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’41 honoring his outstanding career in Cemetery. In May 2008, a ’58 Last December, Katherine law and politics. rededication service was held for The late Martin Hames, longtime Meadow McTyeire announced those family members and others headmaster of Birmingham’s plans for closing Iron Art Inc., the ’49 unable to attend the original Altamont School, was honored home decor and furniture shop This past May, John Fievet service. this past spring by his friend, artist The Birmingham News has called continued what the editor of Catherine Cabaniss. A painter and “a Mountain Brook institution.” American History magazine has George B. “Hoss” Foss lives with printmaker, she dedicated a March McTyeire presided over the highly called his “personal crusade” to his wife, Luz Maria, in Cuernavaca, 2008 exhibit of her prints in the successful business for 58 years. see that the deaths of 1,015 Mexico, 40 miles south of Mexico school’s Cabaniss Fine Arts Center During that time, she became the American servicemen—his City. He writes that he is the only to Hames, whom she called “a first woman director of the shipmates on the ill-fated British area attorney listed by the great friend to Birmingham Birmingham Chamber of troopship HMT Rohna—are Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory artists.” Commerce, the first woman properly honored in the historical since 1990, and is the only named to Rotary in Birmingham, record of World War II. On Nov. bilingual attorney listed by the ’59 was tapped for the Kiwanis 26, 1943, the Rohna was sunk in American Embassy. He works Dr. James S. Donahoo of Summit, Birmingham Business Hall of the Mediterranean by a German with Mexican attorneys for N.J., received the Distinguished Fame, and was asked by the air-to-surface guided missile, and English-speaking clients, and also Alumnus Award from the governor to chair the state’s 150th to keep reports of the new helps Mexicans with the U.S. law, University of Alabama Medical birthday celebration. McTyeire has weapon secret, details of the countrywide. Alumni Association in February served Birmingham-Southern as a catastrophe were classified by the 2008, in ceremonies celebrating member and officer of the Board U.S. government at the time of the ’50 his outstanding career in of Trustees. She is a member of tragedy and for decades after. Dr. Charles P. Hanby of Chapala, cardiothoracic surgery, most the Ginkgo Society and the Finally, in1996, after great efforts Mexico, writes that he has recently as chief of cardiothoracic Endowment Builders Society. to make the true history of the traveled widely throughout the surgery at the VA Medical Center Rohna known nationwide, Fievet world since retiring almost 20 in East Orange, N.J. Donahoo has ’42 and other members of the Rohna years ago. This summer, he sailed published more than 100 scholarly In May 2008, former U.S. Sen. Survivors Association, which he across Europe in a riverboat, papers in his field, contributed Howell Heflin of Alabama, who founded, dedicated a memorial to traveling on three rivers from Paris chapters to surgical textbooks, died in 2005, was named to the the lost servicemen of the Rohna to Prague. and served as an editor for Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame, at Fort Mitchell (Ala.) National Practical Reviews in Surgery. His ’53 wife is Carol Manasco Donahoo Dr. Alan R. Dimick of Birmingham ’60. was presented the University of Wedding bells ring at Yeilding Chapel— Alabama Medical Alumni Bailey Leopard of Franklin, Tenn., Dr. Aurelia “Dink” Glosser Taylor ’67 and Preston Barnett Association Distinguished Service was named to the Limestone ’68 (former president of the BSC Alumni Association) Award in ceremonies taking place County (Ala.) Sports Hall of Fame were friends and classmates—both history students of this past February. The in June. An award-winning Dr. Henry Randall—during their student years at association notes, “Over the past Birmingham-Southern. They dated briefly after college newspaperman over many 40 years he has helped found, while both were living in Tuscaloosa, he in law school and decades, he began as a she pursuing graduate degrees at the University of risen to the top of, and continued sportswriter for the Athens High Alabama. Then life took them in different directions, she to provide guidance to virtually School newspaper and Alabama to a home in Gadsden and a career, most recently as an every local, regional, and national Courier and Democrat while still in assistant professor at UA, and he to a position as vice organization concerned with high school. In 1955, employed at president and general tax counsel for Cox Enterprises Inc. emergency care in general and the Birmingham Post-Herald, he in Atlanta. After a number of years, a June 2006 e-mail burn injury in particular.” began studies at BSC, graduating from Barnett renewed the friendship, which soon in 1959. During the late ’50s, he blossomed into romance. The couple married in Yeilding ’57 covered Birmingham sports for the Chapel on Aug. 9, 2008, “a perfect place for our wedding,” Dr. Gene L. Davenport of Post-Herald, and in 1958 he began he says, “since we had met at BSC and the school means Jackson, Tenn., a professor of so much to both of us.” Other BSC family members covering football at the University religion at Lambuth University, include her son, “Mort” Taylor ’95, and daughter-in-law, of Alabama. He returned to Rebekah Tatum Taylor ’96. presented the baccalaureate Athens in 1961 to serve as editor message during the school’s 2008 of the Courier and Democrat and graduation ceremonies in May. in 1973 founded his own

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A Special Easter on the Hilltop

Looking back at a treasured tradition—and a once-in-a-lifetime holiday adventure for a BSC alumna:

At the 19th annual BSC Easter Egg Hunt, state artists in Washington, D.C., for a tour of the White 350 members of alumni families gathered House and the Easter egg unveiling ceremony, presided over on the lawn of the President’s Home to by First Lady Laura Bush. To see Willard’s 2008 Alabama enjoy a beautiful spring afternoon. Egg, along with other designs from around the nation, visit Games, crafts, and refreshments were on www.whitehouse.gov/easter/2008/eggsbystate. the agenda, along with an exciting hunt for more than 3,000 colorful eggs. Tanner Battle, younger daughter of Brooke Tanner Battle ’96, is shown here making friends with the BSC Easter Bunny. In other holiday news, Susan Samya Willard ’01, assistant director of records at BSC, celebrated this past Easter in a very special way. Willard is an egg artist, whose hand-painted designs have delighted collectors for years. This year, she was chosen to create the 2008 Alabama Egg for the White House Easter display of decorated Easter eggs from artists in all 50 states. On March 10, she and her husband joined 37 other

newspaper, the Williamson (Tenn.) columnist for Condé Nast Portfolio, conduct research, write, make Howard Cruse of North Adams, Leader, which he sold in 1998. His a monthly business magazine. His speeches, and teach courses in Mass., cartoonist and graphic son is Bailey Leopard Jr. ’91 first column in the magazine history. The popular professor novelist, was among 24 artists (wife, Kathryn McLeod Leopard appeared in the March 2008 issue. was the commencement speaker whose work was included in the ’90), and his daughter is Verna at the school’s May 2008 show “LitGraphic: The Art of the Louise Leopard ’87. ’65 graduation. Graphic Novel” at the Norman W. Michael “Mike” Atchison of Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, ’62 Birmingham has been named a ’67 Mass., last fall. For more on Attorney Ed Hardin, after five fellow of the Alabama Law Kyle DeLoach has been named Cruse’s career, see “Cartoon years in Nashville as general Foundation. He is a founding treasurer of the board of the Politics: Howard Cruse brings his counsel for Caremark Rx, has partner of the Birmingham law International Coach Federation, inner life to light in ‘LitGraphic,’” returned to Birmingham and joined firm Starnes & Atchison LLP. He North and Central Alabama by Michael Scott Leonard, in the the firm Burr & Forman. He will has served his alma mater as chair Chapter. He is employed with The Nov. 15, 2007, edition of the focus on complex litigation of the Board of Trustees. He Kyle Group in Birmingham. Berkshire Eagle. involving commercial cases, torts, currently is a member of the board and insurance matters. Hardin is a and co-chair of the college’s ’68 Dr. Charles Gattis, senior minister member of the board at BSC and Destiny: Delivered campaign. Dr. James Cook, BSC professor of at Trinity United Methodist Church is co-chair of the college’s Destiny: music, has been appointed to the in Huntsville, with his congre- Delivered campaign. Dr. Harvey H. “Hardy” Jackson III national council of the Organ gation, last year established the has been named Eminent Scholar Historical Society. In 2004-05, he Trinity Academy of Biblical ’64 in History at Jacksonville (Ala.) established, and currently Learning, an annual exploration of Howell Raines of Henryville, Pa., State University. In this new role, maintains, an online database of the Hebrew and Christian former New York Times executive Jackson, formerly professor and pipe organs in the U.S., which Scriptures through a weekend of editor, has been named a head of the Department of History recently set a record of more than scholarly presentations and contributing editor and media and Foreign Languages, will one million hits. discussions. The second annual academy, held April 19-20, 2008,

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featured speaker Dr. probate judge by Alabama Gov. Carol Newsom ’71 of Bob Riley, to serve the unexpired Historical novelist Candler Theological term of retiring Probate Judge and biographer Seminary, a noted Old Rachel Agerton. Mims formerly announces new Testament scholar and served for 17 years as executive work—Author David one of the editors of director of the Atmore Chamber Robertson ’69 of the New Oxford of Commerce. Cincinnati, Ohio, Annotated Bible. recently sold film option ’71 rights to his historical novel, Booth. ’69 Rev. Walker Epps is a minister in Also, Knopf Publishing has announced plans for the future release of his third Ann Boyd Caldwell of the Alabama-West Florida biography with the company, a study Conference of the United Wedowee recently of W.C. Handy, who, Knopf says, “gave retired after 33 years as Methodist Church and formerly us such iconic songs as ‘St. Louis Notes from a tour in music director at was district superintendent of the Blues’… and who was responsible, Turkey—In response to his Southern Union State Marianna-Panama City District. more than any other musician, for bishop’s mandate for all clergy in the Community College. He is now district superintendent bringing the blues into the American Tennessee Conference of the United During her tenure, of the Dothan District. For Epps, mainstream.” Knopf also says, Methodist Church to take a month of students of the popular who graduated from Headland “Robertson weaves a rich tapestry of renewal leave, Dr. Michael O’Bannon teacher and musical High School, and has now the worlds Handy inhabited: post- ’69 of Murfreesboro planned to director were issued a returned with his family to his old Reconstruction South; the minstrel participate in an archaeological dig in shows in all their racial ambiguity; the standing invitation to home place in Headland, it’s a Laodicea, Turkey, during the month Mississippi Delta; Memphis, with its perform at Carnegie return to a very familiar setting. of July. As it turned out, government jumping music scene; New York’s Tin regulations prevented his actively Hall every other year. Pan Alley. At once a testament to the participating in the dig. But in a Some of her most Dr. Carol Newsom of Atlanta, a power of song and a chronicle of race lemons-to-lemonade scenario, he successful students professor at Candler Theological and black music in modern America, used the time in Turkey instead to have worked on Seminary at Emory University, W.C. Handy’s life story is riveting.” tour extensively and to work on Broadway or in Europe. was the speaker at this year’s sermons about the seven letters to Caldwell credits “Faith Seeking Understanding” the seven churches—a study that Andrew Gainey, her lecture series at the University of “next excellent adventure, most may lead to future publishing voice coach at BSC, as Alabama, which focused on likely in a much warmer and dryer projects. an inspiration for her environmental stewardship. climate than the Puget Sound.” Among memorable areas, he teaching career. They plan to travel and spend time visited the Laodicea site three times, ’72 at the family summer home on the as well as the sites of Hierapolis and Dr. Marilyn R. Brown’s recent Canadian shore of Lake Erie. Aphrodisias. A highlight in C. Dowd Ritter of Hierapolis was the Martyrion of St. Birmingham, who is essay, “Miss La La’s Teeth: Evans also will continue from time Philip, the church built over the chairman, president, Reflections on Degas and ‘Race,’” to time consulting on aviation and supposed burial site of the martyred and CEO of Regions The Art Bulletin, Vol. LXXXIX, no. 4 maritime security issues. apostle Philip. “Since I did not have Financial Corp., has (December 2007), 738-65, has a guide or group,” he says, “I could been elected new chair been awarded the 2007 Friends of the late Charles take my time. I spent all day.” He of the Birmingham- Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Laurence “Larry” Fievet will be also enjoyed pleasant outings with Southern Board of Century Studies Prize for Best interested to learn that his mother, new friends made among the fellow Trustees. Ritter has Interdisciplinary Article. Catherine Ramsey Fievet, has guests at his hotel—trips to Kaklik been a member of the completed a short unpublished Cave and Colossae, and an college’s board since After nearly 36 years in law biography of her son. Though afternoon at a mountain restaurant enforcement (retiring in 1999 from blinded by cancer soon after birth, where “we sat, ottoman-style, and 1995. His wife is Susan ate the best trout dish I ever had in Burke Ritter ’69. the FBI, and then serving as Fievet was a successful BSC my life”—all adventures that would deputy chief, acting chief, and graduate, talented in both not have been possible in his original ’70 chief of police in Utah and the languages and music. During his schedule. There was even time to This past March, Emilie state of Washington), Gale short life (he died of cancer of fly to Paris for a few days to meet his Wood Mims of Richard Evans has retired. He, his 1987), he was employed in several wife, Dee, and daughter, Amy, for a Brewton was appointed wife Barbara, and their two golden fields, married, and traveled special celebration of his wife’s Escambia County retrievers are embarking on their internationally. For more birthday. By the end of July, O’Bannon says, he was “back in the pulpit, with a text and fresh fall 2008 / 77 perspective from Colossians.” fall 08 southern_FINAL draft:southern magazine_text pages_draft 1 10/13/2008 11:47 AM Page 78

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information on the biography, which is filled with colorful detail of an unusual and inspiring life, contact Carol Hagood at [email protected]. Fievet’s BSC family includes his father, John Fievet ’49.

