Summer 2006 Page 6 Pete Hanna Arena Namedfor Page 4 President Becomes Westmoreland SEASONS 32 30 24 features first dayasSamford University president. Front cover:Dr.Andrew Westmoreland onhis headstotheoffice Celebrating Retirement 28 Commencement 22 CortsFarewell 20 Washington Posting 18 TimeRunningOut 16 4Speakingof 14 MaconWinner 13 4 8 CampusNews 7 Pete HannaArena 6 Samford Report 3 From thePresident 2 quick profile. 18th chiefexecutive.Learn more aboutthenewleaderinthis Dr. Andrew Westmoreland June1astheschool’s tookoffice spendingthespringgettingtoknowSamfordAfter University, Profiling Andrew Westmoreland campaign slogan, “Full Time forAlabama.” how his1970opponent,George Wallace, reacted toBrewer’s of hiscareer inthisquestion-and-answerfeature. Discover Former Alabama GovernorAlbert Brewer shares recollections ‘Full Time forAlabama’ memories fortheschoolanditsstudents. East Lake campus.Glancebackatsomebittersweet years ago,Fifty Samford wasbeginningitslastyearonthe Last Year inEastLake coming toSamford. Milburn Price. The newdeansshare theirthoughtsabout performing artsare succeedingretiring deansJoeDeanand Dr. BobbyBryantinpharmacyandJosephHopkins Meet NewDeans and Samford studentsalike. relationship withSamford’s birthplacebenefitsPerry residents fun festsforkidsandtheOldHoward 100Bike Ride. The from healthscreening clinicsanddiabetessupportgroups to Samford reaches outtoPerry Countyinamultiplicityofways, Samford andPerry County Gilead 5Calendar 65 Memorial/HonorGifts 58 Sports 54 GospelChoir 53 InMemoriam 51 Births 49 ClassNotes 46 HomecomingInfo 45 Alumni Donors 38 Where Are They Now? 36 Reunions Ongoing 35 EDITOR William Nunnelley ASSOCIATE EDITOR Mary Wimberley CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Jack Brymer, Sean Flynt, Philip Poole PUBLICATION MANAGER Janica York Carter EDITORIAL SPECIALIST Barrett Hathcock DESIGNERS Scott Camp, Carlie Cranford Stamper, Monica Washington PHOTOGRAPHY Caroline Baird Summers Ann Wade Parrish ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS 2005–06 PRESIDENT Tom Armstrong ’’73 VICE PRESIDENT Mark Davidson ’’92 SECRETARY Kathryn Josey ’’80

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Seasons isis publishedpublished quarterlyquarterly byby Samford University, 800 Lakeshore Drive, Birmingham, Alabama 35229, and is distributed free to all alumni of the University, as well as to other friends. Periodical postage paid at Birmingham, Alabama. Postmaster: send address changes to Samford University Alumni Office, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama 35229. ©2006 Samford University Samford University is an Equal Opportunity Institution and welcomes applications for employment and educational programs from all indi- viduals regardless of race, color, age, sex, disability, or national or ethnic origin. Samford senior Sandra Kindred-Williams and fellow graduates pause to enjoy the moment following commencement www.samford.edu exercises May 20. See page 22. [email protected] FROMTHEPRESIDENT 2 eiigaFond Ritual a Reliving “ e asao itwasdifficultto say goodbye. a fewdays ago, When vanarrived themoving life into my work. andthere Ipoured my could ever hopeto have, there thanaman Imademore friends daughter, there our we raised my wife, met andmarried There I theOuachita staff. then asamemberof and as astudentatOuachita BaptistUniversity, first found my place inalittletown in Arkansas, I’ve pastthree These decades, place. sense of we ina findcomfort ourlives, nature of tory alumpto mybrings throat. thephrase two years after herdeath, Now, ritual. to the learned I cherish Later, mildly annoying. Ifoundtherepetition First, Iwould reply. are,” here we “Yes, asshebeganto slipfrom us. years, inhertwilight Sheusedthephrase campus. asJeanna andIattended anevent on daughter, our Riley, orsimplyto sitwith afternoon visit T o ayo s swept away by thetransi- us, For many of oet usfrdne,foraSunday home to oursfordinner, herthefewblocksfrom her bringing as Ipulledthecarinto thegarage, occasions said to meondozens of my mother his must betheplace,” prayers. here we are.” “Yes, Alabama. Birmingham. Samford. place.” must bethe “This into afewdays thegarage ago. I’m my enthusiasm asIbegin work. filledwith aninstitutionthatIlove. advance thecauseof to friends I’llhave to rely onanarmy of past, Just asinthe relationships. hundredswith of have discovered thatourlives beblessed will We already challenges and newopportunities. new with been calledto adifferent place, sawy,pleasekeep Samford inyour As always, We couldn’t behappier. I could almosthearmy motherasIpulled my familyhas however, In recent months, President Andrew Westmoreland REPORT reportSAMFORD SAMFORD Samford Names Recital Hall for Jane Hollock Brock amford University will name its new recital hall for the wife of a longtime trustee and Birmingham financial leader who cofounded Central Bank, Snow Compass Bank. The new building, scheduled to open this fall, will be Jane Hollock Brock Hall. It is named for the wife of retired banker Harry B. Brock, Jr., who has been a leading member of the Samford board for more than four decades. The Samford University Board of Trustees named the building in recog- nition of the Brock family’s long years of support of the university, according to Samford President Emeritus Thomas E. Corts. The Brocks have generously supported Samford over the years with their philanthropy and have used their influence to gain support for the school from others, he noted. “Samford has no finer friends than Harry and Jane Brock,” said Dr. Corts. “In a busy career, Harry has chaired major committees, chaired the board of Workmen strive to complete the exterior of Samford’s new recital hall, set to open this fall. trustees, chaired a major successful campaign and been one of our major will be the recital hall with its state-of- pleased that their presence will hover donors. Jane kept making it possible for the-art acoustics. over Samford for decades to come.” Harry to be Harry—not an easy job! The new facility will house teaching, “Instrumental faculty and students This building is a trophy for this campus practice and rehearsal facilities for have long labored under adverse con- and a fabulous tribute from a devoted Samford’s Wind Ensemble, Marching ditions, but no longer will this be the husband to his wife.” Band, Orchestra, chamber ensembles, case,” said retiring Samford School of The Brocks’ son, Harry Brock III, is Percussion Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble. Performing Arts Dean Milburn Price, also a member of the Samford board. Dr. Corts, closing his 23-year who helped define the needs of the new Mrs. Brock’s late great-uncle, Peyton A. tenure as Samford president, recalled the building and worked with architects in Eubank of Birmingham, was an 1897 longtime support of Brock on the planning stages. “The new building, Jane graduate of Samford (then Howard Samford board. Hollock Brock Hall, will provide a College) and a longtime Samford “It was Harry Brock who first wonderful new home for our music trustee. He was the school’s Alumnus of showed me around Birmingham and programs.” ■ the Year in 1947. extolled its charms until I was persuaded The Jane Hollock Brock Hall, to consider moving here,” he said. See photo on back cover. located adjacent to Wright Center and “Without saying ‘Yes’ to every sug- Buchanan Hall, will house a 300-seat gestion, he has been a major force on the recital hall, a rehearsal suite for Samford board and an ever-affirming friend. He orchestral and band programs, and an and Jane Brock are a grand couple, instrumental teaching center. The whose devotion to one another is as centerpiece of the $8 million building exemplary as it is rare. Everyone is

3 SPOTLIGHT 4 iin o Samford for Vision’ Shared Seeking ‘a Samford students. Westmoreland chatswith egtahnl nSmod theinstitution.” me getahandleonSamford, many peopleaspossibleabouthisnewinstitution. He talked to as hecould onSamford. everything aspresident Corts Thomas June 1. succeeding Dr. D Westmoreland becomes18thPresident Iddalto itnn, esi.“It helped hesaid. listening,” “I didalotof He read He to campus. madeseveral trips about Samford anditspeoplebefore wanted to know asmuch aspossible He Samford University. new topic: a studying thespring spent educator, lifelong a Andrew Westmoreland, r. continue theprocess with afr’ 8h will Samford’s 18th, him themostinthis ways.” teer to helpinmany process? were quickto volun- The newpresident, most wastheopen- What surprised eso Samford,” ness of impressed methe rs e but what me, prise eeto.People reception. esi.“The he said. offered awarm community at every turn “It didnotsur- to do to schedule time Ouachita president. years as eight process his during thing aboutthis regularly.”buildings andtheclassroomcafeteria I’llbeinthe from theprocess. tremendous energy But Idraw president shouldbeseenoncampus. to him. isimportant especially oncampus, visibility, High Westmoreland’s approach. May. moved inlate to Birmingham Riley, and daughter, Jeanna, He andhiswife, toJanuary succeed Corts. namedhimin trustees the Samford board of membersince 1979when since 1998andastaff Ark., Ouachita BaptistUniversity in Arkadelphia, AlabamaBaptists andothers. business people, alumni, Samford’s external community of meetingwith He begin alsowill summer. receptions over andmeetings the of a series “You to have He one learned “The hesaid. it’s symbolic,” “To someextent, His emphasisonmeetingpeopletypifies Westmoreland hadbeenpresident of by WilliamNunnelley this, or all the responsibilities of being president The new Samford president said earlier that will preclude it.” he and his family were “excited beyond measure Such involvement is one reason as we contemplate the new relationships that Westmoreland taught a political science course at await us” at Samford. The Westmorelands enjoy Ouachita during his presidency. entertaining groups—students, faculty, alumni, “I taught years ago,” he said, “but quit when I friends—and look forward to doing so in was heading the Ouachita fund-raising division. It Birmingham. They reside in a Greystone home was very important for me to be in the classroom, given to Samford by trustee Jenna Cassese and her so I began teaching again when I became presi- husband, Joe. SPOTLIGHT dent. I taught American national government.” “It’s far too big for our family,” he said, “but Did teaching ever get burdensome, perfect for entertaining groups of 40 or 50 sandwiched between presidential responsibilities? people.” “Never,” he said. “There is not any higher One way Westmoreland sought to learn more high than leaving the classroom knowing that you about Samford was by encouraging faculty, staff, did a good job that day.” alumni and friends to e-mail him their Samford He plans to continue his teaching at stories. Samford, but not this fall. “Dozens of people responded with their Westmoreland comes to a larger and more stories, some long and some short,” he said. complex institution. Ouachita has 1,500 students, “There were some humorous responses. Earlier, I all undergraduates, while Samford has 4,500 had joked about my first name, Theron, which I students and a variety of postgraduate programs. don’t often use, but the ‘T’ is part of my Samford How will this affect his leadership style? e-mail address, so I felt I needed to explain it. A “The difference in size has not worried me,” number of people e-mailed me to tell me about he said, “but the question has come up several Therons they had known. times, causing me to reflect on it. I don’t think it “I thought the response to this opportunity will make a difference. I attended a deans’ was good. It provided some texture to my getting meeting at Samford and found it very similar to a to know Samford.” deans’ meeting at Ouachita. People generally are As Westmoreland moves into the Samford very interested in their own programs, but also in presidency, he answers questions about his vision the overall program. What you have to do as for Samford this way: president is keep the larger picture in mind.” “I don’t have a list of one, two, three. I want He added, “That doesn’t mean that I know Samford to be as strong as it can be, but I want to everything about a pharmacy school, for example. arrive at a shared vision after consultation with all But I like to ask questions, and that gives me stakeholders. Ideally, our people will have owner- another opportunity to learn.” ship of the vision we adopt.” Westmoreland said he would support the He adds that his “overarching theme” for the work of Alabama Baptists however and wherever future is for Samford to maintain its devotion to possible. engagement and service. “Jeanna, Riley and I will become active in a “That’s what Christians ought to do,” he said. local church in Birmingham, and we’ll reach out “We should serve as role models for engagement for support for Samford from other Baptists and service for our students and for the larger The new president across the state,” he said. “It will be important for society. I’ll support that idea with my rhetoric and visits with Samford me to be in my home church on a regular basis, with my action.” ■ ministerial mentors. but I hope to be in at least 20 other churches each year, getting to know people and telling the Samford story.” Westmoreland enjoys writing, but even though he is author of the book Leading by Design, much of his output now is for speeches and reports. He wrote speeches for his predecessor at Ouachita, former president Ben Elrod, for eight years. “I joked with him the other day that I thought I had given him all my best stuff,” Westmoreland said with a chuckle. Westmoreland reads broadly and in cycles. “I’m in a nonfiction mode,” he said this spring. He recently read The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman; Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond; and The City of Falling Angels by John Berendt. “Sometimes in traveling, I’ll read whatever I can pick up at the airport.” He also describes himself as a sports fan with no particular favorite among sports. 5 PHILANTHROPY 6 company in1962andeventually bought hisfirststock inthe he bought Hanna, “Crack” Walter J. Gen. by hisfather, complete. before thestadium was 1958 season, the would Fieldduring become Seibert thefirsttouchdowns onwhat one of andscored Samford the1950s, during helpingothers.” all thewhile, ciples andonconcern forhisemployees— prin- has builtabusinessonChristian He that Samford honorhiminthisway. That makes itall themore fitting know. kindnessesthananycharitable manI uknown This manhasdonemore quiet, “He hasagreat heart. Corts. said Dr. thiscommunity,” citizens of unheralded 2007. completion date isthefallof andtheanticipated structure inJanuary, underway. in campusimprovements plannedand almost$100million is acornerstone of Thestructure President ThomasCorts. 20 ataretirement dinnerforSamford Ala. Fairfield, Hanna of Steel Corporation executive officer of president andchief owner, Trustees chose to honorHanna, P Hanna Pete Arena Namedfor Entering thefamilybusinessstarted Entering Pete Hanna played footballfor theoutstanding “Pete Hanna isoneof Samford broke ground onthearena The announcement wasmade April Samford University Board of The special-events center. and million sport-fitness forSamford’sdesignated $32- ete Hanna Arena isthename university.” academic university andaChristian to “continue to beoutstanding asan Samfordsupported becausehewanted it andthat he beyond my fondestdreams” recognized inthisway.” to teach shetried the ruffians hadbeen Shewould beamazed thatoneof Gelder. Professor [Lizette] Van teacher, English bemy might only personmore surprised The my nameonauniversity building. to forourcampaign.” fund-raising energy Samford hasgiven anexplosive burstof Hanna’s commitment to “Mr. said, University Relations Michael Morgan delivers theproducts. which andHannadivision Truck Line, apainted steel product tubing division, asteel successfulhighly consists firm of the Today, in1984. the company itself Hanna saidhehadbeen “blessed “Inever expected to see Hanna said, Samford Vice President for ■ the eaststandswere addedtothestadium. Seibert Field. This 1958 game camebefore Samford touchdownsonwhatbecame pitchout andraces tooneofthefirst Pete Hanna,extreme right,takes a www.samford.edu forprogress updates. Pete HannaArena May26.Goto for Builders workonfoundationalwalls dinner for Thomas Corts. Samford attheretirement reasons forsupporting Pete Hannadiscusseshis Samford Health-care Interpreter Program Cited as Most NEWS CAMPUS news Distinguished in Southeast CAMPUS

Westmoreland Announces amford University’s Health-care Interpreter Training [HIT] Administrative Appointments Scertificate program was named the 2006 Distinguished Noncredit amford University President Program in the Southeast by the Andrew Westmoreland has Association of Continuing Higher Sannounced two administrative Education [ACHE]. appointments. The program, which trains indi- Dr.J.Bradley Creed,Samford’s viduals who are bilingual in English provost since 2002, will have the added and Spanish to become qualified title of executive vice president. Creed interpreters in a medical setting, is will have more direct involvement with offered as a Samford After Sundown day-to-day operations in addition to course in Samford’s Metro Programs. serving as chief academic officer. Samford After Sundown courses are Dr. Sarah C. Latham will become Brad Creed Sarah Latham open to anyone. assistant to the president. Latham will Creed joined the Samford staff and Each year, ACHE recognizes one oversee research and planning initiatives faculty in 2001 as associate provost and program in each region based on for the university, and will assist professor of religion. He was promoted originality and innovation in terms of Westmoreland with management of the to provost in 2002 following the retire- its audience, delivery, promotion, president’s office. ment of Joe Lewis. A native Texan, he collaboration and contents, and Both appointments are effective previously was dean of Baylor success in achieving established goals immediately. University’s George W. Truett and objectives. “As I have come to know members Theological Seminary. He has degrees Samford’s HIT certificate of the senior staff during the transition, I from Baylor and Southwestern Baptist program was introduced in the fall have been impressed with their com- Theological Seminary. of 2004, and the first 21 students petence and their keen understanding of Latham has been Samford’s director completed the program in the spring Samford’s role within the framework of of institutional research since 2002. A of 2005. higher education,”Westmoreland said. California native, she earned degrees at “These interpreters are now “In particular, during these early days of the University of Alabama at Birmingham better equipped to bridge the my Samford tenure, I’m grateful to Dr. and Florida State University. She is communication divide between Creed and Dr. Latham for their willing- coordinating the university’s current health-care providers and limited- ness to shoulder additional responsi- self-study process for accreditation affir- English-proficient patients,” said bilities. They will make significant mation with the Southern Association of Samford After Sundown Director contributions as we continue to build on Colleges and Schools [SACS]. ■ Katie Crenshaw, who accepted the the strong foundations that are in place.” award at the ACHE Region VII con- ference in Fort Worth, Texas, in April. Region VII includes colleges and Samford’s Melinda Toole Wins Miss Alabama universities in 10 Southeastern states. ay graduate Melinda work on a master’s degree, but A second HIT offering will begin MToole recently received a she wants to teach at least a in September 2006 and conclude in teaching job offer from year before entering graduate April 2007. Classes meet on Tuesday Homewood City Schools, but school. Her goal is to teach evenings and alternating Saturdays. she will put off her classroom reading and to serve as a The program includes both traditional career for a year while she positive role model. classroom activities and field experi- serves as Miss Alabama. “Reading is something that ence. For information, call the The reigning Miss can be hard for children to Samford After Sundown office at ■ Samford became the latest learn,” she said. “And as a soci- (205) 726-2898. Samford graduate to win the ety, we’re constantly plagued annual scholarship pageant. She Melinda Toole with a lack of good role models.” was crowned June 10 in Samford’s Toole, from Birmingham, is a singer. Wright Center. She performed an Italian love song, Eventually, Toole will use the “Time to Say Goodbye,” in the pageant. ■ $11,350 she earned in the pageant to

7 REPORT amford’s roots in Perry County trade, be it blood-pressure gauges, are deep, dating to the school’s glucose monitors or computer software, 1841 founding as Howard and a seemingly boundless supply of SPECIAL College in the county seat of energy and genuine love for the people. Marion, Ala. Many ties—both For two years, the Old Howard 100 Semotional and physical—to Alabama’s Bike Ride, sponsored by Samford’s rural Black Belt were severed when the college of arts and sciences, has brought institution moved to Birmingham in hundreds of bicyclists and their bikes to 1887. the area and raised several thousand In the last three dollars to benefit local years, however, that programs. Soon, a new century-long discon- Perry County Study Center nection has been will open in a house replaced with a constant Samford recently purchased stream of students and in downtown Marion. faculty traveling the 78 Perry County is one miles from suburban of 12 counties in Alabama’s Birmingham, down Black Belt, so named for pleasant country roads, the color of the dark, rich to the area that has one soil. Once prosperous, the of the nation’s highest now economically depressed poverty rates. counties have high rates of The visitors take poverty, illiteracy and with them tools of their infant mortality. PerrySamford in County A Variety of Programs Helps the Black Belt Area by Mary Wimberley

Right: Samford Vice President for Business Affairs Bill Mathews, left, English professor Steven Epley and core curriculum instructor Nancy Biggio chat outside Samford’s Perry County Study Center. Epley will teach a service-learning course related to Perry County’s needs this fall. Biggio is the center’s first director. Top: Samford students Jessica Baril and Sarah Fort help lead a fun fest for Perry County children.

8 Helping to Ease Diabetics’ Plight he story of Harry, the devoted THoward College janitor who died REPORT while saving many students’ lives in an 1854 dormitory fire in Marion, Ala., impressed pharmacy professor Gary Bumgarner when he arrived at Samford SPECIAL in 2001. “Harry’s giving of self for the betterment of others is at the core of pharmacy practice,”explained Bumgarner. The compelling bit of Samford history became the heart of a unique relationship between Samford’s McWhorter School of Pharmacy and members of Perry County’s large diabetic population. While spending a spring break with Student Ministries volunteers in Perry County, Bumgarner recognized a dramatic need for diabetes education in the area. According to Bumgarner, Alabama has the greatest incidence of diabetes in the nation, and Perry County has the third-highest incidence of the state’s 67 counties. The statistics almost screamed for pairing with an existing curriculum requirement that pharmacy students engage in special research during their senior year. With the help of Frances Ford, Perry County health-care coordinator (now executive director) of Cooperative Riders head out from Marion for the Baptist Fellowship’s Sowing Seeds of Old Howard 100 Bike Ride. Hope, 12 diabetics were invited to form a support group. Seeds for Samford’s new interest in “It was a balance of education and “We focused on being their friends,” its mother county were planted in late action,”recalled Robinson. The volun- said Bumgarner, adhering to a former 2002, when Mart Gray, then executive teers cleaned and mowed the Marion colleague’s wisdom that “Before they director of the Cooperative Baptist city cemetery, painted downtown care how much you know, they want to Fellowship, met with Samford adminis- storefronts and worked at a library in know how much you care.” trators and campus leaders. He spoke of neighboring Uniontown. As they In their monthly meetings, group the many needs in Perry County and the labored, they learned about the people members learn about the disease and work of CBF’s Sowing Seeds of Hope, a and needs of the area. realize they’re not alone. Family venture to boost the area’s economic Soon after, the Perry County members, who often are faced with development and education resources. Advisory Council was organized on Ideas began to form almost campus to fuel interest and keep the Diabetes cont. on page 10 immediately, recalls Minister to Students county on the minds of the Samford April Robinson, who attended the community. At about the same time, meeting along with Samford President funding support from a $2 million Lilly Thomas E. Corts, Vice President J. Grant, designated for programs that William Mathews, Jr. and others. explore the intersection of theology and During the next spring break, a vocation, came available. dozen students participated in a three- The grant, administered through day mission trip to Perry County the Samford in Mission office, has made sponsored by Student Ministries in many projects possible. partnership with Sowing Seeds of Hope. cont. on page 10

Pharmacy student Tonya Thornton Glover talks with a Perry County resident at a diabetes support group meeting. 9 10 SPECIALREPORT which begin and end with prayer. andendwith which begin thesessions, component of important meeting notices to localdiabetics. space athis York drugstore andmails ’85providesDavis conference room for diabetics. group anothersupport he hasstarted where he drives west to Sumter County, After theone-hoursessioninMarion, in theBlackBelthave gotten longer. hesaid. health care,” can goalongway infillinghuge gapsin team practitioner a pharmacist/nurse areas suchand inrural as Perry County, action isbiginthehealth-care setting, “Cross-discipline inter- Bumgarner. says working together isagoodthing, thedisease. clinical manifestationsof bloodtestsformed anddiscussedthe whoper- Nursing program, graduate in Samford’s Moffett School of Ida V. nurse practitioners engaged thehelpof (juvenile) diabetes foryears. whohashadType I 28, Holmes, says patients, of to counsel avariety says Holmes. change theirbehaviors,” diabetes andbecome motivated to where thepatientswantto control their classandputitinaway during learned hissenioryearduring inPerry County. each month the second Saturday of whospent graduate May ’06Pharm.D. a most recently Holmes, by Demetri group.helped initiate thefirstsupport graduates, 2005Pharm.D. all Pettway, Hagler and Rosa Latricha Glover, hecontinued. how learn They to listen,” toskills andlearning connect to patients. are communicationis thatthey learning Bumgarner. said the headbackto theheart,” “It connects inthefirstplace. pharmacy remember why chose to they gointo ithelpsthem students, the pharmacy saidBumgarner. diabetic,” thatyoulearn canstilleatoutasa helpedthem “That restaurant meal. thegroup metfora Thanksgiving, says Bumgarner. alsoare encouraged to attend, needs, overseeing medicationanddietary Diabetes At both sites, spirituality isan spirituality At bothsites, Samford alumnus Eddie pharmacy Saturdays Holmes’ Since December, andnursePharmacists practitioners Holmes andBumgarner This year, himhowThe experience hastaught key isto take“The you’ve what on Their work hasbeencarried Tonia Thornton Three students, biggestthingforthestudents “The For works twoThe learning ways. to celebrate In November, cont. from page 9 ■ ils wasthatstudentsbe “challenged Willis, said Thegoal, workshops onthetopic. students metinspecial semester, thespring During faith andvocation. offered anintense atintegrating look which pated inthefirstCare isCalling, medicinepartici- science andsports andexercise nursing, premedicine, pharmacy, health-care disciplinesof students inhealth-related majors. fora uniqueCare isCallingprogram toground assistSandifer-Stech increating ’78. M.S.E. Potts David ’72, College President Dr. Director Frances Ford andJudson Hope Executive Seedsof Sowing including community leaders, with Thevolunteers alsomet store. thrift screenings andworked atthedowntown heldhealth publicschools, visited students which during mission trip, spring the 2006StudentMinistries Sheorganized bank to abookgive-away. fromspecial projects aclothing ranging year County. inPerry asanintern double majorcompleted hersecond thebiology/nursing In May, action. into theBlack Belt assist thepeopleof Willis to puthergenuine callingto students like Samford junior Vikki cont. from page 9 About 35studentsinSamford’s Willis usedherhealth-care back- sheorganized thattime, During Grant monieshave enabled County youngsters. children ataChristmaspartyforPerry Samford studentMelinda Toole visitswith atric screening for station youngsters.atric diabetes boothandapedi- education There wasa andheight/weight. rates pulse temperature, hypertension, vision, Samford team screened 32 adultsfor the thetwo-hour fair, During service. the following April 23Sunday worship at Marion’s Church Baptist Berean anextensiveculminated with healthfair beyond themselves.” life andliving serving to thinkof at adiabetesscreening clinicinMarion. Joiner workwithaPerry Countyresident Sands IIIandpharmacystudentMatt Samford pharmacyprofessor Charles The 2006Care isCallingproject Student-built Ramps Make Elderly More Mobile wo elderly Perry County residents are now “I used many tools I had never had a much more mobile, thanks to the efforts of need to use before,” said Dorsey, who T REPORT students in a Samford medical sociology class. mastered a nail gun and an automatic saw. The spring semester course included the She also spent time thinking about the usual class lectures, note-taking and exams, woman who would enjoy the ramp and her

but for the students, the highlight was a life in the middle of nowhere in Perry County SPECIAL hands-on service-learning project. That’s how all by herself. “How difficult life must be, all two wheelchair-dependent residents gained alone and handicapped,” observed Dorsey, a much-needed ramps for their homes. senior sociology major from Garland, Texas. The course, taught by sociology professor “My heart was so pleased and proud of Dr. Robin Roberts, covers aspects of health, what we were doing in Perry County that day. sickness, and the sociology of human develop- I realize that it was only one wheelchair ramp ment and interactions when people encounter for one elderly lady. But this ramp could really medicine. affect her daily life. She could make it outside Before the work day in Perry County, more easily and on a more frequent basis.” students spent a day confined to wheelchairs, While the ramp may be a blessing for the recording their thoughts and experiences in a woman who received the ramp, Dorsey said, journal. “We were blessed just as equally.” Claire Dorsey recalls the trip to the “Not only do we get to be a part of wooden house where they built the ramp with helping another, but we also had the extreme double handlebars with smoothed edges for privilege of following the calling of a Christian easy access and mobility. lifestyle.” ■ helping others

