SPRING 2011 : 1 : President’S Letter

SPRING 2011 : 1 : president’s letter

Dear Alumni,

The 2010-2011 academic year has been an interesting one for Jacksonville State University. The campus saw the most snow since the bliz- zard of 1993 and enrollment numbers continue to grow. We are working hard to make improve- ments that increase the value of the Jacksonville State University experience. In this edition of Gem of the Hills, you will be introduced to two of our outstanding students. We want you to see the quality of students who are earning their degrees from your university. Read about Ms. Polk and Ms. Ginn on page twenty-eight and get to know these as the London Olympics. We have provided you future alumnae of JSU. with all the information about this wonderful Also in this edition, you will meet Lauren opportunity on page six. Read the story to find Smith, a 2009 graduate who is living her dream out how you can travel to London as well and be of working with animals. On page thirty-two, a part of this once in a lifetime event. meet Ms. Edith Gissendanner, one of JSU’s I hope you enjoy this issue, and I look oldest living alumni. She is ninety-eight and still forward to seeing you on campus soon. going strong. On page eight, you will see how the campus is changing with the transformation of the Gamecock Center into the Gamecock Diner, a Sincerely, new restaurant style cafeteria for our students. And who could forget the excitement of last year’s football season with the victory over Ole Miss? Find this year’s schedule and season ticket information on pages seventeen and eighteen. William A. Meehan, Ed.D. Just in case you haven’t already heard, the President Southerners have been selected to represent the United States to lead the New Year’s Day Parade in London in 2012. This is significant because the parade marks the first event of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebration as well

2 : GEM OF THE HILLS GEM OF THE HILLS JSU President William A. Meehan, Ed.D. ’72/’76

acting VICE President FOR INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT contents Melanie Delap ’05

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT Emily Bonds ’87

DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS AND EDITOR Kaci Ogle ’95/’04

COORDINATOR OF PUBLICATIONS Mary Smith ’93

Graphic design Morgan Christopher ’10

Staff writers Laura Nash Shelby Delap Julie Skinner Lauren Cunningham Patty Hobbs Angie Finley

photographer Steve Latham

COPY EDITOR Bill Hubbard

alumni association 28 executive officers: Emily Bonds ’87 president

Don Killingsworth ’09/’01 past president

David Hammett ’73/’81/’94 VICE president

Chris Reynolds ’85 32 treasurer 22 26 Nancy Turner recording secretary

Kaci Ogle ’95/’04 DEPARTMENTS executive director

WHEN SOLDIERS GO MISSING Alan Renfroe ’88/’07 22 Dr. Fagan Tells Family Story 2 president’s letter assistant director Gem of the Hills is published by the 4 alumni spotlight Division of Institutional Advancement: HEATHER MARSHALL-FLEENOR 700 Pelham Road North, Jacksonville, 26 Alabama 36265 A Different Perspective 6 news © 2011 Jacksonville State University 14 sports phone: (256) 782-5404 or 877-JSU-ALUM COVER: Meet Your Future fax: (256) 782-5502 email: [email protected] 28 Alumnae, Jessica Polk & 40 with alumni web: jsu.edu/alumni Rachael Ginn “JSU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution and does not discriminate based on age, religion, 46 alumnotes race, color, sex, veteran’s status, national origin, or disability. Pursuant to Section 504 of the Americans with NINETY-EIGHT & STILL GOING Disabilities Act, the Director of Grants, Contracts, and 32 STRONG: Reflections of a JSU 65 honor roll Governmental Relations, 201 Bibb Graves Hall, phone 256.782.5278 is the coordinator for Sec. 504/ADA”. Alumna 27-11 University Publications 3/11

SPRING 2011 : 3 SPOTLIGHT

ALUMNI Aquatic Behavior SPOTLIGHT A PERFECT JOB IN A PERFECT PARADISE Bstoryy laur bya erinnash chupp Photo photosby steve by la jerrodtham brown

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auren Smith goes to Seaquarium. Only two months after gradu- pumped in straight from the ocean. work every morn- ating from Jacksonville State, she was lucky Even in Miami, the water can get chilly ing ready to get in enough to be offered a job at the Seaquar- during the winter months, so getting the water. When she ium. She then packed her bags and moved into 60º water in a wet suit is very arrives, she puts on south to the sunshine state. uncomfortable. herL wet suit, feeds the sea At Miami Seaquarium, Lauren trains Since her graduation, Lauren had lions, and goes through their Pacific harbor seals, Atlantic bottlenose not been home until the fall of 2010. training routines. This is the dolphins, and her favorite, the California When she came home to visit her fam- beginning of a day in the life sea lions. She goes on to describe her ily, she made a special visit to Jack- of an assistant marine animal favorite sea lions. One in particular is Bud, sonville State’s campus to speak to an trainer. an older sea lion that often smiles at her. upper level psychology class. She spoke Lauren graduated from Jacksonville Another is named Cain, only a baby who about behavior modification techniques State University in 2009 with a Bachelor she has trained since birth. She trains all and how she applies the concepts to her of Science degree in psychology. She is of the animals for shows and interactions. job and training animals using rein- often asked why she chose psychology and During interactions, the sea lions can kiss forcement. not marine biology. “Training animals is and hug. Lauren’s future goal is to one day more about behavior and reinforcing that She has wanted to be a trainer since become a manager for a facility like the behavior,” she claims. she was nine years-old. Her father took one she works at now. During the summers of her college her to The Theatre of the Sea in the career, she completed two internships. Florida Keys, where she participated in the Her first internship was in St. Augustine, “Trainer for a Day” program and fell in Florida, at Marineland where she mostly love with the experience. worked with Atlantic bottlenose dolphins. The Seaquarium is located just off Her second internship was at the Miami the southern tip of Miami. The water is