Dr. Wayne W. Killion Jr., president and CEO of Shook and Fletcher Insulation Co. in Birmingham, was elected as vice chair of the BSC Board of Trustees for the coming New alumni group forming for active duty, veteran, and retired year. military—After three deployments, the last to Iraq, following which he received the Bronze Star, U.S. Air Force Chaplain (Maj.) Thomas B. Porter ’79 (above right) is The firm of Birmingham attorney stationed at Fort Dix, N.J., where he trains chaplains and chaplain assistants Wayne Morse Jr., Morse & Dolan scheduled for deployment to war zones. Porter also works with airmen to help P.C., mergedwith Waldrep, prepare them to survive the stress of combat and return home to family and friends. Stewart & Kendrick LLC in June In a recent training session with chaplains, Porter discovered fellow BSC alumnus 2008. Chaplain (Maj.) Harold B. Owens ’84 (above left) and enjoyed reminiscing about life at Birmingham-Southern. Owens, who lives in Michigan and serves as a hospice chaplain, assistant pastor, and Air Force National Guard chaplain, was preparing for Mike Sparks of Birmingham is his third deployment to the Middle East and second deployment to Iraq. stepping down from his position Now Porter is working with the Alumni Office to create a BSC alumni group for as director of the Wallace State active duty, veteran, and retired military. For more information, contact Mallie Searcy Concert Choir after 31 years. ’07 in the Alumni Office at [email protected]. During that time, he has toured

with his choirs across the country lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, and to Europe three times. His Sarah Evelyn Koehler Fullton. Alumna offers national choirs have performed in the leadership in Medicaid Candlelight Concert series at ’74 deliberations—Alabama Colonial Williamsburg and at the After Patricia Fuhrmeister, wife of Medicaid Commissioner National Cathedral in Washington, attorney Jim Fuhrmeister, passed Carol Herrmann Steckel ’81 of D.C., and won top awards at the away on Feb. 9, 2008, following a Montgomery has been Alabama Collegiate Choral Festival long battle with leukemia, elected chair of the executive and in the Alabama Collegiate Alabama Gov. Bob Riley appointed committee of the National Music Showcase. Sparks remains him to fill his wife’s unexpired Association of State Medicaid chair of the Department of term as Shelby County Probate Directors. As chair, she will Humanities at Wallace State, a role Judge. Jim and Patricia have two represent the association which has made increasing sons, Chris, 23, and Will, 17. before the federal Centers for demands on his time in recent Medicare and Medicaid years as the school has grown. ’75 Service, in testimony before Congress, and in discussions The Rev. William S. Blackerby Jr., ’73 with other related organizations. Epicopal campus chaplain at UAB, Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, who appointed Steckel to her post in James Henderson Fullton Jr. BSC, and Samford University since 2003, said, “It is outstanding for Alabama’s Medicaid commissioner to recently retired from 16 years with 1993, recently was honored with be selected to represent all Medicaid commissioners in dealings with Lafarge North America, having the distinguished leadership award Congress and federal agencies. This is a critical time for state served in various positions in from the U.S. Episcopal Church Medicaid programs across the country, and it says something very Canada, the United States, and Office for Young Adult and positive about our Medicaid program that Commissioner Steckel was South Africa. He has assumed the Campus Ministries. The award chosen for this honor.” position of corporate geologist for was presented at an annual Steckel also will serve on the American Public Human Services Essroc Italcementi Group, and meeting of Episcopal college Association’s board of directors and as vice chair of the Health Care Committee of the APHSA National Council of State Human Service Administrators. fall 08 southern_FINAL draft:southern magazine_text pages_draft 1 10/13/2008 11:47 AM Page 79

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chaplains in New York City. ’79 Blackerby also was appointed Dr. Sharon Ann Spencer was Washington lobbyist coordinator for campus ministry in named to the Ruby F. Meredith moves forward—Jenny Province IV of the Episcopal Outstanding Clinician in Radiation Bottegal DiJames ’92, who has Church. Oncology Endowed Chair at UAB. been working in Washington, D.C., for the past 10 years, including ’76 ’80 seven years as legislative director Margaret Quillian Dunn now lives Dr. Richard A. Hunter has been to Congressman Bud Cramer (D- Ala.), is now a partner at the in the North Georgia mountains invited to join the adjunct faculty lobbying firm Williams & Jensen. and is a professional organizer. at Asbury Theological Seminary. In a May 3, 2008, National Journal He is senior pastor of the Snellville ’77 profile of her career, DiJames United Methodist Church, a 4,500- Photo courtesy of Liz mentions a BSC class with Dr. Lynch/National Journal. Sam Burke, formerly of member church east of Atlanta. Natalie Davis as a starting point of Wilmington, N.C., the longtime He was a delegate to the General her interest in politics and a political career. morning announcer for public Conference of the UMC in Fort radio station WHQR, has left his Worth, Texas, in May 2008. post after nearly 20 years to return to Birmingham to help care for his ’81 parents. Burke also will be missed James Henderson of Gainesville, won the 45-49 age group national Rev. Ronald E. Schultz, former at St. Mary Roman Catholic Fla., and teammates, sponsored championship. They qualified for pastor of Lakeview United Church, where he was organist by Roto Rooter of Cincinnati, the Federation of International Methodist Church in Pelham, has and music director. competed in the U.S. Masters Masters Basketball Association been appointed district Basketball Championship this past World Championships, which take superintendent of the Central May in Coral Springs, Fla., and place in 2009 in Prague. District of the North Alabama Conference, with an office in the United Methodist Center on the BSC campus.

A drawing by Dr. Donald Stewart of Homewood of a “baker’s dozen” wine bottles, with the negative space between them rendered as (very long-stemmed) wine glasses, has been chosen by California’s Bugay Vineyards as a logo for their new product, Long Stem Rosé.

Neal Zimmerman of Timmonsville, S.C., has been executive director of the Boys & Girls Clubs in the Pee Dee area of South Carolina for more than 13 years.

’84 Andrew C. Allen of Birmingham was named as a Super Lawyer of Alabama in the 2008 edition of A Guntersville get-together—This past March, a group of BSC alumnae Super Lawyers magazine. He enjoyed a mini-Kappa Delta reunion at one of the group’s Lake Guntersville home. practices in the employment and They were (back row): Tamra Tondera Renfrow ’83, Cathi Snow Demers ’83, Leslie labor section of Whatley Drake & Tanner Ecklund ’83, Glenda Wren Kennedy ’82, Ainsley Edwards Bowen ’83, Shannon Smith Pratt ’83, and Laurie Reid Bragg ’83; and (front row) Nancy Rogers MacDonald ’83, Frances Foy Stickland ’83, and Claire Rutland Mallette ’82. fall 2008 / 79 fall 08 southern_FINAL draft:southern magazine_text pages_draft 1 10/13/2008 11:47 AM Page 80

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Kallas. This good news was the annual dinner of the Atlantic shared with us by his proud wife, Council honoring Tony Blair, seated Amy Turnage Allen. with friends Kolinka Kitanovic, Croatian ambassador to the U.S., Dr. James “Jay” C. White is now and Rick Santorum, former senator acting provost at Gettysburg from Pennsylvania. College in Pennsylvania. For the past two years, he has served the DeLynn Moring Zell, shareholder college as vice provost and and Certified Financial Planner physics professor. He and wife with First Financial Group of the Lisa have one child, 18-month-old South Inc. in Birmingham, was Sebastian Artemis. elected to the BSC Board of Trustees. ’85 Paul P. Bolus is now a partner at ’87 Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP in Dr. Sally Allocca, pastor of East the insurance section. Lake United Methodist Church in Photo courtesy of Steve Wood/UAB Creative and Marketing Department. Birmingham, recently received the Denson N. Franklin III, a partner Louise Branscomb Award, An article in the Feb. 14, 2008, edition of The with Bradley Arant Rose and White presented annually to a person in Birmingham Times commends the work of Dr. Felton Perry LLP in Birmingham, was re-elected the North Alabama Conference ’70, (below, far right) director of the Community Eye Care secretary of the BSC Board of who has worked to break down program at the UAB School of Optometry (UABSO). His Trustees. barriers for women and minorities. work in free screenings to combat increased glaucoma among minorities is praised, but as the article notes, this is Cynthia Lamar-Hart of Chris Barker of Tampa, Fla., only one part of the important services the program makes Birmingham was listed in the 2008 recently was appointed by available to underserved groups in our community. edition of The Best Lawyers in Florida’s governor to the 13th While still a student at UABSO, Perry worked in the America. Judicial Circuit Nominating Student American Medical Association free clinic in Ensley, Commission. Barker, an attorney, and with UABSO’s Screening Rotation, which served the Robin Harrell Raney of is managing partner of Barker, Jefferson County Head Start program. Since becoming Petersburg, Texas, is serving as Rodems & Cook P.A. of Tampa. director of the school’s Community Eye Care program in chief executive officer of the South 1996, he has helped extend its work from screening Plains Regional Chapter of the Shannon Cason has accepted a children and adults to providing a full range of eye care at American Red Cross. Raney position as family physician at the sites in the Birmingham Metro area including the Jefferson formerly was executive director of Auburn University Medical Clinic. County Department of Health Northern, Western, and the Graham Chamber of He formerly served for 18 months Bessemer centers and the United Cerebral Palsy Adult Commerce. at the primary care clinic of Center at LincPoint. Maxwell Air Force Base, and for 12 Services to the homeless also have been made available ’86 years in private practice in Opelika, through the Firehouse Shelter, the Jimmie Hale Mission, Benny LaRussa Jr. of Birmingham where he lives with wife Kathy and other facilities. And recently, as part of the school’s is president of the board of Oasis, Van Cleave Cason ’88 and their Rural Alabama Diabetes and Glaucoma Initiative, research a nonprofit mental health four children. Cason also recently teams are bringing eye care to areas in Alabama’s Black Belt counseling organization providing had his first composition for choir that have long been underserved. resources to underserved women and piano, a setting of the Quaker Perry works with a team of other UABSO professionals, and children. hymn How Can I Keep From as well as a band of energetic interns, to deliver these Singing, performed by the Chancel community services, and the benefits are mutual to all, he Carl Dean Monroe III of Choir of the First United Methodist says. The optometry students involved gain valuable Washington, D.C., was listed in Church of Opelika. experience in working with diverse patient groups, and Who’s Who in America for 2008 underserved areas in our city and state receive much-needed and is celebrating 19 years as an Playwright Rebecca Gilman of care. To learn more about the work of UABSO’s attorney with the U.S. Department Chicago continues to receive Community Eye Care program, see the Winter 2008 issue of of Energy. He recently attended many honors for her work. A UAB Optometry magazine. native of Trussville, she was