“Because of the disparities of job of interacting with the junior high health care within Perry County, SIM’s and high school students,” said Dr. Care is Calling program has the Chuck Sands. wonderful opportunity to build bridges Many of the projects fall in line between patients and the free clinics with Samford’s emphasis on service Samford offers,”observed Willis. learning, a program Lynette M. Sandley Many Samford health-care students directs. and faculty are already regular visitors “Service learning engages students to Perry County, where they undertake in community and academics, and projects as varied as the health-care ideally is reciprocal, meaning that needs of its residents. community, students and the university Twice a month, exercise science and all benefit. Service learning is one of the sports medicine students, led by ESSM best ways to engage in holistic department chair Dr. Charles D. learning—body, mind and soul,”said “Chuck” Sands IV, conduct blood- Sandley, who believes that “people often pressure screenings at the local grocery have to be exposed before they can be store. They supply the data to pharmacy ‘called.’”She points to a medical soci- professor Dr. Charles D. Sands III, who ology course in which class members takes pharmacy students each built wheelchair ramps for two indigent Wednesday to Marion to conduct families. (See related story.) hypertension clinics. They follow up “Not only did this experience with patients whose blood-pressure challenge them to dig in regarding the problems were identified by the ESSM course material in medical sociology, students. but it forced them to go to other Once a month, pharmacy professor academic disciplines such as geography, Dr. Gary Bumgarner and students physics and mathematics to obtain the conduct a diabetes education program. knowledge they needed to build the (See related story.) ramps,”noted Sandley. Samford religion major Tyran Laws In April, the ESSM department Each semester, junior education leads a fun-and-games session with took more than 50 students, four faculty majors engage in a clinical experience in Perry children. and a volunteer medical doctor to the Perry County schools. The future Marion High School, where they teachers serve as extra pairs of hands for screened some 160 students. “More importantly, our students did a great cont. on page 12

11 cont. from page 11 bicyclists who attend each year from as teachers at Marion’s Turner Elementary far away as Massachusetts bring School and assist with small-group welcome dollars to local businesses, and teaching sessions. take home word of the area’s hospitality REPORT For several years, members of and picturesque countryside. Samford’s Student Government Many decades after leaving the site Association and Omicron Delta Kappa of its founding, Samford once again became a true Marion citizen with the

SPECIAL leadership honor society have teamed to sponsor a spring Fun Fest in Marion. recent purchase of a 2,400-square-foot Hundreds of area youngsters have house near the city’s center. Known as enjoyed the activities, free food, and the Holley House for its previous resi- probably most of all, the attention from dents, the Perry County Study Center the college students. will serve as a base of operations for the Samford students have also served university’s involvement in the region. as interns with Sowing Seeds of Hope, The two-story house will host which brings in hundreds of college students and faculty during extended students from throughout the country academic projects and retreats, and each summer to assist with projects in serve as a gathering spot for students in the area. the area on day trips, says its director Samford faculty receive an Nancy Biggio. overview of ongoing projects and needs The heart of its purpose, say Biggio, in “Perry County 101,” held during the is to promote community-engaged annual faculty institute in August. In education that supports local needs and 2005, 22 faculty members participated priorities and enhances Samford in the program, which included a tour students’ knowlege and appreciation for Samford students set up a book display at of Marion led by Mathews, who has rural communities. the Perry Christmas party. Children could maintained close ties to the area since Samford’s efforts are recognized take their picks of books to read. his student days at Marion Military and appreciated by area leaders. Institute. This spring’s baccalaureate speaker, During a forum with community Rev. Lawrence Wofford, founder and leaders, the educators learned how they president of the Democracy Project, might create new programs and engage based in Selma, Ala., has praised the work. students in work in the Black Belt. “We are grateful for what you’ve The area’s needs are being done in Perry County,” said Wofford, addressed beyond the Samford gates, as who is pastor of Greater St. Luke Zion evidenced by the establishment of a Church in Greensboro, Ala., located in Black Belt Action Commission by neighboring Hale County. Alabama Governor Bob Riley in 2004. “We are aware of the seeds of hope Samford nursing students Heidi Hummel, Samford’s Mathews notes the you’ve planted. They are bearing fruit,” left, and Kate Evans check blood glucose benefit of such events as the Old he said. “We need the collective wisdom levels at a screening clinic. Howard 100 Bike Ride. Hundreds of of your various skills.” ■

12 “I want to help equip them to be successful persons

who love to sing.” REPORT Sharon Lawhon Passionate CAMPUS About Singing,Teaching by Mary Wimberley or the recipient of Samford University’s 2005–06 George Macon Memorial Award, the true joy of teaching lies in discovery. F“I really find it exciting when I discover students without the obvious star quality, and help them to uncover and develop skills,” said Dr. Sharon Leding Lawhon, chair of the voice department in Samford’s School of Performing Arts. The Macon Award recognizes a Samford educator who, through outstanding performance as a teacher, counselor and friend to students, demonstrates the ability to inspire students to greatness. Lawhon received the award and accompanying $1,000 from Samford Provost Brad Creed at opening convocation for the spring semester. Dr. Creed cited her ability to expect the most of her students, to inspire them to achieve their goals and to challenge them Dr. Sharon Lawhon has taught voice at Samford since 1994. to become responsible people of integrity. emphasize a process approach,” she said. professor at a Bible college in Moscow, A frequent performer in solo “I am convinced that if the process of Russia, and with Chinese Christian recitals, with choral and orchestral learning is sound, the product will be church music institutes in the United ensembles, and in oratorios and operas, strong.” States and Canada. Lawhon admits to an enthusiasm for her The Tennessee native holds a The international and multicultural work. bachelor of music degree in vocal experiences, she says, help her to grow as “I am passionate about singing and performance from Belmont University, a teacher. “The challenge of communi- about the development of potential in and master of church music and doctor cating causes me to hone my ideas and young singers. I want to help equip them of musical arts degrees in vocal methods in a way that is stimulating and to be successful persons who love to performance from Southern Baptist beneficial for my students,” she said. sing,” said Lawhon, who teaches voice, Theological Seminary. She joined Lawhon is married to organist and diction and music ministry with Samford in 1994. church musician Daniel Lawhon. She is children. She also conducts the 70- Lawhon serves on the national a soloist and choir member at Vestavia member University Chorale. board of the Choristers Guild, has Hills Baptist Church. ■ In the classroom and in private published numerous articles, and is an lessons, she is known for providing active choral director, clinician and students with methodical direction, clear adjudicator throughout the United expectations and emotional support. “I States. She is a recurrent visiting

13 REPORT CAMPUS God, GraceGilead and World Is ‘Very Good,’ But ‘God-defying,’ Says Robinson by Jean M. McLean

pril 26, 2006, was the sort of Father-love also dominates Gilead spring morning John Ames and draws readers to Ames as he relates would have appreciated. his own history, the sweetness of adver- Ames, the fictional sity, and the glories of life and forgive- Congregational minister and ness. In an interview before her Reid Acreation of author Marilynne Robinson, Chapel presentation, Robinson admitted would have noted the play of light that she, too, loved this country preacher, through the Reid Chapel panes. He who struggles to tell his young son all he would have enjoyed the variety of wants him to know as his well-worn heart students, faculty, staff and general slowly fails. “I fell deeply in love with readers who gathered to hear Robinson him. I would look forward to, after work, speak about God’s passion for creation after teaching, going home and being and the certainty of his love. with John Ames. He refreshed my spirit.” Ames would have been surprised to Gilead is the long-awaited second know how many came just because they piece of fiction from this writer, whose love him and all he represents. The result first novel, Housekeeping, was also a of Ames’ reflections on his 76 years in Pulitzer nominee. Written more than 20 Iowa won Robinson the 2005 Pulitzer years later, after a batch of acclaimed non- Prize for fiction. The title of the book fiction essays, Gilead reflects Robinson’s and Ames’ town, Gilead, reflects multiple experiences from the intervening Biblical meanings, from battlefield to years—a move to Iowa and love for her balm, refuge to testimony. In prose adopted state, fascination with John reflecting the grace of Scripture itself, Calvin, and even adversity. (Robinson’s Robinson writes of a life and a place 1989 Mother Country, about plutonium steeped in her own passions. reprocessing in Great Britain, won both One of those passions is creation. It acclaim and a Greenpeace libel suit.) was a celebration of creation’s intrinsic Robinson protested that she has not goodness that dominated Robinson’s faced “real” adversity as Ames did. She Reid Chapel address. She read a sermon did concede, “Writing transforms adver- she originally presented at a Presbyterian sity. It makes it something else. It’s a seminary that repeated many of the wonderful thing to think of yourself as a values espoused through Ames’ narrative writer. You can use adverse experiences of fathers and sons and beloved prodigals. in writing.” This teacher from the Iowa Writers’ Gilead’s setting is steeped in detail. Workshop wove observations about the The fictional town is modeled on a real Bible’s “convincingly representative town, Tabor, a refuge for slaves and history of humankind” with contrasting home to a Civil War–era Congregational views from other religions and gods, minister (“very much the prototype for noting that “after all that, despite all that the grandfather,” Robinson noted) who and more, someone wrote those words kept 2,000 rifles in his cellar and a we know too well to be astonished by: cannon in his garage. Although its set- For God so loved the world.” ting is very specific, Gilead’s depictions

14 Pulitzer Prize winner Marilynne Robinson discusses her novel, Gilead, at Samford. of memory and forgiveness transcend geography and its Christian readership. REPORT Robinson said the book is now being pub- lished in Turkey and Vietnam, among other faraway locales, finding common ground among various religions and backgrounds. CAMPUS Robinson said she didn’t tailor the book for a particular audience. “It was just some- thing I had to write,” she said, and has been surprised by its wide readership. She said Ames’ story was a compilation of people and situations she has encountered and pondered “in the course of life.”Although she’s unsure where he came from, she could hear Ames’ voice as she wrote. Robinson’s Reid Chapel listeners repre- sented an array of readers anxious for more. However, she said fiction fans will have to wait. Her post-Pulitzer life has been different. (“People think you’re smarter after you’ve won a Pulitzer. It changes many things.”) But she has remained steady, continuing her work in Iowa City and producing pages for a still-secret nonfiction piece she hopes to begin sending her editor soon. This writer/teacher also finds time to speak to selected audiences. With many universities vying for Robinson’s presence, English professor Roderick Davis said Samford was privileged to host the event. He credited the English department, dean of arts and sciences David Chapman, Beeson Divinity School, Samford in Mission, and the Resource Center for Pastoral Excellence for their collaborative support. Robinson’s increasing stature as a major American novelist and cultural critic is more certain than the future of her Gilead characters. This soft-spoken soul brushed aside inquiries about a sequel but admitted that she has given much thought to what might have happened to John Ames’ son. She won’t share her speculations, noting that the boy remained unnamed so as not to give a hint as to whether he followed the family’s ministry path. What is certain is Robinson’s agreement with God’s Genesis assessment that the world is “very good,” along with her Reid Chapel concession that it is also “turbulent, tragic, God-defying.” She closed her April address with the same hope intimated throughout Gilead: “God will wipe the tears from all faces, says the prophet Isaiah, and that same vision of tenderness and grace, not to be improved upon, closes the Revelation of John and the Christian Bible.” ■

Jean M. McLean is a freelance writer in Montevallo, Ala.

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by Sean Flynt is Running Out in Iraq

Democracy expert Larry Diamond delivers arry Diamond didn’t have “If you look at the record of TIMEthe Rushton Lecture in Robinson Hall at much good news to relate about American engagement in Latin Samford. the U.S. war in Iraq when he America,” he said, “if you look at the spoke at Samford April 24 as record of America’s engagement in other part of Samford’s Rushton parts of the developing world—when we LLecture Series. The war has become “the have intervened unilaterally, and at times most complex, the most vexing, the covertly, without a real partnership with most high-stakes foreign policy people in these societies struggling for challenge” of his lifetime, he said, and freedom and democracy—we have little has changed since his lecture. tended to be unsuccessful, even notori- His analysis isn’t easily dismissed as ously unsuccessful, and even profoundly partisan grumbling. As a democracy resented no matter what our intentions expert, senior fellow at the famously may have been.” conservative Hoover Institution and He said the U.S. achieves better former senior adviser on governance to results, albeit more slowly, when it works the Coalition Provisional Authority in in partnership rather than through uni- Baghdad (an experience detailed in his lateral force. Diamond said that although recent book Squandered Victory: The he believes the Bush administration was American Occupation and the Bungled sincere in its belief in Iraqi weapons of Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq), he mass destruction, “they had, to some brings considerable scholarly and extent, deluded themselves into believing conservative credentials to the ongoing that because they had not fully and fairly debate on the conduct of the war. weighed all of the intelligence that was Diamond said he shares the Bush available and had come to the conclusions administration’s goal of promoting that they then wanted to justify.”As it democracy in the Middle East. However, became clear that Iraq had not posed the he indicated that he and other democracy imminent threat described by the admin- scholars opposed the war because uni- istration, Diamond said, promoting lateral U.S. military action has a poor democracy became the primary goal of record of success in promoting the war (and had always been the primary democracy. goal of some supporters of the war).

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“I cannot tell you with conviction that I CURRENT think there’s still time for anything to work.”

Larry Diamond

“The logic of our engagement in of the virtual certainty that neighboring leaving behind the Sunnis, who inhabit Iraq depends now on the degree to states would intervene on behalf of their the resource-poor middle of the country. which we can leave behind a better, more religious brethren.” The resulting “They’ll never accept this deal on oil democratic, more stable regime—one regional war, he said, would be “an and the radical devolution of power,” that may represent some kind of model unbelievable boon for al-Qaida Diamond said of the Sunnis. for political change elsewhere in the throughout the region, a tremendous The various factions reached a region,” he said. spur for international terrorism and a compromise in time to adopt the consti- Diamond offered long odds against security nightmare for the United States tution last year, but at the heart of the success in the effort to create and secure of America that, frankly, dwarfs what we compromise was an agreement to review democracy in Iraq. “Given what’s been see now.” the resource-control issues once the Iraqi happening in recent years, we have a So, how can the Bush adminis- parliament had been formed. Diamond number of reasons to be concerned,” he tration achieve its goals in Iraq? said he is now hearing that, “all of a said. He described a political system “I cannot tell you with conviction sudden, the Kurds and Shia have lost deeply divided along ethnic and religious that I think there’s still time for anything interest in this constitutional review lines. He also noted that Taliban-style to work,” Diamond said. “I fear it is process beyond some minor technical Islamist rule has replaced Saddam simply too late. But I know that the adjustments that need to be made.” Hussein’s secular totalitarianism in half stakes for the United States are so great Diamond concluded, “we are not the country’s provinces. that we cannot resign ourselves to breaking the impasse simply by getting a “You’ve got a new and very failure, collapse, humiliation and new government. There are fundamental frightening form of authoritarian rule disintegration in Iraq.” ideological and sectarian divisions that emerging in the Shiite south,” Diamond Diamond said the best hope lies in still separate the members of this said. “The courts have been swept aside, stabilization of the nascent Iraqi govern- government. There are fundamental and these Islamic parties have set up ment through power sharing, compro- differences in vision of the country’s their own de facto courts, Islamic Sharia mise and consensus between opposing political future. There is profound courts, in which their clerics rule and Iraqi factions. “There is no consensus in distrust, and unless this can be bridged, mete out penalties, frequently very harsh Iraq on what the country should look mediated and compromised in coming ones, throwing people into their secret like,” he said. “The Sunnis believe it months, the country is headed toward a prisons for drinking alcohol, wearing should be a substantially unitary state. civil war.” jeans, not wearing the Hijab—the veil The Kurds would like to have inde- What can the U.S. do to intervene if that covers the entire head and neck—or pendence, and the Shia would like to Iraq deteriorates into all-out civil war? In dressing immodestly in some other way.” have a semi-independent region of answer to that question, Diamond para- Add to these problems increasingly Shiastan—an Islamic state spanning the phrased U.S. Army Col. H. R. McMasters, violent nationalist resistance, ethnic civil nine southern provinces, which would, one of the most historically astute, war, suicide bombings, assaults by coincidentally, control 80 percent of successful and respected U.S. military sectarian militias and death squads, Iraq’s oil and gas wealth.” officers in Iraq: “Nothing,” he said. ■ ethnic cleansing, and criminal violence, Diamond said the sectarian and it becomes clear that the U.S. can’t divisions and competition for oil and gas remain in Iraq indefinitely, Diamond wealth contribute significantly to the said. He warned that an arbitrary, “unviability” of the current government. accelerated withdrawal would allow Iraq The constitution, he said, created a to descend into “all-out civil war—a civil central government so weak that it war that will look like Lebanon at its cannot control the sectarian violence worst moments, that will take tens of tormenting the country. The consti- thousands if not hundreds of thousands tution also gives regional authorities of lives and could burn for years because control over all future oil and gas wells,

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Washington Post columnist David Broder, center, visits the Samford Crimson newsroom with, from left, CURRENT Kimberly Holland, Jan Andrew and Christopher Smith.

‘A Real Challenge’ Post Columnist David Broder Discusses ‘Broken Political System,’ Press Responsibilities

ashington Post political columnist David Broder spoke April 12 at the first Broder told a Samford University audience Timothy Sumner Robinson Forum, a that both journalism and politics are facing program honoring the late Samford graduate “a real challenge to their leadership” in who went on to a standout career with The W present-day America. Washington Post and other journalistic Broder, left, chats with “The thing that is so clear is that there is entities. The Post joined Samford in estab- journalism professor Jon a real hunger for politicians who will look lishing what will be an annual lectureship. Clemmensen, center, and beyond the next election,” Broder said. “In In a talk entitled “The Press and Politics: advertising executive Bob journalism, the hope is for a product that The Current Mess,” Broder noted that it was Luckie III at the Robinson will serve the public and not only the bottom “a good time to be out of Washington” Forum reception. line.” because Congress had adjourned without “bringing rationality to immigration laws” and without adopting a budget, and the war in Iraq was causing continuing concern. “The president and Congress are finding that they have historically low ratings with the public,” he said. “And the Democrats are rather tongue-tied about offering any alter- native to Republican measures.” People are looking for hope, he said, but “we are all paying the price for a broken political system.” At the same time, the press faces challenges because of “enormously widened choices available to people and changed economic realities,” said Broder, whose

18 column is syndicated in more than 300 newspapers internationally. He noted that times had changed from the days when many newspapers and television stations were family-owned. “Now, most news organizations are part of much larger companies, and this makes it harder to know who is responsible for the news product. “Good journalism is very expensive because it is labor-intensive,” he said. “It takes time to produce. But who is going to pay the bill? Web sites are not now pro- ducing big revenues. Internet news is free.” Broder said people use Internet news as a headline service, looking for a quick summary. “Speed is the most important thing, but speed is the opposite of care,” he said. “The editing responsibility [in journalism] is critical.” To help maintain a quality news product, Broder believes the Internet must pay part of the cost of newsgathering. Members of the press “are all part of a private, profit-making business that renders a public service,” Broder reminded Stories People’s Telling his audience. He said it had two basic Megan Voelkel works at her desk in the Washington Post newsroom. responsibilities: providing information to citizens and monitoring government. “This provides the rationale for First Washington Post Internship Tops exempting news companies from regu- lation by government,” he noted. “The Off Rewarding Year for Megan Voelkel nation’s founders took a gamble on a free press, and this places an exceptional egan Voelkel is not sure when her product of our work every Wednesday,” she burden of responsibility on proprietors.” fascination with journalism began, said. As part of the Timothy Sumner Mbut she knows one thing: It has She described her Post experience as Robinson Forum, Broder and Post deputy grown and grown since she served as “quite surreal,” saying she never imagined managing editor Milton Coleman spoke assistant editor of her high school yearbook walking into the newsroom or spending two to Samford journalism classes. The Post in Madison, Miss. weeks there. also will sponsor a two-week internship “During that time, I realized how much Following her Post internship, Voelkel for a Samford journalism student each I enjoyed writing stories and putting together attended the Bloomberg College Newspaper spring. Junior Megan Voelkel, editor of the a publication,” she said. “I decided journalism Editors leadership conference at Columbia Samford Crimson who introduced Broder, would be an appropriate major for someone University in New York City. Then she was selected as the first recipient of the like me, someone who likes to read, write returned to Birmingham to work as an internship (see separate story). and constantly learn.” editorial intern at Cooking Light magazine for Robinson, a 1965 Samford graduate, The past school year underscored her the rest of the summer. joined The Post in 1969 and covered the fascination with journalism. First, the junior Her long-term goal as a journalist, she Watergate trials of the mid-1970s. Later, served as editor of the Samford Crimson. said, is “to tell people’s stories, with the hope the Dora, Ala., native was editor of the Then, she was selected the first recipient of a that those stories can make some difference, National Law Journal, America’s largest two-week internship at The Washington Post no matter how small.” Journalists have an legal newspaper. He died in 2003 from provided through the Timothy Sumner extraordinary responsibility to the public, she complications following cancer surgery. Robinson Forum at Samford. believes. Robinson’s widow, Jan Andrew, and “My experience as editor of the Crimson Voelkel would like to be published in a other family members were on hand for has been overwhelming, the most rewarding national magazine or newspaper, but she the first Robinson Forum. ■ experience of my college career,” she said. She added: “I don’t consider success to be the spent long hours working with the staff week product of high circulations or awards. I after week, meeting such goals as a layout think it’s being satisfied with yourself and the redesign, an increased page count and greater contributions you are able to make.” ■ student involvement. “Despite the hours spent achieving those goals, I can’t express how incredible it is to see students around campus reading the

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Marla and Thomas Corts enjoy their retirement dinner April 20.

