Summer 2007 SEASONS 30 21 Features Complex Arena Forcommencement

Summer 2007 SEASONS 30 21 features Complex Arena forcommencement. Seepage 14. Front cover:Members oftheClass 2007 process into Birmingham-JeffersonConvention 8 4 20 Shepherd Calendar Retires 18 Samford JoinsSouthern 17 16 Campus Commencement Update 14 Environmental Alliance 12 Journalism’s Challenge 11 TheEUand Alabama 10 Samford Report 3 From thePresident 2 Alabama HistoricalAssociation. rediscovery ofMacKenzie inherpresidential address tothe was lost.Historyprofessor MarleneRikard discussedher But overtheyears, themajorityofhisacclaimed“SteelSeries” steel millsofthe1920sandproduced more than50paintings. Artist Roderick MacKenzie setuphiseaselinthe Birmingham Lost Treasure early. go homeforthesummer.SoSamford lethermovein officials 13’s forherto “weathergirl”onnewscasts,makingitdifficult 50 years ago thissummer. The journalismmajorwasChannel Toni Moore Clevengerbecamethefirst resident ofVail Hall First Resident ofVail up onthelatestinSamford nursing school. ships andtoassistpracticing nurses inupdatingskills.Catch second degree innursing, toenhancelearningthrough intern- variety ofinnovativecurricularoptionstohelppeopleadda Samford’s IdaV. School ofNursing Moffett nowoffersa Nursing Newsletter McBride. currently touringwithcountrymusicsuperstar Martina Kimberly Roads first sangtogether asstudents. The group is its roots toSamford, where members Karen Fairchild ’90and The popular,Grammy-nominated countrymusic group traces Little Big Town Conference 8HonorandMemorial 48 Sports 46 HonScholarship 45 ContributingAlumni 40 Remembering 38 InMemoriam 37 35 Births ClassNotes 32 Homecoming 29 Gifts Ron Jenkins Samford holds its final Commencement in the Birmingham-Jefferson EDITOR William Nunnelley Convention Complex William Nunnelley Arena May 26. Next ASSOCIATE EDITOR year, the ceremony will Mary Wimberley be held at the new Pete Hanna Center on CONTRIBUTING WRITERS campus. Jack Brymer, Sean Flynt, Philip Poole,Poole DIRECTOR OF CREATIVE SERVICES Janica York Carter DESIGNERS Scott Camp, Monica Washington COPY EDITOR Laine Williams PHOPHOTOGRAPHYTOGRAPHY CCarolinearoline Baird Summers Ann WWadeade Parrish ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERS 2006–07 PRESIDENT Mark Davidson ’’92 VICE PRESIDENT Greg Powell ’’81 SECRETARY Martha Ann Cox ’’60 IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Tom Armstrong ’’73

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As always, andasJeanna andIhave watched from an continues asRiley hersearch, So, navigates Web sites isgainingmany expensiveRiley asshereviews insights brochures, theGreat College Search, hasembarked upontheSummer of Riley, Our daughter, Fitness and Health Promotion Accredited amford University’s Fitness and SAMFORD SHealth Promotion program earned accreditation from the Commission on report Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs [CAAHEP] and REPORT SAMFORD the American College of Sports Trustees Approve New Programs Medicine [ACSM]. The program, part of the exercise science and sports medi- Performing Arts Now School of the Arts cine [ESSM] curriculum, is only the ew degrees, new academic eighth in the nation to achieve the Nprograms, new faculty and a distinction. restructured academic school were CAAHEP was founded in 1994 as among actions approved by the Samford an accrediting body for allied health University Board of Trustees at its programs, but the accreditation process regular spring meeting in May. for college and university programs in Trustees approved a recommen- the area of exercise science is relatively dation that the art department be moved new, having begun only in 2005. from the college of arts and sciences and The fitness and health promotion combined with the current School of major—one of six majors in the ESSM Performing Arts to become the School of department—prepares students for the Arts. The 2007–08 academic year will employment in corporate wellness serve as a transition period for the new programs, fitness centers, YMCAs, cardiac rehabilitation and recreational school with full implementation by the ■ 2008–09 academic year. facilities. “This restructuring represents a natural progression in Samford’s long- Samford Publications Win term plan to provide the best environment for promoting the arts,” Samford National Competitions amford’s communications office President Andrew Westmoreland said in The Samford art department will join won five awards of excellence and making the recommendation. Samford School of the Arts. S An approved reorganization of the two awards of merit in the Religion School of Business created three academic The university center project would Communicators Council [RCC] departments: accounting and manage- continue a process begun in 2001. national competition. The office also ment information systems; economics, Facilities for football and exercise science won the Arthur S. Davenport Award, finance and quantitative analysis; and have become possibilities with the antici- one of the top awards presented by the management and marketing. Three new pated move of other athletics depart- Baptist Communicators Association bachelor’s degrees in management with ment offices and facilities to the new [BCA], for its 2006 admission campaign. concentrations in entrepreneurship, Pete Hanna Center later this year. The RCC awards of excellence went to social entrepreneurship and international baseball project includes enclosure of the Seasons in the national magazine cate- business also were approved. open-air press box at Joe Lee Griffin gory; to Samford’s presidential inaugu- Other new programs approved by Field. ration campaign in the public relations trustees include a secondary collabora- New faculty members elected by category; to a commemorative booklet, tive graduate degree and a gifted educa- trustees for the 2007–08 academic year J. I. Packer: The Evangelical Future, for tion certification program in the school include LaJuana S. Davis, assistant pro- Beeson Divinity School and to the of education and professional studies, a fessor of law; Malia Fincher, assistant book Corts: Deo, Doctrinae, Aeterninati master of music degree in piano per- professor of biology; Doris E. Greene, for the retirement of President Thomas formance and pedagogy, and a dance assistant professor of law; Jannifer Rahn, Corts, both in special publications; and minor in the School of Performing Arts. assistant professor of geography; James to designer Scott Camp for a divinity Trustees also authorized R. Strange, visiting assistant professor of school poster, “Living with the Psalms,” Westmoreland and administrators to religion; William B. Womack, assistant in the flyer category. conduct feasibility studies and negotiate professor of history; and Geoffrey A. Camp also won a BCA first-place contracts for additional renovations to Wright, assistant professor of English. award and an RCC award of merit for Beeson University Center and potential Three retired faculty members were his Old Howard 100 Bike Ride logo. He new facilities for academic programs, granted emeritus status: Marian K. Baur, and fellow staffer Sean Flynt won an such as exercise science and sports medi- dean emeritus, nursing; Sigurd F. Bryan, award of merit for the campus visit cine, as well as for football and baseball. emeritus professor, religion; and Thomas brochure, part of the admission cam- The projects would not move forward Hines, emeritus professor, world paign, in overall publication design. until funding is available, Westmoreland languages. ■ In the BCA, Samford won second emphasized to trustees. place for the inauguration program and for the 2006 President’s Report . ■ 3 SPECIALREPORT 4 MacKenzie Series Recorded the Story of Birmingham Steel

icture the Ensley steel mills of the 1920s, could identify the stage of production from the SPECIAL REPORT filled with the flash of flame and the coloration in his paintings,” she said. startling colors of molten metal at This visual story of Birmingham steel night—a dusty, noisy, smoke-filled envi- making well might continue to unfold today at ronment where men worked in extreme the museum of art or some other venue, but Pheat and steam around the clock. events over the years dictated otherwise. As a Now picture a middle-aged artist, working at result, many of the paintings were lost, and only a his easel in the midst of this scene, clad in overalls few survive. and an acetylene miner’s cap, perspiration drip- Dr. Rikard told MacKenzie’s story during the ping off his face, recording the process for which spring of 2007 as her presidential address to the Birmingham was best known, the making of steel. Alabama Historical Association and shared infor- Roderick D. MacKenzie did just that for mation on her own unwitting discovery of more than two years, working at night because MacKenzie’s work many years ago. the colors were more graphic then, ultimately Birmingham approached its 50th birthday in The paintings on the producing a series of more than 50 works that 1921, Rikard noted, and as it struggled to find its opposite page and on told the story of steel making. cultural identity, MacKenzie’s paintings began to pages 6–7 are by “Often, he would have three easels set up so draw attention. A history of Birmingham used Roderick D. Mackenzie. he could work on various scenes as the processes one of the paintings on its cover, and a downtown Opposite: Mixers and changed,” said Samford history professor Marlene art gallery displayed some of the paintings as part Converters, 1922, H. Rikard. “He wanted to capture all the processes of the city’s semicentennial exposition. Birmingham Museum of making steel, but sometimes the image he As the body of work grew, the Alabama Art of Art; lent by wanted lasted for only a few seconds and never League organized a display in 1922 of 45 of the Birmingham Board of more than 10 minutes.” canvases that attracted both art lovers and Education, Birmingham, So accurate was MacKenzie in recreating the laborers who had watched MacKenzie work. Ala. All four Steel processes that the mill chemists “claimed they Reviews noted that the painter had caught “the Series photos by M. spirit of the furnaces,” and that he had introduced Sean Pathasema “a fourth new element dimension into painting— heat.” MacKenzie worked in pastels because oil or watercolor would not have been practical in the dusty environment of the mills. Reviewer Frank Hartley Anderson noted that the painter challenged the image of pastels as “something light and dainty,” giving the medium a “strong, vigorous life.” MacKenzie was of Scottish descent, born in London in 1865, but he moved with his family to Mobile, Ala., in 1872 and grew up in Alabama. He studied at the Boston Museum of Art for two years in the 1880s, returning to Mobile to open a studio, but moved to Paris for additional study in 1889. He painted for a Calcutta art dealer for a time. Eventually, the dealer persuaded him to go to India to work. This he did in 1892 with his wife, Lottie. They lived in India for more than a decade, and MacKenzie earned a good living. Two paintings in particular won him a wide reputation in India and Europe, The Baluchis (tribesmen on horseback thundering toward the viewer) and The Afghans (men dressed in typical desert garb). The couple returned to Paris in 1906, moved to London two years later and returned to Mobile in 1913. During this time, MacKenzie earned his Samford history professor Marlene Rikard revisits steel mill sites.

5 SPECIALREPORT 6 museum purchase. Museum ofArt, Birmingham Furnaces, Two ModernBlast 1931, industrialists present andthe nationalpress.industrialists drew rave from reviews themore than1,000 Theexhibit IronAmerican andSteel Institute. the New York atthe1923meeting of City to use hisinfluence anexhibition in to arrange Steel, U.S. theheadof Gary, he persuadedElbert she said. Series,” theSteel MacKenzie’s mostacclaimed work, andresulted in subsequent return visits, Rikard noted. millsforoneweek,” the Ensley andgaveindustry thepainter to permission enter representation artistic of by theideaof intrigued “who was MacKenzie contacted Crawford, great power circles.wielded inBirmingham GeorgeGordon Crawford, Its president, scene. dominated industrial theBirmingham Steel, United States of asubsidiary Company [TCI], sky.”mills litupthenight saw inJones Valley, “particularly whenthesteel landscapesbutwasawakenednary by whathe hehadgrown stalepaintingordi- an interviewer Hesurrounded himinFairfield told andEnsley.” that thesteel industry of the power andvitality and stood inawe of encountered the New South, hetruly “For thefirsttime, saidRikard. life,” Fairfield. abrother tohe cameto in visit Birmingham Afterdiedin1920, hiswife financially. struggled hewasapoorbusinessmanand Even so, school. andopenedanart hepainted portraits Mobile, In fromliving commissions andexhibitions. Crawford was so pleased with the series that Crawford theseries wassopleasedwith into oneweek turned two years“The and Iron andRailroad The Tennessee Coal, “What hesaw intheMagic changed City his uemo Art. Museum of Two ultimately went to theBirmingham carded. andwere dis- poor storage andconservation, to “Others moldbecauseof fellvictim Rikard. paintings. broke of gradually widow uptheseries his When MacKenzie’s brother diedin1953, neededthespace forotheruses. when thelibrary which remained until1948, stored inthelibrary His brother theSteel inherited Series, in 1941. storage againatthelibrary. went thepaintings into Finally, were notakers. butthere asawhole, insisted onsellingtheseries He still Public attheBirmingham Library. series theentire anexhibition of in 1937andarranged had leftthem. languished instorage in New where he York City, MacKenzie’s paintings steel industry. Birmingham Depression beganto hitthe died in1927. Gary Pa. Steel CompanyLaughlin inPittsburgh, Crawford leftTCI to jointheJones and years. chase theentire andkeep series itintact. orthesteel companyBirmingham would pur- His hopewasthateither sold individually. would notbe originals fateful decision—the series responsive hand.” have beensowellby served such acapableand saying “few specialindustries thework, praised TheNew Orleans Times Picayune Telegram. proclaimed theNew Yorkin theseplants,” Evening Afwwn otect fFifed”said Fairfield,” “A fewwent of to thecity died once againbesetby poverty, MacKenzie, The painter addedsixnewworks to theseries Circumstances thenext changed few during Mackenzie madea Following thissuccess, themenatwork of “He thespirit hascaught uaey nyasalpr fitremains. of onlyasmallpart tunately, butunfor- thatheritage, of part was animportant Roderick MacKenzie’s Steel Series Sloss Furnace. thepastas Vulcan and restoring such vestiges of heritage, preserve andcelebrate itsindustrial Mobile orMontgomery.” genteel environment of unlike the more theNew South, raw creation of wasthe Birmingham captured South. achanging “MacKenzie’s worktorical associationaudience. Rikard told herhis- and alossforBirmingham,” alsoproved to behisgreat tragedy Steel Series, MacKenzie. It wasRoderick D. shesaid. was thesameartist,” it it wasnotthesamepainting, “If in thefoyer. andthepainting She flashedbackto herTCI job, discovered avolume acover with her. thatstartled years earlieratTCI. sheencounteredthe connectionartist with South atSamford forseveral years thatshemade until shehadbeenteaching acourse intheNew It wasnot commissioned MacKenzie’s Steel Series. theTCI headthat George Gordon Crawford, Her topic was on amaster’s thesisinhistory. University design.” to study graphic tobecause Iwassaving money attend Auburn butItook inthatpainting comfort the artist, “Ididn’t know sherecalled. on aneleganteasel,” theFairfield Steel Mills sat attractive paintingof Ientered alovely foyer where alargeand day, “Each atTCI officesa jobastypist inFairfield. whohadtakena 17-yearschool graduate oldhigh MacKenzie’s estate. from thepaintings thelaw handling firm some of becauseMobilians bought shesaid, Birmingham,” resides heritage inMobileartistic thanin Today, Rikard noted, Birmingham works to Birmingham Rikard noted, Today, the “Mackenzie’s triumph, greatest artistic she Seeking anewtextbook forhercourse, sheworked after completing Auburn, Later, Rikard firstencountered MacKenzie’s work as Birmingham’s industrial more of “Ironically, ■ about thisfeature Classic Collections Fine Art, Irvington, N.Y.Classic CollectionsFineArt,Irvington, Emperor ofIndia. The originalis18feetlong.Courtesy the proclamation ofKingEdward VIIofEnglandas of MacKenzie’s workinIndia. The procession honors The Governor’s Procession, Delhi,1903, isrepresentative http://www.archives.state.al.us/aha/aha.html. Learnmore abouttheorganizationat association. oldest historical Samford tieto as serve AHA president. a Rikard istheninthpersonwith wasacharter member. department tory theSamford his- Irons of George V. andthe late Dr. president (1947–49), asfounding served Samford, atwo-volume of history authorof Sulzby, Alabama Review, appearinthefallissueof herremarks will A complete text of thatclosedheryear as AHA president. 2007, Association [AHA] April 14, the Alabama Historical Rikard’s address to theannual meetingof wasdeveloped fromThis story Samford University professor Marlene H. h H,wt oeta ,0 ebr,is Alabama’s largestand more than1,200members, with The AHA, late The James F.The AHA celebrates its60thanniversary thisyear. Southall, JohnC.Roderick D.Southall ofMrs. J.D.Southall,Robertof Art;gift MacKenzie Burst ofGasandSparks, Soaking Pits,TCI, urel ora fthe AHA. of journal quarterly 1932, BirminghamMuseumofArt about 1921,BirminghamMuseum The 7 SPECIALREPORT Kimberly Roads, left, and Karen Fairchild perform during Little Big Town’s May concert in the Birmingham- Jefferson Convention Complex Arena. PEOPLE

by Mary Wimberley

8 t’s a long way from Samford’s Little Big Town received its first clue “She always had the lead singing Wright Center Concert Hall stage to to the potential success of “Boondocks” part in our skits for rush,” Eddins said of such venues as Radio City Music in the fall of 2004 while on an 11-day Fairchild, who was a senior class repre- Hall, the Grand Ole Opry and Jay Stars for Stripes tour of Afghanistan, sentative on the 1989 homecoming court Leno’s NBC studio, and even where a favorite stop was at the remote and a Sigma Chi Sweetheart. “Karen farther to a remote military camp Teran Kout camp. “The troops there had always knew she wanted to sing and

in Afghanistan. had running water for only two weeks, hoped that her vocation would be in PEOPLE For former Samford students and and they had been there for a year,” music.” IA Cappella Choir members Karen Fairchild said. “Those soldiers were the Fairchild was choreographer for Fairchild ’90 and Kimberly Bramlett first to tell us that ‘Boondocks’ was a hit. ADPi’s 1989 Step Sing show, “Slow Boat Roads, and their hot country music That was nice confirmation for us.” to China,” which won the women’s group, Little Big Town, the journey has “It was amazing,” she said of the division competition and the taken on warp speed recently. overseas tour. “You really realize the Sweepstakes Award. The speed-up is due in part to the sacrifices the soldiers are making. They “We lived and breathed Step Sing success of their latest CD, The Road to get lonely and are so grateful for your for the time leading up to it, but I have Here. presence.” fond memories of it,” said Fairchild, who During 2006, the CD earned the Regular performers on Country keeps in touch with sorority sisters and band its first Grammy nominations and Music Television, Little Big Town made other friends who lived in Vail Hall. the prestigious Independent Artist and its first network television appearance in In November, Roads—who left Independent Album titles from Billboard April of 2006 on The Tonight Show with Samford before graduating—married magazine. The Grammy nods were in Jay Leno. In January, they returned to longtime friend Stephen Schlapman. Her two categories: Best Country Album, NYC to sing on NBC’s Late Night with first husband, former A Cappella Choir and Best Country Performance by a Duo Conan O’Brien. member Steven Roads ’86, J.D. ’89, who or Group with Vocal for their song, Even before the recent elite helped the group with record deals, died “Boondocks.” Grammy citations, Little Big Town had of a heart attack in 2005 at age 41. Nice affirmation for the two been nominated for Academy of Fairchild, Kimberly Roads and vocalists who first sang together on Country Music’s Top Vocal Duo or Vocal Steven Roads were all members of the A Samford stages. Group, and Country Music Association’s Cappella Choir’s smaller component, the “Samford was where things began,” Top New Vocal Group. Samford Singers. Fairchild said recently. The accolades and unexpected “I have been following their singing An early childhood education awards are gratifying. “Being nominated careers with interest and am happy that major, Fairchild was a substitute teacher for Album of the Year was a goal, and to they have found such great success in the in her native Georgia for a while after reach it so quickly was amazing. It repre- music industry,” retired choir director graduation, but soon joined the sents a lot of stick-to-it-iveness and per- and music dean L. Gene Black said of Christian music group Truth for three severance, but it paid off,” said Fairchild. the Little Big Town vocalists. and a half years. In April, Little Big Town began a Fairchild confirms that, indeed, life Eventually, Fairchild and Roads five-month tour with country music is good for Little Big Town. reconnected, and in 1998, teamed with superstar Martina McBride. “It couldn’t be better,” she said. “We singer/guitarist Phillip Sweet and Jimi “It is a great opportunity to play are blessed.” ■ Westbrook, who is now married to huge arenas and to sing in front of Fairchild, to form Little Big Town. Martina’s fans. Some may not know who The Nashville-based foursome’s first we are,” said Fairchild, whose group also Little Big Town members are, from left, public performance was at the Grand has toured with stars Keith Urban and Kimberly Roads, Jimi Westbrook, Karen Ole Opry in 1999. John Mellencamp. Fairchild and Phillip Sweet. “We had been rehearsing and The 30-concert tour with McBride forming the sound of what the band through the Midwest would be when our agent called and and East included asked us to fill in for a cancellation at the shows in May at the Opry,” said Fairchild. “Things just took Birmingham- off from there.” Jefferson Convention Initial starts resulted in their debut Complex Arena and single, “Don’t Waste My Time” in 2002 New York City’s Radio and their first album, Little Big Town, in City Music Hall. 2003. For a complete In 2005, Little Big Town connected summer tour with Equity Records for The Road to schedule, go to Here CD with its rootsy, bluegrass-tinged www.littlebigtown.com. songs and edgy ballads. Sales topped The group’s success 500,000 by year’s end. The CD’s comes as no surprise to “Boondocks” was a top-10 country Fairchild’s Alpha Delta single, and the single “Bring it on Pi sorority sister, Karen Home” in the top five. Luster Eddins ’91.

