Dear Alumni and Friends, Ballard, or “Dr. Dave” as he is called by Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “What his students. When he’s not teaching ter- lies behind us and what lies before us are rorism, Ballard works as a nationally- small matters compared to what lies known consultant who was called upon to within us.” testify before Congress about the pro- The recent campus Day of Remem- posed nuclear waste site in the Yucca brance marked the first anniversary of the Mountains. September 11th terrorist attacks, which It was difficult to catch up with an A Message violated our nation and affected our energetic Fanny Hinds, who will be 87 this university community in numerous per- fall. Every weekday, she gets up and drives sonal ways, particularly through the trag- a group of friends, who would not other- from the edy experienced by JSU staff member wise be able to be out and about, to a se- Pearl Williams (now retired), who lost her nior center to get lunch. She graduated President son, Major Dewayne Williams, at the from JSU in 1941, just months before the Pentagon. Attack on Pearl Harbor. She taught school The 9/11 tragedy revealed the inner for 40 years in Shelby County and has a lot strength we have as a nation and as indi- of wisdom and experience to pass along. viduals. It was no different here at JSU, And there’s the interview with two of where we wept and we prayed, but we JSU’s “biggest” Alumni: Rick Burgess also took action: we gave blood, money, and Bill “Bubba” Bussey of the “Rick other emergency assistance and whatever and Bubba” radio show. The two self- else was needed. proclaimed “sexiest fat men alive” have That strength moves us forward. reached a pinnacle of success in a busi- This edition of the Gem of the Hills fo- ness that originally had no clearly defined cuses on JSU alumni who demonstrate market niche for them. Despite hearing inner strength. They’re people who allow program managers express doubts — nothing to stand in their way. When “you are too southern,” “you are too old,” people say “it can’t be done,” their re- “you have an accent” — the two have at- sponse is “watch me.” tracted a loyal audience of listeners that Our spotlight section focuses on Judy crosses all boundaries while remaining Shanaberger Sullivan. While men were true to their values and beliefs. breaking the barriers of space, Judy was I hope you enjoy the magazine we’ve here on earth breaking gender barriers at put together for you. And I look forward NASA, becoming the first woman to to seeing you at our “Homecoming Hoe- work as a space agency launch engineer. down 2002” festivities this year. The And there’s Jerry McKee, blind since Gamecocks will face Northwestern State birth, who on August 2 walked across the on November 9 at Snow Stadium, which INTERIM EDITOR: stage to receive a Master of Science promises to be an exciting game. Mark Jones in Community Agency Counseling Sincerely, following a series of blows that could have COPY: broken the spirit of a weaker individual. Al Harris You will also meet Dr. James David William Meehan, President Abby Knight DESIGN: Mary Smith C • O • N • T • E • N • T • S PHOTOGRAPHY: Steve Latham Homecoming Schedule ...... 2 SPORTS NOTES ...... 20 Copyright © 2002, NEWSNOTES ...... 3 ALUM NOTES ...... 21 Jacksonville State University CAMPUS NEWS ...... 6 ON THE COVER: FEATURES The football field isn’t the ABOUT THIS PUBLICATION: Behind the Scenes ...... 9 only place Quarterback Gem of the Hills is published Judy Sullivan ...... 10 Reggie Stancil, Kicker semiannually by the Division of Lasting Impressions...... 12 Steven Lee, Fullback Race to Walk...... 13 Derek Delmarter and Institutional Advancement, Running Back Rondy Jacksonville State University, Real Men Get Cocky ...... 14 A Flood of Hope ...... 19 Rogers are preparing for a 700 Pelham Road North, Hoedown Homecoming. Jacksonville, Alabama 36265-1602. Volume 9, Number 2 Visit our web site at www.jsu.edu/alumni E-mail address: [email protected] THURSDAY, OCT. 24 SATURDAY, NOV. 9 Outstanding Alumni and Homecoming Queen Alumni Association General Faculty Awards Pageant Membership Meeting Presentation of the 2002 Leone Cole Auditorium TMB Auditorium - 10:00 a.m. Homecoming Queen/Court 7:00 p.m. Brunch at President’s Home THURSDAY, OCT.31 10:30 a.m. - Noon Post-game Activities Full Performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show Homecoming Parade Southerners and Ballerinas 8:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. immediately following TMB Auditorium Alumni Cookout the game 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. THURSDAY, NOV. 7 Adults - $7.00 Step Show - sponsored by the J-Day Activities Children - $5.00 Office of Multicultural Karaoke in the Cafe Pre-Game Activities Services and the Black Noon Gray Echelon Performance Greek Organizations, 3:30 p.m. Coliseum Bonfire 8:00 p.m. Stephenson Field - 8:00 p.m. Kickoff JSU vs. Northwestern State FRIDAY, NOV. 8 4:00 p.m. ROTC Alumni Dinner Gamecock Center - 6:00 p.m. Halftime Activities Class of ‘52 Reunion Southerners and Marching 11th Floor Ballerinas Houston Cole Library 6:00 p.m.

2 “Dr. Dave”: Specialist on Terrorism vulnerability of the proposed Ballard has worked in North- Nelson who is now features shipment of nuclear wastes.” ern Ireland and at the Rand editor at The Gadsden Times. Institute, one of the nation’s While he was there, a big goal Ballard earned his Bachelor of top think tanks. for the paper was to get a fax Science at JSU in 1991with a machine so they could receive major in sociology and a mi- Ballard’s spare time is far re- ad orders and such. It was a nor in management. He also moved from terror; he is an big deal because at the time earned his master’s at JSU in accomplished gardener. Some there were only two fax ma- general studies in1992 with a of his favorite flowers include chines on campus. double concentration in eco- Black-Eyed Susans and Shasta nomics and political science. Daisies. His wife, Donna Dr. Ballard acknowledges He then headed west to Las Pattee-Ballard, is a well-re- what got him where he is Vegas where he earned his ceived “feminist photo artist.” today. Ph.D. in political sociology at She also teaches fine art pho- “Dr. [Lester] Hill, Dr. [Ken- the University of Nevada Las tography. neth] Adams and Dr. [Rodney] Vegas. He wrote his disserta- James David Ballard [’91/ Ballard has many fond memo- Friery [all sociology profes- tion on the Oklahoma City ’92], or “Dr. Dave,” as he is ries of JSU. One of his favor- sors], the Three Musketeers — Bombing. “Terrorism is ulti- known by his students, hardly ites is working as the business they couldn’t have prepared mately about politics,” he ex- comes across as a man whose manager at The Chanticleer. me any better.” plains. specialty is fear, but this JSU He still keeps in touch with alumnus is on the front lines In addition to teaching, co-worker Cindy Owens BY ABBY KNIGHT of the nation’s war against ter- rorism. A professor of sociology at California State University North Ridge, his specialty is terrorism. This laid-back guy, born in Gadsden and raised in Southern California, has gone from being an academic who studied terrorism to a “very Saturday, November 9, 2002 busy consultant.” “It was almost like nobody Silver Lakes thought about it [terrorism] before [September 11, 2001],” Golf Course he says. Since then he has been an Join all former players anti-terrorism consultant to various states and cities. And for a fun day of golf, he testified before the U.S. House subcommittees on lunch, prizes, and highways, transit and railroad Homecoming. on behalf of the State of Nevada last May. See old friends, reminisce, meet Ballard’s testimony addressed the terrorist risk of transport- the current team, fellowship ing spent nuclear fuel to a central location; specifically, a with all past players. proposed storage facility in the Yucca Mountains. His Show your support! testimony provided informa- tion on “several transportation related issues relative to the

FALL 2002 3 Retirement has brought he owns a set made of Padgett the opportunity to fishermen. travel, as well as explore new Checkmate: BY ABBY KNIGHT Ten years ago, Padgett crafted projects and ideas. His creativ- a set from nuts and bolts. “I Capturing the Game of Kings ity is apparent in his paintings, must have visited ten or 12 mostly nature scenes. Some of different hardware stores be- his work is on display at JSU’s fore I found the appropriate Ramona Wood Hall. He is also pieces.” trying to master the games of bridge and pinochle. His most unique set was a gift from his wife. At a mall, Dot In the meantime, however, spotted a chess set that de- retirement gives him time to picted two college football nurture his love of chess. “It teams. The company that doesn’t matter where I am, I makes the sets produces them am always thinking about for big-name teams across the chess,” confesses Padgett. nation, but the company did The lack of suitable oppo- not have one for the two nents has led Padgett to a new teams she had in mind – JSU Chess. It is the game of kings. His love of music led him to challenge regarding his favor- and Troy State. Undaunted, In the movie, Shawshank Re- JSU as a music major, but for ite game: collecting unique she went to JSU’s athletic de- demption, it represents the ci- his inquisitive mind it wasn’t chess sets. partment and got the numbers vility that prisoner Andy enough. He decided to pursue A gift from four band stu- for both teams, then sent Dufrane longs for. Chewbacca a degree with a double major dents during his teaching money and specifications for and R2-D2 play an intergalac- in music and mathematics. days in Bibb County started the set, including colors and tic version of it in the original Music was his love but math his now 60-plus set collec- numbers. Star Wars. The figure of helped fulfill his desire to tion. The first set was from Death is often portrayed as solve complex problems. Then she waited…. and Mexico, and the pieces depict playing it. Chess is used to waited, and waited. Just be- After earning his degree, he the country’s culture. represent such qualities as fore Christmas, the set ar- took a job as band director at skill, cunning, strategy and Padgett’s collection is geared rived. And the company sent White Plains High School, then patience. Time magazine says toward sets designed around word it was unable to repro- moved on to Munford High “chess, like mathematics and themes representative of the duce the Gamecock logo. So School where he organized the music, is a nursery for child cultures in which they were Dot went to Noble Sign Com- school’s first marching band. prodigies.” created. Padgett and his wife pany in Anniston, where Rick He then moved to Centreville, Dot travel a lot and often Casey did the logos for the Dr. Thomas Padgett, JSU where he taught music, math spend a portion of each trip tiny helmets. The result: a alumnus, musician, mathema- and science for 12 years at looking for a new set for his truly one-of-a-kind chess set tician, and retired professor, Bibb County High School. collection. From Alaska he depicting the Jacksonville has always felt drawn to the But the need for a bigger chal- owns a set that uses totem State University Gamecocks game. Born in Oxford, Ala- lenge called him. So he en- poles as pieces. From Maine and the Troy State Trojans. bama with an innate desire to tered the University of Ala- challenge his mind, Padgett bama where he earned his has always sought out chal- Master’s in Administration lenging puzzles and riddles to and Music Supervision and his decipher and solve. doctorate in Curriculum Chess, believed to have origi- Development and Educational nated in either China or India Research. While working on in 2500 B.C., seemed like a his course of studies, he was natural choice of Padgett. A given another challenge: to game of skill rather than teach a course on educational chance, it involves concentra- methods. After graduating tion and calculative moves. from UA, Padgett accepted a “In the first four or five moves teaching job at what later be- on a chess board, there are came the College of Education over 1000 possible moves you at JSU. He taught there for 20 can make,” says Padgett. years before retiring in 1989.

4 SomethingSomethingSomething tototo SingSingSing AboutAboutAbout

Michael Walker (’90) be- lieves he has something to 3 sing about. Michael and his wife, Angela Woodard Walker (’97/’02), have formed their own pro- duction company, called NAAN Productions . NAAN stands for Name Above All The Alumni Office has Names and is based out of limited quantities of 2b Mimosas (yearbooks) their home in Anniston, 2a where they also have a stu- available for the dio. following years: Michael recently released his 1970, 1976, 1978, 1980 first Gospel album, “What through 1989, 1990, 1997 Do You See.” The title comes through 2001. from quotations in the Book If you are interested in of Psalms and in Jeremiah. any of the above, please Walker, who writes his own contact the Alumni Top-Michael shows his songs, sings and does some 5 new cd. On December Office by phone instrumentation on the al- 7th Michae will appear 1-800-231-5291, Ext. bum. on the Lake Charles 5404 (256-782-5404) or Michael works full time as a Gospel Music Hour. email: [email protected]. telecommunications manager 2a, 2b. Michael working in the We ask that if you live for the Calhoun County studio both in front of the mike locally you come by to EMA. Angela is an advisor at and behind the scenes. Ayers State Technical Col- CD’s are available at pick up the copies you lege. www.cdbaby.com or by emailing need. Otherwise, we will [email protected] be happy to mail them to To help promote the album you. Michael is on tour, which 3. Michael with his inspiration– began in Birmingham in Sep- his study bible. There is no charge for the tember. 4. Michael with his wife and books. BY ABBY KNIGHT partner Angela.

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Wishes and Beams BY ABBY KNIGHT What began as a casual con- what kind of funding could be versation between two men put together. Needs, including has reached fruition as the Joe classroom space, administra- Ford Center for Economic De- tive space and space for tech- velopment in Gadsden, Ala- nology, as well as total square bama. The three-story build- footage, were all discussed. ing on the Gadsden State The final figure for the cost of Community College campus is the building was $3 million. a first-of-its-kind joint venture The plan called for each between a community college school to put in an equal and a university. It houses the amount, but for both schools JSU-Gadsden campus as well to contribute as little as pos- as some of the administrative sible. Both men made several offices for Gadsden State trips to Montgomery to dis- Community College. cuss the project with various The idea for a joint building members of state government. project between the two “One day Joe called me,” re- schools first emerged about called Burke. “He said, four years ago when Ralph Ralph, I’ve got the governor Burke, director of the JSU- committed to give us a million Gadsden visited State Repre- dollars from the Public School sentative Joe Ford, an admin- and College Authority Fund The Joe M. Ford Center for Economic Development in istrator at GSCC. (PSCA). If Jacksonville can Gadsden is a result of a first-of-its-kind collaboration. “He and I discussed the need put in a million dollars and for some new facilities, some Gadsden State can put in a education, finance, and busi- Now that the building is com- updated facilities,” says million dollars, we can build ness management, as well as plete, Burke believes it is what Burke, looking back on that that facility.” classes for the Master of Busi- he and Ford first envisioned in day. “He talked about some The building presently houses ness Administration and upper those early conversations. of Gadsden State’s needs, and administrative space for the level Arts and Sciences I talked about some of the “Joe believed in JSU and JSU-Gadsden office and some classes. problems we were having.” Gadsden State. He really administrative space for “What we do primarily in fought hard for this project,” At the time, the JSU-Gadsden Gadsden State Community Gadsden is accommodate the remembers Burke. “In the last campus was leasing space College. It houses six class- non-traditional student,” says couple of years of his life, he from GSCC in Naylor Hall. rooms that seat 40, one class- Burke. “That means the committed all of his energies Because of the lease arrange- room that seats 80, and a student who is coming back to to this project. Although his ment, classroom space and video-conferencing room that school after some length of health was failing, he still scheduling time was in short seats 38. The technology lab absence. Many of our busi- made the phone calls, he still supply but high demand. will accommodate approxi- ness students are already in a made those trips to Montgom- “Besides his family and his mately 20 students at a time career and are coming back ery.” and the computer lab can so they can advance their politics, Joe Ford really had “He actually secured that first two things that he loved serve up to 24 students at a career.” time. Because JSU has part million dollars from the dearly, one was the commu- Because of the new updated PSCA, and because of that nity college and the other was ownership in the building, the and expanded space, Burke and his commitment to both Jacksonville State University,” University has more flexibility hopes that the JSU-Gadsden institutions, Jacksonville State shared Burke. “He always in scheduling classes. campus will be able to expand University’s Board of Trustees sort of looked out after JSU in The JSU-Gadsden Campus class offerings into other ar- and the Alabama Board of the state legislature.” offers junior and senior level eas. Already he is working an Education agreed that the As the discussion continued, courses in several programs informal survey of what some building should be named in the two began talking about including elementary needs and wants might be. his honor.”

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Biology Magnifies View The scope also enables stu- Many of the projects require dents to do x-ray analysis and additional funding. Blair says, toxicology work to determine, “alumni have graciously say, whether a plant is leach- funded our expenses for sup- ing heavy metals from the soil plies through donations to the or whether an animal is af- biology department’s Founda- fected by certain toxins. They tion account.” If you would are also performing high-level like to contribute, please send projects such as studying the contributions to the JSU Foun- bacterial degradation of plastic. dation, clearly marked for the biology department’s micros- High school students this fall copy lab, in care of the will have online access to the Development Office, 700 scope. Public school science Pelham Rd. North, teachers will be able to send Jacksonville, AL 36265. objects to the biology depart- BY AL HARRIS Dr. Benjie Blair, assistant professor of biology, goes eye to eye ment and, over the Internet, with a shrimp. show their students how they look magnified to the power of 35,000 to 300,000 times. “This Imagine students so excited ate work here. The microscope has great potential for commu- about research that they con- is making a big difference in nity outreach,” says Blair. tinue studying long after a student outcomes.” course is over. “The scope encourages stu- Thousands of digital images dents to go further. They can JSU’s biology students possess were captured during the Jeol develop projects in under- this extra motivation largely SEM microscope’s first year graduate school, then jump due to using the University’s of operation, which ended this into more advanced science in new scanning electron micro- summer. Housed in the Will- graduate school. They’re not scope. iam Bowen Microscopy Labo- as intimidated after working ratory in the new McGee Sci- “They’re so motivated by what with this equipment, so we see ence Center, the scope enabled they’re able to do with the the scope as being a stepping scope that all of the students undergraduates this year to pre- stone in their learning,” Blair The top of a tardigarde which who took the electron micros- pare posters and papers for pre- said. is also called a water bear copy class this summer de- sentation at scientific meetings. magnified 50,000 times. cided to continue their re- The equipment was purchased search projects,” says Dr. with $182,299 in combined Psychology Department Adds New Course Benjie Blair, assistant profes- funds provided through the sor of biology. National Science Foundation Jeff Bryson, adjunct instructor and sleep research team coordinator in JSU’s Department of Psychology recently “Students are not only getting and JSU. had an article featured in the “Sleep Review,” the profes- excited, they’re becoming suc- “Students like to see things sional journal for sleep specialists. cessful and they’re going into that help them understand professional programs due to what they’re reading about or His article, entitled “New Curriculum Benefits Under- their experience. The micro- hearing in class,” explains graduate Psychology Students,” focuses on the success of scope is getting them into the Blair. “When they’re able to a new course on sleep and dreaming that was added to the lab and doing professional see a close-up of an eye of a JSU psychology undergraduate curriculum. work,” says Blair. shrimp or the hairs growing on The course, which was first offered in May 2001, is a “We’ve got students being ac- an ant’s abdomen, their class 300-level psychology elective. Since the course was a new cepted into medical school, work makes more sense and approach to sleep and psychology, a new text had to be pharmacy, dentistry, entering they get excited about it. created as well. The text for the course was also written master’s and doctoral pro- They’re able to process the by Bryson. grams and doing much more information and get it much as a result of their undergradu- quicker.”

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“I had faith that God would to be retired. But McKee was see me through it.” unwilling to give up his friend and companion without a To Walk by Faith In the summer of 1999, fight. So they worked to help McKee and Paxton were walk- keep Paxton’s shoulder ing down 8th Street to school, limber. when a truck began backing out at a high rate of speed to- Then his dog contracted can- wards them. McKee was cer. But what originally was oblivious to the danger but believed to be a benign cyst Paxton’s training took over. turned out to be Squamous Paxton threw himself into Cell Carcinoma, a type of skin McKee’s leg knocking him cancer. Despite treatment, the over and out of the way of cancer spread into Paxton’s danger. Paxton, however, went bone marrow and on April 8th, up and under the truck, injur- 2002, McKee chose to put ing his shoulder. Paxton to sleep. “No doubt about it,” says McKee had planned to retire McKee, “Paxton saved my life Paxton after graduation, but that day.” had wanted to wait so that they could “complete the jour- Paxton’s injured shoulder be- ney together.” came arthritic and there was a possibility that he would have BY ABBY KNIGHT

Jerry McKee accepts his master’s degree and congratulations Jerry McKee got Paxton at Guide from JSU president Bill Meehan. Dogs for the Blind. It is a nonprofit organization that On August 2, 2002, when So McKee, accompanied by provides skilled dogs and training Jerry McKee, with a perfect Paxton, returned to JSU. He in their use to people who are 4.0 grade point average (GPA) received a few scholarships blind or visually impaired. The in his coursework, walked and also worked to help fi- organization has training facilities across the stage at JSU to ac- nance his education. Gradu- in Boring, Oregon and San cept his master’s degree alone, ate coursework and texts are Rafael, California. it was a bittersweet moment. difficult enough, but McKee was further challenged due Almost seven years before, Guide Dogs for the Blind provides to his blindness. He had McKee, who is blind, had dogs, initial training and follow-up readers who would read his walked across the same stage training free to those they serve text to him. Halfway through to accept his bachelor’s degree due to the generosity and support graduate school, McKee was in Social Work with assistance of donors and volunteers. able to get a new computer from his dog, Paxton. It had system and voice software been their first big event to- By using Guide Dogs, issues such as mobility and that allowed his text to be gether since McKee had independence are no longer insurmountable scanned so the computer brought Paxton home with challenges to people who are blind. Their go- could read the material to him in May of 1995. anywhere, do-anything attitude and actions shatter him. many stereotypes about the disabled. After graduation, McKee dis- Along the way, McKee experi- covered that jobs in his field enced other setbacks. He and Sadly, guide dogs, like Paxton, are routinely denied of choice were hard to come his fiancée broke up. Then he access to transportation, restaurants, and other areas by, even with his high under- was stricken with Bell’s Palsy, of public accommodation despite laws against such graduate GPA of 3.2. a condition that causes the discrimination. Cultural attitudes toward blindness “I realized I really needed the facial muscles to weaken or and dogs, misinformation regarding health codes, master’s degree,” explained become paralyzed. But McKee and personal attitudes all contribute to the problem. McKee. continued on.

8 Behind the Scenes: Preparing for the Walk BY AL HARRIS

It’s a 12-second walk across the commencement stage, including the moment it takes to shake hands with President Bill Meehan and take hold of a diploma. But behind the scenes, it takes months of effort and thousands of hours of work by dozens of anonymous people to support what happens in those twelve seconds. The key people who make it happen are Acting Registrar Kathy Cambron and Broadcast Engineer Mike Hathcock. “For me, a commencement means laying nearly a mile of cable for the TV cameras,” says Hathcock, who produces the live program carried by TV24. For August commencement, Hathcock does double duty: he sets up at Snow Stadium and at Pete Mathews Coliseum, which is the alternate location in case of bad weather. As soon as the cameras and microphones are in place and with only moments to spare, Hathcock rushes to a nearby shower room to clean up for his stage appearance. He dons cap and gown, then looks for a quiet place to hide for a few minutes. That’s so he can Engineer Mike Hathcock rehearse one last time the several hard-to-pronounce names on the graduation list. Then prepares the television the music starts and Hathcock proceeds on stage along with University officials and the commence- cameras so that graduation ment speaker. After the guest speaker and the switching of tassels from the right side to the left, can broadcast on TV 24. Hathcock then reads each student’s name as they cross the stage to get their diploma. How would you pronounce Czerwiak, Kamangu, or Wijeratne if you were a little nervous and stand- ing in front of about 5,000 folks? Hathcock begins finding out how to pronounce the names far in ad- vance using a master list provided by the registrar’s office. Hathcock writes out the names phoneti- cally, and students are told during rehearsal to contact him if they feel he needs to hear their own pro- nunciation. “In all the times I’ve read the names, the only ones I’ve missed are the easy ones. Smith, Jones. Those are hard. One time I correctly read a 14-syllable name without a hitch.” For Cambron, the pressures are even greater. She takes pride in the fact that JSU is one of only a few universities that ensure graduates receive their diplomas in the folder they’re awarded on stage. Many universities confer an empty folder rather than spend hours stacking degrees in such a way that each graduate receives his or her own diploma. “The way we do it is the JSU way — it’s a tradition, and I hope we will always do it this way. It Hathcock dons his means a lot to a student to receive his diploma on stage from the University president. You can see commencement gown and the pride in their eyes moments later when they return to their seat and open the diploma cover,” joins the procession to the Cambron said. stage for the ceremony. As enrollment increases, will there come a day when commencement will change? Will candidates and audience outgrow available facilities? President Meehan had this to say: “When we grow to the extent that we are faced with very large graduation ceremonies, there are other facilities, located at McClellan or other locations in Calhoun County, that would be available to the University.” “We will most likely split commencement into two ceremonies before giving up on placing the actual diploma in the graduate’s hand.” But the president points out that JSU’s commencement probably will not change even if enrollment climbs to 10,000. “We would need to have many more than 10,000 students to see a time when three gradua- tions a year begin to approach 800-plus students,” he said. So, graduation “the JSU way” is likely to remain an unchanged tradition for the foreseeable For Acting Registrar Kathy future. Cambron, preparing for graduation is a day-to-day And all those people who put in hundreds of hours of labor to support each graduate’s 12 seconds of task. glory would not have it any other way.

FALL 2002 9 FAMILY: husband: Marshall (Sully), son: Matt WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT YOUR EDUCA- TION AT JSU? I chose to major in biology because the sci- GREATEST PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT: Thinking ence department was highly rated, and President Kennedy had over this question, I find that I can’t give you just one answer issued a mandate that everyone, students and teachers, help in because my years of working outside our home were equally his race to beat the Russians to the moon. Dr. Reuben Boozer of divided between teaching (high school math and science) and the biology department was my role model; the kind of teacher I working in industry (NASA biomedical engineer, KRAFT wanted to be, interesting and caring. FOODS (food technologist/quality control supervisor)... there were personal rewards and accomplishments in both areas. MOST MEMORABLE JSU MOMENT: It was at a nighttime Homecoming football game against Troy State in October TEACHING: I loved working with young people, and I hope 1962. I was sitting on the back of a convertible waiting to ride that I touched and made a difference in some of their lives. I onto the field to take part in the halftime activities. How vividly have run into former students over the past few years as I came I remember looking up at a crystal clear, star-filled black sky! home often to support my parents through their final illnesses. And at just that moment, The Southerners broke into “Stars Fell Dee Gorey said that he told his classes through the years that I on Alabama!” I was totally captured by the moment... goose gave him a lifelong love of science. Seeing former students and bumps all over, and I started to sing... hearing their comments made me feel so good about my teach- ing experience. I have such respect for teachers who go the dis- Each time I am home, I drive or walk to the horseshoe in front of tance, staying in that field their entire career. Think of the num- Bibb-Graves Hall, and I look out at the mountains and think, “This ber of lives they touch! What a legacy!!! is my little town,” and I hear Paul Simon’s song with that title. I am glad my parents are buried in the cemetery just behind it. I will AEROSPACE & FOOD INDUSTRIES: My experience in aero- always come back to visit, my roots are here. space and the food industry happened between 1965 and 1974, and at that time men held almost all management positions in ADVICE TO PRESENT DAY JSU STUDENTS: First, take those industries. I suppose my accomplishments were in land- risks in life. Aim high —give things a shot! I am so glad I sent ing the jobs in male-dominated fields and performing them well that summer job application in to NASA when I was teaching in enough to open doors for women across the country in those Cocoa Beach. At best I was hoping for a position in a support industries...At the time I held these positions I was very young lab on Cape Kennedy. In the words of playwright Eugene and did not realize the significance of being the first woman to Ionesco, “Failure is no disgrace... not to aim is.” hold them. I just tried to be myself at all times, do the job well Secondly, maintain a healthy balance between your social and and fit in with all “the guys”. I hope, in my own way, I contrib- academic lives in college. Both are important to the total per- uted to qualified women getting an equal chance in these techni- son, but you have to remember why you are there—to prepare cal fields. for a future career. One on one I would say, “If you are just par- GREATEST PERSONAL ACHIEVEMENT: My family. I tying and wasting your parents hard-earned money, think about consider a thirty-five year marriage an accomplishment... Sully joining the military services. Your country needs you right now, and I are very good friends, and rearing our only child, Matt, and you will get the structure, self discipline and confidence together has been a fun and challenging adventure. Last January that you need to succeed in life.” he decided to join The United States Marine Corps. This deci- But finally... Have fun at JSU! Study hard... Play hard... Carpe sion was brought about because he did not like what was done Diem! to our country on September11... My dad was career Army, and we lost him this past Christmas. He was probably Matt’s favorite WHAT HAVEN’T YOU DONE THAT YOU WOULD STILL person in the whole, wide world, and a great influence on his LIKE TO ACCOMPLISH? I would love to write books some- life. I wish he could see him in this rock-hard physical condi- day... if I can slow down long enough... And, given the opportu- tion and in uniform. Perhaps he does see it, I would like to nity, I would love to go up in the space shuttle (be John Glen’s think so. {Ed’s note: Matt is now stationed at Camp Pendleton counterpart...an older lady astronaut). Marine Base near San Diego, California and expects to be sent to Iraq.} BY ABBY KNIGHT

Pictured right, counterclockwise: Judy Shaneberger Sullivan with her husband Marshal Sullivan; Judy, on the job at NASA on Cape Kennedy; At one point, Judy was the only female voice on NASA’s 212-voice testing channels; Judy in front of a familiar site on Cape Kennedy; Judy with son Matt in Charleston, South Carolina. Matt is a “September 11 Marine,” one of the many who enlisted after the attacks. 10 FALL 2002 11 BY ABBY KNIGHT Tucked into the smallest foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, where the cotton still grows in the fields and cool fresh springs still deliver cool water to the surface, resides one of Alabama’s most influential people. At 86, the petite woman with the slight drawl gives the misleading impression of frailty. But, after teaching in Shelby County class- rooms for 40 years, plus an additional 10 years as a substitute teacher, not to mention her 37 years as an adult education teacher, there is no question this retired educator has had an impact on thousands of children as they made their way through the state education system.