Saluting the Corts Presidency Board Names Retiring Leader President Emeritus

20 Chason Wachter. Corts andhisgranddaughter, Anne Diane andNeil Davis visitwith Thomas afr.“satkno theperpetual “As atokenSamford. of holds adistinctive place inthelifeof said theboard recognized thatCorts Stevens to namethearena for Hanna, said Stevens. somany people,” of and thegenerosity . . Tom . Corts leadershipof visionary for thePete Hanna tion Arena andsite prepara- tennis center underway, anew areasparking andheatingplants, new recital hallapproaching completion, at Samford.” thataremiss thegoodthings happening itisimpossibleto . . workersstruction . con- equipment, there are holes, campus, “Everywhere you goon retire thisyear. announced in April 2005thathewould building progress madesince Corts Trustees Bill Stevens Chairman outlined university familyatSamford.” impact onourlives andonourbeloved Together have they madeanincalculable Tom andMarla Corts. of contributions “We are thankfulforthelives and noting, evening inhisopeningprayer, the of thespirit caught Missions, the Alabama BaptistState Board of andthe County Alabama Senate. Jefferson Birmingham, representatives of and Homewood and Vestavia Hills, themayors of around thenation, Baptistuniversities 10Southern dents of Included were thepresi- Sheraton Hotel. elegant dinner April 20atBirmingham’s More than600attended the history. numerous milestones intheUniversity’s marked by aperiod 23 years atSamford, Samford anditspeople. on fortheir Corts “incalculable impact” S After announcingtheboard’s action the thisispossiblebecauseof “All of Stevens mentionedthenewmusic Samford University Board of executive director of Rick Lance, Dr. wereThe Cortses saluted fortheir rsdn n r.Thomas E. President andMrs. evening to recognize retiring gathered onaspring friends overseers andother trustees, staff, amford University faculty, chat withMarlaCorts. George andPat Scofield (see page6). (see ae esg riigCrs leadership Corts’ taped messagepraising as aSamford undergraduate. self” and even more to agreater senseof Motley saidhewas to“led great ideas learning.” devoted to thisplace of cause, asaman Corts praised “committed to a State Department, Visitors fortheU.S. International theOffice of director of andforhimalone.” ‘for God’ but notforpower orpleasure, fortune, notforfameor ceaseless laborsdone, alifeof becoming modesty, with us, Corts “simplywords,” lived outamong holy alotof uswith than haranguing “ratherProvost William Hull saidthat, this noblecause.” his faithfulandeffective leadershipin arrived in1983andthanked Corts “for whenhe education” higher Christian for whatSamford represented in him brought with “a deepappreciation professor BrewerAlbert noted thatCorts Retired law combine faithandlearning.” ence that “our missionatSamford isto several speakers—reminded theaudi- of Stevens effective said. June 1,” emeritus, asSamford’s Corts president Dr. votedtrustees unanimouslyto recognize the theSamford community, affection of Alabama Governor senta BobRiley Motley,Samford Eric graduate University Professor andretired Samford John trustee Pittman—one nationally. for Samford and bothregionally andincreased recognition buildings, more than30new construction of inendowment, growth dramatic grams, progresssignificant inacademicpro- His tenure wasnoted for retired May 31. university orcollege president whenhe and Ihave noregrets.” Ihave, “He wasright. added, Corts life.” your going to give them thebestyears of you are you goto Samford, if age 41, “At to moving Samford: was thinkingof told himin1983whenhe Warren, A. J. able to dowhatIalways wanted to do.” said hewas “a blessedmanto have been Corts He needsnootherblessedness.” “Blessed ishewhohasfoundhiswork. whosaid, quoted ThomasCarlyle, Samford University.” mission of representing leapforthe agiant ministry as era theCorts described “a 23-year Overseers, Samford University Board of the Sheraton ballroom. appeared screens onfourgiant around Themessage tutional reform movement. Samford andthe Alabama consti- of Corts was Corts Alabama’s longest-serving presidentThe retiring saidafriend, Corts Responding to thetributes, the amemberof Elouise Williams, ■ 21 RECOGNITION NEWS ‘May You Be Blessed with an CAMPUS Authentic Good Life’ etiring President Thomas E. added. “In a nation of single-issue Corts stressed the importance politics, accustomed to sound bites and of “authenticity” to members advertising taglines, a public figure of the Samford University sometimes feels he scores points the graduating class May 20. He more times he can repeat certain Raddressed the class in his final com- phrases like ‘Founding Fathers,’‘Ten mencement before retiring May 31 after Commandments,’‘Conservative,’‘Tough 23 years as Samford’s leader. on Crime,’ etc.” “In a world of both cheap and Corts reminded graduates that expensive imitations, to be authentic Samford tried to introduce them to “the may be the great virtue that magnifies all joy of helping other people, without any life’s meaningful experiences and expectation of reward. relationships,” Dr. Corts told some 650 “You will find that the basic values seniors and a crowd of about 5,000 at of our society depend upon the willing- Birmingham-Jefferson Convention ness of good people to render voluntary Complex Arena. service,” he said. “I pray your learning at Corts used 19th-century Parliament Samford encompasses a desire to serve, member William Wilberforce, a “relent- to volunteer, to make America work by less voice” against slavery in the British making your community work; to Empire, to illustrate his point. authenticate your citizenship.” “Wilberforce’s authenticity would not Saying “genuine faith is all too allow him to invalidate his conscience,” personal to impose upon anyone,” he Corts noted, adding that slavery ulti- urged the seniors to hold whatever faith mately was abolished in the United they held “in sincerity and authenticity.” Kingdom due largely to his efforts, and Corts commended the seniors on this influenced its end in America as completing their degrees, “a fine well. achievement” certifying that they have “May you be blessed with an done “some serious learning and authentic good life,” Corts told the attained certain competencies.” He seniors. “That is my prayer for each of reminded them that alma mater means you.” “nourishing mother.” The Samford president presented He added, “In that sense, this diplomas to 832 graduates on com- institution has sought to provide mencement day, including 182 seniors in guidance and nurture—intellectual, Senior Marissa Benjamin, center, the separate exercise for Samford’s spiritual, social, physical and personal— and friends listen as President Cumberland School of Law. That that we pray will be useful in shaping Thomas Corts, above, addresses his brought to more than 18,000 the your life and character.” ■ final Samford commencement. number of degrees he awarded as Melanie Ervin receives one of two Samford president. John Pittman Spirit Awards, top “The quest for authenticity can keep right. Robert Webster, far right, you from that superficial brand of shows off his diploma. patriotism that substitutes jingoistic slogans and phrases for thought,” Corts

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23 New Dean Salutes

SPOTLIGHT McWhorter’s C

ne thing that attracted new Dean Bobby G. Bryant to Samford’s McWhorter School of Pharmacy was its curriculum emphasizing student- centered learning. He referred to the Oschool’s efforts “to reach out and embrace practice issues that can assist our educational programs and advance the delivery of health care to society.” Bryant cited as examples McWhorter’s programs to set up hypertension and diabetes screening clinics in Perry County, and its efforts to establish community partnerships with the Jefferson County Department of Public Health. “This indicates a commitment to society that other pharmacy schools just have not come to grips with,” said Bryant. “These programs are of immense value to the community and to the students.” Bryant, dean of the Rabbe College of Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio, since 1999, will join Samford as pharmacy dean August 1. He succeeds retiring Dean Joseph O. Dean, Jr. Bryant is a veteran of more than three decades in pharmacy education as a teacher, researcher and administrator. “To see the graduates enter practice and advance the profession is the ultimate grati- fication for a teacher,” he said. Before being named dean at Ohio Northern, Bryant was scholar-in-residence at the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Alexandria, Va., during 1998–99, and a professor and depart- ment chair of pharmacy practice at Albany College of Pharmacy in New York from 1986 until 1996. Bryant then served as interim president and dean at Albany during 1996–98. He practiced in the Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery at Albany, concentrating on research in transdermal delivery of drugs into newborns. The process uses a patch to “bypass the gastrointestinal system of an infant in the delivery of drugs into the system, relieving the stress that caustic drugs can cause in a newly born child’s stomach or intestines,” he said. Bryant said he had remained close to his research area only through literature during the past decade, when he was concentrating on adminis- tration. Even though administration will continue to be his emphasis, he said he would enjoy serving as an occasional guest lecturer in Samford’s pediatric pharmacy course sometime in the future.

Bobby G. Bryant will become Samford’s pharmacy dean August 1.

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The new Samford dean was a faculty member at Purdue University School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences from 1971 until 1986. Bryant was born in Memphis, Tenn., and earned his B.S. in pharmacy and doctor of pharmacy degrees from the University of Tennessee there. However, his father was in the Air Force, and he lived in numerous locations growing up. “I graduated from grade school in Panama and high school in Tokyo,” he said. “I had a close cousin who was a pharmacist who introduced me to the many avenues one could follow with a pharmacy education,” Bryant said. “I have never regretted my decision. I have been blessed with many mentors that have advised, criticized and truly cared for my development. I hope to leave such a legacy.” Samford Provost J. Bradley Creed announced Bryant’s appointment to the Samford pharmacy faculty May 5. He said Bryant’s selection culminated an extensive search and interview process that began last summer after Dr. Dean announced his retirement. “Dr. Bryant, throughout the process, has received an enthusiastic recommendation from the members of the search committee, strong endorse- ments from references and fellow workers, and encouraging feedback from the entire McWhorter School of Pharmacy community,” said Dr. Creed. “He brings to this position a wealth of experience in the field of pharmacy education, and I am looking forward to working with him as he assumes the position of dean.” Creed said Bryant had the opportunity to meet with Samford President-elect Andrew Westmoreland, and that Dr. Westmoreland’s support for Bryant’s candidacy had been important in the selection process. In addition to his pharmacy degrees, Bryant holds the M.S. in clinical research design and statistical analysis from the H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies and School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. Bryant said he and his wife, Irene, are looking forward to becoming involved in the culture and activities of Samford. He likes the fact that it is a faith-based school, as is Ohio Northern. He added that he would enjoy “returning to the semester system (most Ohio schools are based on quarters) and returning to the South.” ■

25 SPOTLIGHT

26 hen he was 18 years old, Joseph Since 2005, Hopkins has served as artistic Hopkins turned down a full director and dean of the Harlaxton International scholarship to Georgia Tech, Chamber Music Festival, which he founded at where he planned to study aero- Converse. The festival in Harlaxton, England, will space engineering and pursue a begin its inaugural season in the summer of 2007. Wcareer as an astronaut. Why did he change his mind? “I hope to involve many Samford students “I fell in love with a place called Samford and faculty,” Hopkins said. “The festival is a three- SPOTLIGHT University, and decided I wanted to teach music, week program guided by a faculty of distin- serve in music ministry and even consider the guished American artist/teachers and selected idea of becoming a college administrator at a international guest artists. Young-artist chamber Baptist institution,” he said in May. groups will receive daily coaching and perform in Scholarships took him to a Baptist college in a variety of venues in England.” his home state, and he went on to earn a bachelor Harlaxton Manor is a historic 19th-century of music cum laude with honors in vocal per- estate that serves as the residence and primary formance from Shorter College in Rome, Ga. performance venue for instrumentalists and Now, the story has come full circle. Hopkins, singers desiring an intensive chamber-music dean of the Petrie School of Music at Converse experience. College in Spartanburg, S.C., since 2002, has been Hopkins has performed in numerous opera named dean of the Samford School of Performing and concert productions. He performed the title Arts. He succeeds retiring Dean Milburn Price role of Figaro in the production of Il barbiere di July 1. Siviglia, which received first place in the 2000 Hopkins said he looked forward to teaching National Opera Association production awards. and serving as an administrator at the same He has performed with the Moscow university that inspired his career vision. Philharmonic Orchestra, the Madrid Chamber “I have always hoped to be a part of some- Orchestra and numerous others. thing truly extraordinary and something that “I love to perform,” he said, “but it was my makes a difference in God’s kingdom,” he said. heart for ministry and worship that brought me “Samford offers the opportunity to marry the to the idea of studying music. Whether singing on quest for excellence in academics and faith.” the stage in Rome, Italy, or just a Sunday evening At Converse, Hopkins led the nation’s only service with our dear church family, I count all comprehensive school of music at a women’s these experiences a privilege.” college. It offers degrees in music performance, Hopkins was chair of the music department composition, theory, history, education, business, at the University of Evansville during 2000–02. He therapy and liberal studies. served as head of the choral and vocal division, During Hopkins’ tenure, the school increased and director of Opera at Evansville during its undergraduate and graduate enrollments, drew 1996–2000, and as assistant professor at Evansville larger audiences to its variety of programs, created during 1991–96. He served as associate professor a sold-out subscription series and operated with a of music at Harlaxton College in Grantham, budget in the black after nearly a decade in the red. England, during 1997–99. Hopkins said “following in the footsteps of a Hopkins holds the doctor of music in vocal veritable legend such as Dr. Milburn Price is no performance from Indiana University and the small feat.” He hopes to build on the progress of master of music in vocal performance from the School of Performing Arts begun during Baylor University, in addition to his degree from Price’s tenure. Shorter College. ■ “We will put a great deal of energy into student recruiting and audience/patron develop- ment,” Hopkins said. “I believe there are oppor- tunities for the School of Performing Arts to enhance international connections, expand its presence on campus, and enhance relationships with churches and institutions across the Southeast.” The new dean said the new recital hall will provide a first-rate performance space for students, faculty and guest artists. “It is a signal to educators, musicians and prospective students that the School of Performing Arts at Samford is on the move,” he said.

Dr. Joseph Hopkins, left, performs the role of Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia, at right.

27 CELEBRATING SPOTLIGHT Dean Lauded for Service to McWhorter School of Pharmacy s retiring president Thomas E. Corts Almost 400 attended the gala event at reflected recently on some of Samford’s Vestavia Hills Country Club. Samford faculty, Aaccomplishments during his tenure, he administrators, staff and other friends joined cited the work of McWhorter School of Pharmacy pharmacy alumni and students in paying tribute and its retiring dean, Joseph O. Dean, Jr. to Dean’s years of service. “For pharmacy to be recognized for the great The 1962 Samford pharmacy graduate international dimension it has added and some of retired May 31 after 25 years at his alma mater, the creative things they have done . . . is most the last 15 as pharmacy dean. Under his leader- gratifying,” Dr. Corts said. These and other ship, the school implemented the entry-level achievements were recalled during an April 8 doctor of pharmacy program, embraced Total retirement dinner for Dean. Quality Management principles in teaching and administration, created an international repu- tation, and became McWhorter School of Pharmacy with a transforming gift from alumnus Clayton McWhorter ’55. McWhorter was among those who spoke during the salute to Dean’s leadership. Dean is proud that McWhorter made a global impact. The international program began with a January term course Dean taught on pharmacy and health care in Great Britain, and ultimately grew to include relationships with pharmacy schools in Japan, Korea and China. One of the schools, Meijo University in Nagoya, Japan, awarded Dean an honorary doctor of pharmacy degree last fall, recognizing his efforts in international pharmacy education. ■

Retiring Pharmacy Dean Joe Dean, left, enjoys his retirement dinner April 8. Above, pharmacy alumnus Francois Coutu ’81 and his daughter, Marie-Helene, chat with Joe and Carol Dean in the reception line. 28 G RETIREMENT Words of Price Hymn Help Celebrate SPOTLIGHT Retirement for Performing Arts Dean t was appropriate that the words of “Believers music, featured a symphony of speeches and All, We Bear the Name” rang out near the close songs by friends and colleagues who recognized Iof a May 13 retirement dinner for School of the honoree’s talents and longtime commitment Performing Arts Dean Milburn Price, for it was to music and Christian education. Price who composed the hymn in 1986. Price leaves an imposing legacy. He led the Price based the words on Hebrews 13:15, “Let school through a name change, expansion of us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise.” academic offerings, enhanced scholarship funding As Price retires after 13 years as dean of Samford’s and the near-completion of an $8 million recital performing arts school, he plans a hymn-writing hall. Hired as School of Music dean in 1993, he project called “Singing a Response to the Parables.” assumed his present role in 2001 when music and Each hymn will provide an opportunity for a Samford’s Department of Theatre merged and a congregation to sing a response to the teachings new major, musical theatre, was born. in the parables. Price nurtured the Samford Orchestra over Friends, colleagues and current and former the years and led the Samford A Cappella Choir on students gathered to celebrate Price’s “well- triumphal tours of Russia in 2001 and in 2004, conducted career.” He retired May 31. and to China in 2006. ■ The dinner at Vestavia Hills Baptist Church, where he formerly was part-time minister of

Retiring Performing Arts Dean Milburn Price, left, greets friends at his May 13 dinner. Above, Price receives a memento from music professor Bill Bugg.

29 BACK LOOKING

Students relax around Old Main in this 1950s photo.

30 BACK LOOKING

by Sean Flynt

alk of leaving Howard College’s East land to match the vision for a “greater Howard.” Lake campus began almost as soon as In the summer of 1947, the college purchased 225 the college arrived in 1887. Local acres of land on Lakeshore Drive. A decade later, boosters had made offers of land as the new campus was ready for occupation though incentive for Howard’s relocation but far from complete. Tfailed to honor their agreements. The dreams of a Howard’s last academic year in East Lake, magnificent new campus quickly faded. 1956–57, was bittersweet. Howard would soon Each new president led campus improve- leave its aging and overcrowded facilities, but also ment projects, renovating old buildings and would leave the community that had sustained it constructing new ones, but by 1920, it was clear for 70 years. Davis, at that point the longest- that Howard could not reach its full potential serving president in Howard’s history, also within the constraints of the East Lake campus. announced that he would retire at the end of the President Charles Bray Williams (1919–21) led a college’s first year at its new campus. failed campaign to relocate the college, then In spite of the momentous changes on the resigned under intense pressure from East Lake horizon, the last year in East Lake would be loyalists. instantly recognizable to anyone familiar with The next great campaign for relocation of Samford traditions. Students occupied their time Howard College came immediately after WWII, with clubs, varsity and intramural athletics, when the college was flush with cash and homecoming decorations, parties, pageants, students. Seeing that Howard must soon relocate theatre and, as always, academic classes. or simply stop growing, President Harwell March provided comic relief. Track coach Goodwin Davis set aside income from the U.S. Howard Foote dressed in drag to play in the Navy V-12 program Howard hosted during the student/faculty basketball game, and a rare March war. Those funds, new tuition income from the snowstorm led to expected student high jinks— GI Bill and donations from loyal state Baptists “Dr. [Harry] Sarkiss [history professor] finally allowed the college to finally buy enough new dismissed his class after they pelted him with snowballs,” according to the 1957 Entre Nous. On May 27, Howard held its final East Lake graduation ceremonies at Ruhama Baptist Church, the college’s spiritual home. The poignancy of the moment was not lost on the seniors. “We were the last graduating class from Howard College at East Lake,” one senior wrote in Entre Nous, “and we knew there would never be another class exactly like us, nor another campus like this—and there never will be.” ■

During Rat Week 1956, top, Judy Ferris and Head Rat Max Gartman wear Rat Hats and display the notorious Rat Rock. Rat Week rules gave upperclassmen the right of inspection-on-demand of freshmen with the rock. Gartman later joined Howard College’s faculty and became head of Samford’s Department of Foreign Languages.

Student Shui Fong Yeung poses with Howard College’s home-grown atom- smasher—the South’s first cyclotron.

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Q Q&A

lbert Brewer enjoyed successful careers in government and the Alaw before engaging in a third career—university professor—at Samford University. He served as distin- guished professor of law and govern- ment from 1987 until retiring in 2005. He also worked with Samford President Thomas Corts to found the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama [PARCA] at Samford in 1988. After earning his law degree, Brewer was elected to the Alabama legislature in 1954 and later was named speaker of the house. He ran successfully for lieutenant governor in 1966, and in 1968, became governor of Alabama upon the death of Governor Lurleen Wallace from cancer. Historians rate Brewer as a progres- sive, and some call him Alabama’s only New South governor in the 20th century. He lost his bid for re-election to George Wallace in the spring of 1970, when Wallace was accused of running the most racist campaign in state history. During this gubernatorial election year in Alabama, Brewer shared thoughts about his career in politics and higher education with a recent Samford audience. The following interview is excerpted from that session.

When did you become interested in politics? I don’t know when I haven’t been inter- ested in government. I remember as just a boy in Decatur reading the newspaper about the state legislature, the federal government and things that were going on nationally. I had an uncle in Mississippi who loved politics. He probably influ- enced me more than I realized. He served as a supervisor (county com- missioner). One of the things he was proudest of—and he had virtually no education—was helping to create Northeast Mississippi Junior College. From that experience, I saw how people in politics could serve and meet needs that existed for people.

Former Alabama Governor Albert Brewer taught at Samford’s Cumberland School of Law for 18 years before retiring in 2005.

32 ‘Full Time for Alabama’ Brewer’s Catchy Slogan Rankled Wallace

by William Nunnelley A &

A: Q

How old you were when you were first officially was to declare a 30-day period reaction to proposals to revise the elected to the Alabama legislature? of mourning and to announce that I constitution. Dr. [Thomas] Corts and I When I won the primary, I was 25. I had would take no public action during that were among several testifying in favor of a birthday before I took office, so I was period. This gave us some breathing a bill to revise the constitution several 26 when I became a member of the room to put together our cabinet, our years ago. The legislature was so arro- legislature. staff, and get some sense of direction. gant that they killed it by voice vote, so we didn’t even know who voted for it or Did you know much about Montgomery? Why is your term as governor viewed as had any inclination to support it. such a progressive era? I had been through there one time. We Why does the legislature act that way? had two representatives in Morgan When I went to the legislature in 1954, County. Another young lawyer ran for there were probably 20 or 25 of us newly I suppose they feel comfortable doing it the other place. During the campaign, elected legislators who had been in school because they don’t have a groundswell of one of his opponents would get up at together. We had known each other and support for constitutional reform back political rallies and say, “Why, if you elect had a lot of common interests, such as home. If we’re ever able to generate that one of these young fellows to the legis- education. Most of us were young par- kind of support, then they’ll be responsive. lature, he won’t even know where the ents. We were interested in education, in capitol is.” Little did he know how progress, in seeing the state grow eco- Will Alabama reach 1,000 constitutional truthful that statement was. nomically. So, we turned our efforts in amendments? that direction. When I became governor, Probably. Later, you served as speaker of the it was my chance to try to develop and house and lieutenant governor. How promote some of the progressive agenda. What else did you implement as would you describe those roles? governor? What did you do? They provide an interesting contrast. We created the Alabama Development The speaker can pretty much determine In 1969, we had a special session for Office, putting all our federal programs, the life or death of legislation, because of education. We not only raised a lot of all the economic development/industrial the power to appoint committees, select money for education, but also restruc- development programs under this one chairpersons and assign bills to com- tured education. [We wanted] more edu- development umbrella. That continues mittee. The lieutenant governor is presi- cation for our money. The legislature in effect today and has served the state dent of the senate but not a member of bought into the program, and we were very well. any committee. Other than presiding able to get that enacted. That’s the last over the senate, the lieutenant governor major education program we’ve had in You used an old-style campaign in 1970 does not take an active role in the Alabama, and that was 37 years ago. that attempted to get to every county proceedings. The only time I injected seat. Talk a little about that campaign. What about constitution reform? myself was when we were at an impasse. Well, it was the last campaign where the We created a constitutional revision candidates really went to the people. My What were your thoughts upon being commission. The commission reported opponent in 1970 was almost an idol in sworn in as governor following Lurleen in 1973, and I was long gone [as governor] this state—George Wallace—[with Wallace’s death? by then. Subsequent legislatures didn’t tremendous] grassroots support. We There was the thought of sadness. She and do anything with it, but that commission wanted to get to small communities as I were friends. I had been lieutenant gov- made a recommendation for a new con- well as urban areas, and we undertook to ernor with her. She and my wife, Martha, stitution, and it’s out there today. If the make eight or nine appearances a day. were friends. They never talked about people adopted that constitution today, politics. They talked about children and we’d be so much better off. How did it work? home and school, and things that mothers A fellow devised a truck for us with and wives talk about. We just had a very Constitution reform has been discussed since not long after the 1901 constitution panels that let down to form a stage. It warm and harmonious relationship, so would go in and set up about 30 minutes there was a sense of grief. Frankly, I was written. But the 1901 document is still in effect, the nation’s most unwieldy before I would come. Our band, knew she was very ill, but I didn’t know Borderline, would play about 15 min- her death was imminent at the time. constitution with more than 700 amendments. Why is that? utes. Then I would roll in, speak for 15 minutes and go into the crowd to shake What else? Governor Emmet O’Neal talked about hands. While I was shaking hands, they Anxiety, I suppose, because of the awe- its problems as early as 1915, but the would bundle up and take off to the next some responsibility. The first thing I did legislature is absolutely arrogant in its stop. We did that eight or nine times a

33 day, every day, for seven weeks. It was a man who came up—he had to be in his It has. When I was in the legislature, the killer. I wanted to emphasize I was young 70s, wrinkled and everything. He reached proponents of a bill would come and and energetic, and so we were just every- in his pocket and pulled out a prescription talk to us—these are lobbyists, folks— where. People turned out, and you sort bottle. He said, “You got this for me.” It and then the opponents would come of feed on the emotion. still gets to me emotionally now. and talk to us and they’d give their best case. You’d figure, well, the truth must be Your opponent,George Wallace, had You led the first primary against somewhere in between. It didn’t change run for president twice and was plan- Wallace, but he won the runoff. You when I became governor. These were the A

& ning to again. Tell us about your slogan, returned to Decatur in the late ’70s. only sources of information that we had,

Q “Full Time for Alabama.” What brought you to Samford? people who represented the interests that We wanted to show the contrast. I would There have been certain times in my life were involved. be governor. I would be here full-time. I when I have felt very directly God’s touch wouldn’t be off running for president or and leadership in things. Decatur is my What does PARCA do? something. We talked about “Full Time hometown, and we loved it. But about PARCA’s responsibility is to develop for Alabama” and “Alabama First.”We 1985, Martha and I began to sense a rest- accurate, nonpartisan, reliable informa- surveyed to determine which one people lessness about what we were doing. In tion and to make it available for all poli- liked best. I’ve never confessed this, but the spring of 1987, I spoke at a luncheon cymakers. We don’t tell them what to do. the majority liked “Alabama First.” But kicking off the establishment of the We just say, “Here are the facts. You need we overrode it—I guess I ultimately have Center for the Study of Law and the to have this to make a good decision in the responsibility for it—and went to Church at Samford. Afterward, Dr. Corts this matter.” “Full Time for Alabama.” It just seemed asked, “Have you ever thought about to fit what we were about better than teaching?” He asked if I had any interest Looking back on more than a half- anything else. in coming to Samford to teach and be century of Alabama politics, what involved in a public policy initiative. stands out in your mind? How did it play in the campaign? The first thing is that the more things At the kick-off speech in Decatur on live What happened then? change, the more they stay the same. television, statewide, I got about one I drove straight home and told Martha, When I went to the legislature in 1954, sentence into the speech and the crowd “I believe the Lord may be leading us in the dominant issue facing the legislature started chanting, “Full Time. Full Time.” a new direction.”After we talked about it was education. Not much change, is For three or four minutes, I couldn’t for several days, I called Dr. Corts back there? In social programs, the big thing even talk. There was this crescendo of and told him that I would be interested. was old-age pensions; the candidates for sound. “Full Time, Full Time.” It caught I came here in the summer of ’87 to governor would try to out-bid each on. We would get reports back that it teach and coordinate the establishment other on old-age pensions. Transportation. really needled Wallace. It got under his of the Public Affairs Research Council of We still talk about road building. We see skin so bad and he started making public Alabama. It’s been probably the most the same kind of thing in national politics statements, “Well, I’ll be full-time, too.” I rewarding experience of my life. as well. don’t know if anybody believed that. Why is that? Remember any funny stories What do you remember about the The total picture of everything that campaigning? campaign? Samford is. I love teaching. I love the When the governor’s race began, Martha It was a fun time, a pleasurable time, a young people. I love contributing to gov- got busy campaigning. She and another rewarding time, a humbling time. You ernment through PARCA. Working with woman traveled together. One day, they think of people putting their faith and Dr. Corts has been just an unbelievable went in this country store in Lee County. confidence in you to go do this job for experience. I don’t think I’ve ever known An older woman, one of the owners, them. We had begun the Medicaid anyone that I respect more than him. I decided to have a dip of snuff. Being Program the year before. I remember was active here 18 years until I retired thoughtful, she said, “Dip, Mrs. Brewer?” being in Clanton, in a parking lot last year, and it seems like about three. It I tell you, when you’re running, you’ll do shaking hands, and there was a little just flew by. about anything! But Martha was quick as she could be. She said, “No, thank You have said you. But my traveling companion does.” when you were in Montgomery, you Did anything like that happen to you? always had good One day in Daphne, we went in this information on one place that looked like a service station, side of an issue, but but it was a tavern, dark and everything. rarely on both sides. The waitress came over, and she said, “If Has PARCA changed you’ll dance with me, I’ll vote for you.” that? Well, I didn’t refer her to my traveling companion. I swung her around.

