘High’ and ‘Low’ family studies professor Jonathan Davis. the School of Business allows family Education professor David Finn’s The YMCA hopes the effort ultimately studies majors to earn a minor in social experience as a Samford Latin American will result in better incorporation of the entrepreneurship, which is offered in the Studies Fellow has benefited youngsters professionally recognized 40 develop- business curriculum as a concentration at the Children’s Learning Center, which for management majors. he directs, as well as undergraduate

26 E DUCATION AND P ROFESSIONAL S TUDIES N EWSLETTER students in his special education class. cathedrals and museums, and met with the better, said Finn, whose CLC clientele “I reached low and I reached high,” faculty in their disciplines at the range in age from six weeks to five years. he said of the age range of students now University of Cuenca—all the while “They have an empty pail, whereas engaged in projects he developed as a speaking Spanish as much as possible. ours as adults is full,” he said of a continuation of his involvement with the “We had to learn it fast,” Dr. Finn youngster’s mental capacity to absorb a program. said of the language, in which he had lit- new language. He and education colleagues Clara tle background before the class he took He is exposing his college students Gerhardt, Becky Atkinson and Pat Terry during Jan Term. to Latin American culture by requiring STUDIES were among 18 Samford faculty mem- The trip ended with a drive from them to write and illustrate a simple bers who spent the better part of a year southern Ecuador north to the capital children’s book in English and Spanish. learning Spanish and the culture of Latin city of Quito, with stops at an Inca “This extends their appreciation of America. The project is supported by an village and a museum at the equator. another culture and makes them international studies and foreign lan- Back home, the professors understand the difficulty involved in guage grant from the U.S. Department of developed projects to connect their translation,” he said of the future Education. immersion in the culture with students teachers. PROFESSIONAL After attending weekly classes and in their Samford classrooms. A publisher will bind the books so colloquia last fall and spring, the group Finn is in the process of labeling the that the students can use them when spent three weeks in Ecuador in early CLC bilingually, with words like “book” they go into their own classrooms after summer. For a week, they lived with host and “tornado zone” in both languages graduation. ■ families in the town of Cuenca, where placed around the building. The earlier a they attended Spanish classes, visited child is exposed to a second language, Interior Design Students Work to Preserve 1836 Home ne aspect of interior design is construction. Another is Oreconstruction. Several Samford interior design students learned more about reconstruction this fall by volunteering to work on a preservation project at a house built more than 170 years ago. The project began during the fall of 2006, when Samford interior design assistant professor Charles Ford recom- mended preservation strategies to the West Jefferson Historical Society for a project at the Sadler Plantation home. He outlined a plan to preserve the original windows and replace decayed windows at the 1836 structure in west Jefferson County. Part of his proposal was to employ proven preservation techniques established by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation. Students Kelly Fishbein, left, and Holly Morgan work on window repair at the 1836 Sadler Working in conjunction with the Plantation Home in west Jefferson County. Historical Society (of which Ford is a board member), students assisted in the Morgan was impressed by the early the latest restaurant. It’s also about repair and replacement of decayed workmanship. protecting and preserving structures of windows at the home. Interior design “The construction of the 19th the past. I admire the people that want to major Holly Morgan found the hands- century architecture done by hand and preserve this history.” on learning experience valuable. skilled craftsmen is definitely a lost art,” Ford said students can learn a great “I was particularly interested in the she said. “You can tell they put their deal from historic architecture. transformation of the house from a heart and soul into it.” “They gain investigative and small log cabin originally to a two-story Morgan hopes to go to graduate pragmatic experiences that heighten a structure in later years,” she said. “It was school to study historic preservation and person’s perception of historically signif- surprising to know the old log cabin still interior design. icant structures and give further cause to could be seen within the walls of this “The Sadler House experience made preserve the architectural gems,” he said. larger house just by looking underneath me realize that interior design is much “This is the type of experience we strive the foundation.” more than space planning or designing to implement in our course.” ■

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Metro Programs Broaden Offerings, HIT Program Gains Popularity by Mary Wimberley

Exercise science and sports medicine professor James Angel hands out materials in the Metro Programs personal health class. amford’s Metro Programs have estab- HIT trains people who are bilingual ministry, missions and early childhood lished an exciting partnership with in English and Spanish to become quali- development. Stwo area community colleges. fied interpreters in a medical setting. The One graduate, Giovanna Minotta, Beginning this year, Metro Programs program received the 2006 Distinguished originally from Guatemala, founded and requirements are detailed in academic Non-Credit Program Award from the operates a nonprofit service agency for catalogs for Jefferson State Community Association of Continuing Higher Latinos in the Anniston, Ala., area. College and Lawson State Community Education, gaining national recognition. College. Both schools are in the metropoli- The current class is evenly divided Help with Textbooks tan Birmingham area and attract a mainly between native Spanish speakers and A new “Book-it to Samford” effort is commuter student base, as does Metro native English speakers, said SAS designed to help Metro Programs Programs, which offers evening credit class- Director Paul Franklin. The class roster students with the increasingly high cost es for adult learners. includes students with a heritage from at of textbooks. The listings, said Metro Programs least six Spanish-speaking nations. With many texts costing from $50 to Executive Director Cindy Kirk, make it A common thread that ties students $150 each, the price of books can often easier for community college students to together is a commitment to serve make a Metro student, who already may know what courses to take at their others. be juggling family and careers, think schools and be confident in what will “An applicant for the HIT program twice about taking a class. transfer to Samford. must indicate an awareness of the needs “Book-it to Samford” seeks to The result should be a smoother of the Spanish-speaking population in provide each evening student with access transition to Samford for work on a Alabama and must demonstrate a desire to required texts by paying for electronic bachelor’s degree after completing an to be of assistance to the community,” access to textbooks (available on the associate degree at a two-year school. said Franklin. Internet); reserving textbooks at the In the classroom and in the required University Library; and holding book HIT is a Hit internship, students gain knowledge and drives for gently used books. The Samford After Sundown [SAS] com- skills to help bridge linguistic and cul- Donated books are welcome at the ponent of Metro Programs has obviously tural gaps. “Many find innovative ways Metro Programs office in Dwight Beeson hit on something with its Health-Care to put the training they received at Hall on campus, as are financial Interpreter Training [HIT] certificate Samford to work, becoming agents for donations and corporate sponsorships. program. The 2007 class that launched positive change,” said Franklin. For information, call 205-726-2487 or in October is the third and largest cohort The 30 graduates from the first two 205-726-2898. ■ since the program started in 2004. The HIT classes now work in various fields class quickly filled, and a waiting list is and situations. While many interpret in standing by. hospitals and clinics, others are in

28 E DUCATION AND P ROFESSIONAL S TUDIES N EWSLETTER s Alabama’s largest privately funded university, Samford is renowned for the educational quality of its 26 graduate and undergraduate degree programs in more than 100 academic fields of study. Samford A students are nurtured to develop personal integrity in the classroom and in life, and to grow in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ. To make the distinctive Samford experience available to deserving students, Samford annually awards more than $12 million in scholarship assistance. An investment in the Samford Scholarship Society is an investment in the future of our communities and the future of the church. You can participate several ways in creating a better future for a deserving student at Samford through the Scholarship Society.

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29 CLASSICS

Q&A Flash-frozen in History The Last Day of Pompeii

amford classics professor Shannon luckiest group. Those who died earlier— Did you make any exciting discoveries Rogers Flynt ’91 specializes in Roman who choked on the ash, or were trapped during your work? Sarchaeology and has helped excavate and suffocated or killed by collapsing several ancient sites in Europe. As a Pompeii roofs or hit by debris—probably had it Me? No. One of the things that made this exhibit opened at the Birmingham Museum worse than the people who were standing project different from others is that a lot of Art this fall, she explained the unique there and were instantly burned alive. of work is done on the 79 level, but not value of the site and recalled her work on the many projects excavate below that sur- archaeological team of the Anglo-American Was the destruction of Pompeii, then, face. This project did, trying to get back Project in Pompeii in that program’s 1996 something like the devastation of New to the earliest levels of settlement. So season. The exhibit will run through Jan. 27, Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, with there was a focus on architecture, evalu- 2008. a certain amount of advance warning? ation of standing walls and below-ground Those who remained were simply over- remains that enabled the project to look Pompeii was home to perhaps 20,000 taken by multiple disasters? at how one little city block changed over people at the time of its destruction by time. One thing the project revealed was volcanic eruption in August of 79. How Yes, it just caught up with everybody. that although everybody said the House many escaped? There may have been people who said, “I of the Surgeon was the oldest house at don’t have anywhere to go” or, “I’ll wait it Pompeii, there were foundations beneath It’s believed that the majority got out, but out and see.” There had been an earth- that house. Another big part of the the eruption had two effects on Pompeii. quake related to Vesuvius in 62 that project was the collection and evaluation When Vesuvius erupted that morning, caused massive destruction in Pompeii, of ecofacts—botanical remains. We did the volcanic stone and ash started raining but that’s not the same thing as a volcanic lots of flotation tank work, even for the down. It was heavy enough over the eruption. They probably knew what tiniest seeds. course of the day to tear down roofs, but Vesuvius was, but it had never done that One of the most interesting things it stopped, and some people may have in their lifetime. was that the middle of a main room— gone back into the town, thinking the where a little pool had been, with a eruption was over. The second part of the So ash and stone from Vesuvius sealed cistern beneath it and an open roof above eruption—the pyroclastic surge, in which the city intact. Is that what makes it to collect water for the household those super-hot gasses came through— Pompeii such an important archae- supply—had been blown out by an Allied got the people who might have come ological site? bomb during WWII. Apparently, it was a back in. It just incinerated people where Yes. It was just flash-frozen in the course stray bomb meant for Naples. they stood. That would have been the of two days exactly as people left it.

30 It’s easier to imagine Indiana Jones document it very carefully, and then you England, and then retired and decided to dodging bombs than sorting seeds. had to destroy it. go back to school to become an archae- What’s the most common miscon - We’d go up to the site at about 7 a.m. ologist when he was around 50. He went ception about what archaeologists do? or earlier to start the day, before it back to Pompeii every year as a member opened to tourists. Walking up the same of the excavation team, overseeing the I think it’s that most archaeologists are route every morning through that city, I excavations. He’s now finishing a book on finding the big stuff, fully intact, that goes really got to know the site well. Of course, Roman toilets—he looked at them from straight into a museum and somehow the advantage of being on that team was Pompeii all the way to North Africa. It’s makes money—that you find the treasure that we got to see things that tourists on a never too late! and somehow get money from it. That’s day trip don’t get to see. On any given CLASSICS the way it was in the early days of archae- day, a small selection of houses will be For most of us, the terrible last ology, when the king of Naples could open. They just don’t have the staff to moments of the city are the most send in people [to excavate Pompeii]. He keep the whole site open. obvious point of entry to the Pompeii got to keep all the stuff, and that’s all they story. What does the site mean to you? looked for. They wanted the big stuff, What percentage of archaeology is whereas archaeology now focuses on the actual in-the-dirt work? The Birmingham Museum of Art exhibit smallest stuff. It’s always about context, is called “Stories from an Eruption,” and the total picture, looking at every small I can only estimate, but for this project, the focus is on the popularity of Pompeii detail to reconstruct what the past was they worked for maybe 12 years on one as a destroyed city. It focuses a lot on the like. Often, that means just looking at small city block. That’s six weeks out of death, and when you go to Pompeii stains in the dirt. There’s only so much each year. The rest of the year, then, today, you’re struck by the ghost town you can learn from even the most would be spent writing up and describing feeling if you’re lucky enough to be there amazing statue in isolation. what they did. That’s another 40- when it’s quiet. You see a ruined city. But Archaeologists will excavate less and something weeks, compared to six weeks when I go there—and especially when I less. It’s too expensive and it’s too time- of digging, when you’re probably only was working there—I see more of the consuming. But it becomes more possible describing one season. It might take years stories of life. Archaeology at Pompeii to do less-invasive things. That’s what to really look at the material you brought reveals not just the few hours people had archaeologists try to do. You can use a back. at what they thought was the end of their variety of ground-penetrating radar lives, but all the little everyday stuff that devices that help you get an idea of What does one study to become an survived and which you don’t always get what’s below ground, and then you can archaeologist? from other sites. Archaeology is about be much more selective about where you reconstructing people’s lives. ■ dig. It’s not about “grab a shovel and go.” You need it all. Archaeology is a science It’s a reasonable criticism to point that’s stolen from everything—math, Adapted from The Belltower, Samford out that warehouses, universities and language, history, literature, architecture, University galleries are full of material recovered by engineering . . . . My friend from the excavations that has never been studied. Pompeii project, Barry Hobson, had a People haven’t published or written about long career as a physician in Bradford, or analyzed the things they’ve found, and there’s probably enough to keep people busy, never to excavate again anywhere. It takes years and years of study just to figure out what you’ve got.

What was a typical day like for you and your fellow archaeologists at Pompeii?

It depended on which team you were working on. If you were doing ecofacts, then it was sifting dirt through fine mesh or putting it in water tanks to see what floated to the surface, and skimming stuff off and packaging it up. If you were with artifacts, you were washing potsherds and documenting them. Excavating wasn’t too hard if you were just scraping dirt with your trowel as you were trying to trace levels down, but drawing pictures of those levels was painstaking. The hardest physical labor was probably when you’d come down to a floor surface—and that means [ancient] concrete floor. Then the pickaxes would come out and you’d have to go through it. First, of course, you’d “Cave Canem” (Beware of Dog): An ancient floor mosaic reminds visitors of everyday concerns before the eruption.