12 Fanny Hinds’ former students include you do, I think you do a better job. My nus and is president of the recycling com- doctors, lawyers, preachers and writers; aim was just to be happy at my work, and pany his father started. they all remember her from their primary try to be a good mother, and good wife. “We had a good marriage. My husband school years. One former student, Valerie That was the extent of my ambition, I didn’t drink, he didn’t smoke. I could do Fraser, even paid tribute to her in a recent suppose.” as I pleased. I worked, and was very ac- “Southern Journal” column in the maga- Fraser believed it was Hinds’ no-nonsense tive with the Eastern Star when we had it zine Southern Living. realism that made her a great teacher. here. I was active in the PTA...” she “I didn’t know (about) it,” says Hinds “She loved children. She knew how their shares. “He was perfectly satisfied with referring to the piece, “then some of my minds worked. And she knew what chal- the things I had to go to. (It) didn’t bother neighbors told me about it. But I taught lenges lay ahead of them. She was deter- him, because he would read and rest and her, and I enjoyed her so much. I remem- mined that her babies would be prepared.” do his thing. And that’s just the way we ber her vividly.” lived.” “Really I guess all I knew was the first Fraser describes Hinds as a legend in grade,” explains Hinds. “I was asked to be When she attends weddings, many of Vincent, Alabama, the town where Hinds principal twice. But I’m an asthmatic and former students, she shares with the has lived most of her life. “Back in 1968 my husband said no.” couple her secret to a good marriage. local parents would strategize to finagle ‘“You don’t go to bed mad. We would The two had a “short courtship, but a long their kids a seat in Mrs. Hinds’ class. I always settle whatever our little problems marriage.” They met while attending remember my own mother’s hand-wring- were. Like for instance, bringing manure what was then the Jacksonville State ing and her plea, “Oh, I hope you get in on his feet or something.” Teachers College and were married five her!’” remembers Fraser. months later. The marriage lasted 54 But to call Fanny Hinds retired seems years until his death last October. premature. She drives a group of senior “On the day he was buried, my sons, both citizens to the center for lunch every day, boys, said “Now mother you go home is active on the local library board, keeps with me. I said no. One of my grand- in touch with her two children, five daughters spent the night and ever since granddaughters, and countless nieces and then I have been by myself.” nephews. She also loves flowers and an- tiques. The couple had two sons: John Lamar and Joe Michael. Joe is also a JSU alum- Hinds grew up in Shelby County on a cot- ton farm with her 4 sisters and two broth- ers. “Daddy had a thousand acres, more or less.” She always knew she wanted to A Race to Finish be a teacher. “Sibling rivalry is inevitable,” wrote “I substituted in high school in the second author Nancy Samalin. “ The only sure grade. When I was in high school they way to avoid it is to have one child.” didn’t have substitute teachers in those Two brothers took that inevitability to days. And they would ask me to teach and extremes this past August during Jack- I did. My future sister-in-law, I taught her sonville State University’s summer in the second grade.” graduation ceremony. She has a few theories about what’s Harvey and Michael Edwards had a wrong with education now, but says the long-standing dispute over who would Harvey, left, with his brother Michael. one thing she noticed while substituting is graduate from college first. Despite a He hopes to become a high school his- that children don’t read like they used to 16-year difference in their ages, it tory and science teacher. and like they should. came down to the last hour of gradua- tion before they would find out who Michael Edwards, a 1997 graduate of “Mrs. Hinds was tough, but we all knew physically would graduate first. Pleasant Valley High School, gradu- she loved us. She still refers to former ated with a Bachelor of Arts in Com- students as “my babies” and for the first If the ceremony went alphabetically, then Harvey would walk first. How- munication. He is employed at televi- year of education that’s exactly what we sion Channel-24 as a production man- were,” writes Fraser. ever, if they went by college, it was unknown who would go first. ager and sports producer. “(Teaching) it was so satisfying, and to Harvey Edwards, a 1982 graduate of Their sister, Carol Edwards Stone, is think maybe I helped somebody to find a Jacksonville High school, first attended also a JSU graduate. She earned her good life,” recalls Hinds. “Something that the University of Alabama, but later Bachelor of Science in 1989. they will be happy in, not say financially, returned to Jacksonville and JSU. He every time. But with being happy, they The ceremony was conducted by col- earned his Bachelor of Science in Edu- might come out financially well. But you lege, and Harvey ended up walking cation, graduating magna cum laude. have to have a love for what you do. If first.

FALL 2002 13 n a crowded restaurant on a sweltering summer afternoon in Birmingham, this Gem of the Hills reporter caught up with two of Jacksonville State University’s most notorious alumni, the self-proclaimed “sexiest fat men alive.” IRick Burgess ’89 and Bill “Bubba” Bussey ’92 have dominated morning radio for too many years to count - - since 1999 in Birmingham and throughout the south, and long before that in Etowah and surrounding coun- ties. Their home station is the 100,000-watt WYSF, 94.5 FM, and the program is fed through an ISDN phone line to the Alabama Digital Satellite Network (ADSN), which then feeds it to 21 other stations in seven states for a combined audience of about five million. As the alumni magazine went to press, Rick and Bubba were slated to begin broadcasting their show live on Turner South in September. Loved or hated, respected or re- viled, the Rick and Bubba Show has a following so loyal that Rick and Bubba call fans their “Army,” com- by Abby Knight plete with its own language, tee-shirts, even its own game. Photos by Over fat-laden chocolate shakes and French fries at their own, soon-to-be franchised restaurant on Cahaba Steve Latham Valley Rd. in Pelham, Rick and Bubba recently shared thoughts on broadcasting and on JSU. 14 BUBBA: My goal as an alumnus is to Communication because I couldn’t pass a have my face limed at the 50-yard line for foreign language, MRS. SUCO!!! Terry Homecoming. I think Rick will agree Marbut is head of the Technology Depart- with me. Maybe one face on either side, ment now. GREAT job! One of the facing the middle. places, too, that I really learned a lot was in doing my internship. I did mine at RICK: (Laughter) Channel 40 when it was in Anniston. I GEM: What teachers do you remember mean I learned a TON down there. And most fondly from Jacksonville State? really got to hang out with Rick too be- cause he worked at the radio station RICK: Miss Suco’s Spanish. downstairs. We had a good time and BUBBA: We’re friends. Her son, Mike learned a lot. I personally dropped in and Suco, works with us now at Coca-Cola. out of school about two or three times We have an endorsement deal with Coca- because I became so skilled at my talent Cola. We are still really close to the Suco that I was hired on the job, and I really family, so we like to kid her. But she re- couldn’t turn them down. But then, I fi- ally had control of the class, but now the nally, under much pressure from my wife juveniles are out. You know, so now we and my mom, went back to finish my de- Are you in the loop? can say anything. gree. I graduated in ’92 even though I Here’s where to find the RICK: We used to say that Miss Suco graduated from high school in ’82. It ap- started the Rick and Bubba Show. pears to be a decade of learning, but there Rick and Bubba Show. were some gaps. BUBBA: As a matter of fact, Rick, most ALABAMA RICK: I think I finished in ’89 because I people don’t know this, but Miss Suco Ashland 780 AM graduated from high school in ’83. And I still WRITES for the Rick and Bubba Birmingham 94.5 FM actually transferred from Troy State and show. Dothan 93.7 FM played football with Troy State against Florence-Muscle Shoals BUBBA: Major [John] Turner, who used Jacksonville. But then my dad became 97.7 FM to be over in communications. He was coach at Jacksonville and it was all really Gadsden 102.9 FM very, very helpful and an all around good weird. So I finished at Jacksonville Huntsville 95.1 FM fellow. I will never forget when we State. The campus radio station at Jack- Mobile 104.9 FM started the Crime Stoppers program. The sonville State, 92J, to me is the biggest Montgomery 96.1 FM very first time they did Crime Stoppers key to my being able to get into the busi- Scottsboro 101.7 FM was during our audio/TV course. So, we ness and know what I was doing. Being Tuscaloosa 100.7 FM go to Anniston and we break in this house able to fool around there at the radio sta- [to reenact a crime] and I’m the crook tion with actual equipment, and you can FLORIDA breaking in. This was when Crime Stop- say outdated or whatever. But it still Panama City 99.3 FM pers was new, and people didn’t know TAUGHT you how to do it. Nobody’s Pensacola 98.1 FM how it worked. And police got flooded going to take you in a commercial job with calls when the show aired. “I know and start paying you when you don’t GEORGIA that guy! It’s Bill Bussey!” know anything. They want to know what Douglas 99.5 FM you know how to do. There you are able RICK: I remember Major Turner and Dr. Tifton 92.5 FM Rodney Friery. We found out the Com- to get the degree, the piece of paper, but you are also able to get some hands on. munication Department required you to LOUISIANA And I believe, communication wise, we have an overall grade point average that Baton Rouge 93.7 FM did not seem obtainable to us. That for- are superior. eign language thing had really beaten us BUBBA: Major Turner stressed a level of MISSISSIPPI down. So we found other routes. I fi- professionalism, but at the same time you Hazlehurst 92.9 FM nally became a Sociology major and a were free enough to make your mistakes Laurel-Hattiesburg 94.3 FM Communication minor. Rodney Friery and be a little creative. Meridian 97.9 FM taught the sociology statistics class, which was the last obstacle, and he just RICK: And find out who you were! SOUTH CAROLINA basically said if you will come to every BUBBA: The students had various jobs Charleston 107.5 FM class and every study hall, then I will at the campus station, the radio program help you, I will work with you. As long director, promotions director. I was pro- TENNESSEE as I came to study hall I would get a motions director for a couple of years. Nashville 104.5 FM diploma. You learned about going out and meeting Sparta 105.5 FM BUBBA: I’ve got to tell you, I had a with businesses. So, you learned not only major in Technology and a minor in about on-air but off-air.

FALL 2002 15 BUBBA: I love [President] Bill Meehan. I think he is a great guy, and I think he is a huge step in the right direction. I think he is honest, I think he is straightforward. RICK: I want it in there that we are ask- ing Bob Riley to appoint us as Trustees of Jacksonville State. BUBBA: That has been our one item in supporting him, and we’ve gone full board with him. We announced him on July 4 a year ago, when he announced he was running for Governor. We an- nounced him as the winner of the Repub- lican primary, and we are planning on announcing him in November as Gover- nor. And all we’ve asked is to be trustees. So we just thought we’d let everybody know. But, good news for Bill, he’s got big supporters in us. GEM: Did you always know that you wanted to get into radio? RICK: Junior High was when I really started getting the bug for it. All of us, when you are young, if you have any de- sire to play athletics, you think that “I Rick Burgess trolls for callers from behind the mike at the Rick and Bubba Show’s would like to be a professional athlete home studio in Birmingham. too.” But I really got into radio and the entertainment business in general. So, yes RICK: I think it was invaluable. Of ev- RICK: You can look at the list of how I wanted to do it from a very young age. erything that I went to school to learn, many people who worked at 92J who now that is all that has ever made a difference. have real jobs in radio and TV today. Rick, who once played football for Troy State again There are a lot of them. We were ahead of BUBBA: Hands down, that and the in- Titan jerseys. The duo was voted best morning show the game over someone who just declared ternship we did. Nashville 2002 Readers Poll. “I think I want to get in radio.” That’s GEM: So what did getting your degree fine, but if you aren’t doing anything, it’s mean to you? not going to do you any good. BUBBA: That meant that I had to finish BUBBA: Some of the most important up at JSU because I was the only one who people in Birmingham came from 92J. had the university catalog that I originally You know Lori Jones is Shannon on the started in. [He was “grand-fathered” into Rob and Shannon morning show. She the curriculum in force during the year he came from Jacksonville State. Matter of started school] And they were calling me fact, she trained Rick on the board. to find out what classes I had to have. I RICK: John Davenport. just think if you start something, you need to finish it. You are better off with BUBBA: John Davenport, who is the that degree. But the experience we got... production director at Clear Channel, he’s we were so valuable, not because we are from Jax State. I mean, you look at all Rick Burgess and Bill Bussey but because the big stations here and there are Jax we knew how to run that equipment, we State, 92J people in the mix everywhere. knew how to edit at the TV station. We I think that speaks volumes for Jax State. were hired for real-world jobs before we I don’t know of any other university could finish school. So, to me that says where they have that many people in the something about the training we were industry here. getting. To me, people not getting their RICK: We are kind of a strange animal. degree because they are being hired is a The University doesn’t know whether to good problem as opposed to a lot of be really proud of us or completely put people with degrees not getting jobs. off...

16 BUBBA: I wanted to be in the business. I really got a taste for it when I went up and saw the college radio station when I was in high school. I thought, “Man, this is too cool, right here.” But I really thought I would be in it in some other form other than on the air because I didn’t have the most lovely speaking voice. But it’s all worked out. The fact that I did a lot of training in other things, management, promotions, engineering, all that, has helped because it really makes me more well rounded. I know what some of these other people are up against. When we go into a meeting we’re not just totally blind to what the concerns are. If we are doing a show on the road, we know technical issues, we know promotional issues. GEM: So, the buck stops with Rick and Bubba? RICK: Well, we have partners in all them [business ventures]. What we’ve been able to do, which is very important, is to own the show. But we still have to part- ner with the broadcast company that syn- dicates the show. We have a partnership Bill “Bubba” Bussey admits he’s a technology junkie. His original career plans in with them. We have business partners in radio were to be behind the scene not the mike. the restaurant venture. By the time this show out on Turner South. So, yes, we it. He is also real good at coming up with comes out, we will probably have our own the show but there are still people to ideas. Usually, he will come up with an answer to in every business venture we go idea, but I’ll help make it happen. Or, I’ll nst JSU, and Bubba pose in Tennessee into. But we probably are as in charge of get in there and start trying to make it w in the “Nashville Scene’s” Best of our destiny as much as one in the enter- work. I do more of the overall discipline. tainment business can be. You know, like if we have problems with somebody, or somebody who works with BUBBA: Part of business is, you can us. Or there’s a decision that has to be partner with people when you have a made. And if we have problems, then I’ll common goal, the old win-win scenario. play the heavy if that needs to happen and And I think we have been very fortunate kind of oversee all of it. I guess my to do that, and I think, too, we have a lot strength is keeping the show moving, of common values, spiritually, morally and keeping it flowing. we share the same sense of humor, to a large part, and I think that makes it all go. BUBBA: I feel lucky to be working with Rick. I really think he is the funniest per- RICK: It really does. I think we have son I have ever met. I mean look at him. been very fortunate to be able to work together and to be friends. RICK: I heard Huey Lewis say one time why his band is still together; they still GEM: It sounds like the team is like a have fun, even though they’re not as in marriage. Do each of you have different the limelight as they once were. It’s still strengths that you play off of to make it the same people because it was more im- work? portant to him to find people he really RICK: Oh sure! Basically, Bubba and I liked to work with. Don’t misunderstand are at the top. He handles stuff that I just me, I work with incredibly talented don’t have any gift for or any desire for; people. Speedy is incredibly talented, that’s the detail stuff. Writing checks, Don Juan is incredibly talented. There’s keeping up with numbers. That’s not my also the fact that we generally like to be forté. So he fills that void for us and around each other. If we didn’t, I think takes care of those things and is on top of longevity would be impossible.

FALL 2002 17 BUBBA: To me, working with Rick and up every morning. ‘Cause I hate getting BUBBA: There was a time when nobody the other guys is not work. Really, it’s up early. I am not a morning person. cared, and I didn’t like it. So I am not our fun part of the day; we are there to Rick isn’t either. And if it wasn’t for going to complain if people do care now. goof off. And act like we are 14 and get those people telling us that, and the feel- Because we love it, we enjoy it. paid to do it. It’s really a pretty good ing you get from that.... I mean really RICK: We live a life. And I say this all deal. If we didn’t have to get up early. there is no amount of money that can make you want to get up at 4 o’clock the time: it’s exactly like everybody elses, RICK: What he says is true. Our show every day. I mean, it’s awful. we just have a radio show. That’s really is not put on. There’s not an agenda. the only difference. There’s nothing bi- There’s not a let’s try to do this today or RICK: I see people in the entertainment zarre. We’ll be at home potty training appear like we’re doing this. It’s who we business complain. But you know, I just kids, paying bills just like everybody else. are, with our good and bad. But I think feel a little bit silly that, as a boy, I We’ve been blessed. We believe in God, people have responded to that. Because wanted so much to be able to do what I am believe that Jesus Christ was who He said it’s almost like you are hanging out with doing and be able to make a living at it He is. That has radically changed our your relatives or your friends rather than, and know that people like what I do. And life. We don’t for a minute forget we are ok, here are two radio guys and we’re the then to know some people are given that blessed for being able to do this. To be in audience. It all kind of comes together. chance and then complain about it.... I a country where you can do this, and say They feel like they are a part of it, and can’t think of anything that’s bad about it. what you want to say they should be, and they are. And I think that we talk about the good and the bad of life that everybody is going through. Rick and Bubba Lingo GEM: Profile your typical listener. If you are planning on catching the show for the first time, either on the radio, BUBBA: Most radio stations can do that on Turner South or over the Internet, you might want to catch up on some of the for you. They can tell you it’s a female terminology they use! age whatever. But, with our show it’s ab- solutely impossible to do. And the reason BIG BUBBA HELLO: Having P.B .: Pre-Bubba...before Bubba was I say that is, we have a saying that our Bubba send out a greeting, announce- on the morning show. listeners are eight to eighty, blind, ment, welcome, or other info over the PHAT PHI PHAT: Rick and Bubba crippled and crazy. I mean, we’ve got airwaves. fraternity of fat men. them all. And it’s the most bizarre thing. BRINGING IT FROM PIEDMONT: PHONE TROLL: Unscreened calls It still bothers the radio experts. When Dancing hard. with a 30 second time limit. they look at our demographics, they go, CHARITY: To pretend to find some- RADIO GODZILLA: Another name “This cannot be true. You cannot be thing interesting or funny. for the Rick & Bubba Show. number one in females and in males. You CHIME: To add useless or meaning- RICK & BUBBA EXPRESSWAY: gotta be one or the other.” And we go, less information/chatter to a conversa- The path up Interstate-65 from Mobile, “Well, there it is; read it for yourself.” tion when trying to contribute. Alabama to Bowling Green, Kentucky FUN ZONE: Time on the show or in where The Rick & Bubba Show can be GEM: What’s the hardest part about be- life generally when the guys want to heard on various radio stations. ing a celebrity? refrain from heavy topics, controversy, SHOW THE LOVE: To tell Rick and RICK: Well, when we get to be one, and other depressing interaction. Bubba how much you love the show or we’ll let you know. GUNTERSVILLE TREATY: an the Mr. Lucky CD. agreement for those working on the SPATCHLER: Bubba’s pronunciation BUBBA: Right now I can’t think of any. show or with the show that does not of spatula. One of our running jokes is, and this is so allow anyone to pull pranks or practi- funny because Rick does this to me.... If I cal jokes against one another. The ever get a little bit aggravated... if I’m treaty originated in Guntersville, AL not having a good day; you know, things after a series of practical jokes and the are not coming together for me, then Rick retaliation became too severe. will tell me. He’ll say, “Put your jersey IN THE LOOP: Devout listener on that says Rick and Bubba on the front, of the Rick & Bubba Show. go walking through the mall and you’ll MONKEY GRASS: feel better. Everybody will be lovin’ on Another name for a first you.” It really does work. It fires me up time caller or first time toCopies hear people of Bimbo say, “Hey, are I can’tavailable get to at Joy Christian Supplies emailer. work unless I hear the show.” “If ya’ll MOTHERSHIP: Term are1430A not on Pelham my day is Road not the South same.” “I for Flagship radio station wasJacksonville, in the hospital AL listening 36265 to ya’ll’s Soft Rock 94.5 FM. showfor forand $14.99it got me + through.” $3.95 S/H That’s an awesome feeling to have somebody tell youor that.call 256.435.2222And that’s what makes you get 18 Aaron and Abby Knight were able to recover from disaster thanks to the help of the Red Cross.

bby Knight, a Jacksonville State It was three days before the family the Red Cross helped them with their first A University student and mother of was able to return to their home to see month’s rent, provided a security deposit, two, dares anyone to speak ill of the what could be salvaged. Abby found that and supplied them with vouchers to get Red Cross after what happened when her the water line was up to a foot high. “Plus, new beds and a kitchen table. family was left homeless due to a flood the sewers overflowed, so there was sew- “I felt guilty about receiving such aid, last year. age as well.” and they acted like I was doing them a fa- “It wasn’t even a tropical storm,” ex- Most of their furniture was ruined. vor. The volunteers could not have been plains Abby, who was living in Stuart, a The Knights threw away garbage bags full kinder or more compassionate.” small town just north of Palm Beach on of toys, clothes, books and sentimental Once they were settled into their new the east coast of Florida, with her husband items. Abby said her landlord balked at home — a second floor apartment — they and children. “It was just rain from the making the kind of repairs the Knights felt held a party for their daughter’s first birth- tropical depression. It kept raining. The were necessary to make the home liveable. day. canals filled up and there was no place for “On the invitations, I specified that the water to go.” instead of presents we would be collecting Disaster struck the morning of Thurs- donations to give to the Red Cross. The day, August 2, 2001. Her husband was at party was held September 22, 2001, and I work, and Abby was home alone with her mailed out the invitations on September two-year-old son, Bailey, and 11-month- 10th. The events of September 11 just made old daughter, Lily. Abby watched in horror the event even more meaningful.” as the canal behind her home filled and Abby says she plans to do something soon overflowed. Within minutes water similar for the Red Cross each year on began seeping onto her back porch. Helping Hugs–the bear who’s there in Lily’s birthday. “While I was running for towels, my an emergency is given to the Red “We are blessed. The stuff we lost is two-year-old was getting his boats out of Cross and paramedics by Target and immaterial. What the Red Cross did was the bathtub so he could go float them on Hershey Foods. The bears are then give us back our hope. I could never repay the back porch,” she remembered. given to children in distress. More that in a million years.” She put both children in a crib and than 1 million bears have been given began to move as many of her belongings away over the past 11 years. off the floor as possible. Then she looked out the window and saw a white Izuzu “There was a lot of water damage that Trooper in her driveway. Friends had come he refused to address. There were health to help. issues, and I wasn’t going to bring my “We grabbed the kids, their blankets, children back into that.” some diapers and their life jackets and put The Red Cross was on the scene as them in the car. Then Penny [one of the the area recovered. friends] and I went back to unplug every- “Food, clothing and shelter. Any im- thing. By this time the water was in the mediate needs we had in those three cat- house up to our ankles. I remember look- egories were addressed,” says Knight. “In Bailey and Lily Knight give each other a ing around the house and crying, “I don’t the beginning they helped us with grocer- big bear hug. know what to save!” ies, they bought the kids new shoes.” By the time Abby and her children Abby says they stayed with friends, abandoned the house, water in the neigh- but knew that the organization put several borhood was so high that it was flooding families up in hotels those first few days. the floor of the Trooper. Once they found someplace to live,

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JSU Unveils Athletic Facilities Building Projects

An artist rendering of the Gamecock Field House.

The soccer complex is cur- good about the bond money rently being built between the which will be used to upgrade Rudy Abbott Baseball Field our athletic facilities,” said and Pete Mathews Coliseum. University President Dr. Will- The new facility will provide iam A. Meehan. “When com- An artist rendering of the Athletic Complex. JSU soccer with a 120 X 75- pleted, we will have facilities yard playing surface with sub- equal to our peers in the Ohio The Gamecock Field House developed by Seitz that was surface drainage and Bermuda Valley Conference.” will be renovated during the approved by the University grass. With lights, a scoreboard With the new facilities, in- next year. Trustees last fall. and elevated stands, the com- creased revenues, enhanced The new Athletic Complex The renovation of the Game- plex will not only provide a exposure and the upcoming will be located next to the old cock Field House will double great playing facility for play- move to the Ohio Valley high school gym. the current space and be the ers, but a great venue for spec- Conference, JSU will enter tators to watch quality soccer. The new soccer complex will new home for JSU football. It this upcoming era well be built next to Rudy Abbott will include a new team meet- “This administration and our equipped to reach new levels Field. ing/film room with seating for Board of Trustees feel very of success. over 100 people, new coaches The project will encompass offices and meeting rooms; a three main areas: renovation recruiting/entertainment suite of the existing Gamecock overlooking the field, and a new Field House, construction of a exterior entrance and lobby. new multi-purpose athletic cen- Within the Field House, but ter, and the construction of a through a separate and unique new state-of-the-art soccer field. arrangement with HealthSouth, “While our actual playing fa- DATE OPPONENT SITE TIME the Sports Medicine training AUG. 31 Alabama A&M JACKSONVILLE 6:30 p.m. cilities are currently in pretty room will double in size to treat good shape, our ancillary sup- both JSU student-athletes and SEPT. 7 OPEN port facilities have been lack- HealthSouth patients through- SEPT. 14 Mississippi State Starkville, MS 6:00 p.m. ing for some time. These new out the community. and renovated facilities will SEPT. 21 Nicholls State Thibodeaux, LA 3:30 p.m. The two-story multi-purpose allow our student-athletes to athletic center will be located SEPT. 28 Tennessee Tech Cookeville, TN 7 p.m. train and develop their skills next to the old Jacksonville OCT. 5 Samford JACKSONVILLE 6:30 p.m. at a level never before avail- High School gymnasium and able at JSU. Strength and con- OCT. 12 Sam Houston State JACKSONVILLE 2 p.m. include renovation of existing ditioning, sports medicine, (Preview Day) space and construction of new academic services and admin- space. It will provide a new OCT. 19 McNeese State Lake Charles, LA 7 p.m. istrative support will be 5,000 square foot strength and OCT. 26 S.F Austin JACKSONVILLE 2 p.m. greatly enhanced. These addi- conditioning center, a regula- NOV. 2 S.W. Texas State San Marcos, TX 2 p.m. tions will also be a great asset tion size practice gym, locker in recruiting quality student- rooms for volleyball and soft- NOV. 9 Northwestern State JACKSONVILLE 4 p.m. athletes to JSU for years to ball, administrative and (Homecoming) come,” says JSU Athletic Di- coaches offices, an academic NOV. 16 Georgia Southern Statesboro, GA 12 noon rector, Tom Seitz. support center for student-ath- The facilities plan is part of letes, and an Athletic Hall of Visit us at www.jsu.edu for more information the overall strategic plan Fame and Museum.

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is currently serving as President of the Robert Alexander ’63 of Cliff Madison ’66 of Washing- ROTC Chapter of the JSU National Anniston, is a teacher with the ton, DC, is President of Madison Asso- ’36-59 Alumni Association. Calhoun County Bd. of Edu. at Saks ciates. He is a former member of the Drew Collier ‘36/45/71, Eugene Paul Kelly ‘59/78 of High School. JSU men’s basketball team. Cleveland, AL, devotes all his time Huntsville is Corporate Dir. and Chief Seaward Wainwright “Wain” Everette Ringer Studdard ’66 now to his vegetable and flower gar- Auditor for Dynetics, Inc. He is a Bates, Jr. ’63 of Rome, GA, is retired of Anniston is a teacher with the dens. He spent 42 years in teaching former member of the JSU football as a band director with the Gordon Haralson County (GA) Bd.of Edu. at and school administration in Blount team. County (GA) Bd. of Edu. He is a Buchanan Elementary School. She is County, retiring in 1976. His late wife, former member of the JSU Marching married to Walter Carlton Studdard Lois Lawrence Collier ‘36/38, was Southerners and Phi Mu Alpha ’63 who is Deputy Facility Manager also a teacher. He and his prize toma- ’60-69 Sinfonia music fraternity. with the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Center toes were featured in a current issue of Dianne Morrow Meagher ’63 for Domestic Preparedness, in Col. Frank Estes ’60 (Ret.), is a Southern Living Favorites. of Knoxville, TN, is retired from the Anniston. former Chief of Staff of Ft. Rucker, Emmett Plunkett ’39 (deceased) Maryville City Bd. of Edu. Janet Lombardo Ellard ’67 of AL, Army Aviation Center, and cur- was inducted into the Marshall County Barbara Camille Winters Reid Gainesville, FL, is a teacher/activities rently resides in Ozark, AL. After Sports Hall of Fame on June 8. He ’63 of Picayune, MS, is a teacher at director for the Alachua County Bd.of retiring from the Army, he worked was a member of the JSU basketball Ben Franklin High School in New Edu. A former JSU cheerleader, she is with DynaCorp, Ft. Rucker Division, team. He coached at Boaz, Madison Orleans, LA. She is a former member married to Steve K. Ellard ’66. Steve as human resources mgr. and director, County, Falkville and Glencoe. He of the JSU Marching Southerners. is a behavioral resource teacher for the director of support, and material also headed the Snead State Commu- Louise Franklin Marbut ‘64/80 Alachua County Bd. of Edu. He is a manager. nity College program for 15 years and of Anniston has retired as the Principal former member of the JSU men’s ten- Robert A. Brown ‘61/72 of served as athletic director and baseball of the Donoho School’s Lower Divi- nis team. Huntsville is VP of Defense Acquisi- coach. He was named Coach of the sion after 27 years in education. She Harold L. Johnson ’67 of Boaz, tion, Inc. He was a member of the JSU Year in 1958 by the Birmingham began at Donoho in 1975 as a physical is Director of the Natural Science and rifle team and was commissioned News. He won 7 conference champi- education instructor, was appointed Math Division at Snead State Commu- through the JSU ROTC program. He onships at Snead. principal of Donoho’s middle school nity College. He has been an educator is married to Bebe Whitaker Brown Maxine Ashburn Stewart ’46 of in 1981 and later became principal of for 32 years. He is married to Nikki ’61 who is a former JSU Marching Anniston is a former teacher at Cedar the lower school. She also served as Greer Johnson ’96, an RN with the Ballerina. They are life members of Springs Elementary School and a re- VP of the school board. Marshall Medical Center South. the Alumni Association. tired missionary. She and her husband Gene Kelton ’65 of Sun Lakes, Harold is a former member of the JSU Joan Lasseter Williamson ‘61/ served as missionaries in Thailand AZ, is a senior consultant for Holiday men’s basketball team. 77 of Gadsden, has retired as Dir. of from 1958 through 1994 for the For- Inns Worldwide. A lifetime member of Jimmy R. Hollifield ’67 of Student Services at Gadsden State eign Mission Board. the Alumni Association, he is a former Lipscomb is retired from the Jefferson Community College. She is married to Virginia Bannister Norton ’53 member of the JSU men’s basketball County Bd. of Edu., having taught at Scott Williamson ’61, retired Voca- of Jacksonville is retired from Ala- team. Shades Valley High School. He is a tional Rehabilitation Services Supervi- bama Power Company. She is married William Gene Love ’65 of life member of the JSU Alumni Asso- sor for the State of Alabama. to Leonard D. Norton ’56 who is Lawrenceville, GA, is Area Mgr. for ciation. John T. Allen ’62 is a retired retired from Barber Dairies. They are Sylvan Corporation. Beverly Karol Herman Sullivan coach and principal from the Marshall life members of the JSU Alumni James Turner ’65 of Ozark, AL, ’67 of Mathiston, MS, is self-employed County Bd. of Edu. He retired in 1996 Association. is superintendent of schools for the as a beauty consultant. She is a former with 32 years in education. He was a J. B. Freeman ’57 of Anniston Ozark City Bd. of Edu. and has served JSU Marching Ballerina. high school teacher and coach and a has been appointed to the Board of in that position since 1996. He previ- Sandra Ingram Jones ’67 of principal in the elementary and high ously served the Birmingham City Bd. Lawrenceville, GA, is program man- Trustees for the Calhoun County Com- school levels, serving as principal at of Edu. in various capacities from ager for The Farris Foundation, Inc. munity Foundation. He is a certified Douglas and Pisgah High. teaching to administration. She is a former JSU cheerleader and is public accountant and partner with Charles “Sam” Houston ’62 of Douglas Eugene Wheeler ’65 married to Otis P. Jones ’66 a former Brooke, Freeman and Lee. Coker, AL, is a retired hospital admin- and Manola Harper Wheeler ’65 of JSU football player who is President of Forrest French ’57 of Anniston istrator and currently works part time Alabaster are retired. Doug, a former The Farris Foundation, Inc. has been appointed to the Board of as a consultant. A former JSU cheer- member of the JSU football team, was Carolyn Harris Serviss ‘67/77 Trustees for the Calhoun County Com- leader and ROTC graduate, he is a life employed by the Shelby County Bd. of of Jacksonville was one of three Ala- munity Foundation. He is retired from member of the Alumni Association. Edu. at Chelsea High School. Manola, bama teachers recently inducted into Blue Mountain Industries/Barbour Joanne Stringfellow Jordan a former JSU Marching Ballerina, was the JSU Teacher Hall of Fame. She is Threads, where he served as Dir. of ‘62/68 of Opelika was recently named employed by Southern Living Maga- Sales. acting president of Southern Union a teacher at Saks High School and is a zine. They are life members of the Rev. George E. Jarrell ’57 of State Community College. She has former JSU Marching Ballerina. She South Lyon, MI, is on the staff of Will- been at Southern Union since 1966, Alumni Association. is married to JSU’s Director of Devel- iam Beaumont-Royal Oak (MI) and St. serving as a biology teacher and then Michael Cornwell ’66 of opment, Joe Serviss ’69. Joseph Mercy Hospital-Ann Arbor in various administrative capacities. Tuscaloosa is an attorney in private Charles Glenn Bailey ’68 of (MI) as chaplain, having been or- She is married to Bennett Jordan practice. Huntsville has retired from the U.S. dained in 1999. ‘61/66. Constance Marie Currey Jack- Department of Defense after 32 years Major General (Ret.) Larry E. Thomas Quinn ’62 of Castle son ‘66/75 of Blountsville is a counse- of service. He is a former member of Lee ’57 of Ohatchee has been in- Rock, CO, is a consultant with The lor educator at the State University of the JSU Marching Southerners. ducted by the U.S. Army Armor Asso- Aspen Group International, Inc. He is West Georgia in Carrollton, GA. She Joe Baker, III ’68 of Glen St. ciation into the Noble Order of St. a former member of the JSU Marching is married to Jerry Russell Jackson Mary, FL, is director of auditing for George as a Distinguished Knight. He Southerners. ‘75/93, a retired educator. First Coast Service Options, Inc.