SPRING 2011 : 5 news Southerners Get a “Once in a Lifetime Chance” BY Shelby delap

The Southerners are without a doubt one of the biggest names in college marching bands. They have marched in Lyndon B. Johnson’s inaugural parade, the United States’ Bicentennial Parade in Philadelphia, and the 75th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, along with many other admirable events. It’s no wonder then, that the Southerners were invited to Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee (sixty year reign) in 2012, the same year that the United Kingdom will host the Summer Olympic Games, and only the second diamond jubilee in the British Empire’s history. The invitation was quite formal; in September of 2010 the Honorable Roger Bramble, Lord Lieutenant of Greater London, came personally to Jacksonville with the Queen’s invitation. He was greeted with a demonstra- tion by The Southerners, and delivered the invitation to the entire band. The invitation came as a rather pleasant surprise, as the band did not apply to march for the queen. In fact, there is no application process. The New Year’s Day parade committee scouts out the top university and high school bands across the world and decides who will receive an invitation. According to the Lord Lieutenant, the Southerners were chosen by a group of talent scouts who highly recommended the band to represent the United States for the occasion. And represent they will as they lead the parade through the streets of London on New Year’s Day.

6 : GEM OF THE HILLS news Southerners Get a “Once in a Lifetime Chance”

For many Southerners, this will be Jacksonville, Ala., and the United States. their first time leaving the country, let Each participant will also receive a com- Now that the invitation has been alone visiting London. “I have never left memorative medal for their service. “I’m issued, the real work of getting the the country, so it will be a worthwhile excited,” Lindsey Cochran summarized, band to London has begun. It will experience,” drum line member Torsten “it’s gonna be awesome!” cost just shy of $3,000 per mem- Dryden said. “The trip will be amazing, be- University band director, Mr. Ken ber to get the group of roughly 350 cause we will have several tours in London Bodiford, says: “I am so proud of our stu- students and staff to London and along with the parade.” The exact itinerary dents. They work countless hours every back. Each student is taking on the has not been set for the trip yet but the week to ensure that their fans always responsibility of raising their own Southerners do know they will also be per- get a performance that they will never money for the trip. To raise funds, forming at a concert while in the United forget. For the Southerners to receive the Southerners will incorporate Kingdom. “It is not every day a group is such an honor reinforces the fact that ideas generated from a steering asked to play for the Queen,” says Dryden, hard work pays off.” committee comprised of alumni “It really is a once in a lifetime chance.” Their hard work will certainly be and current members’ parents. This exciting opportunity is not displayed as The Southerners lead the Individual donations are also greatly without cost, however. Southerners who parade to ring in the New Year. The appreciated and may be sent to: plan on attending must seek sponsorship Parade is about twice the size of the Macy’s in order to cover the price tag. Regardless Thanksgiving Parade in New York. It at- JSU Foundation / Marching of this barrier, many band members are tracts about 600,000 people to the streets Southerners finding such support in their friends each year and has about 240 million 700 Pelham Road North and families, proof of the community’s television viewers worldwide. Jacksonville, AL 36265 gratitude and determination to represent Please put “Southerners London” in the memo line on your check.

Also, contributions may be made with a major credit card online at www.jsu.edu/giving.

Do You Want to Go? This trip has also been made avail- for more able to any non-performers wishing to travel to London. Contact the Alumni Relations Office to make your reservation at [email protected] on the southerners from jacksonville state university or by phone at: 800.JSU-ALUM/256-782-5404. The trip dates are December 28, Please visit 2011-January 4, 2012 and the cost www.marchingsoutherners.org is approximately $3000 per person.

SPRING 2010 : 7 news

Gamecock Diner opens on campus

In January, Jacksonville State Univer- option of receiving a text message or the sity’s Dining Services (Sodexo) opened a order will appear on a monitoring screen. new restaurant on campus. The Gamecock According to Joe Whitmore, director The new Diner is located at the back of Stephenson of Institutional Support Services, por- Hall, formerly known as The Gamecock tions of the menu will rotate on a daily Gamecock Diner Center. Customers can select a main basis. “Now that on-campus students are has approximately entrée with two sides and fill their plates required to purchase a meal plan, we (JSU) ninety-five seats with unlimited soup, salad and beverages want to have as many options as possible. included in the $7.50 price. “I am very pleased with the way it turned and is open for Scott Williams, manager of Sodexo at out. We’ve had an executive chef here to lunch and dinner JSU says “It may be a five to eight minute help with the menu items. We’re counting wait for your food but it’s worth it.” At heavily on the students’ feedback to know Monday-Thursday the new dining establishment, all the food in which direction to take it.” and lunch on Friday. is cooked to order and when the order is ready there is a touch screen menu system that will allow the customer to choose the 8 : GEM OF THE HILLS news