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’48 William and Beth Kelley Poe retired after ’51 J. David Griffin of Carrollton, Ga., writes ’58 A. L. Courtney was inducted into the East 63 years of ministry in West Africa, articles for the Henry County historical Mississippi Community College [EMCC] Missouri and Louisiana. They live in a quarterly, The Orator. He and his wife, Sports Hall of Fame during homecoming ALUMNI retirement home in Kansas City, Mo. Annette, celebrate their 54th wedding festivities at the Scooba, Miss., school. He anniversary in December. played baseball and football at EMCC ’49 Marvin Atchley is retired in Pell City, Ala. from 1953 to 1955. He declined profes- He and his wife, Ruth, celebrated their ’53 Pauline Jackson Clarke of Birmingham sional baseball contracts to pursue his call 61st wedding anniversary in September. retired after working 15 years as a hospice to preach, which he has followed for 50 director. Ralph Barber of Pell City, Ala., recalled years. He is pastor emeritus at First his days aboard the USS Dunlap in the Charles Powell was named to the 2007 Baptist Church, Pell City, Ala. Pacific in 1943 for an article in the Mobile Alabama Senior Citizen’s Hall of Fame. A ’59 Royce Ballard of Metairie, La., earned a Press-Register. He was among former crew retired minister in Jasper, Ala., he was doctor of ministry degree at Columbia members who gathered in Mobile for a inducted during ceremonies in September. Theological Seminary. reunion in September. The Dunlap was the flagship of a task force of six U.S. Rayburn P. Reed retired after 10 years as Brenda Whitten Thomas is chair of the destroyers that led action in the Vella Gulf chaplain with Baptist Shelby hospital in English department at La Grange College, battle. He retired in 1975 as the special Alabaster, Ala. He and his wife, Joyce, live La Grange, Ga. agent-in-charge of the Mobile office of the in Brent, Ala. O. Suthern Sims, Jr., of Macon, Ga., Drug Enforcement Administration after a ’57 Cecil Brown of Gadsden, Ala., is director 25-year career. received a Meritorious Service Award of Etowah Christian Institution, Etowah from the Commission on Colleges of the Baptist Association. Southern Association of Colleges and Schools [SACS]. He served on and chaired SACS committees for 35 years. He retired A Flagpole with a History from Mercer University in 2003 when he was named emeritus professor of develop- he next time you’re watching a baseball mental and educational psychology. He Tgame at Joe Lee Griffin Field, take a look has since held various posts at the school, at the flagpole in centerfield. It has an illus - and continues to serve as adjunct profes- trious history. sor of pediatrics in the Mercer University For years, the pole stood near Old Main School of Medicine. on the East Lake campus of then-Howard College. When Howard moved to Shades ’60 Ronald F. Euler of Pleasant Grove, Ala., is Valley in the fall of 1957, the pole stayed interim pastor at Snowtown Baptist Church. behind—for a few weeks. ’61 Jerry King Douglas lives in Knoxville, The new campus had beautiful Tenn., where she tutors piano. buildings, and eventually would have beau- tiful trees and landscaping. But it had no J. Harold Payne and his wife, Sally, flagpole. On Thursday, Jan. 16, 1958, some celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Howard fraternity members decided to do in September. They married seven days something about this. James F. Sulzby, in his before he enrolled at Howard College on history of Howard College, tells the story. Sept. 16, 1957. They live in Homewood. With some fanfare, escorted by ’62 Jeanne Goode Mims is founder of R & B Birmingham police motor scout Richard Tax Service in Thorsby, Ala. Newman and a carload of young women, the fraternity members took the pole down and ’65 William M. Bishop of Birmingham is headed to the Shades Valley campus, literally retired from pediatric dentistry. carrying it on their shoulders. There were 23 carriers, and they stopped primarily in the two school newspapers, the Saralyn Monroe Collins is executive periodically for rest, shifting the weight each incident was laid to rest. Howard President director of training and development with time. The flagpole measured 55 feet in length Harwell Davis had the pole placed near the eWomenNetwork. She lives in Winter and weighed 750 pounds. It was 10 miles southwest corner of the library, where it Park, Fla. from the old campus to the new. Each person remained for 40 years. ’66 J. Tyre Denney is interim pastor at carried about 35 pounds, but most said it felt The pole was located near a young oak Evergreen Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky. like 35 tons before they had gone very far, tree. As the tree matured, its limbs and the He and his wife, Betty, celebrated their according to Sulzby. flag began to entangle. Something had to go, 59th wedding anniversary in August. They After about a mile, the pole bearers and it was the flagpole. New dual flagpoles live in Lawrenceburg, Ky. thought better of their project. They set the were erected in Sherman Circle during the pole down by the side of the road and late 1990s, and the old flagpole was moved to ’67 Anita Pritchett Arnold of Brierfield, Ala., returned to campus. Two days later, 13 the baseball field. retired in November from Protective Life Birmingham-Southern College students There, during baseball season, it con- Corporation. picked up the pole and carried it to the new tinues to fly Old Glory, just as it did near Old Gayle Brown Smith of Auburn, Ala., Howard campus—in a truck. Main and later, following its unlikely trip helped form the new East Alabama After some good-natured bantering, from East Lake, beside Davis Library. ■ Children’s Choir.

32 ’69 Charles Shell of Huntsville, Ala., retired after 30 years with Eli Lilly Drug Garrard’s Life Is Full of Magic Company. by Mary Wimberley ’70 Jan M. “Tex” Hawley retired from the City of Mountain Brook, Ala., as a fire lieu- avid Garrard ’75 tricks that may include assistants who are tenant/paramedic. He and his wife, Pat Dhas combined an sawed in two or made to disappear. Thorpe Hawley ’71, live in Homewood. interest and talent in Garrard turned tables on the disappearing She is a nurse at Tots ’N’ Teens Pediatrics. magic with his feat in April during his opening act at Christian faith for an Thunder Over Louisville, the largest fireworks Kathy Sprayberry Wood is communica- unusual dual career. show in North America and the official kick-

tion director for the Federal Emergency For 30 years, he has off to the Kentucky Derby Festival. ALUMNI Management Agency’s Center for worked part-time as “My assistants made me appear Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Ala., minister to children at magically. Then I waved my wands and which has trained more than 393,000 St. Matthews Baptist ignited the show. Very cool,” he said of the emergency responders. A retired Army David Garrard ’75 Church in Louisville, experience, which was watched by an audience lieutenant colonel, Wood and her Ky. The rest of his of 800,000, plus many more who viewed the husband, Chuck, raise registered time is devoted to live televised event. American quarter horses at Tranquility magic, an interest he pursued even during his Garrard and his wife, Stephanie Judge Base Farms, Alexandria, Ala. Samford days. Garrard ’75, are parents of Samford graduate “My life is kind of eclectic,” said Garrard. Claire Garrard ’04, and a son, Tyler. ’72 Tom M. Weekley of Milton, Fla., sold his “One minute I’m evaluating kids for the Garrard’s fall schedule included a show drug store of 33 years in May and now Upward Basketball league I run at my church, in Louisville with Las Vegas star Mac King and works for CVS. He and his wife, Patsy, are leading WOW Worship or teaching Sunday a trip to Vegas for a corporate show. parents of golfer Boo Weekley, who is school. The next, I’m performing at Caesars In December, his second DVD, Tricks ranked among the top PGA money winners. Indiana for a Halloween Party or traveling to with Numbers, will be released. His winter ’73 Terrell T. Jackson of Athens, Ala., is Atlanta for a corporate show at the CNN schedule includes corporate shows and a director of Giles Schools, Pulaski, Tenn. Center.” LifeWay national recreation conference in In between, Garrard, who learned his Florida. ’74 Kay Jackson Harris of Birmingham first magic tricks from his father at age 12, He is helping to design special effects for recently earned administrative certifi- appears at churches throughout the his church’s next Easter pageant that will cation from Samford and is the career Southeast—entertaining, teaching, inspiring incorporate illusions into the scenes of the technical education supervisor for Shelby and motivating people of all ages. temptation of Christ, the reappearance of County Schools. His shows, a blend of magic and message, Jesus and the ascension. ’76 Julie Maddox of Pleasant Grove, Ala., is a have the intrigue of a well-performed illusion Next summer, he will be a featured family and consumer science teacher. She and often include music and lights. performer when the world’s two largest magic also oversees several student activities at Garrard incorporates close-up tricks organizations, the International Brotherhood her school. with cards and coins, and audience partici- of Magicians and the Society of American pation, but also performs large-scale magic Magicians, meet in Louisville. ■ Daniel A. Shadix is a chaplain with West Texas Veterans Administration Healthcare System, Big Spring, Texas. ’79 Margaret Geer Roland earned teacher ’83 Steven W. Burford is assistant administrator ’77 James Branum is director of the new certification at Shorter College and of Children’s and Women’s Hospital at the CareNet Connections ministry. He is also teaches in Rome, Ga. She and her University of South Alabama, Mobile, Ala. ministry director at First Baptist Church, husband, David, have three children. Fultondale, Ala., and faith-based coordi- Salam Shorrosh of Daphne, Ala., recently nator for United Way of Central Alabama. Cynthia R. Vines of Morris, Ala., is a earned a Ph.D. from New Orleans Baptist teacher and lead mentor at North Theological Seminary. Rendell W. and Teresa Love Day ’78 are Jefferson Middle School. She is a national former International Mission Board board-certified teacher. David Vaillancourt, M.S.E. ’89, is missionaries who now live in Georgia. She president of Certified Careers Institute, teaches in the early college program at ’80 John W. Campbell is associate professor of South Jordan, Utah. music and director of choirs at Georgetown Georgia Southwestern State University in ’84 Alisa Wynens Rehberg is a licensed Americus. He is chaplain for Habitat for College in Kentucky. While on sabbatical during the fall semester, the former A marriage and family therapist and Humanity International and is bivocational licensed professional counselor. She and pastor of Preston Baptist Church, Preston. Cappella Choir graduate assistant (1982–83) spent two weeks in England. her husband, James Chesley Rehberg, Jr., Mary Virginia Thompson wrote the entry live in Macon, Ga., with their two on George Washington for The New ’81 William Stephen Eubanks, Jr., is chairman children, Gracie and James III. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 7: of the surgery department at the University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, ’85 Paula Graves of Gardendale, Ala., is a Foodways, published by the Center for the graphic designer at Alexander Advertising. Study of Southern Culture and the Mo. He is president of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Her third novel, Forbidden Touch (Harlequin University of North Carolina Press. She is Intrigue) will be released in February. research specialist at Mount Vernon Estate Surgeons. and Gardens, Mount Vernon, Va. Jacquelyn McIntyre Robison is youth Tommy J. Sanders earned a Ph.D. in man- minister at King’s Cross, Tullahoma, Tenn. agement at the University of Alabama at ’78 Bridgett Alena Junkin was elected Birmingham in May and is assistant pro- 2007–09 state recording secretary for Jennifer Cosby Mathewson Speer and her fessor of management at the University of Delta Kappa Gamma education honor husband, Allen, live in Anna, Ill., and Montevallo. He lives in Calera, Ala. society. She lives in Pell City, Ala., where together have five children. She is a con- she teaches at Pell City High School. ference speaker, Bible teacher and founder Karen Bush Tynes lives in Montgomery, of Word of Joy ministries. Ala., with her husband, Tommy, and children, Austin, 12, and Jordan, 10.

33 ’86 J. Dale Armour, M.B.A., is senior vice Lynn Traylor is senior pastor of Buckner Nancy Johnson is helping to start a new president and chief executive officer of the Baptist Church, Buckner, Ky. Traylor lives church in Cumming, Ga. Mississippi Division of Health in LaGrange, Ky. Management Associates, Inc., Jackson, Miss. Rebecca Kennedy is director of university ’88 Eddie Bevill is pastor of Parkridge Baptist missions at Baylor University, Waco, Texas. Elizabeth Fentress Hallmark is coordinator Church, Coral Springs, Fla. He and his of the simulation program in the Gordon wife, Laura, have four children. Matthew S. Meadows is senior pastor at E. Inman College of Health Sciences and New Berlin Road Church, Jacksonville, Fla. Nursing at Belmont University, Nashville, Alicia McBride Tankersley lives in Marietta, Ga., with her husband, Tray, and James Norman “Jim” Rice and Catherine Tenn. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in educa- Carson ’91 married in July. They live in tional leadership with a concentration in their two children, Mary and Will.