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Dixie Myron Brown ’68 of tion, he returned to Ft. Payne and Roger Killian ’69 of Fort Payne Danville, VA, is a guidance counselor Henagar is a very busy man. After opened his law practice. He also has practiced law for 30 years. As a at Dan River High School in Ringgold, teaching high school for a short time, serves as a Municipal Judge. He retired former state representative, he served VA . he started his own construction busi- in 1996 from the U.S. Army Reserve on a legislative panel that drafted a bill Robert A. “Bob” Ellis ‘70/71 of ness. Always active, he played softball and Alabama Army National Guard creating a uniform court system state- Dothan is President of American Busi- until he was in his 50s. He plays ten- with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, wide and then had it implemented into ness Forms. He was a member of the nis 2 to 3 times a week year round and Judge Advocate General Corps, after law and was cited by the Alabama JSU baseball team and is a life mem- is a member of the Wills Valley Recre- 26 years. Press Association for meritorious ber of the JSU Alumni Association. ation Center where he runs several Joe A. Teal ’68 of Athens is Min- achievement in 1976. Len W. Harrison ’70 of Pelham miles a week. He is a collector. He ister of Education and Administration Darriel Ledbetter ’69 of Hunts- is corporate accounts manager for recently joined the Silver Liner line with the First Baptist Church of Ath- ville has retired as head of the English Parmelee Industries of Lenexa, KS. dancers and made his acting debut at ens, AL. Department at Arab High School after Judy Harris Luker ‘70/74/82 of the Senior Center this year. He was a Cindy Linehan Trulock ’68 of 31 years of teaching, 24 of them at Oxford is a teacher with the Calhoun member of the Jacksonville State base- Climax, GA, is an accountant with the Arab High. County Bd. of Edu. and also works as ball team. Thomas Grady Service Center in Brenda Dianne Stevens a program manager at the Anniston Henry J. Dobson, Jr. ‘68/81 of Thomasville, GA. McClendon ’69 of Albertville has Army Depot. Calhoun, GA, is an administrative William A. Bonnett, Sr. ’69 of been named “Woman of Distinction” Anne Powers Norman ’70 of assistant for the Gordon County Bd. of Tyrone, GA, was inducted into the by the Girl Scouts of North Alabama in Fayetteville, GA, is an associate real Edu. at Gordon Central High School. Robert E. Lee High School Hall of the Outstanding Educator category for estate broker. He was a member of the JSU March- Fame this spring. He has spent 33 her rapport with students, teachers, ing Southerners and Phi Mu Alpha years in education. The first 12 years other administrators and parents. She Sinfonia music fraternity. He is mar- of his career were spent teaching and has been principal for 6 years at West ried to Dianne Waits Dobson ’80, who coaching in Georgia and Alabama. End Elementary, now Albertville El- is a retired educator. The last 21 were spent in school ad- ementary. Prior to that, she spent 20 Peggy Ann McCoy Foshee ’68 ministration in Georgia. He currently years as a teacher and 6 years as a of Daphne is a math teacher at Daphne is Research and Evaluation Specialist/ school counselor. High School. Program Manager, Pupil Transporta- Michael McKibben ’69 of Nash- Charles McKerley ’68 of Hous- tion, Georgia Department of Educa- ville, TN, is a consultant with ton, TX, is a quality assurance man- tion. He is married to Joan Keith McKibben Consulting. He is a life ager with IBM Global Service. Bonnett ’70. While at JSU, Bill was a member of the JSU Alumni Associa- John Milton Oliver ’68 of member of the gymnastics team. tion. Attalla is retired from the Cherokee Diane Redfearn Broome ’69 of Suzanne Owens Payne ‘69/77 of County Bd. of Edu. Birmingham has retired as a counselor Heflin is a well-known humorist and Charles Bruce Pickette ’68 of with the Birmingham City Bd. of Edu. motivational speaker. She is a retired Montgomery is a functional analyst Terry R. Carr ’69 of Seminole, school teacher and part-time adjunct with Anteon Corporation. A life mem- FL, is President and Financial Advisor instructor at Gadsden State Commu- ber of the JSU Alumni Association, with Carr Capital Management in St. nity College. She is married to Rudy ▲Glenda Roby Segars ’70 of Bruce is very active with the ROTC Petersburg. He was commissioned K. Payne ’73, assistant superintendent Tupelo, MS, is Director of Learning Alumni Chapter and the Central Ala- through the JSU ROTC Department of education for the Cleburne County Resource Centers at Itawamba Com- bama Alumni Chapter, having served and was a member of Scabbard and Bd. of Edu. munity College. She is also serving as its president for several years. Blade and served on active duty prior Jerry Doran Smith ‘69/72 of her second of two 5-year terms on the Ted J. Propes ’68 of Marietta, to starting his own business. Cullman is Assistant VP for Enroll- Mississippi Library Commission. GA, was selected this past spring by Celia Toland Gardner ’69 of ment Management at Northern Ken- James Robert Shaw ’70 of The Wall Street Journal as one of the Anniston is retired from the Calhoun tucky University. A former member of Millbrook is retired from the U.S. Businessmen of the Year for Georgia. County Bd. of Edu. She is married to Alpha Tau Omega fraternity at JSU, he Army and is currently employed by He is the chairman and president of Tommie Lee Gardner, Jr. ’72 who is is a life member of the Alumni Asso- the State of Alabama, Department of Consolidated Capital Holding, Inc. Operations Manager for Burford’s Tree ciation and previously served as Regis- Corrections. based in Atlanta. A life member of the Surgeons, Inc. in Anniston. trar at JSU. He is married to Susan B. Tommy Sherer ’70 of Jasper has JSU Alumni Association, Ted currently Diana Estes Graham ’69 of Rogers Smith ’86 who is an instructor been in education for the past 32 years serves as President Elect of the JSU Houston, TX, is employed by Aquiva at Wallace State College in Hanceville. and recently retired as principal at Foundation Board of Directors and Trading as office Supervisor. Memorial Park Elementary School, Chairman of its Investment Advisory Eugene Griep ’69 of Walker County Bd. of Edu. He is a Committee. Guntersville has been inducted into the ’70-79 former member of the JSU Marching Mary Frances Giles Marshall County Sports Hall of Fame. Southerners. Stokesberry ‘68/84 of Jacksonville is He played football for JSU and still Robert L. Atkins, Jr. ’70 of Campbell Smith ‘70/75 of serving as an adjunct instructor at JSU. holds the record for the longest fumble Mountain Brook is serving as coordi- Rainsville has been named Operations She is married to John Gilbert return for a touchdown at 98 yards in nator of testing for the Birmingham Manager of WKEA-FM and WMXN- Stokesberry ’68 who is an attorney. 1962. For 21 years (1960-81), he held City Bd. of Edu. FM radio. He previously taught school Patrick H. Tate ’68 of Fort the record for the longest interception Jean Jackson Brumbeloe ’70 of in Dekalb County for 27 years and was Payne is an attorney. After graduating for a touchdown at 98 yards. He LaGrange, GA, is a teacher at Hollis band director at Valley Head High from the Cumberland School of Law taught and coached at Weaver Junior Hand Elementary, Troup County Bd. School prior to his retirement in 1999. and admitted to the Alabama Bar in High, Jacksonville High, Hart Co. of Edu. She is a former member of the He can be heard on the Rick and 1971, he entered active military duty. (GA), Hueytown and Boaz High JSU Marching Southerners. Bubba Show’s news and weather up- After completing his military obliga- Schools and is now retired. Betty S. Cline Cole ’70/88 of dates each morning.

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Carol Jean Smith ’70 of Mont- gomery serves as Asst. Attorney Gen- eral for the State of Alabama. She was Alumni Association Life Members a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority at JSU and served as Student Govern- The following have become recent life members of the Alumni Association. ment secretary. She was selected (joined between January 2002-July 2002) JSU’s Alumna of the Year in 1985. A life member of the JSU Alumni Asso- Michael H. Baker ’80/82 Richard Lee Mayfield ’90 Amy Bowman Raser ciation, she currently serves on its Danny Ray Conaway ’87 Gary E. McCombs ’76 Peter John Raser ’00 Board of Governors representing Dwight Crisson ’73 Elaine Keener McGinnis ’77/79 Dianna Blount Simmons ’87 alumni in the Montgomery area. William C. Daniel, Jr. ’83 Clyde W. Miller ’71/77 Louis L. Skinner ’78 Terry M. Stahl ’70 of William P. Dunaway ’59 Jeana Kay Miller ’98 Kimberly Mann Smith ’91/98/00 Huntingtown, MD is an operations officer (GS-15) with the Defense Intel- Bruce A. Faulkner ’82 Michael L Morgan ’69/74 Helen Steakley Stephens ’64 ligence Agency in Arlington, VA. M. Joan Harrison-Woodard ’01 Susan Frost Morgan ’71 Deborah Bennett Stubbs ’84/91 Commissioned through the JSU ROTC Diana Irby Hensley ’97 Charles A. Myers ’61 Roland A. Thornburg, Jr. ’82/83 program, Terry was a member of the Sandra Rice Holaway ’71/74 Vera McAbee Myers ’62/84 Hazel White Ware ’00 Pershing Rifles at JSU. Erin Marin Jackson ’02 Tracy Owen ’85 Earl Warren ’93 Bobby Terrell ’70 of Russellville was recently inducted into the Cullman Robert Porch Jordan ’83 Robert Wayne Patty ’70/76 Howard Keith Wyatt ’01 County Sports Hall of Fame. A mem- Don C. Killingsworth, Jr. ’99/01 Millicent Smith Peyer ’90/01 ber of the JSU basketball team, he Tonya Spillman Lilly ’99 Jeffrey T. Randolph ’95 helped the Gamecocks win a confer- ence title all four years he was on the A Healthy Benefit to Life Membership team. Jim Appleton ’71 of Birming- The recreational facilities at Stephenson Hall and Pete Mathews Coliseum are now available ham is President of Appleton Mortgage for an additional yearly fee to our life members. If you have questions, please call the Corporation. Alumni Office for more details. Thomas L. Carter ’71 of Bir- mingham is Regional Sales Manager for Dr. Pepper/Seven Up. He is a 73/84 of Boaz is employed by the sultant with Logica, Inc. is a former JSU cheerleader. Rita re- former member of the JSU Marshall County Bd. of Edu. He is Betty Newsome Hall ’72 of Fort cently showed her love and support of cheerleading squad. asst. principal at both Boaz and Corley Payne is an ASA II for the State of JSU when she dressed in red and Kenneth Wayne “Don” Elementary Schools and has 32 years Alabama. white, made a huge “Welcome JSU” Garrard ’71 of Russellville has retired of experience. He has also taught Joseph A. Holder ’72 of Rome, sign and met the JSU alumni group as SE Division Manager of Manufac- math classes at Snead State Commu- GA, is Pharmacy Director for The flying into Honolulu in June to start its turing of VF Jeanswear (The Lee Com- nity College and has worked in adult Specialty Hospital in Rome. Hawaiian Island cruise. A traditional pany) after 30+ years of service. He basic education for 24 years. Susan Jane Gwin Hill ‘72/93 of Hawaiian welcome with a friendly JSU started with the company in 1964, left Yvonne Sorrells Redden ’71 of Southside is a teacher with the Etowah touch! for a stint in the Army, got his degree, Brooklet, GA, is a teacher at Mattie County Bd. of Edu. at West End High Fred Anderson Toney ’72/79 of then returned to the company and Lively Elementary School in School. Dalton, GA, is a principal with the began working at Russellville in 1974. Statesboro. She is a former member of Steven Manley ’72 of Birming- Whitfield County Bd. of Edu. He is a William Emory Greene ’71 of the JSU Marching Southerners, the ham is a medical sales rep with former member of the JSU football Anderson, SC, is warehouse supervisor A Capella Choir and Delta Omicron. Beckman Coulter Diagnostics of At- team. for the Robert Bosch Corporation. He She is married to Gary Redden ’81. lanta. He is a former JSU Marching Thomas Walker ‘72/76 of Jack- is a former JSU Marching Southerner Carol Jean Sedlacek ‘71/77 of Southerner. sonville is employed by Software and member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Huntsville is a procurement analyst J. Malcomb Massey ’72 of Technology, Inc. of Mobile in software music fraternity. with USA Aviation and Missile Com- Montgomery is President and CEO of technical support. He is a life member Mary Acker Harrell ’71 of mand at Redstone Arsenal. She was a Pension & Benefit Trust Company. of the JSU Alumni Association. Gadsden is a social worker for the member of Phi Mu sorority at JSU. Paul Eugene Pettit ‘72/73 of Phillip Wayne Wilkerson ‘72/91 Alabama Medicaid Agency. Cheryl Naylor Taylor ’71 of Horton has retired from Snead State of Lineville recently retired as princi- Sam D. Hudson ’71 of Tyrone, Orlando, FL, recently retired from the Community College in Boaz. pal at Lineville High School. He had GA, is Vice President for International Orange County Public School System Norman J. Rich ’72 of Rich- been employed by the Clay County Sales at Atlanta Sharptech. where she taught Secondary English mond Hill, GA, is branch manager for Bd. of Edu. for the past 28 years, the Melanie Ray Hutchinson ’71 of (gifted education). In 1999, she re- White-Hart & Associates out of Savan- last 5 as high school principal. Rainbow City was selected 2002 Cory ceived the Disney Teacherrific Judges nah. Dewey Charles Anderson ’73 of Middle School Teacher of the Year. Choice Award. She thanks her English Mary Catherine “Cathy” Alpharetta, GA, is Chief Technology She is employed by the Etowah and Education professors at JSU for Trathen Russell ’72 of Cumming, Officer for NetByTel out of Boca th County Bd. of Edu., teaching 7 and giving her a strong foundation and GA, is a human resources rep with Raton, FL. He is a former member of th 8 grade reading. modeling good teaching techniques! Textron Financial Corporation in the JSU Marching Southerners and Pi Shirley McMillan Johnson ‘71/ Her husband, Scott, is in law enforce- Alpharetta. Kappa Phi fraternity. 77 of Weaver is an instructor at the ment and they have 3 grown children. Rita Jo Shirley ’72 of Honolulu, Fred T. Asbell ’73 of Washing- State University of West Georgia. Gregory Claude Denson ’72 of HI, is a teacher support specialist with ton, DC, is Director of Strategic Initia- James Michael Matthews ‘71/ Lineville is a senior applications con- Columbus Educational Services. 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dustry Group Purchasing Association. Steve Godwin ‘74/83/98 of Jack- coached for 30 years at Baileyton, Acworth, GA, is a consultant with He was a member of Kappa Sigma sonville is a minister with Watchman Arab and Holly Pond. Booz Allen & Hamilton. He was a fraternity at JSU. Fellowship in Birmingham. He is a Kenneth Lee Cates ’75 of member of the ROTC Rangers at JSU. Mike Cundiff ’73 of Horse former member of the JSU Marching Sylacauga is water quality supervisor His wife, Vicki Cheryl Medlock Cave, KY, is asst. principal at Hart Southerners. He is married to Kelly for the Sylacauga Utilities Board. Bryant, attended JSU and was a mem- County High School. He is a former Blount Godwin ’80 who is an optom- Darlene Haynes Cooper ’75 of ber of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. member of the JSU football team. etrist with Gadsden Eye Associates. Guntersville is laboratory director for Randall D. Crain ’76 of Stan D. Gunter ’73 of Gadsden Terry R. Grizzard ’74 of Ox- Crestwood Medical Center in Huntsville. Gadsden retired as the Dir. of Security is Director of Fiscal Affairs for the ford is office manager at Open MRI of C. Terry Hughes ’75 of Roswell, at the Waverly Hotel in Atlanta, GA. Regional 310 Authority in Gadsden. Oxford. GA, is a manager at Dru Starnes In- He is a former member of Sigma Nu He loves paddling kayaks, touring on David W. Hester ’74 of Florence vestments. He was a member of Alpha fraternity at JSU. his Harley, and driving his old car. is Gen. Mgr. of the American General Tau Omega fraternity at JSU. Michael Jay Fordham ’76 of Gene Inglis ’73 of Rome, GA, is Finance Group in Florence. Alfred Henry Quirouet, Jr. ’75 Evergreen is plant manager for Ever- Director of Bands for the Rome City Randy Hydrick ’74 of Trussville of McDonough, GA, is a media spe- green Technologies, Inc. Bd. of Edu. and recently was one of is owner of Flow Dynamics and Auto- cialist with the DeKalb County (GA) Johnny D. Gamble ’76 of two recipients of Bandworld mation in Birmingham. He is married Bd. of Edu. at Martin Luther King, Jr. Scottsboro is plant controller with Magazine’s Legion of Honor Award. to Joan Greer Hydrick ’72, a former High School in Lithonia. He is a Carrier (Witt) Heat Transfer Products. Gene is a 2-time recipient of the JSU Marching Ballerina. Randy was a former member of the JSU Marching William H. Haynes, Jr. ’76 of Teacher of the Year Award for West member of Kappa Sigma fraternity at Southerners. Virginia Beach, VA, is senior political Rome Schools and received the Ameri- JSU. Rita Cabassa Thomas ‘75/76 of analyst for cultural and worldview can School Band Directors Association Susan Wright Manning ‘74/79 Tuscaloosa is now asst. principal at studies at the American Center for Law Stanbury Award in 1983. Over the of Ragland is retired from teaching Hillcrest High School after serving as a & Justice. past 28 years, the Rome City School with the St. Clair County Bd. of Edu. teacher there since 1992. She has Patricia A. Hobbs ‘76/78 of District bands have been awarded over She currently works as a tour director taught at Northport Junior High, Holy Alexandria, VA, has been named direc- 100 “superior” ratings at band festivals for Wright Dairy in Alexandria. Spirit School and Blessed Sacrament tor of internal communications for the in Georgia. Gene currently serves as David McPherson ’74 of Jack- School in Birmingham. She was se- U.S. Dept. of Edu. She coordinates president of the Gray Echelon. sonville was recently promoted to the lected Outstanding Teacher of the Year internal communications for more than James Lampru ‘73/81 of Pow- rank of Colonel in the Alabama Army in 1996 in Tuscaloosa and has been 4700 employees at the Headquarters der Springs, GA, is a WAM Adminis- National Guard. He currently works nominated 3 times for the JSU Teacher and 10 regional offices. She is a 20- trator (Canada) for IBM of Marietta, full time as the Mgr. of the Ft. Hall of Fame. year federal employee who has also GA. McClellan Army National Guard Jerome Wilson ‘75/92/00 of worked on Capitol Hill and at the Jackie L. Ragland ‘73/77 of Training Center in Anniston. He is Piedmont is the new asst. principal at White House before coming to the Gadsden is employed by the Gadsden married to Angie Ledbetter the Sand Rock School in Cherokee Dept. of Edu. in 1985. City Bd. of Edu. as principal of the McPherson ‘82/85 who works in edu- County. He has 11 years of experience Stephen C. Hunt ’76 of Chula J.K. Weaver Technical Center. cation administration. David was a in teaching, coaching, and administra- Vista, CA, is a supervisory border William Lionel Austin ’74 of member of Delta Chi fraternity tion. patrol agent with the U.S. Government. Flat Rock, AL, is an accountant with at JSU. Belinda Ealy Wisikoski ’75 of He was a member of Delta Chi fraternity. Trenton (GA) Telephone Company. Daniel Martin Mince ’74 of Fort Georgetown, SC, is superintendent of Robert Dennis Johnson ’76 of He is married to Jane Anne Payne is a physician (internist) at Bap- Georgetown County Environmental Cullman is asst. facility manager at the Whittington Austin ‘75/94 who is a tist Health Systems in Fort Payne. He Services. She is married to Stefan U.S. Space and Rocket Center in teacher with the Dade County (GA) is a life member of the JSU Alumni Wisikoski ’76 who is a specialist with Huntsville. He was a member of Bd. of Edu. Association and is married to Myra the Georgetown County Dept. of So- Kappa Sigma fraternity. Larry Ball ‘74/88 of Piedmont is Beth Brown Mince ’83. cial Services. James M. Kelley ’76 of asst. principal at Piedmont High Michael Wayne Pruitt ’74 of Gary Wayner ‘75/76 of Fort Gadsden is a senior environmentalist School. Anniston is editor of SPORTS PRE- Payne, a retired teacher, and his wife with the Etowah County Health Michael Lee Bowman ‘74/76/83 VIEW. While at JSU, he was active in Susan Dewyer Wayner ‘71/76, are Department. of Attalla is Director of General Ser- student government. booksellers for Natural History Books. George Ann Minas McCay ’76 vices for the Attalla City Bd. of Edu. Robert S. Shaw, Jr. ’74 of Roger Whitaker ’75 of Madison of Hillsborough, NC, is a coordinator Ginger Burton Chamberlain Anniston is Inspector General with is CFO for Plastic Fusion Fabricators, with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Bd. ’74 of Alexandria, VA, is an assoc. USA Forces Command in Georgia. Inc. in Huntsville. He was a member of Edu. She is married to Charles senior consultant with Booz Allen Diane Forte Barfield ’75 of of Delta Chi fraternity at JSU. He is Van McCay ’78 who is a division Hamilton in McLean, VA. She is a life Moultrie, GA, is an instructional tech- married to Debra Coffey Whitaker accountant for Gold Kist, Inc. member of the JSU Alumni Associa- nologist for Albany State University ’76. James Hood Parker ’76 of tion. (GA). She is a former member of the Bill Aaron ’76 of Albertville is Franklin, TN, is President/Songwriter Ann Butterworth Cook ‘74/77 JSU Marching Southerners. currently employed by the Marshall with Parker’s Place Publishing. of Carrollton, GA, is a teacher at Cen- Bobbie Nell Ward Berry ’75 of County Bd. of Edu. as the principal at Wayne C. Rowe ‘76/78 of tral of Carroll County. She is a former Joppa was recently inducted into the Asbury Junior High School. He has Gadsden is CEO of Quality of Life JSU Marching Ballerina. Cullman County Sports Hall of Fame. served Marshall County as an educator Health Services. J. Wayne Fields ’74 of Tulsa, She made history when she became for 29 years. Tina Denise Ward ’76 of OK, is president of American Nursery the first female to receive a degree in Angie Kay Allen Bell ’76 of Durham, NC, is an education specialist Products. health, physical education and recre- Valley Head has been a teacher for at Low Security Correctional Institu- Ronald F. Ford ‘74/77 of ation from St. Bernard’s. She also almost 26 years. She was married to tion in Butner, NC. Greenville, SC, is owner of Ford and coached Holly Pond to its first county the late Charles O. Bell ’70. Stephen Y. Aaron ’77 of Ford Finance. basketball title. She taught and Dennis Alan Bryant ’76 of Cedartown, GA, is safety and