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For former students of Birmingham-Southern, service-learning is a process that continues long after g out graduation. Throughout these class notes, you’ll find news of many BSC alumni working for positive change in their communities and regions, across the nation, and around the world. Here are just a few of their stories:

Susan C. Crow ’92 is president and CEO of Appalachia Kristi Lyle Jones ’00 and her husband, Guy, of Service Project (ASP), headquartered in Johnson City, Tenn., Trussville are the parents of two beautiful young sons, a group that since its founding in 1969 has helped repair Conrad, almost 2, and Teague, who is almost 1. Both boys more than 13,000 homes in the poorest areas of Virginia, were born prematurely—11 and 10 weeks early—and Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia. The work is done although today they are healthy, happy young children, the largely by volunteers, mostly church groups. But as an Joneses realize that without the support of advanced article in The New York Times relates (April 15, 2008, medical care—without the research supported by the March edition), in recent times significant help for the program of Dimes—the outcome might have been very different. To has come from another source. honor Conrad and Teague’s journey, and that of other When Bryan Cloyd, an accounting professor at Virginia families touched by premature births, the Joneses have Tech, and his wife, Renee, lost their daughter, Austin, in the organized a family team called “Walking for Conrad and Virginia Tech shootings last year, they suggested ASP as a Teague” for the annual Birmingham Walk for Babies recipient for memorial donations. Austin’s four weeklong (formerly Walk America), benefiting the March of Dimes. service trips with ASP had helped her decide to pursue an In 2007, their team was the top fundraising family team in international studies major, with the goal of a career in the Birmingham area, with over $3,300 in donations. For g Department. social service. To the Cloyds’ amazement, nearly $70,000 in the April 2008 event, they set—and exceeded—an memorial gifts were sent to ASP in only a short time. The ambitious goal of $5,000. To learn more about this Cloyds began organizing trips for students to work in ASP dedicated team, who are working to aid the half million building projects. By April 2008, more than 150 Virginia babies born prematurely each year, visit Tech students and faculty had participated in five weekend www.marchforbabies.org/416883. programs, and more were planned. The NYT quotes Crow on the impact the Virginia Tech contact has made on ASP: “Over the years, we’ve drawn our volunteers predominantly from church groups … What the Cloyds have helped us do is better tap into the college student demographic, which is important because these young people are at a key moment when they are shaping their career and other priorities, and that’s when we want to push them to consider service.”

Following graduation from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Dr. Robert Bryant Jr. ’59 of Trussville opened a practice at Pinson Medical Offices P.A. and has been caring for patients there ever since. He has been on staff at Medical Center East, now St. Vincent’s East, longer than any other current physician. He has served as chief of staff and is past president of the Jefferson County Academy of Family Physicians. Over past decades, Bryant has been on 23 medical mission trips to places including the Dominican Republic, St. Vincent’s Island (10 visits), Haiti, Mexico, Guyana, Brazil, and Ecuador. With wife Judith Powell Bryant ’65, he has raised five children, all of them contributing in some way to the field of health care. Son David (BSC ’87), also a physician, is now in practice with his father. Rob (BSC ’87) owns a pharmacy in Homewood. Daughter Beth is trained in education for the deaf, Becky is a registered nurse, and son Chris works for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. There are now 17 grandchildren, with another expected soon. fall 08 southern_FINAL draft:southern magazine_text pages_draft 1 10/13/2008 11:47 AM Page 82

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accompanying video is available at recently graduated from a www.uab.edu/images/uabmagazin prestigious community Get ready for great music at Alumni Reunion/Homecoming in e/video/alzheimers_ped.mov. development program at Harvard Potts also reports that George University. She was one of 47 November—Whiskey Falls—the band Nashville’s Music Row has proclaimed “the Thaggard ’76 is engaged in national leaders to graduate from breakout band for 2008”—is coming to writing a play about his father’s the third session BSC (fresh from recent concerts in France, story. on “Achieving England, and Japan) to provide Excellence in outstanding entertainment. Our own ’89 Community Burleigh C. “Buck” Johnson ’88 is a Aubrey Thomas Baugh III of Development,” a member of the band, which recently scored two top-40 Eufaula is a member of the board selective 18- singles on Billboard’s Hot Country Singles, for “Falling into of the Eufaula-Barbour County month training You” and “Last Train Running.” Its song “Load Up the Chamber of Commerce. A program offered Bases” was chosen as theme music for FoxSportsSouth certified public accountant, he by NeighborWorks® America and the Atlanta Braves for 2008. The band will do more currently is employed as through the Kennedy School of than 250 shows in 2008, across the country and abroad. In October, Buck tells us, the band will be performing on a transportation services manager Government. The program is volcano in Kumamoto, Japan, at one of the largest country for ABC Transportation Inc. Baugh designed for seasoned executive music festivals in the world—so their show soon after at has served as president of the directors and senior level staff in BSC should be red hot! Eufaula Lions Club and chair of the community organizations that Both Buck and his wife, Kimberly Williams-Johnson administrative board of the First focus on affordable housing, ’87, a former Miss Alabama, will be returning to campus United Methodist Church of community revitalization, or with the band on Reunion weekend. As students at BSC, Eufaula. He and wife Margaret economic development. Through the two were members of the Concert Choir under Estes Baugh ’89 have three this program, Crow discovered director Hugh Thomas, and, according to one fellow choir children. Other BSC family specific means for improving how McGaha member, “Buck could sing Renaissance tenor like members include his father, Dr. ASP functions. nobody’s business!” Aubrey Baugh Jr. ’59, and his While he’s on campus, Buck has agreed to talk with current music and business students about his career sister, Zelia Garth Baugh ’88. Arlington Properties Inc. has since leaving BSC, and the story should be an exciting named James Dixon III of one: his credits include co-writing the Carlos Santana hit ’90 Birmingham executive vice “Just Feel Better” and playing keyboard for Disney’s High David Benck of Birmingham is president. School Musical I and Hannah Montana. now vice president and general To learn more about this exciting band and hear counsel at Hibbett Sports. Montgomery attorney Alyce samples of the music you’ll soon be enjoying at Alumni Robertson has been named a Reunion, visit www.whiskeyfallsmusic.com. Birmingham- This past April, Rev. Paul shareholder with Beasley, Allen, Southern grads may especially enjoy glimpses of familiar Courtright Elliott of Atlanta Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles PC. territory in Johnson-penned tunes such as “Days of became rector of St. Andrew’s in She joined the firm in August 2006 Birmingham” and “Highway 59.” the Pines Episcopal Church in and works in the Toxic Torts Peachtree City. He had served as Division on environmental law interim pastor since March 2007. issues. named recipient of the 2008 for Gateway Medical Center in Elliott holds a master of divinity Harper Lee Award for Alabama’s Clarksville, Tenn. degree from the General ’93 Distinguished Writer of the Year. Theological Seminary in New York This past May, Dr. Joseph B. She also was among six finalists Melanie Luther Nichols of City, and is completing a doctorate Fanning of Tuscaloosa received a for this year’s Steinberg/American Birmingham has been named in pastoral counseling at Emory doctoral degree from Vanderbilt Theatre Critics Association New treasurer of the board of Oasis, a University’s Candler School of University. He also is a graduate Play Award. nonprofit mental health Theology. of Princeton Theological Seminary. organization providing resources Evan L. Hart has been named to underserved women and ’91 Brett Kennedy is director of senior vice president and chief children. Nichols is employed at Cooper Lindsey has been named admissions at Berry College. financial officer of Mueller Water Canterbury Trust Corp. vice president in the commercial Previously, he served at Depauw Products in Atlanta. He formerly banking group at Capitalsouth University as senior associate was the company’s vice president The May 2008 issue of UAB Bank in Birmingham. director of admissions and director and controller. Magazine includes an article by of technology and research. Dale Short, “Painting in Twilight,” ’92 Kennedy, his wife Darby ’88 about the father of Dr. Daniel C. Rev. Susan Crow ’92, of Johnson McClendon Kennedy ’91, and Richard Johnson has been named Potts and his experience with City, Tenn., Appalachia Service their growing family (see “Births”) the director of human resources Alzheimer’s disease. An Project’s president and CEO, are enjoying their new home in Rome, Ga.

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‘Southern actors, appearing now on stage, screen, and Web

Where do we go from here?—if you’re a theatre graduate from Birmingham-Southern, the answer might be “almost anywhere!” Some notes from coast to coast—and beyond:

This past spring, actress, singer, and and Randy who were excellently portrayed by Steven Strobel and musician Seana McGaha ’02, known Dane Peterson.” professionally as Seana Harris (because, she says, agents can’t pronounce Although she wants to try Los Angeles or New York City at some “McGaha”), returned to campus to talk with point in her acting career, Casie Platt ’02 writes that she has been current BSC theatre students about her work amazed at the size and energy of the theater community in since leaving Birmingham-Southern. After Washington, D.C., where she now works. Since finishing graduate graduation, Harris lived briefly in New York, school at The Catholic University of America where she won featured parts on the in 2004, she has been working in theater television shows Ed and The Chapelle Show. almost continuously, and the variety of In 2004, she moved to Los Angeles and productions she’s been engaged in is has been cast there in several musicals. For remarkable. more than a year, she starred in the hit L.A.- She began at a multi-million dollar based Rock of Ages, with Kyle Gass of children’s theater in Bethesda called Tenacious D, Dan Finnerty of the Dan Band, Imagination Stage. Following that, she had an and comedian Chris Hardwick. She also understudy role of Julia in a production of McGaha performed in the Jesus Christ Superstar revival Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Folger Theatre alongside original cast members of the movie, as well as Ben Vereen in D.C. Then she found more work at the and Jack Black. In the film world, she recently finished production Kennedy Center’s Page to the Stage Festival on a short film called Darling Darling, starring opposite Michael Cera and the first annual Capital Fringe Festival. Platt of Superbad, Arrested Development, and Juno. She’s also been featured Platt has performed at Theatre Alliance, Signature Theatre, the Woolly in a popular webisode series called Kim and Seana, produced by Ford Mammoth Theatre, and for a company called Didactic Theatre, with Motor Co. and MTV and promoting Sync technology. which she did a production of Rebecca Gilman ’87’s The Glory of Looking ahead, Harris has just booked the starring role of a feature Living. film to be called Low Notes, and she’s working on a debut album that She is currently involved in a production at the Rorschach Theatre should be out early next year. of an “episodic epic” entitled Dream Sailors. Each week, the company performs a new “episode” in the play, until the fifth week, in which Swedish actress Lisa Werlinder, who studied at BSC as an there is a marathon performance of all five episodes. exchange student in 1992-93, has film credits including the 2003 film The Inheritance and the 2005 Munich. She most recently Kevin Faraci ’02 has been cast as the male vocalist for the new appeared in the 2007 Swedish film The Black Pimpernel, a Cirque Du Soleil show “Zed,” which opened to the public Oct. 1 at dramatization of the life of Harald Edelstam, Swedish the newly completed Cirque theatre at the ambassador to Chile, who saved many innocent lives Disney Resort in Tokyo. This striking during the September 1973 military coup. theatre, designed to resemble a huge circus Werlinder’s classmate Jill Balch Coon ’92 and her tent, holds a massive set, which Faraci says husband, Murray, of Brooklyn, N.Y., attended a “almost took my breath away when I screening of the film this past May at the Scandinavia walked into my first rehearsal.” House in NYC and enjoyed a reception following the He reports that rehearsals are going well, film with Werlinder and Ambassador Ulf Hjertonsson, consul general although the process is different from a of Sweden in New York. typical stage production; technical matters are a part of the rehearsal process from the This past April, Dane Peterson ’97 made his New York acting beginning, a necessary approach in an debut in the off-Broadway play Thirty-Seven Stones, or the Man Who environment that is potentially dangerous. was a Quarry at the Looking Glass Theater. The wry comedy garnered All the acts are “truly world class,” he says, positive reviews from BSC faculty Dr. and he is “working very hard to keep my Terry Goodrick and Dr. Bernadette performance consistent with theirs.” Mullins, who were in New York and Between rehearsals, there is the challenge attended the premiere. Mullins found of learning to live in a new culture: “I’ve the play “cleverly written—witty and got Japanese language books scattered all around my apartment, and entertaining and yet painfully honest in dictionaries and maps are always in my backpack to help me out.” revealing family relationships. I was To learn more about this fascinating new show, “a living poem at drawn to the characters immediately,” the heart of the human adventure,” visit the Cirque Du Soleil Web she said, “especially brothers Nathan site and click on “Zed.” fall 08 southern_FINAL draft:southern magazine_text pages_draft 1 10/13/2008 11:48 AM Page 84