ALUMNI Birmingham. electronic learning. She and her husband, ’89 Jimmy DeCarlo of Rockford, Ill., is a Brian, have two children, Allison and Mack. graphic designer with Regular Baptist ’91 Nathaniel Bagley, Jr., was appointed to a three-year term on Birmingham’s Historical Mary Kay Kim Park, M.M., is pursuing a Press, a Christian publishing company. He has painted No Longer an Outcast, a Preservation Authority. He works in the Ph.D. at Biola University, La Mirada, Calif. city attorney’s office, and is also a jazz She lives in Yorba Linda, Calif., with her depiction of Moses and the Burning Bush, available through History Dancer Art. He musician. He and his wife, Regina, have husband, Alex, and children, Lydia, Sarah two children, Ashton and Taylor. and Isabel. and his wife have four adopted sons. ’90 Laurie Green Aderholt is a middle school Richard Lee Chancey is an attorney with ’87 Cara Lott Brown teaches public school Ezell, Chancey, Raiford & Farrar, LLP, in music in South Carolina and is interim language teacher in Sylacauga, Ala., and secretary/treasurer of J.A. Aderholt, Inc. Phenix City, Ala. He and his wife, Tracie, music director at First Baptist Church, have two children, Caleb and Caitlyn. Anderson, S.C. She and her husband, Jamie, have a son, Rhett, 10, and a daughter, Ryan, 4. Tracy True Dismukes, M.B.A., is owner of Olivia Thomson, M.S.E. ’94, of Susanne Michelle Eledge Ballard is a Collage Designer Consignment, which Birmingham was included in a recent celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2007 listing of Outstanding Teachers of pharmacist with Lenoir Memorial Hospital, Kinston, N.C. She and her with a special promotion benefiting the America. She taught at Princeton Heart Association at its three Alternative Elementary School. husband, Jimmy, have four daughters, Harper Rose, Kirby Elizabeth, Dori Birmingham-area locations. Dismukes is a Mariana and Eagan Caroline. past president of the National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops, and the Samford M.B.A. Alumni Association. ’92 Charles Kennedy is music associate at Murphy Designs Coastal Living Cottage Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham. nterior designer Carol colors in rooms that she filled with com- Marion Wise, Jr., of Moody, Ala., is band IMurphy ’99 had an fortable furnishings. director at Vincent High School. He and interesting assignment The undertaking took about eight his wife, Melanie, have a son, Daniel recently: design a months, during which she also was involved Steven, born in June. coastal getaway to with two other major projects. “I don’t ’93 Angela Calhoun and John Carter married feature as the Idea recommend doing that,” she said. “It was an in January. They live in Columbus, Ga. Cottage in the October overwhelming workload.” 2007 issue of Coastal Murphy’s interior design studies at Mary Beth Hill Dean is a vice president, Living magazine. Samford included an internship in London, business performance with Wachovia The 31-page England, with a well-known upscale designer, Mortgage Corporation, Birmingham. She Carol Murphy ’99 spread displays the late Lady Victoria Waymouth. and her husband, Chuck, have a daughter, Murphy’s ideas for the “Her projects were so fantastic that I was Emily, born in March. 3,000-square foot home in Bon Secour Village sure that I had met my career peak as an on the Intracoastal Waterway, near the beaches intern. Luckily, I have gone on to work on Kelli Halterman Jones lives in Murphy, of Gulf Shores, Ala. some amazing projects since graduation,” said N.C., with her husband, Michael, and The effort was “a lot of fun, as well as a Murphy, who credits the hands-on education children, Katelyn, 7, and Caleb, 4. challenge” for the designer with Tracery she got at Samford, and the close attention she Angela Schooley Washington and Steve Interiors in Rosemary Beach Fla., who was received from professors Jeannie Krumdieck M. Washington ’94 live in Sumiton, Ala. tapped for the project partly because of her and Ken Brazil, with preparing her for her He is manager of continuous improve- earlier work on a house featured by the career. ment at American Cast Iron Pipe magazine in 2004. One of Murphy’s favorite parts of being a Company, and chairman of the Alabama “I really enjoyed working with Coastal residential interior designer is working with Hyperion Software User Group. She is Living as well as meeting all the national interesting people. early intervention coordinator at the sponsors and contributors to the house,” said “Each project is different, based on my Walker County Arc. Murphy, who specializes in residential design, clients’ goals. This means that my creativity is primarily new construction and renovation always getting pushed and challenged,” said ’94 David and Laurie Rowe Brooks live in work. Murphy. Edenton, N.C., where he is pastor of A main component of such a project, While much of her work is on homes Edenton Baptist Church. They have two says Murphy, is making the sponsors look along the Florida/Alabama coast, her talents children, Caroline and Jacob. good. “The sponsors give you catalogs of their are not confined to the South. The 2004 Kevin C. Newsom is a partner with items from which you make selections. The article, she said led a “great family” to me. “I Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP, key is to finesse all the sponsors’ items into a ended up totally renovating their home in Birmingham, and cochair of its Appellate comprehensive design that is exciting to the Nantucket. That was so much fun!” ■ Practice Group. magazine readers.” She chose to keep the idea cottage casual, young and user friendly, with soft and neutral

34 ’95 Jeannette D. McCain earned a master’s in in biology/coastal zone studies from the Taylor Hanson of St. Simons Island, Ga., social work. She lives in Midlothian, Va., University of West Florida, and leads married Reese King Haley in September. with her husband, Shawn, and twins, environmental education and outreach Daniel and Anna, 3. programs for the Escambia County Brad Phelps, M.B.A., is a corporate Extension Service. They have a daughter, recruiter with INC Research clinical research Jeffery McGriff of Greenville, Ala., is Lucy Adams Shannon, born in December. organization. He lives in Raleigh, N.C. owner of Elegant Designs. ’99 Adam Blair, M.Acc. ’01, M.B.A. ’06, and ’01 Bonnie Branum married Jamie Monroe Bradley O’Rear recently was elected his wife, Karen, live in Birmingham. in October 2006. She is an associate with president of the Birmingham Advertising the law firm of Maynard, Cooper & Gale, Federation. He lives in Pelham, Ala. Jenni Drury Bonura is associate broker in P.C., in Birmingham.

the Buckhead office of Jenny Pruitt & ALUMNI Jason W. Wallis is owner of Jason Wallis Associates, a realty firm in Atlanta, Ga. Shelli Nobles Henry and her husband, Photography, Birmingham. She is responsible for marketing Sam, live in Memphis, Tenn. They have a son, Andersen James, 1. ’96 Allison Lee Dearing, J.D. ’00, is a policy initiatives, advising sales associates and analyst with the new Jefferson County building a team of agents. She and her David Brandon McGinty is a manager, Family Violence Coordinated Community husband, Don, live in Dunwoody, Ga. international tax, in Deloitte’s Washington, Response in Birmingham. She and her Jennifer Duke married Joe Terpstra in D.C., national tax group. He earned a law husband, Jason, have two sons, Russell, 3, October. They live in Alpharetta, Ga. She degree from Temple University and an and Bennett Sterling, born in May. teaches second grade at Mount Pisgah L.L.M. in tax from Villanova University. He lives in Arlington, Va. Steven L. Simpson, M.Div., earned a master’s Christian School. in community counseling at Columbus Jenny Douglass Hartzog and Neal Amy Brock Moran and her husband, State University with emphasis in marriage Hartzog ’00, J.D. ’02, live in Alexandria, Daniel, live in Spring Hill, Tenn. She and family therapy. A major in the U.S. Va. He is an attorney for the U.S. Patent teaches kindergarten at Grassland Army, he is a family life chaplain at Fort and Trademark office. She manages the Elementary School in Brentwood, Tenn., Eustis, Va. He and his wife, Patricia, have showhouse program for Southern Accents where they are active at Fellowship Bible two children, Keri and Casey. magazine. They have a son, Woodrow Church. ’97 Michael Kevin and Kimberly Kay William, born in October. Holly Morris Raidabaugh recently was Osborne Dunaway, Pharm.D., live in Trisha Schramm Holmes and her elected vice president of the Junior League Andalusia, Ala., where he is youth and husband, William, live in Mebane, N.C. of Richmond, Va. education pastor at Carolina Baptist She is a travel nurse with Duke University Heather Shea married Todd Hatfield in Church. They have three children, Betsy, Hospital. They have a son, Henry Joseph, 6, Michael, 4 and Nathan, 1. September. They live in Chattanooga, born in September. Tenn., where she is accounting manager Rebekah L. Falk is associate pastor/ Benjamin Thomas Kelley and Mary with Service Electric Company. spiritual director at University American Michael Garver ’00 married in April. Baptist Church, Austin, Texas. James Michael Smith is assistant pastor at They live in Birmingham, where he works New Calvary Baptist Church, Nauvoo, Mat R. Johnson is sales/credit manager at for Compass Bank and she is agency Ala., and assistant director-teacher/ Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co., Inc., relations coordinator for United Way counselor at Royal Pines Recovery Center, Birmingham. Community Food Bank. Hayden, Ala. Suzanah Raffield, M.Div. ’00, is global Jeffrey and Michelle Gresham Lipscomb Nicole Thompson Stefano of Indian Trail, minister in residence at Covenant live in Statham, Ga. He is president of N.C., recently earned national board Community Church, Elba, Ala. She guides Georgia Real Estate Developers, Inc., Winder, certification in education. She and her the 3-year-old congregation in developing Ga. They have two children, Ian and Scott. husband, Jason, have a daughter, Ava Jean, a missions strategy that empowers it to act Melanie Fulda Lynch, M.S.E. ’01, and Josh born in July. locally and globally. She will communicate Lynch ’02 live in Helena, Ala. She teaches Tina Riddell Strickland is a nurse with the church during her travels as a at Shades Cahaba Elementary School. He nongovernmental organization represen- manager with Birmingham Veterans is band director at Bumpus Middle School. Affairs, Birmingham. tative to the United Nations Commission They have a son, Taylor Caleb, born in May. on the Status of Women. She is pursuing a Anne Catherine Kendrick Webster, J.D., Ph.D. at International Baptist Theological Maria Burgess Walker and her husband, is a financial and estate planning adviser Seminary in Prague, Czech Republic. Joel, live in Dallas, Texas. She is program with Calibre, a division of Wachovia Bank. adviser for the Women’s Center at She and her husband, Brooke, live in Stephen C. Rucker is vice president of Southern Methodist University. They have Winston-Salem, N.C., with their daughter, commercial lending at Capital Bank, Fort a daughter, Scout Regan, born in June. Lily, born in September. Oglethorpe, Ga. He and his wife, Jaclyn, live in Chattanooga, Tenn. ’00 Kristen Brooke Boerner Broadbelt of ’02 Michael Cleveland is pursuing a master of Land O’Lakes, Fla., recently earned a fine arts in acting in Chicago, Ill. He lives ’98 B. Gayle Glenn, Ed.S., is the first woman to master’s in educational leadership. in DeKalb, Ill. serve on the Trussville, Ala., school board. Brett and Amanda Treadway Chapman Piper Carr and James Fly married in May Christopher and Erin Cheek Robbins live ’99 live in Madison, Ala., where he teaches and live in Alpharetta, Ga. She works as an in Alabaster, Ala. He is an assistant princi- history and coaches boys’ soccer at Bob analyst and is pursuing an M.B.A. at Georgia pal in Hoover, Ala., and she is an educa- Jones High School. He is pursuing a State University. He is a web developer. tional consultant. They have two children, master’s in administration and super- Anna, 3, and Clay, born in July. vision. They have a son, Luke, 1. M. E. Buck Dougherty III, J.D., and Kimberly Walker Dougherty, J.D., live in Eric, J.D., and Carrie Tomlinson Stuart Davidson is student pastor at First Collierville, Tenn. He is an attorney with Stevenson live in Pensacola, Fla. He is an Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala. He and Husch & Eppenberger LLC, in Memphis, associate with the law firm of Whibbs, his wife, Angela Ashley Davidson ’01, Tenn. They have three sons, Will, 4, Jack, Rayboun and Stone. She earned a master’s have a son, Jay, 1. 2, and George, born in May.

35 Carrie Lewis Kreps, Pharm.D., and Shelley Sager married Allan Blocker in ’06 Mary Caldwell is director of event Joseph C. Kreps, J.D. ’03, live in Vestavia April. She teaches in Vestavia Hills, Ala. planning with PathNorth, Washington, Hills, Ala. She is a consultant pharmacist D.C. She lives in Arlington, Va. for Senior Care Pharmacy and a preceptor Glenda Smith of Jasper, Ala., is adminis- for Samford’s McWhorter School of trative assistant in the business office of Elizabeth Cesler married Philip Glofelty Pharmacy. He is managing partner of Jimmie Hale Mission in Birmingham. in August. They live in Birmingham. Kreps Law Firm, LLC, specializing in ’04 Nathan Douglas is a commercial real Megan Forman of West Palm Beach, Fla., defense, residential real estate transactions is program director for Florida Mentor, a and title insurance. They have a son, estate broker with NAI Nashville in Tennessee. residential care facility for people with Joseph “Jay” Kreps, Jr., born in July. developmental disabilities. ALUMNI Paul Franklin von Herrmann earned a Scott and Amy Bonds Meyer live in Birmingham. Marcus Huskey is assistant to the deputy medical degree in 2006 from the Medical director of political affairs in the Executive College of Georgia and is a flight surgeon Jaime Simmons is an outreach coordi - Office of the President, Washington, D.C. with the U.S. Navy in Pensacola, Fla. He nator for CommuteSmart in Birmingham. He manages personnel and daily operations and his wife, Missy, have a daughter, Ellie of the office. He assumed the White Jeanne, 1. Natalie A. Temple of Hampton Cove, Ala., House post in September after working a is office administrator at Whitesburg year as executive assistant to U.S. Rep. Bob ’03 Stephanie L. Allen is a therapist at the Christian Academy. Enrichment Center, Huntsville, Ala. Inglis, S.C. ’05 Nicholas T. Coffey is associate pastor at Megan Blair Kemp is administrative Kristen Boutwell married Brock Eson in Westwood Baptist Church, Pelham, Ala. May. They live in Birmingham. assistant at Currey Ingram Academy, Sam Hawes and Emily Dawn Morris ’06 Brentwood, Tenn. Sam Davidson of Nashville, Tenn., presi- married in June. They live in Caroline McCreary works at Infinity dent and cofounder of CoolPeopleCare, is Birmingham. the author of his first book, New Day Insurance, Birmingham. Revolution: How to Save the World in 24 Rebekah Lewis married Kevin Lin in Lisa Peters is a staff accountant with the Hours (Xyzzy Press). September. She works in the Neonatal Atlanta, Ga., office of Carr, Riggs & Intensive Care Unit at Children’s Ingram, LLC. She earned an M.B.A. from James Gibson married Jennie Johnson in Healthcare of Atlanta-Egleston. January. He graduated the University of Troy University. Alabama School of Law in 2006 and is a Ashley Panella Moneyhun and her ’07 Ben Schmidt is a financial analyst with legal fellow in the Washington, D.C., office husband, Jay, live in Knoxville, Tenn. CNL Income Corp., Orlando, Fla. He lives of U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, Ala. Natalie Jennings Warren earned a in Windermere, Fla. Taylor and Shannon Knipfer Knight live master’s in biology at the University of Megan Stodard is a child life specialist at in Norfolk, Va., where he is stationed as a Alabama at Birmingham. She is an Shriners Hospital for Children, St. Louis, U.S. Navy pilot. They are the parents of adjunct biology professor at Samford. Mo. ■ twin sons, Andrew Mark and William Taylor, born in July.