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environmental manager for The Hon Fayetteville, GA, is an account rep for the JSU Marching Ballerinas and a United Methodist Church. He is mar- Company in Cedartown. ADT Security, Inc. He was a member of little sister for Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. ried to Kimberley Brooks Haselden Marlin O. Arrington ’77 of the JSU football team, Kappa Alpha Psi Patti Jayne Moss Williams ’77 ’80. Zeno was a member of the JSU Arab is owner of Consign1st.com. fraternity and the Black Student Union. of Sylacauga is a church ministry asst. cross country team. Debra Kirby Baker ‘77/82 of Teresa Ann Musick Hibbs ‘77/ at Brookwood Baptist Church in Lee Rhea Johns ’78 of Albertville is a 4th grade teacher with 87 of Pell City is a special education Mountain Brook. Greenville, SC, is pursuing a job as an the Marshall County Bd. of Edu. at teacher at Eden Elementary. She is Philip Sydney Albury ’78 of Adult Primary Care Nurse Practitioner. The Asbury School. She has been a married to Roger Earl Hibbs ‘76/90 Stockbridge, GA, is a flight attendant She is certified in hospice and pallia- teacher for 25 years. who is principal at Chattooga (GA) with Northwest Airlines. He is a tive care. Lee Rhea is also a flight Donnie Bell ’77 of Decatur, GA, High School. Roger played football at former member of the JSU Marching nurse at Charleston Air Force Base and is a minister. He is a former member JSU. Southerners and Phi Mu Alpha has been promoted to Major in the of the JSU cross country team and Jean Traywick Hollis ’77 of Pell Sinfonia music fraternity and was in- U.S. Air Force Reserves. Omega Psi Phi fraternity. City is pathology supervisor at St. volved in the International House Pro- Nannie Nelson Johnson ’78 of Dennis Black ‘77/80 of Athens, Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham. gram and Circle K. Fayetteville, NC, is a senior technical AL, is an asst. principal with the Lime- Elizabeth Ann Taylor Johnson Paul Gladstone Campbell, Jr. support member at Square D. stone County Bd. of Edu.at East Lime- ’77 of Southside is self-employed as ’78 of Goose Creek, SC, is President, Mark A. Lumpkin ’78 of stone High School. He played base- co-owner of Johnson Contracting in Primary Metals, Southeast Region, for Anniston is a Pharmacist and phar- ball at JSU. Rainbow City. She was a member of Alcoa. macy manager at CVS Pharmacy in Jack Boatwright ’77 of Phi Mu sorority. Linda Bearden Cashion ’78 of Anniston. He was a member of Alpha Ashville, a former educator and police Glenn Landrum ’77 of Sumter, Snellville, GA, is a teacher at Norton Tau Omega fraternity. officer, was diagnosed with Multiple SC, is operations mgr. for Bose Corpo- Elementary School. Beverly Kaye Gillilan Masters Sclerosis at age 39. Concerned friends ration. He was a member of the JSU Bethany A. Blackmon Williams ’78 of Haleyville is a teacher with the have set up an account at Regions cross country team. Glenn is married ’78/88 of Eastaboga is employed by Haleyville City Bd. of Edu. She is a Bank to raise money to purchase a to Martha “Marti” Carrington the Calhoun County Bd. of Edu. as a former member of Phi Mu sorority. special van with a chair lift so he can Landrum ’77 who is a social worker middle school coordinator. She is married to Randall Neil Mas- get out of the house, especially to doc- for the South Carolina Continuum of Phyllis Bumpus Clopton ’78 of ters ’77 who is president of Indies tor appointments, and to enjoy life Care for SEC Children. Jacksonville is Deputy Site Manager House in Hackleburg. He is a former with his disability. Contributions can Curtis Mitchell, Jr. ’77 of for DTRA-Anniston. member of Delta Chi fraternity. be made to any Regions Bank branch Roswell, GA, is a realtor for Val-Mar Robert G. Connell ’78 of Arab Cathy Mick Noble ’78 of Madi- to the Jack Boatwright Van Fund, ac- Realty. He is a former member of the is CIO for the U.S. Army Space and son is a program analyst with Scientific count #0800095505. JSU football team. Missile Defense Command in Hunts- Research Corp. in Huntsville. She was Timothy Wayne Childers ’77 D. Marty Morelli ’77 of Mem- ville. a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. of Austell, GA, is pastor of First Bap- phis, TN, is an account executive for John Glenn Dutton ’78 of Leeds Teresa Prater Porter ‘78/82 of tist Church in Mableton, GA. He was Yellow Transportation. He was a Phi has been in the banking business for Toccoa, GA, is a substitute teacher a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Beta Lambda and J-Club member at 26 years, 14 of those in Talladega. He with the Stevens County Bd. of Edu. Tim’s wife, Debbie Street Childers, JSU and played on the football team. was recently appointed president and Javier Prado ’78 of San Jose, attended JSU. Freida Kay Hayes Phillips ’77 CEO of The Bank in Sylacauga. CA, is finance manager with Volvo Janie Nunnelley Clemons ‘77/ of Dalton, GA, is employed as a Sharon Burford Gaines ‘78/81 Auto Sueca (Costa Rica). He is a life 82 of Boaz is a guidance counselor teacher with Whitfield County Bd. of of Jacksonville is principal at Pleasant member of the JSU Alumni Association. with the Marshall County Bd. of Edu. She was a member of Alpha Xi Valley Elementary. She has spent 23 Bobbie Jean Daniel Smith ’78 Edu.at Boaz Elementary School. She Delta sorority. years in education at Saks Elementary, of Huntsville is a computer lab techni- is a life member of the JSU Alumni Thomas B. Posey, III ’77 of El Middle and High Schools. She was cian/lab coordinator for the Huntsville Association and a former member of Dorado, AR, is director of administra- selected as Teacher of the Year numer- City Bd. of Edu. at Jones Valley High the JSU Marching Ballerinas and Phi tive services at South Arkansas Com- ous times at the middle school. School. Mu sorority. munity College. Ronald F. Green ‘78/82 of Henry Peters Turner ’78 of Danny Craven ’77 of Jackson- Thomas Shields ’77 of Johnson City, TN, is Assoc. Dean at Huntsville is self-employed as a con- ville is scientific manager for Aventis Murfreesboro, TN, is the industrial East Tennessee State University. tractor and is in real estate. He played Pharmaceuticals out of Bridgewater, services mgr. for Thompson Machin- Jerry Harbour ’78 of Piedmont baseball for JSU and was a member of NJ. He played football at JSU. Danny ery in LaVergne, TN. He was a mem- is the city’s newest councilman. He the J-Club. is married to Becky Angel Craven ’77 ber of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. was retired from S.C.T. Yarn Company John David Walker ‘78/91 of who is employed by the Calhoun Janine Bouchard Stanley ’77 of in 1994. He is married to Mary Agnes Fort Payne has been in law enforce- County Bd. of Edu. as a teacher at Jacksonville, FL, is a librarian for the Harbour ’79 who is a teacher with the ment for almost 27 years. He is police Pleasant Valley Elementary. Jacksonville (FL) Public Library. Piedmont City Bd. of Edu. chief in Fort Payne. Ronald V. Davis ’77 of Colum- Rodney Joe Stewart ‘77/92 of Sarah “Millie” Bowers Harris Anita Corley Williams ’78 of bus, GA, is asst. plant manager for Cartersville, GA, is Headmaster at ’78 of Anniston is employed as a Quinton is an administrative associate Boral Brick, Inc. of Phenix City, AL. Excel Academy. He was a member of teacher at Stowers Elementary School. at University of Alabama-Birmingham He is married to Regina Rhoden Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. He is married She is married to Braxton B. Harris (UAB). She was a member of Delta Davis ’77. to Pamela Jo Edwards Stewart ’85 ‘71/73, President and CEO of Braxton Zeta sorority. Jay Allen Graham ’77 of Louis- who is a computer technology teacher Harris Company in Anniston. Athena Newsome Willingham ville, KY, is Assoc. VP for Institutional at the Excel Academy in Cartersville. Willard D. Hart ‘78/97 of Rain- ’78 of Birmingham is employed by Advancement at Southern Baptist Janet Olivia Patterson Williams bow City is a counselor at Gadsden Ernst & Young as an accountant. She Theological Seminary. He was a ’77 of Talladega is resource coordina- State Community College. is a former member of the JSU March- member of the JSU football team. tor with the Alabama Dept. of Human Zeno H. Haselden ’78 of Hunts- ing Southerners and Delta Omicron Anthony Andrew Hardy ’77 of Resources. She is a former member of ville is pastor of the Homes Street sorority.

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J. Daniel Burdick ’78 of Char- ing as head of the science department coordinator for the Alabama Dept. of Bradley Dialysis FMC. She is cur- lotte, NC, is VP of Omnisolv, Inc. in at the school. Rehabilitation Services. rently working on her master’s degree Concord, NC. He is married to Jenni- Kathy J. Maynor Rowe ’79 of Roy Kendal Clemons, Jr. ’80 of at Lee University. fer Wells Burdick ’80, a teacher at Lawrence, KS, is education coordina- Daphne is plant mgr. for Masland Car- James Michael Paris ’80 of Hickory Grove (NC) Baptist Christian tor at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. pets, Inc. in Saraland. He is a former Harker Heights, TX, is a teacher with School. Robin Sullins Nee ’79 of member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and is the Killeen Independent School District. William “David” Caudle ’79 of Normandy, TN, is a senior auditing married to Brenda Seeger Clemons ’80. Julie Michele Lumpkin Payne Madison, MS, is risk manager for clerk at the University of Tennessee Carol Diane Cline ’80 of ‘80/86 of Gadsden is a library media James Greene & Associates. His wife, Space Institute in Tullahoma. Anniston has been an RN at specialist at Cory Middle School. She Rebecca Welsh Caudle, attended JSU Catherine L. Niemeyer Stringfellow Memorial Hospital for 22 is married to Kerry Christopher and is employed with Dillards Depart- Ontiveros ’79 of Huntsville is a super- years. She is the charge nurse on the Payne, Sr. ’96. ment Store. visor at Huntsville Hospital. She was a medical telemetry unit. Thomas Rayford Sanders ’80 J. Paul Edmondson ‘79/85 of member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Joe Neil Gibson, Jr. ‘80 of of Ashville is principal of Ashville Gadsden is Asst. Principal and choral Susan Jeanette Sams ‘79/80 of Trussville is a sales rep with Birming- High School. Prior to coming to director for the Gadsden City Bd. of Douglasville, GA, is an educational ham Coca-Cola. He is a life member Ashville, he was asst. principal at Edu. at Emma Sansom High School. technology specialist with Georgia of the JSU Alumni Association. Ragland High and a teacher/coach in He is married to Debbie Stearns Learning Connections/GDOE in Atlanta. Frank E. Hay, II ’80 of St. Pe- the St. Clair County School System. Edmondson ’79 who is the New Busi- Betsy Stafford Tribe ’79 of tersburg, FL, is Mgr. of Electronic Jody Naylor Sibley ’80 of Trin- ness Mgr. for the Life Insurance Com- Palm Bay, FL, is the preschool director Media Sales with Cox Target Media in ity is a financial support worker for the pany of Alabama in Gadsden. Both at Country Beginnings in Palm Bay. Largo, FL. He is a former member of State of Alabama. She is a former were former members of the JSU She was a member of Delta Zeta sorority. the JSU Marching Southerners and Phi member of the JSU Marching Ballerinas. Marching Southerners and A Cappella Tracy Glenn Watkins ’79 of Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity. Ralph W. Whitfield, Jr. ’80 of Choir. Redwood City, CA, is general mgr. of Leslie Kim Hester ‘80/87 of Rainbow City is an engineer with Alexander Charles Elliott, Jr. Tharco. He was a member of Sigma Jonesboro, AR, is Assoc. Professor of North American Bus Industries, Inc. in ’79 of Orange Park, FL, is a retired Nu fraternity and was commissioned Management at Arkansas State Anniston. He is a former member of U.S. Army major. He was commis- through the JSU ROTC program. University. the JSU Marching Southerners. sioned through JSU’s ROTC department. Neil Ellis Weathington ’79 of Alan Cash Land ’80 of Marietta, Darrell L. Wilkinson ’80 of The Jay E. “Bo” Emerson, Jr. ’79 of Carrollton, GA, is an agent with Bryan GA, is a firefighter/HAZMAT techni- Woodlands, TX, is owner of Sierra Huntsville is an attorney with Higts & Insurance Agency. He was a JSU cian with Cobb County Fire & Emer- Nevada Energy Services in Houston. Emerson. He is a former member of Marching Southerner and member of gency Services. He is a former mem- Cheryl Ann Wright Williams the JSU football team. Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity. ber of the JSU Marching Southerners. ’80/02 of Oxford is a special education L. Michael Fauscette ’79 of Steven D. Martin ’80 of Atlanta, teacher with the Calhoun County Bd. Discovery Bay, CA, is VP of Centric GA, is Managing Director of the At- of Edu. at Anniston Middle School. Software in San Jose. He is a former ’80-89 lanta office of Granite Properties. He She is a former JSU Cheerleader. member of the JSU Marching South- has been in commercial real estate for Margeret Ann “Marnie” Adair Paul Benefield ’80/85 of Fyffe is erners and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia about 19 years. Prior to accepting the ’81 of Alpharetta, GA, is a nurse con- a teacher and football coach with the music fraternity. position, Steve was a founding princi- sultant with Baxter Healthcare in Dekalb County Bd. of Edu. at Fyffe Susan Dianne Gossett ’79 of pal for Goddard Investment Group, Tucker, GA. High School. Troy is chairman of the Dept. of Psy- LLC in Atlanta. Anthony D. Blevins ’81 of Cynthia Tate Berry ’80 of chology, Counseling and Foundations Joy D. McCartney ’80 of Marietta, GA, is Mgr. of Financial Marietta, GA, is a teacher with the of Education at Troy State University. Gadsden was chosen January Teacher Reporting and Analysis for RaceTrac She was recently appointed to the Ala- Cobb County Bd. of Edu. of the Month for the Attalla City Bd. of in Smyrna. bama Board of Examiners in Counsel- Roger Max Bowman ’80 of San Edu. She is in her 10th year of teaching Cheryl Huddleston Bragg ’81 ing by Governor Don Siegelman. She Diego, CA, is VP of Operations and at Etowah Middle School. She previ- of Jacksonville is the Exec. Dir. of the joined the TSU faculty in 1993. Technology with the Moore Corpora- ously taught at Westbrook Christian Anniston Museum of Natural History. Robert A. Hamberg ’79 of tion in San Diego. He is a life member School and Litchfield High School. Frank Buck ’81 of Pell City has Naples, FL, is band director at Gulf of the JSU Alumni Association. Connie Brooks Mizell ’80 of been recognized by Alfa Insurance as Coast High School in Naples. He is a David A. Carnes ’80 of Opelika is now the principal at High- Teacher of the Month for July. He is former member of the JSU Marching Cumming, GA, is Business Mgr. for land Gardens Elementary School in principal at Graham Elementary School. Southerners. Lease Atlanta in Marietta. He is a Montgomery County. She spent sev- Jon V. DeGoicoechea ’81 of Fort Dr. Alice Huddleston ’79 of former member of the JSU Marching eral years in the Gadsden school sys- Lauderdale, FL, is owner of We Are Munford is principal of Munford El- Southerners and member of Phi Mu tem before coming to Montgomery TeKz in Pembroke Pines. ementary School. She has been voted Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity. and at Harrison Elementary before Tracy Ashmore DeMora ’81 of president-elect of the Alabama Council Wallace Steve Cheatwood ’80 going to Highland Gardens 6 years Birmingham is employed with Balch for Leaders in Alabama Schools of Anniston is plant mgr. for North ago. She has been in education for 18 & Bingham, LLP in Birmingham. (CLAS). In 1999, she was named American Bus Industries. He is mar- years. Robert Dennis Eiland ’81 of National Distinguished Principal for ried to Rita Gail Blackwell Kimberly Parker Molnar ’80 of Atlanta, GA, is a senior systems engi- Alabama and represented the state in Cheatwood ’80 who is a homemaker. Old Hickory, TN, is president of Em- neer for Delta Airlines. He is a former Washington, DC. She has been princi- Wes E. Clark, Jr. ’80 of Hunts- pire Food Brokers, Inc. in member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. pal at Munford since 1987. ville is a Corporal with the Alabama Goodlettsville, TN. She was a member Pamela Colbert Halbrooks ’81 Jane Latimer Little ’79 of Dept. of Public Safety. He is a former of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, the of Birmingham is a teacher with the Guntersville is a teacher at Carlisle member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity and Panhellenic Council and the SGA. Jefferson County Bd. of Edu. She is Park Elementary School. She is in her is married to Janet Russell Clark ’87. Patsy Winn Myers ’80 of Cleve- married to Howard Joseph 15th year of teaching and is also serv- Janet is a district early intervention land, TN, is a renal social worker for Halbrooks ‘78/81.

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Mary Kathryn Meinert Har- Mayor Pro-tem of LaFayette in 1998 team and Delta Chi fraternity and is Baptist Church in Birmingham. He is ris ’81 of Pembroke Pines, FL, is and was succeeded in office by an- married to Patricia Ferguson Kyzar a former member of the JSU Marching registrar/DPC for the Broward other JSU grad, Phillip “Andy” ’84, an RN. Southerners, the A Cappella Choir and County Bd. of Edu. She is married to Arnold ’81 who is a teacher/coach at Alexander Maximilian Luckow the Baptist Campus Ministry. William G. Harris ’81 who owns LaFayette High School. ‘82/83 of Berlin, Germany, is creative Donna Denise Perryman Ace Products in Miami. Hedily Schmidt Wendover ’81 dir. of Enterprise IG in Hamburg, Ger- Espadas ’83 of Houston, TX, is Center Cindy Camp Honeycutt ’81 of of Somerville, NJ, is a paralegal mgr. many. He is a former member of the Mgr. at CHF QUERI VA Medical Cen- Alabaster is a payment agent admin- for the law firm of Hardin, Kundla & JSU International House Program. ter in Houston. istrator with BellSouth Telecommuni- McKeon in Springfield, NJ. Hedily Rachel Benham Morgan ’82 of Sandra Estes Gillespie ‘83/87 of cations. was active in the JSU International Battletown, KY, is owner of Conve- Centreville, VA, is VP of Homeland Ralph E. Jennings, Jr., ’81 of House Program. nience Connections in Louisville. Security for Lockheed Martin in Wash- Dripping Springs, TX, is Dir. of Mod- James H. Young, Jr. ’81 of Ra- Catherine Dickson Newsome ington, DC. eling Products with Sensable Tech- leigh, NC, is regional sales mgr. for ’82 of Raleigh, NC, is Lab Mgr. for Thomas Gerald Griffin ’83 of nologies out of Woburn, MA. He is a QNX Software Systems of Cary, NC. Elon University. Cedar Park, TX, is manager of tools former member of the JSU Marching A former member of Pi Kappa Phi Julio Ortega ’82 of The Colony, and automation with Vignette in Aus- Southerners. fraternity, he is a life member of the TX, is a consultant with IBM. He was tin. He was a member of Kappa Alpha John O. Knoke ’81 of Miami, Alumni Association. a member of the JSU International fraternity at JSU and is married to FL, is CEO of Bancared based in Olatunde Awelewa ’82 of Col- House Program. Shelly Mae Wickwire Griffin ’83. Guatemala. lege Park, GA, is employed by Federal James A. Oyler ’82 of Houston, William A. Housch ’83 of Thomas W. Kramer ’81 of Las Express in Atlanta. TX, is VP of Finance Marketing for Sylacauga is mgr. of business and Vegas, NV, is Learning Center Dir. of Pamela I. Barnes ’82 of Ikon Office Solutions. He was a mem- systems integration for Russell Corpo- Mars Music. He is a former member Acworth, GA, is Business Mgr. at ber of Kappa Alpha fraternity. ration in Alexander City. He is mar- of the JSU Marching Southerners. Kennesaw State University. She is a Glenn Edward Painter ’82 of ried to Tracy Cummings Housch ’86, Michael Ray Maner ’81 of life member of the JSU Alumni Asso- Madison is senior engineer with Mor- a supervisor with Ebsco Industries in Virginia Beach, VA, is Asst. Dir./ ciation. gan Research Corporation in Hunts- Birmingham. They are life members of CISO Dept. with the Armed Forces Sarah Killian Brewer ‘82/87 of ville. He was a member of Sigma Nu the JSU Alumni Association. School of Music in Norfolk. Guntersville has been a teacher for 22 fraternity. John L. Kallerson ’83 of Evans, Michael P. McCoy ’81/83 of years. She teaches at Guntersville Phyllis Ann Poore ’82 of Oxford GA, is chaplain of the 513th Military Birmingham is a senior risk consult- Elementary School. She is one of 14 is an accountant with Southern Tool, Intelligence Brigade, US Army, at Ft. ant at Compass Bank. teachers nationwide serving on a com- Inc. in Anniston. Gordon, GA. He is married to Connie Phillip Lee Osborne ’81 of mittee to review criteria for the Na- Craig A. Rider ’82 of Franklin, Slocum Kallerson ’81. Sumter, SC, is Intelligence Dir. of tional Board Certification for teachers. WI, is Packaging Development Assoc. Laura Lee Brown Kelley ’83 of Operations with the US Central Com- She is married to Bill Brewer ’66/70, a Production Mgr. with the Miller Brew- Cedartown, GA, is Dir. of Preschool/ mand Air Forces at Shaw Air Force retired Cherokee School principal. ing Co. in Milwaukee. Child Care Center at the First United Base in Sumter. He is a former mem- Jackie Summerville Brown ’82 Rhonda Willoughby Springfield Methodist Church in Cedartown. ber of the JSU Marching Southerners. of Calhoun, GA, is a teacher with the ‘82/91 of Albertville is a teacher at Letitia Venelle Landers King Jeffrey Lee Pounds ’81 of Gordon County Bd. of Edu. She was a Albertville High School. ’83 of Birmingham is project mgr., Trussville is a political scientist with member of Delta Zeta sorority. Jeffery L. Waters ’82 of Bolivar, ISD/Operations Planning & Support, at the Social Security Administration in James M. Frye ’82 of Madison, MO, is a music professor at Southwest SouthTrust Bank in Homewood. Birmingham. MS, is VP of Venture Technologies in Baptist University. Jeff is married to Benjamin Trammell Kimble ’83 Connie McCaghren Pruett ’81 Ridgeland. Esther Renee Silas Waters ’84, an of Rome, GA, is a counselor at Inner of Birmingham is Dir./HRM Rela- Terry R. Gosdin ’82/89 of Alex- assoc. professor of music at Southwest Harbour in Rockmart. He is married to tions with the University of Alabama andria, VA, is a teacher at Robinson Baptist. He was a member of Phi Mu Mary Ellen Gill Kimble ’82 who is a at Birmingham. Secondary School in Fairfax, VA. Alpha music fraternity and both were teacher with the Rome City Bd. of Beverly Christian Sims ‘81/83 Janet Ellis Hartline ’82 of Fort members of the Marching Southerners. Edu. She played basketball for JSU. of Covington, GA, is a probation Payne, a family and consumer science April Payne West ’82 of Denton, Thomas Patrick Madden ‘83/95 officer for the Georgia Dept. of Cor- teacher at Ft. Payne High School, TX, is self-employed as an agent with of Augusta, GA, is employed by the rections. She is a former member of achieved National Board Certification AFLAC insurance. She is married to U.S. Dept. of Energy as a computer the JSU Marching Southerners. earlier this year. Janet has been with Jeff C. West ’81 who is a regional security mgr. He is a life member of Charles Thomas Smith ’81 of Ft. Payne High for 19 years. coordinator for AFLAC. Both are the JSU Alumni Association. Auburn is Dir. of Correctional Ser- James B. Hill ’82 of Kennesaw, former members of the JSU Marching Rhonda Elizabeth Green Mann vices for the Lee County Youth De- GA, is national account mgr. for the Southerners. ’83 of Guntersville is project mgr. for velopment Center in Opelika. Jerzees Division of Russell Corpora- Cheryl Morrison Tyler ’82 of United Space Alliance in Huntsville. Jennifer Kay Thomas ’81 of tion in Atlanta. Southside was named Principal of the Edward B. Prater ’83 of Jack- Westminster, MD, is the pharmacist William Robert Kellum ’82 of Year for the Etowah County Bd. of sonville, FL, is supervisor of training at St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. A Birmingham is an occupancy specialist Edu. She is principal at John Jones operations with CSX Transportation. former member of the JSU Marching with the Jefferson County Housing Elementary School. He is married to Vicki Fisher Prater Southerners, she is a life member of Authority. Brian Alan Williams ’82 of ’80. the Alumni Association. Gregory Mark Kesterson ’82 of Simpsonville, KY, is a quality manage- David Edward Pruitt ’83 of Anthony Dean Tucker ’81 of Concord, NC, is lead technology ana- ment advisor for Beverly Enterprises, Greenville, SC, is a deputy with the LaFayette, GA, is principal at Chatta- lyst with Philip Morris USA. Inc. based in Fort Smith, AR. Greenville County Sheriff’s Office. nooga Christian School in Chatta- Allan G. Kyzar ’82 of Pace, FL, Steven William Dunn ’83 of Jerry Lee Scott ’83 of Dalton, nooga. He is a former member of is a salesman with Air Engineers, LLC. Hoover is Assoc. Minister of Instru- GA, is an Asst. Special Agent with the Kappa Alpha fraternity. He served as He is a former member of the JSU golf mental Music at Shades Mountain Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

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Robert L. “Bob” Seaman ’83 of Orange Beach, AL, is a jury consultant. Kimberly Faye Allen Greene career with Colonial in 1992. Leah is Huntsville is director of information Ronda Sue Nevels Hastings ’84 ’85 of Madison is a senior software a former member of Alpha Xi Delta technology and small business services of Scottsboro is a financial support engineer with Raytheon in Huntsville. sorority. with the public accounting firm of supervisor with the Dept. of Human She is married to Bryan Keith Greene Michael Steve Kendrick ’85 of Christopher, Durham, Pepper and Resources. who attended JSU. Plano, TX, is President of Kendrick Armstrong, PC of Athens. He has Ann Winkler Hill ’84 of Ramona Kay Favors Hambrick Executive Resources, Inc. He was a more than 25 years of experience in Kennesaw, GA, is a senior systems ‘85/96 of Summerville, GA, is an Om- member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. business mgmt. and public accounting analyst with Russell Corporation of budsman for Georgia Legal Services in He is married to Kelly Renee Keim and is a CPA. Atlanta. She is married to James B. Dalton. She was a member of Delta Kendrick ’85, a homemaker. Marvin Daniel Shell ’83 of Hill ’82. Sigma Theta sorority. Barry Wade Kennedy ’85 of Dunlap, TN, is a teacher with the J. Ellen Duke Holmes ’84 of Susan Martin Henderson ‘85/ Albertville is a certified public accoun- Sequatchie County Bd. of Edu. at Decatur, GA, is a social worker with 87 of Ohatchee is a social worker/ tant with CK Business Solutions, P.C. Sequatchie High School. He is a the Clayton County Bd. of Edu. therapist at Regional Medical Center in He is married to Leigh Ann Rogers former member of the JSU Marching Carl A. Hutchinson ’84 of Anniston. Kennedy ’84 who is an account mgr. Southerners. Brooklyn, NY, is an exec. sales asst. Shena Rena Kinney Hill ’85 of with the Randy Jones Insurance Co. John Lowell Smith ’83 of with the Weeks Lerman Group, LLC in Boaz is a certified public accountant Randy is also a graduate of JSU, class Hartselle is owner of Creative Systems, New York City. with Data Services, Inc. in Albertville. of 1976. Inc. in Hartselle. Carl Lee Jesse ’84 of A former JSU cheerleader and member Richard E. Madden, Jr. ’85 of James Russell “Rusty” Sprouse Youngsville, NC, is senior customer of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Woodstock, GA, is an account mgr. ’83 of Albertville is CFO/Treasurer for consultant with Kinko’s. He is a James B. Hilsman ’85 of and owner of Madden Brokerage, Inc. B & G Supply Co., Inc. in Albertville. former member of the JSU Marching Valrico, FL, is a teacher at Durant High He is married to Sherri Jo Spivey Jeffrey Wayne Stewart ’83 of Southerners. School in Plant City, FL. Madden ’85. Montgomery is a computer specialist Clyde Terry Jones ’84 of Hunts- Kimberly Ann Reeves Hopkins Kelly Ann Felker Murray ’85 of with HQ Standard Systems Group. He ville is a teacher with the Madison ’85 of Leesburg is a teacher with the Jacksonville is VP of Southern Waste is married to Vicki Diane Murray County Bd. of Edu. He is married to Lee County Bd. of Edu. She is mar- Systems, Inc. She was a member of Stewart ’83, who serves as a revenue Jennifer Ann Poe Jones ’83 who is a ried to Michael R. Hopkins who at- Delta Zeta sorority. Kelly is married to examiner for the State of Alabama. teacher/coach in Madison County. tended JSU and was a member of Steven Dale Murray ’92 who is presi- Phyllis Boxx Waits ’83 of Excel, Frances Gladden Kidd ’84 of Delta Chi fraternity. dent and owner of Southern Waste AL, is Division Chairman of Nursing Grovetown, GA, is center dir. for Systems, Inc. and Allied Health at Alabama Southern Gambro Health Care in Martinez, GA. Mary Jean Taylor Patty ’85 of Community College in Monroeville. Paul R. Newsome ’84 of Cooper Dayton, OH, is a communications Rita Fields Wright ’83 of City, FL, is regional mgr. for Progres- officer with the Kettering (OH) Police Wellington is Dir. of Technology for sive Insurance in Lauderdale Lakes. Dept. the Calhoun County Bd. of Edu. He is a former member of Alpha Tau Ellen Joy Mains Robbins ’85 of Lloyd W. Bardell ‘84/87 of San Omega fraternity and was commis- Hartselle is a finance, safety and train- Diego, CA, is a network administrator sioned through the JSU ROTC pro- ing coordinator with SUMMA Tech- for Greenpoint Mortgage. He is also a gram. nology, Inc. in Cullman. college instructor. Jesse C. Ray ’84 of Round Shirley Pierce Robertson ‘85/88 Eugene M. Beard ’84 of Rock, TX, is Dir. of Transportation for of Glencoe is a social worker with the Brunswick, GA, is an instructor with GeoDecisions in Austin. Etowah County Dept. of Human Re- the U.S. Secret Service at the Federal Timothy H. Sawyer ’84 of sources. All three of her children are Law Enforcement Training Center. He Nehunta, GA, is asst. principal at JSU grads! Amy ’93 is a life member is a former member of Sigma Nu fra- Brantley County Middle School in of the Alumni Association. Pamela ternity. Nehunta. He is a former member of Robertson Rutland ‘96/99 is a former Michael A. Boggs ’84 of Spring- the JSU Marching Southerners. JSU Marching Ballerina. Matthew field, TN, is owner of Striker Systems Steven D. Teel ’84 of Coppell, ▲James H. Hyatt, Jr. ’85 of ’00 played baseball for JSU and was a in White House, TN. TX, is VP for Business Development Avon Park, FL, was recently named member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Dennis Lee Bullard ’84 of Bir- with ServiceCentral Technologies, Inc. regional VP for the Tri-Cities market in Jesse B. Shaddix ’85 of mingham is a systems analyst with He is a former member of the JSU Virginia and Tennessee for Media Goodwater is minister of Goodwater EBSCO Industries, Inc. A life member Marching Southerners and Phi Mu General’s Publishing Division. He United Methodist Church. of the JSU Alumni Association, Dennis Alpha Sinfonia music fraternity. His previously was publisher of the High- Alicia Smith Simmons ’85 of is a former member of Alpha Tau wife, Denise Shadix Teel, attended lands Today newspaper in Sebring, FL. Bethlehem, GA, is program mgr. for Omega fraternity. JSU. In 1999, he was named to Presstime The Tree House in Winder, GA. William B. Calvert ’84 of Co- Joseph Michael Windsor ’84 of Magazine’s Top 20 Under Age 40 List Cindy Denise Walton ’85 of lumbia, SC, is Dean of Students at the Hoover is project team leader for of newspaper people on the rise. He is Pleasant Grove is ticket mgr. for the Glenforest School in Cayce, SC. Accenture, a computer company in married to Karen Victory Hyatt ’85 Birmingham Thunderbolts at Legion David Scott Cates ’84 of Bir- Birmingham. who is a homemaker. Field in Birmingham. She was a mem- mingham is customer development Teresa Renea Bair ’85 of Leah Bumpious Junkins ’85 of ber of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. mgr. with Ryder Logistics & Transpor- Marion, TX, is a staff accountant with Gulf Shores has been promoted to Jackie Butler Akins ’86 of Gra- tation. Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Inc. in senior VP and regional branch admin- ham is a legal asst. with Pisinger, Cathy Craft Dunn ’84 of the Alamo area of San Antonio. istrator for Colonial Bank. She super- Pisinger, Vance & Greer in Carrollton, Sachse, TX, is a teacher with the Gar- Kelli Clemons ’85 of Palm Har- vises 12 branch offices in the Gulf GA. She is a former JSU Marching land (TX) Independent School District. bor, FL, is a facilities service specialist Coast region and is responsible for Ballerina. Lewis Andy Goggans ‘84/91 of with Zurich North America in Tampa. their overall operations. She began her Carol Smith Ashbaugh ’86 of

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Alabaster is a project analyst and bank officer with SouthTrust Bank in Birmingham. IN MEMORIAM Michael Joe Beck ’86 of An educator and 40-year Middleburg, FL, is a mgr. with JEA in resident of Jacksonville, Dr. Jacksonville, FL. William H. Brannon ’86 of Ralph Erskine Parnell, 74, Pinson is a senior analyst/programmer of Lincoln died July 19, with Baptist Health Systems in 2002. Birmingham. A life member of Dr. Parnell, a native of the JSU Alumni Association, Munford, moved to Lincoln he is a former JSU Marching Southerner. from Jacksonville a year James H. Cheyne ’86 of La ago. He retired in Grange, GA, is chief parole officer for September 1988 from the Georgia Board of Pardons and Jacksonville State Paroles. University, where he had Jay Claunch ’86 of Hazel Green ▲ Randy B. Kelley ’86 of taught 19 years in the is senior software analyst for SPARTA Gadsden was recently appointed to in Huntsville. the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, department of education. George Alexander Compton Alabama Advisory Committee. He He taught history and was later principal at Jacksonville ’86 of Clearwater, FL, is VP of Angel and his wife, Gelaine, who attended High School. & Associates in Port Ridge, FL. JSU, have 2 children. “We were disappointed for ourselves, but happy for Mark S. Cosper ’86 of Mont- Jacqueline Gail Miller ’86 of him, when he moved to Jacksonville State,” says Edna gomery is asst. tournament dir. for Newnan, GA, is an inside sales rep for BASS. the William L. Bonnell Co. Brown, retired JHS English teacher. “On Fridays, he often Vickie A. Rogers Coyle ’86 of Denver H. Nolin ’86 of Bir- said, ‘If we make it through the day, we’ll live forever.’ He Garden City, NY, is a media specialist mingham is a pilot for Fed Ex. He is had a great sense of humor and a lot of energy. at St. Mary’s Catholic School in married to Susan Renee Green Nolin “He covered the campus. I can still see those long legs Manhasset, NY. She is a former JSU ’87. walking down the hall and on the grounds. He didn’t just Cheerleader and member of Zeta Tau Jan Pumroy Noell ‘86/93 of Alpha sorority. Anniston is a financial accountant for stay in his office. He was a remarkable man and retained Michael D. Dean ’86 of United Defense in Anniston. his remarkable even after he began to have physical Marietta, GA, is senior mgr. with Gregory L. Norton ’86 of Ox- problems. He was a good teacher and a good principal.” Deloitte Consulting in Atlanta. He is a ford is purchasing mgr. for North “Ralph Parnell was the true professional school former JSU Marching Southerner and American Bus Industries, Inc. in administrator,” says Tom Malone, retired guidance member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Anniston. He is a life member of the Charles Tim Diggs ’86 of JSU Alumni Association. counselor at JHS. “Both a scholar and an athlete himself, Glencoe has been named the chief of James O. “Jay” Puckett, III he emphasized all phases of education. He had an police for the City of Southside. He ’86 of Huntsville is MIS Mgr. for unwavering sense of moral integrity that made working has been with the department for 7 Camber Corporation. He was a mem- with him a great pleasure.” years, serving as deputy chief and ber of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. “Integrity and goodness characterize Dr. Ralph Parnell, investigator the past 2 years. Jay is married to Michele Lynn Story Lori Blankenship Epik ‘86/87 Puckett ’88 who is the branch mgr. the gentle giant whom I treasured as a friend and associate of Staunton, VA is Asst. Technology and an RN at Crawford & Company Sunday School teacher,” says Dr. John Vanderford. Dir. at the Woodrow Wilson Rehabili- Healthcare Management in Huntsville. “Lacking adequate words to memorialize Dr. Ralph and tation Center in Fishersville, VA. She Gaylord Quizon Rediske ’86 of honor his devoted Sarah, I think of their partnership as one is married to James Gregory Epik Wayne, MI, is the controller for with a vision of true goodness before them and a good ‘83/87 who is an investigator with the Accum-Matic Systems, Inc. in Livo- FCC. nia, MI. spirit with them that met the challenge of goodness Timothy W. Garrett ’86 of Javella Gray Simmons ’86 of inherent in a John Wesley rule: Albertville is a systems administrator Powder Springs, GA, was recently Do all the good you can, with EDS in Birmingham. crowned the new Mrs. Georgia United By all the means you can, Phillip Wayne Green ’86 of States. Javella is the assoc. principal In all the ways you can, Miami Springs, FL, is Asst. Dir. of at East Paulding High School in Dal- Clinical Student Affairs for the Ameri- las, GA. She was a member of the In all the places you can, can University of the Caribbean Marching Southerners. At all the times you can, School of Medicine in Coral Gables, Charles W. Smith ’86 of Boaz To all the people you can, FL. has been named Marshall County’s As long as ever you can. David Arthur Hastedt ’86 of Personnel Administrator. For 31 My good friend Ralph exemplified unfeigned humility- Hampton, VA, is the program mgr., years, he was an engineer with Joint Integrated Database Preparation Goodyear Tire & Rubber in Gadsden scholarly and spiritual strength under control.” System, with Cubic Applications, Inc. and served as the Mayor of Boaz from in Suffolk, 1996 to 2000.