Andy Green New Director of Enrollment

LEFT: New JSU Director for Enrollment Management Andy Green, right, visits with incom- *ing freshman Lindsey Cleveland of Sylacauga, along with her parents Kelly and Mike, at orientation on July 22. (Angie Finley/ JSU photo)

One of the first things Andy Green lifetime member of the Jacksonville State Now, he looks forward to being with learned, as a new admissions counselor University Alumni Association, as well as the department for the long haul. at Jacksonville State University in May state, regional and national professional “There’s that relationship, even 2005, was that in order to help a new organizations. though admissions counselors some- student succeed, one first needed to Even as he attended new student ori- times come and go. As the director, I build a relationship. entation last week, he looked ahead to his plan to be here for many years.” Five years later, not only has Green first full recruitment class, the freshman And what about the office name seen many of his first recruits graduate, he class of 2011. change? Green says that the move to remains friends with many he mentored. “Fall 2010’s hay is in the barn, even the enrollment management moniker In August 2010, Green stepped up his though there still could be some in the reflects the university’s move to viewing commitment to ensure collegiate success field,” he said. “Next year there will be the process more holistically, rather for all of JSU’s new students when he a whole new crop of students and I’m than it being just admitting students. became the new director of enrollment excited to be working in the fields.” Enrollment management is recruiting management at his alma mater, replacing Looking back over his JSU career as and retention. Martha Mitchell, who retired earlier this an admissions counselor, senior admis- “It’s similar to taking the silos out,” year from her position as JSU’s director of sions counselor, and director of academic Green says. “With a silo, you just have admissions. advisement, Green says he has always been one grain. With enrollment manage- The position reflects a new title for hands-on. He intends to continue that ment, you’re blending other areas style of leadership. together, from academics to housing JSU, and new opportunities for Green to “Most of my early students were like to student services. It’s an exciting ap- use his experience in admissions counsel- me. They didn’t know where to start. proach that nurtures an environment ing and academic advisement. Their parents expected me to take care of for living and learning now, which Green is an expert on the JSU experi- them. College was a big change. From my greatly contributes to success after col- ence from a student’s perspective. He perspective, I felt privileged that I was able lege.” earned two degrees from JSU: a Bachelor to help them navigate all the changes.” of Science with a geography major and a In return, he was encouraged in his marketing minor in 2005, and a Master own career as a result of their success. of Public Administration in 2008. He is a SPRING 2011 : 9 news

programsnew approved

Doctor of Science in Emergency 2012 to gauge the program’s progress and Master of science in sport Management to Begin This Fall interview students, faculty and administra- management The Southern Association of Colleges tors. The Master of Science in Sport and Schools (SACS) has cleared the way According to the SACS website, with Management curriculum at JSU was for Jacksonville State University to begin Level 5 accreditation a university can offer designed with the objective of meeting offering its first doctoral degree, the Doc- up to three doctoral degrees. the education requirements of both tor of Science in Emergency Management, the Alabama Department of Educa- master of fine arts in Fall 2011. This marks the final step in tion standard rules for Class A Teacher The Department of Art at Jackson- the move to SACS Level 5 accreditation. Certification in Sport Management and ville State University has experienced the Commission on Sport Management JSU President, Dr. William A. Mee- exponential growth in the last few years. Accreditation requirements. Gradu- han said the move is “the biggest change The new Master of Fine Arts in Visual ates of the new programs will meet the in the university’s role since we became a Communication and Design is full of demands of the job market in various university in 1967.” endless possibilities. The Department of sport industry segments including orga- The university will begin accepting Art is nationally accredited and has digital nization and administration of sports applications this summer for the program imaging and graphic design laboratories programs, sports law and risk manage- and classes will commence in the fall. and fully equipped graduate studios. The ment, issues in sports, health and safety The program will be primarily online but department has over two hundred majors in sports programs, among others. will include an integrative seminar where divided among drawing, painting, ceram- the student will come to campus for one ics, printmaking, digital imaging, photog- week, according to the director of the new raphy and graphic design. doctoral program, Dr. Jane Kushma. For more information about the new According to Dr. Rebecca Turner, JSU Master of Fine Arts program, contact provost and vice president for academic Professor Diana Cadwallader at dianac@ and student affairs, SACS will send a jsu.edu follow-up, on-site review team in Spring 10 : GEM OF THE HILLS your support new can make programs a difference approved How will we do that? That’s often a these donations went a long way this past sible through the computer instead of question we ask as we try to find ways to year. on paper. Also, the DSS department re- meet a particular challenge. It’s no dif- The Leone Cole Auditorium was in ceived upgrades to further enhance the ferent at JSU. For the past few years, the need of some new chairs for the many academic abilities of disabled students. State of Alabama has cut funding to the events held there. JSU’s orientation With the new Windows Eyes program, state universities, meaning that budgets programs and many public events draw blind students are able to use comput- are scrutinized and spending has to be well large crowds at Leone Cole. One hundred ers. Windows Eyes can create a Braille planned. JSU continues to manage funds fifty new chairs were purchased with about version of notes and tests. effectively, but there are important needs $19,000 of the Annual Fund money to ac- Freshman Convocation is an that have to be addressed. When money is commodate the audiences at these events. annual event for Jacksonville State’s in- an issue, the question is asked, “How will The Human Resources Department coming freshmen. During the first week we do that?” has an Employee of the Month and of classes in the fall, the new students At JSU, one answer is the annual pho- Employee of the Year program for the gather in the stadium for a freshman- nathon. Last year’s phonathon raised over university. About $4,600 went toward the only pep rally, and are introduced to $168,000. During the phonathon, alumni plaques, receptions, and other gifts given being a Gamecock. At this event, each update contact records and are asked to to the recipients. student receives a Freshman Convoca- make a contribution to JSU. If you are an The Drama Department puts on tion t-shirt. At the end of the ceremony, alumnus, you may have already received a productions at least two or three times per a class picture is taken. Approximately phone call. semester. New wireless microphones were $2,500 went toward the shirts this year. Many donors will give to a certain needed for these productions, especially This year, the contributions raised fund or department, but when a donor musicals. Around $4,400 went toward the during the phonathon made JSU an does not state a specific department as the new microphones. even better place to be. However, none recipient the money goes into the An- Technology upgrades had been of it could have been possible without nual Fund. Money in the Annual Fund requested by the department of Disability the unrestricted donations from our is used to better the campus at JSU. Last Support Services. With about $2,500 generous alumni. years gifts to the annual fund totaled over of the Annual Fund money helping this $36,000. From purchasing one hundred department, a new scanner was bought fifty new chairs for the frequent events to keep track of all the medical records of held in our auditorium, to contributing to accommodated students. With the new the first year experience of our freshmen, scanner, the records are more easily acces- SPRING 2011 : 11 12 : GEM OF THE HILLS BR Williams Trucking sets example

