Volume 23 • No.1 / Fall 2014

This is how college is meant to be… CollegianThis is how college is meant to bE. Blount Undergraduate Initiative Celebrates 15th Anniversary

It’s a weighty question. What was the most important thing you did while you were in college? For a small group of students in UA’s College of Arts and Sciences, the answer is often instantaneous and simple: The Blount Undergraduate Initiative. Although the four-year liberal arts program comprises a mere 20 percent of each participating student’s course of study, giving each student a minor in the liberal arts, Director Joe Hornsby said he hears the same message from graduating seniors each year. That is, the Blount Initiative was the single most important part of their collegiate careers. Michelle Fuentes, a 2007 graduate of the program who received her doctorate in political science from UA this year, is no exception.“Blount has been the most transformative organization I’ve ever participated in,” she said. The program, which boasts one of the strong- College of Arts and Sciences alumnus Jim Noe, far left, is the executive vice president of est 10-year reviews on record, is celebrating its Hercules Offshore, the largest shallow water drilling company in the Gulf of Mexico. 15th anniversary this year with an on-campus commemoration Oct. 31-Nov. 1. All alumni, faculty, and staff who have participated in the Broad Education for a Broad World program are invited to attend. Sociology and criminal justice alumnus Jim Noe leads The Blount Undergraduate Initiative was established in 1999 as an intellectual and social major offshore drilling company haven for exceptional students interested in the liberal arts. Its students take small, seminar-style It’s hard to be an Alabama graduate living in Texas, though you wouldn’t know it by visiting Jim Noe’s classes from professors throughout the College of office on the 23rd floor of a high-rise in downtown Houston. Noe, a sociology and criminal justice Arts and Sciences faculty, starting and ending with alumnus turned oil tycoon, knows all about navigating unfamiliar territory, and he approaches life in courses that bring into conversation the ideas of Texas much like he approaches business trips abroad – find common ground, then break the ice. In Texas, common ground comes in the form of college football, a topic about which Noe is anything Continued on page 2 but apologetic. His office walls prominently feature the front pages of newspapers recounting the 1992, 2009, and 2012 Crimson Tide national championships, all playful jabs at his colleagues who are affiliated with some of Alabama’s most-recent rivals. Issue Highlights Abroad, finding common ground is more of a challenge, though he manages to find it one way or another. One time, while attending his first board meeting for a company based overseas, Noe drew Dean’s Message 2 from his experience taking four years of Swedish classes at The University of Alabama. He had been appointed to the board of directors of an oil and gas company based in Norway, and although most of Edward O. Wilson Week 3 the board members spoke English, he took full advantage of the countries’ similarities and greeted his co-workers with a Swedish-Norwegian “Hello! How are you?” to a room full of laughter. As he said, you Snapshots 5 never know what’s going to be helpful. Faculty News/Features 6 With no formal training in the oil and gas industry other than what he had learned on the job, Noe has been forced to pull from the broad education he received at UA often. In his early 30s, he became Student News/Features 14 one of the youngest general counsels for a public oil and gas company, Hercules Offshore, Inc., and later became one of the youngest CEOs in the marine industry leading Delta Towing, an inland and Supporters 19 offshore tug and towing company. Now in his early 40s, he serves as the executive vice president of Hercules Offshore, the largest shallow water drilling company in the Gulf of Mexico and one of the Alumni Notes 33 world’s largest offshore drilling companies. He also spends half the year traveling to remote parts of what he calls “interesting and oddball countries around the world,” including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Singapore, Woods Quad Myanmar, Thailand, Angola, and some 125 others. Scupture Garden 36 Continued on page 4

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A dream of this dean since I arrived on campus includes a grand lobby that will incorporate 14 years ago has been to build a performing its beautiful rotunda. Additional plans call for arts facility that matches the quality and national a Welcome Center and museums that tell the stature of our performing arts programs. It was, stories of the University and Bryce Hospital. likewise, a dream of the dean before me, as well Current theatre and dance venues on as the dean before him. The file on this project campus date back to the 1950s and are obsolete and the practical need go back to at least 1974. technically and limited in space and support Over the years, the College and the University areas. Our current stages do not support the have come close several times to getting beyond specialized performance needs of our programs. the drawing board, but funding, ultimately, We are putting our lights under a bushel. Our proved elusive each time. new facilities, however, will allow our programs Now President Judy Bonner, knowing how to shine with three theatres: a 450-seat dance important a Performing Arts Center is to the theatre, a 400-seat proscenium theatre for University’s educational mission, has committed drama; and an experimental space with seating to its construction on the recently-acquired of 175 to 250. Plans also provide for a footprint to Bryce Hospital property. The University’s construct a 2,000-seat roadhouse at a later date. purchase in 2010 of the historic, 168-acre The Department of Theatre and Dance will Bryce Hospital property next to our campus move from Rowand-Johnson Hall to the new ensures room for the University’s development facility. Classrooms, studio spaces, faculty offices and expansion for years to come. The University and support shops will be housed in the current is known for the beauty, openness and natural wings of the Bryce Main Building. Dean Robert Olin landscape of our campus. This purchase, We envision a mini-village of performing likewise, gives University planners an opportunity to extend this high arts spaces and classrooms set in the historical and natural landscape of the quality environmental experience to this elegant and historic property while Bryce campus. As you will read in this issue of the Collegian, our first step maintaining the its 19th-century design features. toward this vision began with the renovation and adaptive reuse last year Enhancement plans for the Bryce property figure prominently in a 2012 of Bryant Jordan Hall, the former chapel for the hospital. The building now Campus Master Plan Update that “builds upon and respects the parallel provides a 250-seat performance space for our fast-growing, award-winning and intertwined histories of both institutions, founded adjacent to each other opera theatre program in the School of Music and also houses a state-of-the- in the 19th century, joining the essential spaces and places of both….” art digital recording studio. After consulting with many stakeholders, including the Bryce Hospital As the Collegian goes to press, we are finalizing design plans for the Historical Committee and the historian for the Department of Mental Health, Performing Arts Center. I look forward to sharing architectural designs and, University planners developed a far reaching design to “unify the campus as yes, ground breaking photos in the very near future. a complete learning environment, interwoven into a gracious and hospitable This Performing Arts Center will make a major statement about our great setting that both nurtures the soul and inspires the mind.” university and all that it has to offer. Private support will play a major role in The Performing Arts Center will be the grand centerpiece of this vibrant making this the facility of our longstanding dreams. If you share our vision new area of our campus, one designed to be a welcoming gateway for the for this state-of-the art facility in a setting of unparalleled beauty and history, public to the Capstone. The Performing Arts Center will be married with I’d love to talk with you. ■ the stately Bryce Main Building. The adaptive reuse of this historic building

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some of the world’s greatest thinkers, including Plato, Sigmund Freud, John Dr. Sally Davis, who served on the faculty committee that helped create the Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Edward O. Wilson, and Steven Pinker, to name a few. program, retired in 2005 from teaching in the Department of English. But Extensive reading and writing are standard from day one. she still teaches Blount courses because she said they allow her to continue The program began with then Dean James Yarbrough’s vision to create the parts of academic life she enjoys most. a college experience much like he and many other faculty members had “I like the material, the interaction with faculty in other departments, and experienced themselves, one in which the residence hall was an important the students,” Davis said. “One of the nice things, almost from the program’s part of a student’s life and intellectual growth. Today, the Blount Living- beginning, we heard and still hear is that other faculty members say they can Learning Center embodies that vision. All freshmen in the program live and tell when they have a Blount student in their class, which I like. The students take classes in the center their freshman year, while upperclassmen have talk and participate more, and they think better and write better. academic “homes” in the heart of campus in Oliver-Barnard and Tuomey “The other good thing about Blount is that it connects freshmen halls, located on the main Quadrangle. The program is named in honor of with faculty members from the beginning, so you really get a chance to Winton and Carolyn Blount, who gave $7 million to the College to endow know each other. Blount alumni who came back for the 10th anniversary and establish the initiative. celebration felt the draw of both the students they wanted to see and their Fuentes, though emblematic of other Blount students in her passion for connections to faculty members. The anniversary celebrations are a great the program, has a particularly unique relationship with it. She participated opportunity to reacquaint alumni with the program, and to reacquaint us in Blount as an undergraduate, co-taught freshman seminars as a graduate with them to see where they are in their careers.” student, and served six classes of students as the director of the living- Dr. Ian Brown, who served on the faculty committee with Davis and learning center. currently serves as chair of the Department of Anthropology, feels similarly. “I think the program is particularly unique and special because “There are a few things in my life, probably less than a dozen, that I it grounds college friendships in not only a social atmosphere, but in look back on and knew from the beginning that they would be worthwhile intellectual bonds that last well into our lives as young professionals,” she endeavors that I would want to spend a good portion of my life helping to said. “The Living-Learning Center, in so many ways, is not just a place develop,” Brown said. “Blount is one of those. I’m a northerner, and when where students sleep. It’s a place where faculty members open students’ I came to Alabama, I had no idea I’d be here for 23 years and running. perspectives and where students explore their worldviews. It’s a place where But I have never wanted to leave here because of things like the Blount I continually saw personal growth in my students, my peers, and also myself. Initiative. It has been one of the adventures of my life.” I think I would be a completely different person had I not participated in More details about the anniversary celebration will be announced as the program.” the event nears. For more information, visit as.ua.edu or call the Blount But students aren’t the only ones who say the program is influential. Undergraduate Initiative office at 205-348-1706.■

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 2 9/22/14 5:05 PM Dr. Edward O. Wilson, left, fields questions during a panel discussion with Dr. Ryan Earley, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, right. Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Symposium Brings Experts to UA

Experts in biodiversity research and nearly 200 researchers from across the globe joined A selection of Wilson's awards, including the Dr. Edward O. Wilson, the world’s most decorated scientist and a College of Arts and Sciences TED Prize, pictured here, was displayed at alumnus, for Edward O. Wilson Week, April 21-25 at UA. The University of Alabama Gallery during The weeklong series of events honoring Wilson included the Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Edward O. Wilson Week. Born out of the TED Symposium, three days of research presentations and forums on the state and future of biodiversity Conference, the TED Prize awards $1 million to on our planet; a special tribute to Wilson organized by more than 20 Alabama conservation and its winners annually to support projects that seek biodiversity organizations; and an exhibit featuring a selection of the awards that Wilson has received collaborative action from people across the globe. throughout his career. Wilson also announced two major gifts during Edward O. Wilson Week. He gave the College his collection of 246 international awards, prizes, and tributes that have been bestowed on him, including two Pulitzer Prizes, the Nobel Prize-equivalent Crafoord Prize, and the U.S. National Medal of Science. He also announced a $100,000 gift to establish the Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Fellows Endowment, a scholarship that will support students to conduct field and museum research in the area of biodiversity. Wilson chronicled his childhood exploring the woods and creeks of south Alabama in his bestselling 1994 autobiography, Naturalist. He is also the author of On Human Nature and The Ants, both Pulitzer Prize winners, and more than a dozen other books. He is the leading expert on ants, one of the world’s leading experts on evolution and species diversity, and the founder of the theory of sociobiology. Wilson’s research has sparked decades of debate about the interface between the human psyche and human biology. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology from The University of Alabama in 1949 and 1950. He received his doctoral degree from Harvard University The 2014 Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Fellows where he taught and conducted research for 45 years and where he is a University with Dr. Edward O. Wilson and Dean Robert Olin. Research Professor Emeritus. ■ From left: Jason Jackson, Wilson, Nicholas M. Caruso, Gabriela C. Garcia, and Olin.

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 3 9/22/14 5:05 PM Academic Partnership with Greek University Expands

The University of Alabama’s partnership with Aristotle University of Sciences, conducts research on biodiversity, evolution, and assembling Thessaloniki, Greece, took a major step forward in May when six College of the tree of life of algae. He was paired with Professor Maria Moustaka and Arts and Sciences faculty members traveled to Aristotle University to meet Lecturer Spyros Gkelis. with counterparts to discuss potential cooperative projects. UA’s delegation Dr. Ibrahim Cemen, professor in the Department of Geological was headed by Dr. Luoheng Han, senior associate dean for the College of Sciences, offered a proposal to establish an ongoing collaboration with Arts and Sciences. Aristotle University’s Professor Spyros Pavlides in order to further study the Dubbed the Alabama Greece Initiative, the partnership began in prediction of earthquakes. Cemen’s research interests include earthquake 2010 when UA hosted an Aristotle University doctoral student on a work potential in western Anatolia. Visa. The student worked for one semester in the Department of Religious Dr. Andrea Cevasco, associate professor in the School of Music, Studies and the Department of Modern Languages and Classics. A second offered a proposal to compare the current status of music therapy in the Aristotle University doctoral student was employed by UA for a semester in United States and Greece to better understand advances and practical 2012, and in the intervening year, two Aristotle University faculty members applications being made in both countries. Cevasco was paired with came to Alabama for a week to lecture and learn more about UA. Aristotle Lecturer Dora Psaltopoulou. University’s Dean of the Faculty of Sciences, Dr. Spyros Pavlides, also Andy Fitch, associate professor in the Department of Theatre and spent a week at UA in March. During his visit, he presented a lecture Dance, offered a proposal to explore similarities and differences among on the South Aegean Volcanic Arc, toured the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, staging and scenic designs in Greek and U.S. theater, with a view toward visited Moundville Archeological Park, and met with UA faculty. collaborating on set designs. His collaborator is Professor Lila Karakosta. The delegation that traveled to Thessaloniki in May was selected Dr. Trudier Harris, professor in the Department of English, to partner with faculty from Aristotle University to explore possible suggested that Greek sources for naming in the African American collaborations on research projects with a worldwide scope. These faculty community is well known, as is Greek interest in African American members spent a day exchanging information and ideas with their writers. Her project examines the interactions between Greek and African counterparts. The conference was also attended by Aristotle University American cultures. Harris was paired with Associate Professor Youli Rector Professor Yannis Myopolous and Robert Sanders, general consul of Theodosiadou. the United States in Greece. Dr. Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers, associate professor in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki is a public university and the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, proposes to study why largest in the Balkans with an enrollment of 81,000 students. It is located the view of women as inferior emerged in classical Athens at the time of in Greece’s second largest city. democracy’s birth. Her collaborator is Associate Professor Katerina Kitsi- The UA faculty delegation consisted of the following members: Mitakou. Dr. Juan Lopez-Bautista, professor in the Department of Biological University of Alberta doctoral candidate Vaia Touna, an Aristotle University graduate and Thessaloniki native, joined the trip as Dr. Han’s assistant. ■

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Learning Quickly, Communicating Effectively As a young boy, Noe grew up on Air Force bases across the globe and former client, Single Buoy Moorings, offered him a job in Monaco, which he said he always envied people who were “from somewhere.” He graduated took and quickly enchanted him with the industry. high school in Tampa, Florida, and chose to attend UA because of the “It’s truly an international business because oil is abundant, or used, broad, liberal arts-based curriculum offered by the College of Arts and almost everywhere,” he said. “I’ve always been drawn to different cultures, Sciences, which he hoped would prepare him for law school. He studied to understanding how they work and how different economies work, but I sociology and criminal justice because he was interested in social behavior, became fascinated with the industry because it deals with so many tentacles institutions, and customs. of society, including culture, politics, geopolitics, science, and economics.” Intellectually curious, he also took a host of senior-level courses outside He also discovered a passion for corporate law. of his field, including Swedish and courses in Asian history, classics, “Unlike being a private practice lawyer in New Orleans, I loved being mythology, archaeology, astronomy, English, and history. These courses, part of something larger, a larger business goal, in Monaco,” he said. he said, became the foundation for his subsequent work in law school, “I knew then that I wanted to stay on the business side of law.” giving him an unmatched ability to learn things quickly and to communicate effectively. They also broadened his perspective, a useful advantage in his Getting in on the Ground Floor current work for which he spends most of his time outside of the United After Monaco, Noe returned to the United States to accept a job in Houston, States traveling to remote parts of the Middle East, the Far East, and West where he spent several years working for BJ Services Company, an oil field Africa. services company that is now a subsidiary of Baker Hughes, until he was “The people I conduct business with think differently and have different approached in 2005 to help build Hercules from the ground up. customs,” he said. “I may not have taken a course on how to do business in “One of the board members of that company asked me if I would be China, but I took an Asian history course, which allowed me to read further. interested in helping him start a new offshore drilling company,” he said. When I go to Nigeria, I know about its history as a colony and when it gained “Rarely are there startups in the oil business, but starting something from its independence. That knowledge not only helps me be respectful when scratch interested me. I became Hercules’ fifth corporate employee, and I I travel to negotiate with people, but it helps me understand how they’re was given a broad range of responsibilities because we didn’t have many going to approach the negotiation. I wouldn’t be able to do that successfully people at the time.” without a broader perspective about the world.” Noe started as the company’s chief and only lawyer, which involved Noe also credits his success to the specialty he brings to the table – law. everything from making coffee in the morning to negotiating contracts and He received his Juris Doctor in1997 from Louisiana State University and making decisions as an executive in the afternoon. The company grew immediately began practicing law in New Orleans, which he said felt very quickly, and when Hercules went public in 2006, Noe rang the NASDAQ “old world.” It was like practicing law in Savannah, Georgia, in the 1920s, bell celebrating the company’s arrival on the stock exchange. He also served he said. Never in his wildest dreams did he imagine himself working for as the president and CEO of Delta Towing, a tug boat company owned by an oil company, but the opportunity arose after he spent most of his time Hercules until it was sold in 2011. representing those companies in deals, arbitrations, and other claims. A Continued on Page 34

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Opera Theatre Finds New Home in Bryant-Jordan Hall Students in UA's Opera Theatre program performed Gino Carlo Menotti's The Consul March 7 in Bryant-Jordan Hall, the debut performance in that venue. A former chapel, the building was renovated this year to serve as a teaching and performance space and be home to a new, state-of-the-art recording studio.

College Exhibits Morgan Collection An inaugural exhibition of works from the collection of UA alumni Jim and Myra Morgan were on display this year at The University of Alabama Gallery in the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center in downtown Tuscaloosa. The late Jim and Myra Morgan founded the Morgan Gallery in Kansas City in the late 1960s, which celebrated practicing artists in the Midwest and brought in artists from across the country to forge an appetite for contemporary art among corporate and private collectors. This exhibit featured a selection of the more than 150 works that were donated to UA by the Morgan family. Arty Party Raises $31,000 for the School of Music The 2014 Arty Party, an annual fundraiser sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board and coordinated by the board’s fine arts committee, raised $31,000 for the School of Music. The Arty Party showcases annually one of the five fine and performing arts programs in the College: visual arts, creative writing, dance, music, and theatre. This year’s event included performances by students and faculty in the School of Music, including a performance by former John Kay and Steppenwolf keyboardist Michael Wilk; special guest appearances by members of the band Kansas; live and silent auctions; and dinner on the Black Warrior River catered by Cypress Inn.

Author of The Help Returns to Her Alma Mater University of Alabama alumna and best-selling novelist Kathryn Stockett let readers behind the curtain Feb. 28, when she shared the story behind her novel The Help during an on-campus lecture. Published in 2009, the novel became the basis for a hit movie starring Emma Stone, sold more than 10 million copies, and spent more than 100 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. Stockett graduated from the University with a degree in English and creative writing.

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 5 9/22/14 5:05 PM Faculty News Nationwide Influence: Researchers Supported by $2.2 Million Grant Collaborate With Head Start to Improve Curriculum

the end,” DeCaro said. “They were looking for groups with a good amount of experience who were ready to hit the ground running.” The goal of the research is to improve Head Start’s dual generation services, which combine child-focused programs with parent-focused programs to support the well-being of families. “Dual-generation services propose that the way to have the most positive impact on children’s lives, including their academic success, is to do more than just focus on the children,” DeCaro said. “Children grow up and develop in a context, and their caregivers at home are critical people in that context. If you can find good programs that are reasonably cost- efficient and effective at addressing the needs of parents, those programs, in the end, are also very helpful to the children.” UA’s team of researchers, in collaboration with CSPWAL, will implement and assess the effectiveness of two integrated programs. The first, a classroom curriculum known as Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies, or PATHS, helps children understand and control their emotions. The second, a parent program based on the Coping Power program that was developed by Lochman, helps parents manage stress. The parents also will learn about the PATHS curriculum, so they can help their children apply PATHS across contexts, even when they’re at home. A group of University of Alabama researchers will implement and assess a new curriculum “The idea behind PATHS is to get the kids emotionally and at local Head Start programs this fall. Pictured from left to right are Jason DeCaro, Ansley Gilpin, and Caroline Boxmeyer. behaviorally ready for kindergarten,” Gilpin said. “We know from developmental research that a precursor to being able to control your emotions – not hitting your friend when you’re mad, for instance – is Can what you teach preschool students have lasting effects on them and recognizing that you’re mad. PATHS teaches the children to recognize an on their family’s health and well-being? emotion, label it, and encourages them to find a good resolution. They That’s what a group of University of Alabama researchers, in learn good ways to express their emotions. collaboration with Community Service Programs of West Alabama, hopes “We also know from developmental research that if you’re constantly to determine. With a $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of in an emotional situation, you’re not learning much because you can only Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families, the attend to so many processes at the same time. If the kids are constantly researchers have the potential to impact national policy on early childhood focused on some emotional drama, they’re going to miss learning their education. Their study will involve implementing a new curriculum and ABCs and 123s, and then when they move into first grade, the difficulties assessing its effectiveness at local Head Start programs this fall. compound. Once they’re able to redirect their attention away from their Dr. Ansley Gilpin, assistant professor in the Department of emotions, they can focus on what they’re supposed to be learning.” Psychology; Dr. Jason DeCaro, associate professor in the Department For both PATHS and the parent program, the team will conduct of Anthropology; Dr. John Lochman, professor in the Department of randomized controlled trials in which they will compare groups Psychology; and Dr. Caroline Boxmeyer, associate professor in the participating in the programs to groups not participating in the programs. College of Community Health Sciences, are leading the study. More than Boxmeyer and Lochman, both clinical psychologists, will spearhead 700 preschool students across West Alabama are expected to participate, implementing the programs, while Gilpin and DeCaro will assess the and the hope is to enhance children’s and families’ overall well-being and programs’ effectiveness. school readiness over and above the aims of Head Start, not just during According to the researchers, the most exciting part of the study is the grant period, but also for years to come. its scope. UA’s researchers are part of a consortium of researchers from “Not only are the programs comprehensive, but so are the Northwestern University, the University of Oregon, and the University of assessments,” DeCaro said. “We will assess the students’ responses Southern California who will pool their results from concurrent studies, before, during, and well after the pre-K programs end, all the way through each assessing the effectiveness of dual-generation programming for the end of first grade, and we will see how they’re doing academically, Head Start. Once the studies are complete, policymakers will use the behaviorally, socially, emotionally, and psychologically. We will be able to information to revamp and improve Head Start programs nationwide. see if the programs consistently reduce stress and improve development “This is a great opportunity for UA and for the state to make a over long periods of time. That’s the greatest goal – persistent effects.” difference in our national Head Start preschool initiative,” Gilpin said. The other exciting aspect of the study, according to Gilpin, is the “The programs that we’re implementing locally may end up being model potential impact made possible through teamwork, both within the UA programs for the nation. That’s a great opportunity for Alabama.” team and nationally. The opportunity was made possible, in large part, because the “I wouldn’t be able to do this study on my own,” she said. “Combined, team has worked together and with CSPWAL since 2011. Its members we take each other’s skills and create a team that can do a lot more than previously received funding from UA’s College Academy of Research, one person ever could be trained to do. Scholarship, and Creative Activity to implement a similar program with 60 “More importantly, the other universities are collecting similar data. preschool children living in Tuscaloosa. That program showed promising When we combine our results, the data set should be large enough that results and laid the groundwork for their current study. we’ll have reliable results, which policymakers can use to enhance Head When the Administration for Children and Families announced it was Start programming for families. It’s exciting to see decisions being made seeking grant proposals, the team had little more than a month to submit based on research, and it’s a great opportunity for The University of their application. Alabama to be a part of decisions being made at the national level. This “It took about a month of frenetic activity, right down to the wire, to get research is a great opportunity to make a difference.” ■ the proposal submitted, but I feel like we made the proposal stronger in

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 6 9/22/14 5:05 PM Fulbright Grant Supports Study Panitch Wins UA’s of Jewish Culture in Poland Burnum Award