Melanie and Marion Wise, Jr., of Moody, ’95 Shaun and Carolee Joy Franklin Barber Ala., a son, Daniel Steven, born June 20, of Columbus, Ohio, a daughter, Serena 2007. Michelle, born July 30, 2007. ’93 Jason and Lee Anne Samples Bryant of Kert and Michelle Friday Rojka of Lutz, Huntsville, Ala., and Varese, Italy, the Fla., a son, Adam, born Sept. 26, 2006. adoption of a daughter, Wren SiHui Lee, on Oct. 30, 2006. ’96 Eric and Angie Lee Crossan of Clarksville, Tenn., a daughter, Addison Lee, born June ’87 Beth and Rex C. Tuckier of Moulton, Ala., Chuck and Mary Beth Hill Dean of 7, 2007. a son, Elijah Rex, born May 15, 2007. Birmingham, a daughter, Emily, born March 13, 2007. Jason and Allison Lee Dearing, J.D. ’00, of ’90 Jimmy and Susanne Michelle Eledge Birmingham, a son, Bennett Sterling, born Ballard of Kinston, N.C., a daughter, Mathew and Shannon Howell Wrenn of May 4, 2007. Eagan Caroline, born in December 2006. Maylene, Ala., a son, Grayson Stone, born Aug. 31, 2007. Brandi Gorman Guthrie and Lee ’91 Sean, M.S.E. ’94, and Shannon Rogers Guthrie, J.D. ’97, of Hoover, Ala., a son, Flynt of Morris, Ala., a son, Ambrose Heather and David C. Young of Ligonier, Larry Lee III, born Oct. 25, 2006. Doss, born Aug. 30, 2007. Penn., a daughter, Willow Mae, born April 6, 2007. Laura Abston Ludwig and Peter Allen ’92 Kristen and Erick Fitzgerald, M.Div. ’96, Ludwig ’97 of Chelsea, Ala., a son, of Uniontown, Pa., a son, Jeremiah ’94 Rhett and Amarilys Perdomo Barnett of Jonathan Cameron, born Sept. 6, 2007. Thomas, born September 4, 2007. Pelham, Ala., a daughter, Catalina Noelle, born Nov. 8, 2006. Andrew and Tammy Lockwood Miller of Brock and Kelly Newsome Fredette of York, Penn., a son, Jackson Sage, born Kennesaw, Ga., a son, Michael Edward, Tiffany and William D. Denton of Aug. 10, 2007. born April 15, 2007. Birmingham, a son, Christian Graham, born May 23, 2006. ’97 Sidney, J.D., and Katie Emerson Mitchell Derrek and Marysha Tyler Luther of ’98 of Greenville, S.C., a daughter, Sidney Sarasota, Fla., a son, Conner Tyler, born Kurt and Carolyn Wagner Weigel ’96 of Elizabeth, born Sept. 4, 2006. Sept. 9, 2007. Knoxville, Tenn., a daughter, Lauren Abigail, born April 15, 2007. Carrie and Christopher Nelson of Bessemer, Ala., a son, James William, born Nov. 7, 2005.

36 Mark Aaron and Katherine Stockton Melanie Fulda Lynch, M.S.E. ’01, and Jonathan and Whitney Locke Rich of Willard of Albany, Ga., a son, David, born Josh Lynch ’02 of Helena, Ala., a son, Walton, Ky., a son, David Andrew, born July 26, 2007. Taylor Caleb, born May 19, 2007. June 21, 2007. ’98 Collin and Katherine McCarthy King ’00 Carlos and Leslie Swatzell McDonald of Brooke and Anne Catherine Kendrick of Birmingham, a daughter, Peyton Birmingham, a son, Hardy Gray, born Webster, J.D., of Winston-Salem, N.C., a Scarlett, born March 27, 2007. Dec. 30, 2006. daughter, Lily, born Sept. 6, 2007. Amy Smith Minchin and Jonathan B. Libby and Jonathan E. Pope of Hampton ’02 Ryan and Katie Emerson Brewer ’03 of Minchin, M.B.A./J.D. ’03, of Birmingham, Cove, Ala., a son, Charlie, born June 1, Pelham, Ala., a son, Boston Neal, born twins, Abigail Lucy and Elizabeth Lauren, 2007. Aug. 1, 2007. born May 4, 2007. ALUMNI Craig G. and Libby Lovett Shadinger of Daniel and Mary Craft ’03 of Orlando, Amy Coe Pattillo and Jim Pattillo, J.D. Nashville, Tenn., a son, Austin Glen, born Fla., a daughter, Virginia Grace, born Oct. ’02, of Birmingham, a son, Matthew Aug. 24, 2007. 16, 2007. Sheldon, born Aug. 14, 2007. Jeff and Laurie Allen Shanks of Carrie Lewis Kreps, Pharm.D., and Chris and Erin Cheek Robbins of Homewood, a son, Allen Jeffrey, born Joseph C. Kreps, J.D. ’03, of Vestavia Hills, Alabaster, Ala., a son, Clayton David, born Aug. 29, 2007. Ala., a son, Joseph “Jay” Kreps, Jr., born July 12, 2007. July 26, 2007. Joel and Maria Burgess Walker of Dallas, William M. and Nicole San Souci Texas, a daughter, Scout Regan, born June Michael and Natalie Seanor Lea of Robbins ’01 of Chelsea, Ala., a son, 11, 2007. Bullock, N.C., a son, John David, born Gabriel Matthew, born Feb. 20, 2007. July 10, 2007. ’00 Matt and Rachel Westmoreland Blazer of Eric, J.D., and Carrie Tomlinson St. Louis, Mo., a daughter, Caroline Missy and Paul von Herrmann of Stevenson of Pensacola, Fla., a daughter, Kelton, born March 18, 2006. Pensacola, Fla., a daughter, Ellie Jeanne, Lucy Adams Shannon, born Dec. 12, 2006. born March 29, 2006. Shane and Rebecca Walker Burroughs of ’99 Sherri and Daniel Ausbun ’01 of Kissimmee, Fla., a son, Ethan Walker, born ’03 Taylor and Shannon Knipfer Knight of Moreland, Ga., a daughter, Elizabeth Dec. 7, 2005. Norfolk, Va., twin sons, Andrew Mark and Reese, born Sept. 6, 2007. William Taylor, born July 26, 2007. Stuart and Angela Ashley Davidson ’01 Luke and Mary K. Carter Campbell of of Montgomery, Ala., a son, Jay, born Dec. Mike and Heather Leger of North Aledo, Texas, sons, Carter Andrew, born 20, 2005. Lauderdale, Fla., a son, Caleb, born Jan. Dec. 24, 2005, and Luke Ryan, born Aug. 31, 2007. 2, 2007. Russell and Jessica Stephenson Taylor of Charlotte, N.C., a daughter, Kathryn Rose, ’04 Martin and Jamie Dorsett Jackson of James and Corrie Brooks Carr of born July 23, 2007. Deatsville, Ala., a son, Dorsett William, Charlotte, N.C., a daughter, Kendall born Sept. 4, 2007. Brooks, born Sept. 29, 2006. ’01 Corrie and Nathan D. Edwards of Hoover, Ala., a son, Daniel Tucker, born Michael and Courtney Mize of Dugald and Kristen Farmer Hall of Sept. 12, 2007. Birmingham, a son, Jonathan Phillip, born Birmingham, a daughter, Emma July 18, 2007. Elizabeth, born July 31, 2007. Sam and Shelli Nobles Henry of Memphis, Tenn., a son, Andersen James, Jay and Katherine Arnold Wolf of Jenny Douglass Hartzog and Neal born May 12, 2006. Malibu, Calif., a son, James Thompson, Hartzog ’00, J.D. ’02, of Alexandria, Va., a born Oct. 16, 2007. ■ son, Woodrow William, born Oct. 15, Luis and Angela Wilhite Mendoza of 2007. Hendersonville, Tenn., a son, Thomas Victor, born Aug. 27, 2007. William and Trisha Schramm Holmes of Mebane, N.C., a son, Henry Joseph, born Sept. 23, 2007.

’38 William Davis Jeffers, age 90, of Pell City, Ala., died Oct. 17, 2007. He retired from the U.S. Treasury Department. He was a long- inmemoriam time volunteer at Christian Love Pantry. Merle McCarty Ritchie of Mountain ’30 Harvelle Benjamin “Vic” Goodwin, Sr., ’31 Margaret McCorquodale Newell Brook, Ala., died Aug. 19, 2007. She was a age 99, of Hoover, Ala., died the afternoon Goodwin, age 97, of Hoover, Ala., died the retired teacher from Mountain Brook of Aug. 21, 2007. He ended his career with morning of Aug. 21, 2007. She taught fifth Elementary and Highlands Day School. the U.S. Postal Service as a postal inspector and sixth grades in Jefferson County She was a member of the Daughters of the in 1947 and started Goodwin Oil and Tire schools. She was a member of Daughters American Revolution, the Woman’s Club Company. He was chapter and state of the American Revolution and United and several garden clubs. At Samford, she president of the Alabama Independent Daughters of the Confederacy, a garden was May queen and a member of Alpha Service Station Association and a member club and literary study club. Delta Pi sorority. of the Alabama Oil Jobbers Association. In college, he lettered in baseball, basketball and football. He was an avid golfer for 70 years.

37 ’39 Kathleen Dodd Morgan, age 93, of Boaz, vice president of the Alabama Baptist Carter Mason, age 66, of Franklin, N.C., Ala., died Oct. 7, 2007. She taught school State Convention and president of the died Sept. 12, 2007, from a rare pul- for 40 years. She lived many years in Samford Alumni Association. He received monary illness. He was owner of Plaza Greenville, Ala., where she was education an honorary doctor of divinity from Pharmacy, a car enthusiast and collector, director at First Baptist Church. Samford in 1974. and an avid golfer. ’41 Mary Emily Wishart Andrews, age 86, of John M. Tinklepaugh, age 86, of ’63 Jack Snell, age 66, of Atlanta, Ga., died Birmingham, died Aug. 28, 2007. An Tuscaloosa, Ala., died Aug. 21, 2007. He Oct. 2, 2007, of pancreatic cancer. He was elementary school teacher, she was a owned and operated T. R. Taylor Drugstore a pastor for 40 years, including 20 years at board member of the Birmingham for many years. He was active in the Hendricks Avenue Baptist Church in Jefferson Historical Society, and member Tuscaloosa Retail Drug Association, square Jacksonville, Fla. In 2000, he became Asian