LEFT: (Left-Right) Kaye Williams Perry, Greg Brown * and Dee Williams Brown

Billy R. Williams had a dream of family to run the business. Through the And now 165 big rigs are advertising owning his own business. In 1958, he set years, she has always found meaningful JSU as they drive through 48 states and about making that dream a reality and BR ways to give back to JSU. Indeed, she sent Canada! Williams Trucking was born. her daughters to JSU – Kaye Williams BR Williams–we salute you and A tragic fire at the business killed Billy Perry graduated in 1976 and Dee Williams thank you for the fine example you set Williams in 1965 and, with the losses un- Brown in 1980. for JSU alumni everywhere! insured, literally left much of the business Fast forward to the present and Mrs. in ashes. His wife, Ruth, left her teach- Williams’ son-in-law, Greg Brown is ing job and, as a way to honor her late chairman of the board at BR Williams follow JSU on husband, set about to rebuild the business. Trucking, daughter Dee is president and daughter Kaye is vice president. (Kaye’s twitter BR Williams Trucking was incorporated have news and weather husband, Dan Perry, is also a 1973 JSU in 1966 and Ruth Williams became the updates sent straight alumnus.) first president of the company. Mrs. Wil- to your computer or Greg Brown graduated from JSU in liams graduated from JSU in 1943 with cell phone. 1979 and, along with playing a vital role in a degree in education and was a favorite the local business community, he con- www.twitter.com/ teacher at Weaver Junior High School tinues to give back to JSU. He currently JSUnews until 1965. But over the next thirty-eight serves as chairman of the Board of Visitors years, she also proved to be a shrewd for the College of Commerce and Busi- businesswoman and, with the assistance of ness Administration. some fine employees, BR Williams became As Greg heard of JSU’s upcoming one of the leading trucking firms in the campaign to raise awareness of the Dis- Southeast. tance Education programs he knew how Mrs. Williams retired in the early he could help to spread the good word. ’90s and called on the next generation of SPRING 2011 : 13 sports

2009 Former gamecock quarterback ryan perrilloux signs with new york giants

photo by steve latham

The New York Giants announced Perrilloux was an All-America in January the signing of seven players to quarterback for the Gamecocks in 2009 reserve/future contracts, including former and was also named the Ohio Valley Jacksonville State All-American Ryan Conference Offensive Player of the Year Perrilloux. after leading the conference in passing Perrilloux, 6-2 and 213 pounds, played efficiency (172.58) and ranked fourth this season for the Hartford Colonials nationally in points responsible for (18.6 of the United Football League. In eight points/game). games–the Colonials’ entire season -- The signal caller won Offensive Perrilloux completed 33 of 69 passes for Player of the Week honors seven times in 394 yards and two touchdowns for a 75.4 2009, which is an OVC record, and he passer rating. He did not throw an inter- claimed the honor nine times during his ception. Perrilloux also ran 10 times for 35 two-year career to tie for the most ever in yards and a touchdown. the league’s sixty-one year history.

14 : GEM OF THE HILLS sports sports Chris Boone Named Gamecock Defensive Coordinator

acksonville State In addition to serving as defensive University head coordinator, Boone also served as the football coach, Jack Skyhawks’ assistant head coach and Crowe, hired Chris coached the safeties since joining the Boone to be the new team in 2006. His teams have been defenJsive coordinator for the ranked in the top four in total defense Gamecocks. in four of the five years. Boone has a wealth of experience in Before coming to UT Martin, the Ohio Valley Conference, serving as Boone served as the secondary coach the defensive coordinator at UT Martin and defensive coordinator at East for the last five years. The Skyhawks have Central Community College for two ranked near the top of the OVC in total seasons (2004-05). His defense was defense during his tenure, including ranked number one in Mississippi in leading the league in total defense in 2010 forcing turnovers (27). Boone coached after allowing just 299.3 yards per game. linebackers and served as the pro “One of our top priorities is to win liaison from 2002-04 at Nicholls State the Ohio Valley Conference Champion- University, where he helped lead the ship and we feel like Chris has the Colonels to their first Southland experience to help us accomplish this Conference championship appearance goal,” Crowe said. “His defense at UT in 2003. Martin has been consistently near the top of the league and his teams play at a very high level. We are excited to have Chris join our program as we look to build on the successful season that we just experienced,” Crowe added.