Interest in Jewish culture and history Seth Panitch, associate professor in the is growing in Poland, perhaps Department of Theatre and Dance, was nurtured by the vestiges of Jewish life presented in April with the 2014 Burnum there before the Holocaust. Distinguished Faculty Award. Dr. Marysia Galbraith, The award is one of the highest honors associate professor in New College the University bestows on its faculty and is and the Department of Anthropology, presented annually to a professor who has is spending the 2014-2015 school demonstrated superior scholarly or artistic year researching this trend as a achievements and profound dedication to Fulbright scholar. the art of teaching. The winner is selected The Fulbright grant supports nine by a faculty selection committee. months of research and teaching in Panitch serves as the director of Poland, though Galbraith will remain the undergraduate and Master of Fine in Poland for two additional months Arts acting programs in the Department Seth Panitch Marysia Galbraith to continue her research as part of a of Theatre and Dance. He has worked grant from UA’s Research Grants Committee. internationally in Havana, Cuba, with the Galbraith will be affiliated with Adam Mickiewicz University, which Ministry of Culture, and he has produced and acted Off-Broadway at boasts one of the most prestigious anthropology departments in Poland. the Harold Clurman Theatre, American Place Theater, Westbeth Theater This is the third Fulbright grant Galbraith has received. Her first was Center, 59E59 Theatre, and Urban Stages Theatre. awarded in the early 1990s from the Institute of International Education He also has directed and performed in numerous plays at The to conduct research for her dissertation, which focused on the national University of Alabama and has worked in prestigious theatrical venues identity of Polish youth during the post-communist transformation. She across the country. received her second in 2005 to continue this study, focusing on the He received his Master of Fine Arts in acting at the University of added dimension of Poland’s integration into the European Union. Her Washington’s Professional Actor’s Training Program. ■ book Being and Becoming European in Poland: European Integration and Self-Identity, published by Anthem Press this year, culminates her 20-year longitudinal study of those topics. ■ Physics World Names IceCube Project ‘Breakthrough of the Year’

Six UA researchers are currently working on a project that was named 2014 Breakthrough of the Year by the British magazine Physics World. The project, called IceCube, is the result of an international collaboration between nearly 300 physicists and engineers from the United States, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Korea, and Denmark. Dr. Dawn Williams, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, serves as the project’s calibration coordinator and received funding for the project from an approximate $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation that continues through 2015. Other UA researchers involved in the project include Dr. Patrick Toale, assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy; Dr. Pavel Zarzhitsky, a former UA post-doctoral researcher; and UA graduate students Michael Larson, James Pepper, and Donglian Xu. IceCube, an Antarctic observatory, was honored with the distinction for making the first observation of cosmic neutrinos, but also for overcoming the many challenges of creating and operating a colossal detector deep under the ice at the South Pole. Weeks before winning the award, researchers involved with IceCube published in Science the first evidence for a very high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux, opening a new era in astronomy. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory was The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica was completed in completed in December 2010 after seven years of December 2010. The project was named Breakthrough of the Year by the magazine Physics World in 2013. construction at the South Pole. ■ Photo: Felipe Pedreros. IceCube/NSF

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Dynamic Duo Professor-surgeon team headed to third phase clinical trials for new chronic pain treatment

DR. Carol Duffy is proof that changing your mind is not only acceptable, but that doing so can often lead to something momentous. Duffy, an associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, is headed somewhere that very few faculty members have the chance to go – to a third phase clinical trial for a drug combination that has shown promising results to treat not only one, but several painful and debilitating illnesses. How have researchers not found this far-reaching treatment before? Because it never occurred to them that diseases such as fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and irritable bowel syndrome could be caused by a virus, specifically herpes Associate Professor Carol Duffy, left, and Tuscaloosa surgeon William Pridgen, right, have teamed up to get a new drug simplex virus type 1. This virus causes combination approved by the Federal Drug and Food Administration to treat illnesses such as fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, cold sores and forever lives in the body and chronic pain. of anyone who has been exposed to it, It wasn’t until 2011 that Duffy met Dr. William “Skip” Pridgen, the which amounts to about 90 percent of the population. man without whom she never would have discovered HSV-1’s link to a Another fact that physicians didn’t realize is that HSV-1 is best kept host of diseases researchers previously thought unrelated. at bay using not just antiviral medications, but through a combination The Friday before spring break of that year, Duffy received a phone call of antivirals and other drug types. That’s where Duffy, The University of from Pridgen, a Tuscaloosa surgeon. He presented her with a dilemma of Alabama’s resident expert on HSV-1, has been able to shed some light. his own. “For about 10-15 years, he had been seeing patients with chronic Preparing for Takeoff gastrointestinal issues, and no matter what he did, they weren’t getting As an undergraduate zoology major at Northern Arizona University in any better,” she said. “Not only that, but many of his patients began Flagstaff, Arizona, Duffy never imagined that she’d become a virologist. having symptoms when they were teenagers, and their symptoms would Her dream was to become a veterinarian. She stayed in her hometown get worse in times of stress, which seems to indicate a virus. He talked of Flagstaff because she wanted to remain with her horse. to his mom, who was a virologist, and they thought the symptoms might In a zigzag path of trial-and-error, Duffy shadowed vets, worked in be caused by a herpes virus because once you have that virus, you have the medical research and development division of a manufacturing it for life.” company, and conducted research as an undergraduate in her advisor’s So Pridgen began asking his patients if they would be interested in lab. Through these experiences, she stumbled upon two things she taking an antiviral medication, Famvir, which prevents various strains of realized she loved more – research and microbiology. herpes viruses from replicating. Desperate for a solution and with nothing “I put off taking the courses I thought I’d hate until my junior year,” to lose, many of his patients agreed. Some of these very same patients she said. “I especially thought I would hate microbiology, but after I got also had symptoms of arthritis, for which Pridgen would give them into it, I thought it was so cool. My senior year, I had a dilemma. Do samples of the anti-inflammatory drug Celebrex. I stay on my path, or do I pursue research? And if I change my mind “Those who took the antiviral came back to his office and admitted about going to vet school, am I quitting? Eventually, I realized you’re they felt better, but not 100 percent better,” Duffy said. “The patients allowed to change your mind.” who took both drugs, however, came back and said everything was Duffy nixed the idea of going to vet school and instead received her better. Their fibromyalgia was gone. Their chronic fatigue was gone. Their doctorate in microbiology in 2000 from the University of Iowa. She began headaches were gone. All of these things had cleared up. When the first working on viruses as a doctoral student because she was fascinated few patients approached him, he thought it was a fluke, but as more and by parasites. more and more patients said the same thing, he knew it couldn’t be a “Viruses are basically the smallest parasite,” she said. “They’re not coincidence.” even living, and yet they can completely take apart an ecosystem.” He needed Duffy to help him prove it, to show that a herpes virus Like her career choice, she also happened upon her research focus, really was causing these diseases, and he needed her to explain through HSV-1. At the University of Iowa, she studied the DNA packaging research why this particular drug combination worked. mechanisms of bacteriophage lambda, a laboratory virus useful for “He told me his story, and I thought, ‘It’s so different that he’s a surgeon quick experiments but limited in its scope. It could infect only bacteria. and he’s using antivirals, but I’m in. I want to work on this,’” she said. Seeking a virus with similar mechanics but broader applications, Duffy Method to the Madness started studying the human pathogen HSV-1, first as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University and then again in her lab at UA The fact that the two drugs worked better together was no surprise to beginning in 2007. Duffy. Previous research had shown that a particular family of herpes

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 8 9/22/14 5:05 PM viruses increases the production of funds to start a small-scale, phase two COX-2, an enzyme found in most trial, which they finished in January. cells whose levels rise during periods By March, they had raised a total of of inflammation. Celebrex, a COX- $5 million. 2 inhibitor, stabilizes COX-2 levels Despite the trial’s small scale – and, in doing so, causes herpes virus they enrolled a little more than 140 particles to become unstable. people – Duffy says the results were “The Famvir inhibits the virus incredible. They were so promising, replication, so fewer virus particles in fact, that the duo has continued to are being made, and the Celebrex convince key players in the field to join makes the particles unstable and not their cause. infectious,” she said. “Celebrex also Mike Gendreau, a practiced inhibits reactivation, so you’re hitting designer of clinical trials who helped the virus in three different ways.” bring the fibromyalgia medication Their biggest challenge, as Duffy Savella to market, designed their saw it, would be to show that the first trial. virus is causing the symptoms. Rick Burch, a University of Chronic gastrointestinal conditions Alabama alumnus and former senior such as peptic ulcers have been vice president of the pharmaceutical considered bacterial infections for company Pfizer, became president of decades and are often treated with Innovative Med Concepts in March. antibiotics. Fibromyalgia, on the Daniel Clauw, director of chronic other end of the spectrum, has been pain and fatigue research at the thought to originate in the nerves University of Michigan and one and muscles, causing pain. Duffy of the world’s leading experts on needed to show that these patients’ fibromyalgia, joined their scientific symptoms – things such as extreme advisory board. pain, sleep disturbance, exhaustion, Duffy describes the experience as and headaches, among others – were a “blur.” being caused by an immune system “It’s been a ride,” she said. response to a virus. “I never thought I’d be out there “I told him I wanted to see the raising millions of dollars for a clinical tissue because nobody is going to trial. We’ve been successful largely believe us unless we show that the because we got some of the top virus is there,” she said. people in the field on board.” Approved for a study, she examined Duffy works with herpes simplex virus type 1 in her lab. Together with a Tuscaloosa- tissue samples from 45 patients with Next Phase based surgeon, she has discovered that the virus is linked to several illnesses chronic GI issues, each sample taken researchers previously thought unrelated. As Duffy and Pridgen look to conduct from the patient’s’ GI tract, where a series of larger-scale, third phase Pridgen had found deep red streaks that were similar, but not identical to, clinical trials – a cost they’ve estimated to be $50-$100 million – they are spots found in patients with bacterial infections. searching for the quickest, most cost-effective way to get their treatment “We had a bet going,” she said. “I thought, ‘It’s not going to be HSV-1. to market. Somebody would have found this before, and that would just be too lucky Though the team is mulling over their options, Duffy said they will for me because that’s the virus I work on in my lab.’ I thought it would likely seek funding from foundations that support research related to the be something like VZV, the herpes virus that causes chicken pox, or a diseases their drug shows promise to treat. The team might also partner combination of various herpes viruses depending on the patient.” with a pharmaceutical company or a venture capital firm willing to fund But after extracting DNA from the tissue samples and using an the trial. antibody technique called immunoblotting that would debunk any theories In the meantime, Duffy is working to develop diagnostic tests that of lab contamination, she realized she was wrong. All the tissue samples doctors can use to determine whether patients would benefit from taking were infected with HSV-1 and no other herpes virus. A pathologist also the drug. The team is looking to conduct toxicology tests to determine studied the samples, and only three of the 45 tested positive for the whether a larger dose of the drug would be safe and make the treatment bacteria that was thought to cause the disease. more effective. But their challenge didn’t end there. In order to get the U.S. Food “Even with the smaller dose that we used in the phase two trial, we and Drug Administration to approve a new treatment, they would need had great results,” Duffy said. “But if the FDA is going to approve our to complete several clinical trials. The first of which, a second phase, drug combination, we want it to be at the dose that’s going to help placebo-controlled clinical trial, would cost approximately $4 million. people the most.” “When I found out we had to raise $4 million, I told Skip, very dejected, Considering what brought her to this point, Duffy said, “I give a lot of ‘Well, I guess we just don’t get to do it,’” she said. “Skip gets a lot of credit credit to this University and to my department. At a lot of universities, for keeping me going because there were a lot of times that I would have they expect you to get funding from specific places, and since federal given up.” funding is so hard to get these days, a lot of faculty put all their eggs in With federal funding scarce, the duo decided to start their own one basket and only focus on one thing. company called Innovative Med Concepts, for which Duffy serves as the “If I had been in that situation, I never would have done anything chief scientific advisor. In March 2012, they began looking for investors like this. Here, the University encourages you to be entrepreneurial. If who might be interested in funding the trial, making daytrips throughout funding comes from a company you start, that’s fine. I’m lucky that I get the Southeast when their schedules allowed. On several occasions, to see my research result in a clinical trial. Not many people in a faculty Pridgen would borrow a friend’s private plane, meet Duffy at the job ever see that. It’s a rare opportunity.” ■ Tuscaloosa Regional Airport at 5 p.m., fly to nearby cities such as Atlanta to make a pitch, and return to Tuscaloosa by midnight in order to be at work at 8 a.m. the next morning. By May 2013, they had raised enough

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Dr. Giyeon Kim, assistant professor in the Center for Mental Health and Aging and the Department of Psychology, received a prestigious $573,000 career development grant from the National Institute on Aging/the National Institutes of Health to pinpoint the geographic factors contributing to racial and ethnic disparities in mental health care. Kim will use national data sets from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, and Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys and merge that information with U.S. census data to study disparities at local and national levels. Kim’s research will focus on finding ways to reduce or eliminate existing disparities among older adults. Kim is a gerontologist and earned her doctorate in aging studies from the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on racial and ethnic disparities in mental health and mental health service use among older adults. The grant runs through May 2018. ■

Giyeon Kim Rothman’s Work on Slavery and Violence Earns Best Book Awards

Dr. Josh Rothman, professor in the Department of History and the director of the Frances Summersell Center for the Study of the South, was honored with two awards for his book, Flush Times and Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson. The work won the Gulf South Historical Association’s Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award for the best book on the history of the Gulf South. The Gulf South Historical Association is a consortium of Gulf South colleges and universities that works to preserve and promote the history and cultures of the Gulf South within state, regional, national, and international contexts through exchange of scholarly research. The book was also honored with the Southern Historical Association’s Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award for the best book in southern history published in 2012. The Southern Historical Association works to promote interest and research in southern history, the collection and preservation of the South’s historical records, and the encouragement of state and local historical societies in the South. Rothman’s book discusses slavery and related violence in the pre-Civil War South. The book hinges on the story of Virgil Stewart and his conspiracy theory pamphlet, which proposed that a petty criminal from West Tennessee named John Murrell was planning to launch the largest slave rebellion the South had ever seen. Rothman said the pamphlet became a catalyst for violence Josh Rothman throughout the region. ■ Rable Wins SEC Faculty Achievement Award

The Southeastern Conference announced in April that Dr. George C. Rable, professor in the Department of History and the Charles G. Summersell Chair in Southern History, won the 2014 Faculty Achievement Award. Rable was one of 14 professors across the SEC to be chosen for the award. SEC Faculty Achievement Award winners receive a $5,000 honorarium from the Southeastern Conference and become their university’s nominee for the SEC Professor of the Year Award. Selected by a committee of SEC provosts, the SEC Faculty Achievement Award and the SEC Professor of the Year Award are part of SECU, the academic initiative of the Southeastern Conference, which sponsors, supports, and promotes collaborative higher education programs and activities involving administrators, faculty, and students at its 14 member universities. A native of Lima, Ohio, Rable received his bachelor’s degree from Bluffton College, his master’s degree from Louisiana State University, and his doctorate from Louisiana State University. He taught at Anderson University in Indiana before coming to The University of Alabama in 1998, where he teaches courses on the 19th-century South, slavery, emancipation, and the Civil War. He is the author of numerous award-winning books on the Civil War, and he served as president of the Society of Civil War Historians from 2004-2008. ■ George C. Rable

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Dr. John Lochman, professor of psychology and different types of psychopathology. the Doddridge Saxon Chair of Clinical Psychology, Lochman is the director of the Center for was named the 2014 recipient of the American the Prevention of Youth Behavior Problems Board of Professional Psychology’s Distinguished at UA, where he is actively involved in grant- Service Award. funded intervention research. He has served as The award is given annually to a certified an officer and president of the ABPP Board of specialist who has made outstanding Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, the contributions to the science and profession primary certification board for child psychologists. of psychology throughout his or her career. His research interests include prevention, child Candidates for the award must be nationally aggression, and intervention research. recognized and must be practicing clinical He received the award at the ABPP annual psychology and providing services and engaging convocation Aug. 9 in Washington, D.C. He will in research across all developmental levels, from also deliver an address at the 2015 Convocation ■ childhood through adulthood, as well as across in Toronto, Canada. John Lochman Dolliver Featured in Time Cover Story

was interviewed because of her affiliation with Harvard University’s Scholars Strategy Network, which is made up of academic experts and provides members of the press with a clearinghouse for scholars doing cutting-edge research on topics of public interest. She earned the spot based on her doctoral coursework at Northeastern University in Boston. In her research, Dolliver tracks trends in drug trafficking and analyzes the motives behind (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) these trends. Prior to 2005, very few major drug trafficking organizations used the Internet to sell and distribute narcotics, she said. The Hansen Goes to primary means of communication was through cell phones. Dolliver spent three years working the White House for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration analyzing telecommunications patterns for major President Barack Obama greets recipients of the Diana Dolliver crime groups. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and In the article, Dolliver discusses these Engineers in the East Room of the White House A Time cover story published Nov. 11, “The mainstream methods and how their infiltration April 14. Dr. Samantha Hansen, assistant Secret Web: Where Drugs, Porn, and Murder by law enforcement may have led to more professor in the Department of Geological Live Online,” features insights from Dr. Diana sophisticated technologies. This is where the Sciences, was one of only 102 researchers to Dolliver, assistant professor in the Department Deep Web, and specialized technologies receive the award this year. Awardees are selected of Criminal Justice. The article addresses the associated with it, began to flourish. from previous winners of highly competitive little-known Deep Web, a part of the internet Dolliver is currently pursuing a grant to gain grants given by national agencies. Hansen’s where activity – illegal or legal – cannot be access to the Deep Web so she can analyze accomplishments were detailed in the 2014 tracked. major trends for use by such government edition of Celebrating Excellence. Read more at Dolliver specializes in macro-level trends agencies as the Drug Enforcement Administration www.as.ua.edu/home/from-ua-to-antarctica-to-the- in organized crime and drug trafficking. She and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ■ white-house. ■ Mancini Receives Sidney Powers Memorial Award

Dr. Ernest A. Mancini, professor emeritus Two years later, he became an assistant professor AAPG awards, including the A. I. Levorsen Award in the Department of Geological Sciences and in the College’s Department of Geological in 1980, the Distinguished Educator Award in retired UA Distinguished Research Professor, Sciences. He was appointed state geologist and 2000, and Honorary Membership in 2008. was named the 2014 recipient of the Sidney director for the Geological Survey of Alabama and He also served as AAPG elected editor from Powers Memorial Award by the American oil and gas supervisor and director for the state 2004-2007 and was the Haas-Pratt Distinguished Association of Petroleum Geologists. of Alabama Oil and Gas Board in 1982, where he Lecturer from 1987-1988. The award is given annually in recognition of served simultaneously until 1996. He was appointed Distinguished Research distinguished and outstanding contributions to, Mancini founded UA’s Center for Professor at UA in 2005. He was named UA’s or achievements in, petroleum geology.Mancini is Sedimentary Basin Studies, an interdisciplinary Blackmon-Moody Outstanding Professor in 2007 the 67th Powers medalist. geoscience research center, in 1998 and served and received the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Mancini began his career with Cities Service as interim chair of the Department of Geological Award and became professor emeritus in 2010. Company as an exploration geologist in 1974. Sciences. He has received several prestigious ■

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could even write his name. Only Wilk’s story isn’t quite so cookie-cutter. He was a freshman in college before he ever touched the instrument. Wilk’s journey began on a different instrument, the accordion, which he remembers playing to occupy his time after he rode the bus home from school. “I went to high school miles away from where we lived, so I had to take a bus,” he said. “I wasn’t able to participate in after-school activities, so I would go home and practice, a lot. I just got better and better and better and better. There are no musicians on either side of my family as far back as it can be traced.” Despite a lack of familial aptitude for the subject, Wilk’s flair for music was apparent. He won several jazz and accordion championships in New York and the surrounding New England area, where he was born and raised. By the time he graduated high school, he had cultivated only the “chops” of his right hand, which had developed its skill from racing up and down the miniature keyboard of his accordion. His left hand merely controlled the bass and timing of preset chords. “That’s why I studied music theory in college and not an instrument, because there’s no such thing as majoring in accordion,” he says. At the University of Hartford, where he received his degree, Wilk took organ lessons, which Michael Wilk helped bring his feet and left hand up to par with his right. It also built upon the multitasking he had learned from playing the accordion. Wilk describes his razor-sharp focus playing accordion much like he describes Furthering the Cause his approach to becoming a successful musician once he moved to Los Angeles after graduating college. Steppenwolf keyboardist joins faculty, brings “If you’re going to take a swing at the pitch, you go out and take a state-of-the-art recording studio to UA swing at the pitch,” he says. When he arrived in LA, Wilk’s maxim was, “Keep your nose to the Michael Wilk’s fondest memory as the keyboardist with John Kay and grindstone.” And he did. He practiced organ and synthesizer daily from Steppenwolf is not selling 25 million records, nor is it touring with such 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., took advantage of free recording sessions from 2 equally legendary performers as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Willie Nelson, or Deep p.m. to 6 p.m., arrived an hour early to his nightly gig in Woodland Hills Purple, all of which he has done. Rather, his fondest memory involves a in order to get a free meal, played the gig from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m., drove large crowd and about 100,000 Styrofoam cups. home, and pushed repeat. It was September 19, 1987, at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Wilk joined John Kay and Steppenwolf after responding to a flyer he Nebraska. Some 125,000 people filled the stands and covered the saw at a recording session announcing John Kay’s need for a keyboard field as musical acts such as Emmylou Harris, Neil Young, and John player. The night following the audition, Wilk received a phone call during Mellencamp took the stage for the third Farm Aid, a series of benefit his gig in Woodland Hills. John Kay was on the other end of the line and concerts organized to keep American farmers from losing their land. offered him the part. John Kay and Steppenwolf played only two of their signature songs, “Born “I put in my notice with the restaurant that night, and it was the end to Be Wild” and “Magic Carpet Ride,” but Wilk remembers it vividly. of playing the lesser-than-large gigs,” he said. “When we played the intro lick to ‘Born to Be Wild,’ 100,000 To this day, Wilk credits renowned engineer, producer, and inventor Styrofoam cups went flying into the air,” Wilk said. “There aren’t too many George Massenburg for the majority of what he knows about recording and people in the world who can say they played in front of 125,000 people, studio design. Wilk met Massenberg at a paid recording session with Earth, but it’s also a fond memory because it was for such a good cause.” Wind & Fire, to which Wilk was invited by then band member Al McKay. And causes are important to Wilk. A cause, music, led him to close The session was held at Massenburg’s recording studio in Los Angeles. his commercial recording service in Oregon and donate his state-of-the- Wilk, known for his attention to detail, showed up to the session an hour art recording studio to The University of Alabama. One year later, in 2013, before down beat, as did Massenburg. During that time, the two discussed he also became a faculty member of the College’s School of Music. the use of microprocessors in music and recording, the acoustic pro- Why would Wilk, a world-renowned rock star with a half dozen gold perties of a studio designed by Massenburg, and much, much more. albums under his belt, trade a gig in Oregon providing recording services “We’re still in touch, and the conversation continues today,” Wilk says. to high-profile CEOs for a gig in Tuscaloosa rubbing elbows with UA faculty and students? From LA to UA “There was an opportunity for me to advance the cause of music Fast-forward to 2011, the year Wilk first visited UA. His daughter, Mandy, in Tuscaloosa,” Wilk said. “In Oregon, I was providing a service. Here, I was enrolled in UA’s School of Music, of which Wilk had already become knew I could bring my equipment and start something that would have quite fond. That fall, he performed at UA with John Kay and led a lasting effects. There wasn’t a formal recording studio at UA; now there symposium and master class on the properties of human hearing. is. From this point forward, students interested in recording will have Though he lived in Oregon at the time, he was already thinking something to hang their hats on.” about how he could bring a recording studio to the school. He and Skip Sneed, professor of music and chair of the School of Music, who Wilk Early Days in Hollywood describes as one of the biggest Steppenwolf fans on the planet, had To watch Wilk play the keyboard is like watching rain drops crash to been exchanging emails since Wilk’s first visit, discussing details of the the ground during a heavy storm – high-energy, infinitely quick, and proposed studio. unremitting. It appears to be the result of years of polish, the work of a The weekend of the symposium, Wilk presented his design for a person who seemingly mastered the art of playing keyboards before he recording studio to College of Arts and Sciences Dean Robert Olin, a

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 12 9/22/14 5:06 PM mathematician by trade who grasped the mathematical precision of the He did the same in the next school year, 2013-2014, and added design and was on board, Wilk said, in an instant. teaching a “Careers in Music” class to his list of responsibilities. “That weekend cemented me into this place,” said Wilk, who moved The recording studio, located in Bryant-Jordan Hall, was completed in to Tuscaloosa in May 2012. “It morphed from me really hitting it off with March 2014. Skip, to me hitting it off with the rest of the faculty, to me realizing I had an This fall, Wilk and School of Music Professor Tom Wolfe have brought opportunity to bring something here that was needed.” students into the mix. Through an “Introduction to Recording Techniques” While the recording studio was being built, Wilk stowed his recording class, the duo will teach students the art of recording using the equipment equipment in the Moody Concert Hall and went to work applying his Wilk donated in the studio he designed. expertise in the School of Music. He recorded the school’s ensembles Though new to the teaching profession, Wilk has found a home. during rehearsals, perfecting sound levels of the concert hall’s suspended “When you put a smile on a student’s face and they do well and take pride microphones based on comments from the ensemble’s director. The result in what they’re doing, it gives you a really good vibe,” he said. “It doesn’t was higher-quality concert recordings that resulted in better feedback get any better than that.” to the students and higher-quality instruction. Wilk gave the director a Wilk soon hopes to implement more of his designs, which include recording to replay and analyze after every rehearsal. a recording system that would be transportable across venues, allow for He also took over mixing sound levels for the Million Dollar Band. quick set-up, provide higher-definition audio and video recordings, and At rehearsals, he was able to automate and preset sound levels for live offer students more hands-on learning opportunities. performances and achieve a more precise, balanced level of sound between “The school hasn’t had the capability to do this thus far,” he said. the front ensemble and the more than 300 musicians marching on the field. “Right now, it’s an introductory class, but we’re going to build this. It’s a He also mobilized sound control by connecting the recording console to an long and slow process, but that’s the global plan.” ■ iPad that could control sound levels from any place in the stadium. Abruzzo Awarded $50,400 Humanities Grant

Dr. Margaret Abruzzo, associate professor self-interest, or natural depravity – weakened, in the Department of History, was awarded a forcing people to develop new ways of explaining $50,400 grant from the National Endowment why “good” people behaved badly. Even while for the Humanities. Americans denounced sin and evil – especially the NEH grants are highly competitive. In the last wickedness of others – they also grew less likely five competitions there were more than 1,200 to describe themselves as evildoers. This book applications per year. The program made an will explore how Americans redefined both what average of 88 awards per year, for a funding ratio it meant to be a good (or bad) person and who of 7 percent. counted as a good person. Abruzzo will use the grant to research and Abruzzo’s research has focused on the write her next book, tentatively titled Good People history of morality. Her first book,Polemical Pain: and Bad Behavior: Changing Views of Sin, Evil, Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism, and Moral Responsibility in the 18th and 19th analyzed the changing moral views of cruelty Centuries. within the slavery debate. She became interested The book will trace changes in how both in how people understand themselves as “good” Catholic and Protestant Americans thought people, even when they were doing things that we about sin and sinners. During the 18th and would consider deeply morally wrong. This book 19th centuries, many traditional frameworks for project builds upon that interest. ■ explaining sin – such as blaming it on passions, Margaret Abruzzo Barber Helps Develop App for Children with Autism

A smart phone app designed to boost the Barber’s research focuses on the interpersonal communication skills of children development of social skills in children diagnosed with autism has been developed by Dr. Angela with autism as compared to children without Barber, assistant professor in the Department autism. Two years ago, Barber was approached of Communicative Disorders, in partnership with by Lauren Lambert, a student involved in the students in UA’s Emerging Scholars program University’s Emerging Scholars program. Lambert and other UA faculty. wanted to know more about developmental Children with autism struggle to read and intervention techniques. Lambert, now majoring understand non-verbal emotional cues in others, in psychology, wanted to develop a tool that could which makes it difficult for these children to help children with autism deal with this crucial interact with people in a typical way, Barber part of social development. explained. The app is targeted for children After brainstorming ideas with Barber, around kindergarten age and is divided into Lambert joined with Cassidy Lam, a fellow three interactive phases addressing this need. Emerging Scholar and a computer science major, The child is first presented with an image and Joshua Wolfe, another computer science of a facial expression followed by the word that major, both in UA’s College of Engineering, describes that emotion, such as happy. The app to develop an app for smartphones. They features an audio option, and after either reading also worked with Dr. Jeff Gray, an associate or listening to the name of the corresponding Angela Barber professor of computer science in the College of emotion, the child is next asked to match the Engineering, to develop the technical aspects of emotion expressed in the image with its correct autism learn visual emotional cues and, thus, the application. ■ name. The aim of the app is to help children with improve social interaction skills.