A youthful Governor You got her vote? Albert Brewer visits Yeah. I think she told everybody about the Samford campus us. ■ in 1968.

34 SECTION ALUMNI

Bob and Dot McCombs Use 50th Anniversary as Springboard for Continuing Alumni Reunions by Jack Brymer Enjoying the latest McCombs-inspired reunion of Howard College alumni are, from left, standing, Bob McCombs ’54, Mary Granger Weston ’57, John Kilgore (spouse), Mavis Wilson Zumstein ’56, Patsy Grant Stewart ’53, Roy Rawls (spouse), Louie Grimes ’57, Martha (Pug) Grimes ’57, Katie Graham Phillips ’55, Don Phillips ’55, Ann Bobo Holbrook ’57, Eugene DeVane (spouse); seated, Dot Funderburk McCombs ’53, Martha Haynie Prisock Rawls ’53, Ann Tisdale Belcher ’54, Henri-Ann (Hank) Taylor ’56, Shirley Caldwell Morrison ’56, Jo Owens Kilgore ’56 and Ginney Wesley DeVane ’54.

hile planning their 50th They taught Sunday school at a school pastor, the last 31 at Concord Baptist wedding anniversary cele- for handicapped young people near Church. Dot taught school for 31 years. W bration of December 26, 2004, Dawson Memorial Baptist Church in They have two children and two the Rev. Bob ’54 and Dot Funderburk Homewood. Later, Dot became the first grandchildren. McCombs ’53 of Concord, Ga., noticed secretary employed by Mountain Brook Among those she contacted for the that the wedding party and many on Baptist Church, where W. E. Waterhouse 50th anniversary celebration were their guest list were Howard College was pastor. Bob would pick her up at Ronald Friday, Jon Appleton, Martha classmates. As a result, they set out to work. Haynie Rawls, Hank Taylor, Jane contact as many on the list as possible. A member of the Ministerial Mitchell Perkins, Sue Cox Riddle, Jack The effort was a big success. Dot Association, Bob participated in the Harwell, Jean Davis Haynie, Brantley McCombs was able to contact about 20 H-Day [Howard Day, now Samford and Joanne Harwell, Jack Whitley, Mary classmates, most of whom had not seen Sunday] program, in which students Granger Weston, Blanche Beard Harwell, each other in 50 years. Some came to the were invited to preach in churches Ann Tisdale, Shirley Caldwell Morrison, anniversary celebration, and the com- throughout the state. As a result, he was Bill and Lee Baggett, Sara Neal Maddox, munication sparked a series of reunions called as pastor of North Creek Baptist Clyde and Eula Finley, Dot Morris, and that continues to this day. Church in Florala, Ala., where he served Dick and Barbara Baker. The most recent gatherings were in during his last two years at Howard. Ann Bobo Holbrook of Lincoln, Newnan, Ga., in February and They were married at First Baptist Ala., said getting together with the Montgomery, Ala., in March, where 19 Church of Sylacauga, Ala., by pastor Bill friends after more than 49 years was alumni from the mid-1950s gathered, Weaver, who later became president of great. “Each of us thought we looked including spouses. Mobile College. At the time, Dot was younger than the others,” she joked. “We all had to work to get through serving as church secretary in Sylacauga. “We worked hard and sometimes those days,” recalled Katie Graham They chose to be married the day after studied hard,” Jo Owens Kilgore of Phillips of Talladega, Ala., at the Newnan Christmas because so many of their Smyrna, Ga., remembered. “I loved the meeting. “Getting together after not friends were home from seminary and dorm life then, as it gave us the oppor- seeing each other for 50 years has college for the holiday. tunity to get to know each other so well. brought back so many memories.” Shortly thereafter, they moved to This was a wonderful time today, picking Dot McCombs, from Tallassee, Ala., Louisville, Ky., where Bob attended up after 50 years just like it was met Bob, an East Lake boy, on a mission Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. yesterday.” ■ trip with the Howard Mission Band. He retired recently after 48 years as a

35 NOW? atdt akaot”the wanted to talkabout,” they haint’ ‘and any of othersort deadpeople, cats, wild talkingto aboutghosts, thefarmers over BlountCounty, Smith would drive all “equipped ataperecorder, with There, before hetook hisfirstcollege course. 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Smith enrolled atHoward in1955to Blount County, doingthetalking.”their neighbors Country Boy EddieShow,Country Smith had his own radio talkshowSmith radio hadhisown inOneonta, jobsthattaught of theanswer wasamyriad Part of What qualifiedayoung ayear’s manwith experi- Scroggins resigned to pursueaPh.D., A year later, ae,Smith worked asaproduction assistantat Later, “I wassuccessfully defeated inmy fortheState run Smith After hisdischarge from theNavy in1956, Cleveland School High in of A 1951graduate “It was Smith recalled. peoplehadto listen,” “The relations atHoward by hisprofessor andmentor, public assistantdirector of was offered ajobof GeorgeSmith adegree injournalism, 1960 with from after Howard graduating hortly College in the unit’s newsjournal. Tom York’s Morning Show, Samford Crimson Crimson which beganat4a.m., fMrh1,1968. March 15, of reported. which concluded n17,bcm onigpeietadcifexecutive officer became foundingpresident and chief in 1979, and heacquired several health-care facilities, In themid-1970s, into bankingandothercommercialpreneurial spirit ventures. Meghan Honbarrier. have They onedaughter, Ala. Hills, reside in Vestavia Janice, He and his wife, Communication. Journalism andMass of to theDepartment primarily donor, entirely forawonderful newera college was ablessing.” an “To getinontheground floorof hesaid. was allabout,” whatSamford University to of live andtell thestory thestory Howard....” hisalways-alert earandhisconstant concern for constant smile, Leslie Wright. Samford anditspresident, household namesof And hemade thatcontinuesgram peopleto to campus. bring acommunity course pro- directed Samford After Sundown, He instituted and shell Samford constructed forthatpurpose. the Alabama Symphony Orchestra inaband performances of live thousands to thecampusforSymphony Under theStars, He brought Bobby Bowden. anditsyoungball program coach, Howard’s foot- Alabama to coverage live andtelevision radio of canvas “like agiant onwhich to paint.” hesaid, there,” thefirstfewyears.buildings there even were though onlyafew ideasandopinions, changing new campuswasatremendous impetusto begin “The hesaid. town inadecliningarea,” of college ontheoutskirts Howard College inEastLake wasasmallBaptistpreacher’s population aboutSamford. the of thelocalmediaandpart 90percent of impression of His greatest challenge wasto change the relations person. itasadream hedescribed situationforapublic University, which timetheschool during becameSamford tenure, Reflecting onhis degree inhistory. arts amasterhe earned of your isto program besuccessful.” arethings essentialif feelforpeopleinan general optimismanda “A personneedsto have patience, he said. people,” condition helpedmegainagreater understandingof aswell asthelate newsandweather. more live shows, itwasbackto thestationfor After midday classes, at 9a.m. mt etSmodi 90 takinghiscreative entre- Smith leftSamford in1970, Smith continues Samford asamajor hisassociationwith Iwasgiven“I appreciate atSamford dailytheopportunity The 1963 He introduced and Birmingham Smith painted itwell. forasuccessful theingredients were PRcampaign “All of themediaattimewasthat mostof impression of “The Alongtheway, director fornineyears. Smith asPR served personunderevery kindof “Having every to work with Entre Nous Entre was dedicated to Smith for ever-“his il,bti ulcrltos these butinpublicrelations, y field, Barber Motorsports Park. Photos by Caroline Summers.Track availabilitycourtesy of get done.” Ineedatleast50more years to getdonewhatIwantto same. stress andfun anywhere intheUnited States. He racing islicensed to vintage run making upforlosttime. heis Now inhis70s, hesaid. basis,” onapart-time the sport never wasableto afford to race. Endurance Race “in theoldestcarinrace.” Fla., Sebring, hetook third place inthe Earlierthisyear, number 511. car, 1959Elva Mark Courier hisvintage Msports the wheelof andto andoperate health-care own facilities. seniors, lifefor identifies anddevelops resources to promote of quality anonprofit health-care that corporation Inc., ClairServices, St. theBoard of He ischair of Crossville Healthcare Inc. of owner andpresident/ Board, Inc., the Village atCook Springs, of owned. It was100percent employee- 4,200employees. with the U.S. itwasthe16th-largestnursing homechain in company in1984, By thetimeSmith soldthe states. include 49facilitiesineight plan[ESOP]. ownership through anemployee stock- Inc., Medical Southern Services, of ae nhspromnet ae don’t betagainsthim. Based onhisperformance to date, “It’s lotsof sofarwith beenafabulousjourney Smith said, “I wasinmy 50sbefore Ieverto gottimeandmoney enter but through theyears, Smith saidhehasbeena “car nut” Smith mostoften canbefoundbehind In hisspare time, chair asamarketing hehasserved consultant, Since then, thecompany grew to three nursing with homes, Beginning n okfradt aymr er fthe to andIlookforward many more years of . . . by Lewis Arnold) whom theuniversity isnamed.(Photo Samford, grandfather ofthemanfor thesis onAlabama GovernorWilliamJ. Smith lookoverSmith’s 1970master’s Frank Park Samford, andGeorge left, ■ 37 WHEREARETHEYNOW? SamfordUniversityAlumniDonors February 1, 2006–May 31, 2006

amford University expresses gratitude to the following alumni who made financial gifts to the university during the most recent fiscal-year quarter to sustain and enhance the university’s mission “for God, for learning, forever.” These graduates represent only Sa portion of thousands of alumni who contribute during each year. A complete roster of Samford’s contributing alumni is ALUMNI published annually in the President’s Report. When (L) follows a name, it represents a law graduating class; (P) denotes pharmacy; and (D) represents divinity. A class year after one of these letters indicates a subsequent degree conferred in that year for the corresponding specialty. Between Feb. 1, 2006, and May 31, 2006, the following alumni made contributions:

1933 Mr. Horace M. Hagood Dr. Howard G. Clark III Mrs. Mildred E. Roper Dr. Dewey E. Mayfield Miss Nina Miglionico Mrs. A. Gerow Hodges Mrs. Loretta R. Cunningham Mr. Jesse G. Sides Mr. Al T. McCuen (P) Mrs. Lois M. Lee Mr. James B. Davis Mr. James C. Stivender, Jr. Dr. Harold E. Moore 1935 Mrs. Mary V. Lee Dr. Frank W. Donaldson Mrs. Iva Jewel Burton Tucker Mrs. Willie D. Morse Mrs. Isabel D. Burton Mrs. Frances G. Locke Mr. Deric A. Edgar Mr. Cecil E. Wanninger Dr. Floyd Roebuck Mr. Paul M. McCullough Mrs. Dorothy P. Edgar Mr. William J. Ward Rev. Charles B. Smith 1936 Mr. Abe Epsman Mr. Robert C. Weaver Mr. James S. Thomas (P) Ms. Geraldine P. Blair 1944 Mr. Harold L. Gamble Mrs. Jean D. Williams Dr. Pheroba A. Thomas Mrs. Mildred W. Whitman Mr. William Baker Capt. Warren C. Graham, Jr. Dr. John E. Wintter (P) Rev. Clinton M. Wood Mrs. Martha M. Bazemore Mr. William C. Hassell (P) Cmdr. Anton L. Witte 1938 Mr. John R. Cannon Dr. Leven S. Hazlegrove 1952 Mr. Daniel G. Stewart Mr. Harry Charles, Jr. Mrs. Warrene W. Herring (P’53) 1950 Dr. Harold L. Anderson Mrs. Martha P. Edfeldt Mrs. Polly M. Perry Dr. Hugh C. Bailey Mr. Milton M. Baker 1939 Mrs. Marie R. Ethridge Mr. James N. Pittman Mr. Harry D. Brown, Jr. (P) Mrs. William Henry Bancroft Dr. Charles E. Clark Mr. Morris Ethridge Mr. Wayne R. Tappan Lt. Col. Julian R. Campbell Mrs. Rebecca E. Buttram Mrs. Rose W. Sutley Mrs. Harold Gamble (P) Mrs. Frances W. Williamson Mrs. Julia E. Clark Mr. Harold L. Cumbie Mrs. Arminda H. Thompson Dr. John H. Jeffers Dr. James M. Wood, Jr. Mr. Merrill H. Cook Dr. Charles W. Davis Mr. George R. Yeager Mrs. Dorothy K. Layton Miss H. Lucile Cunningham Rev. Herbert Davis Mrs. Darlene F. Patton (P) 1948 Lt. Col. Vernon E. Cunningham Mrs. Nell T. Dirks 1940 Dr. John C. Pittman Ray Atchison Mrs. Frank Donaldson Mr. Billy D. Eddleman Mr. C. Leonard Burton Mrs. Sara E. Simpson Rev. James W. Brown Mr. Howard B. Foshee Dr. Harold L. Flatt Dr. Robert N. Davie Rev.Dr.W.K.Stephenson Mr. John D. Chandler Mr. Odell F. Grady Mr. H. Wallace Garrett Capt. Fred F. Mullins, Jr. Mrs. Glenna S. White Rev. George M. Coaker Mr. Austin S. Graves Mr. Joseph L. Goode Dr. Milton L. Wray Mrs. Sara W. Elliott Mr. William C. Hare Dr. Myra G. Grady 1941 Mrs. Marie N. Fowler (P) Mr. Hoffman C. Harless Mr. James A. Hafner, Jr. (P) Mrs. Martha M. Ailor 1945 Miss Pauline E. Gravlee Mr. James “Red” Hartline Mrs. William E. Hull Mrs. Joanne Gunn Casey Mrs. Frances C. Baker Mrs. Virginia C. Hare Mr. John C. Hollingsworth Rev. Eugene G. Hutchens Mrs. Jane D. Dorn Mrs. Beryl J. Bates Mrs. Evelyn G. Johnson Mr. Thomas L. Johns Mrs. Anne B. Jones Mrs. Frances F. Dunn Lt. Col. Leon A. Blackmon Mr. Benjamin E. Kidd Ms. Ruby S. Kerby Rev. J. Sheril Jones Ms. Catherine J. Griffith Mrs. Marie N. Goodman Mrs. Beth Poe Mr. James T. Lee (P) Mr. Harold M. Langston Mrs. Jeanette T. Jeffers Mr. Elbrey D. Herring (P) Dr. William Allen Poe Mr. Franklin D. Little (P) Mr. James N. Myers (P) Mr. Louis C. Robinson Rev. Frank Morrison, Sr. Mrs. Dorothy C. Raffield (P) Mrs. Sybil K. McCrory Dr. Jack Preston Mr. Eugene F. Schettgen Dr. Ira L. Myers Dr. David M. Vess Mr. Malcolm K. Miller, Jr. Miss Odette Ramsey Mrs. Frances D. Sharman Mr. Hugh I. Williamson, Jr. Mr. John S. Moore Mrs. Winifred A. Rodgers 1942 Mr. Michael H. White Mrs. Margret H. Oakley Mr. Wayman G. Sherrer Mrs. Edwina W. Alexander 1949 Mr. James B. Pratt Dr.L.Earl Tew Mrs. Ann W. Armstrong 1946 Mr. William D. Aders Mr. David W. Sharp (P) Rev. Charles D. Whitson Dr. Francis Nash Collier, Jr. Mrs. Mary Jeanette Counts Mr. Claude L. Alsbrooks, Jr. Mrs. Kathryn N. Sims Mr. Rae P.Willis Mrs. Gene G. Flatt Blackmon Mrs. Hudson D. Baggett Rev. Joseph C. Thompson Dr. William A. Wood Dr. Lonnie W. Funderburg (P) Dr. Sigurd F. Bryan Mr. Mark L. Chandler, Jr. Mrs. Anne B. Townes Mrs. Lonnie Funderburg Rev. Gilbert Burks Mrs. Catherine P. Coaker Dr. Hazel A. Petersen Walter 1953 Mrs. Audrey W. Gober Mrs. Dorothy Warren Butler Mr. Jack Cole (P) Mrs. Anne F. Anderson (P) Mrs. Vivian Houlditch Hart Mr. Pat M. Courington Mr. Perry E. Cox, Sr. (P) 1951 Mr. Harold L. Bodie Mrs. Florrie T. Hurtt Mr. William S. McGinnis, Sr. Mr. David M. Crosswy (P) Dr. James R. Abernathy Mr. Robert C. Bowden Mrs. Stewart B. Jordan Mrs. Mary Pierson Mrs. Helen Harrell Dedman Mr. Roy R. Anderson (P) Mrs. Frances H. Davis Mrs. John Pittman Montgomery Mr. Charlie B. Dickinson Mr. William H. Bancroft, Jr. Mr. James L. Holland, Jr. Mrs. Kathryn A. Robins Dr. Doris Phillips Dr. William T. Edwards Sen. Jack Biddle III Mr. Charles R. Kennedy (P) Mr. Spurgeon R. Thrower Mrs. Jacqueline S. Pittman Rev. Howard H. Golden Dr. Doris Courington Carney Rev. Walter Kent, Jr. Dr. A. Earl Potts Mrs. Johnnie E. Golden Mr. Raymond L. Cline Mrs. Wynema J. Lowry 1943 Mrs. Margaret O. Puckett Mrs. Jimsy M. Hanket Dr. C. Stone Dailey Mr. Joe McBrien, Jr. (L) Dr. Ray M. Atchison Mr. Clarence W. Slaughter Mr. William R. Hawkins Mr. Haywood E. Dedman Ms. Mary O. McPhaul Mrs. Jo M. Ballard Mrs. Elaine D. Slaughter Dr. Eloise T. Kirk Mr. A. Rudolph Fagan Rev. Alan G. Moor Mrs. Sarah M. Barrett Mrs. Martha F. Walker Mr. John L. Kirk, Jr. Mr. Grady P. Fuller Mrs. Harold Moore Mrs. Martha A. Campbell Mr. D. Stevens Wesson, Jr. Brig. Gen. Robert L. Lott III Mr. Sam D. Glenn (P) Mr. Wanell C. O’Barr Col. Carl Cooper Mr. Lucien E. Puckett (P) Dr. J. David Griffin Mrs. Doris N. Patterson Mr. Ralph D. Edfeldt 1947 Dr. Henry Raymaker, Jr. Rev. Henry E. Hulgan Mrs. Jeanne Phillips Mrs. Helen H. Gammill Mr. Roy L. Bates Mr. Cecil H. Reid Dr. William E. Hull Dr. James A. Pickle Dr.J.Carey Gwin Mrs. Nina F. Chafin Dr. Cecil M. Roper Mr. Thomas L. Lucius Mr. L. Morton Renegar, Jr. (P)

38 Mrs Alvin Stewart Dr. Charles T. Workman 1959 Mrs. Dorothy H. Williams 1963 Mrs. Clinton Wood Mrs. Mavis W. Zumstein Dr. Jerry W. Batson Miss Sandra Elaine Williamson Mrs. Linda P.Allen Rev. C. Thomas Bodkin Mr. C. Dean Woodham Mrs. Margaret E. Armbrester 1954 1957 Mrs. Mary Ann F. Brown Mrs. CeCelia S. Armstrong Mr. John L. Armstrong, Sr. Mrs. Barbara A. Beckett Mrs. Mary S. Cole (P) 1961 Mr. John O. Braswell, Jr. (P) Mrs. Ann Tisdale Belcher Rev. Harold Blackburn Ms. Gayle S. Colley-Calderwood Dr. Myralyn F. Allgood Mr. Bennie W. Bumpers Mrs. Ann E. Bowden Mrs. Willodean G. Boyle Rev. Herbert J. Collier Mr. Stephen C. Allgood Mr. Doug Cash Rev. James Leon Boyd Dr. Cecil O. Brown Mr. David V. deGruy (P) Rev. Larry E. Armstrong Mrs. Marilyn V. Cash Dr. Andrew M. Brown Mr. William J. Brown Mr. Wilton C. DePriest (P) Mr. George H. Bedwell Mr. Charles L. Cook (P) Mrs. Mary P. Camp Mr. Clarence R. Caldwell (P) Mrs. Carolyn P. Drennen Dr. Maree Macon Blackwell Dr. M. Richard Cross ALUMNI Mr. Joseph E. Coon Mrs. Joanne M. Campbell Mr. Archie B. Duncan Ms. Lela Anne Brewer Mr. James A. Currier Mrs. Dorothy S. Davis Mr. John F. Clower Mrs. Bobbie R. Fields Mr. Robert G. Bryant (P) Ms. Linda Dahlke Mrs. Jo Alice J. Halsell Dr. Robert C. Curlee, Jr. Mrs. Nancy T. Forbes Dr. Frank M. Burns Mrs. Beverly H. Denney Mr. George P. Hayes Dr. Chriss H. Doss (L’68) Dr. Charles G. Gammill (P) Mr. Dennis W. Camp Mr. A. Lamar Duncan (P’65) Dr. J. Kenneth Herlong Mr. Gerald K. Faught Mrs. Carolyn S. Grizzle Mrs. Jordan H. Cracraft Mr. John W. Duren Mr. Harold L. Hunt Mr. Donald A. Garcia Mrs. Wynona B. Hall Dr. Robert F. Crider Mrs. Alice M. Edwards Dr. Harold D. Mixon Mr. William G. Garner Mr. Pete M. Hanna Mrs. Betty S. Eason Mrs. Ola F. Gilliam Mr. Osler A. Moore (P) Mrs. Deborah A. Karn Mr. J. Russell Harp Dr. J. Wayne Flynt Mr. Robert L. Glaze Dr. Edward L. Robinson Rev. Thomas W. Kennedy Mrs. Mary H. Hudson Ms. Virginia Head Gross Mrs. Virginia H. Glaze Mrs. Sarah J. Smith Mrs. Evelyn N. Kernachan Mrs. Jeri Barber Jackson Rev. S. Dennis Hale Mrs. Judith G. Hale Mr. William J. Sumner Ms. Lillian Lamb Mr. Thomas L. Jackson Mrs. Carolyn D. Harp Mr. R. Larry Haslam Rev. Gordon T. Walker Mr. Ed Landers (P) Rev. A. L. Kenney, Jr. Mrs. Mary Jane Harris Mrs. Jeanie W. Henderson Mrs. Jane Landers (P) Mrs. Sharon B. Kleeschulte Dr. Virginia Hayes Mr. Ted Knight (P) 1955 Mrs. LaNelle Moore Lester Dr. Jimmie E. Knox Dr. John T. Haywood, Jr. Mr. William E. Leslie Mr. Billy C. Campbell Mr. J. T. Lindsey (P) Mrs. Anne Moore Laws Mr. Robert C. Henderson Mr. Charles H. Lowery Mrs. Annie O. Dabbs Mr. C. Aubrey Lowry (P) Dr. Donald Mason Miss Sylvia O. Hopper Mrs. Arleen S. MacVeigh Mr. Charles R. Fleming Mrs. Kathryn B. Lucius Rev. Robert E. Money Mr. J. Woodley Hudson (P) Mr. J. Charles Merriman Dr. Mary C. Henderson Dr. Henry L. Lyon III Mrs. Sue A. Morrison Mrs Sara Kaye Johnson Dr. James D. Moebes Dr. Clayton McWhorter (P) Mrs. Sara Jane Flowers Lyon Mrs. Jeanelle S. Palmer Mr. Ken D. Kirkley Mrs. Joy C. Morris Ms. Joan L. Porter Mrs. Quinn L. McAlister Rev. Jerrold F. Parker Mr. Joe W. McDade Mr. William A. Nunnelley Dr. Nelda J. Pugh Mr. Samuel R. McPherson Ms. Sandra D. Smith Mr. Neil S. Nation Mr. J. Truman Parrott Mr.H.Tom Rogers,Jr. Mrs. Pana J. Norred Mr. Sam Spitale, Jr. (P) Mrs. Marilyn H. Palmer Mr. Albert L. Shumaker (L’65) Mrs. Velma L. Sebring Dr. V. Delane O’Rear Mr. Harold L. Street Col. Michael N. Robinson Mr. Roland B. Smith Mrs. Terah R. Sherer Dr. Ronald E. Peake Dr. James F. Walters Rev. Edmon L. Rowell, Jr. Mr. Hoke J. Thomas, Jr. Mrs. Bonnie B. Swearingen Mr. Joe E. Roberson Mr. Gwin T. Wells Mr. John W. Russell Mrs. Sarah M. Walters Rev. Dr P. Joe Whitt Mr. Fred M. Slaughter (P) Mr. Bill L. Wilhite Mrs. Nancy J. Sayers Mrs. Mary F. Whitfield Rev. Glenn E. Slye Dr. Kay C. Wideman 1956 Hon. Tennant M. Smallwood, Jr. 1960 1962 Mr. George W. Ash Mr. Billy C. Taylor (P) Mrs. Ruth M. Boyce Mrs. Elaine B. Alberson 1964 Mr. Walter G. Barnes Mr. Archie B. Trawick Mr. James W. Braden Mrs. Frances S. Armour Dr. Catherine B. Allen Mr. James R. Brown Dr. M. Malissa Turner Mrs. Betty B. Brooks Mrs. Joan S. Bailey Mr. Jack R. Armistead Mr. Joseph C. Brown Dr. Lowell C. Vann Mr. Thomas W. Buckelew, Sr. Mrs. Suzanne B. Benton Mrs. Marguerite D. Bertram (P) Rev. David U. Bryant Mrs. Ruric Wheeler Mr. Charles W. Cairns Mrs. Sara H. Brewer Mr. Thomas M. Bertram (P) Rev. Dr Charles T. Carter Mr. James G. Chambers Mrs. Sara E. Bryan Dr. Kenneth W. Bush Mr. Paul T. Goins 1958 Mr. Melvin R. Chapman Mrs. William E Burkett Mrs. Maretta T. Countess Mr. Dale H. Graham (P) Mr. Joe H. Alford (P) Mr. Carlton R. Cook Dr. Roderick H. Conrad Mr. M. Monroe Fields, Jr. Mrs. Maurene M. Guffin Rev. Gaylord C. Brownlee Ms. Martha Ann Cox Mrs. Rhonda Dean Cook Mr. George L. Frey Mrs. Margaret Hendrick Rev. A. L. Courtney, Jr. Mr. Donald R. Davidson Mrs. Barbara W. Crider Mrs. Linda F. Hayes Rev. Spurgeon Hendrick Dr.A.D.Crowe Ms. Judith E. Dean Mrs. UnaKing C. Currier Mrs. Sarah W. Housh Rev. David B. Howle Dr. J. Roderick Davis Mr. Joseph P. Duncan Dean Joseph O. Dean, Jr. (P) Mrs. Glenda L. Lowery Mr.A.C.Hutchens Mr. Ron Ellison Mrs. Madelyne T. Duncan Mrs. Shirley T. Deese Mrs. Marie H. Maile Mrs. Sara E. Hutchinson Dr. Warren C. Fields Rev. O. Thomas Eason Mr. Harold L. Fleming Mrs. Olivia B. North Dr. J. Wayne Johnson Mr. Trenyon H. Gamble Mrs. Dorothy P. Estess Mr.H.F.Forbes,Jr. Mrs. Anne B. Payton Mrs. Patricia H. Johnson Dr. G. Truett Guffin Dr. John M. Estess Mrs. Mary A. Glazner Mr. Robert D. Raffield (P) Rev. H. T. Karn Ms. Lyndell Harmon Rev. Ronald F. Euler Mrs. Anne G. Hartline Mrs. Nancy R. Skinner Mr. James D. Knight Mr. Joseph D. Hosmer, Jr. Mrs. Dorothy S. Flynt Ms. JoAnne E. Hill Dr. J. Clifford Tharp, Jr. Mrs. Nettie G. Langston Mr.S.H.Inzer,Jr. Mr. James A. Garland Mrs. Martha Green Isom Mrs. Mary Jean B. Thomason Mr. Conrad E. McCrary Mrs. Doris G. Jones Mr. Richard S. Gilliam Mr. William W. Ivey Mr. L. Paul Thompson Mrs. Donna A. Meigs Dr. Raymond L. King Mr. Jerry W. Greene, Sr. Dr. Franklin M. Jacobs Mrs. Charlene C. Vaughn (P) Mrs. Shirley C. Morrison Mrs. Shirley S. Langston Mrs. Jan G. Herman Mr. James E. King Mr. J. Lamar Vaughn (P) Mrs. Jane D. Naish Mr. Albert D. Lipscomb, Sr. Mrs. Patty B. Kirkley Mrs. Bobbie C. Lancaster Dr. Robert G. Norred Mrs. Nan R. Norris Mrs. Bonnie B. Lipscomb Mrs. Linda N. Langston 1965 Dr Billy Nutt Mr. Donald R. Palmer Mr. Ray Magnusson Mrs. Gail K. Moebes Dr. H. Hershel Adams Mrs. Ann P. Peake Mr. Thomas R. Peden (P) Miss Barbara S. Minton (P’70) Mr. Jamie L. Moore Mrs. Mary S. Adams Mrs. Sherry M. Prichard Hon. George H. Pierce (L) Mr. Hubert C. Nall Rev. M. Douglas Patterson Mrs. Carole C. Armistead Mr. Tillman W. Pugh, Jr. Mrs. Tommie J. Slaughter Mrs. Faye T. Patterson Mrs. Peggy Glenn Shores Dr. John H. Baker Mr. Wesley Ryals Mr. James H. Smith Mr. James B. Price (P) Mrs. Alae Risse Thomas Ms. Louise Barbour Rev. William Y. Sanders Mr. William O. Smith, Jr. (P) Mrs. Patricia N. Reaves Mr. Charles E. Varni (P) Dr. Mary Jim Beck Mrs. Sue T. Sims Mr. William M. Sparks Mrs. Carolyn Y. Robinson Mr. Joe W. Wildmon Dr. William M. Bishop Mr. Wallace E. Slater (P) Mr. H. Dale Splawn Dr. Carol L. Schlichter Mrs. Mary E. Woodham Mr. Robert E. Bonnett Mrs. Margaret S. Smitherman Mr. Don U. York Mr. George H. Smith Dr. Dorothy L. Brown Ms. Ruby H. Stewman Mr. J. Douglas Smith Mr. Roger A. Brown (L’70) Ms. Henri-Ann Taylor Mrs. Mary A. Smith Mrs. Joyce I. Bush