9 10 CURRENTISSUES W hn1360i-tt os”he said. than 113,600in-state jobs,” more supports “This direction lastyear. inthat moving in goodsandservices some $5.6billion with market, export EU ambassador. according to the the Asia Pacific region, by investments jobssupported from of investment ismore thanthree timesthat in companies resulting from European investment dollarsto Alabama in2004. channeled about9.3billionforeign It Bruton said. thestate,” within more than156,800jobs supporting investment by dollarsearned Alabama, and than $14.9billionannually inexport intodollars flowing thestate. foreign direct investment source of anditisthetop either India or China, tant economically to Alabama than Business: School of hosted by24 gathering theSamford businesspeopleatan Birmingham April pointedthe following messageto brought to theUnited States since 2004, whohas ledtheEUdelegation Ireland, economics. word: Orhecansumitupinone statistics. myriad answer thosequestionswith can D.C., leadership postin Washington, speak? comeAmerica to aSamford breakfast to The EUisalso Alabama’s largest theEUaccounts formore “In all, The 27-nationEUismore impor- minister of prime The former holdstheEU who John Bruton, The 43,200 Alabamians whowork ambassador to and why would its Alabama, the state of Union have to dowith hat doestheEuropean would beone inwhich bothEurope and hesaid. lations, testing mustsafety passdifferent regu- dummiesusedinautomobilecrash Even in Europe andthe United States. standards must meetvarying cosmetics, standards products. forvarious that hewould like of to seeasimplifying law. powers of andtherule of separation rights, markets andproperty aswell asrespecthuman forfree rights includingcommitment to members, governance democratic forits dards of stan- noting thatitstresses high Bruton, said inhuman history,” democracy cross-border crime. andfights aid; ment andhumanitarian develop- foreign policy, dealswith dards; sets commercial/environmental stan- TheEU statussinceambassadorial 1971. andtheoffice hasheld since 1954, office D.C., maintained a Washington, It has sixmembers. with Community, ago astheEuropean Economic states. leaders andstudentsinmore than20 business mayors, message to governors, He hastaken this his recent visit. which explains good for jobs, American economy and EU isgoodfortheU.S. to remind thattheexpandingAmericans soldto India. and services allgoods and more than73timesthatof ChinaandSouthKorea, sales to Japan, were more significantly thanthestate’s Bruton believes anidealsituation and such asdrugs Many products, Bruton told hisSamford audience “It istheonlymultinational The EUbeganmore than50years Bruton’s jobis of part An important Alabama’s to exports theEUin2006 and Alabama: It’s aMatterof The EU Economics Samford breakfast. Ambassador JohnBrutonspeaksata Montgomery. in BobRiley Gov. andmetwith Vance, Institute andtheMercedes-Benz plantin Civil Rights theBirmingham also visited students. and faculty Samford alumni, leaders, several hundred localandstate business HotelGrandview wasattended by saidBruton. giance, are unsentimentalaboutnationalalle- Bankers not linked to bankownership. notingthatitis hesaid, national debt,” othercountries. that of lownational debtisvery compared to Bruton noted thattheU.S. companies, Alabama banksby EU-basedbanking two prominent recent acquisition of the national sovereignty asaresult of costs. essary unnec- new products andareduction of of an easier “speed launch to market” Aresult would be saidBruton. Europe, that aproduct alsocould besoldin aventure capitalistwould know States, product cangetapproval intheUnited a thatif forinstance, would mean, hesaid. launching newproducts,” save amountinthecost anenormous of would “This in each other’s standards. the United States could have confidence hl nAaaa the EU leader While in Alabama, Bruton’s talkattheMarriott “I wouldn’t panicaboutyour Asked aboutany potential on risk standards A more common setof ■ Internet Changes Newspaper World, but ‘Accountability Journalism’ Still Key

eonard Downie, Jr., is a veteran CURRENT ISSUES newsman who recognizes the L inevitability of change, especially as it affects his profession. He knows the Internet is irreversibly transforming the news media, and that newspapers face radical change to survive. But the mission and content of the news won’t change, he believes, as long as newspeople adapt successfully to new media realities. The mission is to inform, and the content that matters most is accountability journalism. “The journalism that I believe must survive all the change swirling around us in the new media environment is accountability journalism,” the Washington Post executive editor said recently at Samford. “That is the journalism that holds those with power in our society accountable to everyone else.” Downie spoke in April at the second Washington Post editor Leonard Downie, Jr., reviews The Crimson with staff members. annual Timothy Sumner Robinson Forum sponsored by Samford’s journalism and companies backdating stock options to and threatened their ambition,” he mass communication department in inflate executives’ compensation. added, making it “harder to cover cooperation with The Post. The program Downie said accountability jour- routine news well, much less to do honors the late Samford graduate and nalism has exposed waste and fraud, accountability journalism.” Post reporter who covered the Watergate raised significant issues about com- While the Internet has had “an scandal of the 1970s as the paper’s petence and honesty for politicians, freed extraordinarily disruptive impact” on the federal courts reporter. wrongly convicted people from prison economics of print newspapers, Downie Downie said accountability jour- and made food and vehicles safer. said it created “tantalizing new opportu- nalism “is the kind of journalism that “Accountability journalism is not nities for news organizations.” He noted the founding fathers intended to protect easy to do,” he said. He noted that it that most newspapers lost circulation with the First Amendment to the requires resources (both staff and time), but attracted large audiences for their Constitution” and noted that it separates expertise in using records and databases, Web sites. free nations from those that “not only good interviewing techniques, clear writ- Downie said the Internet revolution suppress political freedom but also do ing, and editors who know how to be “could mean more accountability jour- not allow a free press.” devil’s advocates to be sure that stories nalism—not less.” For that to happen, he “Tim Robinson believed in account- that could ruin reputations or worse are said, “old journalists must learn new ability journalism,” Downie said. “For as accurate and fair as possible. tricks,” newsrooms with reduced staffs years after he left our newsroom, his “Above all, it requires a news “must still set accountability journalism work was held up to his successors as a organization dedicated to accountability as one of their top priorities,” and uni- model for beat reporting.” journalism—in other words, a news versities must turn out journalists with Downie listed several recent organization dedicated to public traditional reporting and writing skills examples of accountability journalism, service,” he said. “who can present their journalism in including The Post’s series on poor treat- Such reporting is at risk today at too new forms on the Web, as well as in ment received by Iraq war veterans in many newspapers that have lost readers print.” ■ Walter Reed medical center in and advertising to the Internet and other Washington, D.C.; The Hartford competing media, he said. Courant’s investigation of the high rate “Pressured by Wall Street, too many of suicides among American troops in newspaper owners have nevertheless Iraq, leading to new mental-health been trying to maintain the very large screening for recruits; The Post’s dis- profits made in the old days of news- covery of a network of secret CIA paper monopolies,” he said. prisons for suspected terrorists; and The “Cost-cutting has shrunk most Wall Street Journal’s stories exposing newsrooms, undermined their morale

11 12 CURRENTISSUES he said. butwe are losingit,” wealth inourstate, “We have great biological species loss. state second ranks inthenationfor yet the airand earth, in Alabama’s water, world continue to discover newspecies claimsonly99. California entire state of fishwhilethe contains 130speciesof noted CahabaRiver thatthenearby alone He hesaid. thatlivethings inourrivers,” freshwater diversity—the number of number oneamongall50states for “Alabama diversity. biological ranks thenation’s leaders interms of one of ference areminder that with Alabama is openedthecon- Alabama, Conservancy, environmentalChristian stewardship. diversity biological and climate change, sustainablelandscaping, and health, sprawl includingurban connected topics, inter- of included sessionsonavariety Theconference [ALEEC]. Consortium the Alabama Environmental Education 2007conference thespring of on Earth,” An Appeal to Save Life Creation: “The Education assembledadiverse panelfor for Environmental Stewardship and mental stewar prelude to auniqueconference onenviron- A Danter saidscientistsaround the theNature director of Danter, Jeff Samford’s Vulcan Materials Center It’s NoJoke Between ScienceandFaith Surprising Agreement Conference Reveals It’s NoJoke Between ScienceandFaith Surprising Agreement Conference Reveals opnhln.Thiswasthe no punch line. There’s Really. concert hall. tific humanist walked into a gelical minister andascien- anevan- n Episcopal priest, dship atSamford April 21. rmo soil contains 10billion bacteria, of gram notingthatasingle hesaid, planet,” haven’t even begunto explore this “We species. containing vast numbers of spoke infectious awe with aboutaworld he Mostly, awayjourney from religion. hispersonal Wilson didn’t speakof book, environment. to savefight abadlydamagednatural faithto joininthe appeals forpeopleof Wilson Throughthebook, leaders. minister meantto represent allreligious Wilson to an anonymous Baptist on Earth ence itstitle. which gave theconfer- his latest book, His unique background inspired dola. bees buzzingoutsidehisresearch gon- overhigh killer arainforest canopy with heaven involves from hanging acrane aBaptistbutnowraised says hisideaof Wilson was humanism besidethepoint. notes) madehis well-known scientific exhaustive knowledge (hespoke without from faraway ain’t andthey goinghome.” “what we’re come saying isthatthey states that, northern the inhabitantsof nativeBirmingham saidheexplains to “and that’s The notaccent.” said, we callthem ‘far he ain’ts,’” here, “Down fire ants. would seeextinct: rather speciesmanyan imported Southerners madethefirstrecorded notice of Wilson, O. Pulitzer authorE. Prize–winning and biologist legendary keynote speaker, theevent’s As aboy insouth Alabama, “Far Ain’ts” pr rmabifdsuso fhis discussionof fromApart abrief The Creation: An Appeal toSave Life humor and Wilson’s combination of ae h omo aletter from takes of the form by SeanFlynt space—surely findaway might to save onthecolonizationembarking of too—even dream of an afterlife, “A ableto civilization envision Godand human intelligence andwill. worthy of action andendwith interdependence, their recognition of with must begin environment andpoverty dilemmas of else to go.” peoplewhohaveland-hungry nowhere thepress of oncannotsurvive hangs thebiodiversity ments where mostof environ- thenatural “Conversely, he said. their lives inadevastated environment,” have littlechance to improve destitute, nearly onebillionwhoare absolutely especiallythe poor, “The dependent. the developing world andare mutually diversitybiological are concentrated in environments containing thegreatest that thepoorest peopleandthenatural Wilson noted poverty and environment, theworld’s faithcommunities aswell. of sensus wasconsistent theconcerns with Wilson saidhehopedthatcon- sible.” world thenatural aspos- as much of lifewhilepreserving of quality endurable term—is how to thepoorto raise an the onethat’s goingto count long- my thenewcentury—in opinion, lem of “the centralprob- communities isthat, scientific andeconomic development the He saidtheconsensus of humans. andunknown. known big andsmall, threatens Earth species of degradation Wilson alsonoted thatthe science. which are to unknown almost allof Wilson saidthesolutionto the Explaining theintersection of Wilson thestakes described for love if we’re wasting water, if we’re wasting electricity or wasting anything, McWhorter Receives because it could be beneficial to some- $77,051 Disaster one, someplace in the world, and in many cases what we are wasting harms Response Grant other people.” amford’s McWhorter School of Divided Evangelicals Pharmacy received a $77,051 grant S CURRENT ISSUES Surprisingly, the greatest dissent expressed from the Centers for Disease Control on the conference stage was not between and Prevention [CDC] to help Christianity and science, but between Alabama pharmacists learn more about evangelical Christian factions. emergency responses to disasters such Evangelical minister Craig Branch, as Hurricane Katrina. director of the Apologetics Resource The grant—to McWhorter’s Center in Birmingham, coauthor of Institute for Public Health and Public Schools: The Sorcerer’s New Pharmacy—will enable the pharmacy Apprentice? and hardly a liberal, asserted school to offer a course that draws on that he agreed with almost everything lessons learned during the aftermath of his copanelists said. He noted that his Katrina. own organization’s view is that, “The public-health system in “Christianity is a science starter, not a Alabama gained important disaster science stopper.” Branch’s task at the response experience after Katrina,” said conference was to describe the full Dr. Stuart Capper, director of the the integrity of this magnificent planet spectrum of evangelical responses to Institute for Public Health and and the life it harbors because it’s the environmental issues, and those have Pharmacy. “This course will focus on right thing to do and an ennobling task historically been unfriendly to one specific area that has received only of our species,”Wilson said. environmentalism. limited attention, the partner relation- “There is a general agreement ship between the public-health practice The Moral Issue of Our Time among knowledgeable evangelicals on community and the pharmacy practice Although the conference format prom- the biblical basis of environmental stew- community.” ised sparks by following Wilson with an ardship,” Branch said. He acknowledged Dr. Capper noted that Katrina Episcopal minister and an evangelical that the evangelical response to environ- disrupted such critical services as the apologist, those panelists raised few mental degradation and social justice writing and dispensing of important arguments against Wilson or his cause. issues has been tepid due in part to medications for disaster victims as well In fact, the Rev. Sally Bingham of the politics. The related issues were long as the provision of such basic services Regeneration Project, and the Interfaith viewed as markers of “liberal churches,” as vaccinations and triage. Power and Light Program at San he said. Branch said this view is changing The grant will fund a course that Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, joked that as more evangelicals have been won over not only builds on the lessons learned Wilson’s killer-bee vision of heaven was by scientific consensus, creating a rift from Katrina, but also focuses on the the greatest distance between herself and between stewardship-oriented evan- roles and responsibilities of the phar- the Harvard biologist. gelicals and those who remain suspicious macy practice community for public Bingham sounded the alarm of of science and an Earth-friendly inter- health preparedness and response. environmental degradation as loudly as pretation of Scripture. Capper said the grant also would Wilson, touching on some of the same The distance between the opposing help determine how Alabama phar- themes but focusing primarily on global camps of evangelicals came to public macists prefer to access such a course, warming and the unique responsibilities attention in 2006, when evangelical face-to-face or via the Internet, and of Christians to the natural world. “You celebrities including James Dobson and whether or not both formats are cannot sit in a pew with a reverence for Rick Warren found themselves on equally effective at conveying the con- the earth and watch God’s creation be opposing sides of the global warming tent. The course will be offered in each destroyed,” she said. “This is the moral issue, competing for political and cul- format to as many as 60 pharmacists at issue of our time,” she added, noting tural influence in a national political each presentation. that, “it will affect everything, all of life environment evangelicals recently domi- The Samford institute will work and, very importantly, it will define the nated as a unified front. with the Alabama State Department of future of our children and the genera- Given such open disagreement Public Health in designing the course. tions that come after us.” among believers, can there really be hope These public-health pharmacy- Bingham echoed Wilson’s concern that believers and nonbelievers can work preparedness efforts are part of an for the link between poverty and the together to save Earth, as E. O. Wilson extensive program for such work at the natural world, but went a step further in envisions? That proposition, at least, no University of Alabama at Birmingham calling on Christians to be mindful of longer calls for a punch line. At Samford [UAB] South Central Center for Public their responsibility to “the least of these.” in April, an Episcopal priest, an evan- Health Preparedness. ■ “If we are to serve one another and gelical minister and a scientific humanist serve God—which is what loving one’s walked into a concert hall . . . and found neighbor means—we have to address common cause. ■ this problem,” she said. “It’s not an act of

13 Staying Awake

COMMENCEMENT through the Revolution

Motley Speaks at Last Commencement Downtown

amford University graduate and “The great challenge facing every former presidential assistant individual graduating today is to remain Eric L. Motley told members of awake through this, the most enormous the Class of 2007 the world des- transformation in human history,” he perately needs people “who told 683 seniors and more than 5,000 Sground their decisions in values that others at the ceremony. make a difference.” Motley, a 1996 Samford graduate, Delivering the commencement was a presidential appointments assis- address May 26, Dr. Motley reminded tant in the Bush White House from 2001 seniors that their Samford education until 2005. He is now vice president and Samford seniors listen to speaker Eric L. nurtured a set of Christian values “that managing director of the Henry Crown Motley, top, during commencement May 26. says community is as important as self, Fellowship Program at the Aspen At right, Samford President Andrew that caring for others who need us is Institute in Washington, D.C. Westmoreland, second from left, congratu- most important, and that rewards are In his travels as a presidential lates senior award winners Claire Elizabeth not just material.” assistant, Motley said he was greatly Kimberly, left, James Patrick Weaver and Kyle Motley also urged the seniors to disturbed by one particular trait in Joseph Rudemiller, right. remain alert during their post-university people he met, “the lack of awareness of years through “the new tidal wave of what is going on nationally and inter- technology, politics and economics of nationally, and the lack of serious the 21st century.” engagement.”