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Charles D. Speer ’86 of Sharon Denise Carlisle Gerald Tyler “Ty” Snyder, Jr. Michael T. Burgess ’88 of Dora Anniston is a safety engineer with the Grantham ’87 of Marietta, GA, is a ’87 of Dalton, GA, is asst. principal at is a minister with Aldersgate United Anniston Army Depot. He is married nurse consultant with FHT Managed North Whitfield Middle School. He is Methodist Church. to Melissa Holland Speer ‘85/92 who Care Services, LLC. She is a former a former member of the JSU Marching Kevin G. Burt ’88 of Fort Payne is a teacher with the Anniston City Bd. JSU Marching Ballerina, athletic hostess Southerners and Phi Mu Alpha is a real estate agent with Ole Heritage of Edu. and was a member of Phi Mu sorority. Sinfonia music fraternity and is mar- Realty, Inc. in Ft. Payne. Gary W. Spurlock ’86 of Gulf Scott D. Green ‘87/94 of ried to Cindy Tubbs Snyder ’88, a Coorie F. Cooley ’88 of Madi- Breeze, FL, is area mgr. for RMC Durham, NC, is a web developer with teacher at Westside Elementary in son is an account executive with Gate- Ewell, Inc. in Pensacola. IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC. Rocky Face. way in Huntsville. Craig Robert Stevens ‘86/87 of James Tony Harris ’87 of Phillip H. “Rocky” South ’87 of Amy Leigh Copeland ‘88/91/98 Davie, FL, is a program analyst for the Milton, FL, is a lieutenant with the Atlanta is a technical dir. at CNN. He of Jacksonville has been named princi- IRS in Plantation, FL. He was a mem- Florida Highway Patrol. He is married is a former member of the JSU March- pal at Kitty Stone Elementary School. ber of the JSU golf team and Kappa to Donna Putman Harris ’87. ing Southerners. She previously served as assistant Sigma fraternity. Craig is married to Jodi A. Rumpel Johnson ’87 of Chris J. Thompson ’87 of principal at C. E. Hanna in Oxford. Cindy Irene Burgamy Stevens ’86 Canton, MI, is an employment special- Fairfield, CT, is dir. of sales operations Duane Scott Cox ’88 of who is a nurse practitioner with ist with The Taubman Company in for Pfizer. Centreville is an investigator with the PhyAmerica in Pompano Beach. Bloomfield Hills. She was a member Carolyn Wells Turkovich ’87 of UAB Police Department. Lisa C. Thompson ’86 of Baton of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Lynden, WA, is dir. of education at Jeff Scott Dingler ’88 of Rouge, LA, is accounting mgr. for James H. Joyner, Jr. ‘87/88 of PeaceHealth (St. Joseph’s Hospital) in Anniston is facility dir. of Piedmont Eagle Electronics, Inc. and a company Troy is an asst. professor of political Bellingham, WA. Adolescent Living Services (PALS). officer with Tracer Protection Service. science at Troy State University. He is John T. Whitmire ’87 of Cary, Jeff has 12 years in the field and previ- John D. Woolley ’86 of Sterrett a life member of the JSU Alumni NC, is a statistician for the North Caro- ously served at Inner Harbour, a simi- is MIS Dir. of Cooney, Rikard & Association. lina Center for Health Statistics in lar facility in Douglasville, GA. Curtin, Inc. in Birmingham. Gerald Steven Lawson ’87 of Raleigh. He is married to Behnaz Wade L. Griffin, Jr. ‘88/91 of David Zack Barfield ‘87/89 of Lincolnton, GA, is employed by the Rashedi Whitmire ’88, a programmer/ Anniston is Quality Control Mgr. with Marietta, GA, is President & CEO of U.S. Army as Dir. of Public Safety at analyst with RTI. WSI in Anniston. He is a life member Health Plan Design.com. He was a Ft. Gordon, GA. Leah Cobb Wilson ‘87/91 of of the JSU Alumni Association. member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. Matthew J. McIntire ’87 of Lithia Springs, GA, is a teacher at Todd A. Hamilton ‘88/96 of Zack is married to Sandra Leigh Cumming, GA, is division sales mgr. Turner Middle School. She is a former Jacksonville is an instructor at Ayers Grigsby Barfield ’84, a career re- for Foster Farms in West Point, MS. JSU Marching Ballerina and cheerleader. State Technical College in Anniston. cruiter with Gables Residential in At- Tracey Norris Miller ‘87/89 of He is married to Christy Allison lanta. Sandra was a member of Alpha Meridianville is a teacher at Hazel Hamilton ‘94/97 who is employed Xi Delta sorority. Green High School. She was a mem- with the Calhoun County Bd. of Edu. Leangela Storey Aitken ’87 of ber of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. John Marcus Harris ’88 of Euclid, OH, is Senior Editor for PR Robin L. Murphree ’87 of Powder Springs, GA, is licensing mgr. Newswire in Cleveland. Frederick, MD, is a policy advisor for for The Coca-Cola Company in At- Rodney M. Allen ’87 of Helena the State of Maryland (NIST MEP) in lanta. He is a former JSU cheerleader is a project mgr. for BioLife Plasma Gaithersburg. and member of Kappa Alpha frater- Services, Inc. in Birmingham. Carolyn M. Bell Patterson ’87 nity. He served as “Cocky”, our Fred Azbell ‘87/92 of Troy has of Yorktown, VA, is serving as Chief, school mascot, from 1986 to 1987. been named program mgr. of South- Force Protection Requirements, U.S. Betty Troxtel Hawes ’88 of eastern Public Radio at Troy State Air Force, at Langley Air Force Base Henagar, a teacher at the Ider School University. He has 30 years of radio in Virginia. in Dekalb County, recently achieved experience as an announcer, reporter Suzanne Young Redman ’87 of National Board Certification. She is Silver Spring, MD, is a speech and and program dir. From 1992-2001, he the first teacher in the Dekalb County language pathologist for the Mont- was an anchor and reporter for the system to achieve such certification. gomery County (MD) Public School statewide Alabama Radio Network. She has been at Ider for 19 years. Thomas C. Ballenger ’87 of System. ▲Rahat Andaleeb Ahmed ’88 Betty Jo Nelson Johnson ’88 of Birmingham is President and C.O.O. Robin Timothy Roberts ’87 of of Hickory, NC, has been promoted to Birmingham is accounting mgr. for for Brewster Logistics, Inc. Tom is Gadsden is a telecommunications tech- a banking officer with BB&T Corpora- Axcan Scandipharm, Inc. married to Dana Daneen Willis nician for the University of Alabama at tion. She joined BB&T in 2001 as a Bonnie Dale Gray Jones ’88 of Ballenger ’85 and they are both life Birmingham. financial center mgr. Rahat is married Lake View is an eligibility specialist members of the JSU Alumni Association. James F. Sargent, Jr. ’87 of to Haseeb Ahmed ’88 who is an assoc. for the State of Alabama, Medicaid, in Janis Ann Hunt Burns ’87 of Lawrenceville, GA, is Band Dir. at professor at Johnson C. Smith Univer- Tuscaloosa. She was a member of the Anniston is recreation coordinator for Trickum Middle School in Lilburn. He NHC Place in Anniston. is a former member of the JSU March- sity in Charlotte. JSU Marching Southerners, Alpha Xi Neil W. Chase, Jr. ’87 of Warner ing Southerners. He is married to Robert E. Brooks, Jr. of Delta sorority and the A Capella Choir Robins, GA, is government sales mgr. Renee Harris Sargent ’84 who is an Cedartown, GA, is a self-employed at JSU. Bonnie is married to Donald with W. W. Grainger, Inc. Neil played insurance adjuster. attorney in Cedartown. He was a Allen Jones ’90, safety mgr. for Assoc. football at JSU and was a member of Constance Anne Batey member of Kappa Sigma fraternity at General Contractors in Birmingham. Kappa Alpha fraternity. Scroggins ’87 of Opelika is a property JSU. Cathy Cameron Kell ‘88/95 of Crystal Moring Green ’87 of mgr. with Evans Realty in Auburn. Portia Denise Coleman Brown Attalla was chosen the March 2002 Leeds is a teacher with the St. Clair Stephan N. Slay ’87 of St. Louis ’88 of Birmingham is a correspondent Teacher of the Month for the Attalla County Bd. of Edu. at Moody Middle Park, MO, is mgr. of strategic accounts accounting specialist with Compass City Schools. She teaches at Etowah School. for Donaldson & Co., Inc. Bank. High School. 30 ALUM NOTES...We love to hear from you!

Terri Rene Maddock ‘88/91 of Paul Wayne Gore ‘89/95 of Beatrice Njimondikam Tangeh TN, is an IT Mgr. with CTDI in Nash- Gadsden is a Division I basketball Aiken, SC, is a drug treatment/correc- ’89 of Spring, TX, is an RN with ville. He is married to Nancy Swinney official for the NCAA and WNBA. tional specialist with the Department Healthsouth in Conroe, TX. James ’93. Both were members of the She played softball at JSU. of Justice/Federal Bureau of Prisons. Sylvia Henderson Thornton ’89 JSU Marching Southerners. Perry A. Pentecost ’88 of Thomas W. Grisby ’89 of of Highlands Ranch, CO, is division Julia Ann Jenkins ‘90/00 of Albertville is a chaplain with Atspeed Columbiana is band director at Shelby mgr. of SBA in Denver. She is married Altoona hosts a pre-school program Ministries. County High School. He is a former to Scott M. Thornton ’88, a teacher in called “StoryTime” at the Pell City Kent E. Snowden ‘88/89 of Wa- member of the JSU Marching Southerners. the Douglas School District. Library each week. Each 45-minute terloo, IA, is head of the Access Ser- Sanya Claunch Hall ’89 of Charles S. “Chuck” Wagner, Jr. session includes reading, games, songs vices Dept. at the University of North- Anniston is accounting mgr. for United ’89 of Greeneville, TN, is the commu- and other activities. ern Iowa in Cedar Falls. Defense in Anniston. nity relations coordinator for Horizon Colette Jones ’90 of Birming- Roderick “Keith” Swisher ’88 Martin W. Hartline ’89 of Ala- Health Corp. in Kingsport. He was a ham is a senior account executive with of Guntersville has been named special baster is business development mgr. member of the JSU baseball team. Nova Information Systems. She was a education dir. for Guntersville City for Gevity Hr in Birmingham. He was member of Phi Mu sorority. Schools. He also serves as asst. princi- a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Katherine McDonald Kinsey pal/athletic director at Guntersville Kim Marie Tumlin Hendon ’89 ’90-99 ’90 of Atlanta is employed by the Taz High. Keith had been principal at of Eastaboga is an asst. principal with Media Group. She was a member of Michael Abney ’90 of Oxford is Carlisle Park since 1996. the Talladega County Bd. of Edu. She Phi Mu sorority. an investment rep with Edward Jones Robert Ware ’88 of Lithonia, is a life member of the JSU Alumni David H. Malchow ’90 of in Jacksonville. He is married to GA, is a network engineer with Association. Slidell, LA, is CFO for Kirschman’s in Kelly Rice Abney ’92, a teacher with Hewlett Packard in Atlanta. Patti Marie Smith Johnson ‘89/ New Orleans. the Calhoun County Bd. of Edu. Kimberley Matthews Womack 94 of Gallant is employed with the St. Lane Harlan Mason ’90 of Karen Denise Bedford ’90 of ‘88/89 of Gadsden is a social work Clair County Bd. of Edu. as principal Jacksonville, FL, is VP of Physician Pell City is a quality advocate for instructor at Jacksonville State. at Ashville Elementary School. Sales & Services. A former member of Verizon Wireless. Matthew Gregory York ‘88/92 Christopher H. Justice ’89 of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, he is a Jonathan W. Campbell ’90 of of Auburn is a social studies teacher Villa Rica, GA, is a salesman with life member of the Alumni Association. Fayetteville, NC, is Dir. of Network for the Auburn City Bd. of Edu. at Linetec, Inc. He is a former member James Robert “Bo” Mundy, III Services for FirstHealth of the Caroli- Auburn High School. Matt is a former of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. ’90 of Vestavia Hills is President of nas. He is married to Cynthia Long member of the JSU Marching Ivonne S. Kiker ‘89/97 of Mi- Integrated Medical Systems, Inc. of Campbell ’90 who is a teacher. Southerners. ami, FL, is an education service spe- Birmingham. He was a member of Pi Marion Clifton ’90 of Charlotte, Jerome L. Boerste ’89 of cialist with Miami Recruiting Battal- Kappa Phi fraternity. NC, is a senior mgr. for Eckerd Corp. Centreville, VA, is the provost marshall, ion. She is married to Ralph Wayne Chris E. “Chuck” Myers ’90 of He is married to Sun Pok Clifton ’81. 18th Airborne, at Ft. Bragg, NC. Kiker ’96. Moody is programming mgr. with Thomas Dyer ’90 of Acworth, Dr. Patricia Cosper Borstorff Keith Thomas Lyles ’89 of Can- Vitalworks, Inc. of Birmingham. A GA, is a customer service rep with ’89 of Gadsden was selected as the ton, OH, is a financial analyst with former member of Sigma Nu frater- First National Bank Cherokee in 2001 Human Resource Professional of Goodyear Tire & Rubber in Akron. He nity, he is a life member of the Alumni Marietta. the Year by the Calhoun County Soci- was a member of Kappa Alpha Association and previously served on Marci Elliott ’90 of Naples, FL, ety for Human Resource Mgmt. Chap- fraternity. its Board of Governors. is a Higher Education Reporter with ter. She is an assoc. professor of Kerry Lyle Montgomery ’89 of Taunia Gibbons Ousely ’90 of the Naples Daily News. mgmt. at JSU. Ashville is a teacher at Ashville Prattville has joined Business Interiors Ann Godfrey ’90 of Cartersville, April Daneen Chappell Cannon Middle School. as a designer/project mgr. GA, is a media specialist for the ’89 of Altoona is a math teacher at Renee Simmons Morrison ’89 Jennifer Higgins Parker ’90 of Bartow County Bd. of Edu. working at Carver High School in Birmingham. of Anniston is education dir. for the Kennesaw, GA, is salon mgr. at Salon Hamilton Crossing Elementary School. Red in Atlanta. She was a member of Elizabeth Goode Coffee ’89 of Anniston Museum of Natural History. Jeffery L. Griffith ‘90/96 of Delta Zeta sorority. Roswell, GA, is an account mgr. with Cathy A. Noye ’89 of Centre is senior business analyst and Edward L. Phillips ’90 of the Hobbs Group, LLC in Roswell. Centerpoint is a teacher with the Bir- project leader with Honeywell in Dawson is outside services mgr. for She was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha mingham City Bd. of Edu. Anniston. The Country Club of Birmingham. sorority. Johnny Richard Posey ’89 of Lori Shannon Doolin Hess ’90 Ginger Susanne Jones Pittman Stacey Matthews Crabtree ’89 Willow Springs, NC, is the local area of Birmingham is a teacher with the ’90 of Loudon, TN, is a social worker of Stevenson was promoted to cashier network project mgr. for SYNTEL, Shelby County Bd. of Edu. She is at NHC HealthCare in Knoxville. with First Southern National Bank. Inc. of Cary, NC. She started with First Southern back in married to Craig W. Hess ’91, a mgr. Donna Jo Pritchett Poland ‘90/ Michael Lee Scott ’89 of Rome, 1985. with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Ala- 92/98 of Jacksonville is a guidance GA, is network administrator for Tracy Bruce Culpepper ’89 of bama. He was a member of Pi Kappa counselor and recruiter for the Redmond Regional Medical Center in Lanett is payroll manager for West Phi fraternity. Calhoun County Career Technical Rome. He is a former member of the Point Stevens in West Point, GA. Thomas Ricky Hubbard ’90 of Center in Jacksonville. JSU Marching Southerners and Sigma Patricia Holloway Drake ’89 of Anniston is Dir. of Systems for Hibbett Michael W. Prestridge ’90 of Nu fraternity. Cullman is a teacher at West Point Sporting Goods, Inc. of Birmingham. Orlando, FL, is mapping and research Elementary School. She was a former Dave Stewart ’89 of Alabaster is Anita Reaves Isbell ’90 of mgr. for the Orange County Property JSU Marching Ballerina and member resident key account mgr. for Alabama Millbrook is a teacher with the Elmore Appraiser in Orlando. He is a former of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Power Company in Birmingham. County Bd. of Edu. JSU Marching Southerner. Kimberly J. Oliver Edmondson Martin S. Stone ’89 of Moody is Joryi R. Ivanoff ’90 of Miami, Keitha Geneane Heath Segrest ’89 of Lanett is a special education owner/president of Stone Realty, Mid- FL, is a financial advisor with Morgan ’90 of Oxford is a teacher at Coldwater teacher at Callaway Middle School in South Appraisal, and S & K Builders, Stanley. Elementary School in Anniston. She is Hogansville, GA. Inc. Alan L. James ’90 of Nashville, married to Brian Gregory Segrest

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’89, an accountant with Brogdon and ber of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, he Shannon Hope Long ’91 of with American Cast Iron Pipe Co. Owens in Anniston. Keitha was a is married to Maya Lenox Buxton Pelham is a reference librarian with the Noel Crawley ’92 of Dalton, member of the JSU softball team. ’93. She was a member of Delta Zeta Hoover Public Library. Hope was a GA, is team leader at Mohawk Indus- Diana Fuller Tate ’90 of Pinson sorority. member of the Marching Southerners tries in Chatsworth, GA. is an RN at UAB Hospital in the bone David E. Crenshaw ’91 of Hel- at JSU. David W. Dempsey ‘92/94 of marrow transplant unit. She was a ena is a software developer for Self Carol Preston Magee ’91 of Jacksonville is an asst. professor of member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Test Software, Inc. of Roswell, GA. Montgomery is Chief Fiscal Officer for mathematics at JSU. He is a life mem- Don Michael Viers ’90 of Rhonda Williams Darnall ’91 of the Alabama State Board of Public ber of the Alumni Association. O’Fallon, MO, is dir. of business de- High Point, NC, is President of Darnall Accountancy. James Lee Dennison ’92 of velopment for SEI in St. Louis. He is Training Solutions. Harriet Leigh Hart Muder ’91 Corning, NY, is a compensation ana- married to Shannon Gaddy Viers ’92. Donna Elizabeth Yarbrough of Rome, GA, is an RN/employee lyst with Corning, Inc. He is a former Frances A. Vono ’90 of Atlanta Davenport ’91 of Anniston is a sales health coordinator for Floyd Medical member of the JSU baseball team. is an asst. producer with CCN/Burden rep for Smith’s Sporting Goods. She Center in Rome. John C. Edgecomb ’92 of Borr of Proof in Atlanta. She is a former was a Gamecock Hostess at JSU. James Robert Newell ’91 of Oak, MI, retired from the Army in member of the JSU Marching South- Kari Ann Finn ’91 of St. Louis, Gray, TN, is Mgr. of Continuous Im- 1995 as a Lieutenant Colonel. He then erners. MO, is production mgr. with S & B provement with Robert Bosch Corpo- was a teacher/coach at Howe Military Paul Andrew Williams ’90 of St. Entertainment. ration in Johnson City, TN. School in Indiana for 6 years. He is Petersburg, FL, is senior business unit Deborah Denise Hill Ford ’91 Mike Newell ’91 of Jacksonville now the head of Lake Area Christian dir. of Jabil Circuit, Inc. He is a former of Gadsden is branch mgr. with became the new principal at Kitty School in Sturgis, MI. He was selected member of the JSU football team. AmSouth Bank. She was a member of Stone Elementary School in Jackson- for “Who’s Who in America’s Teachers” Mary Lynn Allgood ’91 of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. ville recently when the current princi- three consecutive times (‘98, ‘00, ‘02). Anniston is CFO for Lorian Manage- Jeffrey C. Ford ’91 of Piedmont pal, Dr. Eric Mackey ’92, became Karen Michelle Jones Estes ’92 ment Development Company. is an attorney with the law firm of superintendent of the city’s schools. of Gadsden is office administrator for Michael D. Allison ‘91/97 of Burnham, Klinefelter & Burgess, P.C. Mike previously served as Asst. Princi- Tennessee Aluminum Processors, Inc. Weaver received his “Class A” certifi- in Anniston. pal, history teacher and coach at Jack- Tina Parris Flowers ’92 of cation in educational administration Valerie Whitehead Gamble ’91 sonville High. Mike is married to Franklin, TN, is a dental asst. with from JSU this spring. He is currently of Anniston is the web designer for Lynne Hedgepath Newell ’93. Cool Springs Dental Care in Franklin. the defensive coordinator at Ohatchee Covenant Web Publishing in Anniston. Phillip Randy “Chip” Otwell She is a former JSU Marching Southerner. High School. He also is a special edu- Rena Shiver Ganus ’91 of ’91 of Pensacola, FL, is an architec- Deana H. Gaskin ’92 of cation teacher at Ohatchee. Mike Chelsea is a marketing analyst with tural rep with W. R. Taylor & Co. Chip Anniston is mgr. of Stuckey’s in played football for JSU. Altec Industries in Birmingham. was a former JSU cheerleader. Eastaboga. Jacqueline Barron ‘91/98 of Suzy N. Gardner ’91 of Bir- Regina Lynn Jennings Porter Dale Harbin ’92 of Anniston is Birmingham is a programmer for Pro- mingham is the nursing Spine Team ’91 of Dalton, GA, is an accountant owner of Superior Tire & Auto. He is tective Life. Leader at Health South in Birmingham. with Winter & Harris, CPA’s. She is a married to Beth Thomas Harbin ’87 Thomas Beall ’91 of Rome, GA, John Grass ‘91/97 of Albertville former member of the JSU Marching who is employed by the Calhoun is an optician with Wal-Mart stores. is in his first year as head football Southerners. County Bd. of Edu. as Asst. Principal He is a former member of the JSU coach and teacher at Albertville High Tonya Kay Ulrich Rudd ’91 of at Weaver Elementary School. Marching Southerners. School. He previously was offensive Wilmore, KY, is an adjunct faculty Rev. Gary Lee Harvey ’92 of D. Scott Bowen ’91 of coordinator at Hoover. John is married member with Midway College in Mid- Trussville is minister of maturity at Weddington, NC, is VP of Wachovia to Jada Marie Arnold Grass ’94, who way, KY. First Baptist Church in Trussville. He Bank in Weddington. He is married to is employed by the St. Clair County Nel Ruffin ’91 of Starkville, MS, is a former member of the JSU March- Katie Ann Blasingame Bowen ’91. Bd. of Edu. is an instructor at Mississippi State ing Southerners. Scott was a member of Pi Kappa Phi John K. Haney ‘91/99 of University. Brenda Jaielo Hollis ’92 of fraternity and Katie of Zeta Tau Alpha. Albertville is Dir. of the technical divi- Steven C. Waits ’91 of Oxford is Evans, GA, is a psychometrist with the Stephen M. Brewer ’91 of sion of Snead State Community Col- special projects mgr. for Alacare Home Attention Deficient Center. She is Lewisburg, TN, is a Middle Tennessee lege in Boaz. Health & Hospice in Birmingham. married to Fredrik C. Hollis ’92 who Service Center Manager II with James Brian Hayes ’91 of Coy Bolton ’92 of Anniston is a is serving as a Captain in the U.S. Cingular Wireless. He is a former Gadsden is an Environmental Special- chiropractor and owner of Bolton Chi- Army. member of Delta Chi fraternity. ist II with Alabama Power in Birming- ropractic Center in Anniston. He is Sharnell Latrece Mitchell Jeffery F. Bruce ’91 of ham. He is married to Gina Renae married to Kimberly Brantley Bolton Howell ’92 of Ft. Washington, MD, is Morristown, TN, is a regional salesman Ransum Hayes ’01 who is employed ’92. owner of Heartfully Yours. She was a with Clayton Homes. A former mem- by the Etowah County Bd. of Edu. H. Dean Buttram, III ‘92/94 of Gamecock Hostess. ber of Delta Chi fraternity, he is mar- Pamela Finley Hinds ’91 of Spring Garden is the program coordi- Susanna Bradley Jennings ’92 ried to Melissa Ann Hunt Bruce ’81. Woodland is a family nurse practitio- nator for JSU’s criminal justice dept. of Centre is a staff associate with Re- She was a member of Phi Mu sorority. ner with the Woodland Clinic, P.C. He is the son of H. Dean Buttram, Jr. gions Bank. Alana Keith Bryan ’91 of Bir- Shawn M. Johnson ’91 of Madi- ‘72/74/75. Stacy Jermolenko ’92 of Belle mingham is a senior sales mgr. with son, TN, is an investment rep with Robert W. Byars ’92 of Fourche, SD, is a teacher with the Cingular Wireless. Edward Jones in Nashville. He was a Gadsden is accounting mgr. for Cen- Spearfish (SD) School District. Charles H. Buxton ’91 of member of the JSU football team and tral Castings in Anniston. Jacqueline J. Derrick Lehman Duluth, GA, is the Chemical Terrorism Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. Kelly Ann Stevens Carter ’92 of ’92 of Baltimore, MD, is Mgr./Tissue Rapid Response Team Leader for the Barbara E. Kurtz ’91 of Harvest is a credit analyst with RFCU Recovery Services at the Transplant Centers for Disease Control and Pre- Steilacoom, WA, is an art consultant in Huntsville. Resource Center of Maryland. She is a vention in Atlanta. A graduate of the with the Thomas Kinkade Art Gallery Randee Adkins Cole ’92 of Bir- former president of the SGA and Delta JSU ROTC program and former mem- in Tacoma. mingham is a database administrator Zeta sorority.