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GAMECOCK football 2011

DATE OPPONENT T time

Sept. 1 ut MArtin (BAND DAY) * 6 P.m. Sept. 10 at University of Tenn-chattanooga tba Sept. 17 georgia state (hall of fame day) 6 P.m. Sept. 24 eastern Illinois (preview day) * 6 P.m. Oct. 1 at murray state * TBA Oct. 8 open Oct. 15 at Austin peay * tba Oct. 22 aT kentucky tba Oct. 29 tennessee tech (homecoming/family day) * 3 P.m. Nov. 5 eastern Kentucky (southerners reunion)* 3 P.m. Nov. 12 at southeast Missouri * TBA Nov. 19 at Tennessee state * tba

*OVC Conference games *homecoming All Times CT (schedule and times subject to change)

It’s Game Time!

SPRING 2011 : 17 sports 2011 GAMECOCK season ticket FOOTBALL information

Club level seating $500 per seat

Premium Red Seats $340 per seat

Premium Yellow Seats $190 per seat

Reserved Bench $90

JSU Family Pack Zone $150 for 4 tickets. Additional tickets can be purchased for $10

GAME DAY PRICING General Admission: $10 Reserved Bench: $20 Reserved Red Chair-back: $20 (north side of stadium)

To reserve your season tickets, contact the JSU ticket office at 256-782-8499. sports

season ticket information Stadium Club Level Seating $500 per Seat Upper R Upper U Upper Upper $100 donation per Upper S and T $100 donation per Upper Upper P Q seat to the $250 donation per seat seat to the V W Gamecock Club to the Gamecock Club Gamecock Club plus price of plus price of the ticket plus price of the ticket the ticket

O P Q R S T U V W Field House is $10.00 Sections L, M, N JSU Family Pack Zone Pack JSU Family Each Additional Season Ticket SeasonEach Additional J & K Sections JSU Band

Section D and E $250 donation per seat to the Gamecock Club I H G F price plus the C B A price of the ticket

SPRING 2011 : 19 sports GAMECOCK volleyball 2011

Check out the JSU Volleyball 2011 season schedule at www.jsugamecocksports.com

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DATE OPPONENT T time

aug. 13 at Kennesaw state exhibition tba aug. 19 at mercer 4 P.m. aug. 21 at mtsu 2 p.m. aug. 26 at southern miss 4 p.m. aug. 28 at south alabama 2 p.m. Sept. 2 new Mexico State 7:30 p.m. Sept. 4 la Tech 2:30 p.m. Sept. 9 gardner Webb Tournament 6 p.m. Sept. 11 Stetson University 12 p.m. Sept. 16 Jackson State 5 p.m. Sept. 18 troy University 1 p.m. Sept. 23 SIUE* 7 p.m. Sept. 25 eastern IllinoiS 1 p.m. Sept. 30 morehead State * 7 p.m. Oct. 2 eastern Kentucky * 2 p.m. Oct. 7 tennessee Tech * 7 p.m. Oct. 14 austin Peay * 7 p.m. Oct. 16 murray State * 1 p.m. Oct. 28 SEMO* 7 p.m. Oct. 30 ut-Martin* 1 p.m. Nov. 3-6 ovc Conference Tournament tba

*OVC MATCHES All Times CT (subject to change) It’s Game Time!

SPRING 2011 : 21 When Soldiers Go Missing

BY Dr. Mark fagan

y grandmother, Annie Rowe Fagan, saw a lot in her sixty-four years (1886-1950). She gave birth to ten children and watched them grow into adults during the Great Depression. She sent five sons to fight overseas in World War II. She bid farewell to her sixth child, Fred G. Fagan, as he left the farm at age twenty- five for India to train as a soldier for fighting in the China-Burma-India Theater Magainst the Japanese. But one thing Annie Fagan did not live to see was Fred come home. She died in 1950 and his remains came home in 2010.

22 : GEM OF THE HILLS Fred Fagan was my uncle. I was born group burial was planned for Arlington in 1952, eight years after Fred went miss- National Cemetery for 2010. ing. I grew up hearing that he was on a My wife and I then began going plane that disappeared in Burma and that through the letters and other artifacts no one really ever knew for sure what that I got at my mother’s death twenty happened. I saw the letters that my grand- years ago. We knew they were histori- mother got from the military reporting his cal but never thought we would need fate. I saw the letters from family members them for anything. I began researching of the other six men to my grandmother, Fred and his service in World War II. all seeking to share information about He served as a member of Merrill’s what they learned about the seven men on Marauders, officially named the 5307th the plane. Composite Unit, a U.S. long-range Fred was kept alive in our collec- penetration special forces unit in the tive memory for many years after he was South-East Asian Theater of World War reported missing and eventually declared II that fought in the Burma Campaign. dead. Our family had hope that somehow The unit was famed for deep move- he might have survived and might still ments behind Japanese rear defenses return home to be with us once again. and thrusts toward superior forces. “The more I learned, the more respect and admiration I developed for those that fought in World War II.” - Dr. Mark Fagan