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Expanding the Reaches of Medicine

UA Premier Award winner fights health care disparities at home and abroad

While hordes of pre-health students scramble to prepare for medical school interviews and perfect their already polished applications, a University of Alabama senior has taken a different approach to pursuing his passion for medicine. Brian McWilliams, though beginning his third year of college, will graduate this spring with a bachelor’s degree in biology. By the end of his fourth year he will receive his master’s in business administration. He also leads a student organization that ships medical supplies overseas and founded a nonprofit in high school that has raised $125,000 to date. McWilliams says he hopes to end up somewhere “on the business side of medicine,” either in the field of health care policy or administration. Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he chose to attend The University of Alabama because of its honors programs, streamlined application Brian McWilliams process for science students interested in pursuing graduate business “We just received an application for a child in Puerto Rico, so I was degrees, and resources available to undergraduates, of which he has taken pretty excited to see that our reach was able to extend that far,” he said. full advantage. He is a member of the University Fellows Experience, works At UA, he leads another organization with the same mission of providing in Dr. Matthew Jenny’s research lab, and was named the winner of the medical services to people who might not otherwise receive them. As University’s John Fraser Ramsey Award this year, which includes a nearly co-president of Alabama Advocates for World Health, he leads a team month-long trip to Europe and a $3,000 stipend that he will use toward his that collects medical supplies to send to clinics in third world countries. graduate degree. “Local hospitals discard supplies when their expiration dates McWilliams’ interest in medicine stems from his interest in science and have passed, according to guidelines set by the U.S. Food and Drug the extensive impact of disease and health care. Administration,” he said. “But many of the products are still usable and “When I think about health care, I think about how necessary it is,” he will last at least six months to a year and a half before the manufacturing said. “Everyone is on the same level in terms of disease, because no one is dates expire. It’s a great opportunity for overseas clinics with limited completely immune from that.” funding and less strict guidelines.” McWilliams said his interest in health care is as much about the This summer, McWilliams employed the skills he’s learned as an application and distribution of health care as it is about the actual practice undergraduate researcher to impact patients in yet another way. As and day-to-day interaction with patients. He is particularly interested in a research intern at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, he disparities that exist in health care availability. investigated cases of ultramassive blood transfusions, in which patients “I like to read a lot of about health care disparities and learn about receive 20 or more units of blood in a day. McWilliams examined what’s being done – and what could be done in the future – to mitigate daily the amount of blood the patients received the week following the them,” he said. ultramassive transfusion, and he compared the amount of blood the But he hasn’t just read about health care disparities. He’s acted patients received to their recovery time. The results of McWilliams’ upon them. study will be combined with results from similar studies occurring in 13 In high school, McWilliams was inspired by a 4-year-old boy, Alex, who countries and 30 hospitals worldwide. showed that diseases can affect anyone at any time and for any reason. “The data will be used to determine whether giving patients more Alex developed a mass of blood vessels around his spine, and when blood yields better outcomes and fosters more healing,” he said. doctors tried to remove the mass surgically, he became paralyzed from the With two years of undergraduate and graduation education still ahead of waist down. Alex spent four months in the pediatric intensive care unit and him, McWilliams is unsure of what will await him next. ■ another four months in an inpatient rehabilitation facility before needing more surgeries and experiencing complications as varied as swine flu and collapsed lungs. “He kept pushing through, and I thought, ‘If this kid is doing this much Quartet Places First in to help himself, there must be something I can do,’” McWilliams said. McWilliams started the Team Alex Fund, which initially raised Southeast Horn Competition $30,000 for Alex and his family through a 5K race with more than 800 runners. McWilliams has since turned the one-time fundraiser into an Four School of Music students won the quartet competition at the established nonprofit. Southeast Horn Workshop March 7-9, a workshop held annually with about “After the first year, the family shared with me how much they 350-400 attendees from all major academic institutions throughout the appreciated the fundraiser and how often they had met other families in Southeast. Members of the winning quartet are Joshua Williams, a 2014 similar situations who didn’t have the same kind of community support,” graduate; Payton Sims, a junior; Haley Funkhouser, a sophomore; and McWilliams said. “I wanted to be able to make those kids’ lives easier, Allison Morris, a sophomore. too. We held our fifth annual race this year and have raised $125,000 for The students competed against undergraduate and graduate students children with spinal cord injuries since the organization started.” throughout the Southeast. They are the third group from UA to win the The Team Alex Fund provides therapy and mobility equipment not competition in the last four years. covered by insurance and has funded everything from $100 shower chairs The winning quartet performed at the final gala concert in front of to $15,000 bikes with electrodes that stimulate the spinal cord. all workshop attendees. The attendees included students, professional Though McWilliams doesn’t take the same hands-on approach as performers, teachers, and other horn-playing enthusiasts. The participating he did when the organization started, he still serves as chair of the students also took part in workshops, clinics, performances, and other board of directors. learning opportunities as part of the conference. ■

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 14 9/22/14 5:06 PM College Boasts Six Student Fulbright Scholars

Six recent graduates of the College were awarded Fulbright grants from the U.S. State Department to conduct research and teach abroad during the 2014-2015 school year. They were among 1,800 students chosen from a nationwide pool of 11,000 applicants. The Fulbright Scholarship Program, sponsored by the U.S. State Department, is the largest U.S. international exchange program offering opportunities for students, scholars, and professionals. Fulbright Scholars receive funds to support all expenses for an academic year in an effort to increase mutual understanding between people in the United States and Haglaeeh Contreras Cori Fain other countries. Haglaeeh Contreras, from Elrod, Ala., will assist English teachers in Malaysia. Contreras is a 2013 graduate who majored in biology. As an undergraduate, she was a member of the Honors College and participated in the Impact Alabama programs FocusFirst, SaveFirst, and CollegeFirst. For these programs, she conducted vision screenings for low-income children, prepared taxes for low-income and working families, and helped high school students prepare for Advanced Placement courses. She began pursuing her master’s degree in public health from The University of Alabama at Birmingham after graduation. Cori Fain, from Gardendale, Ala., will assist English teachers in Malaysia. Fain is a 2014 graduate who majored in international studies and Spanish. While at UA, she worked 20 hours a week as a tutor for non-English speakers in the Tuscaloosa County School System. She was also a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, several honor societies, and Freshman Forum. Sam Guggenheimer, from Dayton, Ohio, will assist English teachers in Turkey. Guggenheimer is a 2014 graduate who majored in international studies and economics. He Sam Guggenheimer Rachel Hunkler was a member of the University Fellows Experience and the International Honors Program at UA. He spent his junior year studying abroad in Istanbul, Turkey, on a Boren Scholarship. Rachel Hunkler, a 2013-2014 Fulbright Scholar who assisted English teachers in Spain, has received a second Fulbright grant. Hunkler will remain in Spain for 2014-2015 to assist with orienting and mentoring new Fulbright grantees to the country. She will also direct the Global Classrooms program, a Model United Nations program for high school students learning English, in Madrid. She graduated in 2013 with a degree in Spanish and secondary education. Abigail Jones, from Austin, Texas, will assist English teachers in Macedonia. Jones graduated in 2013 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting. She has performed in plays at The University of Alabama, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and the Austin Shakespeare Festival. She also performed in “Alcestis Ascending,” an original play directed by Associate Professor Seth Panitch that sold out shows in Tuscaloosa, New York City, and Havana, Cuba. Lauren Marsh, from Prattville, Alabama, will conduct research in China on infant nutrition. Abigail Jones Lauren Marsh Marsh is a 2014 graduate who majored in anthropology. She studied abroad in Chengdu, China, her junior year. She made a documentary about a rural school in that city as part of UA’s Documenting Justice program. She will partner with a Chinese professor and the professor’s graduate students to determine the causes of nutritional discrepancies between infants living in urban and rural areas. ■ Student Attends Nobel Laureates Meeting in Germany

Imagine meeting the winner of a Nobel Prize. Now imagine spending an entire week with 38 Nobel Prize winners. That is the opportunity that Brandon Hill, a doctoral student in the Department of Biological Sciences, had this summer. Along with about 600 other young researchers from 80 countries, Hill was selected out of about 1,500 applicants to attend the 2014 Lindau Meeting of Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, June 29-July 4. The researchers participated in discussions, master classes, and panels led by Nobel Prize winners working in medicine and psychology. Hill’s research primarily focuses on engineering herpes simplex virus type-1 and nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery in treating cancer. This project is a joint collaborative effort between Dr. Carol Duffy, associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences; Dr. Yuping Bao, associate professor in the College of Engineering; and their respective labs. After completing his doctorate, Hill plans to pursue a post-doctoral position that focuses on developing innovative drug delivery systems for cancer Brandon Hill therapy. His long-term goal is to win a Nobel Prize for his research. ■

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 15 9/22/14 5:06 PM Student News The White Gold Graduate student explores Louisiana salt trade with archeological dig

You’d think that spending the summer at the site of Louisiana’s oldest French settlement would be nothing short of grand. But Paul Eubanks, a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology, tells a different story. Eubanks’s six-week stay in Natchitoches involved daily ventures into the swamps of northwestern Louisiana and ample amounts of digging as he conducted research for his dissertation, which will focus on the history of salt production in the area. Though he describes Natchitoches as a town akin to New Orleans, only with less debauchery and condensed into one street, he spent most of his time in the areas surrounding the historic town, areas where canoes are the primary means of transportation and where alligators, hogs, panthers, and poachers are known to roam. During one of his first trips to the research site, he hopped out of his car and found a water moccasin between his feet. The snake recoiled and scurried off into the woods. “Fortunately it was just as scared of me as I was of it,” Eubanks says. “We had a lot to watch out for while we were there.” Eubanks and his team of researchers excavated 10 archeological test pits from May 12-June 21, searching for remnants of life during the 17th and 18th centuries, when the Caddo Indians occupied the area and began producing salt in large quantities. The team’s research was made possible by an $18,000 grant Eubanks won from the National Science Foundation, as well as by funding he received from the Department of Anthropology and the Alabama Museum of Natural History. Eubanks said the site was chosen because of its unique history. “One of the main reasons why Natchitoches was established is because of the Drake’s Salt Works, which is where we were digging,” he said. “Looking at historical records, there’s a quote from the commandant of the fort at Natchitoches saying they built the trading post there because it was so close to the salt production site.” When the water table rose, water with high concentrations of salt would percolate to the ground surface and then evaporate, leaving the salt Paul Eubanks behind, he said. The Indians then scooped up the salt when the salt flat was dry. Using this method, the Caddo salt makers were able to produce hundreds of pounds of salt each year, which they then traded to the “Salt is something we take for granted today, but French, Spanish, and other American Indian groups, placing them in a powerful position due to high demand for the mineral. that wasn’t the case two or three hundred years “Salt is something we take for granted today, but that wasn’t the case two or three hundred years ago,” he said. “Salt was called the white gold ago. Salt was called the white gold because it because it was something that people needed. It was used not only for dietary reasons – because you need some salt to live – but it would have was something that people needed.” been used to preserve meats and tan animal hides. During the 1700s, there was a big demand on the European markets for deer, beaver, and find any signs of permanent architecture, but we did find a lot of animal buffalo hides.” bones, which shows that they took the time to bring in meat and process The site also shows evidence of European takeover, which occurred in it. We also found a lot of stone debris and stone tools.” the early 1800s. Several dozen historic salt kilns made of brick, as well as But the group also found something they weren’t expecting – one of the world’s oldest examples of deep well rotary drilling, were added thousands of broken salt bowl fragments buried beneath the ground to the site after the Caddo left the area and the Americans took over the surface in one particular area of the site. This space was used to further salt works. The well, more than 1,000-feet deep and built in the 1840s, refine the salt. still bubbles forth salt water to this day. “These bowls were quickly constructed, and their primary purpose Despite the site’s historical significance, little work has been done would have been salt manufacture,” he said. there. Only since 2011 has The University of Alabama partnered with the As the Indians collected the dried salt from the ground surface, they U.S. Forest Service to work on joint projects and learn more about the would have gathered a substantial amount of unwanted sand. To get rid of site’s history. Even so, Eubanks said it’s impossible, at least in some parts the sand, they placed the salt-sand mixture into a woven basket, collected of the site, to take a step without crushing a half dozen pieces of pottery or water from a nearby creek, and poured the water over the mixture as the other artifacts. basket was suspended over these ceramic bowls. The water would have When Eubanks and his team first started the excavations, they were dissolved the salt, and the resulting liquid brine was then boiled inside of looking for signs of habitation that would indicate the amount of time the the salt bowl. Caddo salt makers spent at the site. “We knew that area of the site existed, but we didn’t know how it was “We were looking for domestic-related materials to see if the Indians used,” he said. “I was excited to discover something that we didn’t know stayed there for a period of several days, just to make salt, or if they stayed previously.” there for longer periods of time,” he said. “It looks like they stayed there Eubanks’ next step is to analyze the artifacts and write his dissertation. for longer periods of time, but on a temporary or seasonal basis. We didn’t He expects to graduate with his doctorate in May 2016. ■

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 16 9/22/14 5:06 PM Student Awarded Prestigious Truman Scholarship

Jason Arterburn, a senior from Madison, Alabama, has been named a Truman Scholar for 2014. He is one of 59 students nationally to receive the award this year. The winners were selected from a pool of 655 candidates nominated by 293 colleges and universities nationwide. Given by the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation, the scholarship provides winners up to $30,000 for graduate study. Winners are selected based on their leadership potential, ability to communicate, academic success, and commitment to pursuing a career in government or the nonprofit sector. Arterburn is studying economics and interdisciplinary studies through New College. He studied abroad his junior year in China on a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State and a David L. Boren Scholarship from the National Security Education Program. At UA, Arterburn has worked on several community outreach programs in Perry County as a University Fellow and an Honors College 57 Miles intern. His activities include teaching ACT Now, an ACT prep class serving more than 60 students at Francis Marion High School, and the Exergaming Initiative, an education module using Wii dance video games to incorporate physical activity into the classroom at Albert Turner Sr. Elementary School. He also has volunteered at George Washington Carver High School in Birmingham with Birmingham to Beijing, a program that funds and organizes afterschool, university-level Chinese language classes and a cultural exchange to Beijing for motivated students at a low-income, inner-city school. ■ Jason Arterburn Undergraduates Recognized for Outstanding Research

Ten undergraduate researchers in the College received recognition through the Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award Program for the best research activity conducted by UA undergraduates. The students were nominated by faculty and staff research directors. A panel of UA research faculty and past winners of the Burnum Distinguished Faculty Award selected the winners. The award was created in 1997 by the Randall Publishing Co., now Randall-Reilly Publishing, and the H. Pettus Randall III family in memory of Henry Pettus Randall Jr., a distinguished UA alumnus and creator of Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

Meredith Rickard of Atascadero, California, also received the Henry UA President Judy Bonner poses with Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Pettus Randall Jr. Endowed Research Scholarship for her senior year at UA. Research Award recipients. Also pictured are Mike Reilly, chairman and CEO This scholarship is awarded to the top vote recipient who also is a member of Randall-Reilly, left, and Dr. Cathy Randall, director emerita of UA’s of the Computer-Based Honors Program. Rickard, a junior chemistry major, Computer-Based Honors Program, right. was nominated by Dr. David Dixon, Robert Ramsay professor of chemistry. Other winners included the following students. Robert Rosati, a senior from Spanish Fort, Alabama, was nominated Lindsay Cobb, a senior from Collierville, Tennessee, was nominated by by Dr. Pieter Visscher, professor of physics. Dr. David Nikles, professor of chemistry. Abigail Shelton, a junior from Harvest, Alabama, was nominated Molly Cook, a junior from Vestavia Hills, Alabama, was nominated by Dr. Ryan Earley, assistant professor of biological sciences. by Dr. Ryan Earley, assistant professor of biological sciences. Morgan Whitaker, a senior from Scottsdale, Arizona, was nominated Ronneshia Jackson, a senior from Bessemer, Alabama, was by Dr. David Nikles, professor of chemistry. nominated by Dr. Julie Olson, professor of biological sciences. Leighton Wilson, a junior from Pinson, Alabama, was nominated Nicole Kernahan, a sophomore from Slidell, Louisiana, presented by Dr. Shan Zhao, associate professor of mathematics. “Does Vibrant Coloring Elicit Aggression in Female Convict Cichlids?” Her Shuwen Yue, a sophomore from Tuscaloosa, was nominated by nominator was Dr. Ryan Earley, assistant professor of biological sciences. Dr. David Dixon, Robert Ramsay professor of chemistry. ■ Goodell, Truong Named Goldwater Scholars

Two students from the College were named Goldwater Scholars by the magnets. He plans to pursue a doctorate in optical sciences after Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program for graduation and teach at a university. 2014-2015. The students, Brian Goodell and Lynda Truong, received Truong, a senior from Grand Prairie, Texas, is majoring in chemistry, scholarships covering the cost of tuition, fees, books, and room and board is a member of the Computer-Based Honors Program, and conducts up to $7,500 during their senior years. research with Dr. Stephen Woski, associate professor and director of Goodell and Truong were among 282 students selected as graduate studies in the Department of Chemistry. Her research involves Goldwater Scholars this year and were chosen from a field of more than the synthesis and assessment of cyanocarbazole derivatives as universal 1,100 nominees. bases. She plans to pursue a doctorate in chemical biology after Goodell, a senior from Plattsburgh, New York, is majoring in physics graduation. and chemical engineering, is a member of UA’s Computer-Based Honors The Goldwater Foundation is a federally endowed agency established Program, and conducts research with Dr. David Nikles, professor in in 1986. The program, honoring U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, was designed the Department of Chemistry. Goodell’s research involves synthesizing to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in research nanoparticles with the intent to use them in high-energy permanent in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences and engineering.■

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 17 9/22/14 5:06 PM Student News Student News Marine Science Students Earn Hollings Scholarships

Two juniors in the College, Nicole Kernahan and Zoe Nichols, were Kernahan, from Slidell, Louisiana, is a marine science and biology selected to receive Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarships major. For her internship, she is looking to conduct conservation-related for 2014-2016. The scholarship, given by the National Oceanic and research or restore habitats. She plans to go to graduate school for her Atmospheric Administration, provides $8,000 a year for full-time study master’s degree after graduation and travel to places such as the Caribbean during a student’s junior and senior years and $6,500 for a 10-week or Australia where coral reef conservation research is being done. internship at the NOAA or an NOAA-approved facility. Nichols, from Tuscaloosa, is a marine science and biology major. She is UA ranks among the top four universities in the United States this year interested in marine science internships with a focus on research. She plans in terms of the number of Hollings Scholarships awarded. The National to pursue her master’s degree in marine science after graduation, explore a Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration selected 106 students in 2014 new country such as New Zealand, and eventually obtain her Ph.D. ■ for these highly competitive scholarships. Students Design Poster for Grammy-nominated Rock Group

Students in the Department of Art and Art History were given the opportunity of a lifetime last fall when they were asked to design a poster for the three-time Grammy-nominated rock band Alabama Shakes. Heath Fogg, rhythm and lead guitarist for the Athens, Alabama-based group, asked UA instructor Laura Lineberry to have her students design a poster for the group’s 2013 tour. Fogg is a 2008 alumnus of the department. Alabama Shakes chose a design by senior Devin Huey from Birmingham, Alabama, who majored in graphic design and advertising. Huey said he and many of his friends are fans of the band, and he was completely in shock when his class was asked to design a poster for them. Huey’s design incorporates an iconic image of an Indian chief. He said he wanted to create a design that represented the band without actually using a photo of the group. His inspiration came when he came across a photo of lead singer Brittany Howard wearing an Indian-style headdress. ■

Devin Huey designed this poster for the Grammy-nominated rock band Alabama Shakes and the group’s 2013 tour.