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Caryl Daugherty BSC alumnae named Woodruff Fellows— Sumrall of Classmates and friends Sarah Glidewell ’07 and Maria Jackson, Miss., a Presley ’07, who shared many special moments in nurse practitioner their days at Birmingham-Southern, recently were at the University companions in yet another outstanding event: both of Mississippi have been awarded prestigious Woodruff Fellowships Medical Center, at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University was awarded the in Atlanta. No more than six Woodruff Fellowships American (each offering full tuition, with stipend, for the three- Academy of Nurse year program at Candler) are awarded each year, and Bishop Robert C. Morgan ’56, BSC’s bishop-in- Practitioners residence, has said that is remarkable, and possibly Award for unprecedented, for two recipients in a single year to Excellence for the be graduates of the same school. Morgan readily state of Presley (left) and Glidewell on an Interim trip. agrees, however, that “both are worthy.” Mississippi in 2008. Presley, who recently served at Bread for the World This designation is awarded Morgan Murphy of Birmingham, in Washington, D.C., and Glidewell, who lived and annually to one nurse practitioner who formerly worked for The New worked for a time with Mother Teresa’s Sisters of per state. York Post, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Charity in Calcutta, India, are beginning their graduate Forbes, and Time Warner (where careers this fall at Emory, where they plan to be Butch Thompson was named he won a prestigious Society of roommates. assistant coach at Mississippi American Travel Writers award), State University, where he will be now has begun a venture all his coaching pitchers. own. After studying for the MBA Birmingham attorney Charles T. T. Scott Kelly, at Oxford University, Murphy Grimes and three partners have an attorney in ’94 decided to develop a startup founded the new law firm the Birmingham Maj. Jack D. Fulmer II recently online site to be called RichardsonClement PC, which office of graduated from the National Motorpool.com—an online opened for business in February Ogletree Defense Intelligence College in community of car enthusiasts. 2008. Deakins, has Washington, D.C., earning a been elected master’s degree in strategic Jessica Hogland Nelson of George Thomas Lane III is chair of the intelligence. He has been Decatur has been named director employed at Wood Fruitticher Labor and assigned to the Joint Staff at the of the Volunteer Center of Morgan Grocery Co. as the director of Employment Pentagon. County. Nelson previously served marketing. His wife Jessica is a Committee for the American Bar the agency as special events and major gifts officer on staff at Association’s Young Lawyers Todd Green has received an fundraising coordinator. Birmingham-Southern. Division. Kelly, who previously appointment as visiting professor held the position of co-chair on the of religion at Luther College in ’95 Attorney Angie Godwin McEwen, committee, began his 2008-09 Decorah, Iowa, for the 2008-09 Barbara McLeod Bushnell was a partner at Johnston Barton term in August. academic year. named a “Heavy Hitter in Proctor & Rose LLP, was named to Commercial Real Estate” in the the “Top 40 Under 40” in the May Allyson Fertitta Venugopal is Rod Henderson of Yazoo City, June 13, 2008, edition of the 2, 2008, edition of the Birmingham executive director of Tile Partners Miss., is employed by BankPlus as Birmingham Business Journal. Business Journal. for Humanity, a nonprofit a credit analyst at the Highland The July 11, 2008, edition of BBJ partnership between Habitat for Colony Parkway administration reported the merger of Bushnell ’96 Humanity and the ceramic tile building. He previously was Realty, her two-year-old firm, with Brooke Tanner Battle has been industry. Her husband, Vineet, is a assistant manager at Eden Birmingham’s Corporate Realty elected to the board of Oasis, a program manager for Microsoft. Fisheries for six years. Henderson Associates. Bushnell, who brings nonprofit mental health counseling They live in Atlanta. holds an MBA from Mississippi nearly 30 years of experience in organization providing resources State University. the field, has been named to underserved women and ’97 executive vice president of children. Franklin A. Danley, a senior vice corporate services and client president at Regions Financial development for the company. Corp., was named to the “Top 40

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Under 40” in the May 2, 2008, Builds with Habitat for Humanity” John C. Rives, controller at Robins Tim Pitts is working as a human edition of the Birmingham program. & Morton in Birmingham, was resource manager at the adidas Business Journal. named to the “Top 40 Under 40” in Group headquarters in Dr. Jeffrey Schneider completed a the May 2, 2008, issue of the Herzogenaurach, Germany. Attorney Jonathan Geisen has doctoral degree in psychology Birmingham Business Journal. been elected shareholder in the from Louisiana State University in ’01 Birmingham office of Baker, December 2007. He currently is a Dr. Jeremy Rogers, assistant Amanda Mills Carmichael of Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & postdoctoral fellow in clinical medical director of the Emergency Birmingham is now assistant Berkowitz. A graduate of the neuropsychology at the University Department at Trinity Medical director of domestic violence and University of Alabama School of of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Birmingham, has been children’s services for the YWCA Law, his practice is concentrated Center and VA Medical Center in named a “hero of emergency Central Alabama. in the areas of mergers and Oklahoma City. medicine” by the American acquisitions, business planning, College of Emergency Physicians. Adam Isbell is enrolled in the and general business and ’99 University of Alabama School of corporate matters. Melissa “Missie” Lynne Doggett Jennifer Warren Welch Medicine. of Birmingham is the lead staff completed a residency in pediatric Attorney J. Patrick Strubel of attorney at the YWCA Central dentistry in July 2007 at the Actress and singer Lexie Kendrick Birmingham has been named a Alabama, representing victims of University of Tennessee Health remains busy with her successful partner in the firm of Huie domestic violence in civil actions. Science Center in Memphis. She career in Paris. Euro Disney Paris Fernambucq & Stewart LLP. Husband Mikah Hudson Jr. ’98 is is now a pediatric dentist with has signed her for their Halloween the minister of worship at West Tennessee Pediatric Dental show. A musical showcase, 3 ’98 Canterbury United Methodist Clinic in Jackson, Tenn., where she Americans in Paris, in which she Rev. George Edward “Eddie” Church in Mountain Brook. For lives with her husband, Todd, and performed last spring, has been Bolen III is now minister of the news of their growing family, see daughter, Olivia. scheduled by a Parisian theatre for Clay United Methodist Church. He “Births.” a run Nov. 26, 2008, to Jan. 4, was formerly assistant minister at ’00 2009. And she also appears on a First United Methodist Church in Erika Smiley Mahan of Dr. Sarita Bhat has graduated recently released jazz CD with the Gadsden. Hendersonville, Tenn., is now from the Harrison School of group, the Don LaRue Combo. employed by The Vanderbilt Clinic Pharmacy at Auburn University Eric Housh is now vice president division of Vanderbilt Medical and has begun a pharmacy Davis S. Mange has been of marketing at TicketBiscuit LLC. Center as a physician billing practice residency at Centennial promoted to assistant vice Housh, who holds a master’s coordinator for Medical Specialties Medical Center in Nashville. president at ServisFirst Bank, degree from Arizona State Clinic. She is responsible for where he will oversee accounting University, formerly was employed streamlining the work flow Kristi Lyle Jones of Trussville and financial analysis. in marketing at Regions Bank. process for 17 outpatient clinics, received her National Board for including admitting, charge entry, Professional Teaching Standards Dana Richey Moore of Pell City Rev. Mickey “Mikah” Conrad and billing, to ensure that certification in November 2007. has started her own business Hudson Jr. is the minister of physicians will be paid in a timely teaching hoop dance and making worship at Canterbury United fashion. She previously was a Jessica Leigh Hall Kaufhold of custom fitness and dance hoops. Methodist Church in Mountain software support representative Birmingham is department chair of She and husband Benjamin have Brook. Wife Melissa “Missie” for WebMD. liberal arts at Jefferson State three sons, ages 5, 2, and 8 Lynne Doggett ’99 is the lead Community College—Jefferson months. staff attorney at the YWCA Central Ben Moncrief is now chief campus, where she also is the Alabama, representing victims of counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez choral director and instructor of The May 2008 edition of domestic violence in civil actions. (R-Fla.) in Washington, D.C. music. She also serves as youth Birmingham magazine features For news of their growing family, choir director at Canterbury United two “Savvy Business see “Births.” The May 2008 edition of Methodist Church. Entrepreneurs,” Adrian Pryor and Birmingham magazine features Kenneth Richards ’99, who have Thomas Noon of Birmingham has two “Savvy Business Attorney Justin B. Lamb of formed a successful moving been chosen to travel to El Entrepreneurs,” Kenneth Richards Birmingham is now employed at company, Reddy2Move. Salvador in November for a week and Adrian Pryor ’01, who have Carr Allison in its litigation of building homes in the “Thrivent formed a successful moving practice. company, Reddy2Move.

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Three Birmingham-Southern graduates were recently honored as newly elected or retiring leaders of american colleges and universities.

Dr. Robert G. Bottoms ’66 has stepped down from the of Southern University/Birmingham College, presidency of DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., after served from 1902-04 as Athens’ president when leading the institution for 22 years. He is the longest- the institution was known as Athens Female serving president in DePauw history. During his tenure, the College. Edgar Glenn also was the second university’s endowment increased five-fold, student president of the North Alabama Conference admissions scores increased by 10 percent, faculty members College, later Birmingham College, a parent Photo courtesy increased from 154 to 241, and the student-faculty ratio institution for BSC, and served on the of DePauw decreased from 15-to-1 to 10-to-1. Bottoms has been Birmingham-Southern Board of Trustees for University. Photo courtesy of named president emeritus. In his new role, he will serve as many years in the 1920s and ’30s. Claude M. Iowa Weslyan director of the Jane Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw. Glenn ’14, Robert Glenn’s grandfather, and Rev. College. Dr. Robert K. Glenn ’75 has been Kyle Glenn ’49, his father, continued the family elected president at Athens State tradition at BSC. University. He was formerly employed at Dr. Glenn’s wife is Laura Whitehurst Glenn ’78. His Middle Tennessee State University in family includes fifth-generation Panthers Lisa Glenn ’06 Murfreesboro, Tenn., where he served for and Katie Glenn ’11. eight years as vice president for student Dr. Jay K. Simmons ’85 has been elected president of affairs and, later, additionally as vice Iowa Wesleyan College in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. He formerly provost for enrollment management. was vice president for academic affairs and dean at LaGrange Glenn comes to Athens State in the College in LaGrange, Ga. His past positions include liberal footsteps of an ancestor. His great- Photo courtesy of arts dean at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Athens State grandfather, Edgar M. Glenn, a graduate University. Ohio, and assistant dean at Birmingham-Southern. Simmons’ wife is Jenné Chastain Simmons ’90.