Family discussions for many years included They were composed of U.S. Army stories about how maybe he parachuted Rangers and were an all-volunteer unit out of the plane and was taken in by the that was first sent to India for training villagers or captured by the Japanese and in 1943. Fred fought in six major battles that he might someday find his way home according to Brigadier General Frank again. We eventually accepted his fate Merrill in a letter to my grandmother. and thought we would never know what Allied Forces needed to control the When Soldiers Go Missing exactly happened. airfield at Myitkyina, Burma, to remove In 2004, I was at work when I received the threat of Japanese fighter planes a call from the Pentagon. The man on the delivering supplies to China. American phone told me that they thought they had forces could not provide the necessary found the crash site of the missing plane supplies to defeat the Japanese in China Pvt. Fred G. Fagan was born on that included my uncle. I was speechless. without Myitkyina airfield. There were October 21, 1918, on a farm in the country They asked me to provide DNA to be five hundred of Merrill’s Marauders outside Piedmont, Alabama. He never used for identifying the human remains that had marched sixty-five miles with married and had no children. He lived in they found there. I supplied them with my mules over rugged mountainous terrain Piedmont until 1943 when he was drafted DNA and waited until 2009 for definitive and re-captured the airfield at Myitky- into the Army. He was on a plane with word on the plane and Fred. The U.S. ina from the Japanese on May 17, 1944. six others that crashed in 1944 in Burma Army sent two men in 2009 to visit me at These men were weakened by hunger and was not found until 2004, when the my home to share with me two reports, and disease from malaria, bloody site was excavated. Fred and the six others one about the mission of the plane and dysentery, and/or scrub typhus from finally received their due honor at a group one on the crash site excavation. Only sleeping on infected areas in the mud. burial service with full military honors at one member of the plane had human By May 23, 1944, they had gone three Arlington National Cemetery on July 15, remains that were confirmed. Therefore, a days without food. 2010. SPRING 2011 : 23 On the morning of May 23, 1944, Each family was given a flag. The precision finally found out what happened to C-47-A #42-23510, 4th Troop Carrier and choreography of this service was truly them and got them buried. I wish that Squadron (Olbinski Group), lifted off impressive. Fred’s parents and siblings could have from the airfield in Dinjan, India with the We were very proud that these men participated in the experience of the mission of delivering desperately needed were finally laid to rest along with 330,000 discovery, explanation of what hap- mortar shells and supplies to Myitkyina. of their comrades within view of the pened and burial ceremony. I wish that When the plane left, the ceiling was one Washington Monument and across the Fred could have known how proud we hundred feet, visibility was a quarter mile river from the Capitol and White House. are of him. and there was rain. The plane never made We were extremely thankful that our I have shared this story with distant it to Myitkyina and it never returned to government cared enough to bring these relatives and others interested through Dinjan. men’s mission to a close and see that they the media. I developed a Web site for The more I learned, the more respect received their proper burial. We were also informational purposes and to allow a and admiration I developed for those that appreciative that there was closure for the virtual experience of this story. It has fought in World War II. I started to realize families. details about the mission and excava- the sacrifices they made for the freedom The Commander of the 4th Airlift tion along with videos and pictures of of their families and fellow Americans. I Squadron, the successor squadron for the services and links to television and started to appreciate that without the ef- the one that these men were attached, media stories presented about these forts of the military in this war, our world spoke at the family visitation. They fly events. Please visit this site at http:// would be much different today. similar missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and www.jsu.edu/socialwork/fredfagan/ My wife, Pam; my son, Chris; and my Antarctica and they are the only Airlift index.html. It has evolved into a tribute daughter, Rachel went with me to Arling- Squadron permitted to transport nuclear for these men.

“Our family had hope that somehow he might have survived and might still return home to be with us once again.” - Dr. Mark Fagan ton for the family visitation and burial weapons. Commander Lewis told us that Dr. Mark Fagan is head of the Depart- service for these men. We were joined by we were family with them and that these ment of Sociology and Social Work some of my cousins and their children. We seven men were their brothers. Again, my at Jacksonville State University. He met the family members of the other six respect for our military was enhanced. received his Bachelor of Arts in psychol- men in the crash and shared stories about There were two original members ogy from JSU in 1974. those men and the experiences and emo- of Merrill’s Marauders that attended the tions of their families during the time they service. These men were near ninety years were missing up until now. old. One was at the airfield at Myitkyina Sitting next to the family members of on the day the plane left India. The stories the other men at the group burial was a told by these men brought the experience very intense and surreal experience for me. to life for me and further increased my I could see the Washington Monument on admiration of these men. one side and the Air Force Memorial on I think that this experience has helped the other side as we faced the casket with me and my family to truly appreciate what the group remains of these men. We had it means to be an American. It has helped marched over a mile from the Old Post me to understand that we really do not Chapel to the site along with a seven-horse have it that tough even if, at times, things caisson with body party, army band, color seem difficult. It has motivated me to be guard, and firing party. The air traffic at thankful for the comfortable and secure Reagan National Airport was halted long life that we enjoy. It has made me more enough for a flyover of a C-17 Globemas- patriotic. ter in honor of these men. There was a The remaining family members finally three-volley salute and Taps. The band got closure on these men. They were played America as the flag was folded. returned home after sixty-six years. We