Student Wins First Seniors Receive Top Place for Poetry Honor for Service at International Two graduating seniors in the College received University of Alabama Premier Awards, UA’s five highest honors bestowed upon students. Mary Sellers Shaw, a 2014 graduate of New College from Convention Birmingham, Alabama, was awarded the Morris Lehman Mayer Award, which recognizes one graduating senior who exemplifies Joey Gamble, a 2014 graduate from Pinson, integrity, selfless service and leadership at UA and in the community. Alabama, won first place for original poetry at the Kirkland Back, a 2014 graduate majoring in English from 2014 Sigma Tau Delta International Convention Mary Sellers Shaw Gadsden, Alabama, was awarded the Algernon Sydney Sullivan in Savannah, Georgia. Gamble, who majored in Award, which recognizes excellence of character and service English, won $600 for the award. to humanity. The annual Sigma Tau Delta International Shaw found UA’s Documenting Justice class, in which non- Convention is sponsored by the Sigma Tau film students spend a year creating documentary films, an eye- Delta International English Honor Society, which opening experience. The documentary she worked on looked at boasts more than 850 chapters worldwide. The undocumented immigrants. She interviewed them about their life convention provides honor society members the stories and how Alabama’s immigration law affected them. opportunity to present creative and scholarly Her work on the documentary led her to engage the UA works, the best of which are given awards. community in civic causes as well as interfaith and cross-cultural Nearly 1,000 submissions are received annually. activities. These activities included organizing “Dwell Better While at UA, Gamble served as vice president Together,” a Crossroads Community Center panel that looked at and president of the UA chapter of Sigma homelessness and poverty through an interfaith lens. Shaw also Tau Delta. The chapter was named the most co-founded Blend, a student group that brings people together outstanding chapter by the international across ethnic and cultural lines. Currently, she is serving as a Kirkland Back organization in 2013. The chapter organizes volunteer with Young Adult Volunteers, a mission outreach of the literacy-based service projects, publishes Presbyterian Church, in Nashville. annually an award-winning print literary journal Back served as president of the Honors College Assembly, was a Creative Campus intern and Dewpoint, and sponsors a lecture series within served as an undergraduate representative for the Faculty Senate Task Force for Diversity and the Department of English. Gamble begins Inclusion while at UA. A writer, she also interned for W magazine in New York, had selected pieces pursuing his doctorate in English and women’s published in The Rectangle journal, and was a featured columnist for The Gadsden Times. She is now studies at the University of Michigan this fall. ■ working as a fifth grade English teacher with Teach For America in Nashville, Tennessee. ■

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The College of Arts and Sciences Robert M. Dimick Ralph G. Holberg, III Bonita Todd Norman Elisabeth S. Sheldon Rae Wade Trimmier Leadership Board includes alumni Brentwood, TN Mobile, AL Coral Gables, FL Wetumpka, AL Birmingham, AL and friends who support the William E. Dismukes Ralph Holt Bob Olin Craig T. Sheldon, Jr. Pamela Varner College and its students with their Birmingham, AL Florence, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Wetumpka, AL Birmingham, AL time, influence, and minimum Forsyth Sellers Donald Michael B. Honan Jessica Patrick Roger Sidje Billy Vaughn annual membership gift of $1,000. Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Nashville, TN Tuscaloosa, AL Bloomington, IL Leadership Board members also Dan Douglas Camilla Huxford Hamilton Patrick Alan M. Siegal Julie Vaughn support the Collegiate Fund Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Nashville, TN Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Scholarship Endowment, which Jack Drake Charles E. Ingalls Walter G. Pittman Karen Simmons Allison Verhine now provides more than $30,000 Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Mountain Brook, AL Geneva, AL Northport, AL annually in merit- and Mary Sue Avery Durant Donna Ingalls Helen Pittman John F. Simmons George Wakefield need-based scholarships. Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Birmingham, AL Geneva, AL Montgomery, AL John T. Eagan, Jr. David Jackson Gil Price James Sledge James C. Walker, Jr. Robert E. Abernathy Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Gaithersburg, MD Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Atlanta, GA Miller Bonner Engelhardt William Jackson Robert M. Pritchett Wendy Smith Susan Austin Warner Laura C. Abernathy Montgomery, AL West McLean, VA Birmingham, AL Decatur, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Atlanta, GA Elizabeth Ennis William Johnson Elizabeth Hinton Pruett Ned Smith Phillip Watkins Arlene Ashe Birmingham, AL Mobile, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Pell City, AL Birmingham, AL Sheffield, AL Kathleen A. Farmer Tom Joiner Paula F. Quarles Thomas C. Smitherman Mary Jean Weaver Pam Askew Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Pittsburgh, PA Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Rebecca Florence Ann Jones Ralph Quarles Amanda Duncan Soong L. Steve Weinstein James Haywood Baker Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Hoover, AL Mobile, AL Mentone, AL Andre J. Fontana Allan Keel Bruce Stanton Reid, Sr. Margherita J. Soule Lucy Weinstein Emily L. Baker Mobile, AL Houston, TX Montgomery, AL Pensacola, FL Mobile, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Marjorie Forney Steven King Mary D. Reyner Dr. Ellen Spears Allan S. Wilensky Bette Anne LeBlanc Bargeron Birmingham, AL Andalusia, AL Mobile, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mountain Brook, AL Birmingham, AL William H. Forster Jerry L. Kitchens Ann Rhoads Mary Spencer Frederick W. Williams T. Lee Baumann Gibson Island, MD Vestavia Hills, AL Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Accokeek, MD Birmingham, AL Gary Fowlie Dave Klemmack Luther W. Richardson, Jr. Winifred L. Stakely Tammi L. Williams Brenda K. Baumann New York, NY Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Montgomery, AL Cary, NC Birmingham, AL H. Joseph Fritz James E. Klingler George Richardson Molly Steed Edward Wilson Noel Bedwell Tuscaloosa, AL Fitzpatrick, AL Huntsville, AL Anniston, AL Lexington, MA Mobile, AL Thomas Allen Gaskin, III Robert A. Kreisberg Rick Richardson Leah Snell Stephens Hoyt Winslett, Jr. Shannon Bedwell Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Houston, TX Montgomery, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mobile, AL Sylvia Goldberg David Joel Landau Shannon Riley Johnnie W. Stevens Stanley Winslow Winifred D. Bragg Birmingham, AL Mountain Brook, AL Mountain Brook, AL Riverside, AL Montgomery, AL Virginia Beach, VA Milla Green Greg Langston Jack Robbins, Jr Donald Wilbur Stewart Cheryl Winslow James S. Brooks Tuscaloosa, AL Dallas, TX Tuscaloosa, AL Anniston, AL Montgomery, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Rebecca Gregory Alice Darnell Lattal Martha Cobb Roberts Barbara Stone Zhijian Wu Melvin Butler Wetumpka, AL Atlanta, GA Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Las Vegas, NV Spring Hill, TN Frank Gregory Andy Lattal Rebecca M. Roberts Jennifer Gerardo Taylor John Francis Wymer Larry Canada Wetumpka, AL Atlanta, GA Burton, TX Alexandria, VA Atlanta, GA New Orleans, LA Roy Hager Dr. Patrick LeClair Joe Rowe Edward Lamar Thomas Catharine Wymer Vincent Carnaggio Montgomery, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Atlanta, GA Birmingham, AL Gerard Donald Haggstrom Lisa Lindquist-Dorr Alice Schleusner Helen Raye Thrasher Kathy Yarbrough Cornelius Carter Florence, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Patricia Hatcher Hall Margaret Livingston V.C. Scott Ethan Tyler Tidmore Robert Yoder William Christenberry Montrose, AL Birmingham, AL Vestavia Hills, AL Vestavia, AL Birmingham, AL Washington, DC Luoheng Han John Lockett Ted Sexton Claire Tisdal James H. Zeanah Frances R. Clement Tuscaloosa, AL Atlanta, GA Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Elberta, AL Dr. Samantha Hansen E. Clayton Lowe, Jr. Leah Ann Sexton Jean Tomlinson Jeffrey Zieman Martha McMillan Cobb Tuscaloosa, AL Trussville, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Mobile, AL Birmingham, AL Billy Hargett Dan McCall Michael Shanahan Henry Townsend Naneita Leach Cobbs Florence, AL Mobile, AL San Diego, CA Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Susan Ptomey Hargett Chandra M. McCall Caleb Connor Florence, AL Birmingham, AL Aiken, SC Phillip Harmon Richmond McClintock, Jr. Joy Cooper Birmingham, AL Dothan, AL Birmingham, AL Trudier Harris Pamela McCollough Gregory William Cotter Tuscaloosa, AL Katy, TX Mobile, AL Robert Hayes Tricia McElroy Leadership Board Selects John R. Cranton Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Daphne, AL Don Hays Trip McVay 2014 Faculty Fellows Sylvester Croom, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Mobile, AL Nashville, TN Joel Hearn Camille Mendle The College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board awards Jackie Brunson Crowell Florence, AL Tuscaloosa, AL fellowships annually to faculty members from each of the College’s Enterprise, AL Ronald Earl Henderson Gina Sealy Miers three academic divisions to recognize outstanding achievements. Fred Crown, Jr. Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Established in 2002, the highly competitive fellowships aim to provide Nashville, TN Russell T. Henshaw James David Mills recognition and encouragement to the College’s most promising and Dr. Martha Crowther Huntsville, AL Birmigham, AL successful faculty. Faculty fellows receive $5,000 annually for three Tuscaloosa, AL Anne Barr Herman Gloria Moody years to support their scholarship, research, and other academic, Elizabeth B. Crump Suwanee, GA Birmingham, AL non-salary expenses. Montgomery, AL Scott Hestevold Stella Hillard Moore Benjamin J. Cumbus Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL This year’s faculty fellows are Dr. Angela Barber, assistant Montgomery, AL Ilouise Partlow Hill Rhett B. Murray professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders; Beverly Crawford Davis Montgomery, AL Huntsville, AL Sarah Barry, associate professor in the Department of Theatre Mobile, AL Mack D.Hixon Pam Newman and Dance; and Dr. Samantha Hansen, assistant professor in the Jerry D. Dillard Banks, AL Gadsden, AL Department of Geological Sciences. Selma, AL John Holaday James William Noe Morton B. Dimenstien West Bethesda, MD Sugar Land, TX Atlanta, GA

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The following friends have Mr. and Mrs. John Bolton Mr. and Mrs. Donald Cook Mr. and Mrs. Bill Garrett Mr. Mack Dennis Hixon established or contributed to Piedmont, OK Birmingham, AL Lutherville Timonium, MD Banks, AL scholarships or endowed funds in Mr. James B. Boone Jr. Mrs. Joy Clark Cooper Mr. Robert S. Gaston Dr. and Mrs. Matthew Colin the College of Arts and Sciences Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Ridgeland, MS Hocking between June 1, 2013 and Mrs. Dorothy Deramus Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Tom Craddock Dr. Lois D. George Wynnewood, PA May 31, 2014. Birmingham, AL Fernandina Beach, FL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Ralph Gans Holberg III BP Fabric of America Fund Dr. John Richard Cranton Mrs. Emily Stewart Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edward Mobile, AL Princeton, NJ Daphne, AL Las Vegas, NV Abernathy Dr. Michael Benjamin Honan Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brantley Mrs. June N. Crowder Dr. Margaret R. Gladney Atlanta, GA Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Oak Harbor, WA Fernandina Beach, FL Dr. Lynne Adrian Dr. John D. Howard Mr. and Mrs. James Garland Mrs. Jackie Brunson Crowell Mrs. Sylvia Kaplan Goldberg Tuscaloosa, AL United Kingdom Brazil Enterprise, AL Mountain Brook, AL Mr. Wilton J. Aebersold Mr. Perry Hubbard, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. John W. Crowell Mr. George B. Gordon New Albany, IN Gainesville, FL Mrs. Diane Ellis Breth Columbus, MS Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Connie Armbrecht Mrs. Geraldine Hammack Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Frederick Smith Crown, Jr. Mr. Russ Golson Armbrecht Jackson LLP Hughey Dr. Carol and Mr. Bennett Britt Nashville, TN Theodore, AL Mobile, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Thibodaux, LA Dr. Benjamin J. Cumbus Mrs. Milla Windham Green Mr. and Mrs. Braxton Ware Ashe Dr. Kristin Hughes Mrs. Lella C. Bromberg Montgomery, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Sheffield, AL Houston, TX Birmingham, AL Mr. James E. Curtis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank William Mrs. Pamela H. Askew Mr. Michael Innis-Jimenez Dr. Carol Johnson Brooks Washington, DC Gregory Tuscaloosa, AL Denison, TX Tuscaloosa, AL Daniel Foundation of Alabama Wetumpka, AL Asmar, Schor & McKenna, PLLC Dr. David H. Jackson Mr. James S. Brooks Birmingham, AL Ms. Martha Mathews Griffith Washington, DC Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. and Mrs. William H. Darden Tuscaloosa, AL Athens Academy Dr. Terry and Mr. Ransom Dr. Melvin Lynn Butler Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Margaret W. Grubb Athens, GA Jackson Dr. and Mrs. Temd R. Deason Birmingham, AL Athens, GA Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Glenda K. Guyton Mr. William Paul Jackson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John F. DeBuys, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL North Myrtle Beach, SC Birmingham, AL Dr. Roy Thomas Hager JBHM Architects, P.A. James Cummings Delview Properties, LLC Montgomery, AL Tupelo, MS Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Gerard Donald Haggstrom Mr. Robert L. Ingram, Jr. Honors Father with Dr. Jerry D. Dillard Florence, AL Jessup, Ingram, Burns & Selma, AL Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Hainsey Associates LLP Endowed Scholarship Dr. Morton B. Dimenstien Columbus, MS Tuscaloosa, AL Atlanta, GA Mr. and Mrs. Fulton Sherwood Mr. and Mrs. William Walker James M. Cummings of Columbia, Missouri, has Dr. Robert M. Dimick Hamilton Jessup given more than $20,000 to the College to establish Brentwood, TN Huntsville, AL Tuscaloosa, AL the James Morgan Cummings Jr. Memorial Endowed Dr. Dan E. Douglas Dean and Mrs. V. Nathaniel JMF Consulting Inc. Scholarship in honor of his late father. The scholarship Birmingham, AL Hansford Tuscaloosa, AL will support full-time undergraduate students pursuing Mr. Matthew David Dowell Lexington, GA Ms. Ellen P. Johnson Starkville, MS Mr. and Mrs. William G. Hargett degrees in chemistry. James Morgan Cummings Jr. Nashville, TN Mr. Jack Drake Florence, AL Dr. William E. Johnson III attained his own college education not only through Birmingham, AL Dr. and Mrs. Hector Harima Mobile, AL study, but also by keeping a job that could provide him Dr. Mark S. Drummond Jacksonville, FL Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Joiner with the funds needed to attend school. Through his Birmingham, AL Dr. Phillip Wayne Harmon Tuscaloosa, AL hard work, he was able to support his family’s dreams Mrs. GeorgeAnn B. Dukes Birmingham, AL Mrs. Bonnie Cook Jones by earning and saving enough money to ensure they Richardson, TX Mr. Bobby Harper Tuscaloosa, AL could attend college without financial struggle or debt. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Edwards Columbus, MS Mr. Brockway Jackson Jones Albany, GA Dr. Trudier Harris Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Mary P. Elmore Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. David Blake Jones Birmingham, AL Mrs. Peggy Hartley Atlanta, GA Spring Hill, TN Dr. Miller Bonner Engelhardt Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Emily L. Baker Mr. George K. Jones Mrs. Virginia Duckworth Cade Montgomery, AL Dr. and Mrs. Steve Havard Tuscaloosa, AL Madison, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Elizabeth D. Ennis Pensacola, FL Mrs. Carolyn Carpenter Bales Mrs. Shelley Edwards Jones Judge William W. Cardwell, Jr. Birmingham, AL Dr. Joel P. Hearn Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Southside, AL Dr. Sean Franklin Evans Florence, AL Mrs. Bette Leblanc Bargeron Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Junge Dr. Vincent Anthony Carnaggio Jackson, TN Mr. and Mrs. George W. Heath Birmingham, AL Leonardtown, MD Birmingham, AL Exxon Mobil Production Co. Columbus, MS Ms. Jennifer Jane Barringer Kearns Family Foundation Central Carolina Community Theodore, AL Mr. Ralph G. Hellmich Houston, TX Trinity, FL Foundation ExxonMobil Foundation Foley, AL Drs. Brenda and T. Lee Baumann Mr. Allan D. Keel Columbia, SC Irving, TX Dr. Ronald Earl Henderson Birmingham, AL Houston, TX Mr. Roger Morgan Chapman Ms. Laura B. Fikes Birmingham, AL Mr. and Mrs. Paul B. Beightol Mr. Arthur C. Kelly Brewton, AL Hamilton, AL Mr. Wiley Phillip Henderson, Jr. Clearfield, AP Starkville, MS Frank Chiles Insurance Agency Mr. Johnny Fisher Montgomery, AL Mr. and Mrs. John Joseph Bell Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kenne Starkville, MS Columbus, MS Dr. Henry G. Herrod III Northport, AL West Point, MS Mrs. Frances R. Clement Dr. Andre J. Fontana, Sr. Memphis, TN Dr. Arthur C. Benke Mr. Chuck King Elberta, AL Mobile, AL Ms. Suzanne A. Herrod Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Coalbed Methane Asso. of Ala. Mrs. Marjorie H. Forney Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Walter H. Bennett, Jr. Mrs. Millie Kirksey Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Dr. H. Scott Hestevold Chapel Hill, NC Aliceville, AL Mrs. Naneita Leach Cobbs Dr. William Hull Forster Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Gloria Blackburn Dr. Jerry Lester Kitchens Birmingham, AL Bethany Beach, DE Mr. Charles E. Hilburn Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Dr. and Mrs. George David Cole Mr. and Mrs. Ronald S. Franklin Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. John Blair Mrs. Catherine Knepper Northport, AL Roswell, GA Mr. David L. Hill Spring, TX Columbus, MS The Comer Foundation Dr. H. Joseph Fritz, Jr. Rehoboth Beach, DE Mrs. Carolyn McCarthy Bolt Dr. Robert A. Kreisberg Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Ilouise Partlow Hill Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 20 9/22/14 5:06 PM Mr. Dennis Latham Neel-Schaffer Mr. Joe B. Rowe Dr. Lamar Thomas Dr. K. Gayle Vogel Tuscaloosa, AL Jackson, MS Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Mount Vernon, IN Mrs. Roberta Smith Largin Mrs. Pamela McLellan Newman Dr. and Mrs. Robert Rutkowski Mrs. Marly Dukes Thomas Vulcan Materials Co. Foundation Tuscaloosa, AL Gadsden, AL Mc Kees Rocks, PA Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Dr. Darnell Lattal Mrs. Bonita Todd Norman Mrs. Donna C. Salem Dr. Helen Raye Thrasher Vulcan Materials Company Morgantown, WV Coral Gables, FL Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Mr. David G. Liddell Occidental Petroleum Charitable Ms. Cecil G. Sands Mrs. Carol Timkovich Dr. George Hollin Wakefield III Eutaw, AL Foundation Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Montgomery, AL Mr. George Lindahl Tulsa, OK Dr. Janyce Sanford Mrs. Claire Black Tisdal Mr. George Kontz Walker Spring, TX Dr. and Mrs. Bob Olin Gardendale, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Winston Salem, NC Mrs. Margaret G. Livingston Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. William H. Satterfield Mrs. Lavinia Lee Tomlinson Dr. James C. Walker, Jr. Birmingham, AL Omicron Delta Kappa Foundation Birmingham, AL Florence, AL Birmingham, AL Mr. Willard Wise Livingston, Jr. Lexington, VA Dr. E. Roger Sayers Dr. Henry B. Townsend Dr. Phillip C. Watkins Mobile, AL Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. O’Neal Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Mr. John Abner Lockett III Tuscaloosa, AL Schwab Charitable Fund Mr. Jeffrey K. Toxey Mr. William Thomas Watson Atlanta, GA Dr. Edward Herring O’Neil San Francisco, CA Spring, TX Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Sherry P. Magill Alameda, CA Dr. V. C. Scott III Mrs. Rae Wade Trimmier Dr. and Mrs. L. Steve Weinstein Jacksonville, FL Ms. Karen Overstreet Birmingham, AL Mountain Brook, AL Mobile, AL Mrs. Dorothy Swindel Malaier Columbus, MS Mr. Thomas H. See Truman Capote Charitable Trust Dr. Frederick Wallace Williams Montgomery, AL Mrs. Eva L. Owens Friendswood, TX Los Angeles, CA Accokeek, MD Dr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Mancini Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harris Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Tucker Mr. Norris Hagan Williams Northport, AL Mr. David Eugene Van der Griff Shaw, Jr. Moundville, AL Gainesville, FL Mr. and Mrs. Gary J. Maples and Mr. Steven S. Palmer Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa County Republican Dr. Tammi Lenee Williams Tuscaloosa, AL Sacramento, CA The Honorable Richard and Executive Committee Cary, NC Mr. Michael Martone Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Parker Dr. Annette Shelby Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Edward O. Wilson Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Washington, DC Tuscaloosa Music Club Lexington, MA Mr. John Henry Masingill III Ms. Chelcy Bowles and Drs. Craig T. and Elisabeth Tuscaloosa, AL The Reverend Hoyt Winslett, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. William Peden Shepard Sheldon Dr. William A. Ulmer Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Chandra Maria McCall Madison, WI Wetumpka, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. and Mrs. Stanley B. Winslow Birmingham, AL Dr. Walter Gay Pittman Shell Oil Company Foundation The University Foundation Montgomery, AL Ms. Anna Harris McCarthy Birmingham, AL Houston, TX Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. and Mrs. George H. Wolfe Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Glenn Powell Dr. Alan Myron Siegal Mr. David Eugene Van der Griff Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Pamela Jo McCollough Northport, AL Birmingham, AL and Mr. Steven S. Palmer Mr. and Mrs. John Francis Katy, TX The Presser Foundation Ms. Terry Kay Simmons Sacramento, CA Wymer III Ms. Robin McCormick Haverford, PA Birmingham, AL Dr. Pamela Duncan Varner Atlanta, GA West Point, MS Dr. Gil Price Colonel George Lightfoot Birmingham, AL Dr. and Mrs. James David Mr. Wayne C. McCreedy Gaithersburg, MD Singleton, Ret. Mr. Billy Vaughn Yarbrough Springfield, AV Mrs. Mary Anne Price Birmingham, AL Bloomington, IL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Russell McCutcheon Tallahassee, FL Mr. Jim Sledge Dr. Julie Estin Vaughn Mr. James H. Zeanah Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Martha Pritchett Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. and Mrs. Sean McDade Durham, NC Mr. Charles C. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Doug Ventura Brooklyn, NY Dr. Robert Monroe Pritchett Northport, AL Mason, OH Dr. William Ulma McDonald, Jr. Birmingham, AL Lieutenant Commander Toledo, OH Mrs. Paul Quarles Edward S. Smith, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. D. Joseph McInnes Banks Quarles Plumbing Cropwell, AL Alexander City, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Garland Cook Smith Mr. James O. McLemore, Jr. Mr. Ralph Banks Quarles Birmingham, AL Trussville, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Wendy Farris Smith Abernathys Establish Mrs. Deloris Madison McMullen Mr. and Mrs. Alton Randolph Decatur, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Livermore, CA Dr. Thomas C. Smitherman Endowed Scholarship Dr. Leon Victor McVay III Mrs. Minnie H. Rast Pittsburgh, PA Mobile, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Margherita Jones Soule Laura C. and Robert E. Abernathy of Atlanta, Georgia, Dr. Jeffery Melton Mr. James C. Redwine Pensacola, FL have given $25,000 of a $100,000 pledge to the College to Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Mr. Kirk Sparkman establish the Laura C. and Robert E. Abernathy Endowed Dr. Carol B. Merkle Renaissance Charitable Cypress, TX Scholarship, which will be used to support full-time Fort Walton Beach, FL Foundation Inc. Mr. Harry Spooner undergraduate students majoring in the College of Arts and Dr. Allan D. Meyers Indianapolis, IN Ridgeland, MS Sciences. Robert Abernathy graduated from The University Saint Petersburg, FL Restore Therapy Services, LTD. Mrs. Winifred L. Stakely of Alabama in 1976 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry Mr. David Mills Pelham, AL Montgomery, AL and obtained his master’s degree in 1978 from Lawrence Birmingham, AL Ms. Mary Delchamps Reyner Mrs. Molly Steed Mr. David Joseph Minor Mobile, AL Anniston, AL University. He has had a successful 32-year career with Birmingham, AL Mr. George M. Richardson Dr. Mark G. Steltenpohl Kimberly-Clark Corporation and has been selected to Mr. and Mrs. Guy E. Moman, Jr. Huntsville, AL Auburn, AL become chairman of the board and chief executive officer Northport, AL Dr. Luther W. Richardson, Jr. Mrs. Leah Snell Stephens of Halyard Health. Laura Abernathy graduated from Judson Mrs. Stella Hillard Moore Tuscaloosa, AL Montgomery, AL College in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in biology and Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Terra Shield Richardson Dr. Johnnie Wayne Stevens graduated the same year from Samford University with an Mrs. Susan Giles Morris Birmingham, AL Riverside, AL associate’s degree in nursing. She has been a nurse in her Odessa, FL Mr. Walter Roger Richardson, Jr. Mr. Donald Wilbur Stewart hometown of Mobile, Alabama, and Appleton, Wisconsin. Dr. Meghan Mottaz Houston, TX Anniston, AL Both of the Abernathys are involved in The University of Northport, AL Mr. Jack B. Robbins, Jr. Mrs. Barbara Mikloucich Stone Alabama College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Board Dr. Milady Khoury Murphy Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL and the National Leadership Council of World Vision. Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Rebecca McKinney Roberts Mr. James Mark Tanner Dr. Rhett B. Murray Burton, TX Tuscaloosa, AL Huntsville, AL Mrs. Mary Oliver Roebuck Dr. Berry H. Tew, Jr. Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL

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The Collegiate Fund supports Mr. Frederick Smith Crown, Jr. Mr. Russell Turner Henshaw Mrs. Stella Hillard Moore Mrs. Ginger Winters Stallings scholarships, teaching innovations, Nashville, TN Huntsville, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dallas, TX and value-added student activities Ms. Elizabeth Burford Crump Mrs. Anne Barr Herman Dr. Rhett B. Murray Mrs. Molly Steed that state funds do not cover. It Montgomery, AL Suwannee, FL Huntsville, AL Anniston, AL also enables the College to expand Dr. and Mrs. Benjamin J. Cumbus Mr. Andrew Norris Hey Mrs. Pamela McLellan Newman Mrs. Leah Snell Stephens its level of alumni support. Donors Montgomery, AL Atlanta, GA Gadsden, AL Montgomery, AL to the Collegiate Fund help provide Dr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Davis Mrs. Ilouise Partlow Hill Mr. James William Noe Dr. Johnnie Wayne Stevens the margin of excellence that Sugar Land, TX Riverside, AL keeps the College in the forefront of Mobile, AL Montgomery, AL Mr. Donald Wilbur Stewart libreal arts education. The College Dr. Jerry D. Dillard Mr. Mack Dennis Hixon Mrs. Bonita Todd Norman gratefully acknolwedges the Selma, AL Banks, AL Coral Gables, FL Anniston, AL following friends who made gifts to Dr. Morton B. Dimenstien Dr. John W. Holaday Dr. Michael A. Oldstone Mrs. Barbara Mikloucich Stone the Collegiate Fund between June Atlanta, GA West Bethesda, MD La Jolla, CA Birmingham, AL 1, 2013 and May 31, 2014. Dr. Robert M. Dimick Mr. Ralph Gans Holberg III Dr. and Mrs. Bob Olin Dr. and Mrs. Alton B. Sturtevant Brentwood, TN Mobile, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Forsyth S. Donald Mr. Ralph Eugene Holt Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Wesley Mrs. Jennifer Gerardo Taylor $ 5,000 and above Birmingham, AL Florence, AL Patrick Alexandria, VA Mr. Jake F. Aronov Dr. John W. Donnelly, Jr. Dr. Michael Benjamin Honan Nashville, TN Dr. Lamar Thomas Montgomery, AL Atlanta, GA Birmingham, AL Dr. Walter Gay Pittman Birmingham, AL Drs. Brenda and T. Lee Baumann Dr. Dan E. Douglas Ms. Camilla Huxford Birmingham, AL Dr. Helen Raye Thrasher Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Gil Price Birmingham, AL Dr. Segal Edward Drummond, Jr. Mr. Jack Drake Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Ingalls Gaithersburg, MD Mr. Ethan Tyler Tidmore Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Dr. Robert Monroe Pritchett Vestavia, AL Dr. John T. Eagan, Jr. Dr. David H. Jackson Birmingham, AL Ms. Claire Black Tisdal $1,000–$4,999 Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Paula Fink Quarles Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edward Dr. Miller Bonner Engelhardt Mr. William Paul Jackson, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Jean R. Tomlinson Abernathy Montgomery, AL North Myrtle Beach, SC Mr. Ralph Banks Quarles Birmingham, AL Atlanta, GA Dr. Elizabeth D. Ennis Dr. William E. Johnson III Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Henry B. Townsend Mr. Russ Q. Allison Birmingham, AL Mobile, AL Mr. Bruce Stanton Reid, Sr. Birmingham, AL Pelham, AL Mrs. Mary Ann Fair Mr. Thomas J. Joiner Montgomery, AL Mrs. Rae Wade Trimmier Mrs. Arlene Karpinski Ashe Tucker, GA Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Mary Delchamps Reyner Mountain Brook, AL Sheffield, AL Mrs. Kathleen A. Farmer Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Jones, Jr. Mobile, AL Dr. Pamela Duncan Varner Mrs. Pamela H. Askew Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Margaret E. Rhoads Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Adams Fite Mr. Allan D. Keel Birmingham, AL Mr. Bill Vaughn AT&T Foundation Florence, AL Houston, TX Mr. George M. Richardson Bloomington, IL Princeton, NJ Mr. Eric Benjamin Foker Kerr-McGee Foundation Huntsville, AL Dr. Julie Estin Vaughn Ms. Emily L. Baker Pasadena, CA Princeton, NJ Dr. Luther W. Richardson, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Andre J. Fontana, Sr. Mr. Steven King Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. George Hollin Wakefield III Mrs. Bette Leblanc Bargeron Mobile, AL Andalusia, AL Mr. Walter Roger Richardson, Jr. Montgomery, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Marjorie H. Forney Dr. Jerry Lester Kitchens Houston, TX Dr. James C. Walker, Jr. Dr. Carl Allan Barnes Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Shannon Simpson Riley Birmingham, AL Muscle Shoals, AL Dr. William Hull Forster Dr. David L. Klemmack Birmingham, AL Dr. Susan Austin Warner Dr. and Mrs. Noel W. Bedwell Bethany Beach, DE Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Jack B. Robbins, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Mobile, AL Mr. Gary Marvin Fowlie Dr. Robert A. Kreisberg Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Ellen Currie Watson Mrs. Dorothy Deramus Boyd New York, NY Birmingham, AL Mrs. Rebecca McKinney Roberts Tucker, GA Birmingham, AL Dr. H. Joseph Fritz, Jr. Mr. Henry Kenneth Kudon Burton, TX Mrs. Mary Jean Weaver Mr. Thomas Gill Bradford III Tuscaloosa, AL Chevy Chase, MD Mrs. Mary Oliver Roebuck Tuscaloosa, AL Tequesta, FL General Electric Fund Dr. David Joel Landau Birmingham, AL Ms. Ann Williams Webb Mr. James S. Brooks Fairfield, CT Birmingham, AL Mrs. Alice Herren Schleusner Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Sylvia Kaplan Goldberg Dr. Kayron M. Laska Birmingham, AL Dr. and Mrs. L. Steve Weinstein Dr. Colgan Hobson Bryan, Jr. Mountain Brook, AL Columbus, GA Dr. Varian Cuthbert Scott III Mobile, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Milla Windham Green Dr. Darnell Lattal Birmingham, AL Dr. and Mrs. Allan S. Wilensky Dr. Melvin Lynn Butler Tuscaloosa, AL Morgantown, WV Mrs. Leah Ann McAbee Sexton Mountain Brook, AL Spring Hill, TN Mr. and Mrs. Frank William Gregory Mrs. Margaret G. Livingston Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Frederick Wallace Williams Mr. Larry G. Canada Wetumpka, AL Birmingham, AL Mr. Michael Dennis Shanahan Accokeek, MD New Orleans, LA Dr. Roy Thomas Hager Mr. John Abner Lockett III San Diego, CA Dr. Tammi Lenee Williams Judge William W. Cardwell, Jr. Montgomery, AL Atlanta, GA Drs. Craig T. and Cary, NC Southside, AL Dr. and Mrs. Gerard D. Haggstrom Mr. E. Clayton Lowe, Jr. Elisabeth Shepard Sheldon Dr. Edward O. Wilson Dr. Vincent Anthony Carnaggio Florence, AL Trussville, AL Wetumpka, AL Lexington, MA Birmingham, AL Mrs. Patricia Hatcher Hall Dr. Chandra Maria McCall Dr. Alan Myron Siegal The Reverend Hoyt Winslett, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Will T. Cheek, Jr. New York, NY Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Nashville, TN Mr. and Mrs. William G. Hargett Dr. Daniel T. McCall III Mr. Jim Sledge Dr. and Mrs. Stanley B. Winslow Mrs. Frances R. Clement Florence, AL Mobile, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Montgomery, AL Elberta, AL Mr. and Mrs. James E. Harmon, Sr. Dr. Richmond C. McClintock, Jr. Lt. Cmdr. Ret. Edward S. Smith, Jr. Mr. Zhijian Wu Mrs. Naneita Leach Cobbs Point Clear, AL Dothan, AL Cropwell, AL Las Vegas, NV Birmingham, AL Dr. Phillip Wayne Harmon Ms. Pamela Jo McCollough Mrs. Wendy Farris Smith Mr. and Mrs. John F. Wymer III Mr. Christopher Caleb Connor Birmingham, AL Katy, TX Decatur, AL Atlanta, GA Aiken, SC Dr. Trudier Harris Mrs. Lila G. McGahey Dr. Thomas C. Smitherman Mr. Christopher L. Yeilding Mrs. Joy Clark Cooper Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Pittsburgh, PA Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Dr. Joel P. Hearn Dr. Leon Victor McVay III Dr. Amanda Duncan Soong Dr. Robert Lee Yoder, Jr. Dr. John Richard Cranton Florence, AL Mobile, AL Hoover, AL Birmingham, AL Daphne, AL Dr. Ronald Earl Henderson Dr. Michael J. Mendle Mrs. Margherita Jones Soule Mr. James H. Zeanah Mr. Sylvester Croom, Jr. Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Pensacola, FL Tuscaloosa, AL Nashville, TN Mr. Willis Hallman Hendrix Mr. David Mills Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Stakely Dr. A. Jeffrey Zieman Mrs. Jackie Brunson Crowell Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Mobile, AL Enterprise, AL

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 22 9/22/14 5:06 PM $500–$999 Regions Financial Corporation Mrs. Deborah Barnes Feldser Mr. and Mrs. William Thaddeus Mr. Raymond Charles Sturm Mr. Harvey N. Adams Foundation Lafayette, CO Mauldin Spartanburg, SC Tucker, GA Birmingham, AL Drs. Davis L. and Diane I. Findley Huntsville, AL Ms. Dorothy Carolyn Tatum Dr. John Michael Belyeu Dr. Frank Hall Reynolds II Fairhope, AL Mr. Maxwell McBrayer, Jr. Scottsboro, AL Albertville, AL Chattanooga, TN Mrs. Julie Hall Friedman Frankfort, KY Mr. George Forman Taylor III Dr. John Ernest Bennett Dr. Gregory Dean Sand Fairhope, AL Mrs. Shirley D. McCrary Blacksburg, VA Montgomery, AL Mobile, AL Mr. Anthony Gerard George Mooresville, AL Ms. Martha Regina Thomas Mr. Timothy Mark Bisch State Farm Company Foundation Birmingham, AL Mr. Michael Kevin McCue Atlanta, GA Round Rock, TX Bloomington, IL Ms. Sylvia L. Gilmore Athens, AL Mr. Ronald Marion Tisdale Mr. Joe Camp Mr. Michael Stephen Stutts Newborn, GA Dr. Max Victor McLaughlin Birmingham, AL Mobile, AL Beverly Hills, CA Dr. James Randall Glaze Mobile, AL Dr. William J. Urquhart Dr. Jerry Arnold Davis Mrs. Betty Ann Holladay VanNuys Birmingham, AL Mr. Joseph McMillan Mobile, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Fairfax, VA Dr. Dora Henley Going Alexandria, VA Mr. R. Lee Vaughan, Jr. Ms. Lucretia A. DeHaney Mr. Laurence Duncan Vinson, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Ronald Clifton Merrell Spring, TX Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Jane Paget Gordon Mentone, AL Dr. Grover M. Ward Mr. Wayne Morgan Dykes, Jr. Mr. William Thomas Watson Montgomery, AL Mrs. Lynne Goggans Miller Tuscaloosa, AL Atlanta, GA Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Vicki Lovelady Gregory Phoenix, AZ Mr. George Alyen Wheat Dr. Curtis William Ellison Mr. E. Keith Williams Montgomery, AL Mr. Doug Milner Sierra Vista, AZ Oxford, OH Birmingham, AL Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth F. Hancock Mc Minnville, TN Dr. Noah Brice Whetstone Mr. Robert Marshall Field Mrs. Shane Graham Yokley Rome, GA Mrs. Anne McAliley Moman Mobile, AL Alexandria, AL Charlotte, NC Mr. James I. Harrison, Jr. Northport, AL Mr. Jeffry Cleveland Williams Mr. Roy Lawrence Gates, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Lucy Terry Nowell Portland, OR Palos Verdes Estates, CA $250–$499 Dr. Cody Lance Henderson Highland, MD Mr. Francis J. Wozniak Mrs. Michelle Yang and Georgia-Pacific Corporation Boerne, TX Fredonia, NY Mr. Changrui Gong Jacksonville, FL Missouri City, TX Dr. James Noble Anderson, Jr. Ms. Catherine J. Graham Montgomery, AL Huntsville, AL Apache Construction Corporation Friends and Family of Carolyn P. Handa Mr. Irvin Grodsky Birmingham, AL Mobile, AL Mr. Jose G. Arrieta Mr. David L. Hill Pearland, TX to Establish Endowed Scholarship Rehoboth Beach, DE Ms. Stevana Ausban Family, friends, and colleagues of the late Carolyn P. Handa have pledged $25,000 to establish the Mr. Brian Allan Jackson Stockton, CA Carolyn P. Handa Memorial Scholarship, which will be used to support students studying English. Chevy Chase, MD Mrs. Pamela Rutledge Ausley Handa joined The University of Alabama faculty in 2005. She taught expository writing in the Mrs. Elizabeth Hines Jones Birmingham, AL Flomaton, AL Ms. Helen Elizabeth Barnes Department of English and conducted research in the field of composition and rhetoric, serving Dr. Benjamin Alan Lampert Charlotte, NC as assistant chair of the department and a senior faculty member for the graduate program in Springfield, MO Mrs. Irene Pappas Beleos composition, rhetoric, and English studies. She also dedicated herself to mentoring minority and Mrs. Mary Dempsey Lembke Birmingham, AL first-generation college students as a faculty fellow for the McNair Scholars Program. Anyone wishing Birmingham, AL Mrs. Star K. Bloom to donate to the scholarship fund should send donations to The University of Alabama Office of Dr. L. Anne Lewis Tuscaloosa, AL Advancement Services, Box 870101, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487. Checks should be made payable to The Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Tommy Eugene Brakefield University of Alabama with a note indicating the gift is for the Carolyn P. Handa Memorial Scholarship. Dr. Stanley K. Lochridge Birmingham, AL Jasper, AL Dr. Edward T. Braye, Jr. Dr. Richard Howard Lyerly Port Neches, TX Birmingham, AL Mr. Helman Robert Brook Mrs. Wendi Ward Hinton Occidental Petroleum Charitable $100–$249 Mr. Richard M. MacKay Great Neck, NY Cypress, TX Foundation Mrs. Cynthia Whitley Achorn Birmingham, AL Dr. James Gordon Brooks, Jr. Mr. William R. Hoyle Tulsa, OK Davidsonville, MD Mr. Charles R. Mandly, Jr. Dallas, TX Huntsville, AL Mrs. Kay Holman Oshel Dr. Thomas Marion Adair, Jr. Chicago, IL Mr. George H. Brown Mr. Patrick Paul Hughes Silver Spring, MD Alpharetta, GA Dr. Ron Maner Tuscaloosa, AL Anniston, AL Mr. Christopher Scott Paslawski Dr. Lee M. Albritton Chapel Hill, NC Dr. James E. Brown IV Mrs. Elmore Bartlett Inscoe Bethesda, MD Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Cynthia Trantham Spartanburg, SC Montgomery, AL Mr. J. Wray Pearce Altec Industries, Inc. Markushewski Home Depot Colonel Jack Morris Ivy, Jr. Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Huntsville, AL Atlanta, GA Springfield, OH Mr. Glenn Powell Mr. Aaron Altmann Mr. Joseph Hamil McLure, Jr. Dr. John David Chandler Ms. Diane Kelly Johnson Northport, AL Atlanta, GA Atlanta, GA Gilbertsville, KY Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. H. Mark Reynolds Mrs. Augusta Marshall Andrews Mrs. Alison Lawther Meador Dr. Douglas Curtis Clark Mr. Robert K. Johnson Brewton, AL Anniston, AL Austin, TX Pelham, AL Forest, VA Dr. Roger Scott Rowlett Mr. James Cooper Askew, Jr. Ms. Joyce F. Munn Mr. Laurence Allen Clifton Dr. Arthur Alvin Jones III Hamilton, NY Auburn, AL Fairhope, AL Courtland, VA Birmingham, AL Mrs. Susan Kimbrough Rudolph Mr. Frank Gerard Atkins Dr. Ralph Dewey Neal, Jr. The Coca-Cola Company Mrs. Elizabeth C. Kahlmus Mobile, AL Huntsville, AL Grove Hill, AL Atlanta, GA Meridian, MS Dr. Paul P. Salter, Jr. Mr. Antoine H. Ayoub Mr. George M. Noblin Mrs. Paula Porter Crockard Colonel Lawrence H. Kloess, Jr. Birmingham, AL Atlanta, GA Montgomery, AL Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Dr. John Edward Scowley Mr. Charles P. Bagby Dr. John Stuart Patton Dr. and Mrs. William T. Denton, Sr. Mr. Alva M. Lambert Richmond, MO Hobe Sound, FL Northport, AL Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Dr. Charles Michael Soppet Ms. Barbara J. Bailey Mr. Robert Hoke Perkins, Jr. Mrs. Abbie K. Drummond Mr. O. Clayton Lilienstern Dothan, AL Clearwater, FL Charlottesville, VA Jasper, AL Bellaire, TX Mrs. Patricia Roberts Sprague Dr. Karen Meshad Baldwin Mr. John T. Price Dr. Stephen Philip Erdberg Dr. Dilin Liu Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Decatur, GA Greenbrae, CA Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Jarel Pugh Starling Mr. Ronald B. Barze, Sr. Drs. Russell and Linda Reeves Ernst & Young Foundation Dr. Carol Ann Long Huntsville, AL Atlanta, GA Birmingham, AL Princeton, NJ Asheville, NC Dr. Karen Elizabeth Stone Mrs. Linda Harrell Bauer ExxonMobil Foundation Mr. Douglas E. Martin Ohatchee, AL Pensacola, FL Irving, TX Clanton, AL

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Dr. Maynard P. Bauleke Dr. Ronald Lynn Cox Mr. Lawrence Kent Faulkner Dr. Kevin Curtis Hayes Mrs. Yvonne C. Kendrick Lawrence, KS Trinity, FL Helena, AL Aberdeen, MS Fayetteville, GA Dr. Bennett Lee Bearden Dr. Walter Joseph Crook Dr. Maureen Hedwig Feuston Dr. Cooper Green Hazelrig Dr. Bruce Maurice Key Tuscaloosa, AL Montgomery, AL Asheville, NC Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Ms. Stephanie M. Bender Mr. M. Dean Cruce Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Andrew Fikes Mr. Robert Wayne Heath Dr. Margaret Ingram King Mobile, AL Chattanooga, TN Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Jefferson S. Bennett Mrs. Margaret S. Culp Ms. Laura B. Fikes Mr. James Earl Hedgspeth, Jr. Mr. Stephen Henry Kirkemier Huntsville, AL Birmingham, AL Hamilton, AL Gadsden, AL Birmingham, AL Dr. Sarah L. Bisch Dr. William A. Curry Dr. James Russell Finch Mrs. Katherine Elaine Hershman Dr. and Mrs. Michael Koslin Norfolk, VA Birmingham, AL Hartselle, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Ruby McCullough Bissett Dr. Donald Henry Dahlene II Dr. and Mrs. Samuel Henry Fisher Mr. James Thomas Hill Dr. Christopher Eli Laird Sarasota, FL Eclectic, AL Mobile, AL Northport, AL Richmond, KY Dr. Cynthia Anne Bonner Ms. Amanda Douglas Daily Ms. Georgia Flesser Mr. John Lawson Hilson Mr. William R. Lane, Jr. Pike Road, AL Fort Worth, TX Birmingham, AL Bolingbroke, GA Saint Petersburg, FL Mr. Carl P. Borick Mrs. Alpha B. Davis Mr. J. Stephen Flowers Dr. Linda Whitney Hobson Mrs. Evelyn Raiford Langford Charleston, SC Birmingham, AL Troy, AL Raleigh, NC Birmingham, AL Mrs. Patsy Bouloukos Mr. Carley Verne Davis Dr. Johnny Kent Folmar Mrs. Elaine Schwartz Holberg Mr. Wayne Walker Langston Birmingham, AL Mobile, AL California, PA Mobile, AL Hot Springs National Park, AR BP Foundation, Inc. Mr. Douglas Davis Mrs. Allison Chandler Ford Mrs. Elnor Y. Holcombe Mr. Jerome H. Lapidus Warrenville, IL Ponte Vedra Beach, FL Madison, AL Tucker, GA Mountain Brook, AL Mr. Claude J. Bradshaw Mr. Kenneth Dudley Davis Dr. Gary Matthew Fowler Dr. Mary Evelyn Hollaway Dr. Shirley Brooks Laseter Catharpin, VA Tuscaloosa, AL Winfield, AL Birmingham, AL Prattville, AL Mrs. Alicia Gail Bridgeman Smith Mrs. Nancy Blanton Davis Mr. Hubert Rivers Fowler Mr. Hillman J. Holley Mrs. Barbara Jones Laurendine Alexandria, VA Auburn, AL Pittsboro, NC Slidell, LA Mobile, AL Dr. Melinda Kitchens Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Davis Mrs. Meredith G. Fox Dr. Williams C. Holmes, Jr. Mr. Terry W. Leatherland Guntersville, AL Rome, GA San Antonio, TX Fort Smith, AR Sugar Land, TX Dr. Loretta Graves Brown Dr. Sara D. Davis Mr. James Tilden Frantz III Mr. Arthur James Horne, Jr. Mr. Nelson Lenwood Lee Gurley, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Annville, PA Upper Marlboro, MD Hartselle, AL Ms. Renee M. Burk Dr. P. Caldwell DeBardeleben, Jr. Mr. David Cornelius Fratarcangelo Mr. Frank L. Hrabe Ms. Susan J. Leeds Saint Petersburg, FL Selma, AL Hopewell, VA Birmingham, AL Saint Simons Island, GA Mr. Terry David Burns Dr. Arnold Wayne Deloach Dr. Herbert Huey Gannon, Jr. Ms. Jenny J. Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Clay Lemley Tuscaloosa, AL Marbury, AL Pensacola, FL Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Kathryn Mack-Burton Dr. Michael Thomas D’Errico Dr. James F. Gardiner Mr. and Mrs. Arley Hughes, Jr. Ms. Juanita Sue Lewis La Mesa, CA Tallahassee, FL Fairhope, AL Mobile, AL Oak Hill, VA Mrs. Patricia Hough Camp Mr. Henry Calley DeVasher, Jr. Mr. Asa Gaston Mr. Raymond Hester Hughey, Jr. Mrs. Eleanor Smith Lienau Birmingham, AL Fairhope, AL Birmingham, AL King George, VA Huntsville, AL Mr. Charles L. Cansler Mr. Marcel DiGiovanni, Jr. General Electric Company Mrs. Manda Wheat Humber Mr. William Duncan Little III Saint Simons Island, GA Saint Rose, LA Fairfield, CT Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Mr. William Robert Carter, Jr. Dr. Anthony Gerard DiPasquale Mrs. Amanda Lynn Gibson Mrs. Carol Sullivan Hunn Mrs. Austill Samford Lott Monroeville, AL Merritt Island, FL Argyle, TX Birmingham, AL Mobile, AL Mr. Richard Leon Chambers, PhD Mr. and Mrs. Gregory G. Dobbins Mr. Thomas L. Giles Dr. Lawrence Keith Hunt Mrs. Barbra Steinman Love Montgomery, AL Birmingham, AL Gulf Shores, AL Roswell, GA Asheville, NC Mr. and Mrs. John W. Chapman Dr. Stephen Alan Doblin Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Ginsburg IBM Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Russell Atlanta, GA Beaumont, TX Reston, VA Research Triangle Park, NC Lovelady Ms. Martha Ann Chapman Mrs. Karen Donald Mr. Robert M. Girardeau Dr. Russell Leon Ingram Birmingham, AL Annandale, VA Chatom, AL Birmingham, AL Jacksonville, AL Mrs. Judith Leibold Mabry Chevron Mr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Donohue Dr. Edward Lawrence Goldblatt Dr. Harold Isaacs Glen Allen, VA Princeton, NJ Vienna, VA Birmingham, AL Americus, GA Ms. Teddi Rae Mackelden Mr. William A. Christenberry, Jr. Dr. Ray Michael Dowe, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Dawson Goodwin Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jack Birmingham, AL Washington, DC Spring, TX Owens Cross Roads, AL Kingsport, TN Dr. Glida Alexander Magnani Mrs. Jennifer H. Clark Mr. Norman Downey Mrs. Jacqueline D. Graves Mr. Charles Ernest Jackson, Jr. Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Grove Hill, AL Talladega, AL Mobile, AL Mr. Scott K. Mapes Mr. Rea Schuessler Clark Drs. Daveta and Frank Dozier Dr. Larry Shayne Green Dr. Donald E. Jackson Cincinnati, OH Lanett, AL Thomasville, AL Lake Jackson, TX Hamilton, OH Mr. Joseph Keller Markel Mr. Tharren William Clark Mrs. Margie Winterburn Drane Dr. Michael Irving Green Mr. Sheldon Eric Jeames Brownstown, IN Arlington, VA Orlando, FL Orinda, CA Montgomery, AL Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Hollis Mr. Michael Thomas-Henry Mrs. Jessellan L. Dunn Dr. Clarence F. Hamilton, Jr. Mr. Bradley Jerome Johnson, Jr. Martin Clemmons Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Atlanta, GA Knoxville, TN Del Rio, TX Mr. Bruce Howard Eads Mrs. Sarah Rodgers Hanson Dr. James Louis Jolly, Jr. Dr. Patricia Yancey Martin Dr. Jack Keith Clemons Salisbury, NC Spring, TX Tuscaloosa, AL Tallahassee, FL Albertville, AL Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Edwards Mr. Dale Wayne Harmon Mrs. Andi Higgins Jones Dr. Wallace Maryland, Jr. Mrs. Ann Lee Cobb Albany, GA Birmingham, AL Northport, AL Montgomery, AL Raleigh, NC Mr. Michael Leon Edwards Mrs. Nancy Magel Harper Ms. Anita D. Jones Mrs. Marjorie Cain Masterson Mrs. Anne Johnson Cody Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Huntsville, AL Anniston, AL Mr. Philipp Alvis Ehrman Mr. Donald Ray Harris, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Leonard James Jowers Dr. Jon Atherton Mather Dr. Mark Philip Cohen Helena, AL Midland, TX Cropwell, AL Kingsport, TN Birmingham, AL Mr. William Louie Ellison, Jr. Dr. Dianne F. Harrison Mrs. Sandra Heifner Junge Ms. Martha Ann Matthews Dr. Marvyn Donald Cohen Louisville, KY Northridge, CA Evansville, IN Crestview, FL Columbus, GA Major and Mrs. Brand Lacy Elverston Dr. Michael Thayer Hartsfield Dr. Lawrence I. Kahn Mr. Ernest Clyde McAlister, Jr. Con Edison Pea Ridge, AR Milton, FL Saint Louis, MO Huntsville, AL New York, NY Energen Corporation Mr. Larry Richard Hawkins Dr. Stanley Samuel Kahn Mr. H. William McAtee Dr. Kristi D. Concannon Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Berkeley, CA Mobile, AL Mountain Top, PA Mr. Dallas W. Fanning Mr. Edwin A. Hawley, Jr. Dr. Richard Mark Kendrick Dr. Michael Leigh McBrearty Dr. A. Mitch Cooper Huntsville, AL Birmingham, AL Northport, AL Fairhope, AL Bradenton, FL