’02 currently on sale, features country Scholastic Achievement Award for environmental affairs at Stiebel Angel Strong Chambers is now music greats including Charlie the highest academic performance Eltron GmbH & Co. KG, vice president of Jeff Benton Daniels, Tracy Lawrence, George in the clinical years and named to Holzminden, Germany. Ventures in Huntsville. She has Jones, Pam Tillis, Tanya Tucker, national medical honor society been employed for the last 18 and others. For more information, Alpha Omega Alpha. He has ’04 years in the banking industry, with visit www.ussnewyork.com. begun a residency at McGaw C. Elizabeth Mitchell of a concentration in commercial and Medical Center at Northwestern Birmingham graduated from residential real estate. Daniel Seigel, baritone, won University in Evanston, Ill. He is Cumberland School of Law at fourth prize in the Opera married to Allie Sumblin Crew Samford University this past May. Ryan Duffie of Jackson, Miss., Birmingham 30th annual vocal ’03. recently graduated cum laude competition. At the end of June, former BSC from Mississippi College School of Attorney Christopher S. Lydick of pitcher Connor Robertson was Law. She was selected as the Katie Monroe White now serves Birmingham is now employed at promoted from Triple-A Tucson for Entertainment and Sports Law as president of the Kappa Delta Carr Allison in its litigation several weeks of play in the major Society’s Most Valuable Person for Alumnae Association of Pensacola, practice. leagues with the Arizona the year 2007-08 and plans to Fla. She was installed at a March Diamondbacks. Connor appeared focus her career in entertainment 15 luncheon at the Pensacola Lucy King Stanley of Arlington, in six games with the law. She currently serves as the Country Club. Va., is now a political appointee at Diamondbacks before being re- technical assistant for Seasong the U.S. Department of Health and optioned to Tucson. He says he is Records’ latest country project, ’03 Human Services in the Office of glad to have had the chance to titled Never Forget—The Album,a Dr. John Benjamin Crew Congressional Liason. play in the majors and hopes he tribute to the recently built U.S. graduated from the University of will have another chance in the battleship the USS New York. The Alabama Medical School this past Holger Thamm is head of future. album, recorded in Nashville and May. He was presented the industrial relations, politics, and

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Robert Simpson, who is an Nicole C. George of Gardendale Kyndall Waters of Homewood, resides in Washington, D.C. adjunct instructor of music at BSC, has worked with Glenwood Inc. in BSC assistant athletics director for This past March, Katherine is interim director of the Chilton Birmingham since August 2006, compliance, has been named an Elizabeth Lester of Birmingham Civic Chorale and Pops, and led serving as an intervention assistant volleyball coach at the began working at Burr & Forman the group in a July production of counselor with Glenwood’s college. LLP as their recruiting assistant. “The Great American Vaudeville Community Resource Center. For Revue” at Clanton First United the past two years, she has ’06 Britni Ballard McMillan of Methodist Church. Simpson is a provided community-based Tessa Margaret Allen graduated Birmingham was crowned Mrs. master’s degree candidate at the services to children with autism from the UAB School of Public Alabama America 2008 in June at University of Miami (Fla.), where and their families, linking them to Health in May with an MPH in a competition taking place at the he has served as a graduate formal and informal support. At health behavior. She has accepted Wright Center Concert Hall on the Photo courtesy of teaching assistant. He also is a the 2008 annual Glenwood a fellowship position with the campus of Samford University. Iowa Weslyan choral section leader in the choir Endowed Lecture Series on National Center for Injury She represented the state at the College. at Highlands United Methodist Mental Health sponsored by the Prevention and Control, Division of Mrs. America pageant in Tucson, Church in Birmingham. UAB School of Public Health this Violence Prevention, at the Ariz., in September. past April, she presented a case Centers for Disease Control and This past March, David study demonstrating the Prevention in Atlanta. Wilson Nash, who recently Smitherman of Birmingham, importance of family and graduated from BSC with a double president of the Better Business community-based interventions Lisa Glenn has joined the Teach major in religion and political Bureau of Central Alabama, spoke and support services. for America program and will science, was selected by the to the Blount County-Oneonta spend the next two years teaching Rotary Foundation of Rotary Chamber of Commerce about the This past March, Anna Sullivan elementary school in Phoenix, Ariz. International to receive its 2008-09 growing problem of identity theft Price of Birmingham was Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship and gave tips on how to prevent promoted to administrative Sarah Jones, after two seasons as for international study. Nash becoming a victim. services manager at EMC production assistant at the North began work in July on a master’s Insurance Companies. She Shore Musical Theater in Beverly, degree in public policy at the ’05 formerly served the company as Mass., has been accepted into the University of Sydney in Australia. Dr. Nicole Komara Carter assistant administrative services prestigious Actors Studio MFA received a doctoral degree in manager and as marketing program at Pace University in New Kristin Sornsin recently physical therapy from the assistant. In August 2007, she York City. Classmate Trey Tatum completed a Rotary Club program University of Florida this past May. obtained her certified manager is already part of that program. which allowed her a year-long She is employed as a pediatric designation. Noted members of the studio have opportunity to study and write a physical therapist at Shands included Robert Duvall, Gene thesis paper in Budapest, Hungary. Hospital in Gainesville, Fla., where Ingrid Sheaffer has accepted a Wilder, Robert DeNiro, Paul Sornsin’s thesis centered on the she resides with her husband, position as a staff reporter at Us Newman, Jane Fonda, Jack Kurdish people’s fight for Matthew. Weekly magazine in Los Angeles. Nicholson, and many more. autonomy in Iraq and surrounding countries. She is now seeking a Christopher Friedman recently Jenni Stracener of Murfreesboro, Megan Roth will begin work on an government post in Washington, completed a master’s degree in Tenn., has joined the Primary Care MFA in creative writing at the D.C. theological studies from the and Hope Clinic, a nonprofit University of Miami this fall. Vanderbilt University Divinity organization providing health care ’08 School. He was awarded the for the uninsured in her Rebecca Yeager of Birmingham, a This past summer Sean Goldfarb Elliott F. Shepard Prize for the most community. Stracener holds a BSC admission counselor, won joined the coaching staff of the satisfactory work in the field of master’s degree in nursing from strong reviews for her Maccabi USA Junior Boys’ soccer church history. Friedman currently Vanderbilt University and is a performance as “Shelby” in the team, competing in the 18th World is program director for the board certified pediatric nurse Magic City Actors Theatre Maccabiah Games in Israel, July Christian emphasis branch of the practitioner. production of Steel Magnolias this 13-23, 2008. Goldfarb worked Montgomery YMCA and will soon past February. side-by-side with his father, pursue further graduate work in Kenneth Stutts graduated from Preston Goldfarb, longtime head the field of 20th century American law school at Washington and Lee ’07 soccer coach at BSC, who served religious history. University in Lexington,Va., this Elaine Duffee is employed in as head coach of the team. The past May. health policy research at the World Maccabiah Games take Brookings Institute, and now place every four years; currently

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more than 9,000 Jewish athletes Dr. O. Lawrence Burnette Jr. of William Cory Barker ’95 and Petra Kositzke ’04 and Nicholas from more than 60 countries Lillian, a former faculty member at Lauren Paige MacLanahan, April Price, Jan. 26, 2008. compete. BSC, has been named executive 19, 2008. Sara Elizabeth McCarty ’04 and director of the Perdido Bay George Thomas Lane III ’95 and Brent Trammell Wilson, July 5, Bucky McMillan has been named Foundation. From the group’s new Jessica Brooks, BSC staff 2008. head coach of boys’ basketball at offices on the boundary between member, Aug. 23, 2008. Elizabeth Marie “Betsy” McLeod his high school alma mater, the Florida panhandle and lower Allyson Fertitta ’96 and Vineet ’04 and Jose David Vega ’04, Mountain Brook. He currently is Alabama, it will educate the public Venugopal, March 8, 2008. July 12, 2008. working on his master’s degree in about the challenges facing Susan Leanna Bankester ’98 and David Franklin Whitten ’04 and physical education at the Perdido Bay and raise funds to John Boyd (Jeb) Pittard ’98, Kanthi Paturu Reddi, May 31, University of Montevallo. support solutions to problems April 26, 2008. 2008. facing the area. Meredith Freeman ’00 and Jeff Mikel Wijayasuriya ’04 and Katie Scott was one of a nine- Middlebrooks, Dec. 1, 2007. Matthew Finley, April 5, 2008. member team of gymnasts from Vicki Addington Drummond of Jessica Leigh Hall ’00 and Micah Robert Hoyt Yoe IV ’04 and Calee the Chattanooga Gym in Marietta, Jasper, a former staff member at Lane Kaufhold, May 17, 2008. Raschel Hopper, May 25, 2008. Ga., who competed at the BSC, has been appointed by Laurel Lindsay Jackson ’00 and Andrea Maria Boohaker ’05 and Aesthetic Group Gymnastics Alabama Gov. Bob Riley to the John Robert Wood, May 17, Michael Edward Dean ’05, July World Championship in Toronto board of trustees at the University 2008. 26, 2008. this past June. In group aesthetic of North Alabama. Adam Dwight Isbell ’01 and Anne Catherine Greaves ’05 and gymnastics, all team members Stephanie Kelso, June 28, 2008. Justin Bruce Yelverton, May 24, perform at once, in choreographed The bishops of the United Virginia Elizabeth “Betsy” Yoe 2008. dances and moves. Methodist Church have elected ’01 and David Lucas “Luke” Chadwick Gregory Long ’05 and Bishop Larry M. Goodpaster,a Edridge ’03, March 15, 2008. Elizabeth Fleming Holt ’06, May friend and trustee of Birmingham- Joseph David Cox ’02 and 31, 2008. MPPM Southern and leader of the United Neetika Prabhakar, May 10, Emily Allison Mathis ’05 and ’97 Methodist Alabama-West Florida 2008. Stuart William Rein, May 24, Conference, president-designate Richard Davis Lee ’02 and 2008. Kris Dunn of Shelby County, vice of their council. He will begin his Elizabeth Bragg Bowling, Sept. Robin Joyce Parks ’05 and John president of human resources at tenure in 2010 at the conclusion of 8, 2007. J. Ennis, May 31, 2008. SourceMedical, a 250-employee the presidency of Iowa Bishop Julia Celeste Lewis ’02 and Victor Kenneth Stutts ’05 and Margaret provider of information services to Gregory Palmer. Hugo Marx IV, Oct. 20, 2007. Spain ’06, May 24, 2008. ambulatory surgery centers and William H. Berkmeier III ’03 and Margaret (Meg) Bailey ’06 and rehabilitation clinics, was profiled Dr. Donald E. Green, a former Ann Sandlin Coley, Oct. 6, 2007. Chad Fortenberry, June 16, 2007. as an “HR Innovator” in the Feb. 1, faculty member at BSC, recently Jamie Box ’03 and Robert Dabal, Emily Ann Duggan ’06 and Adam 2008, edition of the Birmingham announced his retirement as April 28, 2007. Kent Israel ’06, Aug. 2, 2008. Business Journal. mayor of Cullman. He and wife Ashley Rae Clark ’03 and Jack Ryan Marie Omenski ’06 and Dean Green plan to travel widely. Rogers Smith, July 19, 2008. Alexander Volentine Green ’07, Friends Mary Elizabeth Hendrix ’03 and April 26, 2008. James T. Stephens, chair of Clayton Matthews Burwell, April Britni Ballard ’07 and Henry The National Football Foundation EBSCO Industries Inc. and a past 19, 2008. Ward “Bucky” McMillan ’08, and College Hall of Fame has chair of the BSC Board of Payne Baker Jr. ’04 and Rae May 24, 2008. named Bill Battle of Atlanta, a Trustees, was re-elected as chair Forrest ’04, April 5, 2008. Stefan Marc Bourgoin ’07 and BSC trustee, the winner of one of of the board’s Executive Clifton Boswell Daniel ’04 and Kadie Ann Duren ’08, Aug. 2, its major awards. The former Committee. He is a life member Meredith Lynn Kirkpatrick ’05, 2008. football star at the University of of the board. July 12, 2008. Lindsey Elizabeth Calton ’07 and Alabama, later a successful Katharine Alexander Drennen ’04 Chad LeCroy Nichols, May 31, college coach and businessman, and Thomas Blake Segars, April 2008. has been awarded the NFF’s 2008 Marriages 12, 2008. Kirby Sevier Jr. ’07 and Sally Outstanding Contribution to Brett Harrison Hollett ’04 and Cameron Kizzire, June 21, 2008. Aurelia “Dink” Glosser Taylor ’67 Amateur Football. Lydia Marie Arnoult, June 7, Mary Caroline Bolden ’08 and and Preston Barnett ’68, Aug. 9, 2008. Patrick Ryan McCormic, June 14, 2008. 2008.