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Douglas T. MacIlveen ’92 of Alisa Gwyn Wilson ’92 of Reva Wade French ‘93/97 of & Casualty Insurance in Birmingham. Tallahassee, FL, is an operations ana- Homewood is Dir. of Marketing and Sylacauga is a teacher with the She is a former member of the JSU lyst with Healthplan Southeast. Client Sales for MACESS in Birming- Talladega City Bd. of Edu. at Dixson Marching Southerners. ham. She was a member of Alpha Xi Middle School. Catherine C. Rasmussen ’93 of Delta sorority. Daniel Eugene Frey ‘93/95 of Gardner, MA, is compensation/benefits Patty Long Watkins ’92 of Starkville, MS, is an instructor at East mgr. for MassDevelopment Finance Rainbow City is employed by the Mississippi Community College in Agency in Devens, MA. Etowah County Bd. of Edu. as a Mayhew. Amy Laduska Robertson ’93 of teacher. She was a member of Alpha Andrew B. Hatley ’93 of Alpharetta, GA, is a systems analyst Omicron Pi sorority and is married to Anniston is Dir. of the Manufacturing for MetLife Investments IT. Todd Watkins ’96, a teacher/coach & Technology Division of Jefferson Tracy Lynn Ryan ’93 of with the Etowah County Bd. of Edu. State Community College in Birming- Scottsboro is a teacher/coach at Sky- He was a member of Kappa Delta ham. line High School. Epsilon. Beth Gorham Haynes ’93 of Rhonda Rhinehart Scott ’93 of Emma Kate Atkins ’93 of Henagar is a family and consumer Piedmont is branch mgr. of AmSouth Gadsden is coordinator for Children’s science teacher with the Jackson Bank in Oxford. She is married to Rehabilitation Services helping young- County Bd. of Edu. Douglas Edward Scott ’94, human sters with impairments. Angela Morgan Hill ’93 of resources dir. at Springs Industries in Wendy Lynn Keith Bayer ’93 of Jacksonville is an education specialist Piedmont. Trussville is a claims automation & with the Anniston Museum of Natural Stacy Shedd ’93 of Fort Myers, procedures specialist with State Farm History. She was a member of Delta FL, is an accountant with Heat Pumps ▲Pamela Roach McEwen ’92 Insurance in Homewood. She was a Zeta sorority and is married to Curtis Unlimited. He was a member of Pi of Columbus, GA, has been a teacher JSU football hostess and peer counselor. Eugene Hill ’86, who is a geography Kappa Phi fraternity. for 5 years with the Muscogee County William Bohannon ’93 of instructor at JSU. Marianne Goodbread Shrum School District at Benning Hills El- Sylacauga recently received his Doctor Susan Renee Lambert Holmes ‘93/95 of Jacksonville, FL, is literacy ementary School. She was selected of Osteopathy degree from the West ’93 of Tallahassee, FL, is a teacher at coordinator for the Duval County (FL) 2002 Teacher of the Year. Virginia School of Osteopathic Medi- North Florida Christian School. She is Public Schools. Patricia Jill Hester McIntyre cine. He was in the top 15 percent of married to Shannon Dale Holmes ’94 Todd Daniel Shumpert ’93 of ’92 of San Antonio, TX, is a realtor the graduating class. He plans to in- who also teaches at North Florida Northport, NY, is college chaplain at with The Home Team Realtors of San tern at Regional Medical Center in Christian. Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, NJ. Antonio. Anniston. Pala Christine Lathrop Jarecki He is a former member of the JSU Nancie Barr Plaia ’92 of Teresa Diane Bruce ’93 of ’93 of Lisle, IL, is a staff RN with Marching Southerners, Phi Mu Alpha Vestavia Hills is a self-employed inte- Huntsville is human resource mgr. for Adventist Health Systems at Sinfonia music fraternity and Alpha rior decorator. She was a member of Walgreens Pharmacy. Bolingbrook Medical Center in Psi Omega fraternity. Phi Mu sorority and is a life member Johnny Cargo ’93 of Bolingbrook, IL. Scott Sibert ’93 of Roanoke, VA, of the Alumni Association. Blountsville is a CADD operator in the Francine Yvette Colvin is systems dir. for Hollins University in Valerie Dawn Scott ’92 of Aber- lighting design dept. of CRS Engineer- Johnson ’93 of Montgomery is a sys- Roanoke. deen, WA, is a social worker with ing and Design Consultants. He was tems engineer with EDS. She was a Michael Shane Spray ’93 of Grays Harbor Community Hospital. recently awarded the company’s Pin- member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Birmingham is assoc. VP for business Terri Morrison Straw ’92 of nacle Award. Anthony Kingston ‘93/98 of banking with SouthTrust Bank. Alpharetta, GA, is Asst. Dir. of Corpo- Timothy Scott Chase ’93 of Jacksonville is director of technology Mylina Samples Stanfield ’93 of rate Recruitment for Emory University Frankfort, KY, is president and owner for the Jacksonville City School Sys- Boaz is a teacher at Etowah High in Atlanta. She was a member of Al- of Chase Brothers Enterprises, Inc. tem. Anthony played basketball at School. pha Xi Delta sorority. Anita Bordelon Clark ’93 of JSU. He is married to Tammy Harris Steven Street ’93 of Arab is the Anthony Lee Walker ’92 of Walker, LA, is a teacher at Southside Kingston ’86 who is an adjunct coun- new principal at Gordo High School in Woodstock, GA, is dir. of International Junior High in Denham Springs, LA. selor for the Opportunity Center/ Pickens County. He previously served Sales for Nuermont Corp. GMBH of Amellia “Aimee” Connell ‘93/ EasterSeals. as asst. principal at J. B. Pennington Nuernberg, Germany. He is married to 95 of Starkville, MS, is a residential Julia Ann Langley ’93 of Delray High, Arab High, Arab Junior High Patricia Fetner Walker ’87, who is therapist with Diamond Grove Center Beach, FL, is Corporate Market Dir. and Arab Primary and as principal at marketing dir. for the Moccasin Bend in Louisville, MS. for the American Heart Association in Kate Duncan Smith DAR High. Girl Scout Council. She was a member Joanna Meadows Crow ‘93/94 Boca Raton. A former member of Hellenna L. Terrell ’93 of Chat- of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. of Jacksonville, FL, is a public rela- Alpha Omicron Pi, she was Miss JSU tanooga, TN, is Dean of Students and Melissa Cobb Ward ’92 of tions specialist with the City of Jack- in 1993. Dir. of Equity and Diversity Initiatives Duluth, GA, is a teacher at Howell sonville (FL). She was a member of James Miles McFall ’93 of for the UT at Chattanooga. She is a Station Academy in Duluth. Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Anniston is a financial support super- member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. Mack Whitley ‘92/99 of Troy James Ellenburg ’93 of visor with the Alabama Dept. of Hu- Roy Elton Turman, Jr. ‘93/95 of Anniston is Human Resources Mgr. for Acworth, GA, is branch mgr. for Hertz man Resources. Wellington is a special investigator ITC Deltacom, Inc. He was a member Equipment Rental in College Park. Douglas S. Moore ’93 of Austra- with the State Licensing Board for of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and is Joyce Enzor ’93 of Dover, DE, lia is senior software development General Contractors in Montgomery. married to Pamela Tidmore Whitley is a teacher with Calvary Christian engineer with Intergraph Public Safety He is married to Susan Garrison ’93. She is employed by the Calhoun Academy. She is married to Aaron in Melbourne. Turman ‘94/99. County Dept. of Human Resources as Eugene Enzor ’95, who is a paralegal Connette Williamson Mary Erin Atkerson ’94 of a supervisor. Pam was a member of with Dupont De Neumors & Co. in Rackstraw ’93 of Helena is an under- Decatur, GA, is project coordinator for Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Wilmington, DE. writing specialist with State Farm Fire Georgia State University’s Dept. of

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Anthropology and Geography in At- Jerome Greathouse ‘94/96 of lanta. Erin was a member of Alpha Birmingham is directing community Omicron Pi sorority. and supportive services with the William M. Battles, III ’94 of United Way of Central Alabama. He Douglasville, GA, is project director recently assisted in securing a $1.4 for Georgia Medical Care of Atlanta. million contract with the Housing John Matthew Brandau ’94 of Authority of Birmingham to assist over Millbrook is general mgr. of Sodexho 600 public housing residents with Campus Services in Montgomery. He services. He is also helping to plan a is married to Vanessa Ann Cantrell $35 million community revitalization Attention JSU alumni in the Northwest Georgia area! We Brandau ’95 who is volunteer coordi- project of severely distressed public want you to have your very own alumni chapter so you can nator for RSVP of Montgomery. housing sites. Gregory R. Buchanan ‘94/97 of Tracy DeWayne Hall ’94 of get the recognition that you deserve. With around 500 alumni Birmingham is network administrator Jackson is internal auditor and asst. in your area, you have more than enough JSU stories to tell. for the JBS Mental Health Authority in operations officer for Merchants Bank. So all of you in Walker, Whitfield, Dade, Catoosa, Gordon Birmingham. Melanie Lynn Jones ’94 of and surrounding counties, get in touch with Brad Butler ’95 Darrell Campbell ’94 of Sevierville, TN, is news editor for The and help him get things going in your area. You can reach Albertville has been an Alabama State Mountain Press. Trooper for 5 years and is also a homi- Stephen A. Laurance ’94 of him at: cide investigator. Darrell was recently Atlanta, GA, is a Major in the U.S. Brad Butler, Whitfield County Juvenile Court named Trooper of the Year by the Ex- Army, stationed at Ft. McPherson, GA. change Club of Greater Huntsville. John P. Rains ’94 of Ft. Payne is 301 W. Crawford Street Adrian Carpenter ’94 of Lanett engineering supervisor for SMI Joist Dalton, Georgia 30720 is the At-Risk Youth Coordinator for Co. 706-278-6558 (w) • 706-272-7018 (fax) • 706-695-2625 (h) Circle of Care in Valley. Gary Orlando Lewis ’94 of Gwennette L. Confer ’94 of Montgomery received his juris doctor- Harrison, AR, is a medical records ate from Jones School of Law at Cindy Paula Wheeler ‘94/98 of Tresia Camp Bynum ’95 of clerk with Ozark Counselor Services. Faulkner University in June. Gary is Rockmart, GA, is a part-time English Boaz is a teacher with the Albertville Kyle J. Cushing ’94 of Rock- former president of the JSU Montgom- instructor at Floyd College in Rome. City Bd. of Edu. ford, IL, is a clinical psychologist in ery Area Alumni Chapter. Tull C. Wigley ’94 of Gillsville, Cale C. Collins ’95 of Birming- private practice in Rockford. Michael W. Lowe ’94 of Bir- GA, is territory sales mgr. for Austin ham is a sales rep for Johnson & Richard Damke, III ’94 of mingham is VP of retail delivery tech- Hardware & Supply in Buford, GA. Johnson. He is married to Mandy Anniston is Asst. Dir. of Special Events nology with SouthTrust Bank. Douglas Wood ’94 of Harris- Gunter Collins ’97. for the Alabama Institute for the Deaf Amy Ledford Morgan ’94 of burg, NC, is senior graphics designer Colin Cotton ’95 of Jacksonville and Blind in Talladega. He was a Dallas, GA, is marketing communica- for Street & Smith’s Sports Group in was recently named President of the member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. tions mgr. for Internet Security Sys- Charlotte. Jacksonville Farmers and Merchants Amy Janet Morris Dillard ’94 tems in Atlanta. She is a former mem- Bryan Eugene Wright ’94 of Bank. He has been with Farmers since of Gadsden is a teacher with the ber of Phi Mu sorority. Orlando, FL, is franchise scanning January, 2001. He is married to Mindi Etowah County Bd. of Edu. She is Elizabeth Neal Robinson ’94 of mgr. for Options Talent Group in Or- Jo Landers Cotton ’95. married to Scott Edward Dillard ’94 Hoover is a merchandiser for Hibbetts lando. He is a former member of the Michelle Anne Dodge ’95 of who is a corrections officer with the Sports in Birmingham. She is a former JSU Marching Southerners. Fayetteville, NC, is working with the Etowah County Sheriff’s Dept. JSU Marching Ballerina and member John Michael Wright, II ’94 of Federal Government at Womack Army Tracy Morris Fairel ’94 of of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Greenwood, DE, is general mgr. of Medical Center, Dept. of Social Work, Hokes Bluff is marketing dir. for the Catherine Smith McDonald ’94 Sound FX in Bridgeville, DE. He was at Ft. Bragg, NC. She is a licensed Colonial Mall in Gadsden. of New Market is human resources a member of Sigma Nu fraternity. Clinical Social Worker and Training Bryan Foshee ’94 of mgr. for FLS, Inc. in Huntsville. She is Banyon J. Allison ‘95/96/02 of Coordinator. Huntersville, NC, is a senior computer a former member of Delta Zeta sorority. Anniston has been accepted into the Rhonda C. Gasbarro ’95 of consultant with Whitman-Hart out of Doyal Kevin Smith ’94 of doctoral program at the University of Huntsville is the home health care dir. Chicago, IL. He played on the JSU Warner Robins, GA, is a teacher/coach Alabama. He is currently the asst. for the Alabama Dept. of Public Health tennis team and was a member of with the Houston County (GA) Bd. of principal at Wellborn High School in in Decatur. Kappa Alpha fraternity. He is a life Edu. He was a member of Alpha Tau Anniston. Banyon was a member of Charles Glazner ’95 of Jackson- member of the JSU Alumni Associa- Omega fraternity. the JSU football team. ville is athletic director for the parks tion. Mark David Stiefel ’94 of Gregory Baldwin ’95 of Frisco, and recreation dept. in Centre. He was Vincent Stephen Frank, Jr. ‘94/ Hendersonville, TN, is the retail store TX, is a police officer for the Town of previously employed with the forestry 99 of Munford is asst. principal at Clay asst. mgr. for Goodwill of Middle Ten- Addison, TX. He was a member of commission for over 9 years. County High School. He is married to nessee, Inc. in Nashville. Sigma Phi Epsilon. Jonathan Lee Goode ’95 of Ft. Jennifer Marie Bell Frank ’99 who is Kelly Brian Trowse ’94 of Julie Allene Kesler Branam ’95 Sam Houston, TX, is a captain and an RN with Children’s Health Systems Tampa, FL, is an economist for the of Atlanta, GA, is the mgr./registrar for medical logistician with the U.S. Army. in Birmingham. U.S. Dept. of Labor/Bureau of Labor PCDI in Norcross, GA. She is a He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsi- B. Mark Glenn ’94 of Coker is a Statistics. former JSU Marching Ballerina and lon fraternity at JSU and is married to police officer for the City of Northport. Shawn Wells ’94 of Eustis, FL, is member of Phi Mu sorority. Emily Kacyvenski Goode ’94. Emily Elizabeth Granger ’94 of Semi- a deputy sheriff with the Lake County Brenda Nadine Buist ’95 of is a youth service supervisor with the nole, FL, is program coordinator for (FL) Sheriff’s Dept. in Tavares. He was Alexander City is a systems analyst for Army and was a member of Alpha Pinellas County in Largo, FL. a member of JSU’s rifle team. Russell Corporation. Omicron Pi sorority.

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Dee Ann Hayes ’95 of Madison Bluff teaches special education at relations for Boozer Laminated Beam Cedartown, GA, is a case manager for is a station asst. with WHNT-TV in Hokes Bluff Middle School. Company, Inc. in Anniston. She was a Three Rivers Behavioral Health Ser- Huntsville. She is a former JSU cheer- Richard C. Adams ’96 of member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. vices in Cedartown. leader. Alpharetta, GA, is network administra- Moira’ Graham ’96 of Del Rio, Kenneth Wayne Smith ’96 of Dominick Hinds ’95 of Lowell, tor with Visionary Systems in Atlanta. TX, is a certified pediatric nurse practi- Anniston is production controller at AR, is Dir. of Tennis for the Shadow He was a member of Sigma Nu frater- tioner at Vista Verde Medical Plaza in the Anniston Army Depot. Valley Country Club in Rogers, AR. nity. Del Rio. Robyn Leigh Smith ’96 of St. Amanda A. Horton ’95 of Roger Alan ’96 of Jersey City, Amanda Surrett Guyther ’96 of James, MO, is a senior counselor for Deatsville is a captain with the Army NJ, is a production coordinator for Tuscaloosa is VP of Guyther & Associ- the State of Missouri. National Guard and was recently CBS television in New York City. He ates, Inc. in Tuscaloosa. Jeffrey Scott Stone ’96 of Kim- awarded the Army Commendation was a member of the WLJS staff at Cynthia Glass Hargreaves ‘96/ berly is a sales rep for Turner Supply Medal for her service as commander, JSU. 00 of Talladega is a teacher at the Company in Birmingham. He was a 62nd Troop Command, from August Mari Frances Allen ’96 of Alabama School for the Deaf and Blind. member of Kappa Alpha and is mar- 1999 to December 2001. In civilian Scottsboro is a nurse mgr. for Stephen Ingram ‘96/98/00 of ried to Tevis Machen Stone ’95 who is life, Amanda is a regional recruitment HealthSouth in Huntsville. Centre is a teacher at Spring Garden a teacher for the Jefferson County Bd. manager for Beverly Enterprises in Andria Young Blackwell ’96 of School in Spring Garden. of Edu. Birmingham. Hokes Bluff is a teacher at General Charles Liggan ’96 of Katherine Elaine Strayhorn ’96 Jan Cheatwood McSpadden Forrest Middle School. She was re- Homewood is a civil trial attorney with of Gainesville, GA, is a victim/witness ‘95/97 of Birmingham is an insurance cently chosen the school’s Teacher of Robert F. Lewis, P.C. in Birmingham. coordinator for the District Attorney’s agent with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of the Year. Andria is married to Keith He was a member of Kappa Alpha Office in Dawsonville, GA. She was a Alabama. William Blackwell ’92. fraternity. member of Phi Mu sorority. Staci Minique Oden ’95 of Kenneth D. Brown ’96 of Bir- Chris Lindley ’96 of Jackson- Stephanie Carole Vickers Anniston is a nursing instructor at mingham is a GED instructor in the ville is in his 5th year as band director Walker ’96 of Cedar Bluff is a teacher Ayers State Technical College in adult learning center in Birmingham. at Saks High School in the Calhoun at McHenry Primary in Rome, GA. Anniston. Janna Schmidt Brumby ’96 of County School System. She was a member of the JSU softball Philip Patterson ’95 of Atlanta Cumming, GA, is preschool dir. at Judy Magaw Mathews ’96 of team. is implementation coordinator at Bank Morningside Presbyterian Preschool in Jacksonville is social work director at Steven David Weaver ’96 of of America in Atlanta. Atlanta. Cherokee County Nursing Home. Greenville, FL, is a correctional officer Jimmy Perdue ’95 of Pass Suzanne Bryant ’96 of Birming- Josh J. Mitchell ’96 of Leeds is for the Florida Dept. of Corrections. Christian, MS, is a forensic scientist II ham is part owner of Event Service an attorney with the law firm of He is married to Amy Lynn Matuszak with the Mississippi Crime Lab in Providers, Inc. which provides ushers, Bouloukos & Oglesby in Birmingham. Weaver ’95. Gulfport. He was a member of the ticket-takers, security personnel and He was a member of Kappa Alpha and Lori Ann White ’96 of Oxford is JSU baseball team. other workers to the Birmingham- is married to Paige Webb Mitchell ’96 a teacher at the Winterboro School in Pamela Kay Stewart Austin Jefferson Convention Complex and who is a teacher. Winterboro. Shaffer ’95 of Raleigh, NC, is market- other venues inside and outside of Selina Carol Thedford Moon Dana Rebecca Williams ’96 of ing dir. for Triangle Town Center in Alabama. ’96 of Conyers, GA, is an asst. princi- Huntsville is a news producer with North Raleigh. She previously was Wayne Bush ’96 of Weaver is pal with the DeKalb County (GA) WAAY-TV in Huntsville. marketing dir. for Old Hickory Mall in the city’s new chief of police. He had School System. Scarlet Wood ’96 of LaGrange, Jackson, TN, and Summit Mall in Ak- been serving as interim chief for about Matthew Douglas Moore ’96 of GA, is a market analyst for Milliken Co. ron, OH. a year. Jacksonville is a sales professional for Joelle Jaeger Ariail ’97 of Riv- Tim Sudduth ’95 of Stone Cheryl Bohanon Cannon ’96 of Sanofi-Synthelabo Pharmaceuticals erside is a programmer/analyst for Mountain, GA, is a warrant officer for Calera is a teacher with Mountain out of New York City. Electronic Health Care Systems in the City of Atlanta. He was a member Brook Baptist Church Day Care in Sherry Ann Cain Myrick ’96 of Birmingham. of the JSU football team and Kappa Birmingham. She is a former member Kennesaw, GA, is an investigative Staci Bishop McKay ’97 of Alpha Psi fraternity. of the JSU Marching Southerners. specialist with the FBI. She is married Ashville is a research asst. with UAB. Marc Ward ’95 of Trussville is Elizabeth Lisa Coker ’96 of to James Clinton Myrick ’95 who is a Samuetta Butler ’97 of Bir- an editor and photographer with Waverly Hall, GA, is a teacher with the corrections officer for the Federal Bu- mingham is a First Lieutenant with the Ousley Productions in Birmingham. Muscogee County (GA) School Dis- reau of Prisons. James was a member U.S. Army stationed at Hunter Army He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega trict. of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. Airfield in Savannah, GA. fraternity and is married to Callie Jeffrey Todd Daily ‘96/98 of Roy Scott Osborne II ’96 of Corey Marty Cochran ’97 of Newman Ward ’96, an art teacher at Ashburn, VA, is a special investigator Guntersville is a loan officer with Tay- Heflin is a technology specialist with Hewitt Elementary in Trussville. for the U.S. Dept. of Defense in Wash- lor Mortgage in Albertville. the Talladega County Bd. of Edu. Callie was a member of Alpha Omi- ington, DC. He was a member of the Matthew Wayne Phillips ’96 of Emily Beam Coyle ’97 of cron Pi sorority. JSU golf team. Gadsden is an electronic technician Alpharetta, GA, is a CRM product con- Rachel Snyder Webb ’95 of Dalene Cunningham Decker with BellSouth in Birmingham. He is sultant for PeopleSoft, Inc. in Atlanta. Lawrence, KS, is an account mgr. with ’96 of Marietta, GA, is a teacher with married to Molly DeNae Elrod Daniel Mark Dean ’97 of Pied- Grandstand Sportswear & Glassware the Fulton County (GA) School Sys- Phillips ’96 who is a teacher in the mont is an Alabama State Trooper in Lawrence. She was a member of tem. Etowah County School System. stationed in Jacksonville. He was a Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Carol Lee Edwards ’96 of Jinny Mobley Ray ’96 of member of the JSU cross country Troy Wilson ’95 of Baltimore, Childersburg is a teacher with the Tuscaloosa is an attorney with the law team. MD, is employed with the Dept. of Talladega County Bd. of Edu. at firm of Phelps, Jenkins, Gibson & Carrie Pearce Dixon ’97 of Justice. He was a member of the JSU Childersburg High School. Fowler in Tuscaloosa. She was a Albertville is a teacher at Albertville football team. Robin Leigh Gardner ’96 of member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Elementary School. 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Dir. of Business Development for Dy- with the U.S. Army Division Medical Homewood. She is married to Rich- paralegal with the law firm of Callis, namic Staffing Services in Anniston. Operations Center in Ft. Stewart, GA. ard David Sharp ’00, a copy editor Stover & Stewart in Rainbow City. She was a member of Alpha Omicron She was a member of Zeta Phi Beta and designer for the Birmingham Post- Robert Dubois ’98 of Oxford is Pi sorority. sorority. She was commissioned as a Herald newspaper. an Army Auditor with the USA Audit- Lisa Ruth Puckett Prater Second Lieutenant through the ROTC Shannon Edward Thornbury ing Agency at Redstone Arsenal in Dumire ’97 of Newton, NC, is a pro- program at JSU. ’97 of Ashland is a teacher with the Huntsville. bation and parole officer with the Andrea Michelle Killough Clay County Bd. of Edu. He was a Katy Fernbacher ’98 of North Carolina Dept. of Corrections. Kilgore ’97 of Anniston is a sales rep member of Alpha Tau Omega frater- Herndon, VA, is facility supervisor for Her husband, Timothy Dumire, at- for Elan Pharmaceuticals. She is mar- nity. Arcola Community Center in Loudoun tended JSU and is a public works sup- ried to Dustin Matthew Kilgore ’98, Andrew David Schell ’97 of Ft. County, Arcola, VA. port specialist for the City of Newton. owner and agent, Nationwide Insur- Leavenworth, KS, is a Major in the Soledad Galindez ’98 of Stam- Melanie Edwards Moore ’97 of ance in Birmingham. U.S. Army. He is married to Stephanie ford, CT, is cash mgr. for GE Capital in Ranburne is a social worker for the Stephanie Wise Kirby ’97 of Sue Schell ’97. Stamford. Mental Health Center in Heflin. Wadley is an English instructor at JSU. Tracy Wright Smith ’97 of Cheryl Graves ’98 of Southside Carrie Nichols Elkins ’97 of Timothy Lockette ’97 of Guntersville is a social worker with the is a special education teacher with the Oxford is an RN with the Clay County Gainesville, FL, is a reporter with The Dept. of Human Resources. She was a Douglas County (GA) Bd. of Edu. in (AL) Health Dept. in Lineville. Gainesville Sun. member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Douglasville, GA. Kimberly Lane Ethridge ‘97/99 Juston Mabrey ’97 of Gadsden Jeffrey W. Wagnon ’97 of Clavius “Clay” Gresham ’98 of of Birmingham is a clinical team is a teacher at Stowers Hill Intermedi- Glencoe opened his law office this Anniston is a news reporter for WBRC leader at JBS Mental Health Authority ate School in Attalla. He was the Feb- year in Gadsden. He is a former police Fox 6 News in Anniston. in Birmingham. ruary, 2002, Teacher of the Month for officer. Shirley Parker Hornsby ’98 of Jennifer Stinson Eubanks ’97/ the school. Heather R. Adams ’98 of Gadsden is a teacher with the Gadsden 02 of Centre is a teacher at Litchfield Tonya Boozer MacNicol ’97 of Stockbridge, GA, is branch mgr. of City Bd. of Edu. High School. Daphne is a senior sales exec. with Selective Employment in Stockbridge. Mary Diane Howell Hydrick Suzanne McDonald Farris ’97 Danka in Mobile. She is married to She is a former JSU Marching Balle- ’98 of Lawrenceville, GA, is a teacher of Birmingham is a safety/risk man- Christian Daniel MacNicol ’97 who rina and member of Phi Mu sorority. at Yargo Elementary in Winder, GA. agement assistant for ALAGASCO/ is an exercise specialist at the John Barnes ’98 of Fyffe is a She is married to Timothy Howard Energen. She is a former JSU March- Springhill Athletic Club in Mobile. process engineer with Plastex Extrud- Hydrick ’00. ing Ballerina. Christian played baseball for JSU and ers in Ft. Payne. Paul Dembo Jammeh ’98 of Celestine Fuller ’97 of Lavernia, Tonya was a cheerleader and member Casherria Faye Bernard ’98 of Marietta, GA, is employed by E*Trade TX, is a teacher with the Floresville of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Andalusia is a teacher at Pleasant Financial. He is married to Beverly (TX) Independent School District. Matthew Kenneth Olson ’97 of Home School. Rene Johnson Jammeh ’99 who is a Jeffrey Gotham ’97 of Talladega Glencoe is a financial officer with the Kandy Bishop ’98 of Birming- conversion programmer for is an instructional aide at E. H. Gentry UAB School of Dentistry. He is mar- ham is a UNIX administrator with PracticeWorks in Atlanta. Technical Facility in Talladega. ried to Bobbi Ann Williams Olson ’01 TekSystems. Michael Lance Jordan ’98 of Tony Gravette ’97 of Jackson- who is a social worker with the Etowah Joseph A. Blair ’98 of Airville, Kennesaw, GA, is an advertising ac- ville is asst. mgr. of First Family Finan- County Dept. of Human Resources. PA, is an inspector with the U.S. Gov- count exec. with The Atlanta Journal cial Lending Co. in Gadsden. He is Stewart Patterson ’97 of ernment. Constitution newspaper. He was a married to Angela Dawn Gravette Marietta, GA, is project mgr. for Hos- April Wright Carberry ’98 of member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. ’99. pitality Control Systems of Norcross, Stockbridge, GA, is a teacher with the Michael is married to Michele Lynn Susan Syrethia Green ’97 of GA. He was a member of Sigma Nu Henry County (GA) Bd. of Edu. Day Jordan ‘97/00. Sylacauga is a music programmer for fraternity. Mandy Lewis Cash ’98 of Amy Kendrick ‘98/99 of Williams Communications. Anthony Pickens ’97 of Hous- Mentone is a marketing support spe- Summerville, GA, is the communica- Virginia Holbrook ’97 of ton, TX, is an insurance agent with cialist with Gametime in Ft. Payne. tions equipment officer for the Georgia Weaver is a personal investment officer New York Life Insurance Company in Stephanie Manous Collar ’98 of State Highway Patrol Post 38 in Rome. with Compass Bank in Anniston. Houston. He was a member of Alpha Powder Springs, GA, is a loan special- She is a former member of the JSU John Edwin Holliday ’97 of Phi Alpha fraternity. ist with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs in Marching Southerners. Opelika is a graduate teaching asst. at Richard Phillips ’97 of Zachary, Decatur, GA. She is married to Roy Clinton Kirkland ‘98/00 of Auburn University. He was a member LA, is a probation and parole officer Allan Collar, Jr. ’98 who is a police Huntsville is a loan officer with of the JSU Marching Southerners. for the Louisiana Dept. of Corrections. officer with the Cobb County (GA) AmSouth Bank in Huntsville. He is a Mary Beth Hunt ’97 of Jack- He was a member of Sigma Phi Epsi- Police Dept. in Marietta. Both are former member of Kappa Alpha frater- sonville, FL, is a social service special- lon fraternity and is married to Chris- former JSU Marching Southerners. nity. ist with the Community Hospice of tine Smart Phillips ’91. Gail D. Countryman ’98 of John Latham ’98 of Adelphi, Northeast Florida. Rachel K. Riddell ’97 of Peoria, Steele is a teacher at Ashville Middle MD, is a computer specialist for the Jennifer Paige Hurd ‘97/01/02 IL, is a member service rep (private School. National Weather Service in Silver of Jacksonville is a special education banker) for CEFCU. She was a mem- Amy Cox Coursey ’98/99 of Spring, MD. teacher at Jacksonville High School. ber of the JSU softball team. Thaxton, MS, is an air traffic controller Sondra Lynn Patterson Leath- She was a JSU Marching Ballerina and Stephanie Ann Shaddix ’97 of for the U.S. Government. erwood ’98 of Anniston is a teacher member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Oxford is a teacher with the Oxford John Michael Crosby ’98 of with the Talladega County Bd. of Edu. Uyladia Jarmon ’97 of Lithonia, City Bd. of Edu. She was a member of Lafayette, IN, is an academic advisor Eddie Chadwick Lee ’98 of GA, is tower operations program mgr. Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. at Purdue University. He is married to Tampa, FL, is operations mgr. for SP for Accenture in Atlanta. Leaha Donna Stolz Sharp ’97 Cari Kim Powers Crosby ’97 who is Richards. He was a member of Kappa Zenita E. Jordan ‘97/99 of Mid- of Hoover is a consumer loans super- self employed as a sales rep. Alpha fraternity and is married to way, GA, is a medical logistics officer visor for SouthTrust Bank in Joey Dodd ’98 of Glencoe is a Allison Crigler Lee ’98.