14 Motley said “every generation has its mandate, its revolution.” Some are ‘Leave Time realized thunderously, while some come “in the quiet arousal of a great and life- for Editing,’ changing idea,” such as today’s revolution “sweeping away old paradigms.” Westmoreland He reminded seniors of writer Washington Irving’s story about Rip Van

Tells Law Grads COMMENCEMENT Winkle, who slept for 20 years, during which America won its independence resident Andrew Westmoreland had from England. Psome simple, straightforward advice “The most striking fact about the for graduates of Samford’s Cumberland story of Rip Van Winkle is not that he School of Law May 19: “Leave time for slept for 20 years, but that he slept editing.” through a revolution,” said Motley. Presiding at his first law school He told his audience that “to remain commencement since becoming presi- awake” through today’s revolution, “we dent last year, Westmoreland used the are challenged to achieve a world per- life analogy of settling for a first draft spective.” Today’s issues do not easily fit Samford holds its final commencement versus edited drafts to encourage gradu- into neat boxes labeled “domestic” and in the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention ates to always strive for the best. “foreign policy.” Complex Arena. He told them of a novel written by Motley said old rules do not apply. Ernest Hemingway, and edited and pub- “We need to understand the inter- lished posthumously by his son, Patrick. connectedness of the world in which we will move back to campus and be held in “Apparently, Hemingway never finished now live, to meet the challenges we face,” the new Pete Hanna Arena, now under the book, and there remains some doubt he said. Those challenges include energy construction with a completion date of about whether this is a first draft, second security, global climate change, the this fall. draft or a fifteenth draft.” threat of terrorism and proliferation of Samford presented its top student Westmoreland said he was “capti- weapons of mass destruction, the spread awards at the close of commencement. vated” by the inconsistencies of the of radical fundamentalism, endemic Kyle Joseph Rudemiller of Huntsville, posthumous publication of a potentially global health threats, education, and Ala., received the President’s Cup for the unedited and uncompleted novel. immigration. highest academic average. James Patrick “What if the first drafts of our work Meeting these challenges “will Weaver of Orange Park, Fla., was pre- were all we had to represent us?” require a revolution in our thinking and sented the Velma Wright Irons Award for Westmoreland asked. “A great sadness of awareness,” and “it will require our the second highest average. Claire our age is that many of us seem to have engagement,” he said. Elizabeth Kimberly of Muscle Shoals, been robbed of or have simply given Motley spoke at his alma mater’s Ala., received the John C. Pittman Spirit away or have squandered the time and final commencement at the Award. ■ the energy required for the edit.” Birmingham-Jefferson Convention He noted that “great writing, great Complex Arena, where graduation has ideas, great lives” are years and decades been held since 1990 to accommodate in the making. “It takes the love of family. crowd sizes. Next year, commencement It takes years of study and practice. It takes decades of interaction with colleagues. It takes a lifetime of reflection. It takes an appreciation for love and learning that grow with each day of life. In short, it takes a lot of editing. “We all need more than one draft to get it right,”Westmoreland concluded, speaking to 158 graduates and more than 2,000 others in Wright Center Concert Hall. During the ceremony, the new Daniel Austin Brewer Professionalism Award went to Bains Fleming of Wellington, Fla., the 2007 class president. Endowed by former Alabama Governor Albert Brewer in honor of his father, the award goes to a third-year law student “who best exemplifies the high standards of ethics and professionalism expected of members of the legal profession.” ■

15 Record Turnout of 229 Enjoys Beautiful Day for CAMPUS UPDATE Old Howard100 ayne Kennamer of Hoover, Ala., has 148 participants in 2005 to 198 last year to this ridden in more than 60 100-mile bike year’s total, which produced a $3,000 contri- W rides over the past 10 years, and he bution to Sowing Seeds of Hope. counts the Old Howard 100 one of his favorites. Dr. Rosemary Fisk, Samford associate dean of “Riding through country and history on low- arts and sciences, and Bridget Rose, curator of traffic roads, with locals waving and speaking Beeson Divinity School’s Hodges Chapel, took the from their porch or yard, and support and friend- lead in coordinating the event. Student Brooke liness at rest stops made for an outstanding Crutchfield of Conyers, Ga., served as site coordi- event,” he said. nator at Judson College in Marion, where riders Kennamer was one of a record 229 regis- started and finished their ride. trants for the third Old Howard 100. They cycled “Thanks for an awesome day,” said through Perry and Hale counties on a beautiful Kennamer, a retiree who works part-time for spring day, opting for routes of from 30 to 100 Birmingham Bicycle Company, where he plans miles. The riders came from various Alabama to spread the word about the ride. towns as well as from Georgia and Tennessee. The One casualty occurred when Bill Mathews’ Birmingham Bike Club and cycling community trademark Penny Farthing high-wheel bicycle gave heavy support. succumbed to metal fatigue after 25 years, The oldest rider, 80-year-old John Fuller of causing the frame to break and sending Mathews Birmingham, chose a 55-mile route. sprawling. The retiring vice president for business More than 20 Samford faculty and students affairs was unhurt, he said, and he began looking rode, and two dozen or more others served as for a replacement right away. ■ volunteers at support and gear stops, including members of Greek-letter organizations and Alpha Lambda Delta freshman honorary. The members of Sigma Chi fraternity took advantage of their location near the Faunsdale Old Howard 100 riders enjoy the pastoral Crawfish Festival to supply riders with crawfish beauty of Black Belt Alabama. meals under the shade of big trees in Magnolia Grove. Once again, the event was sponsored by the Howard College of Arts and Sciences to benefit the Sowing Seeds of Hope ministry in Alabama’s Black Belt region. It has grown each year, from

16 Photos by Bill Mathews Samford Dedicates Statue of Medical Missionary Myers

CAMPUS r. Martha Myers dedicated her life Dto serving as a Southern Baptist update medical missionary. After graduation from Samford in 1967 and the CAMPUS UPDATE University of Alabama School of Strong Mix of Private, Public Schools Medicine in 1971, she became a Attracts Samford to Southern Conference missionary in Yemen, where she treated poor, sick people free of charge. Her hospital at Jibla treated some 40,000 patients a year, more than a million during her 24-year tenure. The people of Yemen were never far from her thoughts, and during her fur- loughs to the United States, she spoke about her mission work, and collected medical and humanitarian supplies for the Yemeni people. Shortly before her death, she emptied her personal savings account to pay for a kidney transplant for one of her patients. Dr. Myers was shot and killed, along Samford President Andrew Westmoreland, left, Southern Conference Commissioner with two coworkers, at Jibla Baptist John Iamarino and Samford Athletics Director Bob Roller, right, celebrate the Hospital by a Muslim extremist Dec. 30, Bulldogs’ move to its new conference. 2002. She is buried in Jibla on the grounds of the hospital she served. he opportunity to play in a well- Samford will play the 2007–08 Samford paused May 11 to remem- respected conference with a good school year in the OVC—its fifth year in ber the life and good works of Myers, Tmix of private and public univer- that league—and become a member of dedicating a bronze statue to her in the sities helped Samford make the decision the Southern in July 2008. Marla Haas Corts Missionary Biography to join its new athletic league, the 86- “This has not been an easy decision Collection of Harwell Goodwin Davis year-old Southern Conference. for Samford University,”Westmoreland Library (see back cover). The collection When the presidents of the said. “We are grateful for the good rela- contains more than 1,000 books on Southern Conference voted unanimously tionships we have enjoyed with our missionaries collected over the years by to invite Samford to become its 12th fellow OVC institutions. The decision to former Samford first lady Marla Corts member March 15, Samford President join the OVC was the right one for and her husband, President Emeritus Andrew Westmoreland quickly said yes. Samford at that time. It is important for Thomas Corts. “The invitation from the Southern us to focus on the long-term academic At the dedication service, Dr. Corts Conference comes at a unique point in and athletics priorities that will meet the recalled that Myers gave her weekends to Samford’s history,” Dr. Westmoreland goals that our trustees, alumni, faculty care for people in remote areas, said. “Finding the right balance of aca- and students expect for Samford.” becoming a local legend. demics and athletics is a strategic plan- Southern Conference Commissioner “Wherever she stopped on the road, ning priority for Samford, and we share John Iamarino said the league was people flocked to see ‘Dr. Martha,’” said other peer relationships with Southern “delighted” that Samford was becoming Corts. He said he hoped students Conference member institutions that a member. “Samford’s institutional pro- casually passing her likeness might be make the athletics relationship right for file is one that is very consistent with stirred by her story. us at this time.” those of our current members—strong Samford President Andrew Including Samford, five of the academics, an unwavering commitment Westmoreland joined Dr. Ira Myers ’45, Southern Conference teams are privately to the welfare and graduation of the the late missionary’s father, in unveiling funded institutions. While it enjoys a student-athlete, combined with a the sculpture, which was created by strong relationship with its present con- burning desire to operate a successful artist Glynn Acree of Roswell, Ga. ference, the Ohio Valley, Samford is the athletics program within the mission of In her hands, the Myers statue only privately supported school in the the institution,” he said. carries a roll of bandages and a prescrip- 11-member OVC. Samford Athletics Director Bob tion pad. Because she was fluent in the Samford will join private schools Roller said the invitation to join Arabic language, Acree used both English Davidson, Elon, Furman and Wofford, Southern “speaks volumes about the and Arabic to inscribe the memorial and public universities Appalachian progression of Samford athletics,” but with her name, birth and death dates, State, College of Charleston, added, “This move is not without and the words, “She Loves God.” Chattanooga, The Citadel, Georgia emotion as we leave very good friends in ■ The phrase also appears on the Southern, North Carolina–Greensboro the OVC.” stone monument at her gravesite. ■ and Western Carolina in the Southern. 17 OF

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CALENDER Samford University calendar, go to events www.samford.edu/calendar/html. June 24– Samford Forensics July 23–26 Volleyball introductory Aug. 13 Cumberland School of Law July 7 Summer Institute, skills camp, (205) 726-4088, new student orientation, (205) 726-2049 http://samfordsports.cstv. (205) 726-4093, com/camps/samf-camps.html www.samford.edu/law July 4 Independence Day holiday, university closed July 23–27 Beeson Pastors School, Aug. 18 NurCE continuing (205) 726-2339, education workshop, July 5 First summer term ends www.beesondivinity.com hosted by Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing, 7 a.m.– July 9 Second summer term July 27–28 Outreach Teen Summit, begins 5 p.m., Brock Forum, hosted by Samford in (205) 726-2626, July 9 Samford Summer Mission, (205) 726-4203, www.samford.edu/nursing Workshop for rising high www.samford.edu/SIM First Priority Forum, school seniors and parents, July 30– Men’s basketball individual hosted by Samford admis- hosted by Samford in Aug. 2 camp, (205) 726-2709, Mission, 8 a.m.–3 p.m., sion office, (205) 726-3673, http://samfordsports.cstv. www.samford.edu/admission Brooks Hall, (205) 726-4203, com/camps/samf-camps.html www.samford.edu/sim July 9–12 Volleyball skills camp, Aug. 2–4 Alabama Defense Lawyers (205) 726-4088, Law and Civic Teen Court Association Trial Academy, training, (205) 726-2433 http://samfordsports.cstv. hosted by Cumberland com/camps/samf-camps.html School of Law, (205) 726- Aug. 20–21 Faculty Workshop 2865 Volleyball junior high team Aug. 22–23 New Student Orientation camp, (205) 726-4088, Aug. 4 Law and Civic Teen Court Session 5, (205) 726-2216, http://samfordsports.cstv. training, (205) 726-2433 www.samford.edu/ com/camps/samf-camps.html groups/fyi Aug. 4–5 Alabama Ballet presents July 9–13 Adventures in Music Mikhail Baryshnikov and Aug. 23 Move-in day for new camp, (205) 726-2810 Hell’s Kitchen, Wright students, July 16–18 Volleyball positions camp, Center Concert Hall; www.samford.edu/ (205) 726-4088, for tickets, contact the connections Alabama Ballet box office, http://samfordsports.cstv. Aug. 23–25 Connections for new com/camps/samf-camps.html (205) 975-2787, www.alabamaballet.org students, hosted by student Volleyball high school team affairs and freshman life, camp, (205) 726-4088, Aug. 8 Second summer term ends (205) 726-2345, http://samfordsports.cstv. www.samford.edu/ Aug. 9 Beeson Extension Division connections com/camps/samf-camps.html workshop, Divinity Hall, July 16–19, Baseball youth camp, (205) 726-2338, Aug. 24 NurCE continuing 23–26, 30– (205) 726-4095, www.beesondivinity.com education workshop, hosted by Ida V. Moffett Aug. 2 http://samfordsports.cstv. Aug. 11 Law and Civic Teen Court com/camps/samf-camps.html School of Nursing, 7 a.m.– training, (205) 726-2433 5 p.m., Brock Forum, (205) July 16–20 All Aboard for Music Ernie Haase and Signature 726-2626 camp, (205) 726-2810 Sound concert, 6 p.m., Aug. 26 Welcome Back Dinner on July 19–21 Baseball high school Wright Center Concert the Dirt, 5 p.m., hosted by camp, (205) 726-4095, Hall; for tickets, call Student Activities Council, http://samfordsports.cstv. 1-800-965-9324 (205) 726-2345, com/camps/samf-camps.html Aug. 12 Cumberland School of Law www.samford.edu/activities July 20 Alabama Baptist orientation picnic, Aug. 27 Fall semester begins Education Commission (205) 726-4093, summer meeting www.samford.edu/law

1818 Aug. 28 University Convocation, Sept. 6–8 Greek Weekend, of Performing Arts, and 10 a.m., Wright Center sponsored by greek life, concert pianist Barbara Concert Hall; speaker: (205) 726-2068, Bamberg, 2 p.m., Reid President Andrew www.samford.edu/greeklife Chapel Westmoreland Sept. 9 Super Jazz Big Band con- Sept. 28 Alabama Elementary All Aug. 30–31 Welcome Back, hosted by cert, 3 p.m., Brock Recital State Choir Festival, hosted Student Activities Council, Hall by School of Performing (205) 726-2345, Arts, (205) 726-2651 www.samford.edu/activities Sept. 12–16 Greek Life recruitment, sponsored by greek life, Sept. 28–29 Consortium for Global Aug. 31– New student retreat, hosted (205) 726-2068, Education annual meeting, Sept. 1 by University Ministries, www.samford.edu/greeklife hosted by Samford (205) 726-2825, www.samford.edu/um Sept. 13 High school journalism Sept. 28–30 Leadership Samford, workshop, hosted by jour- coordinated by student Sept. 3 Labor Day, university open nalism and mass commu- involvement, (205) 726- and classes in session nication department, (205) 2345, www.samford.edu/ 726-2465, www.samford.edu/ involvement Sept. 4 Faculty Gala, hosted by schools/artsci/jmc Division of Music, 7:30 p.m., For schedules and information Brock Recital Hall Sept. 18 Alabama Symphony on Samford athletics, go to Orchestra Concertmaster www.samfordsports.com. Meet the Firms, hosted by and Friends Series, 7:30 Samford Business, 5–9 p.m., p.m., Brock Recital Hall For a listing of Samford After Wright Center lobby, Sundown classes, go to (205) 726-2547 Sept. 21–23 Family Weekend www.samford.edu/sundown. Sept. 6 Holley-Hull Lecture, 10 Sept. 22 Preview Day, hosted by For the academic calendar, go to a.m., Reid Chapel; speaker: Samford admission office, http://www.samford.edu/calendars.html. Richard B. Hays, George (205) 726-3673, Washington Ivey Professor www.samford.edu/admission Information was compiled from the of New Testament at Duke university calendar as of May 15, 2007. Divinity School in Sept. 23 Old-Song Sing-Along Dates, times and details are subject to Durham, N.C. featuring Joseph Hopkins, change. Please go to www.samford.edu dean of Samford’s School for updated information.

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19 Shepherd Wraps Up 50 Years of Teaching by Mary Wimberley

s a tot, Betty Sue Garner for concerts,” said Shepherd, who began Shepherd found her way to taking organ lessons while a piano major

PEOPLE the piano bench at her at Judson College. Oneonta, Ala., home. “My Even longtime colleagues of the mother said I would pick always-elegant and well-coiffed musician Aout tunes on the piano by ear at age may not know that at Judson, her first three,” said Dr. Shepherd, who retired choice of an undergraduate minor this year after 50 years on the Samford subject was physical education. music faculty. “I found that it would take as much For five decades, she has trained practice time as my music major, so I pianists who have made their mark on switched to French,” said Shepherd. concert stages and in churches, public She was 1994 Alumna of the Year at schools, college music departments and Judson, which awarded her an honorary private studios around the world. doctor of humane letters degree in 1979. Shepherd taught several years part- Shepherd earned a master’s in music time and for one year full-time on the at the University of Alabama and has East Lake campus before taking a one- done additional study at Juilliard School year maternity break. When she rejoined of Music and Peabody Conservatory, the faculty, the school had relocated to where she studied with such greats as Homewood. She has been a fixture in Leon Fleischer and Fernando Laires. Buchanan Hall music building ever since. Such experiences allowed her to Her roster of students has included bring fresh ideas to her students and to Betty Sue Shepherd, above, piano performance majors that she her own performances, she said, noting performs an impromptu miniconcert instructed one-on-one, and other music that in that regard, learning and teaching in Italy’s Teatro Bibiena, where majors enrolled in group piano courses. “go hand in hand.” Mozart performed. She was a newlywed living near the She was the first female faculty East Lake campus when music depart- member inducted into Omicron Delta ment head George Koski asked her to fill Kappa leadership honor society and was in for a teacher who was on leave. Soon named 1998 Teacher of the Year by the afterward, she performed solo with the Alabama Music Teachers Association, orchestra to play Prokofiev’s Third which she has served in various capacities. Concerto for Piano as part of a festival in She received Samford’s 2004 George the school gym. She was 21 years old. Macon Award, given to a professor who Since then, she has performed with demonstrates the ability to inspire the Alabama Pops and other orchestras, students to greatness. and presented, by her estimation, “tons” Her students regularly achieve success of piano recitals at schools, churches and in graduate programs and consistently win venues such as Glorieta and Ridgecrest Birmingham Music Club and National Baptist assemblies. Federation of Music Club auditions. An unexpected treat came her way The veteran teacher is proud of the in 2004 during a Samford-sponsored success her students have achieved in tour of famous musical sites in Italy. many different musical—and some non- While in Mantua, she was allowed access musical—fields. Electrocardiologist to the famed Teatro Bibiena stage where Richard Vest ’99 credits part of his suc- the composer Mozart performed in cess in medical school to the discipline 1770. “I played some Mozart and Liszt,” he learned as a piano performance major she said of her minirecital performed for under her tutelage. 18 appreciative Samford travelers. “As a performer, Randall Atcheson Shepherd enjoyed a regular off- has excelled on stage, and others [such as campus position at Vestavia Hills Baptist senior Dawson Hull] are on the way,” Church, where she was organist for 38 said Shepherd. years. Before that, she was organist at Beside her for most of her 50 years at Ruhama Baptist Church in East Lake for Samford have been her daughters, Susanne 15 years. She retired from Vestavia this Shepherd ’77 and Jacqueline Shepherd year but continues to serve as organist Johnson, and her beloved late husband, emeritus and artist in residence. Dr. Neil Shepherd ’48, J.D. ’66, who died “I have always enjoyed playing in 2005. She has two granddaughters, organ at church, but preferred the piano Audra and Courtney Johnson. ■

Accolades, Anniversaries, Accreditations, Advancements and Advisory

from the school and practice not only in in nursing, a nurse internship program, a Alabama, but throughout the United registered nurse to master of science in States and the world. nursing degree option and a post- The graduate program, offering a baccalaureate advanced practice nurse master of science in nursing degree, cele- option that leads to a master of science brated its 10th anniversary in 2006. The in nursing degree. These advances in master’s program has four tracks that nursing education are explored in a prepare nurses as advance practice related article in this publication. nurses in the roles of family nurse prac- titioner, nurse educator, nurse manager Advisory. The IVMSON established and and nurse executive (M.S.N./M.B.A.). A convened its first Advisory Board in total of 216 graduates have completed 2006. The membership includes 22 the program and serve in a wide variety alumni, physicians, health-care adminis-