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Thomas Grooms Hammock ’08 A son, Thomas Glosser, Feb.12, A daughter, Saskia Auguste, Aug. A daughter, Abigail Hope, April 9, and Katie Lynn Esser, July 19, 2008, to Hubert Glosser (Mort) 6, 2007, to Jennifer Riggin 2008, to Brandy Lynn Williams 2008. Taylor ’95 and Rebekah Leigh Christopher ’98 and husband, Dahlen ’01 and husband, Courtland Wallace Wood ’08 and Tatum Taylor ’96 (big brother, Joe (big sisters, Eva and Lorelei). Michael Christopher (big 2nd Lt. Donald Francis “Trey” Hubert). Grandmothers are A son, Jackson Hugh, March 11, brothers and sister, Nathan, Colantonio III, June 21, 2008. Rhetta Eugenia Pate Tatum ’63 2008, to Melissa Cotney Dooley Anna Faith, and Ethan Samuel). and Dr. Aurelia (Dink) Glosser ’98 and husband, Adam. Proud A daughter, Lilly Grace, March 23, Births Barnett ’67. Great-aunt is uncle is Jerry Hugh Cotney Jr. 2008, to Jake Livingston ’01 Catherine Anna (Cathy) Glosser ’01. and Lark Patterson Livingston A son, Thomas Walsh, June 4, Gleaves ’63 and great-uncle is A daughter, Emmalynne Cumi, ’01. 2007, to Elizabeth Kennedy Vernon Virgil Pate Jr. ’68. Oct. 6, 2007, to Mickey (Mikah) A son, Gifford Bennett IV, Feb. 19, Lawlor ’89 and husband, Jim Great-grandfather Rev. Vernon Hudson Jr. ’98 and wife, 2008, to Gifford Bennett (big brothers, Collin and William). Virgil Pate Sr. began the BSC Melissa (Missie) Lynne Doggett Haynes III ’02 and wife, Ashley A son, George “Garrett,” March family tradition in the ’30s. ’99. Proud aunts are Katherine (big sister, Emma Michelle). 23, 2007, to Darby McClendon A son, Sheldon Knox, Aug. 30, Doggett ’97 and Charity Proud grandmother is Penny Kennedy ’91 and Brett Everett 2007, to Corinne Griffin Shumate Jones ’04. Haynes ’00, and grandfather is Kennedy ’93 (big brother, Chapman ’96 and husband, Bain A son, Charles William, May 10, the late Gifford Bennett Haynes Mason). Great-uncle is Jerry (big brother, Miller McCafferty). 2007, to Alison Wilbourne Jr. ’65. Proud aunt is Christina Wayne Kennedy ’70, and great- Proud uncles are Dr. William H. Lagarde ’98 and Ross Forrest Haynes ’05. grandmother is the late Nelle Chapman ’94 and George Lagarde ’98 (big sister, Grace, A son, Graham Patrick, Feb. 28, Stewart Lytle ’37. Sheldon Griffin ’93, Sheldon’s and big brother, Forrest). 2008, to Lauren Murphy Ward A daughter, Brigid Kelley, Feb. 27, namesake. Proud grandfather is A twin son and daughter, ’02 and husband, Scott. 2008, to David McKee ’91 and Dr. Lewis Peyton Chapman ’63. Alexander Lonnie and Madelyn A daughter, Mabrie Frances, April wife, Judith. A son, Seamus Anderson, Aug. Barbara, March 5, 2008, to Dr. 10, 2008, to Mylesa Myers A daughter, Ellery Grace, Dec. 17, 10, 2007, to Jane Larkin Coyne Allison Harris Phillips ’98 and Weatherford ’03 and husband, 2007, to Dr. Clay Rowell ’92 and ’96 and husband, Patrick. Proud husband, Shawn. Lucas. partner, Lisa (sister, Emerson or grandmother is Jane Anderson A daughter, Erin Claire, Jan. 16, A daughter, Madelyn Marjorie, “Emmy”). Proud grandparents Larkin ’64. Proud uncle is Ben 2008, to Laura Pruett Rueckel March 3, 2008, to Jenilee Crew are Dr. Andy H. Rowell Jr. ’61 Larkin ’95. ’98 and husband, Ryan. Hunt ’04 and husband, Jon and Marilyn Smith Rowell ’60. A son, William Anderson, Oct. 25, A daughter, Helen Haupt, March 8, David. Proud uncle and aunt are A daughter, Olive, Feb. 24, 2008, 2007, to Ivey Hanks Little ’96 2008, to Kerri Hinman Culver John Benjamin Crew ’03 and to Dr. Shawn Clemmer Peters and husband, Dan (big brother, ’99 and husband, Brian. Allie Sumblin Crew ’03. ’93 and husband, Jason (big Joey, and big sister, Sally A daughter, Helen Jane, Dec. 1, Twin daughters, Abigail Lee and sister, Skye). Frances). 2007, to Sarah Eastman Cusick Lillian Marie, June 25, 2007, to A son, Reese Samuel, Feb. 10, A son, Samuel Thomas, March 1, ’99 and husband, Daniel. Melissa Rowland Harwell ’07 2008, to Greg Hand ’94 and 2008, to Lauren Smith A son, Noah Christopher, March and husband, Collins. wife, Tobie (foster brothers, Goodpaster ’97 and David 13, 2008, to Claudine Post Feig Trevor and Skyler). Proud Goodpaster ’98. ’00 and Daniel Feig ’00. Proud In Memoriam grandmother is former BSC staff A daughter, Graceyn Elizabeth, uncle is Chad Julian Post ’98. member Judith Hayes Hand ’91, April 29, 2008, to Dr. Shaun A daughter, Lillian Lee, June 17, Willie Dees Eagar ’31 of and aunt is Emily Hand ’90. Kern ’97 and wife, Holly (big 2008, to Robyn Moore Garrett Birmingham died March 28, 2008. A daughter, Ava Rose, Dec. 1, brother, Madden Christopher). ’00 and husband, Clint (big sister, After graduation from BSC, she 2007, to Bronwyn McInturff ’94 Proud aunt is Ashley Kern Lee Ella). taught at Alverson Business and husband, Fred Chiesa (sister, ’00. A daughter, Mollie Reese, May 19, College and was active in church Emma Katherine). Proud A daughter, Abigail Marie, March 2008, to Susan Wallace Hanson and community groups. grandfather is Dr. Michael 18, 2008, to Jennifer Marie ’00 and husband, Stephen. McInturff, BSC professor of Allen Kuhn ’97 and husband, Proud grandfather is Rev. David Annie Sue Herndon James ’31 of English. Timothy. S. Wallace ’68 and proud aunt is Tuscaloosa died June 8, 2008. A daughter, Eleanor Lyons, Feb. A son, Caney Fair, May 20, 2008, Amy Wallace Tew ’96. She taught mathematics at 14, 2008, to Christopher Patrick to Allison Fair Chambliss ’98 A son, Jackson Kern, Sept. 12, Shelton State Community College Couch ’95 and Melanie Martin and Dr. Baker Chambliss ’98 2007, to Ashley Kern Lee ’00 Couch ’97. (big brothers, Bake and William). and husband, Bronson. Proud Proud uncle is Andrew Caney uncle is Dr. Shaun Kern ’97. Fair ’03. fall 2008 / 89 fall 08 southern_FINAL draft:southern magazine_text pages_draft 1 10/13/2008 11:48 AM Page 90

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for 21 years and also was active in Hubbs, 900 Arkadelphia Road, Box Dr. William Wyatt Austin Jr. ’35 of continuous service, as a church and civic affairs. Her 549020, Birmingham, AL 35254. of Swansboro, N.C., died Oct. 8, minister and educational husband was the late Harold I. 2004. He was professor emeritus missionary for the United “Jimmy” James ’33. Other BSC Floy Corrine Martin Hunt ’33 of and a former department head at Methodist Church and as a college connections include her late Vestavia Hills died May 8, 2008. North Carolina State University. teacher and administrator. In brother, Dr. Harry Virgil Herndon With B.S. and M.S. degrees in With a doctorate in chemistry- 1940, he and his wife became ’32. biology from BSC, and additional metallurgy from Vanderbilt missionaries to India, where he graduate work at the University of University, he founded the served as principal of a high John Joseph Smith Sr. ’31 of Alabama, she taught biology and Department of Mineral Industries school, president of a theological Homewood died June 16, 2008. AP biology in the Birmingham City at NCSU in 1954, and served as its seminary, professor of religion, Following postgraduate work in and Jefferson County high schools head for more than 33 years. Now and finally as administrator of a economics, he graduated from the for many years. She also taught known as the Department of psychiatric hospital. Intermittently, University of Alabama School of anatomy and physiology to Materials Science and and following his final post in Law in 1937. After serving in a nursing students at St. Vincent’s Engineering, the program has India, he served in this country for variety of positions, including Hospital School of Nursing, and graduated more than 1,500 more than 30 years as a dean at stints at the University of Virginia was for a time employed at the students. Survivors include wife Lambuth University. In 1979, he and in the U.S. Department of Spies Clinic in the old Hillman Lucia Patton Austin ’39. received an honorary Doctor of Labor in Washington, D.C., he Hospital. Her husband was the Divinity degree from Lambuth. His entered private practice in the late John Robert Hunt ’32. Dr. Wood Knight Whetstone ’36 wife of almost 68 years and Birmingham area, and served for of Jackson, Tenn., died March 16, partner in much of his ministry 56 years. Active in community Mary C. Hanchey ’34 of 2008. With postgraduate studies was the late Dr. Grace Robins and church affairs, he was Birmingham died June 14, 2008. at Duke University School of Whetstone ’37. News of his presented the key to the city of After attending Birmingham- Religion, Boston University (where death was shared with ’Southern Homewood in 1982. He was a Southern, she graduated from he earned a master’s degree in by Frances Hayes Smith ’40. member of the Ginkgo Society. Florence State Teachers College theology), Harvard University, the and taught at Crumly Chapel Garrett Biblical Institute, and the Sanford Perry Enslen Jr. ’37 of Lucile Reese Hamrick ’33 of Elementary School. She later was Menninger Psychiatric Foundation, Vestavia Hills died April 10, 2008. Birmingham died April 2, 2008. employed in real estate. Whetstone conducted a long life He was a metallurgical engineer, She was active in church affairs and was known for her research into the In Memoriam ’25 history of the United Mildred Mims Bainbridge ’25 of Birmingham died Feb. Methodist Church. 24, 2008. Born into a family who had lived in Jefferson She was a member County since before the Civil War, she was deeply of the Ginkgo interested in local history, particularly historic Arlington, Society. Her an antebellum home located not far from the site of the husband was the original Mims’ family home. She founded the Arlington late James Newton Historical Association, served the group in various offices, Hamrick Jr. BSC and was named a lifetime member of its board. In 1996 family members ceremonies, an oak tree was planted at Arlington in her include brothers Dr. honor. Howard Lanier Mims also was active in the Linly Heflin Unit, serving as Reese ’45 and the president of the group in 1963, and, through her work to late J. Terrell Reese establish its endowment fund, aided in providing college ’42 (Ruthe Griffith education scholarships for hundreds of young Alabama Reese ’42.) women. She also took part in church and civic affairs. Donations may be This centenarian alumna was a member of the Ginkgo made in her memory Society and the Endowment Builders Society at to the North Birmingham-Southern. Alabama Archives Fund, Attn: Guy