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 24 9/22/14 5:06 PM Mr. Zachary M. McCain Mr. Perry W. Moskovitz Mr. William Edward Pearson, Jr. Mr. David Mack Roach Mr. Stephen Lambert Speed Lima, OH Nashville, TN Hoover, AL Huntsville, AL Jasper, AL Mr. Victor Edward McClellan Mr. Charles Hill Munoz Dr. John Coney Pegues Mrs. Erika Clement Robertson Mr. Clifford M. Spencer, Jr. Daytona Beach, FL Cuba, AL Birmingham, AL Sunland, CA Birmingham, AL Mr. and Mrs. R. Lamar McClure Mrs. Mary E. Murchison Mr. John W. Pemberton Mrs. Mary Kathryn Rondon Mr. Charles Gaither Spradling, Jr. Rocky Face, GA Elberta, AL Montgomery, AL Falls Church, VA Anniston, AL Mrs. Marilyn Morris McCrary Mr. Gary Ricardo Napier Mr. John Lonnie Perry Dr. James William Ross Dr. and Mrs. L. David Stacy Talladega, AL Duluth, GA Roswell, GA Cincinnati, OH Atlanta, GA Dr. William Ulma McDonald, Jr. Dr. William Jackson Napier Mr. Timothy Richardson Petty Mrs. Erin Thomes Roth Dr. William Park Stallworth, M.D. Toledo, OH Columbus, OH Colonial Heights, VA Elmhurst, IL Knoxville, TN Dr. David Louis McElroy Dr. and Mrs. Gary W. Nelson Dr. James Edward Pewitt Mr. Hoke Alexander Rowan Mr. Michael Ernest Stanley Knoxville, TN Daphne, AL Gulf Breeze, FL Atlanta, GA Gulf Shores, AL Mr. E. Patrick McIntyre, Jr. Ms. Elizabeth A. Netemeyer Dr. Beverly C. Phifer Dr. Teri Pettersen Rowan Mrs. Mary Pate Stefanu Nashville, TN Chicago Park, CA Tuscaloosa, AL Portland, OR Clanton, AL Mrs. Gayle L. McKee Mr. Jerome P. Newmark Mr. Kenneth Alan Phillips Mr. Cayce Rumsey Mr. Arthur M. Stephens Greer, SC Jasper, AL Columbus, MS Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Jennifer Tobola McKeon Mrs. Sue A. Newton Mrs. Sherrie Lynn Phillips Dr. Michael Saliba Mr. Calvin Weldon Stephens Stamford, CT Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Arlington, TX Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Jane C. McKinzey Dr. David Alan Norman Mrs. Ann S. Pierce Mr. and Mrs. Woody Sanderson Mr. Robert Smith Stephens Tucker, GA Shelby, NC Birmingham, AL Huntsville, AL Huntsville, AL Mr. James O. McLemore, Jr. Mr. Robert Hudson Norman, Jr. Dr. Duane Robert Pierson SAP America Mrs. Carolyn Bradford Stephenson Trussville, AL Prescott, AZ Portland, ME Princeton, NJ Mobile, AL Ms. Lisa Straka McLeod Dr. Samuel Strudwick Norvell, Jr. Mr. Karl H. Pilati Dr. Gordon Elliott Saul, Jr. Mr. Charles Michael Stilson, Jr. Burke, VA Rockville, MD Russellville, AL Roanoke, VA Colonial Heights, VA Mr. Jerry L. McMahan Mrs. Sharyn S. Nunn Mr. Dennis Pompa Dr. John Richard Scales Mr. James Terry Stinson Alpharetta, GA Tuscaloosa, AL Dothan, AL Huntsville, AL Monroe, GA McMaster-Carr Supply Company Colonel John Edward O’Connor, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Brandon Patrick Price Mr. Leonard Alan Scott Mr. Sam William Stinson Elmhurst, IL Prattville, AL Houston, TX Atlanta, GA Laurel, MS Dr. Mike McQueen Office Depot, Inc. Mr. William Brian Price Mrs. Cynthia Perrett Seale Reverend William Judson Stinson Enterprise, AL Murfreesboro, TN Madison, AL Owens Cross Roads, AL Auburn, AL Mr. and Mrs. Harvey D. Medearis IV Mr. Brian Burke O’Keefe Dr. Derek Brooks Purcell Mr. Rickie L. Shearer Mr. Charles Wilson Stull Chattanooga, TN Brooklyn, NY Colorado Springs, CO Laurens, SC Madison, AL Mr. Wayne A. Meeks Ms. Natalie O’Keefe Mr. Walter Mason Quick Mr. Steven Mark Shelton Mr. John Benton Tally, Jr. Hamden, CT Saint Charles, IL Huntsville, AL Northport, AL Birmingham, AL Dr. Autry Greer Megginson Mr. John T. Oliver Jr. Dr. Yolanda Ramona Rambin Ms. Jennifer Anne Shenefelt Mrs. Marilyn M. Tamplin Mobile, AL Jasper, AL Alexandria, LA Denver, CO Ozark, AL Mrs. Verta Barr Meherg Mrs. Kathryn I. O’Rear Dr. Robert R. Ramoska Mr. Philip Alvin Shirley Dr. Ralph M. Tanner Tuscaloosa, AL Jasper, AL Park Ridge, IL Madison, MS Baldwin City, KS Mrs. Sharmon Eddins Meigs Mrs. Dorothy Parrish Osborne Mrs. Edith Malone Rand Mr. Russell Lewis Sikes Dr. Heather Marie Taylor Mobile, AL Fort Myers, FL Greenville, NC Monroeville, AL Northport, AL Merck & Company, Inc. Mrs. Sharon R. Osburn Mrs. Ashley K. Rawlings Mrs. Sybil Murdock Simpson Mrs. Kathy Hall Taylor Princeton, NJ Tuscaloosa, AL Phoenix, AZ Tuscaloosa, AL Murfreesboro, TN Mr. John H. Merrill Dr. Jeremy Wayne Owens Dr. James Charles Raymond Dr. Marie Baker Sinclair Dr. Samuel Edwin Taylor Tuscaloosa, AL Sioux City, IA New York, NY Northport, AL Black Mountain, NC Mr. Arvil Boler Miller Mrs. Susan Harris Paller Dr. Alfred Randolph Rector Dr. and Mrs. Norman J. Singer Mrs. Suzanne Sloan Taylor Northport, AL Atlanta, GA Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Columbus, GA Mr. David T. Miller Dr. Justin A. Parden Mrs. Anita K. Reed Mr. John L. Slaughter Mrs. Dianne C. Teague Catonsville, MD Birmingham, AL Lakeland, FL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Karen H. Miller Mr. Stanley Park, Jr. Dr. James Lendon Reeder Mrs. Ann Sutton Smith Ms. Marianne Walton Terry Louisville, KY Tuscaloosa, AL Huntsville, AL Eufaula, AL Mobile, AL Mrs. Mary Jo Jernigan Miller Mrs. Rachel King Parris Mr. Joseph A. Reese Dr. Charles E. Smith, Jr. Dr. Nina Jones Terry Memphis, TN Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Oxford, MS Hoover, AL Dr. Samuel Jones Miller Dr. James Lester Pate Mr. Gene Renfroe Mr. Ernest Wray Smith Mr. John Greene Thompson Lagrange, GA Atlanta, GA Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Birmingham, AL Milliken & Company Mr. Felix Albert Patrick Mrs. Marlynn N. Rhyne Mr. Ralph Benton Smith, Jr. Mrs. Katherine Wade Thompson Spartanburg, SC Augusta, GA Moulton, AL Chattanooga, TN Fairhope, AL Mrs. Jennifer Minor-Springer Ms. Charlotte Marie Patton Dr. and Mrs. Bradley Scott Rice Mr. Farley Moody Snow Mr. Cleveland Thornton Prattville, AL Atlanta, GA Owens Cross Roads, AL Mountain Brook, AL Washington, DC Mr. and Mrs. E. Gerald Mitchell Meridian, MS Mr. James M. Montgomery Atlanta, GA Dr. John Richard Montgomery Edward Guy Establishes Scholarship in Huntsville, AL Mr. Robert James Moon Communicative Disorders Atlanta, GA Mr. James C. Moore Edward E. Guy Jr. of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has given $25,000 to the College to establish the Edward Ervin Guy Jr. Endowed Scholarship Tuscaloosa, AL in Communicative Disorders, which will be used to support full-time undergraduate or graduate students majoring in communicative Mrs. Sally Bealle Moore disorders. Guy, born in Tuscaloosa, is a graduate of Brookwood High School. He began his career at The University of Alabama in 1994 Clanton, AL as a program coordinator of West Alabama Comprehensive Services in the College of Education, where he continued working in various Dr. Joseph Richard Morris departments until he became in 2013 an administrative assistant to the associate and assistant deans of the Graduate School. He has Richmond, VA also served the community as a past member of the board of directors of West Alabama Aids Outreach, Temporary Emergency Services, Mrs. Marjorie Hess Morris T-Town Paws, the Original City Association, and the Kentuck Museum Association. Jackson, MS

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Mrs. Karen Letton Thornton Dr. James D. Williams Mr. Charles Maxwell Andrews Mr. Jack Ross Blumenfeld Mr. Michael J. Bynum Danville, KY Gainesville, FL Northport, AL Miami, FL Birmingham, AL Mr. Mark Ross Thrash Dr. Jimmy John Williams Dr. Stanley Babit Dr. Donna May Bohn Mr. Albert Douglas Byrd Royal Palm Beach, FL Tuscaloosa, AL Scottsdale, AZ Spring Hill, KS Clanton, AL Mr. Eric Tidmore Major Ronald Williams Dr. Caroline A. Ball Mrs. Janet Arey Bondo Mr. Matthew Brian Caffrey Northport, AL Pell City, AL Rochester, MN Columbia, SC Dayton, OH Mr. and Mrs. M. Chad Tindol Mr. Stantley B. Williams Mr. Benjamin Paul Bamonte Mrs. Terry Points Boney Ms. Judith Caldwell Tuscaloosa, AL Atlanta, GA Conroe, TX Hurst, TX Sterrett, AL Mr. and Mrs. James Larry Traylor Dr. Robert Kemp Wilson, Jr. Mr. Ira Andre Bankowski Mr. John Arthur Bonham, Jr. Mr. Judson Taylor Calfee, Jr. Rainsville, AL Pensacola, FL Huntsville, AL Montgomery, AL Midland, GA Mr. Wayne Edward Traywick Mr. James Edward Winchester Mr. Oroon E. Barnes Mrs. Rebecca Henderson Bosarge Lieutenant Colonel Donald Fisher Clanton, AL Naples, FL Machipongo, VA Mobile, AL Campbell Mr. Charles J. Turner Mr. James Matthew Wood, Jr. Ms. Valencia Denease Barnes Mrs. Leitha Bland Boutwell Rome, NY Wetumpka, AL Jonesboro, GA Baltimore, MD Montgomery, AL Mr. Justin S. Campbell Mr. James Lindsey Turner Mrs. Linda Boling Woodrow Ms. Andrea Morgan Batchelor Mr. Thomas Whitwell Bowron II San Diego, CA Madison, AL Falls Church, VA Mobile, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Lane Pettiss Carleton Dr. William A. Ulmer Mr. Joseph Addison Woodruff Dr. Jerry Lanice Battles Mrs. Christine Griffith Box Mobile, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Franklin, TN Columbia, TN Sheffield, AL Dr. and Mrs. Jeremy Mathew Carr Dr. Bobby T. Underwood Mr. James A. Woods Mrs. Sandra Pirtle Bearden Dr. Julia Hart Box Dadeville, AL Jasper, AL San Francisco, CA Trussville, AL Satsuma, AL Dr. Emily Bell Casey Dr. Roy M. Underwood, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mrs. Amy Russell Bedsole Mr. Eugene Willis Brabston, Sr. Birmingham, AL Livingston, AL Von Wooldridge III Mobile, AL Birmingham, AL Mr. Charles A. Casmus III Dr. Kenneth L. Vandervoort Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. D. Anthony Bedsole Mr. Foster Key Bradley, Jr. Montgomery, AL Anniston, AL Mrs. Elwanda Pender Wyatt Birmingham, AL Mc Calla, AL Mrs. Sally Bray Caswell Mr. William Hamilton Varner Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Jo Ann White Beduerftig Dr. Virginia Bailey Bradley Shelburne, VT Lynchburg, VA Dr. John Clyde Yarbrough Harvest, AL Owens Cross Roads, AL Mrs. Melanie Walthall Chambliss Mr. R. Lee Vaughan, Jr. Huntsville, AL Mr. Vincent Nicholas Bellofatto Mr. Daniel Robert Brady Prattville, AL Spring, TX Dr. Wayne Yarbrough Northport, AL Oxford, AL Mr. Jonathan Ryne Chappell Ms. Amanda Leigh Wade Montgomery, AL Mr. Matthew Tyler Belote Mr. Matthew D. Brakefield Charlotte, NC Birmingham, AL Mr. James Willis Yeldell III Loomis, CA Helena, AL Dr. Alice A. Chenault Mrs. Cathy Duncan Wahl Charlotte, NC Mrs. Peggy Morrow Benefield Mrs. Patsy V. Bramlett Huntsville, AL Decatur, AL Birmingham, AL Decatur, AL Mr. Edward Ainsworth Childs, Jr. Dr. Gerald Wayne Waldrop To $99 Dr. Donald J. Benson Mr. Joseph Edgar Brent Birmingham, AL Helena, AL Mrs. Martha Costen Abernathy Tuscaloosa, AL Versailles, KY Ms. LaTonya Chiles Mr. Jimmy M. Wall Enterprise, AL Mr. Joseph Kelley Berman Dr. Frances Anne Breslin Bessemer, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Barrett Durham Abernethy San Diego, CA Thorsby, AL Mrs. M. Jane Christeson Mr. John Edward Warren III Livingston, AL Mr. Robert L. Berry Mrs. Janeille E. Brewer Daytona Beach, FL Basking Ridge, NJ Dr. Jon Charles Acker Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Laura Schrieber Clark Mr. John C. Watkins V Coker, AL Mrs. Cruse Nolen Bevill Ms. Barbara Jean Briles Tuscaloosa, AL Atlanta, GA Dr. Carol Jackson Adams Birmingham, AL Lawrenceville, GA Dr. Lawrence A. Clayton Dr. and Mrs. B. Michael Watson Ballwin, MO Dr. Fred Joseph Biasini Mr. Hugh M. Brinkley Tuscaloosa, AL Roswell, GA Dr. Joseph Vernard Adams Birmingham, AL West Palm Beach, FL Mr. Johnathan R. Cleckler Dr. Signe O. Wegener Savannah, GA Mrs. Victoria Haynie Binkley Mr. Micheal Collin Brooks Clanton, AL Atlanta, GA Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Agee Alexandria, VA Monroeville, AL Mrs. Emily Hall Clem Mrs. Lauren Sawyer Weil Franklin, TN Mr. John Francis Biter, Jr. Mr. James Lynn Brothers Athens, AL Birmingham, AL Dr. Donald Lee Alexander Bangor, ME Decatur, AL Mr. Joshua Clement Mrs. Cynthia L. Weldon Montevallo, AL Mrs. Martha Chisam Black Mrs. Barbara G. Brown West Palm Beach, FL Frisco, TX Mr. James Reed Allen Plano, TX Newnan, GA Captain Patrick D. Clements Mrs. Ethel Patricia West Cumming, GA Dr. Michael David Blackburn Mr. John Charles Brown Bossier City, LA Harvest, AL Mrs. Lynn H. Allen Birmingham, AL Gadsden, AL Mr. Jerry M. Cleveland Mr. Donald Ray Westmoreland Waco, TX Ms. Elise F. Blackwell Ms. Madeline Hansen Brown Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Mr. James A. Anderson II Selma, AL Shippensburg, PA Ms. Stella Cocoris Dr. Margaret Stallworth Wheeler Birmingham, AL Mr. John Hoyt Blalock Ms. Nancy Gatewood Brown Birmingham, AL Dunwoody, GA Mr. Thomas Perrin Anderson Chicago, IL Richmond, VA Mr. Ray Boyd Coffey, Jr. Dr. Jimmy Cleveland White Garner, NC Mrs. Meredith Elayne Bliss Mrs. Rebecca Knight Brown Richmond, VA Butler, AL Huntsville, AL Anniston, AL Dr. William M. Colburn Dr. Robert Monroe Browning, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Dumfries, VA Mrs. Constance Rigsby Cole Mrs. Suzanne Carter Bryan Tuscaloosa, AL Lanett, AL Lieutenant Colonel Donald Dwight David Dreher Honors Brother with Ms. Johana A. Bucci Cole Mobile, AL Millport, AL Gift to English Scholarship Mr. Raymond Douglas Buck Ms. Jeanna M. Coleman Chapel Hill, NC Bessemer, AL David Dreher, of Seneca, South Carolina, has given $10,000 to the O. B. Emerson Endowed Dr. Michael Sterling Buckner Mrs. Gayla Greene Collins Scholarship Fund in memory of his late brother, Andrew S. Dreher. Andrew Dreher also gave Headland, AL Hurdle Mills, NC $5,000 to the College of Arts and Sciences in his will. He received his undergraduate degree from Mrs. Jane W. Burchfield Mr. Guy Wendell Collins Newberry College and his doctorate in English literature from The University of Alabama, where Gardendale, AL Huntsville, AL Dr. Lee Burns Mrs. A. Flynt Connor O. B. Emerson was one of his favorite professors. He was retired from the Veterans Administration Madison, AL Augusta, GA and was a veteran of the United States Army. David Dreher also attended The University of Mr. Christopher Wade Busby Mr. William Nelson Cooper, Jr. Alabama, receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1967 and his master’s degree in 1969. Waverly, AL Birmingham, AL The O. B. Emerson Endowed Scholarship Fund supports full-time students majoring in English. Mr. David A. Butler Dr. Charlotte Evans Copley Pinson, AL Williamsburg, VA

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 26 9/22/14 5:06 PM Mrs. Elizabeth C. Cornelius Mrs. Julie Barranco Dunn Mr. Loren B. Gallogly III Dr. Michael Tracey Gunter Ms. Nanaline Joyce Holt Mobile, AL Merritt Island, FL Jacksonville, FL Opelika, AL Birmingham, AL Mr. Curtis Lee Cornett Mrs. Melanie Dykes Mrs. Susan Raffield Galloway Mr. Eugene C. Gwaltney III Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey T. Horen Cincinnati, OH Mountain Brook, AL Birmingham, AL Alexander City, AL Northport, AL Mrs. Rachel VanCleave Cory Mrs. Kimberly Simpson Earle Mr. and Mrs. William Jordan Gamble Mrs. Dia Joy Hablutzel Mr. Ernie Harold Hornsby Brooklyn, NY Sioux Falls, SD Selma, AL Charlotte, NC Dothan, AL Ms. Pamela Ann Cox Mr. Harold Hugh Eddy Dr. and Mrs. William Lee Gamble Mr. Robert Lamar Hales Mrs. Lily Li Hsu Tuscaloosa, AL Gainesville, FL Huntsville, AL Helena, AL Rock Hill, SC Mr. Rush Holland Crawford Mrs. Carolyn Johnson Ellinger Ms. Meredith Suzanne Gant Mrs. Ann F. Hall Ms. Mary Henderson Hudson Tuscaloosa, AL Somerville, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Pensacola, FL Birmingham, AL Ms. Pam Crider Dr. Fred Martin Emerling III Ms. Melanie Parsons Gao Dr. Brent Hamner Mr. Timothy Joseph Huffstutter Birmingham, AL Goodyear, AZ Nashville, TN Cartersville, GA Silver Spring, MD Mrs. Dina Crawford Crigger Dr. Geraldine M. Emerson Mrs. Charlotte Cates Gard Mr. Max W. Hand Mr. Randy Lee Humphries Lewisburg, TN East Flat Rock, NC Las Cruces, NM Cullman, AL Joppa, AL Mr. James K. Crow, Jr. Mr. Carl Joseph Emmons Dr. Karen Hollingsworth Gardiner Dr. Ronnie Michael Hanes Mrs. June Borders Hust Mobile, AL Trussville, AL Northport, AL Union Grove, AL Fairhope, AL Mrs. Susanne Stumpf Cunningham Mrs. Mary L. Entzminger Dr. William B. Gardner Mr. C. Fred Hardwick III Ms. Cassandra Steely Hutson Columbus, MS Conway, AR Duluth, GA Dothan, AL Pisgah, AL Ms. Becky Danford Mr. Kaz Espy Mr. Evan D. Garfinkel Mr. Robert Marshall Hardy, Jr. Ms. Sarah Renea Hyatt Dothan, AL Dothan, AL Aventura, FL Fairfax, VA Steele, AL Mrs. Rose Mary Dannelly Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie A. Etheridge Mrs. Brinda Cain Garrigan Dr. and Ms. James W. Harrell, Jr. Mrs. Maritzabel Rodriguez Hyde Sumter, SC Raleigh, NC Montgomery, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Falls Church, VA Mr. Bikash Chandra Das Ms. Debra Eubanks Ms. Susan Jeanette Gault Mrs. Connie S. Harris Dr. Ramona L. Hyman Meridian, MS Ardmore, AL Northport, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Huntsville, AL Mr. John Benjamin Dasch Dr. Will Evans Mrs. Ann Lewis Gebhart Mr. Kenneth Alan Harris Mr. Joseph J. Ierardi Dallas, TX Fairview, OR Decatur, AL Pelham, AL North Haven, CT Ms. Patti D. Davidson Mr. William Evans, Jr. Mrs. Gale W. Gibbons Dr. Julia A. Hartman Mr. Paul Francis Imboden Alexandria, VA Dothan, AL Theodore, AL Alexander, NC Tavares, FL Mr. Donald Ray Davis Mr. Steven Tyler Everitt Mr. Gregory Thomas Gilbert Mrs. Tina Hartman Captain John E. Ingram, Jr. Birmingham, AL Oldsmar, FL Marietta, GA Cordova, TN Tiger, GA Mrs. Robin Swaim Davis Mrs. Jann Abraham Faciane Mr. Steven Ginzbarg Mr. Basil N. Hasan Mr. Deryck Keith Jackson Memphis, TN New Orleans, LA Tuscaloosa, AL Buford, GA Mobile, AL Mr. T. Gary Davis Mr. John Croom Falkenberry Mrs. Martha Townley Glover Mrs. Carolyn Langston Hasty Dr. Robison Brown James Savannah, GA Birmingham, AL Little Rock, AR Huntsville, AL Henrico, VA Mrs. Kendra S. Day Mr. Willie James Feagin, Jr. Mrs. Christine Upchurch Golliver Mr. Clifford J. Hataway, Sr. Mrs. Carolyn Vann Jennings Canoga Park, CA Bloomington, IL Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Cumming, GA Mrs. Peggy D. Day Mr. Jack Harris Fein Mr. Thomas Mark Gonsewski Mr. Charles Timothy Hatfield Mr. George Wallace Johnson Cullman, AL Boynton Beach, FL Eufaula, AL Ellicott City, MD Hickory, NC Mr. James Robert Deane Dr. Richard M. Feist Mr. Richard Goodall Mr. Christopher R. Haughton Mr. Guy Vaughan Johnson, Jr. Birmingham, AL Salt Lake City, UT Centreville, VA Haleyville, AL Letohatchee, AL Mrs. Katherine S. Deaton Mr. Ricardo Emilio Fernandez Mr. Carlton T. Gorder Mrs. Alice Parker Haun Mr. William Marvin Johnson Mobile, AL Metairie, LA Tuscaloosa, AL Northport, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Susan M. DeLeon Dr. William D. Findlay Mr. George B. Gordon Mr. William G. Hause Judge Samuel Johnston, Jr. San Antonio, TX Mc Calla, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dothan, AL Lynchburg, VA Mr. Patrick V. Dennis Mr. Byron Frank Findley Mr. Thomas Arthur Gordon, Jr. Dr. Murray Clark Havens Mrs. Alessandra Anderson Jones Birmingham, AL Brewton, AL Birmingham, AL Nashville, TN Demopolis, AL Mr. Woodford W. Dinning, Jr. First Data Corporation Mr. James Clayton Goree, Jr. Ms. Mallory Ann Hayes Ms. Judy McMicken Jones Demopolis, AL Omaha, NE Centreville, AL Lander, WY Birmingham, AL Mrs. Sue Cleverdon Dixon Mrs. Carrie S. Fitts Mrs. Nelda Gunn Gorman Mr. Walter Shields Hayes Dr. Lester Earl Jones Birmingham, AL Northport, AL Media, PA Northport, AL Milton, FL Mrs. Carolyn Petry Dominick Mr. Andrew John Flanigan Mr. Vincent John Graffeo Ms. Susan Harriet Head Mr. William Andrew Jones Tuscaloosa, AL Tampa, FL Mountain Brook, AL Atlanta, GA Birmingham, AL Mrs. Leslie Cobb Donnell The Honorable Ms. Rachel Lynellen Graves Mr. Christopher Ryan Heinisch Mrs. Florence Evans Jordan Smyrna, GA Charles William Fleming, Jr. Little Rock, AR Hoover, AL Montgomery, AL Mr. David Johnson Dortch Geneva, AL Mr. James Coulson Gray III Mr. Michael O. Henderson Mr. Dennis A. Joyce Georgetown, KY Mrs. Reba Marshall Lyons Fogarty Birmingham, AL Houston, TX Mantoloking, NJ Mr. Curtis Douglass Point Clear, AL Mrs. Laura Holt Gray Mr. Jan Dean Hendrix Ms. Kelly Noel Joyce Roswell, GA Mr. Bradford Folmar Hoover, AL Wimberley, TX Boynton Beach, FL Ms. Laura Lynne Dover Winchester, VA Dr. John C. Green, Sr. Mrs. Michelle Birk Hendryx Mrs. Esta Diane Meyers Kamplain Birmingham, AL Mr. Brent Alexander Forbes Demopolis, AL Jacksonville, FL Birmingham, AL Ms. Hallie K. Drake Enterprise, AL Mr. Matthew Nelson Green Dr. Mary Jean Herden Mrs. Kathy Sheehy Kann Falkville, AL Ms. Geraldine Taylor Fousek Umatilla, FL Alexandria, VA Dumfries, VA Mr. Randall Steven Drake Fayette, AL Dr. Virginia Little Green Mrs. Dominique P. Herrington Mr. Daniel J. Katz Brentwood, TN Mrs. Anita Townes Fowler Clinton, MS Nashville, TN Columbia, MD Mr. Dennis Marvin Drew Birmingham, AL Mr. Milton Charles Grishman Mrs. Nancy Jo Walker Herzel Mrs. Amy Dean Kemp Montgomery, AL Mr. Damien M. Franklin Biloxi, MS Nichols Hills, OK Towson, MD Mr. Mark J. Duff Collinsville, MS Mr. Fred Allen Grissom Ms. Cortney Lynne Hewitt Mrs. Orenita Powers Kerl Paducah, KY Mr. J. Christopher Freeman Youngsville, NC Ringgold, GA Huntsville, AL Mr. Thomas Van Dunion Newburgh, IN Dr. Jack W. Groover, Jr. Mr. Ethan Daniel Hiatt Mrs. Lia Apodaca Kerwin Trussville, AL Dr. Alexander Frenkel Savannah, GA Birmingham, AL Alexandria, VA Mrs. Nancy Rhea Dunklin Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Larry Richard Guerine Mr. Herbert Wilkinson Hicks Ms. Kendra Nichole Key Greenville, AL Mr. Michael Christopher Frings Kennesaw, GA Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Emily Williams Dunn Chesterfield, MO Mrs. Regina Rose Gunderson Ms. Beth Biegler Hines Dr. and Mrs. Travis Eugene Kidd Birmingham, AL Mr. Dennie Ray Frye Harker Heights, TX Germantown, TN Birmingham, AL Columbia, SC