39 Mr. Larry Campbell, Jr. Miss Martha R. Chandler Mr. John T. Coleman Mrs. Kimeran B. Stevens Mrs. Regina R. Ontjes Mrs. Ozilene S. Cartee Mr. Ronald E. Channell Mr. Thomas W. Cozart Mr. William J. Stevens Mrs. Rebecca J. Pate Mrs. Lucy L. Connolly Dr. Floyd L. Christian, Jr. Mr. Walter R. Crow Mrs. Susan Y. Strain Mr. David L. Peterson Mrs. Elizabeth D. Crowther Dr. J. Norfleete Day (D’93) Mr. William P. Crowther (P) Mrs. Kaye W. Sutley Ms. Sandra C. Peterson Mrs. Mary Pat W. Darby Mr. Willard L. Dean Mr. John D. Ferry Mr. Barney E. Thames (P) Dr. W. Randall Richardson Mrs. Mona W. Fisher Mrs. Janice H. Fleming Mrs. Cherry H. Fishburne Mr. Phil L. Waldrop Mr. William C. Roedder, Jr. (L) Mr. D. M. Hatfield (P) Dr. Raymond R. Flowers, Jr. (L) Rev. Dr Gerald C. Hallmark Dr. Donald R. Wilhite Mrs. Cheryl R. Rucker Mr. J. Bruce Hoven (P) Mr. Wayne H. Gillis Mrs. Charolette Hamby Rev. Dr. Philip D. Wise Mrs. Gloria T. Russell Dr. Dewey H. Jones III (L) Mr. Thomas E. Hamby Ms. Leslie S. Herrington (L’72) Mr. Thomas W. Woods III Mrs. Ruth S. Sanders ALUMNI Mr. Robert F. Jones Mr. Warren W. Hilson Mr. William W. Hicks Mr. James E. Wright Mrs. Jill W. Scott Mr. John Kopelousos (L) Mr. Rodney T. Hovater Mrs. Donna Fowler Jackson Mrs. Sarah H. Zimmerman Mr. Joe B. Simmons (P) Rev. J. Dewayne Lasseter Mr. Hewlett C. Isom, Jr. (L) Rev. Joseph G. Mason Mr. Paul N. Smith Dr. Janice M. Lasseter Mr. H. Allen Jordan Mrs. Patricia P. Melton 1971 Mrs. M Joy V. Upton Mrs. Annie N. Leslie Mr. John T. Leesburg Mrs. Elaine H. Miller Mr.W.C.Attaway Mr. David T. Whitt Mrs. Carol F. Nunnelley Mrs. Lynda A. Little Mrs. Cynthia F. Mims Mr. Jim R. Bell (P) Mr. W. Rish Wood Mr. C. Richard Queen Dr. Philip Mattar Mrs. Marilyn W. Pickett Mr. John M. Burke Mr. Carl M. Zimmerman Mrs. Jan B. Queen Dr. Henry A. McGuffey, Jr. (P) Mr. Harry A. Richardson Mr. John S. Creel (L) Dr. Larry G. Robinson Mr. Wayne K. Meshejian Mrs. Patsy S. Sandefer Mr.M.Steven Crew 1973 Dr.T.S.Roe (P) Dr. Perry D. Neal Mrs. Linda C. Sheikh Ms. Janice L. Folsom Mr. Thomas D. Armstrong Rev. Melvyn W. Salter Mr. Johnny Pate Mrs. Anne G. Stevens Mrs. Lynn G. Fullman Mr. S. Allen Baker, Jr. (L) Dr. Sharron P. Schlosser Mrs. Mary J. Penny Mr. R. Whitney Stevens, Jr. Mrs. Cynthia M. Garner Mrs. Constance L. Bean Mrs. Louisa M. Strand Mrs. Patti L. Salmon (L’75) Mr. Craig C. Gault Hon. Quentin Q. Brown, Jr. (L) Mrs. Anita D. Taylor Mrs. Barbara B. Sentell Mrs. Joyce P. Strickland Mrs. Kathy H. Gault Mr. Henry F. Burge Mrs. Patricia P.Watkins Mrs. Eileen D. Sessions Dr. Brenda W. Thomas II Mr. Robert E. Greene Miss Kathryn V. Collins Dr. Joy H. Whatley Mr. Horace Smith, Jr. (L) Mrs. Becky W. Thompson Dr. Arnold G. Hammond (P) Mr. David T. Connelly Mrs. Glenyce L. Yarbrough Dr. Rebecca B. Spence Mr. James J. Thompson, Jr. (L) Mr. Tom Helton Mrs. Teresa B. Crawford Mrs. Anne G. Stone Mr. John W. Vick Hon. Sidney Edward Jackson Mrs. Jean W. Daugherty (P) 1966 Hon. A. Benjamin Strand, Jr. (L) Mr. John P.Webb III (L’73) Mr. Louis H. Dismukes, Jr. Ms. Cheryl J. Adams Miss Charlotte A. Teas Mrs. June D. Wilhite Dr. H. Marguerite Kelley Mr. Charles E. Drimal, Jr. (L) Mr. James R. Anderson, Sr. (P) Mrs. Sandra L. Thrash Mrs. Andrea Jo Irwin Williams Mrs. J. L. Kirk Mrs. Sandra C. Drimal Mr. William C. Armistead, Jr. Mr. William A. Thrash Mrs. Cynthia A. Wise Mrs. Lynne Pickens Lock Mr. Kerry L. Gossett Hon. Frank L. Bell (L) Mr. Thomas B. Tindall, Jr. Mrs. Marcia E. Wright Mrs. Martha C. Lytle Mr. James M. Hand Mr. Wendell Brock (P) Mrs. Betsy Tucker Mr. Frank M. Young III (L) Mrs. Lee Merrill Mrs. Angela G. Hughes Dr. Harriott D. Calhoun Mrs. Maryann S. Tyler Dr.Curt Newell,Jr. Mrs. Darlene S. Jordan Dr. James M. Castleberry Mrs. Averiett H. Wesson 1970 Mrs. Janis P. Nichol Rev. Dr. Rick L. Lance Dr. Dorothy T. Chambers Ms. Claudia L. Wright Mr. Jesse M. Bates III Ms. Linda F. Noa Mr. James M. Landreth Dr. Charles D. Cole (L) Mrs. Mary Lynn Bates (L’78) Rev. Morris Nunnelley Mr. Sam E. Lawrence III (P) Mr. Bruce E. Coshatt 1968 Mr. Mac Beale (L) Mr. Jackson M. Payne (L) Mr. Terry J. Murphy (P) Rev. Douglas N. Cox Mrs. Emily G. Armistead Mrs. Jean M. Beistle Mr. Talmadge A. Payton Mrs. Marione E. Nance Mr.J.Tyre Denney Mr. James W. Bodiford, Jr. (L’71) Mr. Conrad C. Bishop, Jr. (L) Mr. J. Massey Relfe, Jr. (L) Mr. Franklin R. Plummer (L) Mrs. Mary H. Dixon Dr. Raymond N. Bowman Mr. L. Tem Blalock Dr. Marlene H. Rikard Mrs. Marilyn S. Powe Mr. W. Lynn Earnest (P) Mrs. Sue S. Bowman Mrs. Nancy C. Bozeman Mrs. Jana J. Shultz Mr. Joe B. Powell (L) Mr. Barry B. Edwards Mrs. Mary C. Bruce Col. Cheryl A. Brown Capt. Susan M. Stevenson Mr. Dan Smalley Mrs. Frances K. Ferrell Mrs. Hazel R. Buckner Hon. John C. Calhoun (L’72) Mrs. Jane S. Sturgeon Mrs. Susan G. Tucker Mr. Joseph H. Fisher (L) Mrs. Mildred J. Davis Mrs. Jenna Cassese Dr. Stanley V. Susina (L) Mr. Thomas E. Walker Mrs. Judith McMichael Frey Col. Cecil Himes Mrs. Pam Champion Mrs. Juanita S. Tew Mr. Tommy W. Whitehead (P) Mr. James R. Griffin Mrs. A. Gerry Hodges, Jr. Lt. Col. Marvin C. Champion Mr. Terry R. Upton (P) Mr. James C. Williams, Jr. Ms. Peggy P. Kelly Mrs. Shirley L. Hutchens Mrs. Charlotte L. Coleman Mr. Alvin W. Vogtle III Mrs. Janet B. Little Mr. James R. Jackson (P) Mrs. Haven Weese Conner Mrs. Cynthia W. Watts 1974 Mr. Patrick D. Mahon (P’70) Mr. Oscar B. Lamb Mrs. Joy Golden Cowley Ms. Sherlyn A. Akins Ms. Kay Martin Mrs. Christine Weeks Martin Mrs. Catherine M. Davis 1972 Rev. E. Guy Anderson Ms. Irene McCombs Mrs. Deda K. Nelson Mrs. Florence S. Dodge Mr. Anthony W. Allen Mrs. Suzan K. Armstrong Hon. H. Edward McFerrin Mr. Victor E. Nichol, Jr. Mr. James F. Ehl (P) Mrs. Susan C. Anderson Dr. Timothy P. Banks Mrs. Charlotte B. Pulfrey Mrs. Marjorie Kay Nix Mrs. Vicky B. Gailey Mrs. Delaine C. Bagby Mrs. Wanda Banks Mrs. Carolyn S. Roberts Mr. Charles P. Penn Mr. R. Jerry Giles Mr. M. David Barber (L) Mr. Stanley E. Bates Mr. Earl G. Saunders, Jr. Mr. Steve Scobee (P) Ms. Kathy R. Grissom Mrs. Ruth C. Barkhurst Mr. R. Michael Booker (L) Mrs. Lynne O. Simmons Mrs. Jane A. Shannon Mr. H. Frank Holmes, Jr. Rev. Rick T. Betz Mr. Christopher P. Brewer (L) Mrs. Lynda C. Staggs (P) Mrs. Donna D. Snider Dr. Willis E. Howard III Dr. Susan F. Bradley Mrs. Sharon D. Bull Mrs. Barbara H. Stanfield Mr. Jack D. Stewart Dr. Carolyn R. Johnston Mr. Buddy Brown (L’77) Mr. Thomas A. Burch Dr. J. Barton Starr Mr. John M. Taylor (L) Mr. Wayne M. Kendrick Rev. Rick Carpenter Hon. John R. Burgess (L) Mrs. Rebekah E. Starr Mrs. Lee Ann L. Thompson Dr. Alan B. Kirk Mrs. Exa Crew Mr. Gary E. Byram Ms. Clarissa D. Strickland Mr. William G. Thompson Mr. John D. Lee Mr. Timothy L. Dillard (L) Hon. John L. Carroll (L) Mr. Jerry W. Tyler Mrs. Jeanne M. Wear Mr. Ron Mims (P) Mr. George P. Ford (L) Mr. David R. Caudle (L) Mr. Walter B. White Mr. Joseph S. Williams Mr. Rex M. 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Lee (L’02) Miss Michelle D. Pender Ms. Julia A. Compton (P) (P’97) Mrs. Lynna R. Stubbs Ms. Pamela J. McArthur Mrs. Kelly S. Preston Mr. Joseph L. Cowan II (L) Ms. Julie L. Worthington Mrs. Mary T. Miller Mr. Andrew C. Ralph Miss Rebecca S. Day Mrs. Donna V.Yelverton (L) Mr. Bradford J. Radice Ms. Kim Reese Mrs. Allison Lee Dearing (L’00) Ms. Heather Howard Renfro (L) Mrs. Ruby C. Russell Mr. Brian L. Disher 1998 Dr. Tori-Lynn K. Saraniti (P) Mr. Gregory L. Schuck (L) Mrs. Cynthia H. Doggett (P) Mr. Jonathan C. Acuff Mr. Bradley J. Simpson Mr. Robert E. Sharp Miss Patrice R. Donnelly Mrs. Melanie M. Alston Ms. Charlanna W. Spencer (L) Mr. Stephen L. Shelton Mr. John M. Flynt (L) Mr. John M. Asbeck Mr. John R. Wallis (L) Mr. Eric S. Smith, Jr. (P) Mrs. Anna M. Goodwin Mr. Sidney Travis Bartee (L) Ms. Melissa S. Whitehurst Dr. J. Sidney Smith Mr. Michael B. Gratz (L) Mrs. Dawn M. Burgess Dr. Danny Wood, Jr. (D) Dr. Jason C. Swanner Mrs. Jennifer L. Gremillion (L) Mrs. Lauren K. Busbee Miss Jennifer C. Thompson Mrs. Jennifer E. Hall Mr. Bryan N. Cigelske (L) 2000 Mr. J. Kenneth Thompson (L) Mrs. Tiffany A. Hill (P) (P’97) Mrs. Kathryn McCain Cigelske (L) Mr. Brenden D. Alexander Mrs. Stephanie T. Underwood Mr. James T. Holloway Ms. Jennifer J. Coleman Mrs. Janet G. Alexander Dr. Bruce A. Waldrop (P) Mr. Brandon A. Horton Mrs. Kristen M. Criswell Mrs. Christy L. Allen Mrs. Debra R. Whitcomb Mrs. Amy K. Howell Mr. Mark S. Damron Mrs. Lauren R. Beckner Mrs. Jessica L. White Mr. Bryan H. Howell Mrs. Elesha J. Feldman Dr. Geri W. Beers Mr. Harlan F. Winn III (L) Mr. William R. Ivey Mrs. Melissa K. Fox Ms. Natasha L. Bennett Mr. Douglas E. Wood Mrs. Susan F. Johnston Mr. G. Courtney French (L) Mr. Aaron K. Bishop Mr.K.Michael Kopecky Mr.J.Bryan Freud Mr. Adam S. Blair 1995 Mr. William M. Lawrence (L) Mrs. B. Gayle Glenn Mrs. Audrey C. Brooks Mr. Nolan E. Awbrey (L) Mr. Christopher H. Macturk (L) Ms. Lana K. Greenfield (P) Mr. John R. Buhrman (L) Dr. Kimberley W. Benner (P) (P’96) Mr. Robert C. McConkey III (L) Mrs. Angela M. Harris Ms. Julie W. Buhrman (L) Ms. Anna M. Benton Ms. Susan H. McCurry (L) Dr. Elizabeth B. Holloway Ms. Mary C. Burrett Mrs. Melanie C. Bradle Mrs. Angela D. Moore Mrs. Terra S. Hussar Mr. Jimmy L. Burton Mr. Jay B. Carson Mrs. Ann E. Moore Mrs. Kelley Pirnie Lamberth (L) Mr. Jamie L. Chance (D) Mrs. Ashley C. Collins Mr. Donald L. Moore Mr. R. Edwin Lamberth (L) Mr. Ryan K. Cochran (L) Mr. Andrew B. Cundiff Mrs. Leanna Morrow Mrs. Gail A. Lewis Mrs. Andrea M. Greene (L’03) Mrs. Julie W. Cundiff Dr. Eric L. Motley Mr. Jason A. LoVoy Ms. L. Taylor Hanson Mrs. Anne Lamkin Durward (L) Ms. Emilie Whitehead Odom (L) Mrs. Darlene P. Mathis Mr. J. Matthew Haynes, Jr. (L) Ms. Jean M. Finochio Mr. Frederic H. Oehlschlaeger (P) Mrs. Courtney H. McCrory Dr. Francoise H. Horn Mrs. Connie S. Fragoso Mr. Brian C. Pitts (D’99) Mr. Scott McCrory Mr. Chad E. James Mr. David J. Fuerst Mrs. Mary Abigail Reinhardt (L’02) Mrs. Aisha M. McGough Mrs. Sallie M. Lee Mrs. Janet T. Goodwin Mrs. Heather M. Swanner Mrs. Dusty M. Morring Mrs. Shawndee LoVoy Dr. Edward C. Guice (P) (P’96) Mrs. Ashley L. Thompson (P) Mrs. Catherine B. Morton Mr. Chad C. Marchand (L) Miss Melody J. Harper Mr. Thomas S. Thornton III (L) Mr. Robert H. Muller-Moore Mrs. Patricia A. Mason Mrs. Kathleen A. Hassel Ms. Wendy N. Thornton (L) Mr. Derek R. Nobs Mrs. Kimberly B. Meador Dr. Heather B. Hogue (P) (P’96) Mr. James Robert Turnipseed (L) Mrs. Sheri M. Paul (P) Mr. Carl E. Miller IV Dr. Michael D. Hogue (P) (P’96) Mr. Derek R. Waltchack Ms. Deborah L. Renegar Mrs. Tabitha S. Moore Mrs. Jennifer L. Hoover Mr. C. Andrew Wattleworth (L) Mrs. Amy C. Simpson Mr. James C. Pounds, Jr. (D)

43 Miss Suzanne H. Presley Mr. Bryan C. Reccord Mr. John V. Swiney II (L) Mr. Philip J. Eggleston Mrs. Jayne R. Randolph Mrs. Ashley Reccord Mr. Tyler W. Uzzell Mr. Michael H. Estes Mrs. Carol M. Richardson (D) Mr. Joseph M. Rich, Jr. Mr. Jonathan A. Vieira Dr. Maryam Farrokh-roo (P) Mr. Riley W. Roby (L) Mrs. Whitney G. Rich Mr. Eric M. Wade (L) Ms. Leigh M. Fleming (P) Ms. Deborah D. Rogers Dr. Curtis G. Richardson (D) Mr. Robert H. Wade Ms. Ashley L. Floyd Mr. Robert L. Roller Mr. Frank Brady Rigdon (L) Ms. Michaelle E. Wells Dr. Clara Gerhardt Mrs. Bridget C. Rose (D) Ms. Christy E. Roberts Ms. Kimberly D. Grande (L) Mrs. Elizabeth A. Ruckwardt Mrs. Martha D. Roby (L) 2003 Dr. Philip M. Hall (P) Ms. Margaret L. Samdahl Ms. Katherine A. Rogers Mrs. Jennifer K. Anderson Mr. Andrew R. Helmbock Mr. Dennis L. Self Ms. Elizabeth A. Ross Mr. John J. Anderson Lt. Samuel P. Jones, Jr. Mr. Richard E. Trewhella (L) Mrs. Jessica V. Rutledge (L) Dr. Mary S. Baldwin Mr. Grant P. Lyons ALUMNI Ms. Rachel E. VanNortwick (L’03) Ms. Dianna E. Sanders Ms. Christin M. Beasley Mrs. Hannah V. Lyons Mrs. Elizabeth A. Weil Mrs. Casey C. Tatum Mrs. Kimberly H. Burgess Dr. Lakeyra G. McCoy (P) Mrs. Adrienne E. Wiggins Ms. Kelly A. Thrasher (L) Mr. Matthew B. Burgess Mr. Chris Newman Dr. Kent F. Williams (P) Ms. Melissa K. Ward Mrs. Melissa B. Chappell Ms. Ann W. Parrish Ms. Latanishia D. Watters (L’01) Ms. Amanda K. Cooley Mrs. Kelly F. Pate (L) 2001 Ms. Brandi C. Williams (L’05) Mr. Douglas C. Davis Mrs. Celia S. Rudolph Ms. Mary E. Anderson Mr. Chris Elerick Mr. Scott A. Slatton (L) Mr. Daniel G. Ausbun 2002 Ms. Sara K. Ellison Mr. Shane A. Taylor (L) Mr. David P. Blevins Mr. John W. Anderson Ms. Kimberly D. Ferguson (P) Ms. Natalie A. Temple Mr. Brian P. Britt (L’01) Mr. Bobby E. Bierley Mrs. Mary B. Fields Mr. Jay E. Tidwell (L) Mrs. Britten L. Britt (L’01) Mr. Donald C. Boshell (D) Mr. Justin K. Firesheets Ms. Leigh A. 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Hartgrove Ms. Heather R. Guidry (L) Mr. Robert B. Logan (L’03) Mrs. Patricia C. Harris Mrs. Sara M. Hartley Mr. Jason G. Hale (L) Mr. Benjamin M. Machen Ms. Connie S. Hataway Mr. Erik S. Heninger (L) Ms. Amy E. Harold Mrs. Christy Mcinturff Huret (L) Ms. Eileen Hatfield Mr. Jason P. Jeffreys Ms. Lori A. Hatcher Mr. Raymond M. Newton, Jr. Mr. Phillip C. Hawk (P) Mr. Christopher W. Johnson (L) Ms. Bashan Holt Mr. David R. Scott Mrs. Lori A. Hellums (P) Mr. Derrick D. Jones Mrs. Sara E. Jackson Mrs. Barbara N. Smith Dr. Todd A. Hood (P) Mrs. Martha A. Keeton Dr. Carrie M. Kreps (P) Ms. Anna P. Teel (D) Ms. Lee A. Ketcham (D) Mr. David P. King Mr. Gary W. Lee (L’02) Mrs. Elizabeth H. Wilder Ms. Erica J. Littleton Mrs. Lauren E. King Mr. Emory K. Mauldin (L) Ms. Therese T. Young Mr. Neil E. McWilliams, Jr. (L) Mr. David W. McKelvey (D) Ms. Kimberly E. McClanahan Ms. Brittney B. Mensen Mrs. Elaine Y. Moody Ms. Courtney L. Oldfield 2004 Mr. George L. Morris (L) Mrs. Rebecca D. 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44 Welcome Home! 2006 Homecoming October 20–22

Home: residence . . . family group . . . safe place . . . place of assistance . . . place of origin . . . homeland . . . dwelling . . . motherland.