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He also was clinical assistant professor of internal medicine at In Memoriam ’28 the University of Alabama School of Medicine. Among other Robert P. McGregor ’28 of Hoover died May 18, professional honors, he received 2008. He was a Navy veteran of World War II, the Physician’s Recognition Award serving on the USS Long Island and stationed in from both the American Medical the Pacific Theater for most of the war. Later he Association and the Medical was a sales manager for Tennessee Coal and Iron Association of the State of Co. and for U.S. Steel. Known in later years as Alabama. He was a member of the “mayor of Galleria Woods,” the retirement the Ginkgo Society. Survivors community which was his final home, this include wife Patricia Ashcraft active alumnus swam every day well into his 90s. Johnson. In service to the alma mater he always cherished, he was a member of the BSC Alumni Leadership Dr. Clarence Rainwater ’41 died Board, the Ginkgo Society, and the Endowment Feb. 16, 2008, in Queensland, Builders Society. Australia, where he has lived for the past two decades. With a doctoral degree in physics from Johns Hopkins, he had taught the subject at Florida Southern, the University of Miami, and San retired from U.S. Steel, and was member of the Endowment Francisco State College. Survivors active in church affairs. He was a Builders Society and the Ginkgo Wilburta Kerr Brinson ’39 of include his wife, Sandy Walker member of the Ginkgo Society. Society. Charlotte, N.C., formerly of Rainwater, and his former wife, Dr. His wife was the late Loudel Birmingham, died April 6, 2008. Janette Rainwater ’43, who kindly Garrett Enslen ’37. Other BSC Eleanor Edmonds Rennie ’38 of shared this news with us. family include son Sanford W. Birmingham died Feb. 11, 1999. Benjamin Royal ’39 of Cincinnati, Enslen ’63. Ohio, died April 20, 2008. William D. Scogin Jr. ’42 of Dora Charles W. Barnes ’39 of Houston Survivors include wife Elaine and Birmingham died March 3, Howard Doss Lacey Jr. ’37 of died July 11, 2007. Following Friedman Royal. BSC connections 2008. After attending BSC, he Mobile died June 23, 2008. He graduation at Birmingham- include his brother, the late Dr. graduated from Auburn University. was a veteran of World War II, Southern, where he met his future Arnold Royal ’39. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the U.S. Army. He was wife, Marguerite Johnston ’38,he and later was employed by U.S. retired from BellSouth after 44 pursued graduate studies in Dr. Bruce King Johnson ’40 of Steel as a metallurgical engineer. years of service. geology at the University of Birmingham died Feb. 10, 2008. Virginia until World War II After receiving a degree from the Rosemary Marshall “Dolly” Martha Franklin Matthews ’37 of intervened. He joined the U.S. University of Tennessee Medical Farrell ’43 of Birmingham died Birmingham died May 16, 2008. Naval Reserve and served during School, he practiced internal March 5, 2008. She was active in She held a master’s degree in the war in the Mediterranean and medicine until 1987, when he church and community groups. library science from the University Pacific theaters, retiring in 1964 retired from active patient care to of Alabama. During World War II, with the rank of commander. After join the administration of Baptist Rev. Delbert H. Miles ’43 of she served for two years in marrying in Washington, D.C., in Medical Center Princeton until his Gardendale died March 12, 2008. Germany as a recreational director 1946, he and Marguerite moved to retirement in 1999. During his Following graduation at BSC, he in American Red Cross Service Houston, where he worked for long career, he received numerous attended the Candler School of Clubs and also as an aircraft Stanolin. He later founded the professional appointments in the Theology at Emory University. For dispatcher with the U.S. Air Force Houston office of W.A. Tayloe Co. Birmingham medical community 44 years, he served as an ordained at Maxwell Field. She was a Active in community affairs and and held staff appointments at minister in the North Alabama librarian with the Birmingham charitable efforts, he supported a Baptist Medical Center, South Conference of the United Public Library and later served as wide range of social justice, Highlands Infirmary, University of Methodist Church. Although he chief librarian at the V.A. Medical environmental, and cultural Alabama Hospital, St. Vincent’s retired in 1980 at his final parish, Center in Birmingham. She was a organizations. He was a member Hospital, and Brookwood Hospital. of the Ginkgo Society.

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Hazel Green United Methodist Church, he continued preaching and serving until his death. In Memoriam ’33 Survivors include sons Dr. D. Howard Miles ’65, The Rev. Martha Woodruff “Sue” Clisby ’33 of Father Felix Miles ’66, and Homewood died May 30, 2008. She was a daughter Sarah Jane Miles Smith member of church and community groups, ’73. Other BSC connections including the Edgewood Garden Club and the include his daughter, the late Birmingham Fern Society. It was Clisby who Martha Miles Eliott ’62. At the planted the Lenten roses at the BSC President’s request of family, memorial Home. She was a member of the Gala contributions to BSC may be made Committee and the Ginkgo Society at BSC. through the Office of Institutional She and her husband, the late Vivian G. Clisby Advancement, Birmingham- ’31, were members of the Endowment Builders Southern College, 900 Arkadelphia Society at Birmingham-Southern and Road, Box 549003, Birmingham, established a college scholarship honoring AL 35254. their daughter, Suzanne Clisby. Other BSC connections include her brother and sister-in- Margery Burland White ’43 of law, the late Chivers Richard Woodruff ’32 Birmingham died July 19, 2007. and Cherry Scogin Woodruff ’39.

Dr. Robert W. Mowry ’44 of Germantown, Tenn., formerly of 1958, he founded Baker Industries and civic leader, serving in the life Rev. Peter Aitken Blair ’49 of Birmingham, died July 16, 2008. and was an active philanthropist. insurance, constructions, and real Birmingham died April 17, 2008. A After receiving his medical degree estate fields, he was president of native of Scotland, he grew up in from Johns Hopkins School of John A. Duddy Jr. ’45 of the Charleston Real Estate Board the Wylam area of Birmingham. Medicine, he served at the Versailles, Ky., died April 28, 2008. in 1957 and president of the North He was a U.S. Navy veteran of National Institutes of Health in He was retired from IBM after 32 Charleston Junior Chamber of World War II, serving in the Pacific Bethesda, Md., and at Washington years in sales management. He Commerce in 1958. The following Theater. During the Aleutian Island University in St. Louis, before was a member of the Ginkgo year, he won a seat in the South campaign off Alaska, he was accepting a faculty appointment in Society. Survivors include wife Carolina House of Represen- blown overboard in a torpedo the Department of Pathology at Mary Ann Duddy. tatives, which he held until 1971. attack on the USS Jupiter and was the University of Alabama Medical awarded a Purple Heart. Following Center in 1953, where he Jean Hight ’47 of Birmingham Mary Nell Lasater Immler ’48 of graduation from BSC, he received remained until his retirement in died July 23, 2008. She was a Birmingham died May 7, 2008. a master’s degree in divinity at 1989. He then was named retired schoolteacher, with service She was a devoted U.S. Air Force Columbia Theological Seminary in professor of pathology emeritus, in the Fairfield City Schools, and wife to her husband, the late Col. Decatur, Ga., and was ordained in maintaining active contact with the was active in many cultural and Thomas A. Immler ’50. Following 1952 in the Presbyterian Church. Pathology Department and the professional societies. Survivors his retirement from the military in He then served as a pastor at a UAB Medical Center community. include cousin Betty Hight Likis 1972, the couple moved to number of churches (with 20 years In 2008, he was recipient of an ’65. Auburn, where they opened The of service at Ensley Highlands endowed professorship in Village Frame Shop and Gallery. In Presbyterian Church) until his pathology, honoring his 50 years of We have learned recently that 1983, they returned to retirement in 2005. Survivors service in educating others in the Alfred Vance McCauley ’47 of Birmingham, where she was include wife Jean Thomas Blair. field. Winter Haven, Fla., died Dec. 11, active in church and cultural affairs 2003. and served as president of The Zollie C. Reed Jr. ’49 of Raymon J. Baker ’45 of Decatur Republican Women’s Club of the Tuscaloosa died Dec. 6, 2007. He died March 2, 2008. He was a Robert Wilson Turner ’47 of North South, Starlake Garden Club, and was a member of the Ginkgo veteran of World War II, serving as Charleston, S.C., died May 28, The Armed Forces Officers’ Wives Society. a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Force. 2008. He was a veteran of World Club. She was a member of the After attending BSC, he attended War II, serving in the U.S. Air Ginkgo Society. the University of Alabama. In Force. A successful businessman

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William Clifford Sears Jr. ’49 of Howard Louis Floyd ’50 of Moody Mary Agnes Brooks Holliman ’51 Art Blair ’53 of Rochester Hills, Birmingham died May 20, 2008. A died March 13, 2008. He was a of Birmingham died July 14, 2008. Mich., died May 24, 2008. veteran of World War II, he served World War II veteran. He was a In the 1950s and ’60s, she worked Employed for 28 years with the in the U.S. Army, 83rd Infantry, and retired professor from Bessemer for the federal government and in U.S. Postal Service in Detroit, he was awarded a Bronze Star for State Technical College and was 1954 lived in Washington D.C., and was devoted to classical music, service at the Battle of the Bulge. active in community groups. was an assistant to Congressman reading, and gardening. Survivors He retired as a property manager Survivors include wife Sena Laurie C. Battle of the U.S. House include wife Betty Blair. of Engel Realty and was active in “Betty” Rumford Floyd. of Representatives. A lifelong church affairs. He was a member member of the Presbyterian Dr. Richard L. Rowan ’53 of of the Ginkgo Society. His first Willard F. Peters ’50 of Hueytown Church USA, she was active in her Wallingford, Pa., died March 1, wife was the late Laura Acton died July 7, 2008. He was a U.S. community, a supporter of 2008. A veteran of the U.S. Army, Sears ’48. Survivors include wife Army veteran of World War II, education, and a caring friend to he did graduate work at Auburn Peggy Lowry Sears. serving in the Pacific Theater. He the natural environment. She was University and received a was employed in accounting at the wife of Professor Emeritus doctorate from the University of Dr. Fred O. Sherrill Jr. ’49 of U.S. Steel for 31 years. He was Dan C. Holliman and the mother North Carolina in Chapel Hill. For Hartselle died May 7, 2008. A active in church and community of Dr. Diane Carol Holliman ’87. 36 years, he was professor of veteran of World War II, serving in affairs and was an enthusiastic industry and labor relations at the the U.S. Army Air Corps, he was gardener. Survivors include wife Benjamin Franklin Stokes III ’51 Wharton School of the University one of the first American Doris E. Peters. of Mobile died July 11, 2008. He of Pennsylvania, where he also servicemen to be trained in radar was an attorney and a former was co-director and then director technology and was a radar Joseph Edward Sandner Jr. ’50 Alabama legislator. Joining the of the Industrial Research Unit operator on B-25 bombers in the of Birmingham died March 16, U.S. Army in 1955, he served as a and, later, the Center for Human Pacific Theater. Following the war, 2008. A veteran of World War II, Judge Advocate General, or legal, Resources. In this capacity, he he graduated from the University he served with the Allied officer until 1958, when he left the consulted with local, national, and of Alabama School of Medicine Occupational Forces in Germany. service and opened a law practice multinational corporations on and began a practice in Hartselle. Later he attended Auburn in Mobile, which he continued employment policies, with far- Following service as a medical University and BSC. After an early until June of this year. In 1970, he reaching social and economic missionary in Costa Rica and a career in life insurance, he was was elected to the Alabama House implications. He received honors period of practice in Falkville, he employed in real estate brokerage of Representatives as a Democrat at Wharton for his outstanding returned his practice to Hartselle, and development for 40 years and and served one term. Survivors teaching and contribution to the where he was a beloved physician was one of the Southeast’s larger include wife Alice B. Stokes and well-being of his students. In and was active in business and in developers of apartments, hotels, grandson Barnett Chenoweth III 2000, he received the church and community affairs. He and office buildings. Survivors ’05. Distinguished Alumni Award at was a member of the Ginkgo include wife Carol Ann Smith BSC. He was a member of the Society. Sander ’50. Ginkgo Society. Survivors include wife Marilyn Walker Rowan.