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Mr. Solomon P. Kimerling Mrs. Mary W. Majerik Mrs. Martha Jennings Moon Mrs. Melissa O’Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Richard Andrew Rhea Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Birmingham, AL Decatur, AL Gadsden, AL Ms. Brianna C. King Mrs. Dorothy Swindel Malaier Mrs. Marion Joellen Moore Mrs. Teresa Bishop Overstreet Mrs. Karen F. Rheams-Burnett Slidell, LA Montgomery, AL Mims, FL Thomasville, AL Punta Gorda, FL Mrs. Jodi Hanley King Ms. Gail P. Mallard Morgan Stanley Foundation Mr. Tracy A. Overstreet Mr. and Mrs. Donald Rice Herndon, VA Memphis, TN New York, NY Olive Branch, MS Sumiton, AL Dr. Thomas Patton King Mr. Michael Emanuel Manos Mr. Jeffery M. Morgan Mr. Milton Andrew Page Mr. Charles E. Richardson III Birmingham, AL Anniston, AL Peachtree City, GA Huntsville, AL Atlanta, GA Ms. Krissie Kirby Mr. John Andrew Martin Mrs. Julia Mashburn Morgan Mr. Paul Harvey Page Mr. Jeff R. Richardson and Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Auburn, AL Pittsburgh, PA Mrs. Dannie L. Hart Mrs. Mary B. Klockenkemper Mr. Robert Christopher Martin Mrs. Jennifer Lei Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Shaley Kyle Parker Tallahassee, FL Lakeland, FL Charlotte, NC Grant, AL Trussville, AL Mr. Nathan Jefferson Riddle Mr. Bryce Miller Knight Dr. Nancy Susan Mason Mr. John Christopher Morrison Mr. David Buchanan Parrish New York, NY Raytown, MO Rocky Face, GA Portland, OR Huntsville, AL Dr. Stancel Martin Riley, Jr. Mr. John Kurtick, Jr. Mrs. Barbara C. Mayfield Dr. Lynda Sanderford Morrison Mr. Frank Joseph Parsons Guntersville, AL Sparrow Bush, NY Birmingham, AL Easton, MD Oneonta, AL Mr. Robert Earl Roberts Dr. Daniel Vincent Kyle Mr. Stanley Carl McCaa Dr. Larry Dewayne Mullins Mr. Jackson P. Partlow Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Ruston, LA Madison, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. LaShondra V. Robinson Mrs. Anita Faye Lacefield Mr. Michael Jerode McCann Mr. Jaime Esteban Murillo Mr. Carmine John Pastore Mobile, AL Tuscumbia, AL Mobile, AL Mesquite, TX West Babylon, NY Mr. Thomas Earl Rodgers Mrs. Katherine Lamonica Dr. Paige Reece McCormick Dr. Melinda Byrd Murphy Mrs. Kristi Foote Patrick Sweet Water, AL Lexington, KY Tuscaloosa, AL Monroeville, AL Greensboro, GA Mr. William Clay Rogers Mr. Barry Keith Langston Ms. Margaret Ruth McCrummen Mr. Thomas Edenfield Murphy Ms. Zayauna DeShaye Patterson Starkville, MS Toney, AL New Orleans, LA Raleigh, NC Tuskegee Institute, AL Mr. Wright Hackett Ross III Mr. Brad J. Latta Ms. Elizabeth Anne McCully Mr. Patrick Shawn Murray Mrs. Barbara Hepner Patton Guntersville, AL Theodore, AL Hoover, AL Northport, AL Opelika, AL Dr. Frederick Joseph Rossi Mrs. Cheryl M. Lawson Mr. Joseph Stanley McFadden Mrs. Lindy Larson Murrell Mr. Joel Wayne Payton Tuscaloosa, AL Allen, TX Reno, NV Redondo Beach, CA Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Randy Michael Rossignol Dr. Dean Ford Lawson Mrs. Kathryn S. McGinnis Mr. Thomas Arthur Myers Dr. Gwendolyn Smith Pearson Metairie, LA La Grange, NC Simpsonville, SC Trussville, AL Montgomery, AL Ms. Diane E. Roth Mrs. Marcie Anne Lawson Mrs. Susan Hill McGinnis Mr. Jarrod C. Nackley Mr. William Wade Perry Decatur, AL Sikeston, MO Keene, NH Atlanta, GA Winfield, AL Mr. Robert John Roth Dr. Henry A. Lazer Mr. Allen Eugene McHenry Dr. Jose-Herick T. Napenas Mr. Barry Phelps Fort Lauderdale, FL Tuscaloosa, AL Ferndale, WA Newnan, GA Washington, DC Ms. Leslie Wight Route Ms. Christine Lee Dr. Dorothy Jean McIver Mrs. Valerie Roberts Nash Mrs. Martha Jeanne Ingram Phillips Newnan, GA Pelham, AL Mobile, AL Mountain Brook, AL Birmingham, AL Ms. Barbara Frances Rowell Mr. Frank M. Lee Mrs. Nancy Richardson McKinnie Mr. Richard Evans Neal Ms. Peggy Janet Phillips Jacksonville, AL Mountain Brook, AL New Orleans, LA Montgomery, AL Cullman, AL Ms. Janet Kay Roycroft Dr. Perry Lee Mr. Lee Holland McKnight Mrs. Louise M. Nelson Mrs. Robin Preussel Phillips Birmingham, AL Greensboro, GA Portland, OR Cedar Bluff, AL Houston, TX Dr. Emily B. Ruch Mr. Robert Earl Lewis Mrs Tiffany Lisbeth McLean Ms. Lane Chambers Nestman Dr. William H. Phillips, Jr. Memphis, TN Northport, AL Raleigh, NC Fort Worth, TX Lexington, SC Mrs. Patricia Boyd Rumore Mrs. Sally Wright Lewis Ms. Skye McLeod Dr. Alfred Carraway Nichols Ms. Dolores Dikis Pihakis Birmingham, AL Wetumpka, AL New Orleans, LA Jacksonville, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Barbara Kent Rush Mr. William Earnest Lewis, Jr. Dr. Gail Thomas McLure Dr. Gary Patrick Nichols Mr. Charles Thomas Pike Point Clear, AL Norwood, MA Iowa City, IA Albany, GA Jasper, AL Mr. Jesse Thomas Russell III Mrs. Elizabeth Marvin Little Mr. William Paul McNutt, Jr. Dr. Paul D. Niolet Mr. Toni Edward Plummer Montgomery, AL Clinton, MS Asheville, NC Ocean Springs, MS Atlanta, GA Mrs. Marianne McCraw Russell Lockheed Martin Corporation Ms. Mary Jane McPherson Mr. and Mrs. Michael Alan Nix Mr. Thomas J. Powers Greenville, AL Foundation Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mobile, AL Mr. Hugh Norwood Sager Huntsville, AL Mrs. Sylvia A. McPherson Major Henry Lees Nixon PricewaterhouseCoopers Hueytown, AL Mr. Thomas Chris Logan Vestavia Hills, AL Murfreesboro, TN Foundation Dr. Randall T. Salekin Birmingham, AL Mrs. Dianne E. McWilliams Mr. Andrew Stephen Nolen New York, NY Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Aubrey Lamar Long Montgomery, AL Birmingham, AL Commander Glenn Howard Mr. Ricky Sanders Post Falls, ID Mrs. Sybil Sherman Merig Mr. Theron Wayne Nolen Quiggle Decatur, AL Ms. Melinda Jean Long Mobile, AL Fayette, AL Lagrange, GA Dr. James Mace Sawyer Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Robert Neal Meriwether Mrs. Lezley Rene Norris Mrs. Karla Rogers Quinn Montgomery, AL Mr. Frank Snow Longshore Asheville, NC Ennis, TX Deatsville, AL Dr. Kenneth N. Saxon North Hollywood, CA Merrill Lynch & Company Fdn., Inc. Mr. Walter Mark Ogilvie Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Rainey Brownsville, TX Ms. Jacqueline R. Lopez Princeton, NJ Austin, TX Monroeville, AL Reverend William H. Saxon, Jr. Winston Salem, NC Ms. Lynn Sensabaugh Merrill Mr. Richard F. Ogle Mr. Frederick Paul Rawlins Alabaster, AL Mr. Billy Vance Loving, Jr. Montgomery, AL Birmingham, AL Americus, GA Mrs. Helen Kelly Sayre Montgomery, AL Mrs. Eunice Starr Miles Mrs. Lisa Tinsley O’Hara Mr. Phillip Gantt Rawls Gulf Breeze, FL Mr. Scott Michael Lucas Owens Cross Roads, AL Spanish Fort, AL Montgomery, AL Mr. Thomas Vincent Schifanella Atlanta, GA Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Miller Mr. Kristopher Robert Olin Mr. Justin Bryant Ray Atlantic Beach, FL Mrs. Elizabeth Dickens Luther Birmingham, AL Blacksburg, VA Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Eric K. Schmitt Dallas, TX Mr. Gregory Eubank Miller Ms. Susan M. Olin Mr. Jerome Robert Redus Denver, NC Mr. Wesley K. Lybrand Ocean Springs, MS Tuscaloosa, AL Huntsville, AL Mrs. Frances Ellis Schwemmer Leeds, AL Ms. Brenda Kyle Mince Mr. Ellis V. Ollinger, Jr. Mr. Michael Jason Reed Huntsville, AL Mrs. Andrea Nicole MacDonald Fort Payne, AL Mobile, AL Lexington, AL Ms. Ashley Elizabeth Scruggs Rockledge, FL Mr. George E. Mingledorff III Mr. Larry W. O’Neal Mr. William Francis Reid Boulder, CO Ms. Carolyn Rosich Magers Montgomery, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Lindsay C. Scruggs Conyers, GA Mrs. Carolyn Wicks Mize Oracle Corporation Ms. Diana B. Reynolds Gulf Shores, AL Dr. Thomas P. Mahoney Birmingham, AL Princeton, NJ Gurley, AL Mr. and Mrs. James Vercell Seal Orange, CA Vestavia, AL

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 28 9/22/14 5:06 PM Dr. Joseph Michael Semple Mrs. Georgia Patterson Stock Mrs. Jonie Griffin arnerV Mr. John Paul Weber Mr. Vernon Hazlitt Williams Erie, PA Chattahoochee, FL Ridgeland, MS Tuscaloosa, AL Trenton, NJ Mr. and Mrs. Jason Alan Shamblin Mr. James Douglas Stone Mr. Glenn Travis Vaughn Mr. Thomas Edward Weeks Mrs. Melinda Wilson Birmingham, AL Montgomery, AL Marion, AL Nashville, TN Minden, LA Mrs. A. Catherine Shannon Mr. H. Bernard Strickland III Ms. Patricia Ann Vernon Mrs. Frances Colvin Welden Mr. Orman Ray Wilson Madison, WI Dothan, AL Waldwick, NJ New Orleans, LA Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Linda M. Sherwood Brigadier General David Lawrence Mrs. Sue Smith Vice Wells Fargo Foundation Mr. Robert Borden Wilson Bozeman, MT Stringer Athens, AL Princeton, NJ Minden, LA Mrs. Nancy VanWert Shockley Berea, OH Mr. Timothy Wayne Vick Ms. Kathryn Vranicar Wentzel Ms. Mary Linda Wimberley Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Mark Neil Strunk Montgomery, AL Camp Hill, PA Birmingham, AL Mrs. Barkley Byrd Shreve Smiths, AL Ms. Ashley Michelle Vinson Mr. H. Clark West Dr. William Thomas Windham Mobile, AL Mr. John J. Sullivan, Jr. Trussville, AL Sarasota, FL Murfreesboro, TN Ms. Gabriela Maria Simich Greensboro, NC Dr. Sreenivasulu Vutukuri Mrs. Rebecca Key Wetzel Mr. James M. Wiygul Los Angeles, CA Mr. James Laudie Sumner, Jr. Hillsboro, OR Glen Allen, VA Birmingham, AL Dr. Jay Keith Simmons Montgomery, AL Mr. Harry Alden Wagaman Mrs. Betty Poag White Mr. Guy Homer Wolf II Indianola, IA Mr. David Szalkowski Williamsport, MD Centreville, AL Towson, MD Mrs. Jane Cason Simpson Houston, TX Mrs. Carol Hughes Waites Mr. Brandon Ross White Mrs. Sharon A. Wood Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Chelsea L. Talley Birmingham, AL Northport, AL Phoenix, AZ Mr. Thomas A. Simpson, Jr. Northport, AL Mr. Malvern Joseph Waldrep Mr. John Marcus White Ms. Kaneesha LaTonya Woodard Birmingham, AL Mrs. Ruth Brewton Talley Columbus, GA Spring, TX Enterprise, AL Mr. John Robert Sinclair Lutz, FL Dr. Susan Ulmer Wallace Ms. Clementine M. Whitman Mr. Grant Marcus Woodham, Jr. Springfield, AV Mrs. Arabella Tatum Clemson, SC Little Rock, AR Norman, OK Colonel George Lightfoot Birmingham, AL Mrs. Rita Wall-Wilson Dr. Mary Alice Whitt Dr. Louie Albert Woolbright Singleton, Ret. Dr. Alison Nicole Tatum-Davis Huntersville, NC Gadsden, AL Montgomery, AL Birmingham, AL Columbia, MD Ms. Joan Monica Wanat Mr. Edwin Lindsey Wiggins, Jr. Mr. Jonathan Patterson Worrell Mrs. Linda Armstrong Sitton Mrs. Leah O. Taylor Chicago, IL Charlotte, NC Atlanta, GA Indian Springs, AL Birmingham, AL Mrs. Elizabeth Strickland Wang Mr. Stewart Sealy Wilbanks Dr. James David Yarbrough Mr. David B. Skinner Mrs. Leisa Barton Taylor Chattanooga, TN Vestavia, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Pensacola, FL Huntsville, AL Mr. James Robert Ward III Mrs. Anne James Wilbourne Mr. Jonathan Yasuda Mr. David Barton Smelser Dr. Henry Emanuel Teller, Jr. Montgomery, AL Hammond, LA Wahiawa, HI Pelham, AL Hattiesburg, MS Mr. Edwin B. Washington Dr. Timothy R. Wilkinson Mr. Alfred H. Yeager Mr. Gary Smith Mr. Joseph Dimmick Thetford, Sr. Columbia, TN Fackler, AL Maylene, AL Kearney, NE Mobile, AL Mrs. Gene Brown Wasmer Dr. Carl F. Williams Mrs. Amelia Heath Yessick Mrs. Linda Higbee Smith Mr. Jason Charles Thomas High Point, NC Tuscaloosa, AL Northport, AL Fairhope, AL Fairhope, AL Mrs. Janice Preston Watkins Mrs. Dianna B. Williams Mr. John Herron Yoder Dr. Marshall Wayne Smith Mr. and Mrs. Steven Allen Thomas Atlanta, GA Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Midlothian, VA Jasper, AL Mr. Winston Winfield Way, Jr. Mr. Harold P. Williams, Jr. Mr. James H. Young Dr. Maurice Ray Smith Dr. Alan Smith Thompson Charlotte, NC Martinsville, VA Birmingham, AL Cleveland, TN Shreveport, LA Mr. Douglas Leroy Weathers Mr. Philip Kent Williams Ms. Ruthe Rochelle Yow Mr. Walter Henry Smith Mrs. Mary Yarbrough Thornton Leeds, AL Charlotte, NC Saint Petersburg, FL Columbia, SC Marion, AL Mr. Robert W. Webb Mr. Robert Williams, Jr. Mrs. Marta Sherrill Zinkand Mr. Stuart Davis Sockwell Ms. Mallory Tittle East Palatka, FL Selma, AL Scottsdale, AZ Florence, AL Saltillo, MS Ms. Laqueta W. Soule Dr. Charles Samuel Tompkins Soddy Daisy, TN Brantley, AL Mr. Eddie D. Southard Ms. Margaret Houston Treese Georgetown, TX Buhl, AL Southern Company Services, Inc. Dr. Mary Patricia Trenkle Atlanta, GA Tomball, TX Mr. Jason Donald Spahn Mr. Charles Ramsdell Trew Mobile, AL Arlington, VA Dr. Julian Ferrell Sparks, Jr. Mr. Terrance Scott Troup Collegian Grant, AL Pleasant Grove, AL Mr. Frank Edwin Spell, Jr. Mrs. Andrea L. Tuggle Robert F. Olin, Ph.D. Northport, AL Dallas, TX Dean, College of Arts and Sciences Mr. Robert Harper Baldwin Mr. Daniel Ross Turner Spencer Jacksonville, AL Rebecca Paul Florence Kathy Yarbrough Jacksonville, FL Mr. Gentry Chance Turner Director of College Relations Director of Development Mr. Guy Gaillard St. Clair Birmingham, AL Associate Director of Development New Port Richey, FL Mrs. Deborah Beard Underhill Dr. Robert D. Stainback Hackett, AR stephanie Brumfield Kirkland Miramar Beach, FL Captain Douglas Bernard Editor/Writer/Communications Specialist Mrs. Betty Thompson Steadman Upchurch III Hattiesburg, MS Oak Harbor, WA Zachary Riggins, Matthew Wood Photographers Mrs. Sarah Thomas Steenberge Mr. Joseph Bowman Urech Thousand Oaks, CA Enterprise, AL Michael Gibbons Barbara Reddoch Mr. Robert Alan Stelzenmuller Mr. Edward Hunter Vahle Copy Editor Designer Durham, NC Blair, NE Dr. Barry M. Stentiford Dr. J. H. Van De Car, Jr. Leavenworth, KS Orlando, FL Ms. Jennifer Nicole Stewart Dr. Timothy R. VandeBrake The Collegian is published by the College of Arts and Sciences of The University of Alabama. The Selma, AL Rochester, NY Collegian welcomes your suggestions and comments concerning this publication. 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The following alumni and friend have Baldwin EMC LECO Corporation Drs. Robert and Joan Comas Mr. John Jecen made gift to individual departments Summerdale, AL Saint Joseph, MI Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL or programs in the College. All gifts Dr. and Mrs. Robert F. Bell Dr. Glida and Mr. Richard Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edward Dr. James Louis Jolly, Jr. were made between June 1, 2013 Northport, AL Magnani Compton Tuscaloosa, AL and May 31, 2014. Dr. Nancy R. Campbell Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Jane Hopping Joslin Tuscaloosa, AL Lt. Col. Marvin Lynn McCloud Mrs. C. Brenda Crayton-Pitches Tuscaloosa, AL Drs. Carolyn and Dennis Dahl Lutz, FL Decatur, GA Mr. and Mrs. Karl E. Leaf $100,000 and above Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Jonathan McSayles Mrs. Jackie Brunson Crowell Littleton, CO Mr. William G. Anderson Mr. James I. Harrison III Durham, NC Enterprise, AL Mr. Richard Light LeComte Shreveport, LA Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Henry Moreta Mr. Frederick Smith Crown, Jr. Tuscaloa, AL Mr. and Mrs. William Alton Hall Idaho Community Foundation Westhampton Beach, NY Nashville, TN Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Lichstein Ossining, NY Boise, ID Mr. John Thomas Nichols Ms. Laura L. Crum Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Jones, Jr. Mr. William Raynes Jones, Jr. Manassas, VA Montgomery, AL Mr. Steve Lindamood Birmingham, AL Tallassee, AL Mr. and Mrs. Michael Francis Mrs. Josephine Camp Davis Houston, TX Dr. Edward O. Wilson Mr. James C. Kennemer O’Brien Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Dilin Liu Lexington, MA Birmingham, AL Alabaster, AL Delta Zeta Alumnae Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. and Mrs. John E. Lee, Jr. Dr. V. C. Scott III Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Margaret G. Livingston $50,000 – $99,999 Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Dr. Samuel A. Denham Birmingham, AL Mr. and Mrs. George R. Williams Mr. Jamie M. Lipham Mrs. Barbara Mikloucich Stone Huntsville, AL Mrs. Merry Koon Livingston Birmingham, AL Spanish Fort, AL Birmingham, AL Ms. June Devries Northport, AL McIlhenny Company A. R. Taylor Veneer Company Scottsdale, AZ Dr. and Mrs. John E. Lochman $10,000 – $49,999 Avery Island, LA Demopolis, AL Ms. Tracy DeWitt Tuscaloosa, AL Drs. Kimberlee and Guy Caldwell Ms. Gloria Narramore Moody Ms. Anne Trawick Mc Calla, AL Mrs. Constance Marsh Northport, AL Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Christine Powless-Dixon MacDonald Clayton Foundation for Research Mr. and Mrs. Timothy M. Parker Ms. Lauren A. Wilson and Dr. David A. Dixon McLean, VA Houston, TX Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Francine Marasco Ms. Patricia A. DeCaro Parkinson’s Support Group of Ms. Kathy Yarbrough Dr. Joan T. Mallonee and Tuscaloosa, AL Pittsford, NY Huntsville Birmingham, AL Dr. William G. Doty Dr. and Mrs. Terrence F. Martell Levitetz Family Foundation, Inc. Huntsville, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Pelham, NY Boca Raton, FL Mrs. Kathy Prospere $100 – $499 Mrs. Hermine Melton Downing Ms. Pamela Jo McCollough Mr. George I. Lindahl III Natchez, MS Dr. Chester Alexander, Jr. Brewton, AL Katy, TX Spring, TX Regions Financial Corporation Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Jack Drake Mrs. Beebe M. McKinley George C. Meyer Foundation Birmingham, AL Allegro Piano and Organ Service Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Summerdale, AL Dr. Diane B. Schultz Tuscaloosa, AL Edison International Ms. Donna Meester Renaissance Charitable Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Don L. Alverson Princeton, NJ Tuscaloosa, AL Foundation Inc. Dr. Bernard James Sloan Northport, AL Ms. Anne Edwards Dr. Joan Parsons Mitchell Indianapolis, IN Panacea, FL Dr. Mary A. Santina and Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Charles A. Stakely Mr. Peter Andronaco Mr. David Ramsey Fisher Nick’s Kids Fund $5, – $9,999 Montgomery, AL Rockwall, TX Houston, TX Tuscaloosa, AL Alabama Credit Union The Westervelt Company Mr. and Mrs. Braxton Ware Ashe Dr. William Arthur Formby Dr. Donald R. Noble, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Sheffield, AL Northport, AL Cottondale, AL Biomedical Research Foundation Drs. Ann and Neil Wimberley Dr. Joan Lyon Atkinson and Mr. Robert Michael Galloway Mrs. Patricia Jenkins Noble Houston, TX Hope, ID Mr. Jon F. Atkinson Mobile, AL Birmingham, AL Community Foundation of Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. William Gilmore Gantt Dr. Isabel Barker Oldshue West Alabama $500 – $999 Dr. Norm Baldwin Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Bianca Lianna Adair Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. George B. Gordon Drs. Linda and Terry Olivet Exxon Mobil Production Company Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Jean S. Barr Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Theodore, AL Dr. Glenn James Ahrenholz Opp, AL Mrs. Lucy Ann Grace Mr. Jeffrey N. Patterson Dr. and Mrs. E. Gaylon Buffalo Grove, IL Mr. Hillyard Jefferson Beans III Decatur, AL Tuscaloosa, AL McCollough Dr. Brenda K. Baumann Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Kathy R. Grissom Mr. and Mrs. Lee R. Perry, Jr. Gulf Shores, AL Birmingham, AL Benoist Law Offices Tuscaloosa, AL Florence, SC Dr. and Mrs. Michael J. Mendle Ms. Donna Waters Boles Natchez, MS Dr. and Mrs. Richard H. Dr. Michael David Picone Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Joe Benson Groshong Tuscaloosa, AL The Erie Hall Meyer Charitable Bruker Daltonics, Inc. Tuscaloosa, AL Grand Lake, CO Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Pieroni Fund, Inc. Billerica, MA Mrs. Diane Cooley Black The Honorable and Mrs. Tuscaloosa, AL Mobile, AL Dr. John J. Burke, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL R. Bernard Harwood, Jr. Mr. Karl H. Pilati Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Mixter Northport, AL Dr. John H. Blitz Tuscaloosa, AL Russellville, AL Naples, FL Mrs. Naneita Leach Cobbs Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. and Mrs. H. Scott Hestevold Mrs. Helen Crow Pittman Curtis and Edith Munson Birmingham, AL The Boeing Company Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Foundation Mr. Robert A. Cowan Charitable Trust Mr. and Mrs. George Douglas Dr. Carol A. Prickett Washington, DC Chandler, AZ Seattle, WA Higginbotham Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Russ D. Spahr Dr. John Richard Cranton Mr. David W. Boykin, Jr. Laurel, MS Mrs. Lois Z. Pyle Theodore, AL Daphne, AL Atlanta, GA Mrs. Adrienne C. Howe Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Patrick Williams ExxonMobil Foundation BP Foundation, Inc. Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. and Mrs. Kerry Rabalais Madison, AL Irving, TX Warrenville, IL Dr. and Mrs. C. G. Hull Ridgeland, MS Mrs. Julie Hall Friedman Mrs. Joan M. Brown Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. and Mrs. William H. Rabel $1,000 – $4,999 Fairhope, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Mary Scott Hunter Tuscaloosa, AL Alpha Lambda Delta Mr. Tomislav Galjanic Mrs. Lisa Jean Burch Huntsville, AL Dr. George C. Rable Tuscaloosa, AL Los Angeles, CA Chapel Hill, NC Ms. Camilla Huxford Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Elizabeth and Dr. and Mrs. Robert W. Halli, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Burrows Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Robin Lynne Reach Mr. Alfonso R. Aversa, III Northport, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. William Jackson III Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Benjamin D. Holmes Mr. Gavin Cameron-Webb Birmingham, AL Regions Financial Corporation Avery Island Inc. Golden, CO Irvine, CA Dr. Sharol Jacobson Foundation Avery Island, LA Drs. Ralph and April Lane Mr. Kyle Collier Tuscaloosa, AL Atlanta, GA Northport, AL Pottsboro, TX