ALUMNI and president of the Arlington Historical dance club and other civic groups. During Mission Coordinator for Cooperative Association. She was a member of several World War II, he served in three PT boat Baptist Fellowship and at his death was civic and cultural organizations. squadrons in the Mediterranean Sea. He director of CBF’s Global Field Ministries. was a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Known as an ecumenical civic leader, he ’42 Florrie Thompson Hurtt, age 85, of was a founder of the CBF and a member Birmingham, died Sept. 1, 2007. She ’49 John D. Clinkscales, age 82, of LaGrange, of the Freedom and Justice Commission served 65 years in the Samford University Ga., died May 13, 2007. He was retired of the Baptist World Alliance. Auxiliary and was an active alumna of Phi controller of Milliken and Co. He was a Mu sorority. A leader in Woman’s U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. ’70 Mary Robinson Guffin, age 59, of Missionary Union activities, she partici- Tuscaloosa, Ala., died Oct. 22, 2007. An pated in many mission trips. She taught ’51 Edward Arakawa of Oak Ridge, Tenn., died elementary teacher and counselor, she was Sunday school for 70 years at Ruhama and March 15, 2007. Dr. Arakawa was a named 1995 Alabama Regular Teacher of the Huffman Baptist churches. physicist at Oak Ridge National Year by the Alabama Council for Exceptional Laboratory. Children. At Samford, she was active in Zeta ’43 Martha Lou Gober Smith, age 85, of Tau Alpha sorority and Baptist Student Birmingham, died Aug. 26, 2007. She Leroy J. “Jack” Carlisle, Jr., age 78, of Union, and was Student Government taught at Glen Iris/Epic School for many Hartselle, Ala., died Sept. 13, 2007. He was Association secretary. She was 1970 Class years. A past president of the Alabama a chemical engineer for Amoco Agent on the Samford Alumni Council. State Gospel Singing Convention, she was Chemicals, Co., for 24 years. He was a a founder and manager of the Cahaba tackle on the Samford football team ’72 W. J. “Bill” Nugent, M.A. ’80, of Oneonta, Heights Senior Center. before leaving school to serve in the U.S. Ala., died in April 2006. A minister, he was Air Force. pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church, ’45 Edward Cecil Little of Jonesborough, Cleveland, Ala., at his death. He taught Tenn., died Sept. 10, 2007. Cecil E. “Lollie” Howell, age 85, of many years in Samford’s Howard College Mobile, Ala., died Sept. 17, 2007. He was a Extension Division. ’47 Hugh O. Chambliss, age 83, of Huntsville, retired pharmacist and veteran of World Ala., died Sept. 24, 2007. He was executive War II, during which he was an infantry ’75 Gail Carroll Burton Eldredge, M.B.A., of director of Madison Baptist Association medic. A member of the Lion’s Club and Vestavia Hills, Ala., died Sept. 20, 2007. for 22 years, 1966–88. He was a former Mobile Touchdown Club, he was an avid She was a partner in Eldredge & Eldredge golfer with Mobile Seniors. CPA firm and secretary/treasurer of Burton Construction Company. A mem- June Baggett, Former ’52 Janie Wilson Greene, age 76, of Hoover, ber of national and state CPA groups, she Ala., died Aug. 24, 2007. A dietician, she was a Brownie and Girl Scout leader, Cub Auxiliary President, Dies was a past president of the Alabama Scout den mother, and youth sports coach. Dietetic Association. She worked at une Stewart Baggett Baptist Medical Center–Princeton, Samuel Olaniran Fadeji, age 65, of Jof Homewood, Ala., Carraway Hospital and Jefferson State Ogbomoso, Nigeria, died Aug. 14, 2007. who served on Community College, where an annual He held various posts at Nigerian Baptist Samford advisory scholastic award bears her name. Theological Seminary, Ogbomoso, where he boards and was a was most recently head of the department former president of ’53 Elizabeth Bartlett Brown of Trussville, Ala., of Biblical Studies. He was general secre- the Samford University died July 12, 2007. She was a nurse who tary of the Nigerian Baptist Convention, Auxiliary, died Sept. fondly recalled her days in nursing school. president of All Africa Baptist Fellowship 16. She was 80. ’54 Robert Lee Fausett, age 90, of Helena, and a committee member of the Baptist A Samford Ala., died Sept. 12 2007. He retired from World Alliance. He was a guest lecturer in June Baggett alumna, she was a U.S. Steel after 39 years. He enrolled at Old Testament at Samford in 1996. member of the Howard College in 1934, but dropped out ’92 Noel Johnson, J.D., age 39, of Gladewater, advisory boards of the because of his father’s health. After serving Howard College of Arts and Sciences and the Texas, died Aug. 23, 2007. He practiced in the U.S. Navy in Hawaii during World law in Longview, Texas. Christian Women’s Leadership Center. She War II, he attended college part-time until was a 50-year member of Shades Mountain he received his degree. ’95 Gretchen Hartung Anderson, age 44, of Baptist Church, where she taught a Sunday Seattle, Wash., died Sept. 1, 2007. She was school class for 20 years. ’58 H. Don Thornhill of Brevard, N.C., died a nurse. Her love of hiking and nature led As a student at Howard College in East Sept. 23, 2007. He was a retired business her to hike the Appalachian Trail. Lake, she met her future husband, Hudson, owner. Following renal failure and a kidney who later taught religion at Samford and ’62 Sherry Smith Clowdus, age 68, of transplant, she continued to serve others served as editor of The Alabama Baptist as a community volunteer. newspaper until his death in 1994. Glencoe, Ala., died Aug. 21, 2007. She She is survived by three sons, Mark, practiced pharmacy for 30 years in Florida ’01 Janna Love Henderson, Pharm.D., age 30, Dale and Tim, their spouses and six grand- and Alabama, and was president and of Arley, Ala., died Aug. 21, 2007, of breast children. Mark Baggett teaches English and secretary of the Bay County cancer. She was a pharmacist with Blue & law at Samford. ■ Pharmaceutical Association. Gray Drugs in Hanceville, Ala., and Vickers Drugs in Carbon Hill, Ala. ■

38 S of InternationalEducationInitiatives President BushAppointsCortsHead is platform “Music foraCure.” No. 1 inB-flatMinor. Her pageant Movement from Tchaikovsky’s Concerto the3rd her pianoperformance of pageant inJune. representwill Samford intheMiss Alabama Samford University 2008onNov. 9. She from Birmingham, wascrowned Miss A Amanda Tapley NamedMissSamford 2008 States invarious foreducation programs billion spentannually by theUnited skill.” compassion and new jobextraordinary United States,” shesaid. “He to his brings a distinguishededucationcareer inthe ground to hisnewjob. “Dr. hashad Corts astrong back- brings Bush saidCorts thenewassignment. to begin moved to Washington, D.C., inOctober literacy. Dr. andhiswife, Corts Marla, healthand at aluncheon onglobal Sept.appointment 24inNew York City Liberia, Mali and Yemen. Ghana, Honduras, countries: Ethiopia, million children insix provide edu cation to four include afive-year planto world. Theinitiatives education around the to support aid efforts coordinating U.S. foreign initiatives. cation Bush’s edu international - this fallrelated to President named to anewposition Thomas E. was Corts President Emeritus amford University performance andpremedicine major manda Tapley, asophomore piano update Tapley alsowon thetalentaward for Corts will coordinate will Corts nearly$1 In makingtheannouncement, Laura Bush announcedLaura the He isresponsible for CAMPUS Thomas E.Corts runner-up. Thorsby,Hamm of Ala., second Atlanta, Ga., firstrunner-up, andSusan instructor WitoldTurkiewicz. retired Samford piano of daughter Patricia Tapley, andJeff andthegrand- School,High of sheisthedaughter Corts noted.Corts Presidenttinue Bush, pasttheterm of appointment, itlikely would notcon - the newpositionisapresidential forfuture use.in Birmingham Because trustees. Samford board of was elected by president the emeritus Samford inMay 2006and president of of assume hisnewposition. He retired as 2007, butleftthatpostSept.of 30to Baptist Colleges andUniversities inJune theInternational of Association of agencies. Educationandother of Department Finalists were Katie of Robertson Christian Briarwood of A graduate The Cortses areThe Cortses keeping theirhome waselectedCorts executive director ■ ■ Department, the theState nated with Development andcoordi- Agency forInternational istered through theU.S. aretion programs admin- he said. al peace andprosperity,” consequences forglob- of initiative“This hasalot life, said. Corts of quality education, literacy and links between health, the difference becauseof potential formakinga developing countries. The foreign aideduca- The newposthasreal political science. degrees from Duke University—all in master’sCollege with andPh.D. World WarII. and international politics following 1930s and’40s, and domesticAmerican inthePacificmilitarism the during Japanese and imperialism of the origins the Indian independence movement, Worldof War I, phasesof thevarious and early20thcenturies, theaftermath movementmissionary inthelate 19th theChristian against thebackdrop of at abroad audience. It setsJones’ life published by Abingdon Press, isaimed leaders. Christian of which are biographies of majority more than30booksonreligion, the prize, authorof isnamedfortheBritish national award, acash which carries the Pollock Award in2001. Theinter- Beeson’sduring Oct. chapel service 16. since 1984, received thePollock Award Indianapolis politicalscience faculty sensitive to Indian traditions. religious from Empire theBritish andwas forindependenceIndian aspirations justice andspirituality. Jones supported wasequallyconcerned social who with later evangelist becameanitinerant in1907and as aMethodist missionary Jones (1884–1973), whowent to India Mission Jones. E. andevangelist Stanley missionary School forhis2005bookonChristian Samford University’s BeesonDivinity Award Biography from forChristian won the2007John Pollockprofessor, D Independence Supported Indian of Missionarywho to Graham Biography Pollock Award Goes Graham is a graduate of Davidson of isagraduate Graham Graham’s Jones, biography of School established Beeson Divinity the Graham, amemberof Man,Ordinary Extraordinary of Indianapolis politicalscience of r. Stephen A. Graham, aUniversity details thelifeandwork of ■ 39 UPDATE Women’s Basketball Bulldogs Picked Second by OVC Coaches

oach Mike Morris has made the Samford women’s basketball program a winner, as SPORTS evidenced by this year’s preseason coaches poll in the Ohio Valley Conference. CSamford was picked to finish second in the 11-team league. Morris and his team have higher expectations. They want to win the champion - ship. “If you don’t expect to win a championship, then nobody else will expect you to win one either,” he said. Career scoring leader and All-OVC first-teamer Alex Munday leads a trio of senior starters back from last year’s 18-13 team. She entered the season with 1,309 total points. Guards Taryn Towns and Megan Wilderotter also started for last year’s team that went to the semifinal round of the OVC tournament. “Everything starts with your seniors, then your point guard, and Taryn Towns is both,” said Morris. “She leads by example and is the most consistent player on the team. Alex Munday is a very special player who can score in bunches. Megan Wilderotter is our sparkplug at both ends of the court.” Gone from last year’s squad are guard Chelsee Insell, a 1,000-point career scorer; center Veronika Pike, last year’s rebound leader; and guard Tish Pilkington, who started 15 games. They were part of the best four-year record in Samford women’s history, winning 62 games. “A mark of a good program is to continue to be successful after losing quality players,” said Morris. He hopes to do so with a combination of returning letter - winners and freshmen. “Monica Maxwell has the chance to be an all-conference player, and Karmen Smith can produce on both ends of the court,” said the coach. He also thinks MaKenzie Spruiell and Chika Okoli will play well. Other returnees are Jennifer Elkins, Jessica Rhoden and Julianne Lackey. Coach Mike Morris Freshmen Emily London, Savannah Hill and Alex Crow—all guards— have shooting and passing skills to contribute this year. ■

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Nov. 9 at LSU** Jan. 17 at Morehead State* Nov. 13 ALABAMA Jan. 19 at Eastern Kentucky* Nov. 16 Second Round of WNIT Jan. 24 TENNESSEE–MARTIN* Nov. 17 Third Round of WNIT Jan. 26 AUSTIN PEAY* Nov. 24 vs. Missouri† Jan. 31 at Tennessee State* Nov. 25 at Florida Atlantic† Feb. 2 EASTERN ILLINOIS* Nov. 30 at New Orleans†† Feb. 9 at Austin Peay* Dec. 1 vs. George Washington†† Feb. 14 MOREHEAD STATE* Dec. 5 JACKSONVILLE STATE* Feb. 16 EASTERN KENTUCKY* Dec. 18 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI* Feb. 21 at Tennessee Tech* Dec. 20 MURRAY STATE* Feb. 23 at Murray State* Dec. 27 at Florida State Feb. 28 at Southeast Missouri* Jan. 2 LIPSCOMB March 1 at Eastern Illinois Jan. 5 at Tennessee–Martin* March 4 OVC First Round Jan. 7 at Jacksonville State* March 7–8 OVC Semifinals and Finals Jan. 10 TENNESSEE STATE* Jan. 12 TENNESSEE TECH*

*Ohio Valley Conference game **WNIT First Round game †Florida Atlantic Tournament ††University of New Orleans Tournament

2007–08 schedule 2007–08 Dates are subject to change. Home games are in BOLD CAPS.

40 Men’s Basketball Youth Having Its Day for Bulldogs SPORTS amford basketball coach Jimmy Tillette quipped that the last time he had a team this young was in high school. While the comment was tongue-in-cheek, Sit provided an accurate characterization of the 2007–08 Bulldogs. “I think the thing for us this season is that we’re so young,” said Tillette. “Our team will definitely improve, and we expect them to get a lot better as the season goes on, [but] it’s going to be a work in progress.” Tillette has three returning starters who have accounted for 157 starts in their careers, but none of the other 10 players has ever started a college game before this year. Gone are Randall Gulina, who led the Ohio Valley Conference in scoring at 18.1 points a game, and point guard Jerry Smith, a 10.3 scorer who set Samford’s career assists mark of 433. Travis Peterson, the 6-10 center, returns after averaging 11.3 points and five rebounds a game last year. The other starters back are guards Joe Ross Merritt (8.8 points) and Curtis West (6.0). Merritt leads returnees with 70 career starts. Tillette is Samford’s all-time winningest coach with a 165- 129 record entering his 11th season. One of his strengths is leading young teams. His first Samford team was the youngest Division I squad in America with one senior and four sophomore starters. It went 14-13, and the next year became the first Bulldog team to go to the NCAA tournament. Other lettermen back are sophomores Trey Montgomery, Bryan Friday, Jim Griffin and Savoy Fraine. Montgomery likely will contend with West for the point guard job vacated by Smith. Friday is a possibility at the other guard spot, and Griffin and Fraine at forward. Andy King at center and Gabe Bermudez at point guard are redshirt freshmen expected to play some. Josh Bedwell, a hot-shooting true freshman guard, could see playing time after scoring 24.8 a game in high school. Samford was picked seventh in the preseason poll of OVC coaches. Last year’s team was 16-16, but went to the semifinal round of the OVC tournament. ■

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Nov. 11 at Evansville Jan. 17 at Morehead State* Nov. 15 BELMONT Jan. 19 at Eastern Kentucky* Nov. 20 TOWSON Jan. 24 TENNESSEE–MARTIN* Nov. 24 BREWTON-PARKER Jan. 26 AUSTIN PEAY* Nov. 26 at Lipscomb Jan. 29 at Murray State* Dec. 2 at Florida State Jan. 31 at Tennessee State* Dec. 6 JACKSONVILLE STATE* Feb. 2 EASTERN ILLINOIS* (ESPNU) Feb. 9 at Austin Peay* Dec. 15 REINHARDT Feb. 14 MOREHEAD STATE* Dec. 18 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI* Feb. 16 EASTERN KENTUCKY* Dec. 20 MURRAY STATE* Feb. 23 at ESPN BracketBuster Dec. 29 at Clemson Feb. 28 at Southeast Missouri* Jan. 3 at Tennessee Tech* March 1 at Eastern Illinois* Jan. 5 at Tennessee–Martin* March 4 OVC First Round Jan. 7 at Jacksonville State* March 7 OVC Semifinals Jan. 10 TENNESSEE STATE* March 8 OVC Championship Jan. 12 TENNESSEE TECH*

*Ohio Valley Conference game Dates are subject to change. Home games are in BOLD CAPS.