No matter which definition you use, you can find “home” at Samford. And that’s what we’re celebrating at this year’s homecoming. You don’t want to miss it! Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Samford’s former home in East Lake. Welcome Samford President Andrew Westmoreland and his family to their new home. Renew friendships with old friends from home. Visit the new and renewed facilities at your Samford home. Activities already planned include: • Homecoming banquet for all alumni and friends, renewing the tradition of the candlelight dinner, Friday, 6:30 p.m. The 2006 Alumni of the Year—Bill Cash ’69, Pat Courington ’46, Martha Ann Cox ’60 and S. Todd Crider ’87—will be honored. • Homecoming bash, bonfire, pep rally, street festival and fireworks, Friday, 9 p.m. • Soccer matches on Friday night and Sunday afternoon featuring the defending Ohio Valley Conference champion Samford Bulldogs • Golden Bulldogs brunch for graduates from 1956 and earlier, Saturday, 8:30 a.m. • Samford Alumni Association annual meeting for all alumni, Saturday, 10 a.m. • Parade, Saturday, 11 a.m. • Homecoming festival featuring reunion gatherings and tailgate parties by classes and organizations, University Quadrangle, 11 a.m.–1:30 p.m. • Hot-air balloon ride and the Bulldog FunZone for family entertainment • Football: Samford vs. Tennessee–Martin, Saturday, 2 p.m. • Class of 1956 Golden Reunion dinner, Saturday, 6 p.m. • Samford family worship, Sunday, 10 a.m., led by Frank Lewis ’81, Kenneth Berg ’77, Sara Bryan ’62, the Student Ministries Choir, and other Samford students and alumni Times may change as schedules are finalized. Registration information will be mailed to all alumni and parents in late summer. Watch for updates and details at www.samford.edu.

45 46 ALUMNI Hart NamedBusinessAlumnus ofYear ’59 ’58 ’52 ’50 ’46 ’44 ’39 This issueincludesClassNotesreceived through May19,2006. CLASS accounting and litigation services division. accounting andlitigationservices leads itsforensic Hart more than25years, LLP.Baker &Company, James L.Hart atro Malcolm Baptistchurch. pastor of He is Covington Seminary. Theological theCoastal Alabama Extension, of Collier J. Herbert children andonegreat-grandchild. have They two grand- Ga. Snellville, wife, He andhis teaching loss-control training. Jesus. of The Story Clark Douglas M. ’53, Davis Today. New TestamentModelfor ChurchLife: A Davis W. Charles the Year in1990. Shewas Vestavia Hills CitizenMarch. of sponsored by Leadership Vestavia Hills in the Year ceremony the 2005Citizens of Lifetime Achievement Awardpresentedat Frances Poor Barksdale Atlanta. He retired from of thecity McGinnis William S. Tenn. accountant inMemphis, Milton Wray inGuam. the taxdepartment Internal Revenue andfive Service years in He retired after the 35years with Ala. George Ray Yeager Ala. Hills, Vestavia Retirement Home in Vestavia Rose WatkinsSutley The firm’s for partner litigationservices Shirley Sharp Clark ’59, Clark Sharp Shirley He andhiswife, iei otpr,Ala. live inNorthport, is a certified public is acertified steato fabook, is theauthorof He retired from retired He fMbl,Aa,isdean Ala., Mobile, of has publishedabook, lives in Vestavia Hills, B business graduate is business graduate The1972 Business. University School of by theSamford the Year Alumnus of been named2006 has Hart James L. fie fDent, officer of executive and chief partner managing lives atChateau ie nDctr Ga. lives inDecatur, Frances Hughen accountant irmingham received the live in Marshall, Distinguished Service Award. Distinguished Service Marshall, Jennings Dr. and Scholarship Award; Outstanding Carson, Chad Teaching Award; Excellence in Larron Harper, received awards: ships to outstandingstudents. arecord $72,000inscholar- presentation of Theevent includedthe students April 27. ceremonies business forundergraduate Taylor awards during Business DeanBeck A. valuation designation. he alsoholdstheaccredited inbusiness accountant businessappraiser, andcertified public Acertified He in1973. joinedthefirm ’67 ’66 ’65 ’61 Three business faculty membersalso Three businessfaculty receivedHart theaward from School of fe 7yasi ulceuain Shewas after 37years inpubliceducation. Averiett Holley Wesson S.C. Florence, Marion University, music director andchoral atFrancis Sue Butler Orr Ga. Snellville, Mountain Park FirstBaptist Church, CoxDouglas Birmingham. Inc., Marketing Solutions, isexecutive president vice of Ala., Jr., Armistead, William C. 2003. school system in Ga., the DeKalb County, Sheretired from Ga. Atlanta, Academy, Nicholas Orthodox St. of principal Brown Dorothy L. Ala. live inHoover, and herhusband, in theplay Theatre Conference forherperformance theatre atthe2005Southeast division Supporting Actress inthecommunity Carole Cook Armistead hospitalinMayBirmingham 2005. Alabamaat from theUniversity of Sheretired in nursing honorsociety April. wasinducted into ThetaTau Sigma Ala., Jane Harris Mary Aldridge Tenn. lives inGoodlettsville, He after 43years owner. asapharmacy Wilton DePriest The Subject Tonight isLove. is executive pastor of is associate professor of retired inDecember Jack R. Armistead ’64, Armistead Jack R. fDctr a,is Ga., Decatur, of retired in2005 was namedBest fColumbiana, of fWilsonville, of ■ She ’73 ’72 ’69 ’71 ’70 ’77 ’75 ’74 [email protected] (205) 726-2807 1-877-SU ALUMS Let ushearfrom you! Samford graduates, two Sheisthemotherof Tenn. Knoxville, Jordan Spruiell Darlene cation company. atelecommuni- LLC, Telecash, business, RishWood W. Kentucky. math inJefferson County, after 20years teaching middleschool Jane Sturgeon Revolution. the American Children of Society theOhio seniorstate is president of Ohio, William Cash schools. city Ala., Sylacauga, specialistwith librarian/media Ruth Siegler Ann Carpenter system for35years. He the waswith Baptist Health System. financialofficer of aschief in January Greene Robert E. School. after teaching 34years atFayetteville High Janice Folsom social studiesat Vestavia Hills High School. retired in2005after 35years teaching Sheikh Muzaffar I. student. Digest isfieldsalesmanagerforQSP/ Ala., Jr., Temple Blalock, L. macies in40hospitals15states. the privately heldcompany oversees phar- Founded in2001, GroupPharmacy Inc. Principle He andCEOof ischairman 2005. Business Journal’s manager for MetalAmerican Solutions, Richard Zeski J. Ala. Athens, justice studiesat Athens State University, Armor Jerry defense andreimbursement issues. Medicaid fraud health-care litigation, He focuseson office. N.C., Raleigh, Poyner law &Spruill firm’s member of J.D., Brewer, P. Christopher Melissa Jordan ’06. i agtr rte,isaSamford Britney, His daughter, . is associate professor of was named fFyteil,G. retired Ga., Fayetteville, of fLusil,K. retired Ky., Louisville, of fGddn l. hasanew Ala., Gadsden, of is southeastcommercial Top Entrepreneur for of Birmingham retired Birmingham of fVsai il,Ala., Vestavia Hills, of Phillip Jordan ’03 of Orange Beach, Orange of is ateacher in Birmingham is anew fCincinnati, of Reader’s and LLC, a steel service center. He is based in Madison, Miss. Fineburg Wins National Teaching Award

’79 Jerry Elder of Lizella, Ga., is owner of a my Cheek A teacher at Spain Park High School, retreat center for worship leaders, The AFineburg ’94 she has been active in Teachers of Psychology Farm at Elderbury, in Macon, Ga. of Birmingham in the Secondary Schools [TOPSS] and is will receive the immediate past chair of that organization. Benjamin C. Leslie, Ph.D., is provost and 2006 Moffett Fineburg is a regular speaker at con- senior vice president at Gardner-Webb Memorial Award ferences on the teaching of psychology, and

University, Boiling Springs, N.C. He and for Teaching has authored articles and ancillary materials ALUMNI his wife, Kathy Johnston Leslie ’80, have Excellence, given for the teaching of psychology. For the past two daughters, Elizabeth, 19, a Samford by the Society for six years, she has co-organized a continuing student, and Mary Katherine, 17. the Teaching of education workshop for teachers of Amy Fineburg Psychology psychology held at Samford. ’80 Becky Barnard Boshell is supervisor, (Division Two of She graduated from Samford with a Professional Pharmacy, Boiling Springs, the American Psychological Association). The double major in psychology and English, and N.C. Her husband, Don Boshell M.Div. ’02, award, which recognizes Fineburg as the out- a secondary education certification. She also is interim pastor of Hopewell Baptist standing high school psychology teacher in received a master of science in education Church, Blacksburg, S.C. the nation, will be presented at the American degree from Samford. ■ Psychological Association meeting in August. Dorothy Hall Sims of Pinson, Ala., retired from E. B. Erwin High School. Jewish Employment and Vocational with their four children: Ann Marie, 13, ’81 Marian Wilkinson Carter earned a Service in Philadelphia, Penn. John Mark, 10, James Mitchell, 4, and master’s in education at Samford in May Jackson Matthew, born in August. Johnny 2005. She is graduate admission and ’84 Mary Jane Larkin Krotzer, M.S. ’86, is is victim service officer for the Pell City alumni administrator at Samford’s Ida V. dean of the Division of Arts and Sciences Police Department and has a nonprofit Moffett School of Nursing. at Stillman College, Tuscaloosa, Ala. counseling practice. Alisa homeschools the children. Rodney Parrish is home-store manager, Robert Poole and his wife, Eve, live in Habitat for Humanity, Knoxville, Tenn. Mableton, Ga. He is employed with David ’91 Traci Odum Gibson is manager of Weekley Homes. communication with Kellen Company, Susan Burgess Parrish is executive director, Atlanta, Ga. Habitat for Humanity, Knoxville, Tenn. ’85 John M. Floyd, J.D. ’88, M.S.E.M. ’99, is senior attorney with Vulcan Materials Erin Lee Brian Gray teaches music in Peter M. Sims, M.D., a child and adolescent Company, Birmingham. He serves as Hoover, Ala., city schools. She and her psychiatrist, recently opened a private secretary of the Samford University Board husband, Matt, have two children, Jillian practice, Providence Family Psychiatry, in of Trustees. Hope, 2, and Emily, 6. Birmingham. He also works with the COPE program at Jefferson County ’86 Mandy Markham Johnson is assistant Jennifer Lynn Jasper and her husband, Family Court. His wife, Pamela Smith director of admission at Birmingham- Jeff, live in Birmingham. They have two Sims ’82, manages the new office and Southern College, Birmingham. She is in children. works part-time as a pharmacist at charge of marketing, recruiting and Cooper Green Hospital. They have two admission for the school’s Master of Arts ’92 Kent Edward Altom, J.D. ’02, is an sons, Andrew, 19, and David, 16. in Public and Private Management attorney with McCalla Raymer, LLC, program, from which she earned a degree Atlanta, Ga. He specializes in real estate ’82 Deborah Kay Bentley of Gamaliel, Ky., in May. and bankruptcy litigation. He and his wife, received a Pharm.D. degree from the Charla Nichols Altom ’93, M.S. ’95, have University of Kentucky in 2005. Fred W. Karthaus III is pastor of First a daughter, Carly Angelina, born in March. Baptist Church, Andalusia, Ala. Sharon Joy Smith Knerr, M.A. ’84, of Terry Burt Copeland is accountant Norman, Okla., is a substitute teacher Karen Leigh Saunders is project coordi- director at Cardinal Health, San Antonio, at Irving Middle School. She and her nator, Healthways Inc., Nashville, Tenn. Texas. husband, Henry, have two teenage children, Alyssa and Brennen. Nancy Virginia Whitehouse, Ph.D., is Angelique Marie Sanders Crawford of chair of the communication studies Cedar Park, Texas, has earned a nurse ’83 Salam Shorrosh earned a Ph.D. in department at Whitworth College, practitioner degree. She has two children, Christian education from New Orleans Spokane, Wash. Haven, 5, and Caleb, 3. Baptist Theological Seminary. He is senior pastor at Lagoon Baptist Church, Gulf ’87 Elizabeth Fentress Hallmark of Robert W. and Christen Eudy Perry live Shores, Ala., and is owner of Shepherd’s Brentwood, Tenn., is pursuing a Ph.D. in in Birmingham. He is music evangelist Way Ministries. higher education with a focus in e-learning. and speaker with Rob Perry Ministries, and she works for a travel agency. They Jerry Tapley is director of staff development ’88 Alisa McGohon Walker and Johnny have three children: Kayla, Morgan and for the Welfare to Work Department of (Jack) Walker ’90 live in Cropwell, Ala., Andrew.

47 48 ALUMNI ’96 ’95 ’94 ’93 eduree nBriga.Thefirm headquartered inBirmingham. LLC, controller forDominionPartners, ’99, M.Acc. Jared Houser, inMay. Fla., Orlando, from Reformed Seminary, Theological divinity He amaster’s earned of Calif. Silicon Valley inPalo Alto, Church of Grace Presbyterian associate pastor of Presbyterian Church in andis America the of Presbytery Northern California Prentiss Brian C. theBirmingham Advertising Federation. of O’RearBradley inJanuary. born Holland Layne, son, have They a Ala. live inScottsboro, Vic, Julie Holland Griggs HelenMary andLillianBrooke. Kate, Caroline, Lauren, their fourchildren, and Travis, herhusband, with Ga., Rock, BishopLisa Dawn Fowler 1. Anna Gracelyn, and 2, Josiah, 5, Benjamin, three children: have They analyst for Verizon Wireless. where heisafinancial Ga., Cumming, Kyle children. husband, Sheandher Birmingham. Publishers, research coordinator Clarity with ’98, M.Div. Rebecca Butler Davis, Va. He lives in Arlington, D.C. Washington, Small Business Administration, U.S. theInvestmentanalyst with Division, Parrish Burton David Birmingham. BaptistChurch, Missionary Faith Medical West andpastor of AlabamaatBirmingham University of M.Div., Patricia Collins, the FISH!philosophy. homeof Minn., Minneapolis, Learning, resources director atCharthouse Autumn BaggottToussaint Birmingham. firm, manager atLegalLink litigationsupport Richard Everette Mullen III Tenn.The West ClinicinMemphis, He oncologist at isagynecologic South. cancer inthemid- endometrial ment of nodedissectionforthetreat- lymph pelvic the firstrobotic-assisted hysterectomy and M.D., Patrick Lowe, M. N.C. Greensboro, Cone Health Systems, Twigg Allen Bradly and Katie Glover Emerson’97 James Roger ’96, Davis is 2006–07president-elect was ordained into the is employed Moses with and herhusband, is afinancial recently performed recently is chaplain atthe is corporate lives inTalking is human is operations have two is live in ’98 ’97 ’99 and hiswife, He Vt. He lives inMontpelier, company. Eatmorekale.com T-shirt printing of Robert Haldane Moore Ga. Gallup Organizationin Atlanta, The He with isanassociate partner Texas. degree atTexas Tech Lubbock, University, Jr., Philip Douglas Wise, specialist atKimberly-Clark Corporation. where sheisaseniorhealthandfitness Texas, live inDallas, Chuck, husband, Julie ElizabethHays Paulson 3. Joshua, and 6, Madison, Shehastwo children, Ala. Michelle LeeGrooms Navy. theU.S. with where Paul isstationed Fla., Jacksonville, live They in High School. County teacher Sheisachorus atCamden April. Eckert Brandy have three children. Jeff, husband, Sheandher Texas. in The Woodlands, Amy Schumann Conn Birmingham. Software, Comframe development, corporate James Mason Orrison 1. Abigail, Shehasadaughter, Penn. Hershey,at Pennsylvania State University, fellow isanephrology Penn., Cumberland, Tammy M.D., Lockwood Miller, Alabama. University of inclinicalpsychology atthe Ph.D. Healthcare System andiscompleting a psychology intern at VA Pittsburgh Sheisa Penn. live inBethelPark, Matt, Susan FisherJohnston assets. institutional grade management of leasing andproperty acquisition, focuses ondevelopment, Kristy Halley Speers Kristy 1. Kelley Dianne, daughter, March. in born Baker Stephen, haveThey ason, a pharmaceutical salesrepresentative. Sheis Tenn. live inNashville, Ty, husband, Jessica WaldronJennings for thenext three years. Germany, Desden, nator atDresden International School, Holly RaeHubbard Fla. Shelives in Altha, Company. Joe Land forSt. Fla., Calhoun County, in operations heading coordinator, Melissa Moore ’96, married Paulmarried Bollenin will beESLcoordi-will is acommunity lives inGardendale, is vice presidentis vice of and herfamilylive and herhusband, is founder/owner earned anM.B.A.earned and her and her have a fNew of ’03 ’02 ’01 ’00 seil,N.C. Asheville, in Sheisapersonaltrainer University. preneurship from Western Carolina Briggs Anna Penn. live They in West Grove, school. graduate metatSamfordThey whilebothwere in ’03, M.B.A. Adams, M.S.N., Sheree Payne, Birmingham. Shelives in Army Reserves. U.S. M.S.N., Irene Pendleton, Ga. Rome, College, officer andevent coordinator atShorter Sheisannual fund Ga. in Adairsville, live They Charles ThomasGraves in April. EdwardsStephanie Leigh Ind. Shelives inSeymour, Ind. Brownstown, physical educationteacherelementary in Jennifer Michelle Chastain Fla. live inOrlando, Charlotte, his wife, He and University inOctober. beginning atCambridge theology in historical Ryan Matthew Reeves Tenn. Nashville, Roberts ’02 Jr.,William Nicholas Hilscher, Ga. in Dallas, Shelives Ga. Kennesaw, State University, atKennesaw program nurse practitioner in nursing intheadvance practice family Julie Dorsch Weber Fla. Tallahassee, Oaks Community Church, Scott Stake inMarch. born William Turner, have ason, Richmond of is theauthorof and Conservation of Virginia Department where heworks forthe Va., in Richmond, Nathan Ohio. Cincinnati, at theCincinnati VA Medical Center, programs clinical pharmacy of ciate chief Sheisasso- veterans. U.S. well-being of dedication to providing forthehealthand Veterans Affairs forher of Secretary Hands andHeart Award from theU.S. Pharm.D., Locke, Kristen E. September. in born CalebJames, haveThey ason, Lifechurch.tv. Mesa/Gilbert campusof He isyouth pastor for Ariz. in Phoenix, Zach and and Ashley Daye Wells King ’00 is children’s pastor atFour married in 2005. They live They in in2005. married Elizabeth Mangham Lott MnsaRdePes.They (Menasha Ridge Press). earned a master’searned inentre- 60 Hikes Within 60Miles married inMaymarried 2005. is pursuingamaster’s and will pursueaPh.D.will retired from the married Franklin is an received the and Sarah live live Douglas C. Davis is a designer with Gulf Coast Land Division of Anadarko from Whitesburg Heritage Bible College, Garrison Barrett Group, Birmingham. Petroleum Corporation. She lives in The Huntsville, Ala., in May. Woodlands, Texas. Selena Staples Foster, an associate interior ’05 Jennifer Rizzo Collins and her husband, designer with Krumdieck A+1 Design in Laura Wilson Sharpe and her husband, Joel, live in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She is Birmingham, passed the National Council Greg, are in language study in Paris, communication director at the Church of of Interior Design Qualification exam and France, preparing to serve with the Pembroke Pines. is a member of the American Society of International Mission Board in West Africa. Interior Designers. Brittany Suzanne Dawkins married

’04 Krista Deason married Michael Preston James Tashjian in August. They live in ALUMNI Molly McCall Goldman married Craig in February. She works in marketing in New York, N.Y. Smart in April. She is director of public the real estate industry in Birmingham. relations and marketing for the Girl They live in Vance, Ala. Michael Giles, Jr. of Tuscaloosa, Ala., will Scouts of the Deep South Council. They pursue a J.D./M.B.A. degree at the live in Mobile, Ala. Theresa Smith Mack of Birmingham University of Alabama School of Law in retired from the Jefferson County Board the fall. Sarah Hedgspeth married Stephen Foster of Education after 30 years of service and in April. They live in Chapel Hill, N.C. is a coordinator with the Alabama Karen Michelle Hays is a kindergarten Education Association. teacher in Cullman, Ala. Amy E. Myers was named the 2005–06 outstanding graduate student at Baylor Angela Joy Pinyan married Jonathan Belinda Frances Martin is a photographer University. She is pursuing a Ph.D. in Jacob in November. They live in in Birmingham. educational psychology. Douglasville, Ga. Zachary Evan Nichols plays in the band Kathryn Elizabeth Nowiczewski, Natalie Ann Temple of Hampton Cove, 56 Henry in Birmingham. ■ M.S.E.M., is a land analyst in the Texas Ala., earned a master’s in biblical studies

Traci Lynne and John Brewer, M.D., of Amy Holman Monroe and Ed Monroe Guntersville, Ala., a daughter, Molly Ruth, ’95 of Birmingham, a daughter, Edie born Jan. 4, 2006. Elizabeth, born Jan. 16, 2006.

’86 Nancy Virginia Whitehouse of Spokane, Jeffrey and Dana Gayle Davis Morris of Mickey and Ann Elizabeth Moore ’96 of Wash., the adoption of a daughter, Marie Pearland, Texas, a son, Evan Robert, born Franklin, Tenn., a daughter, Olivia Kate, Virginia Anyun, born June 15, 2004, Jan. 31, 2006. born July 21, 2005. adopted June 27, 2005. Christine and Richard E. Patterson of ’95 Rebecca Butler Davis, M.Div. ’98, and ’88 Alisa McGohon Walker and Johnny Leeds, Ala., a son, Jack, born Jan. 27, 2006. James Roger Davis ’96 of Birmingham, a “Jack” Walker ’90 of Cropwell, Ala., a son, daughter, Landry Olivia, born Dec. 28, Jackson Matthew, born Aug. 8, 2005. M. L. Leonard and San Wright-Leonard 2005. of Birmingham, a son, Miles Logan, born ’89 Kimberly and John Tracy McLean of March 16, 2006. Travis and Lisa Dawn Bishop Fowler of Hixson, Tenn., a daughter, Morgan, born Talking Rock, Ga., a daughter, Lillian July 10, 2004. ’93 Hillary and Samuel Hays of Marietta, Ga., Brooke, born Dec. 30, 2005. a daughter, Alden Virginia, born Feb. 19, ’91 Mark and Lisa Bates Downing of Mt. 2006. Brook Dawn Skinner Gibbons and Olive, Ala., the adoption in October 2005 Robert Gibbons ’97 of Birmingham, a of twin daughters, Ella Grace and Emma ’94 Kara Maria and Walter Woolfolk Costner, son, Rigdon, born Aug. 29, 2004. Hope, born Feb. 14, 2005. M.D., of Prairie Village, Kan., a son, Benjamin Woolfolk, April 18, 2006. Vic and Julie Holland Griggs of Bonnie and Lance Dowling Metcalf of Scottsboro, Ala., a son, Holland Layne, Westminster, Md., a son, Jonathan Anne Sample Covington and Andrew born Jan. 23, 2006. Dowling, born April 17, 2006. Covington ’97 of Vestavia Hills, Ala., a son, Andrew John, born March 21, 2006. ’96 Lara and Brian Lanier Disher, M.B.A. ’00, Chyrus and Robyn Hess Zomorodian ’96 of Greenville, S.C., a daughter, Madison, of Jacksonville, Fla., a son, Ryan Patrick, Christie Blanton Helton and John born Dec. 10, 2005. born May 1, 2005. Thomas Helton ’96 of Jacksonville, Fla., a son, Levi Grey, born June 8, 2005. Robby and Dana DeLoach Langston of ’92 Kent Edward, J.D. ’02, and Charla Powder Springs, Ga., a daughter, Rachel Nichols Altom ’93, M.S. ’95, of Carl Patrick and Kimberly Fell Lewis of Anne, born Jan. 10, 2006. Alpharetta, Ga., a daughter, Carly Owensboro, Ky., a son, Carson Phillip, Angelina, born March 13, 2006. born Dec. 27, 2005. Tracy and Lora Nation Mixson of Arlington, Tenn., a daughter, Caroline Jewel, born March 8, 2006.

49 ’97 Michael and Kristen Prator Bagwell of Elizabeth Atcheson Poplin and Jared Russ and Jessica Stephenson Taylor of Suwanee, Ga., a daughter, Leah Noel, born Wade Poplin ’99 of Charlotte, N.C., a son, Charlotte, N.C., a son, Caleb Russell, born Dec. 22, 2005. Jackson Wayne, born March 7, 2006. April 22, 2005.

Sean and Brooke Carroll Brown of Bill, M.Div. ’02, and Nikki San Souci Lori and Kent Williams of Elizabethtown, Trussville, Ala., twin sons, Brady and Ford, Robbins, Pharm.D. ’01, of Chelsea, Ala., a Ky., a daughter, Audrey Claire, born born Feb. 7, 2006. son, Liam Morgan, born Oct. 3, 2005. Oct. 9, 2004.