FROM THE FROM DEAN of leadership and advanced practice trators, business leaders and consumers. positions. Mrs. Jo Kicker serves as chair. It is antici- The nurse anesthesia program pated that the membership will increase admitted its fifth class of students in over the next two years until it reaches its ver the last two years, the Ida V. June 2007. Since the implementation of full compliment. Moffett School of Nursing this program, 110 students have been It is a pleasure to highlight the aca- O[IVMSON] has celebrated its admitted, and 34 have graduated. These demic excellence, scholarship and min- past while building its future. The school graduates practice throughout Alabama istry dimensions of the nursing program. continues its commitment to fulfill the and the Southeast. Our success is due in large part to the health-care needs of the state, nation and generous contributions of alumni, world through exceptional teaching, Accreditations. The Commission on friends and donors. I thank each of you scholarship and service. The stability and Collegiate Nursing Education [CCNE] who have contributed to the IVMSON acclaimed quality of nursing programs granted the IVMSON’s baccalaureate and made these accomplishments pos- are especially important in this critical and master’s degree programs continued sible. As Mrs. Moffett stated, “Before time of nursing faculty and practice accreditation for 10 years in 2005. The great things are accomplished, someone shortage. school was acknowledged for its quality has to dream a dream.”We continue to programs and outstanding faculty. dream dreams related to the future of Accolades. In 2005, the IVMSON was The Department of Nurse the IVMSON. We invite you to join us in designated as a Center of Excellence by Anesthesia received accreditation from making these dreams a reality. the National League for Nursing. The the Council on Accreditation of Nurse designation was in recognition of the Anesthesia Educational Programs school’s sustained efforts to “Create [COA], effective November 2006, for 10 Environments that Promote Student years. The CCNE and COA boards indi- Learning and Professional cated that all accreditation standards Nena F. Sanders, RN, D.S.N. Development.” The Center of Excellence were met and no areas of improvement Ralph W. Beeson Dean and Professor program is offered by the National were identified. Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing League for Nursing to recognize schools that have demonstrated a commitment Advances. The IVMSON is committed to excellence and invested resources over to addressing the needs of patients, its a sustained period to distinguish them- students and the health-care community. selves in a specific area related to nursing To meet these needs, the school has education. Nationally, the IVMSON is developed a number of innovative aca- one of seven schools that holds this demic programs to increase the number designation. of practicing nurses in the workforce, and to provide nontraditional means for Anniversaries. The IVMSON celebrated practicing nurses to gain advanced its 85th anniversary in January 2007. The knowledge and skills required to practice school’s history is one of tradition in today’s highly complex health-care founded on the principles and philosophy system. These innovations in nursing of Ida V. Moffett. Over these 85 years, education include a second degree more than 5,000 nurses have graduated option that leads to a bachelor of science

22 N URSING N EWSLETTER Curricular Innovations Help Moffett Meet Variety of New Nursing Needs

he Ida V. Moffett School of associate degree or diploma to Nursing offers a variety of earn a master’s degree. Students T innovative curricular take four bridge courses that build options aimed at helping people on previous learning to validate add a second degree in nursing, their knowledge of baccalaureate helping nursing students enhance level content, and then complete their learning through internships, the master’s degree program in its and assisting practicing nurses to entirety. update their skills and meet new “The American College of certification requirements. Nursing has stated that quality INNOVATIONS The nursing school accom- patient care for the future depends plishes this through its Second on having a highly educated Degree Bachelor of Science in nursing workforce,” said Dr. Jane Nursing, Nurse Internship, Martin, assistant dean for the Registered Nurse to Master of graduate program. “The R.N. to Science in Nursing and M.S.N. program enables the Postbaccalaureate Advanced nursing school to contribute to Practice Nursing programs. this long-range plan to improve “Through all these programs, patient care outcomes and clinical the Ida V. Moffett School of competency.” Nursing is making it possible for The demand for this program nurses at various levels and in is high in the Birmingham area, varying situations to gain the latest Alabama and surrounding states, professional knowledge and to sat- said Martin. The program is using isfy new credential requirements,” an online format to assist nurses said nursing Dean Nena F. Sanders. Samford’s Nurse Internship Program provides students with who work full-time and take “Through these programs, as opportunities to perform clinical skills under the supervision classes. Graduates work as nurse well as through its traditional of faculty members. educators, family nurse prac- bachelor’s and master’s degree titioners and nurse administrators, offerings, the nursing school provides The nursing school joined with she noted. ongoing service to health-care profes- Princeton Baptist Medical Center in 2006 Samford also offers a program that sionals and the patients they serve.” to provide its Nurse Internship Program enables Postbaccalaureate Advanced In 2001, Samford began admitting for currently enrolled students. It provides Practice Nursing [APN] nurses to com- students holding bachelor’s or master’s opportunities for students to plan and plete requirements for a master’s degree. degrees in other fields to its Second provide direct patient care by performing Even though many APN nurses have Degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing clinical nursing skills under direct super- practiced successfully for many years with program. vision of a faculty member. a certificate or bachelor’s degree, they “This is an accelerated opportunity “Students increase clinical com- now face requirements to hold master’s for individuals who already hold a degree petence and clinical judgment by inte- degree credentials to practice their in another field to complete requirements grating theory with practice; refine specialty. for a B.S.N. in 24 months after all prereq- communication skills; and enhance skills “This option prepares certified regis- uisite coursework is completed,” said Dr. in critical thinking, decision making, dele- tered nurse anesthetists, midwives and Joy Whatley, assistant dean, baccalaureate gation, priority setting, organization and nurse practitioners who graduated from program. team work,” said Dr. Geri Beers, who their respective specialty programs before Since the program began, 39 students codirected clinical supervision of the first the new professional and regulatory man- have earned this degree, including three in group of eight students with assistant dates to obtain master’s degree credentials May 2007. About 20 students are professor Elaine Marshall. in their specialty,” said Martin. currently enrolled. A total of 26 students enrolled in the This innovative option is online and The nursing school is studying the first three sessions of the internship, can be completed in 12 months, she feasibility of a 15-month second-degree including seven this summer. noted. ■ program that would run the year around, In the Registered Nurse to Master of said Whatley. Currently, students in this Science in Nursing program, Samford program do not attend during the helps experienced nurses holding the summer.

N URSING N EWSLETTER 23 Nursing Students Discover ‘Amazing Opportunity’ to ServeThrough Missions

ar from home, Samford nursing faculty and students minister to F the needs of people in need. From Mexico to Nicaragua to Africa, they are sowing seeds of comfort and healing. MISSIONS Professor Elaine Marshall, and students Rachel Saucer and Julie Lee traveled to Matamoras, Mexico, April 15–20 to operate a free health clinic. “Through the gracious donations of others, we were able to carry a variety of medical supplies, over-the-counter medications and children’s clothes across the border,” said Saucer. The three operated free health clinics in several neighborhoods during their five-day stay, providing blood sugar screenings, blood pressure checks, temperature readings and physical assessments. “We diagnosed several cases of diabetes, hypertension and malnutrition,” Saucer said, “and offered health education and referrals to local physicians for follow-up care.” Saucer felt the experience provided a Nursing student Rachel Saucer shares a happy moment with a child during her mission mutual gain for those treated and for the trip to Matamoras, Mexico. Samford participants. “It expanded my view of health care and enhanced my competent free medical clinic in Africa,” the highlands of Kenya. After traveling philosophy of nursing,” she said. she said. several hours on dusty roads, her group Student Meredith Lynn Wells travels For Wells, this is the goal. reached a gate with a bright yellow sign this summer to Swaziland to continue a Student Andrea Bunger worked for proclaiming, “We treat. Jesus heals.” focus on missionary nursing that she 10 days in a medical clinic in Jinotega, “Here is a hospital [founded in began several years ago. “I went to Nicaragua, during the summer of 2006, 1935] that gave birth to a surrounding Swaziland after my freshman year with assisting a nurse and pharmacist giving town and a rigorous top-notch medical 13 college-aged students and worked in free medical treatment. school, that treats people without regard primitive conditions helping orphan “I counted, labeled and bottled to insurance or charge sheets, and that soup kitchens, schooling, evangelism and medications as well as took blood continues to function and grow with my favorite part—hospital ministry,” she pressures, other vital signs and gave my little or no profit margin,” she said. said. first shot,” she said. “I was blessed with Hebert said “resourcefulness and Wells said she was touched by “the the amazing opportunity to serve God compassion” explain the reason why. pain and fear surrounding the reality of through missions.” Hebert and her group attended a death that comes with AIDS” in Africa. The experience underscored the church service during their stay. She returned to Africa with her father differences in health care between the Afterward, people contributed to the the next year and felt a calling to mis- United States and Nicaragua, she said. It collection. One woman gave a small bag sionary service. also prompted her decision to return to of beans and another a single egg. A “I will be completing my inde- Nicaragua this summer, where she will missionary explained that it possibly was pendent study with Samford this serve as a medical intern for two the only egg she had that week. summer while working in an orphan months. At that moment, Hebert said, “I clinic, assisting short-term missions Student Sarah Hebert traveled with realized that when Jesus is all you have, teams in hospital ministry, and learning a group of 11 volunteers to Tenwek you’re a lot more likely to be grateful.” ■ what it takes to have a respectable and Hospital, a missionary medical facility in

24 N URSING N EWSLETTER Samford Nursing Students Compete in Two Demanding Arenas, Academic and Athletic by Jean M. McLean

or 15 students in Samford’s Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing, com- F peting in one of the most chal- lenging nursing programs in the nation is not enough. They also choose to compete on courts and fields as student- athletes in seven intercollegiate sports and cheerleading. COMPETITORS Nursing students are members of Samford teams in basketball, cheerleading, cross-country, football, golf, soccer, tennis, and track and field. Those students, which include men and women, exemplify the dedication and excellence of Samford’s nursing students. “We are proud of every one of our students in the nursing school,” said Dr. Nena Sanders, Ralph W. Beeson Dean Some of Samford’s nursing student athletes are, from left, Marchele Olds, Sara McKey, and professor of the school. “Our nursing Ashley Flowers, Allison Stone (12), Amber Cress (11), Cayley Winters, Bethany Benson and student-athletes particularly serve as Jenna Sturgill. exemplary representatives of the diversity Progress Ratings [APR] for all 17 of its forward Amber Cress, Sturgill, Herring of our program. The nursing school is intercollegiate sports. and Benson, have family members who unique in that we allow nursing students Discipline seems to be the byword are nurses or physicians. Others, like to continue with their athletic program for nursing student-athletes. Tennis tennis player Sarah McKey, who entered while enrolled in nursing courses. player Bethany Benson is mindful of Samford as a sports medicine major, “I credit our faculty with making balancing nursing school demands when changed to nursing after realizing their this possible by assisting students to traveling to other schools, trying to focus passion for hands-on patient care. Each negotiate academic versus athletic on studies in a van or hotel with team- feels called to the profession. requirements. We have men and women mates. Soccer goalkeeper Cayley Winters “I believe nursing is a calling from with wide-ranging athletic interests that agrees, but adds, “When I am in-season, God,” said Winters. “This semester, I felt exhibit dedication and discipline related to my grades are better because I have to be God pushing me to switch to nursing. both their academic and athletic pursuits.” so disciplined and have great time man- Through the help of my friends and Samford scored above the National agement, so I am able to focus and work through prayer, I knew I wanted to invest Collegiate Athletic Association [NCAA] hard on my studies.” my life into helping others.” three-year national average in Academic Cross-country runner Katherine In addition to fulfilling their sports Herring says success in both athletics and and academic dreams, these students say academics means sacrifice and attitude there are other rewards to their Samford Samford Nursing Student-Athletes adjustment. “It means finding joy in student-athlete experience. Herring lists Bethany Benson, David Lee, studying at Starbucks instead of going what she has learned in sports about Tennis Football out with friends, going to bed early so I teamwork, leadership, communication, Amber Cress, Sarah McKey, can wake up at 4 a.m. and get my run in assertiveness and the ability to follow as Soccer Tennis before clinical, and keeping up with classes assets that will benefit her and her William Denton, Stuart Misner, and clinical when I have to be gone almost patients. Benson cites the people she has Track Tennis every weekend for a meet,” she said. been able to meet, and the balance that Blake Ellenburg, Marchele Olds, Sprinter Ashley Flowers and soccer tennis and nursing gave her. Cheerleader Soccer Anna Fearon, Jenna Sturgill, goalkeeper Jenna Sturgill say that Each student was effusive in their Pole Vault Soccer although the challenges are real, “you find praise of supportive professors and class- Ashley Flowers, Maria Troche, ways, whether it is on the bus, between mates. Flowers is grateful for the “body Track Golf classes and even during lunch, to squeeze of believers that can pray and encourage Katherine Herring, Cayley Winters, in that extra studying time,” said Flowers. me when things are getting tough.” ■ Cross-Country Soccer Each of these students has long been Chelsee Insell, interested in medicine. Some, like soccer Jean M. McLean is a freelance writer in Basketball Montevallo, Ala.

N URSING N EWSLETTER 25 Ruth Shell Saw the Face of War as a Nurse at the front gate for the first two nights Searcy saw the horrors of war up with a picnic basket of chicken and close, and recalled giving morphine to fixings from my mother. She wanted to two men who had lost their legs when make sure the Army was feeding her their truck ran over a land mine in baby properly.” Belgium. Searcy earned a commission as a The war in Europe ended in May of second lieutenant. On Jan. 3, 1944, she 1945, and Searcy returned to England and her unit sailed from New York City and then to the United States, where she for England. They were assigned to a tent was discharged in November of 1945.

ALUMNI city near the town of Honiton in south- She earned citations for her part in the west England as part of the buildup for victory, and in January of 1946, was the upcoming invasion of Europe in promoted to Captain. June of 1944. Searcy returned to Abbeville and “I never really developed the English continued her nursing career in a local pastime of drinking tea,” she said. “They medical clinic. She married Dr. James put milk in it, of all things.” Shell in 1951. Searcy got her first taste of war Now 88, she reported that she Ruth Searcy Shell (1945 photo) treating bomber crew members who had would be unable to attend a recent tea been wounded by antiaircraft fire. for Samford nursing school graduates. uth Searcy Shell of Abbeville, During this time, she met then-Col. But the invitation started her thinking Ala., learned her way around a Curtis Lemay, who had been injured by again about her days at Baptist Hospital R hospital as a student at shrapnel on a mission. Lemay later and her contributions as a member of Birmingham Baptist Hospital School of became a four-star general and chief of the Army Nursing Corps. Nursing. She discovered the face of war staff of the U.S. Air Force. He and Searcy She was chief nurse in her unit at as a member of the U.S. Army Nursing remained friends throughout the war the time the war ended. In her commen- Corps not long thereafter. and afterward. dation letter of Sept. 7, 1945, Major Max The south Alabama native had just Several weeks after the D-Day Morrison wrote, “The conduct of your finished nursing school and begun a invasion, Searcy and her unit went nurses has been, in my opinion, exem- career as a nurse when the United States ashore on Omaha Beach in France to set plary of the high standards of the Army entered World War II. In November of up mobile field hospitals that followed Nurse Corps.” ■ 1942, she joined the Army Women’s closely behind the troops. The hospitals Nurse Corps and went to Fort Rucker, moved frequently, performing as many This article contains information from an Ala., for training. as 80 operations a day. More than 85 interview by Ken Bedsole that appeared in “It’s about 30 miles from my home,” percent of the soldiers operated on The Abbeville Herald July 31, 2003, and she recalled, “and my father showed up survived. from Bob Weed, nephew of Ruth Searcy Shell. ‘Workhorse’ Nurses Filled in Well: Ogburn t was hard age 18. She earned her diploma, and the “It was a wonderful time, even work, but prized white nursing uniform and cap, though it was hard,” she said. “We didn’t IMary Isgett three years later. have all the machinery they have today, Ogburn can’t Ogburn was a member of the Cadet and we did things like manually remember not Nurse Corps during student days. These counting IV drops.’” wanting to be student nurses also pulled full-time shifts Ogburn worked as a nurse until a nurse. in hospitals, filling in for registered nurses 1949, when she married and began “One of who had gone off to World War II. raising a family of five children. After her the happiest “Really, we were the workhorses,” husband, Bill, died in 1980, she returned times of my she said. to nursing after being out 32 years. She life was getting Student nurses went to three classes worked for another 22 years in oncology Mary Ogburn the letter that I a day and then worked a shift in a hos- at Brookwood Hospital. had been pital. They were paid $10 a month, and She has one regret associated with accepted to nursing school,” she recalled. the government supplied their uniforms, her Cadet Nurse Corps days, and it’s She started to Birmingham Baptist room, board and books. Ida V. Moffett, simply that the corps is not formally rec- Hospital School of Nursing—forerunner for whom Samford’s school is named, ognized today. “All the records are gone,” to Samford’s nursing school—in 1944 at headed the nursing program. she said. “It’s too bad.” ■

26 N URSING N EWSLETTER Students Assist Hospice Patients and Discover They Benefit as Well was truly pleased with the amount of leading to the 3M grant to improve the listen and talk with the patient about life “ conversation that took place in my amount and quality of clinical exposure or current events,” she said. Ithird volunteer visit. We talked for an for students caring for hospice patients. “I Students submit a reflective journal hour on topics such as baseball, planes was particularly interested in finding a of their visits and how their faith has and flying. He talked about his belief in way for nursing students to better under- impacted the experience. “The reflective God, and we listened to gospel music on stand and appreciate the needs of care- journal has been more insightful than I the radio.” givers whose family member has chosen anticipated,”Alexander said. “Several said These words reflect the thoughts of a to die at home, and the importance of they thought the visits would help the

Samford nursing student after a visit to a volunteerism in a community,” she said. patient, but that they were the ones who SPOTLIGHT hospice care patient. The nursing school’s partner in the were really helped.” “I took him a bag of chocolates,” the grant is New Beacon Hospice of One student wrote, “I feel better student continued, writing in a journal. Birmingham. The grant is designed so that prepared to give emotional support to “Whenever I visit, he talks about the food three or four senior nursing students are patients and their families after this in the nursing home and his dislike of it. assigned a hospice patient for the semester. service-learning experience. My faith Next time I come, I will bring him a bar- They work with the patient, family or played a big part in this experience. [It becue sandwich, and we will plan to have other caregivers as well as the New Beacon gave] me the strength I needed to offer our own picnic in the courtyard outside, volunteer director, Cheryl Acton, and its emotional support to a dying patient.” weather permitting.” nurses to determine short- and long-term A total of 117 students, 39 patients The student is one of more than 100 patient needs that students can meet. and 60 other caregivers have benefited involved in a program offering visits to “They might offer services such as from this volunteer learning experience, hospice patients around Birmingham reading to the patient, taking them out to said Alexander. “The goals for increased during the past two years. Directed by a meal, checking out videos or books understanding and appreciation of the nursing professor Janet Alexander, the from the library, cutting grass or assisting needs of hospice patients and caregivers program is funded by a three-year Vision with light chores around the house, such have been realized.” Grant of $46,700 from the 3M Company. as washing dishes, filling a bird-feeder or The grant will continue for one more Dr. Alexander has worked previously picking up groceries,” said Alexander. year, she said, adding, “I hope what the with hospice and oncology patients in her “They also bring patients their students have learned and the desire to be clinical practice. She created the proposal favorite foods, play cards or chess, or just a volunteer will last a lifetime.” ■

Nurse Anesthesia Celebrates Five Years he nurse anesthesia program at within our local community and nation- Lonnie W. Funderburg and the graduates Samford’s Ida V. Moffett School ally, and applications from across the of the Birmingham Baptist Nurse T of Nursing celebrates its five-year country have increased dramatically,” she Anesthesia Program.” anniversary this summer. The 28-month said. “In the Class of 2007, 37 percent of Alumni of the Birmingham Baptist course of study awards the master of the students are from out-of-state.” Nurse Anesthesia Program and the science in nursing degree and prepares Commensurate with its growing Nurse Anesthesia Program established students to sit for the nurse anesthesia stature, Samford will be represented at the Funderburg Lectureship four years national certification examination. the National Nurse Anesthesia College ago to honor the Samford graduate who “The program was developed in Bowl in Denver, Colo., this summer for developed and directed the Birmingham response to the critical need for certified the first time. Alison Herron, junior Baptist Nurse Anesthesia Program that registered nurse anesthetists [CRNAs] nurse anesthesia student, was selected resided on the Samford campus until the throughout the U.S.,” said Dr. Mary from more than 100 applicants nation- mid-1980s. Karlet, chair of the nurse anesthesia wide to represent the program. Funderburg’s generosity also pro- department. The program’s inaugural “Central to the program’s success is vided for the establishment of a scholar- class of 18 students graduated in 2005. the support of the Alabama Association ship in his name. The Funderburg Nurse Approximately 24 students graduate of Nurse Anesthetists, and the entire Anesthesia Scholarship will be used to from the nationally accredited program Birmingham nurse anesthesia and anes- help support a nurse anesthesia student each year, and Samford CRNA graduates thesiologist community,” said Karlet. who demonstrates a commitment to are respected practitioners throughout “Additionally, the program would anesthesia practice in rural communities, Alabama and beyond, Karlet noted. not have recognized its current status a demographic with a critical need for “The program’s reputation has grown without the support and guidance of Dr. anesthesia providers. ■