2007–08 schedule 2007–08 Coach Jimmy Tillette

41 42 SPORTS During Sullivan’s First Season Bulldogs Show Promise Chris Evans improvement offensively both anddefen- howlearn to win.” theseason. But, of beginning we have to a better team now thanwe were atthe thisteam,of andthere’s noquestionwe are Sullivan saidlate intheyear. “I amproud from beingallthatitcould have been. come mistakesout- kept thatfrustrating the edged S OVC Female Athlete the of Year forthe 2005and2007. of thesprings during Championships inSacramento, Calif., honors attheNCAA Track andField cross-country. University to earn statusin All-American Championships Nov. 17atIndiana State the University Nov. Florida of 10. by finishingthird race at intheregional tothird theNCAAChampionships trip OVC titleOct. 27, shequalifiedforher [NCAA] championship events thisfall. NationalCollegiate Athletic Association in Championshipsand Cross Country S Cross-Country All-American Blankenship Named sively over lastseason. However, kicking- The Bulldogs went 4-7andshowed “We have to how learn to win,” Football ChampionshipDivision game breakdowns andothermistakes inaugural season this fall but acknowl- seasonthisfallbut inaugural saw histeam’s during somegood things amford Head Football Coach Pat Sullivan highest pointtotal everhighest againsta I-AA)team(formerly ina59-52win 25.4 pointsagameandscored their exciting times. TheBulldogs averaged over Tennessee Tech. hurt thefinaloutcome,hurt costing the State (38-28). Austin Peay (28-25)andTennessee The Bulldog senior was namedthe Blankenship won All-American She thenfinished24thintheNCAA After herthird consecutive winning Bulldogs especiallyinclose losses to ways intheOhio Valley Conference Blankenship, con tinued herwinning amford’s All-American runner, Lauren Adcock ledtheway against Senior quarterback JeffersonSenior quarterback Still, Samford’s offensemadefor win win All-OVC second-team honors. a13th-place finishtoled themenwith sixth intheOVC meet. Drew Anderwald named to the All-OVC second team. Lauren Pilcher finished13thandwas were first-team All-OVC selections. the of Year honors. Blankenship andNeal finished sixthto Female earn Freshman OVC race. Bulldog Neal freshman Hillary women’s team to second place inthe McWaters. blistered thecourse,” saidCoach Glenn there. recorded ever time 17:26.34wasthefastest collegiate time of Park School High inHoover, Ala. Her ference meethosted by Samford atSpain third the con- timethisfallafter winning losses totaling 51yards. respectively. McCurty had13.5tacklesfor 88and80, yearfor thesecond with straight McCurty ledtheBulldog defenseintackles Russell’s 1,236 yards in1999. total rushing sincethe highest Jerome gaining 1,033yards in185carries. It was also created someoffensive excitement, yards and 18touchdowns. 193catchesplace all-timewith for2,759 touchdowns. He endedhiscareer inthird 61passesfor996yardscaught andsix 5,725yards.Bulldog passerswith Moore placecareer all-timeamong infourth touchdowns ontheseason, andfinishedhis against Tennessee–Martin in2003. topped Efrem Hill’s 223yards total of 451 yards against Wingate in1987. Moore yards andthree touchdowns. thepassesforaBulldog-recordnine of 260 touchdowns. Receiver Moore Jeff caught for aSamford-record 472yards andfive Tennessee Tech, 40passes completing 29of The Samford men’s team finished That performance ledtheSamford “She really went outthere and Linebackers Rodney Shepherd andJay Freshman Evans backChris running Adcock passedfor2,472yards and14 Adcock broke Jimbo Fisher’s record of ■ ■ Soccer Team Caps OVC Tenure with Best Season Record he Samford soccer team closed out its The Bulldogs outscored their five-year run in the Ohio Valley opponents 43-16 this season and allowed SPORTS TConference by posting the best season only six goals in 11 matches against record in school history (15-5-1). The success OVC foes. They held nine oppo- gave the Bulldogs a staggering nents scoreless. Samford was the 38-6-7 record against league opponents dur- conference’s top-ranked team ing their OVC tenure. Samford moves to the in assists (36), points (122) Southern Conference next year. and goals-against average Coach Todd Yelton’s team fought to a (0.73). The season total in 1-1 tie with Southeast Missouri in the goals (43) was a Samford OVC tournament championship game record. Nov. 11 at Cape Girardeau, Mo., but lost Lauren Cook and Amber on penalty kicks, 5-3, after two overtime Cress led Bulldog scoring with periods. 21 points each, and Applegate The Bulldogs became the first OVC added 18. team in history to earn an at-large bid to The Bulldogs were the NCAA tournament, but lost to ranked as high as 14th in Louisiana State, 1-0, in overtime Nov. 16. the South region by “I’m extremely proud of this team and Soccer Buzz magazine how hard they played,” said Yelton. “They during the season. Three left their hearts out on the field, and they of their losses were to did a great job of controlling everything regionally ranked that they could control.” opponents—Auburn, Three Samford players were named to Miami and Indiana. ■ the OVC All-Tournament team: seniors Heather Birdsell and Cassie Applegate, and sophomore Cindy Spiker.

Cassie Applegate

Volleyball Improves by 10 Wins to Go 16-13 amford’s volleyball team christened the over Morehead State thwarted the Eagles’ new Pete Hanna Center with a pair of hopes of winning the Ohio Valley Swins over Eastern Kentucky and Conference regular-season title outright. Morehead State Nov. 9–10. In the process, Samford finished with an 11-9 OVC the Bulldogs finished the season with a 16-13 record, its best in five years of league record, their first winning campaign. membership. “It’s a great way to open Pete Hanna “Our program has grown and is Center, for us to get two wins and to be going in the right direction as we head able to finish the season on a winning toward the Southern Conference next note,” said Coach Michelle Durban. “It year. We’ve got a core group coming back definitely shows how hard this team has and we are replacing one starter,” said worked.” Durban. The final match honored Samford’s The Bulldogs improved by 10 wins two seniors, Robin Bishop and Angela this year, having won only six matches Dempski. The win over Eastern Kentucky during last year’s injury-riddled season. ■ was Samford’s first ever, while the victory

43 New Preministerial Scholarship Program Helps Students Form Their Ministries

by Maegan Wilson

SCHOLARSHIPS ast spring, Samford’s Department of Religion awarded eight students the Lnew Preministerial Scholarship. This merit scholarship is offered to students who demonstrate a clear calling to full-time min- istry in a traditional, church-related position, as well as high academic standards, and giftedness and com petence in areas demanded by church-related ministries. Students awarded this scholarship initially can receive as much as $11,000 per year. This amount can increase to $16,000 for recipients who successfully maintain the scholarship requirements and are recommended by the religion department and the Preministerial Scholarship Committee. The committee consists of religion department members, Samford faculty, local ministers and members of the Samford Board of Ministerial Mentors. The application deadline is January Dr. James Barnette (center, green sweater) chats with Preministerial Scholarship holders, 15, 2008. The inaugural scholarships were from left, Ellen Donze, William Deal, Jere Mahaffey, Lauren Welty and Emily Snider. offered to selected juniors and seniors. Beginning in 2008, the scholarships will be targeted for entering freshmen. Ultimately, be Feb. 2, 2008, at Preministerial Scholars introduced me to a variety of the scholarship committee hopes to give Day, Barnette noted. “This will be a time opportunities.” out as many as 50 scholarships. for students to come with their parents Samford junior Landon Eckhardt, “The money and support from the and receive information through semi- who desires to be a senior pastor in an administration are there for the program nars, to ask questions and to learn about urban setting, feels the scholarship to expand,” said Dr. James Barnette, asso- the Samford distinction. There’s nothing program has given him encouragement ciate professor of religion and director of like this scholarship and program at and confirmation in where he is going. ministerial formation. “Just as there are other schools.” Senior Ellen Donze, who hopes to premed, prelaw and prepharmacy The program strives to award become a religion professor, agreed. “In programs, we want to develop a pre - students in each type of ministry. The the seriousness of calling, there’s comfort ministerial program that will train up the diverse group of eight juniors and seniors in knowing you have guidance,” she said. most capable ministers of tomorrow.” that previously earned the scholarship is Deal has been highly involved in To be eligible for the scholarship, evidence of this. “We represent every facet Project Timothy internships, which have applying students must have a sense of of ministry,” said junior William Deal. helped facilitate his call to youth ministry. calling to full-time ministry in such roles “Not one of us wants to do the same “I get to experience areas of ministry that as senior pastor, associate pastor, minister thing with our ministries, and all types of I know I’m called and not called to,” he of education, minister of music, minister denominations are represented as well.” said. “Experiencing different sides of of youth, minister of children, career mis- Once students receive the scholar- ministry has helped prepare me.” ■ sionary (nonmedical), hospital chaplain, ship, they must meet various require- campus minister, pastoral counselor, or ments such as maintaining a 3.0 GPA, Maegan Wilson is a student writer in the seminary or religion professor. completing ministry internships coordi- Samford Office of Communication. In addition, applicants must declare nated through Project Timothy and a religion major or minor and attend an participating in Ministry Cadres, which accredited seminary, divinity school or facilitate vocational and spiritual growth For more information, contact: religion graduate program within two in a community setting. Preministerial Scholars Program years of graduation. Applicants also must Senior Lauren Welty plans to be a Department of Religion show leadership in extracurricular activi- children’s minister and has seen the doors Samford University ties, and represent the highest moral the scholarship has opened for her. “This 800 Lakeshore Drive standards and principles. scholarship is not one-dimensional,” she Birmingham, AL 35229 The first chance for high school said. “Being able to network with dif- 205-726-2925 seniors to interview for the program will ferent ministers in the community has

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ith a charitable gift annuity at Samford University, you can brighten your own path ANNUITY RATES (ONE DONOR) during your lifetime AND the path of students at Samford for generations to come. Age at Gift Date Payment Rate Accomplish two objectives with one asset: make a gift to Samford and start 90 11.3% W 85 9.5% receiving income for yourself. 80 8.0% 75 7.1% 70 6.5% Charitable gift annuities offer a number of benefits to donors: (Two-life rates are lower.) ■ security of a high, fixed income ■ capital gains tax savings ■ partially tax-free income ■ help Samford students for generations RETIREMENT ANNUITY RATES (ONE DONOR) ■ current income tax deduction to come Age at Gift Date Payment Rate* 60 7.6% 55 9.7% 50 12.3% A charitable gift annuity works as a contract between a donor and Samford. In exchange for a 45 15.7% gift of $10,000 or more, Samford agrees to pay the donor (or two donors) a fixed income for 40 20.1% life. After the lives of the donor or donors, the amount remaining becomes the gift to Samford. *Rate is percent of original gift value and assumes payments begin at age 65. (Two-life rates are lower.)