Libby and W. Philip Holmes of Neil and Kristy Halley Speers of ’01 Joseph and Shannon Lynn Murphy

ALUMNI Birmingham, a son, Noah Thomas, born Blountstown, Fla., a daughter, Elizabeth Carrasco of Eustis, Fla., sons, Gregory March 17, 2006. Halley, born Sept. 11, 2005. Jose, born April 11, 2004, and Gailen Miguel, born Jan. 20, 2006. Heath and Amalie Woodall Hyneman of Mark and Kris Stejskal of Fairhope, Ala., Villa Rica, Ga., sons, Hudson Lee, born a daughter, Sarah Claire, born March 24, Tracy and Jennifer Stapleton Cleveland, a Jan. 25, 2005, and Layton McCam, born 2006. son, Dawson Robert, born Sept. 5, 2005. Nov. 6, 2005. ’99 Brentley Tyler and Kerry Joy Gissing Guy and Heather Nicole Morgan, Christy and Judson C. Keen of Vero Cobb of Birmingham, a daughter, Grace Pharm.D., of Navarre, Fla., a daughter, Beach, Fla., a son, Abram Judson, born Perry, born Feb. 1, 2006. Baylor Shaine, born Feb. 28, 2006. July 11, 2005. Ty and Jessica Waldron Jennings of Dorothy and David Parker ’01 of Oak Chuck and Julie Hays Paulson of Dallas, Nashville, Tenn., a son, Baker Stephen, Ridge, Tenn., a daughter, Madeleine Texas, a daughter, Avery Collins, born Feb. born March 3, 2006. Claire, born March 7, 2006. 6, 2006. Zach and Ashley Daye Wells King ’00 of Geoffrey and Lindsay Brooke Castleberry George and Meredith King Roberts of Phoenix, Ariz., a son, Caleb James, born Rutland of Birmingham, a daughter, Alpharetta, Ga., a son, Matthew George, Sept. 27, 2005. Reece Ida, born Jan. 4, 2006. born Dec. 18, 2005. Nathan and Elizabeth Mangham Lott of ’02 Jeff and Shannon Lei Rainey Shuford of Joshua Lee and Danielle Plummer Richmond, Va., a son, William Turner, Hoover, Ala., a son, Jefferson Lee, born Rogers of Thompson Station, Tenn., a born March 17, 2006. Oct. 28, 2005. son, Cooper Caden, born June 28, 2004. Sara and Ryan Thomas Potter of Fishers, ’03 Michael Joseph and Heather Doss Au of Lori and Samuel Stephens Wood of Ind., a daughter, Ava Ryann, born March Gardendale, Ala., a daughter, Taylor, born Clarkston, Mich., a daughter, Shelby 24, 2006. Feb. 9, 2006. Grace, born Nov. 18, 2005. Brian and Rebecca Johnson Vance of Josh and Tiffany Joy Sandel Bledsoe of ’98 Melanie McCoy Alston and Robert Travis Montgomery, Ala., twins, Cooper Joseph Old Hickory, Tenn., a daughter, Allison Alston ’99 of Huntsville, Ala., a son, and Caroline Rose, born Jan. 10, 2006. Joy, born Dec. 27, 2005. Miller James, born Feb. 21, 2006. ’00 Jamey and Melanie Burrow of Helotes, Racheal and Brandon Luke McKinney of Jason and Shawndee Proffitt LoVoy ’00 Texas, twin sons, William Walcott and Deltona, Fla., sons, Isaac, born Jan. 8, of Birmingham, a son, James McDavid, Richard Hoke, born April 6, 2006. 2005, and Noah, born Feb. 9, 2006. born Jan. 30, 2006. Charles Oscar and Karen Michelle Smith Jason and Katy Walsh Ogletree of William and Aisha Murphy McGough of Hetzler of Ekron, Ky., a son, Nathanael Mobile, Ala., a son, Thomas, born Feb. 19, Montgomery, Ala., a son, William David Charles, born Dec. 12, 2005. 2005. III, born Feb. 17, 2006. Charles Ross IV and Rebekah Pallatt ’05 Amanda and Jeremy Ryan Maxfield of Melissa and Robert Haldane Moore of Rowland of Olive Branch, Miss., a son, Calera, Ala., a daughter, Adalyn, born Jan. Montpelier, Vt., a daughter, Kelley Dianne, Charles Ross V, born Nov. 10, 2005. 7, 2006. ■ born July 3, 2005. John and Meridith Nealy Starling of Ann Amy Coe Pattillo and Jim Pattillo, J.D. Arbor, Mich., a son, Jude Mason, born ’02, of Birmingham, a son, William James, March 23, 2006. born Feb. 12, 2006.

50 ’48 ’47 ’45 ’41 ’39 ’38 ’36 ’35 ’34 in State University. adoctoral degree fromearned Kansas she Ateacher, 2006. 12, diedFeb. Kan., Dykes, Margie Godwin years. He practiced law formore than50 Bulge. the theBattleof wounds sustainedduring Army andreceived aPurple Heart for GeorgePatton’s Third inGen. he served A World War 2006. IIveteran, 11, died Feb. Tenn., Johnson City, of formerly Tenn., J.D., Paul Coleman, J. Navy. theU.S. of the V-12 unit Samford whileamemberof He attended athletics department. He wasalsoteam physician forthe Community Health Sciences. College of Alabama’s medicine attheUniversity of family of andthedepartment gram theresidency pro- He of waschairman 2006. diedMarch 12, Ala., Tuscaloosa, of M.D., William Floyd deShazo III, countiesand Geneva for48years. Dale Covington, school inCoffee, taught She 2006. 31, diedJan. Ala., Springs, Turner,Mae Harris personnelinGermany.military American children shetaught of 1964, from schoolsretiring in Gadsdencity After 2006. diedMarch 29, Ala., Gadsden, Margaret Rothrock,Mary andagent. insurance underwriter He wasalife 2004. 25, diedNov. Tenn., FowlerEdwin Woods Jefferson County. school in elementary Shetaught 2006. died April 1, Ala., Pinson, of formerly Margaret Randle, IDS Express.planner with American He wasafinancial 2006. died April 3, Ala., andDecatur, Ala., Athens, of formerly N.C., Hyatt, L. Melvin retired from SouthHighland Hospital. She 2006. 22, diedApril Homewood, Ruth Graves Daniels, Va. at churches inBedford, many years serving was aBaptistminister, He 2006. diedMarch 23, Va., Midlothian, Nathan CampbellNapier, memoriam g 2 fHendersonville, of age 92, g 8 fAbr,Ala., Auburn, of age 88, g 0,o Coffee of age 101, g 2 of age 92, g 7 fMaryville, of age 87, fLewisburg, of fLawrence, of g 4 of age 94, g 9 of age 99, age 81, ’52 ’50 doctorate fromdoctorate Samford. He heldanhonorary Baptist Association. missionsfortheTuscaloosa director of 10years andserved as Baptist minister, He wasan Alabama 2006. 10, died Feb. Cole Skelton, I. the Year in1999. Alumnus of played footballatSamford andwas He office furniture businessin1991. heretired from the &Rolling, Bryson Bodine, Longtime of owner cancer. of 2006, diedMarch 5, Birmingham, Jr., Miller, Edwin Carl Kappafraternity. Alpha Pi He wasamemberof Department. for theJefferson Health County mostrecently working area, Birmingham He inthe wasapharmacist Conflict. intheKoreana Bronze Starwhileserving He earned 2005. 1, diedSept. Birmingham, Jr., Crouch, William L. after 35years. Moore-Handley Inc. during World War IIandretired from Navy He intheU.S. served 2006. 14, diedMarch Ala., Pinson, of formerly Ala., Franklin Pierce Randle, Lolla Wright, Former First Lady, Diesat92 rmteUiest fAaaa where she Alabama, from theUniversity of Howard before College briefly graduating Sheattended Ala. Ensley, was anative of apparent on theSamford campus.” hard work anddevotion are everywhere Their forSamford. friendships enduring mademany andthey were couple, astriking “She andherlate husband noted thisspring. Corts Samford President ThomasE. behalf,” worked energeticallyandsuccessfully inits occasions than any otherfirstlady. Wright may have hosted more Samford Mrs. 25 years asSamford’s leader(1958–83), arecord whoserved President Leslie Wright, Lolla Wright r.Wih,whodiedMarch 16at 92, Wright, Mrs. Wright loved thisuniversity and “Mrs. g 8 fPl iy Ala., Pell City, of age 78, g 8 of age 78, L campus andinthe social events on ticularly liked hosting andpar- University, Samford first lady of groups. As the wife of As thewife groups. student andfaculty presidential home for g 6 of age 76, g 9 fOpelika, of age 89, enjoyed herrole as olla Wrightolla ’55 ’54 children and sixgreat-grandchildren. andfourgrand- Birmingham; Libby of John King Wright and Trussville; and Jane of Jr., Leslie Stephen Wright, and theirwives, firstpresidential home. the Wrights’ which is located onthesite of Birmingham, Church andFirstBaptistChurch of Auxiliary. theSamford time executive director of Fame andlong- the Alabama Men’s Hall of theboard of She wasacharter memberof Club. Rotary theBirmingham member of andwasanhonorary Colonists, American the of the Confederacy andDaughters United of Daughters Revolution, American the of Daughters Society, Antiquarian the 100forBirmingham, Committee of in 1939. Leslie Stephen Wright, her childhood friend, Shemarried Louisville. at theUniversity of amaster’sShe earned degree inmathematics Zeta Tau Alpha sorority. was amemberof ..Am eia eahet He Army Medical Detachment. U.S. the hewasamemberof World War II, During 2006. 15, diedFeb. Birmingham, Schlichter,Frederick Charles NuSigma sweetheart. PhiMu andwasa fraternity president of shewas As aSamford student, 1993. the YearJefferson in Teacher County of Shewas Community School in1996. from retiring CahabaHeights years, Shewasaclassroom teacher for32 2006. 11, diedFeb. Birmingham, of age 71, ’70, M.S.E. Hendon Carl Betty Holloway, groups. athleticandreligious musical, andwasactive in homecoming queen, shewas While aSamford student, schools. many years inFulton andDeKalb county for Shetaught 2006. diedMarch 3, Ga., Blanche Beard Harwell, California. Ohioandsouthern Alabama, Mississippi, minister congregations whoserved in He wasa 2006. died April 19, Calif., Jr., Dewey Raymond Watt, Air Force pilotduring World War II. hewasan Apharmacist, 2006. March 23, Moon Harold P. He wasapharmacist. 2005. 23, Oct. Joseph Callen Alred r.Wright by hertwo issurvived sons Mrs. SouthsideBaptist She wasamemberof the Women’s She wasamemberof fSrnfed en,died Tenn., Springfield, of fCatn l. died Ala., Clanton, of g 3 fTucker, of age 73, fSimi Valley, of g 0 of age 90, ■ 51 ALUMNI worked for the Social Security Owen Tidwell Presley, age 64, of Fort ’80 James Wallace Farley, J.D., age 51, of Administration while attending Samford Lauderdale, Fla., died Feb. 9, 2006. He was Kansas City, Mo., died Feb. 1, 2006, of in the evenings, retiring after 36 years of a former purchasing agent at Samford and cancer. He was involved with his family service. He continued to work as a worked many years as business office business, Farley State Banks. medical transcriptionist at Birmingham manager at Berea College, Berea, Ky. He hospitals until he was 87. served in the U.S. Marine Corps. S. David Phillips, M.A., age 58, of Birmingham, died March 27, 2006. A ’57 James Howard Edmonson, age 74, of ’69 Norman “Mike” Wimberly, Jr., age 58, of licensed counselor, he was a mental health Jackson, Tenn., died Feb. 3, 2006. He Vienna, Va., died March 23, 2006. A consultant and program director for

ALUMNI served with the U.S. Army during the popular musical performer whose recent residential programs. Korean Conflict and was in the Reserves focus was music therapy for residents of until 1987, gaining the rank of full retirement homes, he was minister of ’81 Samuel Bowen Ingram, J.D., of Dillon, colonel. He was a longtime history music at Clinton Presbyterian Church, S.C., died Feb. 20, 2006, following a professor and department chair at Union Clinton, Md. He was a former Peace Corps stroke. He had been a trial lawyer in University. He held a Ph.D. from English teacher and choir director on the Dillon County since 1981 and was an Louisiana State University and earned a island of Tonga in the South Pacific. active volunteer with youth programs. law degree in 1996. He was pastor of Woodlawn Baptist Church in Nut Bush, ’71 Henry Bruce Hardee, M.B.A., age 62, of ’84 Sam Raybon DeLoach, age 52, of Tenn., from 1973 until April 2005. Birmingham, died March 30, 2006. A U.S. Birmingham died Feb. 4, 2006, following a Marine Corps veteran, he retired from liver transplant. He was a medical assis- ’58 Nina Ruth Kizzort Simpson, age 72, of State Farm Insurance, where he was an tant in the U.S. Navy and his later career Pell City, Ala., died March 5, 2006, of a accountant for 33 years. spanned the spectrum of nursing practice stroke. After retiring from teaching in Birmingham area hospitals. elementary school in Jefferson County, ’73 Daniel Edward Storey, age 56, of Dublin, she was a counselor and salesperson for Ga., died Feb. 4, 2006. He was a Baptist Edward Michael Young,J.D., age 65, of Jefferson Memorial Funeral Home. minister for almost 40 years. Columbus, Ga., died April 14, 2006. He was a U.S. Army veteran who served three ’59 Marian Nell Meadows Thompson, age 67, ’74 Henry N. Brown, M.S.E., age 74, of tours of duty in Vietnam, receiving many of Pasadena, Texas, died Jan. 10, 2006. She Birmingham, died Feb. 7, 2006. He had a medals. He attended Cumberland after taught elementary school in Pasadena. At long teaching career, retiring from retiring from the Army and practiced law Samford, she was a member of the A Hueytown High School in 1989. in South Alabama. Cappella Choir. ’76 John L. Madison, J.D., age 58, of Jasper, ’87 David Wayne Davis, M.S.E., age 51, of ’68 Lewis M. Groover, Jr., J.D., age 62, of Ala., died Feb. 21, 2006. He was a district Acmar, Ala., died Feb. 22, 2006. He was an Ludowici, Ga., died Feb. 26, 2006. He judge and circuit court judge for 25 years educator and coordinator of federal practiced law in Atlanta, Ga., for many before retiring in 2002. He then served as programs for the St. Clair County Board years before returning to his hometown of counsel to the law firm of King, Bryan of Education. Ludowici in 2000 to serve as assistant dis- and Wiley. trict attorney and later as chief assistant. ’91 Mary Kathleen Hormell Streets, age 62, ’79 Kenneth J. Ashley of Fultondale, Ala., died of Hoover, Ala., died Feb. 1, 2006. She J. Scott McKnight, age 59, of Chattanooga, March 6, 2006. He was a chaplain. retired after 22 years as the consumer Tenn., formerly of Birmingham and affairs coordinator for Alagasco/Energen. Tampa, Fla., died Jan. 30, 2006. He worked Maurice Steven Barnett, J.D., age 53, of She was active in the Alabama for Campus Crusade for Christ, Grace Macon, Ga., died March 5, 2006. He was Gerontological Society. ■ Fellowship Ministries and Terrace Palms an Eagle Scout. Community Church.

Dr. Dobbins Remembered as Stimulating Teacher, English Scholar

enerations of Samford students profited Dobbins, who died May 30 at the age of 86, was the son of Dr. Gfrom the vast knowledge of English liter- Gaines S. Dobbins, a well-known Baptist educator and for many years ature possessed—and passed along to them— dean of the School of Christian Education at the Southern Baptist by Dr. Austin C. Dobbins. He taught English Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky. Austin Dobbins was a graduate at Samford from 1950 until 1985, specializing of Mississippi College and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the in the works of Milton, Shakespeare and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chaucer. He served as chair of the English He was an active member of Dawson Memorial Baptist Church department from 1957 until 1979. for more than half a century. In 1975, the University of Alabama Dobbins is survived by his wife of 59 years, Mary Willis Dobbins; Austin Dobbins Press published his book, Milton and the Book daughters Ginger Howell of New Orleans, La., and Betsy Fleenor of of Revelation: the Heavenly Cycle. “The work Birmingham; and grandchildren Ashley and Jonathan Howell of New has been cited in recent years as one of the outstanding scholarly Orleans. Memorial donations may be made to the fund that Austin studies of that poet,” said Samford English professor Rod Davis, a Dobbins established in honor of his father, the Gaines S. Dobbins former Dobbins student. English Scholarship, c/o University Relations, Samford University. ■

52 UPDATE

Student Gospel Choir Offers Alternate Form of Praise and Worship by Jack Brymer

hether they’re singing out a emphasis event during Halloween at New The choir joined with the Samford in hand-clapping, foot-stomping Beginnings Church and helping to feed Mission program doing poverty Wrendition of “Keep Your Lamps” the homeless during Thanksgiving at simulations. or a more contemporary song of praise Daniel Cason Ministries—both in “We plan to take these into the com- such as “God Great God,” the newly downtown Birmingham. munity to remind people that poverty still organized Samford Gospel Choir has one Although the choir has existed in exists and must not go unacknowledged,” purpose. previous years, this was the first time it Evans said. “This is a wonderful opportu- “It’s to glorify God,” said choir was constituted with officers, a mission nity for the choir. Not only will we be president Roderick Evans. and goals, said Evans. Garry Atkins, interacting with others to teach them The Samford Gospel Choir, a volun- Samford director of residence life, and about an overlooked issue, but it will also teer, faith-based, student-led group has Rev. Angulus Wilson, director of Samford enable choir members to grow as been formally organized to provide an in Mission, serve as advisers to the choir. individuals.” alternate form of praise and worship not Wilson observed that the students Next year, the gospel choir will normally heard on campus—black gospel were interested in singing gospel music as perform at various churches in music. a way to touch other cultures, but that greater Birmingham. Plans are “Black gospel music is a unique form leadership of the choir had been only a underway for a mission trip to of worship because its evolution has handful of students. He was instrumental Nicaragua during spring break occurred for hundreds of years,” said in securing the volunteer services of Rev. of 2007. ■ Evans, a senior from Stevenson, Ala. “The Daniel Cason, a local African-American response to the choir from Samford pastor and musician. Senior Roderick Evans students has been great. “Rev. Cason serves as kind of a pastor is Gospel Choir “We feel very blessed as individuals to to the choir,” he said, enabling the group president. sing . . . and it’s very rewarding to receive to become better organized, and to student gratification for our singing at integrate faith and learning through different events, as well as encouragement singing gospel music. to continue our mission.” In addition to serving as pastor of The 65-member choir performed two New Beginnings Church in Birmingham, concerts and sang in convocation several Cason works on the music staffs at times during the past school year. Briarwood Presbyterian and Dawson The group also participated in several Memorial Baptist churches. He also mission ventures off campus, including operates the Kids Christian Center down- offering a concert at a community town and a food bank for the homeless.

53 But for Josh Ehmke’s Great-Great-Uncle,

SPORTS BABE RUTH Wouldbaseb Not Have Hit 60 Homers in 1927 ne of the storied games of baseball lore for old-time fans was the opener of the 1929 World Series. Philadelphia OAthletics manager Connie Mack surprised the baseball world by starting seldom-used veteran Howard Ehmke in the first game against the Chicago Cubs. Mack had pitching aces George Earnshaw (24 wins and only eight losses during the regular season) and Lefty Grove (20-6) available. Ehmke, nearing the end of his career, had pitched just 11 games the entire ’29 season, going 7-2. But the veteran right-hander justified Mack’s confidence. He scattered eight hits to beat the Cubs, 3-1, and struck out a World Series record 13 batters. Philadelphia went on to win the series, four games to one. Ehmke retired the next spring, ending a so-so career that might have been a lot better had he not played for losing teams seven seasons out of 10 before arriving in Philadelphia in 1926. He won 166 games in the majors, pitched a no-hitter and even won 20 games for a last-place club, the 1923 Boston Red Sox. Still, the high point of Ehmke’s career was the ’29 World Series opener. Or was it? “I think his most famous feat was giving up home run number one to Babe Ruth the year Ruth hit 60,” said Ehmke’s great-great- nephew, Josh. “He pretty much started Ruth off that year [1927]. If it wasn’t for him, Ruth would have hit only 59.” The younger Ehmke well may have been joshing, but baseball— and pitching—are subjects he knows. The Waterloo, Ind., native is a junior pitcher for the Samford Bulldogs. He led the Ohio Valley Conference in strikeouts this spring on the way to an 11-2 record. That performance helped Samford win the OVC regular season championship and earned Josh OVC Pitcher of the Year honors. Although Josh has never seen films of the elder Ehmke pitching, he doesn’t think they share many similarities. For one thing, Josh is left-handed. “Judging from stats alone, he pitched in the strike zone a lot more than I do and didn’t walk near as many people,” said Josh. “I’m more of a strikeout pitcher, and he was a ground-ball pitcher.” One thing they did have in common, however, was a good curve ball. Josh says the curve is his best pitch. And Connie Mack chose Howard to open the ’29 series because he thought the veteran’s sidearm curves would keep the predominantly right- Josh Ehmke went 11-2 handed-hitting Cubs off balance. for Samford this spring. Josh played two years at the University of South Alabama before transferring to Samford. He feels more at home at the denominational school because of his decision to point toward a career in the ministry. This summer, he will put his baseball plans on hold while joining a Campus Outreach mission trip to Brazil. Josh seems to have a future in baseball. What about it? “Baseball is just a game,” he said, but he does admit it would be nice “to have something near the career” his kinsman Howard put together. ■ 54 ball SPORTS Gargis, Ehmke Lead Bulldogs to Record Season

ed by Parker Gargis’ hitting and Josh Ehmke’s pitching, the Samford baseball team won an Ohio Valley Conference–record L21 games in 27 outings to claim the OVC regular season championship this spring. Coach Casey Dunn’s Bulldogs won a school-record 34 games overall, finishing 34-25 in Dunn’s second season as coach. The win total bettered the record of 31 victories by the 1997 team. Dunn was voted OVC Coach of the Year. The Bulldogs split four games in the OVC Tournament, losing to Jacksonville State, 8-7, in their final game. Third baseman Gargis hit .396 and led the team in runs batted in with 55. “He carried us offensively and had a remarkable year,” said Dunn. Ehmke posted an 11-2 win-loss record and led the OVC in strikeouts with 132. He had a 3.15 earned run average. Ehmke set Samford season records for wins, strikeouts and earned run average. First baseman Louis Rojas (.309) and outfielder John Morgan (.306) also hit above .300. Relief pitcher Joseph Edens led the OVC with 11 saves. Dunn began the season with a relatively new team. Of the 39 players on the preseason roster, 23 were newcomers. He had 13 freshmen and eight transfers. “Anytime you bring in a large number of new guys, you worry Parker Gargis hit .396 to lead Samford to its about team chemistry and the way the kids will get along,” the best record in history. coach said. “But most of the new guys were from winning programs, and they had a great desire to win. That excited our older guys. These players just meshed well.” The youthful Bulldogs started slowly, winning 12 and losing 14 of their first 26 games. From that point on, they won 20 of their last 29 regular-season games, including eight of the last 10. “If you look at our scores, you’ll see we won a lot of close games,” said Dunn. “This team developed some consistency. It was successful because of its work ethic and because it played with a lot of heart.” Among position players, Dunn credited veterans Trey Moody, the second baseman, and Matt Alling, the centerfielder, with helping to provide team cohesion. He cited a trio of new position players with providing a big impact with their winning attitudes—Rojas, catcher Luke Peavy and shortstop Michael Marseco. ■

55 SPORTS Women’s Tennis Wins OVC Tournament; Men Come Close

he Samford women’s tennis team reached the pinnacle of the Ohio Valley Conference for the second time in three years, Tdefeating Tennessee Tech, 4-2, in the title match of the 2006 OVC Tournament April 23. With the victory, Samford improved to 14-6 on the season and advanced to the NCAA Tournament once again. In 2004, the Bulldogs defeated Tennessee–Martin to win the OVC Tournament crown. “This team worked so unbelievably hard this season. We only had one goal in mind,” said Coach Terri Sisk. “After we defeated Murray State to reach the championship match, we knew that it was in our grasp.” Samford drew nationally fourth-ranked Florida in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and dropped a 5-0 decision at Gainesville, Fla. Katie McMiller compiled a 15-5 won-loss record (10-1 OVC) at No. 2 singles. Sarah McKey was 14-2 and 11-0 at No. 5, and Whitnie Warren was 14-7 and 10-2 at No. 4. The Samford men’s team came close to duplicating the women’s OVC championship, surviving until the title match of the conference tournament before losing, 4-3, to Tennessee Tech. The loss concluded a 16-10 season for Coach Kemper Baker’s squad. Stuart Misner was 16-7 overall and 12-0 in the OVC. Johnny Griffee was 15-5 and 10-1. ■

Katie McMiller had a 15-5 record for Samford this spring. Coach Terri Sisk, right, led the Bulldogs to their second OVC title in three years.