N URSING N EWSLETTER 27 Parish Nurse Program Helps People See Value of Proactive Approach to Health n 1999, Samford became one of the health program coordinator for Baptist “The majority of these nurses first 50 nursing schools in the nation Health System. Today, BHS sponsors a trained in the program offered by I to offer the Basic Preparation for program to promote health and wellness Samford have been Alabamians,” she Parish Nurses course developed by the from a faith perspective in 85 churches said. “However, the course has attracted International Parish Nurse Resource across 17 counties, Duke noted. nurses throughout the Southeast. Many Center. Parish nurses work through Over the past two years, Samford who have attended the course have churches and faith communities to stress has joined with BHS and WMU to offer developed active health ministries in healthier lifestyles, offering such services more than 60 health fairs and com- their own congregations.” SPOTLIGHT as education, counseling, referral and munity health events. Parish nurses perform a variety of support groups. “Samford provides huge support for duties. In her role as parish nurse, Duke The school works with Baptist this program,” said Duke. “We work coordinates blood pressure screenings, Health System [BHS] and Woman’s closely to maintain educational oppor- health-related guest speakers, health Missionary Union [WMU] to offer tunities for the parish nurses to keep educational bulletin boards, diabetes and programs in what is now called Faith them informed and motivated.” cancer support groups, flu shots and Community Nursing. Samford has Duke believes such programs are weight-loss programs. trained about 450 parish nurses since helping people change to healthier “The nurses foster new and creative ’99, according to Dr. Gretchen McDaniel, lifestyles. responses to health and wellness con- who coordinates the Samford course “The most exciting thing to me is I cerns through a variety of roles,” said program. believe some people are finally beginning McDaniel. These include serving as Samford nursing graduate Debbie to understand that their personal health educators and counselors, referral Duke found new inspiration for her accountability for their health can be agents, support group developers, career when she discovered the field proactive and not just reactive,” she said. coordinators of volunteers and health several years ago. She had been a regis- “I am actually seeing people change their advocates. tered nurse for several years when she behaviors, slowly for sure, by education “By serving as integrators of faith took the parish nurse course in 2000 and and commitment.” and health, these nurses assist parish- became the nurse at Clear Creek United McDaniel noted that “the relation- ioners to achieve higher levels of wellness Methodist Church in Argo, Ala. ship between faith and health has gained by recognizing the relationship between Later, she was named congregational considerable validation” in recent years. spiritual and physical health,” she said. ■

Nurses Stay Current Through NurCE he Ida V. Moffett School of program also earned continuing edu- obtained through independent study Nursing helps Alabama nurses cation provider status through Dec. 23, activities.” T stay current in their field and 2010, from the Alabama Board of The goal of NurCE is to make a meet periodic licensure requirements Nursing. wide variety of courses available at through its continuing education In addition, NurCE provided reasonable costs in convenient locations. program, NurCE. The department has continuing nursing education [CNE] to Among the higher interest courses are provided professional development for missionary nurses on leave in the United basic offerings in preparation for parish nurses since the early 1990s, when con- States, offered an end-of-life care nurses, chemotherapy administration tinuing education became mandatory. program in connection with the 3M and trauma concepts every nurse should NurCE was among the first con- grant awarded the nursing school in this know, geriatric care concepts, breast tinuing education providers recognized subject area, sponsored a health ministry cancer update, obesity management, by the Alabama Board of Nursing. conference in conjunction with Baptist end-of-life nursing care, domestic abuse “These health professionals need an Health System of Alabama and offered and family violence, management of opportunity to select courses that can for the 16th time a course in basic bedside emergencies and others. best meet their learning needs in a preparation for parish nurses. Suzanne Scharf serves as coordi- variety of locations and formats,” said “Alabama nurses must complete 24 nator of the NurCE program. ■ Dr. Gretchen McDaniel, NurCE director. contact hours of CNE within the two- During 2006–07, NurCE sponsored year licensure period,” said McDaniel. 54 continuing education programs “Of these, 12 hours must be obtained by covering a wide range of topics. The attending programs, while 12 can be

28 N URSING N EWSLETTER HOMECOMING

“Celebrate Traditions” Samford University’s 2007 Homecoming October 19–21

Enjoy renewing friendships Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Homewood campus and the 165th anniversary of Samford’s founding

You don’t want to miss • Gala banquet celebrating the dedication of the new • Special events for the classes of 1957, 1982 and 1987 Pete Hanna Center and honoring the 2007 Alumni of • Special reunion gatherings for art alumni, nursing the Year: Walt Barnes ’56, Sigurd Bryan ’46, Carol alumni, former members of the BSU/Student Guthrie ’93 and George Irons ’52 Ministries Choir, and other organizations and affinity • Fireworks, pep rally and bonfire Friday night groups • Samford Alumni Association annual meeting Friday • Golden Bulldogs (classes of 1957 and earlier) • Parade Saturday morning gathering Saturday • Festival and organization reunion tents Saturday • Sunday worship led by Esther and Bob Burroughs, • Live @ the Library featured historian and author featuring the BSU/Student Ministries Reunion Choir Kathryn Tucker Windham • Hot-air balloon rides and the Bulldog FunZone • Football vs. conference rival Austin Peay State • Performances by the Alabama Ballet University; soccer and volleyball conference matches throughout the weekend

Online registration opens Aug. 1. Other events will be added to the schedule throughout the year.

For regular updates, go to www.samford.edu/alumni.

29 BACK LOOKING

Moore Moved over the Mountain from East Lake to Become The First Student in Vail Toni Moore was Miss Entre Nous 1957 and the evening weather girl on Channel 13. by Jack Brymer

he magnitude of the contrast she spent her sophomore year after trans- no nearby bath and an assortment of “ between where we were moving ferring from the University of Alabama. really strange characters in the house.” Tfrom and where we were moving to “The old campus, with its antiquity Moore, who was the last Miss Entre didn’t sink in until the day I first walked and charm that history brings, had been Nous at the East Lake campus, had a job into Vail [Hall],” recalled Mrs. Charles appealing to me,” she said. “The paths as the “weather girl” in local television, Clevenger of Pensacola, Fla., the former worn into the wooden floors, the vines and could not go home for the summer Toni Moore of Eight Mile, Ala. growing into my Old Testament class- like most students. She badly needed a It was the summer of 1957, and the room through gaps in window frames change in living accommodations, and young woman from near Mobile found and the general dilapidation all seemed Howard officials gave her early entry into herself as the only student living in a normal and pleasantly quaint.” the residence hall. modern residence hall designed for 200 Her East Lake home was quaint, too, Although her new room on the fifth students on the new Shades Valley but not so pleasant, she recalled. She lived floor of Vail Hall was small with two campus of then-Howard College. It was a in “the small library of a home near built-in beds and desks, one window and welcome contrast from East Lake, where Ruhama Baptist Church, with no closet, a private bath, it was luxurious compared

30 Almost immediately, Clevenger television and the Miss Alabama Pageant, began preparing for the Miss Alabama and she reminded me regularly and com- pageant, which became an annual ritual mandingly that I also represented the next three summers. “I kept returning Howard College.” to the pageant to re-up my scholarship,” Clevenger said she was also greatly she said. She was alternate Miss Alabama influenced by several professors in the in the summer of 1958. areas of English and journalism, and Clevenger said her decision to trans- particularly the late religion professor, Dr. fer to Howard was life changing in more Arthur Walker. “How grateful I am that I

than one way. was required to take both Old and New BACK LOOKING “For one thing, it turned me in a Testament,” she said. “I still use the Bible decidedly more Baptist direction, which dictionary that I bought to use in those has led to a layperson’s fringe career of classes, which opened up for an 18-year- Baptist journalism, history and denomi- old a new world of study that continues national service,” she said. It also intro- to this day.” duced her via television to Samford Although always a Baptist, Clevenger alumnus and husband-to-be Charles noted that being a part of the Samford Clevenger, a doctor practicing medicine community made her much more aware in the Birmingham area. of her heritage and denomination. In “Moving to the new campus was addition to her life as a wife and mother, exciting, not just for those of us who were Clevenger also enjoyed a career as an Toni and Charles Clevenger students and faculty, but for the entire active Baptist layperson and writer. A city,” she said. “It was the talk of the town. Sunday school teacher of men and News organizations covered the develop- women at First Baptist Church in to East Lake. She was the first student to ments regularly. At Channel 13, the NBC Pensacola, Fla., for many years, she also live in Vail. affiliate where I worked as the weather served as a member of the Southern “The dorm still had workers on every girl on the evening newscasts, the Howard Baptist Convention Radio and Television floor, and the hammering began very story was covered with the latest technical Commission, the North American early in the morning,” she said. “The dust innovation—16-millimeter movie film, Mission Board and the Foreign Mission and smell of paint was far better than at black, white and grainy. No color, no Board Task Force. Additionally, she served the place I lived across from Ruhama videotape and certainly no remote trucks. on the Florida Baptist Witness Church, where they cooked cabbage every The story was big. Commission. Currently, she is a director other day.” “Driving up Shades Mountain on of Baptists Today, and a member of the Clevenger left the cabbage in East U.S. Highway 31 to get a good view of the Baptist History and Heritage Society Lake, but said she lived off ham and progress at the Lakeshore site from the advisory board. She is author of On The cheese sandwiches most of the summer. scenic overlook was a regular ritual,” she Bay—On the Hill, an acclaimed history of “A friend from Auburn brought me a said. the First Baptist Church of Pensacola. huge round of cheese from his uncle’s She recalled a serendipitous event Clevenger’s two daughters—both of dairy farm in Wisconsin. That same from that scenic overlook: “Long before I whom also have lived on the fifth floor of night, we went to see the Birmingham knew him, my husband had lost his Vail—are amused that of all the special Barons baseball team play at Rickwood Howard ’52 class ring at that overlook. things that happened in their mother’s Field,” she said. “I had the lucky scorecard Years later, someone found it there, took Samford life, she seems proudest of being number and won a 20-pound whole ham. the time to call the school, and using his the first student on the new campus and The Lord provides.” engraved initials and graduation date, the first resident of Vail. Clevenger has distinct memories of located him and returned the ring. I like “Maybe they are right,” she said. the first year in Shades Valley. to think that it was someone who really “That is a very special memory.” ■ “Everything was muddy most of the cared about the college, knew the special time and quite dusty otherwise,” she meaning of the ring and had stopped to recalled. “The RA would leave me notes view the campus under construction.” about needing to tidy my room.” Clevenger said that while she shares Clevenger said her first year at the memories of most of the students Samford was a life-changing adventure. It from the East Lake adventure, especially started with a knock on her door during the closeness—both emotionally and her freshman year at Alabama, where she physically, she suspects her experience was on a journalism scholarship. was not typical. The person at her door was Lily Mae “For one thing, being chosen Miss Caldwell of The Birmingham News, a Entre Nous in the last year on the old promoter of the Miss Alabama pageant. campus altered the direction of my years “She introduced herself, instructed as a coed and, indeed, the direction of my me to step into the hall so she could get a life,” she said. “I have often wondered if better look at me and asked if I would Dean Margaret Sizemore did not play a move to Birmingham if I received a role in my being selected for the tele- scholarship to Howard College,” vision job,” she said. “She always encour- Clevenger said. “My answer was, ‘without aged the many special appearances a doubt, if they have a journalism major.’” generated by my involvement in radio,

31 Let us hear from you! 1-877-SU ALUMS (205) 726-2807 CLASS [email protected] This issue includes Class Notes received through May 22, 2007.

’25 Mabel Causey celebrated her 102nd birth- ’59 Mary H. Hudson retired from the Carol Jean Jolly McLain of Montgomery, day recently at Homestead Village in Samford math department faculty. She Ala., retired from nursing in 2004.

ALUMNI Fairhope, Ala. She retired in 1965 after lives in Birmingham. teaching ninth-grade civics for 40 years in ’67 Wayne K. Meshejian retired after teaching Hueytown, Ala. At her party, she recited Donald Theodore Johnson of Auburn, physics for 39 years at Longwood from memory the Preamble to the U.S. Ala., retired in July after 26 years as University, Farmville, Va. Constitution. director of missions, Tuskegee Lee Baptist Association. ’69 Pamela Handy Shell of Huntsville, Ala., ’49 Marvin C. Atchley, Sr., and his wife, Ruth, retired after 20 years of teaching. ’61 J. Wayne Flynt was honored by the celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary ’70 Burton W. (Tony) Brooks of Cordova, in September. They live in Pell City, Ala. national news journal Baptists Today with its Judson-Rice Award for leadership with Tenn., is vice president and chief financial Howard Golden of Wetumpka, Ala., integrity. A historian, author and professor officer of Transaction Graphics, Inc. teaches Samford extension courses at emeritus at Auburn University, Dr. Flynt Linda Keller Thomas is education depart- Staton and Draper state prisons, and was cited for being a strong advocate for ment manager at Trinity Medical Center, Maxwell federal prison. the poor and a bridge builder across racial Birmingham, and an adjunct faculty divides. Henry Raymaker, Jr., is a retired clinical member at the University of Alabama’s psychologist. Dr. Raymaker and his wife, ’62 Mary Thornberry Phillips, M.B.A. ’72, Capstone School of Nursing. Colleen, live in Dublin, Ga. was named a Woman of Achievement by ’71 Ruth Ann Carpenter Siegler of the Northwest Georgia YWCA for the Cincinnati, Ohio, was named to 2007 ’50 David DeMaine Russell is retired and difference she makes in the community. lives in Brooksville, Fla. His grand- Who’s Who Among American Teachers. She is executive assistant to the president She is visual arts coordinator for daughter, Lindsay Reidenbach of Ponte at Southern Polytechnic State University, Vedra, Fla., will enroll at Samford on a Sycamore Community Schools, Marietta, Ga., where she and her husband, Cincinnati, Ohio. tennis scholarship in the fall. Ben, live. ’52 Harold Anderson is retired from the ’72 Billy T. Gamble lives in Birmingham. He Jerry Mae Talley Windsor and Jerry retired from teaching in the Samford Alabama Baptist Convention’s State Board Mack Windsor ’64 live in Graceville, Fla. of Missions. He lives in Montgomery, Ala. School of Business in 1988. Previously, he She retired from Jackson County Schools. was a chief warrant officer in the U.S. ’54 William G. Caldwell retired from He retired from Baptist College of Florida, Navy and superintendent of the physical Southwestern Baptist Theological and is adjunct professor at Chipola plant at Samford. Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, after 30 College and secretary-treasurer of the years as professor of administration. He Florida Baptist Historical Society. ’73 J. Richard Duke, J.D., was listed in the helped develop a church administrators December 2006 issue of Worth magazine ’63 Bobby Jackson was named running backs as one of the Top 100 Attorneys in the certification program and is a contributor coach for the Miami Dolphins of the to church administration publications. Dr. United States. He specializes in inter- National Football League. Jackson has national and domestic asset protection Caldwell and his wife, the former Dianne coached in the NFL for 20 years, including Clemm, whom he met at Samford, have planning, estate planning and tax plan- three seasons as offensive coordinator of ning. He practices law in Birmingham. two grown children and four grandchildren. the St. Louis Rams. Previously, he was an ’55 John B. Upchurch received the 2006 Frist assistant coach in college ranks for 17 James A. Stephens, Jr., M.B.A. ’75, was Humanitarian Award for Volunteer years. He was a two-time Little All- elected to the Bessemer, Ala., city council. Service at StoneCrest Medical Center, America running back at Samford under He is president of Stephens and Son Smyrna, Tenn. He is the center’s volunteer Coach Bobby Bowden in 1961–62. Enterprises. chaplain coordinator. ’64 Wallace Henley is coauthor of Energy ’75 James Edward Yeargan of Lafayette, Ala., Charles F. Hill, a retired chaplain and Zappers: Dealing with People Who Drain is chairman of the interior design advisory pastor, continues to perform pastoral You (Baker Publishing) with Shaun board in Auburn University’s School of duties and promote home missions. He Blakeney of California’s Saddleback Human Sciences. He owns Creative and his wife, Mavis, live in Waverly Hall, Ga. Church. Henley, a former president of the Cabinets in Auburn and Lafayette. Alabama Baptist State Convention, is ’79 Shelley Outlaw Peterson of Centerville, assistant pastor of the 43,000-member Ohio, is community relations manager for Ridgecrest Reunion Aug. 9–11 Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas. ll former staffers at Ridgcrest Baptist Lexis Nexis, Dayton, Ohio. Bobbie Lacey Lowery is founder/owner of Assembly in North Carolina are invited ’80 Debbie Penson Bozeman of Warner A The Pharmacy at Altadena in Birmingham. to a reunion Aug. 9–11, 2007, at Ridgecrest. Robbins, Ga., is founder/owner of For reservations and information, call toll- Contract RX. free 1-800-588-7222. For additional infor- ’66 J. Tyre Denney ofLawrenceburg,Ky.,is mation, call Samford graduate Neil Nation interim pastor of Pigeon Fork Baptist ’61 at (615) 395-7664. ■ Church, Waddy, Ky. 32 Ruth Ellis of Birmingham is 2007–08 national president of Kappa Delta Epsilon education honor society. Irene Pendleton is retired and is enrolled Barksdale Named Samford in theology courses at Springhill College, Mobile, Ala. She lives in Birmingham. Business Alumnus of Year Muzaffar Sheikh, M.S.E., retired from Vestavia Hills High School after teaching irmingham cer- of the Birmingham office of Carr, Riggs