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45 withappreciation Samford University expresses gratitude for these additional tribute gifts received Aug. 15, 2007–Oct. 31, 2007. For further information, contact the Samford University Gift Office at (205) 726-2807. Mr. Michael C. Teel, Birmingham Mrs. Margaret C. Northrup, Birmingham GIVING HONORS Brewer/Grooms Scholarship Mr. & Mrs. Cliff I. Thompson, Birmingham Ms. Elizabeth J. Nunnelley, Birmingham in honor of Valleydale Baptist Church Miss Jennifer C. Thompson, Birmingham Mr. Philip L. Patterson, Hoover, Ala. Anonymous Ms. Variyaporn Vangtan, Lawrenceville, Ga. Mr. & Mrs. Philip Poole, Hoover, Ala. Mr. John M. Venable, Birmingham Dr. A. Earl Potts, Homewood Sigurd F. Bryan Scholarship Fund Mr. & Mrs. James A. Ward III, Birmingham Riverchase Baptist Church, Birmingham in honor of Dr. Sigurd F. Bryan Ms. Melissa K. Woodley, Hoover, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Roddam, Vestavia Hills, Ala. Rev. & Mrs. Dean Hampton, Port Orange, Fla. Dr. & Mrs. Thomas W. Woolley, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. E. Erle Smith, Birmingham Education Library Renovation Project Wormely Insurance Agency, Birmingham Ms. Celeste L. Till, Birmingham in honor of Ms. Carol Cohen, Mr. & Mrs. Joe Erdberg, Mr. & Mrs. Alexander H. Wright, Jr., Trussville, Ala. Mr. Thomas E. Walker, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Steve Lichter, and Mr. & Mrs. Don U. York, Trussville, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Tyra R. Warren, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Fierman History Department Fund Dr. & Mrs. Ruric E. Wheeler, Birmingham Mrs. Carole M. Epstein, Trussville, Ala. in honor of Dr. David M. Vess Mr. & Mrs. H. C. Williamson, Jr., Gainesville, Fla. Ms. Glenda J. Yeager, Gardendale, Ala. General Scholarship Fund Ms. Jenny L. Smith, Birmingham in honor of Mr. John W. & Carol Duren Howard College of Arts and Sciences Fund Beeson Divinity School Discretionary Fund Mr. & Mrs. Samuel R. McPherson, Warrior, Ala. in honor of Joe Boone Abbott in memory of Rev. Dr. John T. Porter in honor of Mrs. Donna K. Fitch Mr. Charles K. Horn, Brandon, Miss. Hon. & Mrs. T. V. Pittman, Mobile, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Joshua Ransome, Chelsea, Ala. W. Mike Howell Undergraduate Research Assistantship Jane Hollock Brock Hall Fund Fred Hendon Scholarship Fund in honor of Dr. William M. Howell in memory of Evelyn J. Sylvia in honor of Dr. Fred N. Hendon Dr. Susan F. Bradley, Birmingham Ms. Jessica L. Kelley, Chelsea, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Delbert J. Allen, Jr., Trussville, Ala. Dr. & Mrs. Larry J. Davenport Brookwood Baptist/Marjorie H. Pittman Scholarship Mr. & Mrs. Kirkwood R. Balton, Birmingham Pintlala Baptist Church/Gary P. Burton Scholarship in memory of Mrs. Marjorie Holcomb Pittman Ms. Allison A. Boone & Mr. Edward A. Mr. John R. Cannon, Nashville, Tenn. Williamson, Birmingham in honor of Rev. Gary P. Burton Pintlala Baptist Church, Hope Hull, Ala. Dr. & Mrs. J. Carey Gwin, Jasper, Ala. Dr. & Mrs. James S. Brown, Jr., Birmingham Mr. Glenn Ireland II, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. William Kirk Browne, Pelham, Ala. in honor of Pintlala Baptist Church Anonymous Mr. & Mrs. Stuart A. Johnson, Powhatan, Va. Mr. & Mrs. John M. Burke, Arlington, Texas Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. McAnnally, Helena, Ala. Mr. William H. Cole, Montevallo, Ala. University Library Mr. James A. Taylor, Shoal Creek, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. R. Coffee Colvin, Birmingham in honor of Jean Thomason Rev. & Mrs. David L. Corts, Sr., Peoria, Ariz. Ms. Claire Bettag, Washington, D.C. Center for Business Ethics Dr. & Mrs. J Bradley Creed, Homewood Ms. Lynda Suffridge, North Little Rock, Ark. in memory of Mrs. Frances Marlin Mann Mrs. Danielle M. Davis, Birmingham Ames Family Foundation, Mayfield Heights, Ohio Mr. & Mrs. Willard L. Dean, Birmingham MEMORIALS Mr. & Mrs. Jack Bartlett, Birmingham Mrs. Gretchen J. Dorsey, Birmingham Hudson D. & June Stewart Baggett Scholarship Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Black, Columbus, Ga. Mr. Lloyd East, Rockwall Texas in memory of Mrs. June S. Baggett Mr. Daniel P. Bork, Nicholasville, Ky. Mrs. Lucy T. Edmunds, Hagerstown, Md. Mrs. Ann W. Armstrong, Montgomery, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Bruce, Mount Olive, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Brian Feldman, Birmingham The Association of College English Teachers of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Bruce, Birmingham Mr. J. Timothy Francis, Birmingham Alabama [ACETA], Andalusia Ala. Carolyn and Mike Maples Foundation, Austin, Texas Mr. & Mrs. Donald M. Fulton, Hoover, Ala. Aztec Construction Co., Inc., Birmingham Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc., New York, N.Y. Mr. & Mrs. Billy T. Gamble, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Stanley E. Bates, Hoover, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. J. Weldon Cole, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Dr. & Mrs. Carl W. Gooding, Anniston, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Michael K. Beard, Birmingham Dr. & Mrs. W. G. Crutchfield, Raleigh, N.C. Mr. & Mrs. Douglas R. Hackney, Spanish Fort, Ala. Ms. Ann M. Bereiter, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Dirks, Bradenton, Fla. Mrs. Sabrina W. Hayes, Pelham, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Philip A. Blankenship, Hayden, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Jerry P. Epting, Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. Lynn M. Headley, Birmingham Gov. Albert P. Brewer, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Marshall C. Evans, Raleigh, N.C. Dr. Elizabeth B. & Mr. James T. Holloway, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Gray C. Buck III, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. William R. Fields, Austin, Texas Mr. William C. Ireland, Jr., Nashville, Tenn. Mr. & Mrs. Edwin C. Bush, Hoover, Ala. First Baptist Church of Raleigh, Raleigh N.C. Mr. & Mrs. Mark Jenkins, Birmingham Dr. & Mrs. David W. Chapman, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Mark Fleming, Raleigh, N.C. Dr. Steven T. Jones, Birmingham Mrs. Sara D. Clark, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. David L. Goodnight, Lexington, Ky. Mr. Rand Key, Las Vegas, Nev. Mr. & Mrs. Bob Clements, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Frank M. Hardy, Oakton, Va. Mr. & Mrs. Walter L. LaGroue, Birmingham Mr. C. Mark Collinsworth, Midland, Texas Mr. & Mrs. George H. Heilmeier, Dallas, Texas Dr. Sarah C. Latham, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Jim Folsom, Cullman, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Monty Hogewood, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Jerry L. Lawson, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Raymond French, Thornton, Colo. IBM Employee Services, Boston, Mass. Ms. Joan W. Lightfoot, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Clarence D. Greene, Pelham, Ala. Ms. Jeri L. Isbell, Lexington, Ky. Mr. & Mrs. Chester R. Lilly III, Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Rebecca R. Griffith, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Johnston, Lexington, Ky. Dr. David L. Loudon, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. David W. Harris, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Donald J. Kirk, Greenwich, Conn. Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Mathews, Jr., Birmingham Ms. Betty Leeth Haynes, Cullman, Ala. Dr. Eloise T. Kirk & Mr. John L. Kirk, Jr., Troy, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Willard McCall, Jr., Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Martin J. Heslin, Vestavia Hills, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. E. J. Laurent, St. Augustine, Fla. Mr. James H. Murphy, Leawood, Kan. Mr. & Mrs. Monty Hogewood, Birmingham Mr. Ned C. Lautenbach, New York, N.Y. Miss Shirley K. Naro, Pelham, Ala. Holcombe Norton Partners, Inc., Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Leet, Raleigh, N.C. Mr. & Mrs. Peter F. Neuberger, Birmingham Homewood Patriots Youth Football League Lexmark International, Lexington Ky. Dr. Stefan C. Norrbin, Birmingham Dr. & Mrs. Randolph C. Horn, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. S. Allan Luihn, Cary, N.C. Mr. & Mrs. David C. Parker, Hoover, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Hunt, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Maxwell, Kerrville, Texas Dr. Onsurang Pipatchaipoom, Birmingham Ingram Investment Company, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. John H. McCarthy, Houston, Texas Mr. & Mrs. Donald Rhea, Gadsden, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. William M. Kremer, Hoover, Ala. Mr. William O. McCoy, Chapel Hill, N.C. Dr. & Mrs. Ralph E. Rozell, Bessemer, Ala. Ms. Marcy Manning, Hanceville, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. David P. Messerlie, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Mrs. Nan S. Shelley, Birmingham Rev. & Mrs. Mike McLemore, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Jean-Paul L. Montupet, Clayton, Mo. Ms. Donna M. Smith, Irondale, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. McLeod, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Gary E. Morin, Lexington, Ky. Mr. Patrick H. Smith, Jr., Birmingham Drs. Michael & Terry Morgan, Homewood Murphy Family Trust of 2004, Hopkinton N.H. Mr. James A. Stephens, Jr., Bessemer, Ala. Mrs. Kathryn M. Newell, Birmingham Ms. Bobbie Mann Naish, Birmingham 46 Mr. & Mrs. Donald W. Newsom, Birmingham McWhorter School of Pharmacy Shepherd Legacy Piano Fund Mr. and Mrs. Dennis F. Powers, Lexington, Ky. in memory of Mary Sue Martin in memory of Dr. Betty Sue G. Shepherd Mr. & Mrs. Mardis L. Price, Robertsdale, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Mike Davenport, Moody, Ala. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Alosi, Indian Springs, Ala. Purcell, Flanagan & Hay, P.A., Jacksonville Fla. Ms. Martha Jane Lockhart, Lawrenceville, Ga. Birmingham Music Teachers Association Ms. Kathi P. Seifert, Appleton, Wis. Miller/Shepherd Piano Scholarship Fund Ms. Kay R. Brotherton, Huntsville, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Howard T. Shell, Raleigh, N.C. in memory of Dr. Betty Sue G. Shepherd Mr. & Mrs. Ben Carr, Augusta, Ga. Mr. & Mrs. Mark D. Sisk, Nicholasville, Ky. Mrs. Lena W. Crouch, Birmingham Mrs. Sarah P. Douglas, Erin, Tenn. Mr. & Mrs. Ray A. Smith, Jacksonville, Fla. Dr. Christina H. Duffey, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Dressler, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. John A. Stanley, Chambourcy, France Mrs. Ann W. Edwards, Stow, Ohio Dr. Morgan Eiland and Dr. Susan Eiland, Birmingham Ms. Ann W. Stephenson, Henrico, N.C. Mrs. Mary A. Glazner, Birmingham Mr. Gavin M. Fulmer, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Samuel J. Stigler, Chattanooga, Tenn. Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Hunt, Birmingham Mrs. Jan Fulmer, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Ernest Sumner, Peachtree City, Ga. Mrs. LaNelle Moore Lester, Powder Springs, Ga. Ms. Jane W. Gibbs, Birmingham GIVING Mr. & Mrs. James M. Tingle, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Bill Murray, Trussville, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Keith N. Hibbs, Wetumpka, Ala. Mr. Richard L. Vann, Birmingham Mrs. Jane D. Naish, Clayton, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry W. Jones, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Charles T. Wilson, Charlotte, N.C. Mr. Neil S. Nation, Rockvale, Tenn. Mrs. Constance H. Macon, Columbiana, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Richard C. Wittmann, Pequot Lakes, Minn. Mr. & Mrs. Philip Poole, Hoover, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Penick, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Woolley, Birmingham Dr. Robert E. Taylor, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Derek Pierce, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Don U. York, Trussville, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Peter Seirafi, Jasper, Ala. Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing Fred Chestnut Scholarship Dr. & Mrs. Ronald R. Shinn, Birmingham in memory of Don Craft Mr. and Mrs. Jay St. Clair, Birmingham in memory of Mr. Fred Chestnut Ms. Sandra W. Craft, Birmingham Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Dr. and Mrs. Richard N. Vest III, Odenville, Ala. in memory of Dr. K. W. Gilmore Dr. & Mrs. Richard N. Vest, Jr., Branchville, Ala. Southeastern Pennsylvania Mr. & Mrs. J. Bruce Hoven, Jackson, Ala. Jon & Marianne Clemmensen Endowed Fund Bonnie & John Swearingen Scholarship Fund ODK Memorial Fund in memory of Dr. John E. Swearingen, Jr. in memory of Mrs. Marianne Johnston Clemmensen in memory of Caitlin Creed Dr. Jon Clemmensen, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. A. Robert Abboud, Fox River Grove, Ill. Ms. Mary K. Covert, Meridian, Miss. Arthur S. Ludwig, Jr. Trust, Birmingham Mr. Van Hollingsworth, Birmingham Dr. J. Roderick Davis, Birmingham Mr. Taylor Hollingsworth, Birmingham Ms. Jamie L. Becker, Bradenton, Fla. Miss Patrice R. Donnelly, Birmingham Ms. Margie N. Bolding, Birmingham Caitlin Creed Memorial Fund Dr. Rosemary M. Fisk, Birmingham Mr. Zach K. Brinkerhoff, Denver, Colo. in memory of Caitlin Elizabeth Creed Mr. & Mrs. James T. Holloway, Birmingham Ms. Buffy Cafritz, Bethesda, Md. Dr. & Mrs. Randolph C. Horn, Birmingham Mr. Robert Tyler Howell, Haleyville, Ala. Ms. Aurica Coltea, Hinsdale, Ill. Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Hunt, Birmingham Ms. Jessica E. Johnson, Daphne, Ala. Mr. John B. Cooney, Birmingham George T. Crocker Memorial Scholarship Mr. Kenneth P. Kell, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Bosko Djordjevic, Los Angeles, Calif. in memory of Mr. George T. Crocker Ms. Katie Lantz, Lytton, Iowa Mr. & Mrs. John W. Duren, Savannah, Ga. Mrs. Frances S. Goodhew, Birmingham Ms. Elizabeth K. Martin, Tupelo, Miss. Mr. Stephen F. Gates, Houston, Texas Mr. Christopher J. McCaghren, Vestavia Hills, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Pete M. Hanna, Fairfield, Ala. Division of Music Dr. Christopher P. Metress, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Harold L. Hunt, Birmingham in memory of Dr. Betty Sue Shepherd Ms. Emily Anne Parker, Birmingham, Ala. Mr. Robert S. Ingersoll, Evanston, Ill. Mrs. Kathryn W. Fraley, Georgetown, Ky. Dr. Nena F. Sanders & Dr. Tom J. Sanders, Calera, Ala. Dr. & Mrs. Mark LeClerc, Lafayette, Calif. Education Library Renovation Project Mr. Jeffrey S. Stephens, Memphis, Tenn. Mr. F. P. Mannix, Calgary, Alberta, Canada in memory of Virginia Collins The Oakley Group, Inc., Birmingham Lt. Gen. William K. Martin, Park City, Utah Mr. Mike Cohen, Birmingham Dr. Carol Ann Vaughn, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Harry A. Miller, Jr., Midland, Texas Ms. Claire E. Woods, Birmingham Mr. Walker N. Moody, Houston, Texas Friends of Samford Arts Fund Preparatory Music Drs. Michael & Terry Morgan, Homewood in memory of Dr. Betty Sue Shepherd Mr. & Mrs. Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr., Baltimore, Md. Dr. & Mrs. Donald C. Sanders, Birmingham in memory of Mrs. Debra Heilman Gravois Mr. & Mrs. James Heilman, Foley, Ala. Mr. Fayez Sarofim, Houston, Texas William D. Geer Scholarship Endowed Fund, and Mr. & Mrs. William J. Stevens, Birmingham Milburn Price Scholarship the Leslie S. and Lolla W. Wright Scholarship Katherine Victoria “Kavi” Vance Scholarship in memory of Nancy Nail Housand in memory of Ms. Jeanette Ellison Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Wayne Thomason, Birmingham in memory of Mrs. Katherine H. Smith Ms. Irene McCombs, Gardendale, Ala. Mr. Harry S. Abrams, Eutaw, Ala. General Scholarship Fund Tim Sumner Robinson Forum Fund Dean & Mrs. Paul G. Aucoin, Birmingham in memory of Rev. B Max Byrd in memory of Timothy Sumner Robinson Mrs. James E. Banks, Eutaw, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Clark Edwards, Enterprise, Ala. Ms. Bonnie S. Gutman, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Ann Banks, Eutaw, Ala. in memory of Ms. Jeanette Ellison Samford Fund Mrs. Corajean T. Barrett, Asheville, N.C. Mrs. Anethia A. Reliford, Birmingham in memory of Mrs. Sarah A. Glass Cliff A. Logan & Associates, Inc., Eutaw Ala. in memory of Mrs. Sarah A. Glass Mrs. Sara D. Clark, Birmingham Ms. Marguerite T. Cline, Waleska, Ga. Ms. Faye N. O’Grady, Birmingham in memory of Dr. Betty Sue G. Shepherd Mrs. Myrtice D. Davenport, Eutaw, Ala. Mrs. Cynthia W. Watts, Leesburg, Ga. Mrs. Melvin K. Durrett, Eutaw, Ala. Pete Hanna Arena Restricted Gift Fund Mrs. Louise Garrard, Wrightsville, Ga. in memory of Mrs. Martha Farmer Brewer in memory of Dr. Jack Alton Snell Mrs. Sara D. Clark, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. James E. Gay Jr, Eutaw, Ala. Hon. Albert P. Brewer, Birmingham Mrs. Dale E. Glover, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Mary Ann Hocutt Memorial Scholarship Samford Auxiliary Life Membership Fund Ms. Lucy B. Harper, Montgomery, Ala. in memory of Dr. Mary Ann Hocutt in memory of Mrs. June S. Baggett Mrs. Joanne H. Higgins, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Dan Carter, Birmingham Dr. & Mrs. Arthur E. Christmas, Evansville, Ind. Mr. & Mrs. Monty Hogewood, Birmingham Jenkins Research Assistantship Fund Samford Auxiliary Scholarship Endowment Mrs. Bobbie Hussey, Adrian, Ga. in memory of Dr. Ronald L. Jenkins in memory of Mrs. June S. Baggett Ms. Camilla C. Huxford, Boligee, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Dustin T. Allen, Sterrett, Ala. Dr. & Mrs. William R. Baggett, Alpharetta, Ga. Jamison, Money, Farmer & Co, P.C., Tuscaloosa Ala. Mrs. Malissa R. Bennett & Mr. David S. Mrs. Launa M. Bass, Birmingham Ms. Anne E. Kyle, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Berezansky, Alexandria, Va. Birmingham Baptist WMU, Birmingham Ms. Danelle D. Lamartiniere, Birmingham Dr. & Mrs. Larry J. Davenport Mrs. A. Gerow Hodges, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. John W. Lamb, Eutaw, Ala. Dr. Elizabeth G. Dobbins, Homewood Mrs. W. Russell Jacks, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. Claude Livingston, Eutaw, Ala. Dr. Christina H. Duffey, Birmingham Mrs. Virginia Lambert, Florence, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. James M. McLelland, Jr., Eutaw, Ala. Dr. & Mrs. Ronald N. Hunsinger, Leeds, Ala. Mrs. Mack McCollum, Birmingham Mr. & Mrs. William R. Odom, Boligee, Ala. Mrs. Helen W. Jenkins, Nolensville, Tenn. Mrs. Mary B. McCullough, Birmingham Dr. Renee Allen Peacock, Birmingham Mr. Christopher F. Labosier, Northport, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Mitch Nelson, Birmingham Ms. Julia G. Perry, Moore Haven, Fla. Mrs. Mary B. McCullough, Birmingham Mrs. Elizabeth M. Overton, Helena, Ala. Ms. Rose A. Potter, Gulfport, Miss. Mr. & Mrs. John W. Riddle, Nolensville, Tenn. Somerby Garden Homeowner’s Association, Homewood Mr. & Mrs. Rucker L. Staggers, Eleberta, Ala. Mr. & Mrs. Glenn F. Till, Jr., Birmingham in memory of Dr. Joe P. Smith and Mrs. Katherine H. Smith McCullough Scholarship in Biology in memory of Florrie Hurtt Ms. Sarah L. Jeames, Eutaw, Ala. in memory of Herbert McCullough Mrs. Dorothy Y. Roberts, Birmingham in memory of Katherine “Kavi” Victoria Vance Mrs. Mary B. McCullough, Birmingham Langston & Langston, PLLC, Jackson Miss. ■ 47 Hopkins, Richard Faith, 7:30 p.m., Brock Recital Hall