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 30 9/22/14 5:06 PM Dr. and Mrs. H. Mark Reynolds Ms. Summer R. Atkins Mrs. Marcie Eppling Brewton, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Toney, AL Mr. Michael Wayne Rhiney Ms. Sharilyn Meltzer Augins Ms. Cheyenne Ford Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Powder Springs, GA Dr. Norvin W. Richards Mrs. Helena A. Bain Mr. and Mrs. James A. Ford Bon Voyage Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Rome, GA These College of Arts and Sciences faculty members Mr. John William Ross, Jr. Dr. Joan M. Barth Dr. and Mrs. David A. Francko retired during the 2013-2014 academic year, trading Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL class time and office hours for more leisurely pursuits. Dr. and Mrs. E. Roger Sayers Mr. Stephen A. Borrelli Dr. H. Joseph Fritz, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Anna Self Schuber Dr. Ann Bourne Mrs. Charlotte Kruger Gattozzi O. Kimball Armayor Tsun-Zee Mai Tuscaloosa, AL Northport, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Modern Languages and Mathematics Shell Oil Company Foundation BP Chemicals Mr. Jeremy Given Classics Houston, TX Houston, TX Tuscaloosa, AL Elaine Martin Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Mitchell Ms. Sharon Broach Mr. and Mrs. Buddy Goertz David B. Boles Modern Languages and Shelton Smiths Station, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Pyschology Classics Mc Calla, AL Dr. Ian W. Brown Ms. Katherine Gorham Mr. and Mrs. John L. Slaughter Tuscaloosa, AL Birmingham, AL Hobson Bryan Oleg Mryasov Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Susan L. Burkett Mr. Cody S. Goss Geography Physics and Astronomy LtCdr. Edward S. Smith, Jr. Tuscaloosa, AL Olive Branch, MS Cropwell, AL Mrs. Leslie Carson Ms. Camille Samples Hall Priscilla Nellum Davis Mindy N. Nancarrow Snow Sleep Center, PC La Follette, TN Northport, AL Communicative Disorders Art and Art History Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Nancy Carson Ms. Peggy Hamner Dr. Richard Maxwell Snow Tuscaloosa, AL Northport, AL Tony A. Freyer Carol Prickett Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. and Mrs. William B. Cashion Dr. Luoheng Han History School of Music SpectralWorks Denver, CO Tuscaloosa, AL United Kingdom Dr. Barbara Ann Chotiner Mr. Arne Hansen Harry Heath Jane Rasco Dr. and Mrs. Warren H. Spruill Tuscaloosa, AL Elberta, AL Biological Sciences Biological Sciences Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Emily Lauren Cimbal Dr. Jonathan Woodard Hooks Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth E. Parkland, FL Tuscaloosa, AL Marvin Johnson Gary L. Sloan Stephens Dr. and Mrs. Carl B. Clements Dr. Heather Duerre Humann School of Music Biological Sciences Montgomery, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. George W. Taylor Ms. Ally Cohen Ms. Laura Elizabeth Hurd Vernon K. Knight James Thompson Tuscaloosa, AL Narberth, PA Moraga, CA Anthropology Brewer-Porch Mr. and Mrs. William C. Teague Mr. Chuck Collins, Jr. Ms. Ernestine Jackson Tuscaloosa, AL Cottondale, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Children’s Center Tan-yu Lee Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Templin Mr. James N. Connor Ms. Joanna Jacobs Whiteman Air Force Base, MO Boaz, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mathematics Zhijian Wu Mrs. Angela Mooi Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Thomas Mrs. Constance G. Mathematics Mandeville, LA Cook, Jr. Janiga-Perkins Dr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Thrasher Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Seneca, SC Mrs. Joy Clark Cooper Mr. Jamie D. Johnson Mrs. Phyllis Jackson Todd Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Gantt Moore Mr. Charles Setzer Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Jennie C. Cowart Ms. A. Erin Jones Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Susan and Mr. Jack Warner Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. James E. Morris Mrs. Jane Cason Simpson Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. James K. Crow, Jr. Mrs. Mishra Harris Keller Hoover, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Steven E. Weinstein Mobile, AL Evanston, IL Ms. Claire Mosley Ms. Marjorie G. Smith Mobile, AL Dr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Culton Mr. Robert Deavours Kemp Trussville, AL Buffalo Creek, CO Mr. and Mrs. Louis Clyde Northport, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Roxana Munoz Mrs. Kathryn O. Starbuck Whetstone, Jr. Mr. James E. Curtis, Jr. Mrs. Kelly Dawn Kinder Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Washington, DC Mc Calla, AL Mr. and Mrs. Michael Neuman Mr. Bill Stewart Professor and Mrs. Edward C. Dr. MaryBeth and Mr. Alan Ms. Beverly A. Kissinger Philadelphia, PA Tuscaloosa, AL White Dennis Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Robyn Sager Nichols Ms. Alice Taylor Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Ken Kuntz Bessemer, AL Northport, AL Dr. William W. Winternitz Mr. Jordan Dewitt Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Nicol Ms. Frances Tucker Tuscaloosa, AL McCalla, AL Dr. Lenore and Mr. Alex Levin Tuscaloosa, AL Cottondale, AL Dr. Anne C. Witt Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. DeWitt Tampa, FL Ms. Jennifer Ocampo Ms. Alexandra Nicole Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Arietha Ann Lockhart Cypress, TX Varboncoeur Mr. Gary Douglas Woods Mrs. Kimberly Havard Diano Decatur, GA Dr. Catherine M. Pagani Nashville, TN Northport, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. David Low Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Pieter B. Visscher Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Wright Mr. and Mrs. Neil R. Dietsch Aiken, SC Ms. Dakota Elizabeth Park-Ozee Northport, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. S. Michael Malinconico Orlando, FL Ms. Amber Wagner Mr. Amir Zaheri Dr. Rona J. Donahoe Northport, AL Mr. Carter Powers Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Robert Martin Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Chad Everette Ward Mrs. Carolyn McCracken Zeanah Mrs. Adelaide Shamburger Mandeville, LA Ms. Katelyn Reichardt Watertown, NY Tuscaloosa, AL Drennen Ms. Cindy Mashburn Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Monica Moss Watkins Mr. Yang Zhao Tuscaloosa, AL Steele, AL Mrs. Terri Robertson Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Alicia Dunlap Ms. Bridget Ellen McGraw Birmingham, AL Mrs. Meridith J. Wheatley Ms. Willita S. Zoellner Dayton, OH Huntsville, AL Ms. Amanda Rosenberg Northport, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Arthur N. Dunning, Jr. Mr. Logan Middlebrooks Englishtown, NJ Mrs. Tarah Turner Wilson Albany, GA Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Clara Ann Russell Bel Air, MD $99 and below Mr. and Mrs. John R. Dyni Dr. Cynthia F. Miller Houston, TX Ms. Jacqueline Wuska Dr. Lynne Adrian Lafayette, CO Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Maurice DeVaughn Sawyer Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Ms. Susan Edwards Mr. Norman E. Miller Washington, DC Dr. Robert Lee Yoder, Jr. Rome, GA Northport, AL Birmingham, AL

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The Society for the Fine Arts, or SFA, was Mrs. Jeannie Granger Cox Mr. Charles H. Land Mr. David Buchanan Parrish established in 1975 to advocate for and Stone Mountain, GA Tuscaloosa, AL Huntsville, AL support fine and performing arts programs in Dr. Cedric Carl Dent Mrs. Margaret G. Livingston Mrs. Jean A. Pinkerton the College of Arts and Sciences. The society Mount Juliet, TN Birmingham, AL Sylacauga, AL annually honored state and community leaders Mr. George W. Dockery Jr. Dr. George Michael Maitre, Jr. Mr. Sanford B. Pinkerton and artists with a Lifetime Membership for their Tuscaloosa, AL Mobile, AL Sylacauga, AL role in advancing the arts in Alabama. In 2003 Mr. Frank D. Fleming Mrs. Charlotte B. Marshall Mr. Oliver W. Roosevelt, Jr. the SFA was incorporated into the College’s Leadership Board. Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Arlington, MA Mrs. Roberta Peacock Gamble Dr. Currie Allen Martin, Jr. Mrs. Jane M. Stribling Arroyo Grande, CA Mobile, AL Albuquerque, NM Mr. Neal L. Andrews, Jr. Mr. Winston Francis Groom, Jr. Dr. Everett David McCorvey Mr. Gay Joseph Talese Birmingham, AL Point Clear, AL Lexington, KY New York, NY Aaron Aronov Family Foundation Mr. David Alan Harrell Mr. Roger Dale Meadows Mrs. Suzanne Boles Thetford Montgomery, AL Spartanburg, SC Bessemer, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. H. Brandt Ayers Dr. Wilbur Hinton Dr. Joan Parsons Mitchell Dr. James H. Thomas Anniston, AL Hattiesburg, MS Tuscaloosa, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Dr. Omer A. Baker Mr. Nall Hollis Monarch Tile The Tuscaloosa News Tuscaloosa, AL Fairhope, AL Florence, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mrs. Gray Davis Boone Mr. John O. Hope Ms. Gloria Narramore Moody Mr. Jack W. Warner Tuscaloosa, AL Montgomery, AL Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. G. Lee Burchfield III Mr. Andrew L. Hudgins, Jr. Mr. Jim Nabors Mr. Robert S. Weil Tuscaloosa, AL Columbus, OH Honolulu, HI Montgomery, AL Mrs. Celeste E. Burnum Mrs. Elmore Bartlett Inscoe Mr. James R. Nelson Mrs. Yvonne Wells Tuscaloosa, AL Montgomery, AL Birmingham, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. Wesley Brooks Chapman Mrs. Nanci P. Kincaid Mrs. Harold Bowman Nicrosi Dr. Sarah W. Wiggins Tuscaloosa, AL Honolulu, HI Montgomery, AL Tuscaloosa, AL Mr. William A. Christenberry, Jr. Mrs. Suzanne H. Kirby Mr. Craig Laurence Nutt Mr. Evan Wilson Washington, DC Brewton, AL Kingston Springs, TN Hoosick, NY Dr. Wilfred Ward Yeargan, Jr. Northport, AL College Ambassadors Seek to Establish Scholarship for Students in Need

Aug. 25 to promote the Rising Tide Scholarship, which will provide a helping hand to students facing a variety of obstacles or challenges. The campaign has included on-campus events and donation centers, promotions on social Invest media, and spirit nights at participating Tuscaloosa restaurants. The Ambassadors’ co-president In Tomorrow’s Will Menas said the goal of the campaign is to have all students in the College of Arts Leaders and Sciences donate $1 to the scholarship fund and to build shared community support for the scholarship. Invest in the future by supporting To encourage student participation and College of Arts and Sciences students. collaboration with the College’s faculty and alumni, the Ambassadors have asked Undergraduate scholarships are the Serving as the face of the Rising Tide campaign, an the College’s faculty to consider matching a Ambassador-led campaign organized to establish a College’s top priority. You can make scholarship for students in need, is a 6-foot-wide, 4-foot- student or class’s contribution to the Rising Tide tall “elephant bank” made of wood and Plexiglas. Pictured campaign and have asked alumni to match a difference. Please join us in are College of Arts and Sciences Dean Dr. Robert Olin their respective honor society’s contributions. and Ambassador co-presidents Will Menas and The Ambassadors’ goal is to raise $25,000 in supporting deserving students Hannah Studdard dropping their donations inside. order to endow the scholarship. “We hope to make this scholarship a reality with financial needs. What would you do if you could be dean of in honor of all the students we know who are The University of Alabama’s College of Arts facing hardships,” Menas said. “We all know Contact and Sciences for a day? students who are veterans, students who are Marcita Cole, one of more than 9,100 parents, students who hold down three jobs Kathy Yarbrough students who were asked the question via to make ends meet, students who have lost Director of Development social media earlier this year, said she would parents, students whose parents have lost jobs, provide critical financial assistance to successful and students in other difficult situations.” 205-348-0696 students in need. The College’s student Donations can also be made online by [email protected] Ambassadors were struck by her response and visiting the College of Arts and Sciences are seeking to make her vision a reality. website at www.as.ua.edu. Click “Give to A&S” The College of Arts and Sciences and “Give Now,” and select the “Rising Tide Ambassadors began conducting a campaign Endowed Scholarship” account. ■

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 32 9/22/14 5:06 PM AlumniAlumni Notes Notes

1947 1993 Lauren C. Clough (history, BA) has retired as a teacher in Nassau County, Carl Borick (history, BA) has been named the director of The Florida. He continues to be involved in a retired teachers association, AARP, Charleston Museum, America’s First Museum, which was founded in and national politics. 1773.

1953 David Moyer (political science, BA; criminal justice, MS, 1994) has Mary Alice Gray Lee Hudson (chemistry, BS) has retired after practicing been elected president of the St. Charles Parish Bar Association in medicine for 30 years. She has two children, five grandchildren, and eight St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. He received his Juris Doctor from The great-grandchildren. Her hobbies include painting and traveling. She lives in University of Alabama in 1996 and currently practices law in Luling, Madison, Mississippi, with her husband Jerrold. Louisiana.

1963 2001 Fred Marchman (art, BFA) published a new book of poetry. Thee Portals of Shannon Michael Boyd (English, BA) is a premier field engineer for Paradise, published by Author House in 2013, is written in cursive freehand Microsoft. He lives in Yorktown, Virginia, with his wife Sonya and three and is illustrated by Marchman. children, Lily, Colton, and Jack.

1970 Adam R. Colvin (Russian and political science, BA) has accepted a James L. Sumner Jr. (biology and chemistry, BS) was awarded the Council position at the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer. on Governmental Ethics Laws Award for 2013. Sumner has been the Following initial orientation and training in Washington, D.C., Adam director of the Alabama Ethics Commission since 1997, and he is credited will serve as a U.S. Diplomat, posted at one of the more than 265 U.S. for his leadership in implementing a major revision of the state’s ethics laws. Embassies and Consulates abroad, moving with his family from post to post every 2-3 years. 1971 Charles A. Casmus III (broadcast and film communication, BA) recently 2003 played his 1,500th gig as the lead singer in the Montgomery-based band Katherine Perez-Rivera (psychology, PhD) is successfully running a Charlie C & The Cuzamatics. He has been performing part-time since 1966. fee-for-service/out-of-pocket private practice specializing in clinical pediatrics. She is also enjoying life with her husband, Orlando, and her J. Michael Ferninany (theatre and speech, MA) just signed with KOR Talent 9 1/2 year old daughter, Kassandra. Agency after receiving good reviews for his performance in the comedy “The Belle Aires.” He is currently writing a new play.

1975 James E. Griffith Jr. (biology, BS) recently founded the OldSchool Collaborative to bring together teams of designers, educational institutions, and public agencies to create sustainable and economically viable communities.

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Jim Noe visits with Hercules Offshore employees on an offshore drilling rig.

Noe was appointed to his current position, executive vice president, jeopardy, but it comes with the territory.” at Hercules in November 2012, which he sees as a continuation of During these harrowing trips abroad, Noe’s security measures rival his previous work there. He continues to “do a little bit of everything,” those seen on the screens of Hollywood. He has booked multiple plane including business development; managing the legal, risk, and insurance tickets and hotels to elude governmental officials who might be tracking departments; meeting with government officials who have regulatory his whereabouts. He’s planned secret escape routes over land or sea into interests in offshore drilling; and negotiating drilling rights with oil and gas nearby countries should he need to leave quickly. His hotel stays are a companies across the globe. closely guarded secret. His favorite part has been seeing the world. But dangerous situations don’t keep him from having a little fun. “There’s a saying in the oil business that God didn’t put oil under “When I travel with a security team, our code words are often related to Paris,” he said. “That’s true, but I’ve seen some fantastic things.” Alabama football,” he said. “We’ve used ‘roll tide roll,’ a lot for code words Among them, he’s visited the pyramids at Giza, the Great Wall of China, and different things. It’s funny to do that because people in other countries the Colosseum in Rome, Angkor Wat, and the Taj Mahal. have no idea what that means.” Working with Hercules also gives him great satisfaction in knowing that his company employs thousands of people and helps feed and pay tuition “I became fascinated with the industry because bills for thousands of families. “You can make a good living in our business, and it’s fantastically it deals with so many tentacles of society, rewarding to see that translate into people’s lives,” he said.

including culture, politics, geopolitics, science, Lobbying for the Industry and economics.” But that reward also comes with a tremendous amount of responsibility. During the most recent economic recession, Hercules’ challenges were compounded by the BP oil spill and resulting government action that Tight Security Travels temporarily banned offshore drilling. During that time, Noe said Hercules Equally fascinating are the security measures he and Hercules must take laid off several thousand employees in order for the company to survive. when he travels to dangerous destinations. “It quickly became apparent that we wouldn’t survive as a company “The oil and gas industry is sometimes in places with histories of very long unless the moratorium was lifted for shallow water drilling, which corruption,” he said. “To do business the way we want to do business, the is very different than deep water drilling in that it’s less risky and allows for right way, that requires leadership from the top in the form of presence easier access to inspect, maintain, and repair drilling equipment,” he said. in countries with histories of corruption and face-to-face discussions with “We knew we had to educate lawmakers about the negative effects the people who might be corrupt themselves. Dealing with these compliance moratorium was having on the work of thousands of people.” issues, I often find myself in situations in which my safety may be in So Hercules and a group of companies with similar interests formed the

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2014 Aug.collegian 92214 #17 output.indd 34 9/22/14 5:06 PM Shallow Water Energy Security Coalition and took their cause to lawmakers in Washington, D.C. Noe led the cause as the group’s executive director, which required an even higher level of expertise in the art of communication than he had employed previously. “Part of the reason I was dubbed to be the executive director is that I was one of the few members willing to take the short straw and appear on television and testify before Congress,” he said. “We knew we needed to educate not only lawmakers, but also the general public, that the moratorium was putting thousands of people out of work unjustly and unnecessarily, but we had an uphill battle. No one likes oil and gas companies when they see oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico day after day after day. Even so, we knew we had to engage the media to tell our story – that we’re an important part of the economy, that we’re an important part of national security, and that as we continue to develop our oil and gas resources here at home, we become less reliant on guerilla-controlled oil and gas resources abroad.” In the months following the BP oil spill, Noe spent much of his time in meetings with senators and congressmen, and he also appeared frequently in the opinion pages of national newspapers and on live television. He describes his first live TV interview as very, very nerve-racking. “I was being interviewed remotely by someone in New York, and all I had was an earpiece and a camera staring at me,” he said. “There was all this chatter in the background from the producers. The most difficult part was learning how to communicate to different people, to people who may be hostile to my business or who may not know anything about my business, to experts and non-experts, to politicians and John Q. Public watching on CNN. It was communication par excellence that I had learned from my days at The University of Alabama and LSU. The moratorium was lifted on shallow water drilling after several months of lobbying.”

Advice to Students Jim Noe Noe encourages any student wishing to be successful to think and study broadly. “With jobs being scarce, it’s hard not to be practical when you’re “With jobs being scarce, it’s hard not to be deciding your major or the classes you’re going to take,” he said. “But remember that it’s a broad world out there, and you’re going to need more practical when you’re deciding your major or skills than those that get you a job or earn you a paycheck. In business, you’re not always an expert in everything that crosses your desk. You have the classes you’re going to take. But remember to quickly understand it, learn more about it, and then communicate that information with others, particularly as a senior executive of a company. The that it’s a broad world out there, and you’re communication abilities and the broad perspective I gained at the University helped me to become the leader that I am. going to need more skills than those that get “I would encourage all students, whether you’re majoring in accounting, science, or engineering, to take courses that will help you communicate, you a job or earn you a paycheck.” such as English and history courses focused on reading and writing. Also take courses that will give you a broad view of the world. If you want to become a senior executive, you need that core background of Remember, Noe said, that your major only gets you through the door. something you’re bringing to the table, which for me is law, and you need “I’ve found that, even with a law degree, within a year or two of any communication skills and a worldview that’s broader than what your major job, you’ve probably outpaced your degree and you’re relying on your dictates. You need a lot of other aspects of what the University offers you to other skills and abilities to advance you in that job,” he said. “The more do your job well.” variety of coursework you can take, the better.” ■

New UA Cybercrime Lab Launched with Local Police

As computer-based crimes become more prevalent, local law enforcement Lt. Dennis McMillian with The University of Alabama Police Department. agencies need access to technology in order to gather and access digital The Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs provided evidence of cybercrimes. A new digital forensics crime lab at UA will assist $60,000 for the lab as part of the grant. The lab, the first joint partnership law enforcement with this endeavor. of its kind in the state, will provide opportunities for UA students to study Dr. Kathryn Seigfried-Spellar, assistant professor of criminal cybercrime, UA faculty to expand their research, and law enforcement justice, will serve as an academic liaison for the new lab. Created through officers to process evidence from computer-based crimes. a partnership between the Department of Criminal Justice and local Seigfried-Spellar joined the UA faculty in 2012. Her research interests law enforcement agencies, the lab will assist local and possibly national include computer deviance and cyber forensics. She received a Bachelor law enforcement officials with processing digital evidence for use in of Arts from Purdue University in 2005, a Master of Arts in forensic cybercrime prosecutions. psychology from John Jay College of Criminal Justice in 2007, and a The new lab is being funded by a grant Seigfried-Spellar co-wrote with doctorate in cyber forensics from Purdue University in 2011. ■

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