24 : GEM OF THE HILLS ABOVE: Fred Fagan, map of crash site, C47 Cockpit, and Merrill’s Marauders marching from Dinjan, India to Myitkyina, Burma through the Himalayan Mountains in 1944 * SPRING 2011 : 25 A Different Perspective

eather Mar- shall- Fleenor sees the world from a different perspective. AsH a graduate student at JSU’s College of Education, she discovered a myriad of educational theories that would shape the “out of the box” teacher she has become. Heather credits a great deal of her forma- tion to wonderful professors like Dr. Bar- bara Yunker and Dr. Peter Robinson. She had the pleasure of learning from their examples while working on her Master of Education from 1998 – 1999. Still teaching, Heather prides herself on employing several of the nontraditional theories she learned at JSU. Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, for example, recognizes that there are many ways a student can show mastery of content. Heather says her classroom is “…a lively and fluid place. Desks are not always in neat rows, but in circles and pairs where students can cooperate and debate. I want students to learn how to think rather than learn what I think.” She firmly believes that while traditional methods are necessary, they should never be the only tools of measurement. Heather completed her practicum locally at Jacksonville High School. After graduating in 1999, she taught in Bir- mingham, Ala. at both Gardendale High School and E.B. Erwin High School. In 2004 she and her husband moved to New York City where Heather landed a very competitive position at Manhattan’s prestigious York Preparatory School. There she teaches history and coaches York Prep’s award-winning Model United Nations

26 : GEM OF THE HILLS A Different Perspective

team. In this simulation program hosted Having to contend with other people’s yearbook read, “The Class of 2010 by Ivy League universities, high school perceptions of what it means to be a per- would like to dedicate this yearbook students from all over the U.S. and the son with a disability is the most difficult to you because of your commitment world come together to represent one of one. Heather says, “Others often want to to teaching history at York Prep. You the 192 UN countries and solve real world place limitations on me due to their own are one of the most intelligent and problems. She says, “It’s the best thing for lack of imagination or innovation.” She inspiring women a person could ever teaching history, how the real world works is determined, however, to find ways to meet. Being in one of your many his- and current events.” make things happen. Heather believes this tory classes is a pleasure and a one of a Heather also sees the world from a perspective is perhaps her greatest teach- kind learning experience. Your ability different perspective, literally. Diagnosed ing tool. She says emphatically, “Teaching to teach and to offer opinions has influ- with macular degeneration at a young students to navigate road blocks in life and enced us to create our own.” age, she has gradually lost a portion of education is essential. I do not tolerate her vision due to the deterioration of excuses.” her retinal cells. While she maintains a Her tough-love, no-excuses approach normal and full life, the slow progression earned her Teacher of the Year honors of the disease has presented challenges. last year. The dedication in the York Prep

SPRING 2011 : 27 ON THE Jessica Polk & Rachael Ginn COVER JSU Future Alumnae Photos by steve latham

28 : GEM OF THE HILLS eet Jessica. awarded. Wanting to ease the financial She grew up in burden for her family, Jessica dove in Oneonta, Ala., and completed the application on time. and attended In the spring of her senior year, Jessica Oneonta High was notified that of the 20,500 students MSchool where she was in- who applied for the scholarship, she volved in the band program. was one of one thousand in the nation She was a member of the color who would be receiving this award. She guard and dance teams. She later learned that of the one thousand graduated with a 3.6 grade awarded; only eleven were in Alabama. point average. She has an older sister Her hard work had paid off. who attends Wallace State Community The Gates Millennium Scholars College and a younger brother who is in Program was established in 1999. It the seventh grade in Oneonta. Her parents was originally funded by a $1 billion and grandparents live in Oneonta. Sounds grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates like your typical college student right? Foundation. The United Negro College Maybe not. Jessica knew that in order Fund administers the program whose to attend college, she would need financial goal is to promote academic excellence “She later learned that of the one thousand awarded; only eleven were in Alabama. Her hard work had paid off.”

assistance. She completed every scholar- and to provide an opportunity for ship application she could find in the outstanding minority students with hope of being awarded enough money to significant financial need to reach their allow her to move away from home and highest potential. The one thousand experience college life while earning an students selected receive a good- education….but not too far away from through-graduation scholarship (renew- home. able each year) to use at any college or Since the tenth grade, Jessica knew university of their choice. The program she wanted to attend JSU. She had heard provides seamless support from under- from friends who had chosen to attend graduate through doctoral programs, the university about how much they loved for students selected as Gates Millen- the environment and education. Even a nium Scholars entering target disci- member of her family, Mr. Earl Warren, plines. These include the disciplines of director of Institutional Development at computer science, education, engineer- JSU, was an alumnus of the school and af- ing, library science, mathematics, public ter attending a preview day her senior year, health and the sciences, where minority she knew JSU would be her future home. groups are severely underrepresented. Back to the scholarships. Jessica’s high The scholarship even includes study- Jessica Polk & Rachael Ginn school counselor called her into her office abroad programs if available. JSU Future Alumnae one day and told her to take a look at the Jessica could have gone to any application for the Gates Millennium school in the nation that she wanted- Scholarship. The application included FREE! And she chose Jacksonville twenty-two essay questions and it gave State University to earn her Bachelor no clue as to the amount that would be of Science in Nursing and continue