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CALENDAR OF CALENDAR Alumni luncheon, 11 a.m., Flag Colonnade, Beeson University events Center, 205-726-2443 For details or the complete Samford University calendar, go to www.samford.edu/calendars/html. Feb. 14–16 Step Sing, 7 p.m., Wright Center Concert Hall, Dec. 15 Commencement, 10 a.m., Pete Jan. 28 Spring semester classes begin www.samfordtickets.com Hanna Center Jan. 29 University Convocation Feb. 15 Cumberland School of Law Dec. 15–16 Alabama Ballet presents The continuing education seminar, Nutcracker, 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 Feb. 1 Mathematical Association of Robinson Hall, 205-726-2865 p.m., Wright Center Concert America, Alabama state Hall, www.alabamaballet.org dinner, 6 p.m., Flag Colonnade, Feb. 16 National Federation of Music Beeson University Center Clubs solo festival, Dec. 15–21 Exhibit: The Photography of 205-726-4049 Charles Patrick Dagg, Davis Feb. 1–28 Larry Thompson: One Man Library, 205-726-4015 for Show, 9 a.m.–4 p.m., Feb. 17 Super Jazz Big Band concert, holiday schedule Monday–Friday, Samford Art 3 p.m., Brock Recital Hall, Gallery, Swearingen Hall 205-726-4188 Dec. 26–28 Cumberland School of Law continuing education seminar, Feb. 2 Ministerial Scholars Day, Feb. 18 Office of Admission Scholars Robinson Hall, 205-726-2865 8 a.m.–4 p.m., 205-726-2925 Day, 205-726-2273

Jan. 2 Jan Term classes begin Alabama Association of Feb. 18–21 Brock School of Business College Teachers of naming celebration, Jan. 5 School Violence Prevention Mathematics annual meeting, 205-726-4070 workshop, 8 a.m.–3:30 p.m., 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m., 205-726-2034 205-726-2433 Feb. 19 Alabama Symphony Orchestra Feb. 3 Preparatory Music Department Concertmaster and Friends Jan. 8 Alabama Association of student recitals, Series, 7 p.m., Brock Recital Institutional Research 1 p.m., Brock Recital Hall, Hall, 205-251-7727 workshop, hosted by Samford 205-726-4049 University, 9 a.m.–3 p.m., Davis Feb. 19–21 William E. Conger, Jr. Lectures Library, 205-726-4302 Feb. 5 Korean Children’s Choir on Biblical Preaching, speaker: concert, 10 a.m., Brock Recital William H. Willimon, 11 a.m., Jan. 18–19 Instrumental Ministries Hall, 205-726-2826 Hodges Chapel workshop, sponsored by the Alabama Baptist Convention, Faculty Piano Recital: Kathryn Feb. 21 Marie NeSmith Fowler 1-800-264-1225, ext. 217 Fouse, 7:30 p.m., Brock Recital Lectureship and luncheon, Hall speaker: Helen Shores Lee, Jan. 19 Make-a-Change workshop, circuit judge, Tenth Judicial sponsored by Samford Feb. 5–6 LifeSouth Community Blood Court of Alabama, 11 a.m., Flag University and the National Drive, 9 a.m.–4 p.m., Colonnade, Beeson University Conference for Community and 205-726-2835 Center, 205-726-4194 Justice, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Dwight Beeson Hall, Feb. 7–9 Samford Theatre presents Feb. 22 Faculty Recital: Kathryn Fouse 205-726-2101 Oleanna, 7:30 p.m., Bolding and Bill Bugg, 7:30 p.m., Brock Studio, 205-726-2853, Recital Hall Jan. 21 Martin Luther King, Jr. www.samfordartstickets.com holiday: no classes, offices Feb. 22–23 Alabama Ballet presents Romeo closed Feb. 8–9 School of the Arts scholarship and Juliet, 7:30 p.m., Wright auditions, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., Center Concert Hall, Jan. 22 Birmingham Art Music 205-726-2778 www.alabamaballet.org Alliance duo piano concert, 7:30 p.m., Brock Recital Hall, Alabama Association of Feb. 23 National Federation of Music 205-726-2489 Historians annual meeting, Clubs solo festival, 205-726-4049 205-726-2858 Jan. 23 Jan Term classes end Feb. 24 Alabama Ballet presents Romeo Feb. 10 Samford Theatre presents and Juliet, 2:30 p.m., Wright Jan. 24 Jan Term final exams Oleanna, 2:30 p.m., Bolding Center Concert Hall Studio, 205-726-2853, Jan. 25 New student orientation for www.samfordartstickets.com Feb. 26 School of the Arts presents spring semester, 1 p.m.–4:30 Music from Japan, 7:30 p.m., p.m., Dwight Beeson Hall, Feb. 12 Guest and Faculty Recital: Brock Recital Hall, 205-726-2216 Joseph Hopkins, Suzanne www.samfordartstickets.com 48 Feb. 28 Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me, March 11 Concerto-Aria concert, 7:30 p.m., National Public Radio Wright Center Concert Hall, Samford Seeks 2008 broadcast, 7 p.m. Wright www.samfordartstickets.com Center Concert Hall, sponsored Alumni of the Year by Samford University and March 13 Samford Auxiliary meeting, WBHM-FM, www.wbhm.org speaker: Rushan Smith, Dawson Nominations Feb. 28– Memorial Baptist Church, amford University is seeking nominations March 1 Samford Theatre Dance 205-879-1996 for 2008 Alumni of the Year to be recog- concert, 7:30 p.m., Harrison S Theatre, Auchmuty Lectureship, nized during the annual homecoming celebration Oct. 24–26. www.samfordartstickets.com speaker: Millard Fuller, 10 a.m., CALENDAR Reid Chapel, reception follows Nominees should be graduates Feb. 29 Guest Recital: Richard Faith (undergraduate or graduate degree) who and Friends, 7:30 p.m., Brock March 13– have distinguished themselves in service to Recital Hall 15 All-State Choral Festival, fine their profession, to their community and arts complex to Samford. They also must have shown Feb. 29– support to the university since graduation March 1 School of the Arts scholarship March 17– through their personal involvement and auditions, 8 a.m.–5 p.m., 21 Spring Break, no classes, offices financial contributions. The recognition 205-726-2778 open can be for lifetime achievement or for a March 1 School Violence Prevention March 24 Easter Monday holiday, offices significant achievement during the workshop, 8 a.m.–3:30 p.m., closed previous year. Nominees must have com- 205-726-2433 pleted their initial Samford degree at least March 27 Guest Artist Recital: Ralph 10 years prior to nomination. March 2 Samford Theatre Dance Votapek, piano, 7:30 p.m., All alumni are encouraged to par- concert, 2:30 p.m., Harrison Brock Recital Hall, ticipate in the nomination process. Theatre, www.samfordartstickets.com Nominations may be submitted using the www.samfordartstickets.com nomination form at www.samford.edu/ March 29 Science Olympiad, hosted by alumni. Nominations also may be sub- March 3 School of Business career fair, Samford University, 205-726-2960 1 p.m.–3 p.m., Wright Center mitted via e-mail to [email protected] Concert Hall Lobby and Brock Birmingham Music Teachers or in a letter with appropriate supporting Hall, 205-726-2980 Association sonata/sonatina information to Alumni of the Year, c/o competition, fine arts University Relations, Samford University, March 3–31 Samford Selects Artist complex, 205-726-2617 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, AL Showcase, featuring artists 35229. from the Samford Visiting A Cappella Choir concert, Deadline for submitting nominations Visual Artist Series, 9 a.m.– 7:30 p.m., Reid Chapel is Jan. 31, 2008. ■ 4 p.m., Monday–Friday, Samford Art Gallery, For schedules and information on Samford Swearingen Hall athletics, go to www.samfordsports.com.

March 7 Samford Children’s Theatre For a list of Samford After Sundown classes, Class of 1958 presents Charlie and the go to www.samford.edu/sundown. Reunion Set for Chocolate Factory, 3 p.m., For the complete academic calendar, go to Boren Courtyard and Gardens, www.samford.edu/calendar.html. 205-726-2952 May 16–17, 2008 For ticket information, performance details amford will hold a reunion for its Class of March 8 Samford Children’s Theatre and schedule updates on art performances go 1958, the first class to graduate on the presents Charlie and the to www.samford.edu/arts. S Chocolate Factory, 2:30 p.m., Shades Valley campus, during commence- Boren Courtyard and Gardens, Information was compiled from the university ment activities May 16–17, 2008. 205-726-2952 calendar as of Nov. 10, 2007. Dates, times and The reunion will include a tour of details are subject to change. Please go to new facilities and a dinner at which ’58 Samford Wind www.samford.edu for updated information. ■ class members will receive a 50th Ensemble/Symphonic Band anniversary diploma. concert, 7:30 p.m., Brock The group will have an opportunity to Recital Hall participate in commencement Saturday, May 17, in the new Pete Hanna Center, the March 9 Preparatory Music first time Samford will have held spring Department student recitals, 12:30 p.m., Bolding Studio, commencement on campus since 1989. 205-726-4049 Graduates from the Class of ’58 are encouraged to contact Director of Alumni March 11 Women’s Conference on and Parents Programs David Goodwin for Problems and Policy, more information at 205-726-2337 or sponsored by Orlean Bullard [email protected]. ■ Beeson School of Education and Professional Studies, 205-726-2745

49 Fall colors the hillsides around the Samford campus.