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Emily S. Lee ’98 of Huntsville is with Southeastern Michigan Health Sybil Varner Tomlinson ‘98/00 She is a former member of the JSU mgr. of customer and technical ser- Association. of Sylacauga is regional recruitment Marching Southerners. vices at Research Genetics in Hunts- Donna M. Salmon ’98 of Pinson specialist with Gambro Healthcare in Jessica Frank ’99 of Rockledge, ville. She was a member of Phi Mu is a teacher with the Jefferson County Birmingham. FL, is network administrator for the sorority. Bd. of Edu. Ronald Earle Turner ’98 of Cocoa (FL) Police Dept. Jennifer Kelly Cook Macari ’98 Matthew Davis Scott ’98 of Jacksonville is a paramedic for Kristin Lynn Sorter Gentle ’99 of Staten Island, NY, is a master’s level Tallassee is pastor of River Road Bap- Westinghouse. He is married to of Birmingham is a cardiovascular psychologist at the Brooklyn School tist Church in Tallassee. He is married Teresa Fay Patzschke Turner ’77 technician with Kirklin Clinic at the for Special Children. to Stephanie Rae Love Scott ’98. who is employed in radiology at Re- UAB Hospital. She was a member of Laura Ann McKenzie ’98 of Shannon Shaw ’98/00 of Hunts- gional Medical Center in Anniston. the JSU cross country and track team. Mentone is a credit analyst with Bank ville is a teacher at Gaylesville High Ron also is employed as Safety Direc- John Casey Gladden ’99 of of America in Chattanooga, TN. School. He is married to Heather tor at Shelco Foundry in Jacksonville. Albertville is a teacher/coach with the Jeana Miller ’98 of Hollywood Stout Shaw ’99, a software engineer Amanda Leigh Witherspoon Morgan County Bd. of Edu. is optical systems coordinator for with Davidson Technologies. ’98 of Smyrna, GA, is a teacher with Jennifer Leann Gober ’99 of Maples Industries, Inc. in Scottsboro. Wendy Darlene Sherrell ’98 of the Cherokee County (GA) Bd. of Edu Cullman is a claims rep with Progres- She is a life member of the JSU Gadsden is a corporate dietitian with in Canton. She was a peer counselor sive Insurance in Birmingham. Alumni Association. USA Healthcare in Cullman. and member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. Ivan Sidney Golden ’99 of Boaz Jennifer Hatch Monk ’98 of Kellie Collins Slaughter ’98 of John Awbrey ’99 of Hokes Bluff is a field sales engineer with TB Huntsville is area sales mgr. for Stein Marietta, GA, recently completed the owns his own landscaping business. Wood’s in Boaz. He is married to Mart department stores in Huntsville. Big Sur International Marathon raising He is a life member of the JSU Alumni Tonya DeAnn Roberson Golden ’99. She is married to Ellis Monk ’98, who more than $3000 in donations to Association and was a member of She was a member of Alpha Omicron is in the Army. Jennifer was a member support the Leukemia and Lymphoma Sigma Nu fraternity. Pi sorority. of Delta Zeta sorority and Ellis of Society. She also recently completed Joel Babcock ’99 of Atlanta is April Rotenberry Harry ’99 of Kappa Sigma. her master’s degree in elementary an engineering consultant for DMSR Childersburg is an accounting mgr. Tammy Kloepfer Prickett ’98 education from the UA. She was a in Atlanta. He was a member of Sigma with Health Extras Rx in Birmingham. of Ohatchee is a recruiting office su- member of the JSU Marching Balleri- Phi Epsilon fraternity. He also works Jean-Claire Dellis Hester ’99 of pervisor for the Alabama Air National nas, Southerners, Zeta Tau Alpha so- as a personal trainer for Wellbridge, Rome, GA, is care coordinator for Guard in Gadsden. rority and Sigma Alpha Iota. Inc. Community Care in Rome. Heather Lynn Reeves ’98 of Harry L. Smith ’98 of Hunts- Danny Barber ’99 of Jason Holland ’99 of Weaver is Raleigh, NC, is an Intensive Care Unit ville is a teacher with the Madison Collinsville is safety coordinator for a supervisor with Tyson Foods in RN at Rex Health Care in Raleigh. County Bd. of Edu. Kagle’s Inc. Heflin. He is a former member of the Ronald Reid ’98 of Centre is Almeca Shadonna Wagner April Leigh Batey ’99 of JSU Marching Southerners. pastor of music and worship at Centre Stargen’98 of Villa Rica, GA, is an Anniston is an English instructor with Christopher Ingram ’99 of First Baptist Church. administrative asst. in the mapping Delgado Community College in New Piedmont is mgr. of warehousing and Stefanie Reynolds ‘98/99 of dept. of the Carroll County Tax Asses- Orleans. distribution at Springs Industries in Detroit, MI, is a provider services rep sors Office. William Bishop ’99 of Gadsden Piedmont. holds the elected position of Commis- Julie Rae Robinson Johnson sion II for Etowah County. ’99 of Weaver is a teacher at Faith Virginia Carol Collins ’99 of Christian High School in Anniston. Evansville, IN, is financial officer for Robert Heath Johnson ’99 of the City of Evansville controller’s Bridgeport is a teacher/coach with the office. Dekalb County Bd. of Edu. Suzanne Crandon ’99 of Derby, Stanley Johnson ’99 of Decatur, The Alumni Office still has KS, is a substitute teacher for the Kan- GA, is a special agent/criminal investi- a small quantity of Balle- sas Unified School Districts. She was gator with the U.S. Dept. of Edu. In- rina T-shirts left in sizes L, a member of Phi Mu sorority. spector General’s Offfice in Atlanta. XL and XXL. Rebecca Smith Crawford ‘99/ Amy Elizabeth Johnston ’99 of 01 of Ft. Payne is a teacher with the Wellsboro, PA, is band director at Dekalb County Bd. of Edu. She is a North Penn High School in Blossburg, former JSU Marching Ballerina and is PA. She is a former member of the married to Paul Bryan Crawford ’94 JSU Marching Southerners. who is employed as a teacher by the Ft. Misti Hines Jordan ‘99/01 of Payne City Bd. of Edu. Paul was a mem- Centre is a teacher at Cass Middle ber of the JSU Marching Southerners. School in Cartersville, GA. Red long sleeve with white Dana A. Cronin, Jr. ’99 of Pal- Stacy Todd Keasler ’99 of Rock metto, FL, is operator of Dana Site Hill, SC, is an Exec. Asst. with Springs printing $11 ($13 for XXL) Development. He was a member of Industries, Inc. in Ft. Mill, SC. He White short sleeve with red the JSU cross country and track team. was a member of Alpha Tau Omega printing $8 ($10 for XXL) Brian Daniels ’99 of Augusta, fraternity. GA, is a claims rep with State Farm Jean Acevedo Kelly ’99 of Jack- Contact the Alumni Office at 1-800-231-5291, Ext. 5404 Insurance in Evans, GA. sonville is a teacher/counselor for the Amy Morris Farris ’99 of Calhoun-Cleburne Mental Health (256-782-5404) or email: [email protected] Dacula, GA, is a forensic chemist for Board in Anniston. She is married to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. John Joseph Kelly ‘97/01.

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Tracy Lynn Jenkins Scott ’00 who is Expeditionary Unit, based at Camp an information systems technician with Lejeune, NC. Paving the way... Rainsville Technology, Inc. She was a Kevin Robert Cole ’00 of member of the JSU Marching Ballerinas. Marietta, GA, is a freelance graphic Amy Michelle Sheedfar ’99 of designer. He is married to Amy Oakton, VA, is an athletic trainer at McElroy Cole ’00 who is employed Herndon High School, Herndon, VA. by Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. Raymond Steapleton ’99 of as copy director/advertising. Southside in a CNC Engineer with the Elizabeth Ann Cole ’00 of ATN Bevill Center in Gadsden. Wallingford, CT, is a research asst. at Eric Theall ’99 of Birmingham Yale University School of Medicine in is a test analyst with Accenture in Bir- New Haven. for tomorrow’s leaders! mingham. He is a former member of Phillip Coley ’00 of Rome, GA, the JSU Marching Southerners. is a software consultant for Extreme ant to ride with pride? Purchase a JSU car Shannon Staton Titshaw ’99 of Logic in Dalton, GA. W tag. You will be giving JSU more visibility on Rainsville is an instructor at Gadsden Alan Covington ’00 of Hunts- the roadways and supporting the General Scholar- Business College. She is married to ville is a software developer for ship Fund. For just $50 more than a regular tag, Greg Titshaw ’91, technology coordi- Intergraph Process and Building Solu- nator for the Ft. Payne City Bd. of Edu. tions in Huntsville. you can have an alpha-numeric or personalized Amy Lynn Uptain ’99 of Vanessa L. Davis ’00 of (up to five characters) JSU license plate. If you Greensboro, NC, is a real estate agent Crossville is a programmer and sys- have questions, call the Alumni Office at with Westminster/Fortis Homes. She is tems administrator for Computer Sci- 1-800-231-5291, ext. 5404 or get yours today at a former member of Alpha Xi Delta ences Corp. in Huntsville. your county courthouse. sorority. Rebecca Strickland Dickens ’00 Deborah V. Wheeler ’99 of of Tuscaloosa is an administrative Santa Rosa Beach, FL, is a reporter for secretary at Trinity Presbyterian Freedom Communications. Church in Tuscaloosa. Christopher Kitts ’99 of Mobile occupational health nurse with the Christine T. Elston ’00 of is a senior claims adjuster for Nation- Anniston Army Depot. Humble, TX, is a financial planner for wide Insurance. Hollie Graves Powell ’99 of ’00-02 educators with the Pro Financial Group Deena Diane Tidmore Langdale Albertville is a social worker with in Humble. ’99 of Gadsden is the maternity care Medical Center Home Health. A Kannyetta Ammons ’00 of James Fant ’00 of Prattville, is st coordinator/Plan 1 Care Coordinator former member of Alpha Xi Delta Madison is a software analyst with an RN. for the Dekalb County Health Dept. in sorority, she is married to Jeffery D. Intergraph Government Solutions. Anita L. Smith Fountain ’00 of Ft. Payne. Powell ’93, a teacher with the Marshall April Denise Burke Anthony Carrollton, GA, is a safety specialist Jonathan Lankford ’99 of County Bd. of Edu. Jeff was a Delta ’00 of Roanoke is an RN at Lanier and compliance officer with the U.S. Lilburn, GA, is a financial advisor at Chi. Hospital in Valley. Dept. of Labor (OSHA) in Smyrna. H & R Block Financial Advisors in Sandra Elaine Reaves Price ’99 Curtis McKay Armstrong ’00 Christine Griffin ’00 of Jack- Tucker, GA. He was a member of of Anniston is a teacher with the of Live Oak, CA, is a pilot in the U.S. sonville is involved at Saks High Kappa Alpha fraternity. Calhoun County Bd. of Edu. at Well- Army. School in the High Hopes Program, Christopher Latta ’99 of born High School. She was a member Sherry Bandy ’00 of Trion, GA, which assists those students struggling Anniston is a registered broker/finan- of the JSU Marching Southerners and is asst. principal at Ringgold Elemen- with their graduation exam. cial advisor with Raymond James Phi Mu sorority. tary School. Robert J. Hall ’00 of Cedar Financial Services, Inc. in Anniston. Terri Beth Reagan ’99 of Pow- Rachelle Anne Boettcher ’00 of Bluff is a teacher with the Floyd Yukari Maki ’99 of Atlanta is a der Springs, GA, is an auditor with the Marathon, WI, is employed in emer- County Bd. of Edu. He is married to loan officer/processor for Magnolia U.S. Army Audit Agency. She was a gency communications with the Mara- Wendy Smith Hall ’87. Financial Services, Inc. in Atlanta. member of the Marching Southerners. thon County Sheriff’s Dept. in Terri Nannette Owen Lee Mason ’99 of Birmingham Antioinette Vernise Richardson Wausau, WI. Kilpatrick ’00 of Ft. Richardson, AK, is Band Director at Hayden High ’99 of Birmingham is a social service Joni Michea Owens Burke ’00 is an administrative asst. for Thomas, School in Hayden. He is a former caseworker for the Jefferson County of Alexandria is an RN at Regional Head & Greisen in Anchorage. member of the JSU Marching Southerners. Dept. of Human Resources. Medical Center in Anniston. She is Amanda L. Lackey ’00 of Jack- Nelson Minton ’99 of Birming- Alfred Rust ’99 of Oxford is an married to Gary Jason Burke ’01, sonville is a daytime advocate at the ham is an investment advisor with engineering coordinator for North also an RN at RMC. Center for Domestic Violence in A. G. Edwards & Sons. American Bus Industries, Inc. in Shavon Bolton Bush ’00 of Anniston. Amy Elizabeth Jones Myers ’99 Anniston. He is married to Julie Anniston is employed by the City of Andrew Brophe Layton ’00 of of Odenville is cost containment coor- Hodgins Rust ’92. Anniston. Birmingham is a copywriter at UAB. dinator for The Infinity Group in Bir- Kara Sayre ’99 of Gadsden is in Patrick Steven Cheatwood ’00 He was a member of Kappa Sigma mingham. She was a member of Delta business development with Dynamic of Pelham is a police officer for the fraternity. Zeta sorority. Security of Birmingham. She was a City of Pelham. He is married to Julie Michelle McGatha ’00 of James O’Connell ’99 of Von member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Shannan Hicks Cheatwood ’98 who Birmingham is mgr. and mentor at Ormy, TX, is an auditor with the U.S. Doyle Wayne Scott ’99 of Ft. is self employed. Curves for Women in Leeds. She was Audit Agency in San Antonio, TX. Payne owns Doyle Scott Construction. Gary L. Cobb ’00 of Crossville a member of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority. Maria Esther Morales He was a member of the JSU March- is a 2nd Lieutenant with the Marine Misty June Millsap ’00/01 of Ostrander ’99 of Jacksonville is an ing Southerners and is married to Corps assigned to the 22nd Marine Cartersville, GA, is a teacher at Stars

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Preschool in Cartersville. Arab is asst. network administrator for Technologies, Inc. in Columbus. School. She was a member of Alpha Laura Beth Jones Norris ’00 of Sparta, Inc. in Huntsville. Bryan Scott McCain ’01 of Xi Delta sorority, the Panhellenic Ashville is a chemist with A & E Labo- Reagan Herring Chase ’01 of Antioch, TN, is an indirect account Council and SGA. ratories in Ashville. Oxford is a teacher with the Haralson executive with SunCom Wireless in Michelle Carter-Williams ’01 of Angela Reeves ’00 of Jackson- County Bd. of Edu. in Tallapoosa, GA. Nashville. He is married to Brandi Jo Waipahu, HI, is management analyst ville received a Teacher Assistance Amanda Joy Chumley ’01 of Thompson McCain ’01. for the U.S. Government stationed at Grant from Alabama Power earlier this Rome, GA, is a teacher with the Floyd Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. year. She is a teacher at Jacksonville County Bd. of Edu. at Pepperell El- Howard Keith Wyatt ’01 of High School. ementary School. Delta is part owner of Morrison Sheet William David Robinson, II ’00 George L. French ’01 of Metal Heating/AC in Oxford. of Wellington, FL, is a Bobcat special- Talladega is a 1st Lieutenant with the Amanda LeShea Franks ’02 of ist at Bobcat of Palm Beach in West Army National Guard and is a platoon Guin is a social worker for the Dept. of Palm Beach, FL. leader with the 214th Military Police Human Resources in Jasper. Patrick Keith Roszell ’00 of Company. Sarah Kathryn Miller ’02 of Troy is asst. editor at Carl Fischer, Inc. Kelly Brooks Friery ’01/02 of Monroe, WA, is a communications in New York City. Jacksonville is a teaching asst. at the specialist/911 dispatcher with the Adam Schantz ’00 is a Navy UA in Tuscaloosa. She was a member Bothel Police Department, Bothell, WA. ensign who recently completed Officer of the JSU cross country/track team. Carrie Elizabeth Thompson ’02 Candidate School in Pensacola, FL, Kelly is married to Barry Dean Friery of Alexander City is a programmer and received his commission as a na- ‘98. analyst with Russell Corporation. She val officer. He resides in Atlantic was a member of Alpha Omicron Pi Beach, FL. and the SGA. Nicole Danielle Scott ’00 of Fort Payne is a knitter at LaLa Ellen Knit- ▲Steven Miles ’01 of Talladega ting in Fort Payne. joined SEME Resources as Dir. of WEDDINGS Teresa Ann Speigner ’00 of Marketing. Prior to joining SEME, he Gadsden is a social worker with the was employed by ATAP in Eastaboga Child Advocacy Center in Gadsden. and served in the U.S. Air Force. Michael Eric Vice ’00 of Jack- Shane V. Miller ’01 of Fort ’70-79 sonville is production supervisor at Rucker is an aeromedical evacuation Union Foundry in Anniston. He was a officer with the U.S. Army. Michael Layne Daves ‘79/82 member of Delta Chi fraternity and is Stephen J. Morey ’01 of Pied- and Felicia Joy Davidson, May 25, married to Christy Michelle Quarles mont is a teacher with the Floyd 2002, in Glencoe. He is employed by Vice ‘96/99, a counselor with the Jack- County (GA) Bd. of Edu. in Rome. He Nortel Networks. sonville City Bd. of Edu. Christy was is married to Regina Lee Watson a member of Phi Mu sorority. Morey ’89, museum educator at the Bethany Ann Vinson ’00 of Anniston Museum of Natural History. ’80-89 Thomaston, GA, is a teacher with the ▲Elizabeth Helvin ’01 of Tanya Lynn Olson ’01 of Brian Keith Chatham ’83 and Upson County (GA) Bd. of Edu. She Blountsville is a revenue accountant Smyrna, GA, is a chemist with the Corinne Elizabeth Cau, May 11, 2002, was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. with Bayer Properties, Inc. in Birming- Food and Drug Administration (FDA). in Montgomery. He served 10 years Heather Nicole Waldrop ’00 of ham. She was recently named the She was a member of the JSU March- active duty in the Army as a Cavalry Pisgah is a teacher with the Dekalb Silver Star recipient by her fellow em- ing Southerners. and Armor officer and 5 years in the County Bd. of Edu. in Sylvania. ployees. Jessica Walker Peoples ’01 of inactive reserves. He is presently a Janna M. Wigley ’00 of Angelia Marie Hill Hyatt ’01 of Fort Payne is head coach of the major in the active reserves in Bir- Roanoke is a teacher with the Roanoke Huntsville is a teacher with the Hunts- Aquacats swim team at Fort Payne. mingham. Brian is employed by the City Bd. of Edu. She was a member of ville City Bd. of Edu. She is a former competitive swimmer. Department of the U.S. Treasury in Alpha Xi Delta sorority. Baron H. Jones ’01 of Kimberly C. Sharpe ’01 of Bir- Birmingham. Randy Dale Wilson ’00 of Chi- Lancaster, PA, is a teacher with the mingham is a financial service rep for Tanya Ray ’88 and Tim Barnes, cago, IL, is a flight attendant with Lancaster (PA) School District. He is a SouthTrust Bank in Pelham. March 23, 2002, in the Saks area of American Airlines. former member of the JSU Marching John Richard Suckow ’01 of Anniston. She is employed by the Robert Newell Wilson ’00 of Southerners. Duluth, GA, is a financial aid asst. with Calhoun County Bd. of Edu. Birmingham is a pilot for HealthSouth John Joseph Kelly ’01 of Quest Education Corp. in Roswell, Tina Annette Watkins’89 and in Birmingham. Tuscaloosa is a counselor/therapist GA. He was a member of the JSU Gregory Alan Mills, June 29, 2002, in Amanda Leigh Wood ’00 of with Indian River Mental Health Cen- cross country/track team and Sigma Laguna Beach, CA. Tina is employed Alexandria is an RN at Stringfellow ter. He is married to Keri Acevedo Nu fraternity. by the Los Angeles Unified School Hospital in Anniston. Kelly ’99. Greg Turley ’01 of Pell City is District. Michael Louis Bell ’01 of Stephanie Diane Goeden Litz the new chief of police for the city. He Ohatchee is the new band director at ’01 of Columbus, GA, is learning has 10 years of law enforcement expe- Asbury and Claysville Junior High mgmt. systems coordinator for Troy rience, working in Hobson City, Lin- Schools in the Marshall County School State University-Ft. Benning, GA. She coln and Ohatchee. ’90-99 District. He was a member of the JSU was a member of the JSU rifle team Jessica T. Walker ’01 of Fort James Dennis Poss ’90 and Marching Southerners. and is married to Eric Shawn Litz ’98, Payne is a teacher with the Fort Payne Carol Fisher, July 4, 2002. They reside Gregory Lee Bodine ’01 of an engineer with Applied Automation City Bd. of Edu. at Fort Payne Middle in Port Orange, FL.

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George Edward Salmon ’90 ployed by the Talladega County Health Keith Wade Clark, April 20, 2002, in tian and clinical manager for a physio- and Terri Michelle Pugh ’96, April Department, Mark in Talladega and Gadsden. She is employed by the therapy clinic. 20, 2002, in Alexandria. George is Tonya in Sylacauga. Mark was a mem- Etowah County Department of Human Nathan Todd Bryant ’98 and employed by General Dynamics Land ber of Delta Chi fraternity at JSU. Resources. Michael Brooke Cargal, June 28, 2002, Systems as a contract administrator. Laurel Roberson (Duke) ’94 Tanya Joanna Davis ’97 and in Anniston. Mrs. Bryant is currently a Terri is employed by Regional Medical and Sean Brock Whitt, May 26, 2002, Jonathan Henry Williams, June 22, student at JSU. Center as a CGRN. in Pensacola, FL. She is employed by 2002, in Gadsden. She is employed by Kenny Wayne Clevenger, Jr. Deborah Ann Carlisle ’91 and Parisian’s department store in Birming- the Woman’s Missionary Union in ’98 and Brandi Michelle Roberts ’99, Ty Daniel Evans, March 23, 2002, in ham as a buyer. Birmingham. March 23, 2002, in Rainbow City. Birmingham. Deborah was a member Chris Dempsey ’95/99 and Christopher Shane James ’97 Kenny is employed at Southside High of Phi Mu sorority at JSU. She is em- Heather McFall ’99, June 22, 2002, in and Stephanie Rena Drake, April 20, School and Brandi at Southside ployed in Birmingham. Jacksonville. Chris is employed by the 2002, in Russellville. Shane is a former Elementary. Jamie Davis ’91 and Greg Oxford City Bd. of Edu. and Heather member of the JSU basketball team. Chrystal Leigh Day ’98 and Smith, June 1, 2002, in Phenix City. by the Calhoun County Bd. of Edu. He recently graduated from the Rusty Lee St. John ’00, June 15, She is employed by Harris County Caroline Elizabeth Dunn ’95 Cumberland School of Law. 2002, in Ragland. Chrystal is em- (GA) Middle School. and Jeff Carlisle, April 20, 2002, in Sherry Lowe ’97 and Shane ployed as an accountant with Robert D. Baker, Jr. ‘92/94 and Atlanta, GA. A former member of the Robertson, May 18, 2002, in Gadsden. HealthSouth Corporation and Rusty is Andrea Lynn Nance, June, 2002, in JSU tennis team, she is employed with She is employed by Riverview Re- a teacher with the Talladega County Pell City. He is employed by Bangers Burr & Forman in Birmingham as a gional Medical Center. Bd. of Edu. in Birmingham. legal assistant. Tyrone L. Malone ’97 and Jana Telly Heard ’98 and Pamela Diane Caffey ’92 and Stephen Freeman ’95 and Jen- Karen L. Jones, February 23, 2002, in Bobby McKinley Wilson, May 25, Frederick Alexander White, March 9, nifer McClure ’02, May 4, 2002, in Huntsville. He is employed by the U.S. 2002, at Morrisons Crossroads. She is 2002, in Alexander City. She is em- Anniston. Stephen is employed by Government as a federal probation employed by the Randolph County ployed by the Alexander City Bd. of Alabama Specialties. officer. Department of Human Resources. Edu. Kevin Lee Lauderdale ’95 and Sheri McCain ’97 and Jamie Lana Kay Highfield ’98 and Margaret Carol Crawford ’92 Patricia Anne Keeble, April 6, 2002, Snow, March 23, 2002, in Anniston. Robert Saxon Jones, June 22, 2002, in and Charles Michael Grady, July 5, Athens, GA. He is employed as the She is employed by the Calhoun Centre. She is employed by the Chero- 2002, in Austin, TX. She is employed terminal manager for Saia Motor County Bd. of Edu. kee County Bd. of Edu. by the Round Rock (TX) Independent Freight in Athens. Toree Renae Myers ’97 and William E. Mayfield ’98 and School District as a middle school Brian Thomas Walker ’95 and David Franklin Cook, April 27, 2002, Lee Nicole Vann, May 25, 2002, in special education teacher. Kimberly Dawn Ellis, May 4, 2002, in in Birmingham. She is employed as an Vestavia. A former member of the JSU Amy Lynn Horn ‘92/99 and Auburn. He is employed by Frontier air quality scientist by Malcolm Pirnie, football team, he is employed in Carl Allen Mitchell, June 8, 2002, in National Bank of Auburn as an invest- Inc. in Birmingham. Homewood. Talladega. She is employed by the ment officer. Alyson Leigh Sanders ’97 and Jennifer Michelle Parson ’98 Talladega County Bd. of Edu. John Edwin Griggs, Jr. ’96 and Steven Eric Lashley, June 1, 2002, in and Matthew George Martin ’01, Tim Wilson ’92 and Natalie Amy Key Baker, March 23, 2002, in Kowaliga. A former member of Phi Mu March 16, 2002, in Centre. Jennifer is Clinkscales ’01, June 1, 2002, in Ox- Phenix City. He is an operations man- sorority at JSU, she is employed by the a police officer with the Rome (GA) ford. Tim is employed by Kirkland and ager with Griggs Foods, Inc. Alexander City Bd. of Edu. Police Department. Matthew is a Company in Anniston and Natalie by Mendi Layne Roberson ’96 and Brian Taylor Westcott ’97 and sportswriter for the Gadsden Times the Oxford City Bd. of Edu. Christopher Allen McEachern, June 8, Erika Lynn Mackin, April 20, 2002, at newspaper. David Mace Murphree ’93 and 2002, in Birmingham. She was a mem- Jekyll Island, GA. He is employed by Danielle R’Nee’ Robison ’98 Julie Anise Mullins, June 15, 2002, in ber of Phi Mu sorority at JSU and is the Gadsden City Bd. of Edu. as a and Robert James Fergison, June 1, Springville. He is employed by employed as an RN at UAB Hospital. teacher/coach. 2002, in Anniston. Danielle is em- Ashville High School. Donna Michele Wells ‘96/97 ployed by AmSouth Bank. Tracy Diane Turner ’93 and and John Martin Black, June 1, 2002, Sonya Nichole Talton ’98 and Timothy James Scherer, February 23, in Birmingham. She was a member of Lester W. Clements, Jr., June 1, 2002, 2002, in Negril, Jamaica. She is em- Alpha Xi Delta sorority at JSU and is in Hokes Bluff. She is employed by ployed by IKON Office Solutions. She employed as a teacher at Briarwood Southern Care Hospice as an RN. was as member of Alpha Omicron Pi Christian School. April DeAnna Wright ’98 and sorority at JSU. They reside in B’ham. Jennifer Christy Allison ‘97/00 James Brian Carberry, June 15, 2002, Tim Womack ’93 and Kristy and Seddrick DeMone Williams, June in Sheffield. She is employed by the Carter, April 20, 2002, in Rainbow 8, 2002, in Bridgeport. She was a Henry County Bd. of Edu. City. Tim is employed by the Etowah member of Sigma Gamma Rho soror- Wendy Lynn Chaney ’99 and County Bd. of Edu. at Glencoe El- ity at JSU and is a teacher at Eastwood David Adam Bailey, May 25, 2002, in ementary School. Elementary School in Decatur. Talladega. She is employed by the Heather Leigh Grant ’94 and Brad Eugene Boshell ’97 and Talladega Superspeedway. Gordon Jackson Battles, April 6, 2002, Stacy Layne Herring, May 18, 2002, in Josh Cooley ’99 and Carrie in Cullman. She is employed as a fam- Gulf Shores. He is employed by the Anne Floyd, March 23, 2002, in Madi- ily consultant for Therapeutic Pro- City of Hoover. son. He is employed as a senior sys- grams, Inc. of Cullman. She was a Tonja Clayton ’97 and Robert tems analyst with Intergraph. member of Phi Mu sorority at JSU. B. Stewart, February 23, 2002, in ▲Tak-Yuk (Irene) Wong ’97 Jennifa Leigh Day ’99 and Mark Lowery Hendrix ’94 and Mountain Brook. She is employed by and Kong-Ming (Thomas) Lee, July Donald Shane Hamm, May 4, 2002, in Tonya Elizabeth Boggs ’95, February Compass Bank in Birmingham. 15, 2001, in Brisbane, Australia. Lucky Gadsden. A former member of Zeta 16, 2002, in Talladega. Both are em- Regina Victoria Cox ’97 and Irene is working in Brisbane as a dieti- Tau Alpha sorority at JSU, Jennifa is