56 ‘Not as Wide-eyed’ 2006 Football Team More Experienced

he Samford football team enters the 2006 season with much SPORTS more experience than in the past. The 2005 team had just five Tseniors, while the 2006 edition has 18. “We shouldn’t be wide-eyed when we go out on the field,” said Head Coach Bill Gray. “We should be confident in what we are trying to do on both sides of the football and on special teams because of the numbers that are coming back.” The Bulldogs return nine starters each on offense and defense, and at all three of the kicking positions, from last year’s 5-6 team. “That is why the spring was such a good one,” Gray said. “We were able to rep a lot of things rather than trying to learn them for the first time. I will be very disappointed if they don’t come out and play with confidence and not make the mistakes you make as a young football team.” One of the most improved areas for the 2005 squad was defense. With all but two defensive starters returning, Gray said it should be a strength for this year’s team. “The experience coming back on the defensive side has to be a plus for us,” Gray said. “I don’t think the drop-off from our starters to our twos is going to be as great as in the past. “We have four safeties, and we feel confident about any of them being on the field. There have been times when we have struggled to find a second safety, and now we have four. We also have some depth at linebacker, and we have some kids who play hard up front who will make us better as well.” Offensively, Samford returns everyone but lineman Kevin Pughsley and wide receiver Ossie Buchannon. Quarterback Jefferson Adcock, who passed for 2,338 yards and 18 touchdowns last fall, returns at quarterback. Dante Williams is a capable backup. Jeff Moore leads an experienced receiving corps after catching 53 passes for 669 yards last year. Joe Jones (25 catches), David Lee (24) and Freddy Young (22) also return. Jeff Moore caught 53 passes Leading rusher Justin Ray (479 yards, five touchdowns) is back for 669 yards last fall. at running back, and medical redshirt Harris Johnson should provide running help. Tackles Tommy Smith and Colby Hooper, guard Matt Crum, and center Graham Lemmond are returning starters. Junior college transfer Kyle Castles will join Crum at guard. On defense, four-year safety starter Cortland Finnegan is gone, Aug. 31 MILES COLLEGE but four of the top five tacklers return in linebackers Jay McCurty Sept. 9 at Georgia Tech and Calvin Hodge, end Steve Tennin and safety B. T. Hartloge. Sept. 14 AUSTIN PEAY Returnee Rodney Shepherd will join McCurty and Hodge at linebacker. Sept. 23 EASTERN ILLINOIS* Veterans T. C. Myers and Quinton Griffin will start at corner- Sept. 30 at Southeast Missouri* back, and Luke Landers will join Hartloge at safety. Starting tackles Oct. 7 EASTERN KENTUCKY* Clyde Triplett and Haris Kovacevic return on the defensive line, as Oct. 14 at Murray State* do ends Mark Brown and Jonathan Vance. The kicking game seems solid with returnees Chris Hicks Oct. 21 TENNESSEE–MARTIN (HC)* punting, Shannon Fleming placekicking and Andrew Johnson Oct. 28 at Tennessee State* kicking off. Hicks averaged 38.2 yards a punt, and Fleming hit 10 Nov. 4 TENNESSEE TECH* of 14 field goals and added 31 of 35 conversions for 61 points last Nov. 11 at Jacksonville State* fall. ■

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General Scholarship Fund Mrs. W. Russell Jacks, Birmingham Hudson Pharmacy, Inc., Prentiss, Miss. in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Susina Mr. and Mrs. Howard P. Jackson, Jr., Mrs. Joan Jackson, McCalla, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Sam D. Glenn, Birmingham Birmingham Mrs. Virginia Jackson, Birmingham Dr. and Mrs. James A. Jensen, Birmingham Jefferson County Pharmaceutical Auxiliary, Learning and Spirituality Fund Dr. Sharon L. Lawhon, Birmingham Birmingham in honor of Dr. John Harris Mrs. Anne Moore Laws, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. C. Aubrey Lowry, Cullman, Ala. Baptist Health System, Inc., Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. C. Aubrey Lowry, Cullman, Ala. Dr. Lucinda Maine, Arlington, Va. Mrs. Omega McAuley, Tallahassee, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron H. Maryanow, Miller/Shepherd Piano Scholarship Fund Rev. and Mrs. Roger L. McGee, Alexandria, Va. Birmingham in honor of Betty H. Miller and Betty Sue Mrs. Suzy P. Metts, Pleasant Grove, Ala. Mature Health Communications, Westfield, Shepherd Dr. and Mrs. Phil E. Min, Mt. Olive, Ala. N.J. Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Queen, Mountain Brook Baptist Church, Mountain Dr. Margaret C. Maynard, Mount Juliet, Tenn. Montgomery, Ala. Brook, Ala. Dr. Tony McBride, Indian Springs, Ala. Mrs. Jane D. Naish, Clayton, Ga.

60 Mrs. Margaret C. Northrup, Birmingham Mrs. Kathey M Gassner, Pelham, Ala. Samford Athletic Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Eric E. Olson, Birmingham Ms. Mavis M. Gates, Pelham, Ala. in honor of Coach Mike Morris and Women’s Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Patterson, Dr. Carole W. Giardina, Cleveland, Tenn. Basketball Birmingham Dr. and Mrs. Sydney Gibbs, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Philip Poole, Hoover, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Phillips, Vestavia Hills, Dr. Carl W. Gooding, Anniston, Ala. Ala. Dr. and Mrs. Jerry T. Haag, Beeville, Texas Samford Auxiliary Scholarship Endowment Dr. Doris Phillips, Birmingham The Hackney Charitable Foundation, Inc., in honor of Wylodine Hull and Kay Davidson Dr. and Mrs. John C. Pittman, Birmingham Birmingham Hope Sunday School Class of Mountain Brook Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Queen, Dr. and Mrs. George Hand, Vestavia Hills, Ala. Baptist Church, Mountain Brook, Ala. GIVING Montgomery, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Larron C. Harper, Birmingham Dr. and Mrs. Paul A. Richardson, Birmingham Ms. Nan F. Heard, Birmingham Samford Fund Dr. and Mrs. W. Randall Richardson, Helena, Dr. Elizabeth B. Holloway, Birmingham in honor of Peter Neuberger Ala. Ms. Diane W. Horton, Birmingham Mr. Donald N. Lathem, Alabaster, Ala. Dr. Donald C. Sanders, Birmingham Dr. and Mrs. William E. Hull, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Seale, Birmingham Inside Out, Birmingham Samford Fund Mr. and Mrs. Peter Seirafi, Jasper, Ala. Mrs. Juanita G. Johnson, Birmingham in honor of Emily Riddle McLemore ’68 Dr. Betty S. Shepherd, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Kent Johnson, Birmingham Mr. Larry U. McLemore, Montgomery, Ala. Mrs. Peggy Glenn Shores, Ballwin, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jolley, Birmingham Mr. Jaroslaw Szurek, Birmingham Dr. Steven T. Jones, Vestavia Hills, Ala. Samford Fund Ms. Barbara Vandergriff, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Marvin M. Julich, Jr., in honor of Dr. Thomas E. Corts Mrs. Martha F. Walker, Vestavia Hills, Ala. Birmingham Mr. Franklin R. Plummer, Concord, N.C. Mr. and Mrs. William W. Walker III, Mrs. Dorothy C. King, Birmingham Birmingham Mr. Archie Lockamy III, Birmingham Samford in Mission Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Wells, Birmingham Dr. Cynthia Lohrke, Birmingham in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Corts Dr. and Mrs. Ruric E. Wheeler, Birmingham Mr. David Loudon, Birmingham Mrs. Mary B. McCullough, Birmingham Mrs. Harry B. Williams, Birmingham Mrs. Jane Love, Vestavia Hills, Ala. Ms. Margaret K. Winkler, Birmingham Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Mann, Ponte Vedra School of Music Instrumental Scholarship Mr. and Mrs. Gregory F. Womble, Homewood Beach, Fla. in honor of Dr. Phil Min and the Samford Pep Mr. and Mrs. Douglas E. Wood, Dothan, Ala. Mr. Jesse Lee Martin, Birmingham Band Mr. and Mrs. Joseph W. Mathews, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Philip Poole, Hoover, Ala. Marlene Mints Reed Scholarship Birmingham in honor of Marlene Mints Reed Ms. Irene McCombs, Gardendale, Ala. School of Music Scholarship Endowment Ms. Nancy C. Bales, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. W. Mark Meadows, Birmingham in honor of Dean Milburn Price Mr. and Mrs. Brian Barksdale, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Warren Morrison, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Philip Poole, Hoover, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. David R Belcher, Birmingham Mr. Peter F. Neuberger, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Jim Black, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Nichols, Sr., Student Ministries Blankenship & Seay Consulting, Inc., Birmingham in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Corts Birmingham Mrs. Mary Jane Niesen, Hoover, Ala. Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Russell J. Levenson, Jr., Mrs. Debra Brewton, Birmingham Ms. Carrie Anna Pearce, Birmingham Pensacola, Fla. Dr. Rochelle R. Brunson, Angleton, Texas Mr. and Mrs. W. Randy Pittman, Birmingham Ms. Ann S. Bryant, Birmingham Mrs. William D. Powell, Jr., Birmingham Bonnie Bolding Swearingen Hall Dr. and Mrs. G. William Bugg, Birmingham Dr. James P. Reburn, Hoover, Ala. in honor of Bonnie Bolding Swearingen’s Birthday Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cantrell, Hoover Mr. and Mrs. James W. Robbins, Birmingham Ms. Guinell U. Salners, Mobile, Ala. Ms. Val Ann Carrier, Birmingham Shades Mountain Baptist Church, Mr. Charles M. Carson IV, Birmingham Birmingham Bonnie Bolding Swearingen Scholarship Mr. and Mrs. Tom Cartledge, Birmingham Ms. Sherry C. Shirley, Birmingham in honor of Bonnie Bolding Swearingen’s Birthday Dean and Mrs. David W. Chapman, Ms. Anne E. Simmons, Vestavia Hills, Ala. Abra Prentice Wilkin Charitable Trust, Birmingham Mrs. Frances P. Smitherman, Bessemer, Ala. Chicago, Ill. Classic Traditions, Inc., Birmingham Mr. Jeffrey S. Stephens, Homewood Ms. Margie N. Bolding, Birmingham Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Corts, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. William J. Stevens, Birmingham Fidelity Capital Group, Chicago, Ill. Dr. Edward J. Coyne, Sr. and Dr. B. S. Coyne, Dean Beck A. Taylor, Vestavia Hills, Ala. Mr. Seth W. Herndon, Tulsa, Okla. Birmingham Mr. Michael C. Teel, Birmingham Ms. Jo Beth Hill, Rockport, Texas Dr. and Mrs. J. Bradley Creed, Homewood Unus Foundation, Mountain Brook, Ala. Dr. and Mrs. Mark LeClerc, LaFayette, Calif. Ms. S. P. Criswell, Birmingham Mr. Jose A. Valencia, Birmingham Ms. Janie B. Llewellyn, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Matt Davis, Birmingham Vulcan Materials Company Foundation, Ms. Donna J. MacMillan, Indian Wells, Calif. Dean Joseph O. Dean, Jr. and Dr. Carol D. Birmingham Mr. Rod Mitchell, Houston, Texas Dean, Birmingham Dr. and Mrs. Ruric E. Wheeler, Birmingham Dr. Michael D. Morgan and Dr. Terry S. Ms. Nancy M. Delony, Birmingham Dr. Thomas W. Woolley, Alabaster, Ala. Morgan, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Dixon, Jr., Birmingham Ms. Sandra E. Zarzaur, Birmingham Mr. Richard M. Morrow, Chicago, Ill. Ms. Della K. Fancher, Birmingham Mr. George A. Roberts, Dallas, Texas Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fields, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Rosenberg, Jr., Dr. Rosemary M. Fisk, Birmingham Baltimore, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Judson L. Fleming, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. George M. Watters, Palm Desert, Calif.

61 MEMORIAL Davis Library Isom Scholarship Fund Alto Luther Garner Memorial Scholarship in memory of Mr. Fred C. Schlichter in memory of Mrs. Ora Wood Isom in memory of Alto Luther Garner Ms. Mary L. Wimberley, Birmingham Mr. Tom M. Greene, Brentwood, Tenn. Dr. and Mrs. Raymond L. King, Birmingham Davis Library Special Collection Joyce Chapman Johnson Music Scholarship Abe Berkowitz Endowed Scholarship in memory of Tom Skinner in memory of Joyce C. Johnson in memory of Abe Berkowitz Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hutchens, Chelsea, Ala. Mr. Hugh Johnson, Birmingham Mr. Jackson M. Payne, Birmingham in memory of James F. Sulzby Martha Myers Memorial Scholarship

GIVING J. Morris and Eula Mae Brown Scholarship Dr. Chriss H. Doss and Dr. Harriet A. Doss, in memory of Dr. Martha Myers in memory of J. Morris and Eula Mae Brown Birmingham Dr. and Mrs. Ira L. Myers, Montgomery, Ala. Mr. Buddy Brown, Mobile, Ala. Dent, Baker and Company James O. Phillips Pharmacy School Jon and Marianne Clemmensen Endowed Fund Memorial Scholarship in memory of C. A. (Neil) Shepherd, Jr in memory of Marianne and in honor of Jon in memory of Mr. Jim Phillips Mr. and Mrs. David W. Sharp, Huntsville, Ala. Clemmensen Dent, Baker and Company, LLP, Birmingham Miss Rebecca S. Day, Birmingham Mrs. Margaret B. Phillips, Hoover, Ala. S. Milburn Price Scholarship in memory of Howard O’Daniel Robyn Bari Cohen Children’s Book Fund Divinity School Discretionary Fund St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, in memory of Robyn Bari Cohen’s Birthday in memory of Dr. Calvin Thielman Birmingham Mrs. Carolyn P. Cohen, Birmingham Mrs. Calvin Thielman, Montreat, N.C. Religion and Philosophy Scholarship Colonial Dames History Award Division of Music in memory of W. Mabry Lunceford in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Ehney A. Camp, Jr. in memory of Dr. Neil Shepherd and Mr. Charles Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard Queen, Camp Foundation, Birmingham Sego Montgomery, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Wanell C. O’Barr, Winnsboro, in memory of Monro Banister Lanier II Texas Samford Athletic Foundation Mrs. Monro B. Lanier II, Mountain Brook, Ala. in memory of Mr. Carl Edwin Miller, Jr. A. G. Gaston Scholarship in Law Mrs. Ruth Bellenger, Birmingham in memory of Josephine Harris Wasson in memory of Dr. A. G. Gaston Berry Family Foundation, Dayton, Ohio Mrs. Garland Cook Smith, Birmingham Beta Kappa Boulé Charitable Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Boisky, Birmingham Birmingham Borland, Benefield, Crawford and Webster, in memory of Mrs. M. Baldwin and Mrs. F. Birmingham Whitaker William D. Geer Scholarship End Fund Hon. and Mrs. Quentin Q. Brown, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Meade Whitaker, Jr., Birmingham in memory of William D. Geer Birmingham Mr. David E. Mason, Euless, Texas Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Buck, Birmingham Marla Haas Corts Samford Auxiliary Mr. and Mrs. Michael H. White, Birmingham Mr. John S. Creel, Birmingham Scholarship Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Drummond, Jasper, Ala. in memory of Tony Phillips, Elizabeth Jansen, C. in memory of Margaret Randle, Frank Randle Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Davis, Birmingham W. Worley, Nelle Sappington, Dr. Neil and Ann LeCroy Dixon Foundation, Birmingham Shepherd, Dr. Austin C. Dobbins, Mrs. Ms. Irene McCombs, Gardendale, Ala. Eddleman Properties, Inc., Birmingham Lolla Wright, Mort Bryant, Mrs. Johanna Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ferguson, Jr., Guenther and Larry Joe Heatherly General Scholarship Fund Mountain Brook, Ala. Dr. and Mrs. Ray M. Atchison, Birmingham in memory of Mr. Walter Attaway Fidelity Investments, Boston, Mass. Mrs. Walter N. Attaway, Jr., Rome, Ga. Ms. Barbara Finch, Birmingham Cox Scholarship Fund Ms. Sara J. Finley, Nashville, Tenn. in memory of Hezz M. and Suaylor Wyatt Cox in memory of Horace E. Grizzle Class of ’63 First Commercial Bank, Birmingham Dr. H. Marguerite Kelley, Guin, Ala. Mrs. Carolyn S. Grizzle, Sylacauga, Ala. Ms. Martha B. Fraim, Indian Wells, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip E. Williams, Atlanta, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Bill M. Guthrie, Birmingham James O. Haley Endowed Scholarship Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Hardin, Jr., David M. Coleman Study Abroad Scholarship in memory of Judge James O. Haley Nashville, Tenn. in memory of Mr. Frank Rikard, Sr., Alberto Mr. John W. Haley and Mrs. Sandra K. Hatcher Design Associates, Inc., Birmingham Sampere and Mrs. Janie Whatley Haley, Birmingham Ms. Janice H. Henninger, Birmingham Dr. Myralyn F. Allgood, Birmingham Mr. Donald P. McKenna, Jr., Vestavia Hills, Mrs. Linda Israel, Birmingham Ala. Mr. Carter S. Kennedy, Birmingham Cumberland School of Law Improvement Fund Mr. S. Shay Samples, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Mailon Kent, Birmingham in memory of Lewis M. Groover, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. James J. Thompson, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. James M. Landreth, Birmingham Hon. James G. Blanchard, Jr., Augusta, Ga. Birmingham Mr. David E. Mackle, Jr., Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Scott W. Messmore, in memory of Dr. Edwin Sterne William R. and Fay Ireland Governor’s School Germantown, Tenn. Dr. Carolyn B. Featheringill and William W. in memory of James Frederick Sulzby IV, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson W. Moore, Birmingham Featheringill, Birmingham Daniel, Margaret Gage and Lolla Wright Mr. and Mrs. John C. Morris, Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Carolyn Green Satterfield and Mr. Mr. and Mrs. Victor E. Nichol, Jr., Birmingham William H. Satterfield, Birmingham Dr. Arthur Patton, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. David R. Pittman, Birmingham

62 Dr. and Mrs. John C. Pittman, Birmingham Dr. Harriott D. Calhoun, Trussville, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Rein, Vestavia Hills, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd E. Christenberry, Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Robinett, Birmingham Montgomery, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Roddam, Vestavia Mr. William T. Coplin, Jr., Demopolis, Ala. Hills, Ala. The Crittenden Firm, Birmingham Mr. Hatton C. V. Smith, Birmingham Terry and Beverly Cromer, Leeds, Ala. Ms. Ella L. Smith, Birmingham Mr. Walton W. Curl, Augusta, Ga. Dr. and Mrs. Bob Stanley, Birmingham Lt. Col. and Mrs. Gilbert W. Curl, Rapid Mr. and Mrs. William J. Stevens, Birmingham City, S.D.

Supreme Beverage Company, Inc., Birmingham Mr. Charles L. Denaburg, Birmingham GIVING Mr. and Mrs. James A. Taylor, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Joe H. Dickerson, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Tucker, Birmingham Gerry and Pat Durward, Birmingham Mr. John E. Walker, Jr., Birmingham John and Anne Durward, Birmingham Michael H. Echols and Associates, PC, Samford Auxiliary Scholarship Endowment Tuscaloosa, Ala. in memory of Mrs. Ella Ruth Chapman Lantrip Mr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Edfeldt, Huntsville, Ala. Mr. Joseph C. Brown, Springfield, Mo. Mrs. Mary A. Ellis, Birmingham Mrs. Stewart B. Jordan, Birmingham Hon. and Mrs. Robert G. Faircloth, Mr. and Mrs. William W. Killingsworth, Birmingham Houston, Texas Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Fernambucq, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. O. V. Lantrip, Jr., Birmingham Mrs. Toula Fulford, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. McCullough, Mrs. Elizabeth D. Geer, Birmingham Birmingham Mr. Charles D. Haines, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher Wyatt, Prattville, Ala. Mr. and Mrs. Leland I. Harkins, Hoover, Ala. Dr. and Mrs. Raymond L. King, Birmingham Samford Fund Ms. Helen S. Kirtley, Johnson City, Tenn. in memory of Rev. Dr. John Porter Ms. Irene McCombs, Gardendale, Ala. Mr. William T. Coplin, Jr., Demopolis, Ala. Mrs. Mary B. McCullough, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. George A. Merkel III, Oneonta, Samford University Scholarship Fund Ala. in memory of Todd Stevens Ms. Rose F. Neill, Birmingham Mr. Samuel H. Nelson, Birmingham Mrs. Margaret C. Northrup, Birmingham Mrs. J. Fred Olive II, Birmingham School of Business Fund Ms. Deanna R. Otto, Louisville, Ky. in memory of Dr. Mary Ann Hocutt Hon. and Mrs. J. Gary Pate, Birmingham Ms. Natalie A. Temple, Hampton Cove, Ala. Mr. James B. Pratt, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. William H. Ray, Jr., Birmingham Wilbur G. Silberman Scholarship in Law Mr. and Mrs. Bubba Scott, Montgomery, Ala. in memory of Wilbur G. Silberman Mrs. Mildred P. Shumaker, Tuscaloosa, Ala. Wiggins, Childs, Quinn and Pantazis, P.C., Mr. and Mrs. Les B. Siegelman, Birmingham Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. T. Julian Skinner III, Birmingham Southpace Properties, Inc., Birmingham P.W. and J. J. Thomley Scholarship in Law Mr. and Mrs. Stan Watts, Leesburg, Ga. in memory of Patsy W. and Jerry J. Thomley Dr. and Mrs. Ruric E. Wheeler, Birmingham Hon. Karon O. Bowdre and Mr. J. Birch Dr. Avalee Willoughby, Birmingham Bowdre, Birmingham Mrs. C. C. (Mary V.) Wright, Birmingham Mr. and Mrs. Quinton A. Wright, Overland The Woodward Scholarship Fund Park, Kan. in memory of Dr. Frank Woodward and Mrs. Mr. George R. Wurtele, Birmingham ■ Mabel Woodward South Roebuck Baptist Church, Birmingham

Leslie S. and Lolla W. Wright Scholarship in memory of Bill Neugent Ms. Irene McCombs, Gardendale, Ala. in memory of Mrs. Lolla W. Wright Alabama Men’s Hall of Fame, Birmingham Dr. Myralyn F. Allgood, Birmingham Mrs. Ann W. Armstrong, Montgomery, Ala. Mrs. Katherine Bailiff, Chattanooga, Tenn. Baxley, Dillard, Dauphin and McKnight, Birmingham Ms. Elmira Brannin, Jeffersontown, Ky. Col. Cheryl A. Brown, Shepherdstown, W.Va. Ms. Robin Burrell, Birmingham

63 ith a charitable gift annuity at Samford University, you can brighten ANNUITY RATES (ONE DONOR) your own path during your lifetime AND the path of students at Age at Gift Date Payment Rate W Samford for generations to come. Accomplish two objectives with one 90 11.3% asset: make a gift to Samford and start receiving income for yourself. 85 9.5% 80 8.0% 75 7.1% Charitable gift annuities offer a 70 6.5% number of benefits to donors: (Two-life rates are lower.)

■ RETIREMENT ANNUITY RATES (ONE DONOR) security of a high, fixed income Age at Gift Date Payment Rate* ■ partially tax-free income 60 7.6% 55 9.7% ■ current income tax deduction 50 12.3% 45 15.7% ■ capital gains tax savings 40 20.1% *Rate is percent of original gift value and assumes payments begin at age 65. and (Two-life rates are lower.) ■ help Samford students for generations to come

A charitable gift annuity works as a contract between a donor and Samford. In For more information, contact: exchange for a gift of $10,000 or more, Samford agrees to pay the donor (or Stan Davis, Director of Gift Planning two donors) a fixed income for life. After the lives of the donor or donors, the Samford University amount remaining becomes the gift to Samford. 800 Lakeshore Drive Birmingham, AL 35229 1-877-782-5867 (toll-free) Samford issues charitable gift annuities only in states in which it meets all requirements. This (205) 726-2807 is for information only and is not an offer or solicitation for a charitable gift annuity. [email protected]

64 Sept. 7–10 Greek Weekend, (205) 726-2028

Sept. 8 Samford Business EVENTS Network, Atlanta, Ga., (205) 726-2364, OF www.samfordbusiness network.org Sept. 9 Tailgate Party, Samford vs.

Georgia Tech, Atlanta, CALENDAR events (205) 726-2807, For details or the complete Samford University calendar, go to www.samford.edu/calendar/html. www.samford.edu/alumni June 25–July 8 Samford Forensics Aug. 9 Second summer session Sept. 13–18 Greek Life recruitment, Institute, (205) 726-2049 ends (205) 726-2028 July 3–14 Cooperative Baptist Aug. 10–12 Alabama Defense Lawyers Sept. 14 High school communi- Fellowship missionary Association Trial Academy, cation workshop, hosted training, Beeson University (205) 726-2865 by journalism and mass Center, (205) 821-6994 communication depart- Aug. 14 Cumberland School of ment, (205) 726-2394 July 4 University offices closed; Law Orientation, no classes (205) 726-4093 Sept. 21, 23, Samford Theatre presents 29, Oct. 1 Restoreth My Soul, July 6 End of first summer Aug. 21–22 Faculty back-to-school Harrison Theatre, session workshop (205) 726-2853 July 7–8 Middle school baseball Aug. 23–24 New student orientation Sept. 22, 24, Samford Theatre presents camp, (205) 726-4095 Session 5, (205) 726-2216, 28, 30 Electra, Harrison Theatre, www.samford.edu/ (205) 726-2853 July 10 Second summer session groups/fyi begins Sept. 22–24 Family Weekend, Aug. 24 New student move-in day, (205) 726-2345, July 10–13 Volleyball camp for grades (205) 726-2345 www.samford.edu/parents 3–9, (205) 726-2969 or www.samford.edu/ Aug. 24–27 Connections new student July 10–14 Adventures in Music day groups/sga orientation, (205) 726-2345 camp, (205) 726-2810 Sept. 23 Preview Day, coordinated Aug. 26–27 Returning student move-in July 11–13 Cheerleading camp for by the Office of Admission, days, (205) 726-2345 ages 7–17, (205) 726-4013 (205) 726-3673, Aug. 27–31 Welcome Back, sponsored www.samford.edu/admiss July 17–19 High school individual by Student Activities baseball camp, Sept. 29– Leadership Samford Council, (205) 726-2345 (205) 726-4095 Oct. 1 weekend, Office of Student Aug. 28 Fall semester classes begin Involvement, Football camp for grades (205) 726-2031 3–8, (205) 726-2478 Aug. 29 University Convocation, Wright Center Concert Sept. 29 Ida V. Moffett School of Volleyball camp for grades Hall, 10 a.m., Speaker: Nursing nurse anesthesia 7–12, (205) 726-2969 President Andrew hooding ceremony, A. July 17–21 All Aboard for Music Westmoreland Gerow Hodges Chapel, camp, (205) 726-2810 2 p.m., (205) 726-2863 Aug. 31 Holley-Hull Lectures, 10 a.m., Reid Chapel, July 20–21 Football team camp for For schedules and information on Samford Speaker: A. J. Levine, pro- passing and linemen, athletics, go to www.samfordsports.com. (205) 726-2478 fessor of New Testament, Vanderbilt University, free July 24–27 Baseball camp for grades For a listing of Samford After Sundown classes, K–5, (205) 726-4095 Sept. 4 Labor Day holiday; classes go to www.samford.edu/sundown. in session and offices open July 24–28 Pastors School, hosted by Information is compiled from the University Beeson Divinity School, Sept. 5 School of Business science calendar as of May 31, 2006. Dates, times and (205) 726-2338 and religion seminar, details are subject to change. Please go to 2–5 p.m., Flag Colonnade, www.samford.edu for updated information. ■ July 31–Aug. 3 Men’s basketball camp, Ralph W. Beeson University (205) 726-2920 Center, (205) 726-2547 Aug. 5, 12, 17 Teen Court, sponsored by School of Business the Alabama Center for accounting career event, Law and Civic Education, Wright Center, 6 p.m., (205) 726-2433 (205) 726-2547 Harry and Jane Brock visit the construction site of Samford University’s new recital hall, scheduled to open this fall. The Samford University Board of Trustees voted to name the $8 million facility Jane Hollock Brock Hall (see page 3).