world history for 35 years. He was also Btified public & Ingram, LLC. ALUMNI coach of a state championship girls soccer accountant Brian He is council chairman of the team. Barksdale was Alabama Society of Certified Public named the Accountants and a past president of the ’82 John McClendon is director of training Samford University group’s Birmingham chapter. He is a and development for LifeWay, Nashville, School of Business member of the Samford School of Tenn. He lives in Murfreesboro, Tenn. 2007 Alumnus of Business Advisory Council and a trustee the Year. A 1979 of the Birmingham Regional Chamber ’83 Glenn Elliott Stephens is a license mort- magna cum laude of Commerce. ■ gage banker/real estate salesman with Brian Barksdale business adminis- Fairmont Funding, Ltd., Tampa, Fla. tration graduate with an accounting ’84 Stuart Condra is associate pastor and emphasis, Barksdale is managing partner minister of worship at Riverland Hills Baptist Church, Columbia, S.C. transfer to the department’s national Small Business Client in Florida. He E. Bailey Marks, Jr., is founder and advocacy center in Columbia, S.C. His practices law in Tallahassee, Fla. director of CrossRoads International, a duties include development and adminis- character-based, educational strategy tration of training courses for justice ’89 Alicia Thrash Storbeck and her husband, organization based in Orlando, Fla. department attorneys. Jim, are founders and owners of HeartStrings Enterprises, Inc., an Auburn, Rick Sample, a Cooperative Baptist ’87 Stacia Sinclair Gaines, her husband, Matt, Ala., based personalization company that Fellowship missionary to internationals in and their children, Madison and Mason, offers engraved sterling silver jewelry and the San Francisco Bay (Calif.) area, was live in Tianjin, China, where Matt teaches personalized items to shops and Web missionary in residence at Samford during at Tianjin International School. She helps retailers nationwide. They recently the 2006–07 academic year. He and his local university students with conver- launched a direct sales company, Initial wife, Lita, have three children, Beth, 8, sational English and works with human Outfitters. They work with a local Anna, 5, and Elliott, 2. resources projects. Hispanic church plant and sponsor evan- gelistic conferences in Mexico, where most Jeff W. Swedenburg owns and operates Melanie Kay Boyd Hill of Dothan, Ala., is of their jewelry is made. Change of Heart Christian Store in director of sales training and development Reform, Ala., and is bivocational minister for the hospice division of Gentiva Health ’90 Melissa Ann Edmiston Rathke moved of education at First Baptist Church, Services. She is responsible for training back to her hometown, Jacksonville, Ala. Pickensville, Ala. He has two sons, Adam, and sales support for 40 account execu- She is assistant manager/pharmacist at 13, and Brad, 17. tives in 29 offices in five states. Wal-Mart in Gadsden, Ala. ’85 John Malcom Floyd, J.D. ’88, M.S.E.M. Lauri Sitton Rogers is volunteer coordi- Andrea Baird Smith is vice president, ’99, was named to the Cumberland nator for Habitat for Humanity of Greater treasury management, for RBC Centura School of Law Advisory Board, to the Birmingham. Bank. She and her husband, Randy, live in board of trustees of Holy Family Cristo Sarasota, Fla., They have a son, Cooper Rey High School and chair of the Mt. Sonya Stewart presented programs on James, born in February. Laurel Public Library. He is senior family history and genealogy, and blacks, attorney and corporate risk manager with baseball and the mines in Ernest, Penn., at ’91 Johnson LaVoria Chandler earned a Vulcan Materials Company, Birmingham. recent conferences in Pennsylvania. She is master of arts at Birmingham-Southern He and his wife, Marsha Moon Floyd ’85, working on several grant projects on College in 2006. She lives in West have two sons, Harrison, 13, and related topics. She and her husband, Sacramento, Calif. Hampton, 9. Mohammad Rizwan Ismail, live in Pittsburgh, Penn. Robin Foutch Mahlow is completing a Susan Barnes Howerton of Franklin, family medicine residency in Glasgow, Ky. Tenn., is missions pastor at The Bridge, Brian William Tisdale is youth pastor at She and her husband, Jeremy, have a Springhill, Tenn. First Baptist Church, Hokes Bluff, Ala., daughter, Eleanor Louise, born in January. and a fifth grade teacher. ’86 Kevin A. Purta is a business analyst with ’92 Jetson B. Davis is a partner with College Foundation, Inc., in Raleigh, N.C. ’88 C. Wade Hyatt is an optometrist in NuMedRx Pharmacy Solutions, an inde- Nashville, Tenn. He has two sons, Samuel pendent nuclear pharmacy in the Jackson, Mark A. Yancey of Norman, Okla., was Wade, 2, and John Chalmers, 1. Miss., area. He also teaches a nuclear appointed assistant director of the U.S. pharmacy course to nuclear med tech Department of Justice’s Office of Legal William B. Nickell III, J.D., is a contri- students during their clinical rotation. Education, which involves a one-year buting author of Lexis Tax Insights for Florida and of the manual Counseling the

33 Lee and Holly Anne Angel Dymond live Stacy Cleary Goebel received national Ph.D. program in family financial in Pike Road, Ala. A missionary with the recognition from Honeywell and the planning at the University of Missouri– Alabama Baptist Convention’s State Board National Center for Missing and Exploited Columbia. She and her husband, Scott of Missions, he is campus minister at Children for her classroom implemen- David, live in Lexington, Ky. Auburn University Montgomery. Holly tation of a “Got 2b Safe” abduction pre- teaches preschool at Taylor Road Baptist vention program. She is a fourth grade LeAn Linton Hanks is a licensed pro- Church. They have two children, Caroline, teacher at Bellair Elementary School, fessional counselor and contract therapist 8, and Anna, 3. Glendale, Ariz. with Union Baptist Association’s Center for Counseling, Houston, Texas. She and Marta Tyree Koonce lives in Granger, David Kitchens is a pediatric urologist at her husband, Hudson, live in Pearland, ALUMNI Ind., with her husband, Kipp, and Children’s Hospital of Alabama, Texas. children, Cole, 3, and GiGi, 1. Birmingham. He and his wife, Rupa, have two children, Maya, 5, and Deven, 2. Peter Lacy earned a bachelor’s degree in Trisha Miller Manarin is associate pastor building construction management from of McLean Baptist Church, McLean, Va. Matt Mitchell is cofounder and worship the University of North Florida and works She and her husband, Tim, have three pastor of Potter’s Hand Bible Church near with Skanska USA Building, Jacksonville, children, Peter, Nathaniel and Margaret Raleigh, N.C. He and his wife, Amy, have a Fla. He and his wife, Brandy, have two Georgann, born in October. daughter, Maryn Faith, 1. They live in children, Annabelle, 2, and Jeb Thomas, Apex, N.C. born in November. They live in Leslie Henry Sasser of Birmingham ran Kingsland, Ga. her first half marathon during Bill Shiell is senior pastor at First Baptist Birmingham’s Mercedes Marathon in Church, Knoxville, Tenn. He and his wife, Jennifer Swatzel Lay and her husband, February. Time: 1:58:44. Kelly Parks Shiell ’95, have two sons. Shiloh, live in Hoover, Ala.

’93 John Engelhardt Carter practices law in ’95 Brad O’Rear is channel sales and solutions ’99 Megan Rutledge Bunting was inducted Owenton, Ky. A graduate of Duke Law integration manager of Cyber Operations, into Alpha Theta Tau honor society at School, he will attend Wake Forest Inc., Pelham, Ala. He will develop the Central Carolina Community College, Divinity School in the fall. company’s network of channel partners. where she is pursuing a degree in Veterinary Medical Technology. She and Lyle, M.Div. ’96, and Luchrysta Sweet ’96 Kent Chastain Ellington and his wife, her husband, John, live in Knightdale, Caswell ’95 live in Lakeland, Fla., with Ashley, live in Rome, Ga., where he is a N.C., near Raleigh. their four children. Lyle, a church planter, cosmetic and family dentist. started Christ Community Presbyterian M. Kristin Henry married Adam Church two years ago. Billy Ivey is co-owner and managing Culpepper in March. They live in Albany, director of Ivey McCoig Creative Partners, Ga., where she is an occupational therapist Chris Deering, J.D. ’97, is a shareholder in an advertising, design and branding col- at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital. the Birmingham office of Ogletree, laborative in Franklin, Tenn. A former Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. He alumni relations officer at Samford, he Joshua Wade and his wife, Stacey, live in practices labor and employment law. and his wife, Bethany, have four children, Hoover, Ala. Anna Beth, Benjamin, Merrie Cannon Ashlee Dunn of Louisville, Colo., pro- and Abraham. Melissa Dennison Wayne was one of the duced a Yoga video, Power Flow with final four contestants on NBC’s Today Ashlee Dunn. She and her husband, Gray Julianne Anderson Norman and her Show competition to earn a spot as Hoos, have a son, Haven, 3. husband, Brent, live in Miramar, Fla., with Anchor for a Day. She appeared with their two children, Madison Marie, 3, and other finalists on the show on Feb. 26. She Daniel Clay Lasseter is owner/executive Blake Kenneth, 1. lives in Riverside, Conn. chef of Fire restaurant in Birmingham. He and his wife, Jill, have two daughters, J. P.Philpot, Jr., is a personal assistant with ’00 Sam, J.D., and Jessica Roark Jackson, J.D., Farrah Daye, 3, and Tatum Elise, born in Miller Communications, Birmingham. live in Nashville, Tenn., where she is a law March. clerk for the Court of Criminal Appeals, ’97 Rachel Fry is a psychologist with Pitts and and he is in practice with Lewis, King, ’94 Kevin Brannon is worship pastor at Associates in Birmingham. A specialist in Kreig and Waldrop P.C. They have two Woodward Avenue Baptist Church, medical and health psychology, she works children, Anna, 3, and Leah Grace, born in Muscle Shoals, Ala. He and his wife, Kara, with clients and families involved with December. have four children, Matthew, 11, Hannah, major lifestyle changes. She is on the board 7, Emily, 3, and Haley, 1. of the Alabama Network for Eating Disorder William Alton Parker III and Anna Awareness. She holds a Ph.D. in clinical Martin ’02 married in March. He teaches LeeAnn Woosley Duggar lives in psychology from the University of Alabama. dance at Atlanta Dance in Marietta, Ga. She Montgomery, Ala., with her husband, is a mystery shopper for SecretShopper.com. Chris, and children, Abby, Luke and Ben. F. Stuart Shelby is curate at Saint James They live in Norcross, Ga. Episcopal Church, Fairhope, Ala. Matthew D. Eddy, who teaches in the Marianne Donovan Pohl and Michael philosophy department at Durham ’98 Wayne Carter and Stacey Estabrooks ’01 Pohl ’01 live in Bentonville, Ark., where he University, England, was tenured. Next year, married in October. They live in Salt Lake is a business development specialist for he will be a visiting assistant professor at City, Utah. Kraft Foods. California Institute of Technology and a fellow at the Clark Library, University of Jamie Lynn Minton Garrett earned a Jason Roland is a development officer at California, Los Angeles. Dr. Eddy and his master of divinity at Asbury Theological the University of Missouri Medical wife, Thani, have a daughter, Eirene Gabriella. Seminary in May, and will enroll in the School, Columbia, Mo.

34 ’01 John Hunter Franklin, M.Div., of Hermitage, have two children, Tinsley, 3, and Chapel, ’05 Michael Giles earned an M.B.A. at the Tenn., has started John Franklin Ministries. born in November. University of Alabama in May. A former Samford student government president, he Mary Beth Yarbrough Kennedy is health- Douglas Davis, an interior designer at is an associate brand manager for Pedigree care activities director at Martha Franks Dungan Nequette Architects’ Birmingham Brand Dog Food, Brentwood, Tenn. Baptist Retirement Center, Laurens, S.C. office, is vice president of communications She and her husband, Price, have a for the Alabama chapter of International Emily Caroline Smith married Chris Self daughter, Julia, 1. Interior Design Association and an officer in October. They live in Birmingham. in the Alabama Interior Coalition. He is a Lucy Jordan, J.D., of Birmingham is an frequent juror and tutor to students in Courtney Blair Worley earned a master’s associate with Kee & Selby, LLP. She prac- Samford’s interior design program. in health behavior at the University of ALUMNI tices in the area of civil defense litigation. Alabama at Birmingham School of Public She and her husband, Jason, have two Lara Hawley married Kurtis Schubert in Health in May, graduating in the top 10 children, Garrison Edward, 3, and Parker May. They live in Tucson, Ariz. percent of her class. A winner of a National Thomas, born in November. Alumni Association graduate fellowship, Janice Johnson is owner of WISEO she will enroll in the Ph.D. program in Mark Adam Smith, M.Div. ’05, is chap- Consulting in Birmingham. She is a clinical health psychology at the University lain and bereavement services coordinator member of Samford’s Metro Programs of Alabama at Tuscaloosa in the fall. of the Jasper, Ala., office of Wiregrass advisory board. Hospice and a chaplain, 1st lieutenant, ’06 Tamika Bibb is office manager/executive with the Tennessee Air National Guard. Brent Powell received a doctoral fellow- assistant to the president at Operation He is also bivocational associate pastor ship in health promotion at the University New Birmingham. and music minister at New Zion Baptist of Alabama at Birmingham School of Church, Nauvoo, Ala. Education. He and his wife, Jessica, live in Gabriela Melton completed training as an Pinson, Ala. They have a daughter, Lorali officer in the U.S. Army in May. Her first ’02 Will Akin and Whitney Burrough married Leigh, born in March. duty station as a 2nd lieutenant in ordi- in December. He recently graduated from nance and munitions will be at Fort dental school. They will live in Boston, ’04 Barkley Aycock Franklin is a special Campbell, Ky., after basic training in Mass., while he completes a three-year resi- education teacher. She and her husband, Aberdeen, Md. dency in periodontics at Tufts University. Brian, have a daughter, Caroline Grace, born in December. They live in Hiram, Ga. Melinda Toole was fourth runner up and J. Leland Murphree is the author of a note Miss Congeniality in the 2007 Miss in the Winter 2007 edition of The University Will Grogan is a broker with Tom Wilson America pageant, and second runner up of Memphis Law Review. An associate in the and Associates commercial real estate in for the competition’s Quality of Life Memphis, Tenn., office of Wyatt, Tarrant Norcross, Ga. He lives in Suwanee, Ga. award. She was Miss Samford 2006 and ■ & Combs LLP, he is a 2006 magna cum Ashleigh Susan Gowen Peak and Paul Miss Alabama 2006. laude graduate of the University of Memphis Peak, Pharm.D. ’06, live in Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. Tenn., where he is a pharmacist and she is ’03 Keeton Gilbert Blakeney is assistant min- a registered nurse at Baptist Memorial ister to students at First Baptist Church, Hospital. They have a son, Charlie, born Panama City, Fla. He and his wife, Shelley, in September.

Jason and Nancy Ann Redmon Rush of ’95 Ray and Nancy Wareham Coskery of Oxford, Miss., twin son and daughter, Smyrna, Ga., a son, Benjamin Daniel, Michael Jesse and Sara Ellen, born Dec. born Jan. 19, 2007. 19, 2006. David and Terri Meguiar Cox of Tank and Amy Christmas Tankersley of Birmingham, a daughter, Elly Suzanne, Birmingham, a daughter, Elisabeth Joy, born Feb. 12, 2007. ’90 Paige and Keith Kirkley, M.B.A. ’94, J.D. born May 5, 2007. ’98, of Birmingham, a daughter, Kennedy April Mraz and Michael Vizzina of Paige, born July 25, 2006. ’93 Allyson and Matthew Wyatt Cook of Birmingham, a son, Martin Vincent Little Rock, Ark., a daughter, Caroline, Vizzina, born March 28, 2007. Randy and Andrea Baird Smith of Sarasota, born Nov. 15, 2006. Fla., a son, Cooper James, born Feb. 16, 2007. James and Susan Leigh Furey Mruk, Jill and Daniel Lasseter of Birmingham, a Pharm.D., of Sarasota, Fla., a daughter, ’91 Angie and Marvin Julich, Jr. of Birmingham, daughter, Tatum Elise, born March 19, 2007. Marleigh Anne, born Nov. 27, 2006. a son, Trevor Hicks, born Jan. 17, 2007. ’94 Scott and Lisa Marie Fields Harris of Michael and Amy Flowers Stone of Jeremy and Robin Foutch Mahlow of Birmingham, a daughter, Ruby Mae, born Cloudland, Ga., a son, Camden Lee Glasgow, Ky., a daughter, Eleanor Louise, Sept. 11, 2006. Flowers, born Dec. 6, 2006. born Jan. 7, 2007. Amy and Matt Mitchell of Apex, N.C., a Leigh Ann Reid Swords and Jeffrey Todd ’92 Timothy and Trisha Miller Manarin of daughter, Maryn Faith, born June 3, 2006. Swords ’96 of Thompsons Station, Tenn., Falls Church, Va., a daughter, Margaret a son, Bryant Gene, born March 23, 2006. Georgann “Maggie,” born Oct. 20, 2006. Bill and Kelly Parks Shiell ’95 of Knoxville, Tenn., a son, Franklin Drake, Brian and Debbie Ivey Peddle of ’96 Colin and Amy Rees Swanson Cooke of born March 12, 2007. Windham, N.H., a daughter, Alyssa Kate, Lantana, Texas, a son, Henry Landon, born Jan. 25, 2007. born Aug. 18, 2006. 35 Eric and Anna McGlothlin Goodwin of Stephanie and Brandon Ford of Dallas, Landon and Erica Elizabeth Miller Easley, S.C., a daughter, Sally Shuler, born Ga., a son, Elijah Cale, born Sept. 18, 2006. Fokens of Woodstock, Ga., a son, Miller March 14, 2007. Hendrik, born March 25, 2007. Scott and Julie Mims Hunter of Cumming, Scott and Heather Diane Grimm Ga., a son, Knox James, born Sept. 2, 2006. Jason and Lena Godwin Gross of Hancock of St. Petersburg, Fla., a son, Colorado Springs, Colo., a son, Andrew Scott and Susie Gibala McKerley of Roman Douglas, born April 20, 2007. Caleb, born Jan. 25, 2007. Alabaster, Ala., a son, Micah Robert, born Paige and K. Michael Kopecky of Sept. 14, 2006. Aaron, M.Div., and Emily Jane Kimmerlin ALUMNI Hampton Cove, Ala., a daughter, Bailey Martin of Ooltewah, Tenn., a daughter, Kristin Nicole and Kevin Michael Mobbs Kate, born March 13, 2007. Cameron Alysse, born July 11, 2006. of Lexington, Ky., a son, Luke Manning, Donald Lee and Angela Buskirk Moore, born Jan. 18, 2007. Herbert Moses Newell IV and Ashley M.Acc. ’98, of Leeds, Ala., a daughter, MacCaughelty Newell ’02 of Chip and Erica Kelly Taylor of Mt. Sydney Marie, born Jan. 5, 2007. Birmingham, a daughter, Adelynn Pleasant, S.C., a daughter, Kelly Grey, born Elizabeth, born March 12, 2007. ’97 Lee and Amy McDuffee Carlisle of July 17, 2006. Nashville, Tenn., a daughter, Caroline, Jason and Lucy Parker, J.D., of Birmingham, Jeff and Lauren Grigsby Weathers of born Nov. 20, 2006. a son, Parker Thomas, born Nov. 1, 2006. Birmingham, a son, Ryan Jeffrey, born Eric and Angie Thamer Hinkle of Tyrone, Feb. 14, 2007. Ashleigh and Carl Williams of Pine Hill, Ga., a daughter, Madison Olivia, born Ala., a daughter, Meredith Ansleigh, born ’00 Jason and Lauren Revelle Woodlief April 5, 2006. Jan. 31, 2007. Beckner of Birmingham, a daughter, Ingrid and Bill Lunsford of Huntsville, Ala., Reese Kathryn, born Feb. 13, 2007. ’02 Matt and Anna Stancil Cumbow of a son, Judd Johnston, born Sept. 8, 2006. Bristol, Va., a son, Hadley Matthew, born Chris and Lindsey Hightower Hanes ’01 Dec. 14, 2006. Carri and Brad Medcalf of Greenville, S.C., of Ocala, Fla., a daughter, Caroline Joy, a son, Hudson Bradford, born April 21, 2007. born Dec. 23, 2006. Joshua David, M.Div. ’06, and Jennifer Paige Hrabovsky Knierim of Birmingham, Nikki Topham Miller and Blake Miller Nicholas and Sarah Roberts Hilscher ’02 a daughter, Isabel, born Feb. 6, 2007. ’98 of Pelham, Ala., a son, Ethan Patrick, of Nashville, Tenn., a daughter, Sarah Ann, born Feb. 21, 2007. born Dec. 1, 2006. Hunter and Heather Prokop Letchman of Birmingham, a son, David Aleksandr, Crissy and F.Stuart Shelby of Fairhope, Ala., Sam, J.D., and Jessica Roark Jackson, J.D., born Sept. 11, 2006. a son, Samuel Taylor, born Jan. 25, 2007. of Nashville, Tenn., a daughter, Leah Grace, born Dec. 8, 2006. Allison Bailey Weaver and Andrew ’98 Chris and Kate Hendon Tinney Albright Weaver ’03 of Jacksonville, Fla., a of Birmingham, a son, John Griffin, born Todd and Jennifer Leigh Jones Rivers of daughter, Lila Bailey, born April 3, 2007. Dec. 27, 2006. Winston-Salem, N.C., a daughter, Isabel Margaret, born Oct. 19, 2006. Julie and Christopher P.Word of Tate and Brooke Tucker Elder ’99 of Gadsden, Ala., a daughter, Anna Claire, Nashville, Tenn., a daughter, Olivia Amanda Williams Sanford and Eric born May 3, 2007. Margaret, born Jan. 24, 2007. Sanford ’01 of Arlington, Texas, a daughter, Reagan Hope, born Feb. 12, 2007. ’03 Michael Joseph and Heather Dawn Au of Philip and Emily Shackelford Herring of Gardendale, Ala., a son, Andrew Joseph, South Haven, Miss., a daughter, Mary Jeremy and Leslie Poole Trail of born April 4, 2007. Claire, born July 2, 2006. Murfreesboro, Tenn., a daughter, Annelyn Grace, born Feb. 15, 2007. Jessica and Brent Powell of Pinson, Ala., a Brandy and Peter Lacy of Kingsland, Ga., daughter Lorali Lee, born March 13, 2007. a son, Jeb Thomas, born Nov. 21, 2006. J. J. and Erica Curington Surma of Germantown, Md., a daughter, Molly Hollie Wohlwend Smith, M.T.S., and Amy Chandler Simpson and Bradley June, born March 5, 2007. Kendrick Smith, Pharm.D. ’04, of Jason Simpson ’99 of Niceville, Fla., a Knoxville, Tenn., a daughter, Blakeley son, Owen Bradley, born Oct. 17, 2006. Shane and Christie Norris Williams of Davidson, born Feb. 12, 2007. Marietta, Ga., a daughter, Charis Jane, David and Ashley Norton Spurling ’00 of born Jan. 27, 2007. ’04 Brian and Barkley Aycock Franklin of Birmingham, a daughter, Audrey Jeanna, Hiram, Ga., a daughter, Caroline Grace, born Sept. 24, 2006. ’01 Andy and Claire Skinner Baker of Dallas, born Dec. 11, 2006. Texas, a son, Zachary Edwin, born Jan. 5, Patrick and Tracy Butler Zoblisein, 2007. Ashleigh Susan Gowen Peak and Paul Pharm.D., of Acworth, Ga., a son, David Peak, Pharm.D. ’06, of Memphis, Tenn., a Carey, born July 21, 2006. Shelley and Keeton Blakeney ’03 of son, Charles Armond, born Sept. 24, 2006. Panama City, Fla., a son, Chapel, born ’99 Hunter and Vicki Linn Brewer ’99 of Nov. 24, 2006. ’05 Jason and Mandy Haynes of Tallassee, Madison, Miss., a daughter, Avery Carter, Ala., a son, Haydn Montgomery, born Jan. born Feb. 22, 2007. Kay Cates and Blake Norman Brantley, 17, 2007. ■ J.D., of Albany, Ga., a son, William Lee, Aaron and Melanie Langston Busby of born March 9, 2007. Newnan, Ga., a son, Timothy Aaron, born Jan. 19, 2007.