Robert Marvin Green ’54 of Dacula, Ga., died Aug. 20, 2006. In Memoriam ’39 Rev. Dr. Henry Franklin Flowers Hubert Theron “Pete” Montgomery ’39 of Montgomery died Jan. 30, 2008. After 42 ’55 of Thomasville, N.C., died Feb. years in the steel business in Birmingham, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh, he retired in 1975 22, 2008. as president and chairman of Connors Steel Co. in Birmingham. He was very active in church and community affairs. As a BSC alumnus, he was a member of the Ginkgo Ralph Bray Britton ’56 of Carillon Society and the Endowment Builders Society, and he endowed the Edna M. Montgomery Beach, Fla., died March 8, 2008. A Scholarship in honor of his first wife. Survivors include his son, Dr. Hubert Theron veteran of World War II, he served Montgomery Jr. ’57. His late sons, Dr. Donald R. Montgomery ’53 and Neil Eugene in the U.S. Navy aboard the Montgomery ’55, also were BSC graduates. submarine USS Tusk. He was a member of the Alabama Society of CPAs, AICPA, and the Financial Executives Institute, and was

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retired as CFO of Altec Industries trips to England and Inc. Survivors include wife Antigua, experiences he Rosezella Rowell Britton and considered among the In Memoriam ’42 daughter Rhonda Britton most rewarding of his Gallaspy ’70. career. Survivors include L. Paul Kassouf ’42 of Cullman wife Betty Smith Bowers. and Birmingham died June 23, Walter E. Duffey ’56 of Huntsville 2008. A veteran of World War II, died March 4, 2008. He was a Annie Jo Narkates ’59 of he served in the U.S. Army in veteran, serving in Korea. With a Birmingham died June 20, Europe. He was a magna cum degree from the Birmingham 2008. With bachelor’s and laude graduate of Birmingham- School of Law, he began a practice master’s degrees from Southern, with membership in Phi in Huntsville in 1963. A lover of BSC, she was employed in Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, opera, he helped incorporate and research at UAB until her and Beta Gamma Sigma. He was the first president of the retirement. Her mother received an MBA from the Huntsville Opera Association. He was the late Josephine University of Chicago and was also was an avid private pilot and Tamblyn Narkates ’33. awarded an honorary Doctor of was well known in the Huntsville Laws degree by BSC in 1989. aviation community. Survivors Dr. Barbara Strain ’59 of Kassouf was a pioneer in the accounting industry and, at include wife Leslie Joe Duffey and San Antonio, Texas, died the time of his death, was chair of the board emeritus of the twin brother Donald B. Duffey ’57. May 3, 2008. With a Birmingham accounting firm he founded, L. Paul Kassouf & Other BSC family include his doctoral degree from the Co. PC. He was an active member of state and national daughter, the late Dianne Duffey University of Texas at professional associations, serving as president of the Alabama Nevola ’87. Austin, she was an award- Society of CPAs in 1974 and on the Alabama State Board of winning educator, who had Public Accounting from 1976 to 1985. He was a recipient of Harold Rayburn Lambert ’56 of taught speech courses at the Alabama Society of CPAs Public Service Award. Hoover died July 10, 2008. He San Antonio College since A lifelong member of St. Elias Maronite Catholic Church served four years in the U.S. Army. 1969, including courses for in Birmingham and Sacred Heart Catholic Church in He was retired from State Farm non-native speakers. With Cullman, he was honored by Pope John Paul II as a Knight Insurance Co. with 38 years of the software program Video Commander of the Order of St. Gregory and received both service. He was a member of the Voice, she helped non- silver and gold Massabki Medals from the National Ginkgo Society. Survivors include native speakers master Apostolate of Maronites USA. He also was a lifelong member wife Chris Lambert. spoken English. She also of the Order of Saint Sharbel. was an actress, with stage He was a generous benefactor of education and assisted Joseph Paul Tombrello ’56 of credits in numerous with the establishment of endowed scholarships at Birmingham died Jan. 18, 2008. theatres in Texas and Birmingham-Southern, UAB, the University of Alabama, Troy He was employed by Atlantic- Birmingham, co-author of a University, and the National Apostolate of Maronites. He was Richfield as comptroller, and later speech communication a member of the Alumni Leadership Board, the Fine Arts was self-employed as a public textbook, an on-air Society, the Church Rebuilding Fund Group, the Ginkgo accountant. He was active in broadcaster for OWL Radio Society, and the Endowment Builders Society at Birmingham- church affairs. Survivors include for the blind and partially- Southern, and served the college as a life member of the wife Frances Tombrello. sighted, and a licensed board of trustees. He established the Paul and Naomi speech pathologist. She Kassouf Scholarship in Accounting. Dr. David E. Bowers ’57 of Athens also worked for the Survivors include wife Naomi Hawie Kassouf. Other BSC died June 12, 2008. With a degree Department of Television family include daughter and son-in-law, Beverly Kassouf from the University of Alabama for Edgewood public Kimes ’70 and Gerald L. Kimes ’68; grandson, the late School of Medicine, he practiced schools in San Antonio. Gerald L. Kimes Jr. ’92; granddaughter-in-law, Laura Renno pediatric medicine for more than Kimes ’92; and granddaughter, Michelle K. Campbell ’99. 40 years. He served the communities of Athens, Decatur, and, for the past 10 years, Fort Myers, Fla. He and his family participated in medical mission

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Louise Crooks Thompson ’89 of Bessemer, formerly of Hueytown, In Memoriam ’44 died May 24, 2008. She was Edith Plosser Hamilton ’44 of Birmingham died June 7, 2008. After earning both retired from the Jefferson County bachelor of arts and bachelor of music degrees at BSC, she served on the BSC Music Tax Assessors Office in Bessemer. Department faculty and taught piano at home for more than 20 years. She was a church Survivors include husband James choir director and organist, and she also was active in other local music groups. From W. Thompson Sr. 1967-73, she served as an administrator at the UAB Medical School. Her first husband was the late Hugh Oliver Hunter ’49. She was later married to David Hamilton, now Dr. Greg Allen Green ’98 of deceased. She was a member of the Alumni Leadership Board, the Fine Arts Council, the Crestview, Fla., died March 24, Ginkgo Society, and the Endowment Builders Society at Birmingham-Southern. 2008. With a degree in veterinary medicine from Auburn University, he was co-owner of Friendship Veterinary Hospital in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. Survivors include his Dr. Thomas Earle Bowen, Jr. ’61 business. Survivors include his Mary Esther Meadows Bry ’87 of wife, Dr. Ashley Wallace Green. of Edinburgh, Texas, died April 14, wife, Rev. Linda Gail Robinson; Birmingham died Jan. 19, 2008. BSC family members include 2007. With a doctoral degree in son, Wyn Hornbuckle ’94; and She attended the Adult Studies mother Deanne Joyce Green, a physiology and biophysics from daughter, Shannon Robinson program at Birmingham-Southern former member of the BSC staff; the University of Alabama, he had Marks ’02. and Birmingham Baptist Bible sister Rhonda Lea Dunn ’87; and a long and successful career as a College. brother Jeffery Carson Green ’93. teacher and university admini- Wilson Wyatt Tarleton III ’69 of strator. Early in his career, he Anniston died Feb. served in the expansion and 25, 2008. He was a improvement of the adult coronary senior subcontract catheterization lab at the UAB administrator with In Memoriam Friend Medical Center, as well as training URS-Westinghouse. Kenneth Latimer Rule Daniel, Friend, of Birmingham died July 1, 2008. He the coronary ICU team. He was a Survivors include was the son of Dr. Cullen Coleman Daniel, the first president of Birmingham- faculty member at the UA School wife Margaret Ann Southern. of Medicine from 1967-72, and (Peggy) Kawecki With degrees from the University of Alabama in mechanical engineering, participated in the revision of the Tarleton. Daniel joined the American Cast Iron Pipe Co. (ACIPCO) in 1936, where, medical curriculum and in except for military service, he would remain until he retired as president in developing a plan to support basic Stephen Corry 1978. He contributed not only strong leadership to the firm, but important science programs. He also Mauldin ’71 of inventions in the field resulting in seven U.S. patents issued in his name. He oversaw construction of a new Birmingham died is a member of the Alabama State Engineering Hall of Fame and the Alabama facility for this teaching model. June 5, 2008. A State Academy of Honor. From 1972-86, he served at the veteran of the U.S. During World War II, Daniel served directly under Gen. George Patton as a University of Tennessee-Memphis Army, he later had a lieutenant colonel and ordnance officer. He designed a hedgerow tank plow in roles including vice chancellor career in which enabled troops to breakout from the Normandy Beachhead and an for administration and acting dean catastrophic claims outside trigger for the M1 rifle that allowed it to be fired by troops wearing of the Graduate School of Medical adjustment. mittens in the freezing cold of the Battle of the Bulge. He received many Sciences. From 1986-98, he decorations for his service, including the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit. served as vice chancellor for John Isaac Daniel’s professional honors and awards, and those for his contributions academic affairs and as a faculty Farrington Sr. ’80 of to community life and charitable organizations, are numerous. He was a member at the University of Birmingham died generous friend of Birmingham-Southern. Survivors include son Cullen Kentucky Medical Center. April 28, 2008. He Coleman Daniel II ’98. At the request of family, donations in his memory may be Survivors include wife Judith had served in the made to the Cullen Coleman Daniel Scholarship at Birmingham-Southern, through Bowen. U.S. Marine Corps, the Office of Institutional Advancement, Birmingham-Southern College, 900 and was retired Arkadelphia Road, Box 549003, Birmingham, AL 35254. Claud Andrew Robinson ’66 of from ACIPCO. Clovis, Calif., died Feb. 29, 2008. Survivors include He was employed in the insurance wife Vivian Farrington. fall 08 southern_FINAL draft:southern magazine_text pages_draft 1 10/13/2008 11:48 AM Page 96

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In Memoriam Friend Kathryne Slate McDorman, Friend, of Birmingham died July 8, 2008. A graduate of Bowling Green Business University, later part of Western Kentucky University, she taught at high schools in Georgia and Alabama before her marriage in 1929 to the late Clarence L. McDorman ’27 of Birmingham (later 1978 BSC Distinguished Alumnus). Her Montgomery, and Dr. Angela faculty at BSC. Survivors include subsequent service to the Camp Morrow Baker ’77 and wife Miriam Bridgham Ford. Birmingham community included George Baker of Boulder, Colo. membership on the board of Other BSC family members Juanita Fordham Phillips of Photography by Mary Ann Fittipaldi Homewood Library and activities include his brother, Charles Camp Brentwood, Tenn., died Nov. 8, as secretary to the Coordinating Morrow ’02. 2007. She was a former financial Council of Jefferson County—the forerunner of the United Way. aid director at Birmingham- She participated in the Fine Arts Society at Birmingham-Southern Southern and, earlier, at Florida and greatly enjoyed the college’s GALA celebrations of notable Friends Southern and Scarritt College in women. Nashville. She also served as First Dr. Jonathan Blackney Ford of Active in church affairs, she and her husband taught Sunday Lady at Union College in Kentucky, Vestavia Hills died June 5, 2008. School classes at First United Methodist Church which, following where her husband, Dr. Jack C. He was a professor of organic World War II, combined to form the dynamic McDorman-Allen Phillips ’60, served as president. chemistry and biochemistry and class, a proud legacy that continues at FUMC today under the Other BSC family include her was a former member of the leadership of their son, Clarence McDorman Jr. A scholarship fund daughter, Annette Phillips Mathis established in honor of the McDormans’ service at FUMC has ’84. made a generous contribution to the work of Birmingham- Southern. BSC family members include her daughter, Dr. Kathryne S. McDorman ’67. In Memoriam Friend At the request of family, donations in her memory may be made to the Lee McGriff Jr., Friend, of Birmingham died Feb. 16, McDorman Scholarship Fund at Birmingham-Southern, through the 2008. A U.S. Navy veteran of the Pacific Theater in Office of Institutional Advancement, Birmingham-Southern College, 900 World War II, he flew night missions from the aircraft Arkadelphia Road, Box 549003, Birmingham, AL 35254. carrier Bonhomme Richard and remained an avid pilot throughout life. He was a Phi Beta Kappa mathematics graduate of the University of the South at Sewanee and, following the war, joined his father’s insurance firm, Jerry Killough Jernigan Jr. ’02 of Roger Stephen Morrow Jr. ’10 of which he served as chair and CEO from 1946-86. The Oneonta died Feb. 27, 2008. He Montgomery died April 6, 2008. A firm, presently known as McGriff, Seibels, and William, was a veteran, retiring in 1998 history major and computer Inc., became one of the largest and most successful from the U.S. Air Force as master science minor at Birmingham- insurance brokerage firms in the U.S. Among other sergeant and division chief in Southern, he was an honor professional honors, he was a member of the tactical reconnaissance. Four student and an active member Birmingham Business Hall of Fame. years later, he graduated magna and pledge marshal of Sigma Nu Active in community, charitable, and public affairs, cum laude from Birmingham- fraternity. During his freshman McGriff served as mayor of Mountain Brook from 1972- Southern. He was a member of year, he was honored with the 93 and was a member of the Governor’s Tort Reform and the Ginkgo Society. Survivors Bernard A. Monaghan Award. He Insurance Advisory Committees and the Alabama State include wife Nora Franklin is survived by his parents, Roger Ethics Commission, which he chaired in 1992-93. Jernigan. Morrow ’76 and Susan Morrow of He was a member of the Endowment Builders Society at Birmingham-Southern, and he established the Alice Nabers Jones McGriff Scholarship in honor of his wife. Survivors include his wife, Alice Nabers Jones McGriff ’40, and grandson Lee McGriff IV ’03.

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