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employed by Coca-Cola Enterprises. Jeremy Dewayne Tallent ’99 GA. Dustin attended JSU. of Edu. at Ohatchee High School. Bill Russell Donaho ’99 and and Amy Michelle Jennings, March Rebecca Helen Hafley ’00 and Chris is a criminal justice major at Amanda Lynn Pugh ’01, April 27, 16, 2002, in Gaylesville. Jeremy is Ronald Arthur Henderson, January 5, JSU. 2002, in Anniston. Bill is a minister employed by Heil in Ft. Payne. 2002, at Pigeon Forge, TN. They re- Michael Louis Bell ’01 and at Iron City Baptist Church and Jeffery Glenn Tipton ’99 and side in Alexandria. DeAnna Marie Payne, March 23, Amanda is employed by Randolph Melissa Anne White, May 11, 2002, in Russell Daniel Harry ’00 and 2002, in Glencoe. A former member Park Elementary School Gardendale. A former member of the Kea Leigh Henry, March 16, 2002, in of the JSU Marching Southerners, he is Anthony Dewayne Hammond JSU cross country team and Delta Chi Lanett. Russell is a former member of employed by the Marshall County Bd. ’99 and Jennifer Marie Irizarry, June fraternity, Jeff is employed as a sales the JSU baseball team. of Edu. 15, 2002, in Daphne. A former rep with Birmingham Water Solutions. Beth Ann Humphrey ’00 and Mark Anthony Burcham ’01 member of Sigma Phi Epsilon frater- Justin Hugh Grimes ’01, June 15, and Brittney Shae McKenzie ’01, nity at JSU, he is employed at Ala- 2002, in Attalla. She is employed by March 16, 2002, in Oxford. Brittney is bama Power’s Miller Steam Plant. ’00-02 Science Application International employed by Parnell Insurance Com- Ann Marie Finley ’99 and Corp. in Huntsville as a software de- pany and Mark by the City of Oxford. Katrina Acosta ’00 and David Ryan Daugherty, March 16, 2002, in sign engineer. Justin is also employed Patrick Thomas Cobb ’01 and Alan Lossner ’00, March 30, 2002, at Jacksonville. After a honeymoon trip by Science Application as a computer Cheney Suzanne Hall, April 27, 2002. St. Simons Island, GA. They reside in to Ireland, they reside in Birmingham. scientist engineer at Redstone Arsenal. He is employed by Food Lion Corp., in Peachtree City, GA. Amy Elizabeth Jones ’99 and Jessica Patterson ’00 and Chris Salisbury, NC. Douglas A. Benefield ’00 and Michael Scott Myers, March 30, Wyle, May 25, 2002, in Albertville. Allison Dale Cockrell ’01 and Amber Nicole Chitwood ’01, June 22, 2002, at Reid Chapel of Samford Jessica is employed by SouthTrust Chadwick Len Singleton, March 16, 2002, in Fort Payne. Amber is em- University in Birmingham. A former Bank. 2002, in Anniston. She is employed ployed at Adairsville (GA) Elemen- member of Delta Zeta sorority at JSU, Sarah Pechonick ’00 and Adam by the Calhoun County Bd. of Edu. at tary School and Doug at Cass Middle she is employed in Homewood. Schantz ’00, May 18, 2002. They Randolph Park Elementary School. School in Cartersville, GA. Michael attended JSU. reside in Neptune Beach, FL, where Terry Wayne Collins ’01 and Les Sean Blackstone ’00 and Stacy Noel Lipscomb ’99 and Adam is a Naval aviator stationed in Kenedra Nichelle Harris, June 7, 2002, Angela Nicole Lang, June 1, 2002, in Michael Eric Fowler, Jr., June 15, Atlantic Beach, FL. in Birmingham. He is employed by Albertville. He is employed by 84 2002, at Hilton Head Island, SC. A Christy Amelia Powell ’00 and New York Life Insurance. Lumber. former member of Phi Mu sorority at Matthew Regan Chapman, June 29, Stephanie Lewis Croy ’01 and Dustin Kyle Swinford ’00 and JSU, Stacy is a recent graduate of 2002, in Albertville. She is a teacher at Judson David Cox ‘02, June 29, 2002, Robyn Suzanne Bryant ’02, March 9, Cumberland School of Law at W.L. Swain Elementary School in in Centre. She is employed by Samford University in Birmingham. 2002, in Gadsden. Robyn is employed Calhoun, GA. Pepperell Middle School in Georgia. Cassandra Michelle McKnight with Gadsden Eye Associates and Andy Robinson ’00 and Nicole He is employed at Armuchee Middle ’99 and Thomas W. Scroggins, June Dustin with Learning Systems Tech- Knight, April 20, 2002. Andy is em- School, Armuchee, GA. 8, 2002, in Anniston. She recently nologies. ployed with the Pell City Parks and Julie Paige Gaddy ’01 and Ja- received her education specialist de- Kevin Robert Cole ’00 and Amy Recreation Department as athletic son Strickland, April 20, 2002, in gree in school psychology from the Lynn McElroy ’00, May 11, 2002, in supervisor. Anniston. Paige is a teaching assistant University of Alabama. Anniston. Amy is employed by Trina Steele ’00 and Zachary at JSU. Jason is a student at JSU and is Annette Wisdom Murphree Haverty Furniture Companies, Inc. in Keith Phillips, June 7, 2002, in employed by the Auburn University ’99 and Nathan Robert Protz, June 8, Atlanta. Kevin is employed by the Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is em- Canine Detection Center at McClellan. 2002, in Oneonta. A former member Stickfigure Creative Group in Atlanta. ployed by the Rome (GA) City Bd. of Sabrina Lee Griffith ’01 and of Alpha Omicron Pi sorority at JSU, Steven Craig Denney ’00 and Edu. at West Central Elementary Larry Wayne Williard, Jr., June 9, she is employed by the Blount Emily Dena Collins, May 25, 2002, in School. 2002. They reside in Alexandria. County Bd. of Edu. at Cleveland El- Albertville. He is employed by Toby Ray Stitcher ’00 and Kenneth Andrew Keith ’01 and ementary School. Howard Bentley in Albertville. Heather Payne Sledge, March 23, Tamara Lynn Yates, June 22, 2002, in Melissa Dawn Nugent ’99 and Jeremy McCollum Cox ’00 and 2002, in Wedowee. Toby is employed Daviston. A former member of the Hayden Marion Stockton, February 2, Catherine Jane Sahawneh, June 22, by the Randolph County Bd. of Edu. JSU baseball team, he is employed as 2002, in Double Springs. A former 2002, in Oneonta. A magna cum laude Evelyn Melissa White ’00 and head baseball coach at Horseshoe member of Delta Zeta sorority at JSU, JSU graduate, Jeremy is employed by Lane Thomas Hopper, May 18, 2002, Bend High School in Tallapoosa she is employed with AmSouth Bank. the St. Clair County Bd. of Edu. at in Talladega. She is employed by County. Hayden is a former assistant football Ashville Middle School. Princeton Hospital in Birmingham. Christopher Donald Lakey ’01 coach at JSU. Mark Thurston Darby ’00 and Jason Derrick Alldredge ’01 and Shannon Linn Smith ’01, July 6, Jeremy Brook Smith ’99/02 Jennifer Dawn Thomas, July 6, 2002, and Christine Nicole Morrison ’02, 2002, in Oneonta. A former member and Amy Elizabeth Arthur ’01, April in Talladega. He is employed by the June 22, 2002, in Gadsden. Jason is of Kappa Alpha fraternity, Chris is 5, 2002, in Springville. Both Amy St. Clair County Bd. of Edu. in employed by the Calhoun County employed by the Troup County (GA) and Jeremy are employed by the Ashville. Emergency Management Agency and Bd. of Edu. A former member of Zeta Dekalb County Bd. of Edu. Stephen Paul Forsythe’00 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree Tau Alpha sorority, Shannon is em- Brandi Michelle Sparks ‘99/02 Jennifer Elayne Rass ’02, June 1, in public administration with a concen- ployed with the Blount County Bd. of and Jared Brent Pointer, June 22, 2002, in Huntsville. Stephen is em- tration in emergency management. Edu. at Hayden High School. 2002, in Oxford. She is employed by ployed by the Calhoun County Bd. of Christine is employed by Kitchin’s of Matthew Blake Loyd ’01 and the Oxford City Bd. of Edu. Jared is Edu. Anniston. Brooke Ashley Davis, March 23, 2002, currently a student at JSU pursuing an Amanda Green ’00 and Dustin Heather Dianne Bean ’01 and at his parents’ lake home on Weiss accounting degree and is employed Brock, May, 2002, in Jacksonville. Christopher Alan Satcher, June 1, Lake. He is employed by the by the Calhoun County Sheriff’s She is employed by the Georgia 2002, in Cedar Grove. She is em- Talladega County Bd. of Edu. Brooke Department. School for the Deaf in Cave Spring, ployed with the Calhoun County Bd. is a student at JSU.

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Bridget Megan Kaylor ’01 and Brian Alan Alred, June 1, 2002, in Tau Alpha member, a Pi Kappa Phi Lil the Rev. Cary Christian Baker, May 4, Glencoe. She is employed by Rehab Sis, and a member of the Homecoming 2002, in Gadsden. She was a cum Partners. Court at JSU. She is self employed as laude graduate of JSU. Mark Adam Blalock ’02 and an interior designer and stay-at-home Kimberly Renee Mack ’01 and Amy Allen Hammett, May 18, 2002, in mom. They reside in Smyrna, GA. Alan Williams Segrest, May 25, 2002, Jacksonville. in Huntsville. A former member of Phi Shelley Nicole Borders ’02 and Mu sorority at JSU, she is employed Van Stephen Roberts, March 2, 2002, by the Opelika City Bd. of Edu. in Anniston. Sarah Elizabeth McGinnis ’01 Lucy Danielle Capes ’02 and and Christopher Barker, May 25, 2002, Adam Brett Waites ’02, June 1, 2002, in Greenville. Chris is a student at JSU. here at the JSU Alumni House. Steven Duane Miles ’01 and Shannon Marie Collins ’02 and Allison Carroll Roach, June 29, 2002, John Moorman Shaver, May 11, 2002, in Gatlinburg, TN. He is employed by in Huntsville. ATAP, Inc. Karen Faith Dunlap ’02 and Mark Nathan O’Bryant ’01 and Faron Miller Wilson, May 24, 2002, in Mindy Beth Palmer, June 8, 2002, in Gatlinburg, TN. ▲Michael Robert Livingston Gadsden. He is employed by the City Melissa DeLyn Higgins ’02 and ‘84/90/91 and his wife Dianne wel- of Gadsden. Mindy is employed by Michael Casey Wade ’02, in Alexan- comed the arrival of their son, Mat- Gold’s Gym in Rainbow City and is a dria. Melissa is employed as an RN thew Bray, on November 14, 2001. nursing student at JSU. with Riverview Medical Center in Mike is a life member of the Alumni Dustin Ryan O’Connell ’01 and Gadsden. Association and was a member of the ▲Amy Martine Henderson Holley JoAnna Snider, May 18, 2002, Ryan Merle Hill ’02 and Tekia JSU Cross Country team. He is assistant Broekhuizen ’90, and her husband in Saks. He is employed with J Supply Michelle Ledbetter, June 1, 2002, in principal at the Academy for Science Daniel, welcomed the birth of their of Birmingham. Tallapoosa, GA. He is employed by and Foreign Language in Huntsville. son, Mark Daniel, on April 11, 2002. Patrick Dean Potter ’01 and the Douglas County (GA) Board of Teresa Marie Bussey Stanfield Ulanda Nichole Humphries, March 23, Education. Tekia is a student at JSU. ’85 and her husband Charles an- Amy is a dealer service rep with SE 2002, in Arab. Holly Dawn Johnson ’02 and nounced the birth of their son, Toyota Finance in Deerfield Beach, David Rhodes ’01 and Tabatha Bryan Joseph Gustafson, June 15, Johnathan Paul, on March 29, 2002. FL. They reside in Coconut Creek, FL. Guthrie, March 23, 2002, in 2002, in Glencoe. They have one other son and reside in She is a life member of the JSU Farmington, NM. A former member of Joy Rose Rainwater ’02 and Covington, KY. Teresa is finance man- Alumni Association. the JSU rifle team, David is employed Reid Player Thornton, April 13, 2002, ager for the Girl Scout Council of as a probation officer. Tabatha at- in a garden wedding ceremony. They Licking Valley, Inc. tended JSU. reside in Jacksonville. Lisa Henderson Polsky ’87 and Joshua Anthony Tarnate ’01 Merry Alice Self ’02 and Danny her husband Dr. Yarom Polsky, an- and DeAnna Beth Barton, June 22, Michael Blevins, June 22, 2002, at nounce the birth of their son, Dov, on 2002, in Gadsden. He is employed by Silver Lakes Country Club in July 1, 2001. Lisa is an LPC supervisor/ Wal-Mart in Gadsden. Gadsden. counselor at Depelchin in Houston, TX. Bryan Marc Taylor ’01 and Amy Suzanne Whitt ’02 and Laurel Leigh Albright, June 1, 2002, in Jeremy Scott Prickett, June 1, 2002, in Jacksonville. A former member of the Gadsden. She is a summa cum laude ’90-99 JSU basketball team, Bryan is em- JSU graduate. ployed by the Jacksonville City Bd. of Edu. Brandi Leigh Thompson ’01 BIRTHS and Webster Lee Dillard, III, July 6, 2002, in Springville. She is employed by Gadsden Regional Hospital. Jessica Walker ’01 and Ryan ▲ Peoples, June 22, 2002, in Arab. A ’80-89 Christine Smart Phillips ’91 former member of Alpha Xi Delta and Rick Phillips ’97 announce the sorority at JSU, she is employed as a Doug ’82 and Kelly Hill Creel birth of their son, John Robert, on teacher of the gifted at Fort Payne ’92, of Mt. Vernon, IL, announce the August 27, 2001. Rick works for the Middle School and is the junior varsity birth of their son, Jackson Edward, on Louisiana Department of Corrections cheerleader coach. Jessica is pursuing April 17, 2002. He was named after and Christine is a language arts teacher her master’s degree from the Univer- his late grandfather, beloved former for West Feliciana Parish. They reside sity of South Alabama. JSU photographer Ed Hill. He has in Baton Rouge. John’s excessively Jamie Marie Adams ’02 and several siblings at home, Parker, proud grandmother, Janet Smart, is an Jesse Wayne McKnight, April 20, Hunter and Emma. Kelly is a teacher English instructor at JSU. 2002, here at the JSU Alumni House. and Doug is athletic director and a ▲Teisha Venable Ault ’90 and Douglas Harold ’92 and She is employed by Floyd Medical coach at Mt. Vernon (IL) High School. her husband Scott, announce the birth Michelle Crowe Mooneyham ’94 Center in Georgia. of their son, David Cooper “Duke”, on announce the birth of their son, John Christy Lynn Alford ’02 and January 3, 2002. Teisha was a Zeta Allen, on April 23, 2002. Douglas is a

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plant manager at Industrial Plating Virginia Odessa Pruitt the European Theatre, including the Braxton Bragg McKinnon ’69, Company, Inc. in Anniston. Michelle Robertson ‘35/36/37, of Mobile, No- Battle of the Bulge. While at Jackson- of Orlando, FL, January 21, 2002. We is a stay-at-home mom. They have a vember 11, 2001, at the age of 87. Her ville State, he had been the school’s were notified by his wife, Lynn, of his daughter, Rebecca Grace, 2, and an- daughter advised us of her death. newspaper editor. Upon graduation, death. other son, Jack Douglas, 3-1/2. Carl Jackson Bartlett ’36, of he was commissioned a second lieu- Joyce Maust Enzor ’93 and Roanoke, March 2002. A World War tenant in the Army Reserves, retiring Aaron Enzor ‘94/95 are proud parents II Army veteran, he had been an active years later as a Lieutenant Colonel. He ’70-79 of Keegan Axel, born April 20, 2002. member of the American Legion and worked for several years in area news- Dudley Cleo Adams, Jr. ’70, He was also welcomed home by his VFW. He had been a mail carrier for papers, then as a technical writer at of Hoover, February 24, 2002. He had big brother, Zackary, 5. Aaron is a the Roanoke Post Office. While at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, and been an account executive with USF paralegal for the Dupont Corporation. JSU, he had been a member of the later as a teacher and assistant princi- Holland. He had been a member of They reside in Dover, DE. basketball team. pal at Sanford Middle School in the baseball team at JSU and was a life Tiffany Cherie’ Akins Green Arthur B. Garmon ’38, of Beauregard. member of the JSU Alumni Association. ’95/98 and her husband Kevin have a Huntsville, March 2, 2002. He was the Russell D. Greenleaf ’53, of Johnny Frank Miller ’70, of new son, Josiah, who was born in retired director of vocational technical Louisville, KY, February 11, 2002. A Odenville, May 16, 2002. He had January, 2002. They reside in Centre. education for the Huntsville City Marine Corps veteran, he fought at founded and operated Miller Pest Con- She is a teacher at Cedar Bluff School. Schools. He was 86. His wife, Iwo Jima. He had been an accountant. trol for 20 years and was the owner of Kevin Lee Davis ’95 and his Thelma Longshore Garmon ’48, is Doris Prather Culbreth ’54, of Double J Stables. wife Barbara announce the birth of also deceased. Dothan, December 13, 2001. A family Rev. John L. Skinner ‘70/75, of their daughter, Madison (Maddie) member recently notified us of her death. Heflin, April 13, 2002. A Navy vet- Leigh, on January 15, 2002. They Mildred Norton Mintz ’57, of eran, he had been a guidance counse- reside in Birmingham. Kevin is a data- Gadsden, April 30, 2002. She had ’40-49 lor and teacher for 32 years in the base administrator with Accenture, a taught at Chandler Mountain, Glencoe Cleburne County school system. He division of Bellsouth Telecommunica- Rosie Belle Cranford ’40, of Arab, is City Schools, and Gadsden City was also an ordained minister. He was tions in Birmingham. deceased. We were informed recently Schools. married to another JSU graduate, Jeff ’96 and Susan Myers by a family member of her death. No Betty Coleman Cantor ‘58, of Shelby Williams Skinner ‘66/74/91. Taffar ’97 had a baby girl, Anna date of death was given. Cartage, TX, April 13, 2002. She had Kenneth O. Triplett ’70, of Frances, on January 2, 2002. Jeff was Waymon L. Strother ’44, of been the office manager for Cantor Anniston, March 16, 2002. He was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity at Naples, FL, June 21, 2002. He had Chiropractor in Carthage. Her hus- retired from the Anniston Army Depot JSU. He is employed by Cherokee been a teacher at Fort Payne and prin- band, Robert L. Cantor, is a 1958 and had worked as a Program Analyst Ridge Country Club as Clubhouse cipal in Collinsville before becoming JSU graduate. in the Resource Management Division. Manager. Susan was a member of head of the department of mathematics He was also a WWII Army veteran. Alpha Xi Delta sorority. She is em- and statistics at the University of Mas- His son, James ’82, and daughter-in- ployed by the Marshall County Bd. of sachusetts. He was 79. law, Kristi Kiser Triplett ’82, are also Edu. They reside in Arab. Daisy Harrison Usry ’46, of ’60-69 JSU grads. Jamie ’98 and Jessica Barker Gadsden, March 28, 2002. She had Marlene Robinson Tolleson Bennington Stephen King, III Parris ’00, announce the birth of their been a teacher with the Gadsden City ’63, of Jacksonville, April 28, 2002. ’72, of Anniston, February 13, 2002. son, William Sumner, on March 17, Bd. of Edu. for many years. She had been an economics teacher and Mary Nolen Stout ‘72/77, of 2002. Jessica served as President of Enterprise, is deceased. We were noti- Zeta Tau Alpha sorority while at JSU was married to Billy W. Tolleson ’63. fied by the post office recently of her and was a group leader for the JSU Chloe W. Moore ’65, of Fort ’50-59 death. Marching Ballerinas. Jamie was a Payne, is deceased. We were informed John Edward Fisher ‘73/85, of member of Phi Mu Alpha music frater- J. Kermit Gibbs ’50, of by a family member and no further Anniston, April 16, 2002. He was an nity and served as section leader for Arab, August 29, 2001. His wife, information was provided. accountant for Tape Craft of Anniston. the JSU Marching Southerners. They Lucille Walker Gibbs ’51, advised us Verrell Wales “Billy” Price ’67, He was also very active in service to reside in Alabaster. of his death. of Anniston, April 12, 2002. He was the Boy Scouts organization. Richard Alan ’99 and Cortni Elzina Vetula Grimwood ’51, of the retired church administrator for Gwendolyn Juanita Adair Colvin Kelley ’99 announce the ar- Huntsville, November 11, 2001. She Fairview Heights-Northside Baptist Gauthier ’74, of Austin, TX, March rival of their son, Randael Alan, on had been a life member of the JSU Church. He was an Army veteran of June 26, 2002. They reside in White Alumni Association. A family member the Korean War. 27, 2002, after a struggle with cancer. House, TN. notified us of her death. No further Ernest Paul Love ’68, of Pied- She worked diligently with people information was available. mont, March 7, 2002. with disabilities through Advocacy, OBITUARIES Neil R. Medlock ’51 of El Cajon, James Marcus “Marc” Calton Inc. CA, March 5, 2002, from lung cancer. ’69, of Eufaula, April 9, 2002. At JSU Audrey Jobson Haynes ‘76/80, (unless otherwise noted, all informa- We were notified by his wife of his he coached and played on the golf of Oxford, March 13, 2002. She re- tion received through newspaper death. He was a cheerleader while at team. A veteran of the Air Force, he tired from Oxford Middle School in obituary notices) Jacksonville State. served in the Philippines during the January after 25 years of service and Gaines Henderson ’52, of Vietnam War. He had been employed was listed in Who’s Who Among ’16-39 Rainsville, is deceased. A family with King Pharmaceutical of Tennes- American Teachers. She was married member advised us of his death. No see, where he was recognized as the #1 to Bobby Ray Haynes ’81. Irene Carpenter Gurley ‘16, of further information was given. salesman in the country based on sales Miguel Madrigal ’78, of Anniston, is deceased. No date was Eulette Austin Gay ’53, of Au- made during his battle with cancer. He Albertville, February 21, 2002, of pan- given, but we were informed by a fam- burn, March 11, 2002. He served in had been a life member of the JSU creatic cancer. We were notified re- ily member recently. the U.S. Army during World War II in Alumni Association. cently by a family member of his death.

FALL 2002 43 ALUM NOTES...We love to hear from you!

Wayne Edward Smith ’88, of ATTENDED ONLY OR Dorothy P. Talley, of West Point, Oxford, June 27, 2002. He worked for GRADUATION DATE GA, May 17, 2002. We were notified ’80-89 25 years for Alabama Power. He also by her husband, William, of her death. Patti Waldrop Medders ’80, served as a minister of music at UNKNOWN: Lois Hunter Whitehead, of of Weaver, June 30, 2002. Cheaha Baptist Church. He was mar- Dowling Park, FL, June 14, 2002. Sarah Ford Davidson, of Billy J. Allison ’85, of Carbon ried to another JSU graduate, Char- She had taught in Abbeville and other Gadsden, April 14, 2002. Retired Hill, May 28, 2002. He had an Army lotte Jackson Smith ‘74/91. schools in Chambers County, AL. teacher from the Etowah County career that had spanned 20 years and She was the librarian of the Abbeville School System after more than 30 retired as a first sergeant in 1980, after Public Library until her retirement in years of service. She was also the which time he attended and graduated 1970. ’90-02 curator of the Gadsden Museum of from JSU. A Vietnam War veteran, his Kenneth Paul Grosselin, Sr. ’90, Art. honors included the National Defense of Cincinnati, OH, January 2, 2002. Mae Culbert Dobbs, of Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal An active member of the JSU Alumni Albertville, February 25, 2002. A (7 campaigns), Republic of Vietnam Association, he had been an auditor retired school teacher, she had taught Campaign Medal with 60 device, with the U.S. Government Defense for more than 40 years. An avid gar- Army Commendation Medal with First Contract Agency. We were notified by dener, she was known for sharing her Oak Leaf Cluster, Vietnamese Cross of his wife of his death. flowers with family, friends and neigh- Gallantry with Palm, Vietnamese Cross Kaye L. Masisak ’93, of bors. She was 94. of Gallantry with Palm (unit), among LaFayette, GA, February 4, 2002. We Marie Lyda Fields, of Flat Rock, others. He was an avid Gamecock were notified by her daughter of her June 30, 2002. She was 95. She had football fan, following the team until death. taught at Flat Rock School for 25 years his death. Both of his sons, Michael Wanda Dorough Higgins ’02, of and was a retired teacher. Allison ‘91/97 and Banyon Allison Anniston, June, 2002. She had only Juanita Horton Hulsey, of Fort Due to rising costs associ- ‘94/96/02, played for the Gamecocks! recently graduated from JSU in April, Payne, March 10, 2002. She was 80. ated with publishing and 2002. She began her teaching career during mailing the alumni maga- World War II in Sylvania and zine, the Alumni Office Plainview. In 1951, she began teach- ing in Fort Payne where she stayed for must make some changes 30 years. She was active as a hospital in order to continue to pro- Reminisce volunteer, in square dancing, and the vide our alumni with a VFW. quality source of informa- Javis Edward Johnson, of Ox- tion. Therefore, beginning ford, April 11, 2002. A former mem- Reminisce ber of the JSU Marching Southerners, in the Spring of 2003, the he was only 40 years old. He attended “Gem of the Hills” publi- JSU in the early 1980s. cation will only be mailed Reminisce Sarah Omega McCord, of Win- to those holding active chester, TN, May 12, 2002. She had (dues-paying) status within taught elementary school in Jackson County and co-owned McCord Grain the Alumni Association. Company in Belvedere, TN. Now is your chance to con- Evelyn Lenora Murphree, of Jacksonville, April 23, 2002. She had tinue receiving your copy been a houseparent at JSU and at the of the “Gem.” If you are Alabama Baptist Children’s Home in not currently a member, Troy. you now have the ability to Dorothy Lee Caine “Mama Dot” Perry, of Centre, March 23, pay your membership dues 2002. She had been a member of the online. Go to Order of the Eastern Star. She was a www.jsu.edu/alumni and graduate of the Jacksonville Normal click on “Get Involved” School. which will instruct you John Darrell Speer, of Pell City, March 20, 2002. He served with the how to do so. Annual dues Army Air Corp during World War II are $25/single and $40/ This circa 1959 photo was made in Daugette Hall. and was retired from St. Clair Memo- husband and wife. Life Bottom row: Nancy Hodges, Sandra Whitten, Barbara rial Gardens. He was active in both the Member dues are $250/ Jones. American Legion and VFW. single and $450/husband Alene Bradford Stephens, of Second row: First person unidentified, Ivol Farabee, Snead, January 4, 2002. She had and wife. Contact the Susan Hagan Holdridge, Rochelle Neighbors, Karen taught at several Blount County Alumni Office for more Turhune. Back row: Sue Waugh, Emily Thornton, Jayne schools until her retirement. She was information. Drake, Becky. 90.

44 JSU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION invites you to come enjoy two exciting cruise offers to CANADA & NEW ENGLAND OR BERMUDA ON THE DAZZLING NORWEGIAN SEA

Departure dates for Canada and New England: SATURDAY, MAY 10TH TO SATURDAY, MAY 17TH, 2003. Ports of Call include: New York- At Sea- Halifax, Nova Scotia- Bar Harbor, Maine, Boston, Massachusetts- Newport, Rhode Island- New York Those aboard will be cruising round-trip from New York and visiting Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor; Ten Mile Ocean Drive in Newport, Rhode Island; visit the sights of Grand Parade, Halifax’s Main Square, visit downtown shops, cafe’s and restaurants in the Brewery Market, or walk the Historic Properties featuring a restored waterfront reminiscent of the early days.

STATEROOM CATEGORY BROCHURE RATE OUR SPECIAL RATE DD (Superior Oceanview) $2065 $1323 E (Oceanview) $1983 $1253 JJ (Inside) $1765 $1023

Departure dates for Bermuda: SATURDAY, JUNE 15TH TO SUNDAY, JUNE 22ND, 2003. Ports of Call include: New York- At Sea- St. George, Bermuda- Hamilton, Bermuda- Hamilton, Bermuda-Kings Wharf, Bermuda- At Sea- New York

Those aboard this tropical cruise will visit a land Mark Twain described as an “Earthbound Heaven.” Cruisers will discover the sophisticated beauty of Bermuda where sapphire waters and manicured gardens with fragrant scents of hibiscus and oleander await you. Join the locals and purchase a pair of Bermuda shorts on colorful Front Street. While docked in the beautiful towns of Hamilton, St. George, and Kings Wharf, you will have access to the entire beautiful landscapes and ocean sides of Bermuda. Visit such places as Horseshoe Bay or the Crystal Caves.

STATEROOM CATEGORY BROCHURE RATE OUR SPECIAL RATE DD (Superior Oceanview) $2433 $1673 E (Oceanview) $2353 $1603 JJ (Inside) $2103 $1373

Must add $255.44 port tax, air tax, government tax, and security tax per person to the rates for Canada & New England and $323.54 for Bermuda. Above rates include round-trip air from Atlanta, Georgia and round-trip transfers in New York. A deposit of $250.00 per person is required to reserve your cabin, with checks made payable to JSU Alumni Association. The final payment for Canada & New England is due by February 23, 2003 and April 1, 2003 for Bermuda. For more information you may contact Nancy Turner, Alumni Affairs Office at 1-800-231-5291, Extension 5404 or email at [email protected]. Call Now!! Space is Limited!!