36 ’36 ’34 ’29 E To EarnaCumberland Degree inBirmingham Elizabeth DavisEshelman Was First Woman eeatro afr,theBirmingham Samford, benefactor of Shewasalongtime and Lena Vail Davis. Davis Harwell G. thelate Maj. of daughter Supreme atthesametime. Court to beadmitted to practice before theU.S. becamethefirstmotherand son attorney, Samford University. of a part Law after itbecame Cumberland School of the firstwoman from to graduate shebecame andin1964, College atage19, inmemoriam bachelor’s degree from then-Howard her lizabeth Davis Eshelmanearned including Napier read wrote severalbooks, widely Dr. An OldTestament scholar, Davis ’58. andsciencesSamford deanRoderick arts hisstudentswasretired where oneof Stanford University and Yale School, Divinity He at earliertaught Calif. in Berkeley, Religion thePacific School of president of who was activist minister rights andcivil He wasaProtestant condition. from aheart complications of 2007, 24, diedFeb. Calif., Napier, Davie B. Foundation. the ADPi Adelphean Circle of andwasnamedto the alumna awards, anddistinguished service meritorious shelater received thesorority’s chapter, theSamford Alpha DeltaPi President of 2007. 16, diedFeb. Ala., Daphne, of June Blaylock, ElizabethSharples AL35229. Birmingham, 800Lakeshore Drive, Relations, University Office of Samford University, Memorials may besentto organizations. French andothereducation honorsociety BetaPiTheta PhiMu sorority, member of anda the Florida Vocational Association, Shewaspresident of Community College. atHillsborough cation department thebusinessedu- she retired asheadof where andTampa, years inBirmingham for41 Shetaught 2007. died April 20, Fla., Louise Church Minego, ebro Trident men’s honorsociety. member of the Vineyard. Song of semn h idArl1,wasthe whodied April 10, Eshelman, alsoan Bill, sheandherson, In 1972, From Faith to Faith g 1 fClaremont, of age 91, tSmod hewasa At Samford, g 8 fTampa, of age 98, and The age 94, ’49 ’47 ’47 ’38 ’37 International WomenInternational she waslisted in and PhiKappa Phischolarship honorary, Phi Alpha Deltalaw fraternity Association, Constitutional Law atCumberland. Harwell Davis Chairof Goodwin Sheandherfamilyendowed the tice. entered she private prac- Later, the field. andcoauthored abookin now Wachovia, lawyer whoworked SouthTrust with Bank, Church. YWCA andMountain Brook Baptist ea,de e.2,20.Aretired 2007. 27, diedFeb. Texas, Roper, Cecil M. offices inday lilyandhostasocieties. Sheheldnational Law. Alabama School of women from to graduate theUniversity of whoin1951wasthefirst an attorney Shewas 2007. 24, diedJan. Birmingham, Olive Langdon, Bailey in Europe during World War II. hewasan Army medicalcorpsman judge, appeals retired of court state criminal A 2007. 22, diedJan. Tenn., Nashville, J.D., Cornelius, Allen R. He wasalsoareal estate broker. and Wooden Box andPallet Association. theNational Oak Flooring Association, of hewasadirector Company, Oak Flooring Box andCarpenter andTank Company, Hightower President of hisHLetter. earning ticipated inthe V-12 atSamford, program He par- 2007. 30, diedJan. Birmingham Milton Carpenter,Gilbert Postal for 33years. Service the U.S. for13yearsBibb County andworked for in Shetaught 2007. died April 13, Ala., VeraHicks, Vista Mason andaShriner. He wasa32ndDegree New York. Station, Pennsylvania Railroad inPennsylvania New Jersey andhadworked forthe CJMPlanningin financial plannerwith He wasaretired 2007. 31, diedJan. Fla., Lonnie DeeLindsey, ebro the Alabama Bar A memberof andestates Eshelman wasatrust Who’sin Who g 2 fFort Worth, of age 82, g 5 fCentreville, of age 95, as well as g 1 fAlachua, of age 91, g 9 of age 79, g 6 of age 86, g 1 of age 81, Who’s Who ’51 ’50 Scholarship Fund atSamford. to theLena gifts memorial Vail Davis familysuggested The granddaughter. andagreat 10grandchildren; Jenkins; Dorothy asister, Vail Jeavons; daughter, and Alpha Delta Pisorority. the RevolutionAmerican of Daughters the theNational Association of of Shewasamember Award inJanuary2007. Valor YWCABirmingham Woman of in American Women. Alpha fraternity. LambdaChi He wasamemberof II. Worldduring Division War Timberwolf He inthe104th served director. from Robins Air Force Baseasathletics He wasretired 2006. diedMay 31, Ga., Thomas Jones, World WarII. Marine Corpsduring Pacific intheU.S. He intheSouth served a pharmacist. He was 2007. 16, diedFeb. Ala., Sylacauga, (Gene) Williams, E. Raymond ship USSTennessee during World War II. Navy onthebattle- He intheU.S. served State Farm Insurancewith for40years. He wasemployed 2007. 20, diedJan. Ala., Julius Greil Popwell, delivered more than3,000babies. He Shelby BaptistMedical Center. hehelpedestablishwhatisnow 33 years, Aphysician for 2007. diedMarch 28, Ala., Hall, Harold J. Army Reserve. colonel intheU.S. during World andretired asa War II, Navy He wasintheU.S. Winnataska. Camp and wasexecutive director of Baptistchurchesserved innorth Alabama He 2007. 17, diedApril Birmingham, George LouisZbinden, its accompanist. Samford’s A CappellaChoirandshewas metwhenhewasamemberof Milly, He andhiswife, Musicum. Collegium theseminary’s psalms andconductor of specialist inearlyReformation French era hewasa Seminary, Baptist Theological music atSouthwestern professor of e uvvr nld e o,a Her include her son, survivors g 1 fColumbiana, of age 81, g 4 fWarner Robins, of age 84, She wasawarded the g 1 fMobile, of age 81, continued onpage39 continued g 1 of age 81, ■ g 1 of age 81, 37 ALUMNI Loved All Things Living Biologist Ron Jenkins

38 INMEMORIAM Desoto Medical Center Emergency Baptist doctor andassistant director of car.” becauseitwas hisonly morning every and pickhimuponmy way to school justto come by “as longasIneeded it, andtold himtotruck keep thevehicle keys to his handed Belkaspare setof premedical hesaid. career,” and wascausinghimto missclasstime. said. Belk ting aslotinmedicalschool,” all mydirected hopesandenergy atget- with to money eatandpayenough rent, barely with budget forseveral years, the way. could to Samford andwalkingtherest of busasclosehe acity begun riding sohehad Belkrecalled, the finaltime, aride. Marion Belk, offered thestudent, He pulledover and toward thecampus. Lakeshore down Drivestudents trudging B Belk today isanemergency room he Jenkins heard this, When Dr. “I knewthiscould devastate my The bussystem wasinconsistent onashoestring “I hadbeenliving His oldcarhadbroken for down er g n oie n fhis years agoandnoticed oneof to work atSamforddriving afew professor Roniology Jenkins was adDvaaai now at apharmacist said Dovlatabadi, patent onit. ultimately receiving a lowers cholesterol, developed achemical substance that they Together, andon weekends. night both andworked Dovlatabadi at with heprovided this, When Jenkins of learned access labormaterials. to abiology had aninterest inplantresearch butno He major. an olderIranian pharmacy cameto Samford in1997as Dovlatabadi, their home. theJenkinsfor asemester with familyin financialdifficultieslivedstudent with need.” especiallythosein to helphisstudents, having “a andastrong pure desire heart remembered Jenkins as Mike Howell, Dr. hiscolleague andclosefriend, Chapel, inReid service amemorial During cancer. battlewith an eight-month physician today,” hesaid. Iwould notbea Jenkins, been forDr. Tenn. Memphis, of suburb a Miss., atSouthhaven, Department “Ron was always soencouraging,” Hossein Yet anotherstudent, how another He relayed of thestory Jenkins died April 27atage54after ithadn’t “I have nodoubtthatif He served as biology department chair department He asbiology served Biology.” of in theDepartment would doallIcould to gethimonboard I decided I young teacher from UAB, “AfterHowell meeting thisgifted said. student exuberance over thiscourse,” teaching coming from thatroom and room. lecture office waslocated next to Jenkins’ Howell’s Governor’s School atSamford. schoolersto atthe1987 high Alabama a classon “How to Become aScientist” himteach afterSamford hearing faculty contagious.”that madelearning exuberance teaching awild-eyed with “Iremember him saidEdwards. nature,” provided material by thevisual with when teaching insuch outdoor settings “He wasmostinhiselement in thefield. insectsandotherinvertebrates spiders, recalled Jenkins teaching classeson itwould beRon.” somebody to my kids, Iwanted toon brag If and we were close. “Our each familiesvisited other, [UAB]. AlabamaatBirmingham the University of Cooper Green Hospital andresearcher at Jenkins joinedSamford thenext year. was somuch“There enthusiastic Howell recruited Jenkins to the Former student Adam Edwards ’61 ’60 ’59 ’58 ’55 ’54 from page37 continued by SchweitzerAlbert in Ethics of “The were setout gists theprinciples following biology.” andrelease’ photograph Ron you what call practiced might ‘catch, “BothMike and Affairs Bill Mathews. Samford Vice President forBusiness saidretired jars,” theminglass preserving creatures living instead of of photographs in2004. Inc., lished by Pearson Education, pub- forthe364-pagevolume, photograph to collect andspecimensto information miles 10 years andtraveling thousandsof Guide,A Photographic book two The coauthored the spider research. lutants infreshwater streams andin asenvironmentalmale hormones pol- including notablestudiesidentifying conducted numerous research projects, lion Sciencenter thatopenedin2001. Samford’s $27mil- role of inthedesign takingaleading from 1992until2002, during Worldduring WarII. Navy He intheU.S. served dance groups. severalsquare Center andamemberof Trussville Seniors Activity member of hewasaboard Connors Steel for31years, at superintendent General 2007. 14, ’68, Leroy M.B.A. Augustus (Gus) Kennedy, School. Elementary several years Shetaught at Berry teer. was anactive church member andvolun- lived inHomewood formany years and She 2007. diedMarch 15, Fla., Pensacola, Anita Polk Keywood, World WarII. Army veteran of He wasaU.S. Illinois. Baptistchurchesserved in Alabama and He 2007. diedMarch 18, Birmingham, Matthews, Robert M. Md. Baltimore, at Baptistchurches andin inGeorgia member He wasastaff 2007. 26, died Jan. Bowman, Rayferd Sunday school for34years. practiced law for51years andtaught He 2007. 6, diedApril Birmingham, (Bob)McKee, Robert C. Fine Arts. and MontgomerySchool of PerformingMontgomery CompanyArts Shehelpedstart 1976–1989. College, atHuntingdon department arts forming andper- thevisual music andchair of of composer hostwhowasprofessor andradio Shewasasinger, 2007. died April 9, Ala., Shaffer, Jeanne E. Mathews noted thatthetwo biolo- “Ron hisstudentsto take taught heandHowell Along theway, Spiders of the Eastern United theEastern States: Spiders of g 0 fTusil,Aa,diedFeb. Ala., Trussville, of age 80, g 1 fMontgomery, of age 81, g 1 fAbn,Ga., Albany, of age 81, spending almost g 7 of age 87, g 4 of age 84, g 2 of age 72, ’75 ’69 ’68 ’66 ’65 ae lmu fteYa n20.He the Year in2004. named Alumnus of where hewas Tenn., Jefferson City, from Carson-Newman College in science degree inbiology bachelor of 2004–05. president during 2002–03and presidentas vice during Science the AlabamaAcademy of serving active inprofessional organizations, He was Mountain Interpretive Center. Shades Creek andto enhance theOak such asprojects to revitalize munity, research benefitingthecom- grants disruptors. endocrine ethnobotany andenvironmental comparative biochemistry, ecology, spider publications spannedthefieldsof His interests and scholarly publications. example. andthatJenkins followed that in distress,” helpallhiscreatures asChristians, that we, Schweitzer thatGoddemanded “believed Howell said in1936. Reverence forLife” former in-house attorney forthemining in-house attorney former A 2007. 29, diedApril Ala., Tuscaloosa, J.D., Pollard, Robert W. National Guard. Air Force andthe Army in theU.S. He served as presiding judgefor10years. Civil Appeals judgewhoserved of Court He wasaretired Alabama attack. heart a of 2007, 5, died Feb. Ala., Talladega, J.D., Robertson, William E. Xpress.Pharmacy Sickroom SupplyBirmingham and He co-owned 2007. diedMay 4, Ala., Bedford, Robert D. schools. years inHomewood andMountain Brook She wasaretired teacher 30 whotaught 2007. diedMarch 17, Ala., Gardendale, of Beverly LouisGrayson Broome, Associates Inc. inLifelineCounseling and apartner Corrections the of Virginia Department counselor hewasaformer for counselor, professional licensed A and Virginia. member atBaptistchurches in Alabama He wasastaff 2007. died April 23, Va., Timothy Hodges, J. theSamford Band. member of hewasalsoa As astudent, Alumni Choir. andSamford’sCenturymen A Cappella Men, AlabamaSinging member of andwasa andconcert tours, mission trips He ledmany music atBaptist churches. andwasaminister of Walker County, music in and wasaschool principal He choral taught 2007. died March 1, Kirkley, Ken D. aieo tat,G. heheldthe Ga., Atlanta, A native of He took theleadinanumber of Jenkins wrote numerous for articles g 6 fHetw,Ala., Hueytown, of age 66, g 5 fMcCalla, of age 65, g 3 fMidlothian, of age 63, g 6 of age 56, g 7 of age 67, age 70, ’05 ’04 ’92 ’91 ’81 ’78 imnhm AL35229. Birmingham, 800Lakeshore Drive, University, Samford Biology, of Department the incare of research inbiology, Undergraduate Research Program for bemadeto theSamford gifts memorial Thefamilyrequested that Jenkins Riddle. Barbara andsister, Atlanta; Jenkins of Helen mother, Anna-Lea; daughter, Ben; hisson, Noordermeer Jenkins; God’s calling.” of development are part all science teaching andtechnological intheirlivesstrate thatscientificendeavor, technological professionals whodemon- national award recognizes “scientific and The Presbyterian Church USAin2006. the assemblyof 217th general Award Martin the during Daniel W. Presbyterian Church andreceived the from AuburnUniversity. degrees science andPh.D. held master of otvlo Ala. Montevallo, atCVS in She wasapharmacist pharmacy 2007. diedMarch 13, Ala., Shelby, of 31, Pharm.D.,Amy Hope Washington, members inrecent years. church Christ other Disciplesof with Cambodia and Africa missions to Mexico, Shetraveled on minister inBirmingham. andwasaformer Va., near Martinsville, Snow Creek Church Christian minister of was She 2007. 4, diedApril Va., Creek, M.T.S., Nancy Copin, Shewas anurse. cancer. of 2007, 1, Feb. Stella Nuttall Hand age 65. from Shegraduated Samford at service. Steel after 25years of retired from U.S. She 2007. diedFeb 10, Ala., Trussville, Sue Treadwell Millican, and fraternity A CappellaChoir. was active in Alpha PhiOmegaservice he At Samford, insurance field. maritime He wasaclaimsadjustor inthe diabetes. complications from of 2007, 27, died Feb. Vickers Joseph G. Alabama National Guard. pilot in Vietnam the and25 years with as ahelicopter duty twoserved tours of He governments inthewaronterror. businessman andconsultant to foreign college instructor, He 2007. wasanattorney, 28, diedFeb. Ala., Ashville, of age 57, J.D./M.B.A., William Richmond Stephens, onrelatedserved national boards. he Inc., Jim Walter Resources, of division ekn ssrie yhswf,Kitty Jenkins by issurvived hiswife, Jenkins wasactive inthe ■ fNwOlas La., New Orleans, of fDsi,Fa,died Fla., Destin, of g 0 fSnow of age 60, ■ g 8 of age 78, age 39 INMEMORIAM SamfordUniversityAlumniDonors Feb. 1–May 15, 2007

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, 2007, and May 15, 2007, the following alumni made contributions:

1932 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Gamble (P) 1950 1954 Mrs. Evelyn N. Kernachan Dr. Leland Hull, Jr. Dr. John H. Jeffers Mrs. Julia E. Clark Mrs. Ann Tisdale Belcher Mr. Ed Landers (P) Mrs. Glenna S. White Mr. Merrill H. Cook Rev. Larry G. Blount Mrs. Jane Landers (P) 1933 Dr. Milton L. Wray Lt. Col. Vernon E. Cunningham Rev. James Leon Boyd Mrs. LaNelle Moore Lester Miss Nina Miglionico Mr. Howard B. Foshee Mrs. Dorothy R. Gebhart Mr. J. T. Lindsey (P) 1945 Lt. Col. Charles E. Gray Mrs. Jo Alice J. Halsell Mr. C. Aubrey Lowry (P) 1934 Mrs. Beryl J. Bates Mr. Hoffman C. Harless Mr. George P. Hayes Dr. Henry L. Lyon III Mrs. Julia J. Crowder Dr. H. Brooks Cotten Mr. John C. Hollingsworth Dr. J. Kenneth Herlong Mrs. Sara Jane Flowers Lyon Mrs. Emaline R. Parker Mrs. Peggy J. House Mr. Clifton C. Hinds Ms. J. Jean Middleton 1935 Mrs. Juanita H. Searcy Mrs. Dorothy Davis Jenkins Mr. Joseph W. House Mrs. Pana J. Norred Dr. William J. Williams Mr. Michael H. White Mr. Thomas L. Johns Mr. Harold L. Hunt Dr. V. Delane O’Rear Dr. Sigurd F. Bryan Mr. Robert W. King (L) Dr. Harold D. Mixon Dr. Ronald E. Peake 1936 Mr. James T. Lee (P) Mrs. Sarah J. Smith Rev. Bobby J. Shipp Mrs. Mildred W. Whitman 1946 Mr. Malcolm K. Miller, Jr. Rev. Berkely L. Webb Mr. Fred M. Slaughter (P) Mr. Pat M. Courington Mrs. Kathryn N. Sims Mrs. Mary Granger Weston 1937 Capt. Warren C. Graham, Jr. Mrs. Anne B. Townes 1955 Mr. Edgar C. Blackburn Mrs. Jo T. Kallenborn Dr. Hazel A. Petersen Walter Mrs. Annie O. Dabbs 1958 Mrs. Mary Y. Haon Mr. William S. McGinnis, Sr. Mr. Charles R. Fleming Rev. Gaylord C. Brownlee Mrs. Mary Pierson Montgomery 1951 Dr. Mary C. Henderson Dr. William F. Chilton 1938 Mrs. Jacqueline S. Pittman Mr. William H. Bancroft, Jr. Mr. Louis K. Isaacson Dr. J. Roderick Davis Mr. Edmond S. Strickland Mr. Clarence W. Slaughter Sen. Jack Biddle III Rev. Donald A. Phillips Mrs. Doris G. Jones Mrs. Elaine D. Slaughter Dr. Cecil D. Etheredge Mrs. Katie F. Phillips Dr. Joe B. Lawley 1939 Mr. D. Stevens Wesson, Jr. Mr. A. Rudolph Fagan Mrs. Velma L. Sebring Mr. Albert D. Lipscomb, Sr. Dr. Charles E. Clark Mr. Sam D. Glenn (P) Mrs. Terah R. Sherer Dr. Joe Bob Mizzell Mrs. Rose W. Sutley 1947 Dr. James David Griffin Mrs. Bonnie B. Swearingen Mrs. Nan R. Norris Mrs. Arminda H. Thompson Mr. Roy L. Bates Dr. William E. Hull Rev. Roy E. Walker Rev. Robert C. Perry III Mr. George R. Yeager Mrs. Nina F. Chafin Mr. Lou Mayer, Jr. Rev. Dr. P. Joe Whitt Hon. George H. Pierce (L) Dr. Howard G. Clark III Mr. Al T. McCuen (P) Mrs. Clara N. Shirey 1940 Mrs. Loretta R. Cunningham Mrs. Ora K. Parr 1956 Mrs. Charleen N. Sims Dr. Robert N. Davie Mr. Cecil G. Duffee Rev. Charles B. Smith Rev. Robert M. Abercrombie Mrs. Tommie B. Slaughter Mrs. Evelyn M. Lindsay Mr. Thea G. Parker (P) Miss Pheroba A. Thomas Rev. M. Leroy Anthony, Jr. Dr. George C. Smith (P) Mrs. Nina T. Strickland Mrs. Polly M. Perry Dr. Robert W. Youngblood Mr. Walter G. Barnes Mr. William O. Smith, Jr. (P) Mrs. Margaret M. Peterson Mr. Roy J. Chandler, Jr. 1941 Mr. James N. Pittman 1952 Mr. Paul T. Goins 1959 Mrs. Martha M. Ailor Mr. Howard H. Sisson Dr. Harold L. Anderson Mr. Louie D. Grimes Dr. Jerry W. Batson Mrs. Joanne Gunn Casey Mrs. Frances W. Williamson Mr. Milton M. Baker Col. Charles F. Hill Rev. C. Thomas Bodkin Dr. Richard G. Crowe Dr. James M. Wood, Jr. Mrs. William Henry Bancroft Rev. David B. Howle Mr. Clarence A. Brooks II Mrs. Jane D. Dorn Mr. James A. Zitzelberger Mr. Langley B. Creighton Mr.A.C.Hutchens Mrs. Barbara T. Buettner Mrs. Frances F. Dunn Mrs. Marjoryn R. Creighton Dr. J. Wayne Johnson Mrs. Mary S. Cole (P) Mrs. Jeanette T. Jeffers 1948 Mrs. Nell T. Dirks Dr. Thomas R. King Ms. Gayle S. Colley- Rev. James W. Brown Dr. Harold L. Flatt Mrs. Nettie G. Langston Calderwood 1942 Dr. David M. Vess Rev. James L. Gebhart Mrs. Shirley C. Morrison Rev. Herbert J. Collier Mrs. Ann W. Armstrong Mr. Hugh I. Williamson, Jr. Mr. Joseph L. Goode Dr. Robert G. Norred Mrs. Wynona B. Hall Mrs. Gene G. Flatt Mrs. Janie C. Greene Dr Billy Nutt Mrs. Mary H. Hudson Mrs. Vivian Houlditch Hart 1949 Rev. William H. Gresham Mrs. Ann P. Peake Mr. Thomas L. Jackson Dr. Ruth H. Peet Rev. William D. Aders Mrs. Wylodine H. Hull Rev. William Y. Sanders Dr. Gerald H. Lord Mr. E. Ralph Barber (P) Dr. Eugene G. Hutchens Ms. Ruby H. Stewman Dr. Donald Mason 1943 Mr. William A. Boone, Jr. Mrs. Juanita P. Lewis Mrs. Betty S. Stringfellow Mrs. Joan D. Mercer Mrs. Jo M. Ballard Mr. Jack Cole (P) Dr. Jack Preston Dr.T.B.Stringfellow,Jr. Mrs. Sue A. Morrison Rev. James M. Beasley Mr. Charlie B. Dickinson Dr. Harper Shannon Dr. Charles T. Workman Dr. O. Suthern Sims, Jr. Mrs. Martha A. Campbell Dr. William T. Edwards Dr. William A. Wood Dr. Ronald Snow Col. Carl Cooper Rev. Howard H. Golden 1957 Mrs. Mary E. Winter Dr. J. Carey Gwin Mrs. Johnnie E. Golden 1953 Mrs. Barbara A. Beckett Mrs. A. Gerow Hodges Mr. William R. Hawkins Mrs. Mavis G. Hill Rev. Harold Blackburn 1960 Mrs. Lois M. Lee Mrs. Norma S. Johnson Mr. James L. Holland, Jr. Mr. William J. Brown Mrs. Janice H. Allison Mrs. Mary V. Lee Brig. Gen. Robert L. Lott III Mr. Joe McBrien, Jr. (L) Rev. W. Thomas Carter Mrs. Ruth M. Boyce Mrs. Frances G. Locke Dr. Henry Raymaker, Jr. Rev. Charles E. Morris Mr. John F. Clower Mr. Thomas W. Buckelew, Sr. Dr. George F. Scofield Dr. James A. Pickle Mr. Herman E. Crotwell, Jr. (P) Ms. Martha Ann Cox 1944 Mrs. Patricia T. Scofield Chaplain John E. Rasberry Dr. Robert C. Curlee, Jr. Mr. William B. Daniels, Jr. Mrs. Martha M. Bazemore Mr. Jesse G. Sides Mr. Donald A. Garcia Ms. Judith E. Dean Mr. John R. Cannon Mr. William J. Ward Mr. William G. Garner Mr. Joseph P. Duncan Mr. Harry Charles, Jr. Mrs. Martha H. Grimes Mrs. Madelyne T. Duncan

40 Mrs. Dorothy P. Estess 1964 1968 1971 1974 Dr. John M. Estess Dr. Catherine B. Allen Mr. James W. Bodiford, Jr. (L’71) Mrs. Diana T. Abercrombie Dr. Timothy P. Banks Mrs. Dorothy S. Flynt Mrs. Marguerite D. Bertram (P) Mr. James R. Jackson (P) Rev. Sidney M. Burgess Mrs. Wanda Banks Dr. Oliver H. Harper Mr. Thomas M. Bertram (P) Mrs. Christine Weeks Martin Mr. Charles E. Burns (P) Mr. Stanley E. Bates Mrs. Bonnie B. Lipscomb Mr. M. Monroe Fields, Jr. Mr. Charles P. Penn Hon. John W. Davis III (L) Mr. Thomas A. Burch Mrs. Robert M. Livingston Mr. George L. Frey Mrs. Donna D. Snider Mrs. Sandra J. Flynn Hon. John L. Carroll (L) Mrs. Faye T. Patterson Dr. Helen J. Gillikin Mrs. Phyllis W. Talmadge Mrs. Lynn G. Fullman Mr. David R. Caudle (L) Mr. James B. Price (P) Mrs. Linda G. Hayes Mrs. Lee Ann L. Thompson Mrs. Cynthia M. Garner Hon. James I. Cohn (L) Mrs. Patricia N. Reaves Mrs. Marie H. Maile Mr. William G. Thompson Mr. Craig C. Gault Dr. Robert F. Crawford

Dr. Carol L. Schlichter Mrs. Olivia B. North Mr. J. Don Weathers Mrs. Kathy H. Gault Mr. William M. Cunningham, ALUMNI Rev. James A. Shaneyfelt Mrs. Mary Jean B. Thomason Hon. Roy B. Willett (L) Ms. Annette M. Gunter Jr. (L) Mrs. Mary H. Sims Mrs. Mary M. Underwood Mrs. Phyllis A. Woodall Dr. Arnold G. Hammond (P) Mrs. Ruth R. Ellis Mr. J. Douglas Smith Dr. Robert B. Hatfield (D’01) Mr. William R. Goodman III Mrs. Mary A. Smith 1965 1969 Mr. Tom Helton (L’77) Mr. George L. Stewart Ms. Louise Barbour Dr. S. Louis Armstrong, Jr. Dr. H. Marguerite Kelley Mrs. Susan E. Hammers Mr. John W. Weeks, Sr. Mrs. Jane W. Bearden Mr. Clovis W. Box Mrs. Lynne Pickens Lock Mrs. Peggy Sue H. Haywood Miss Sandra Elaine Williamson Dr. Mary Jim Beck Mr. William E. Cash, Jr. (P) Dr.Curt Newell,Jr. Rev. R. Allen Headley Dr. William M. Bishop Mr. John T. Coleman Mr. Talmadge A. Payton Mr. William C. Ireland, Jr. 1961 Mrs. Ozilene S. Cartee Mr. Thomas W. Cozart Mr. J. 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tudents returning from a say how necessary it is for Samford semester at Hong Kong Baptist students to get off campus and for University speak of it as a life- donors to keep making it easier for changing experience that helps Samford students to have such one become a global-minded experiences.” Scitizen. Acknowledging that his perspective The experience is made possible on what it means to be a Christian has through the Drs. Lynda and Jeremy Hon changed quite a bit during his five years Annual Scholarship for Exchange at Samford, Jones said studying in Hong Students to Hong Kong Baptist Kong definitely added to this process. University. Both are physicians in Other students who have studied in Huntsville, Ala. Dr. Jeremy Hon is a Hong Kong through the exchange native of Hong Kong and an alumnus of scholarship—now in its fourth year—are Samford. Trad Godsey of Winfield, Ala., currently “I am thankful that Dr. Hon is enrolled at Harvard University; Anna helping students gain this life-changing Pleen of New Albany, Ind., and Ben experience, for it is through experiencing Wortham of Symsonia, Ky. other cultures, and learning to call Hon, who expressed a wish to see ‘foreigners’ brothers and sisters, that we more students apply and go to Hong become global-minded citizens with Kong, said the purpose of the scholar- Kyle Jones spent the spring semester open hearts to the visitors in our own ship is to promote cultural exchange in a studying in Hong Kong. great land,” said Jenny Duckworth of positive way. Birmingham. “College life shapes the vision of Likewise, the most recent recipient, to understand what it is like to be a young people, and the opportunity of Kyle Jones of Fort Thomas, Ky., said the minority at Samford if you are white, being in Hong Kong/China will defi- experience helped him understand what middle-upper class and Christian.” nitely broaden their horizon,” he said. it is like being a minority. Jones said he had the opportunity “My Samford experience provided me a “Living on a hall with students from to study putonghua (Mandarin lan- foundation and road map for my future, 20 different countries certainly expands guage) and environmental science in a and I want to pay back by offering your view a little,” he said while completely different culture than in the Samford students chances to enhance spending the spring semester in Hong United States. the journey of their lives.” Kong. “This is one of the coolest parts “Looking at how the rest of the After earning his B.S. in pharmacy about studying here. There is no real way world is looking to the U.S. to take from Samford in 1975, Hon finished his responsibility and a position of leader- internship at Children’s Hospital in ship when it comes to issues such as the Birmingham. Subsequently, he worked environment and international relations as a registered pharmacist at University has been really enlightening,” he said. Hospital in Birmingham before enrolling “Studying putonghua and the environ- at the University of Alabama School of ment through this sort of lens has Medicine. helped me to think about what it means Hon is board-certified in internal to be an American. I am just beginning medicine and medical oncology, and has to understand what this means.” practiced medicine in Huntsville since Jones expressed appreciation to 1985, where he is associated with the Samford and to Hon for these experiences. Clearview Cancer Institute. “To be able to think about these Lynda Hon is a retired, board- sorts of issues has been made possible certified diagnostic radiologist. They are for me only through the help of Samford members of Willowbrook Baptist and Dr. Hon,” he said. “With Samford’s Church in Huntsville and have three ■ help, I have traveled to 23 countries children. while in college. There is not much I Jenny Duckworth praised the oppor- could say to show how much I have tunity to experience other cultures. learned and experienced other than to

45 The Pat Sullivan Era Is About to Begin he Pat Sullivan Era begins for Samford football this fall, Adcock’s top receiver, senior Jeff Moore, also returns. He and the new head coach and his staff are excited about caught 49 passes for 668 yards and five scores last year, and 53 T prospects for success. for 669 yards and four touchdowns the year before. “I am pleased with where we are,” Sullivan said coming out Other offensive starters returning are linemen Colby

SPORTS of spring practice. “We aren’t ready for our first game yet, but I Hooper, Tommy Smith and John Weber; receivers Jonathan am pleased with the progress we have made.” Lowery and Joe Jones; and running back Marcus Rice. Samford returns eight starters on offense, five on defense Defensively, Samford returns four of its top five tacklers in and 29 other lettermen from last year’s team. Sullivan recruited linebackers Rodney Shepherd, Jay McCurty and Quinton 22 new players, and some of those will be counted on to play Smith, and free safety B. T. Hartloge. Also back on defense is right away. starter Haris Kovacevic at tackle. “We are excited about our signing class,” said the coach. Samford will play a tough 2007 schedule as it tries to “We look for them to give us immediate depth.” improve on last year’s 3-8 disappointment. Among others, the Sullivan, a former Heisman Trophy winner at Auburn, had Bulldogs will play Georgia Tech and two Ohio Valley his offense running from a variety of formations in the spring. Conference teams, Eastern Illinois and Tennessee–Martin, that Fans can expect plenty of passing from Samford this fall and an finished in the top 15 nationally. Both OVC schools went to the improved running game. Championship Division (formerly I-AA) playoffs. Senior Jefferson Adcock, who has started 19 of Samford’s Samford will play six home games, opening with West last 22 games, came out of the spring as the top quarterback. Alabama on Thursday, Aug. 30, and hosting Presbyterian He has passed for 3,253 yards and 23 touchdowns the past two Thursday, Sept. 13, before beginning OVC play against seasons. Southeast Missouri Sept. 22 at home. ■

Jefferson Adcock passed for 221 yards and three touchdowns in Samford's final spring scrimmage.

Samford 2007 Football Schedule Aug. 30 West Alabama Oct. 13 at Tennessee–Martin Sept. 8 at Georgia Tech Oct. 20 Austin Peay (HC) Sept. 13 Presbyterian Oct. 27 at Tennessee Tech Sept. 22 Southeast Missouri Nov. 3 Jacksonville State (Family Weekend) Nov. 10 Tennessee State Sept. 29 at Eastern Kentucky Nov. 17 at Eastern Illinois Oct. 6 open For Tickets, call 205 726-2050 46 Baseball Wins 30-plus a Second Straight Year

amford baseballers beat Alabama, UAB, Memphis and Arkansas State twice each, and notched wins against Auburn and Purdue in 2007. After SPORTS Sfinishing fourth during the Ohio Valley Conference regular season, the Bulldogs made it to the semifinals of the OVC tournament and finished with a 32-28 overall record. The victory total was the second highest in a season and marked the first time Samford has won 30-plus games in two consecutive seasons. Coach Casey Dunn praised his team’s play, particularly in the tournament, saying, “I think the heart and effort our kids gave will become the identity of this club. It will carry over for these guys into whatever field they enter.” Shortstop Michael Marseco hit .350, and relief pitcher Joseph Edens recorded a season-record 11 saves to earn OVC first-team honors. Marseco committed only one error in 27 conference games, and Edens posted a 4-3 won-loss record and 2.63 earned run average out of the bullpen. Infielder Parker Gargis hit .319 and tied with first baseman Garrett Rice for the OVC lead in home runs with 12. Gargis drove in a team-leading 47 runs and Rice 43. Gargis also stole 15 bases in 17 attempts. Designated hitter Louis Rojas hit .310 after coming back from an early season injury, and outfielder Bear Burnett batted .297. Lefthander Josh Ehmke (6-4) and righthander Trent Hill (6-6) led the team in wins. Ehmke, who battled nagging injuries all season, finished his two Samford campaigns with a 17-6 record after transferring from the University of South Alabama. ■

Pitcher Stephanie Royall won Shortstop Michael Marseco led a school-record 19 games. Samford with a .350 batting average.

Softball Sets Samford Record for Wins (31)

he Samford softball team posted a 31-23 record to establish a season high in wins, and set single-season records for home runs (30) and stolen bases (87) Tduring the 2007 season. Coach Beanie Ketcham’s team bettered the previous Samford win record of 28 set in 2004 and posted 20 wins for the seventh straight season. All-Ohio Valley Conference first-team pitcher Stephanie Royall led the way, finishing with a 19-13 record, seven shutouts and a 1.50 earned run average. Her 19 wins also set a Samford record. All-OVC tournament selection Jessica Owens led the team in hitting with a .304 average and tied the season record for stolen bases with 19 (in 20 tries). Shelley Stanley and Amanda Barrs tied for the home run lead with seven each; Stanley had 32 runs batted in and Barrs 31. “Our success this season can be attributed to the strong pitching and strong defense we had down the stretch,” said Coach Ketcham. “Overall, we just put things together more often this season than we have in the past.” The Bulldogs finished third during the OVC regular season. They split their first two OVC tournament games before losing a 10-inning heartbreaker, 3-2, to Eastern Kentucky to end the season. ■

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