SPRING 2011 : 29 Jessica Polk GATES SCHOLAR CHOSE JSU!

with a Master of Science in Public Health. phonathon and at Stephenson Gym. eet Rachael. She loves it here. Just ask her. Since she Some would say that Jessica hit the She grew up stepped on campus and moved into Logan jackpot. She may even say so herself. All in Calhoun Hall with her friend from high school, of her dedication and determination has County and Jessica hasn’t stopped. She was actively in- been rewarded and she does not have to graduated volved in Freshman Forum as the treasurer be concerned about how to pay for her Mfrom Alexandria High School. in the fall and will be trying out for the college education. Rachael never really thought of attending Marching Ballerinas this spring. She also JSU is fortunate to have one of the anywhere other than Jacksonville State made the Dean’s List for the fall semes- brightest students in the nation choose to University. Her parents, Darryl (’84) and ter. And even though she doesn’t have advance her education here. This fresh- Robbie (’85) Ginn, met at JSU. to worry about the cost of tuition, room man has a lot more to give and it’s going Involvement could be her middle and board and books, she stays close to a to be interesting to watch all that she will name. Since her first semester on cam- tight work ethic by working for the JSU become. pus, Rachael has been involved in the

30 : GEM OF THE HILLS Rachael Ginn PHARMACY SCHOOL HERE SHE COMES!

American Chemical Society, JSU Ambas- But it’s not just activities. Her aca- local high school students and volun- sadors, Zeta Tau Alpha Fraternity and demic success is clear. Rachael received teered for the American Red Cross Gamecock Orientation. She served as multiple JSU scholarships throughout her Blood Drive and Relay for Life. president of Zeta Tau Alpha and was the college years and earned membership into Rachael is set to receive her Gamecock Orientation coordinator in numerous honor societies such as Phi Eta Bachelor of Science degree in biology 2010. Just name it, Rachael has probably Sigma, Rho Lambda, Order of Omega, this spring. Rachael was accepted into been a part of it some time during her Omicron Delta Kappa and Phi Kappa Auburn University’s Harrison School college career. Phi National Honor Society. She has of Pharmacy at the end of January. She Her outgoing personality and willing- maintained a grade point average of 3.72 is also considering Samford University ness to be involved on campus made her during her college years. for post graduate work. Rachael plans a likeable individual among her peers and And it doesn’t stop there. She still on attending one of the two schools for landed her on the Homecoming Court finds time to give back to the community. pharmacy school to pursue her dream twice. During the past four years, she has tutored of becoming a pharmacist. Look out world, here she comes! SPRING 2011 : 31 STRONG

32 : GEM OF THE HILLS NINETY-EIGHT & STILL GOING STRONG REFLECTIONS OF A JSU ALUMNA

By julie skinner Photos By STEVE LATHAM

The lasting effects of the education “We were very poor,” Edith says. “But we paid for. Back then, students could that ninety-eight-year-old Edith Gissendan- didn’t know it, because everybody else was obtain a certificate to teach after only ner received at Jacksonville State Univer- too.” one year, so Edith then began teaching sity many years ago are still very present in Tragedy struck right before Edith start- school in the winter and returned to her everyday life, from the vivid memories ed her senior year of high school. While JSU in the summer to finish her degree. she can readily recall from years of teach- on the way to the store, her parents were Doing it this way took longer, eleven ing, to her old college annuals she keeps in hit by a train. Only her mother survived. years to be exact, but Edith was driven. a safe place. But perhaps the most unique “The railroad people paid my mother Edith says that back then, there wasn’t possession she showed me while sitting at $5,000, which was just a little bit for much to do around campus, so walking her dining room table one rainy after- somebody’s life,” Edith says. “Out of that to the square and back or sitting under noon in Crossville, Alabama, is the small $5,000, she took out enough to send me the Confederate monument was a favor- notebook where, for an entire summer, to Jacksonville for one year of college. That ite pastime. In 1941, Edith graduated she documented in her own handwriting was about $800 or $900, and included the with a degree in elementary education. what the cafeteria on campus served for dorm, meals and my books.” In 1936, Edith moved to Crossville breakfast, lunch and dinner. Edith graduated from high school as to teach first grade. It was there that she Born October 2, 1912 to Lee and valedictorian in 1929 at the age of sixteen. met her husband, Earl Gissendanner. Dessa Putnam on a farm in Lumpkin, Edith started college in 1930 at JSU, then “When I went to Crossville to teach, we Georgia, Edith grew up with two sisters, called Jacksonville State Teachers College, all met on the front steps. Clara and Oline, in Adamsburg, Alabama. and went the one year that her mother

SPRING 2011 : 33 Ms. Gissendanner shown in her Crossville, Ala. home who, in addition to her many * talents, is also an accomplished painter and is shown here with several of her favorite pieces.

BELOW LEFT: Ms. Gissendanner’s class photo in a 1930 edition of the Teacola student yearbook, the pre- cursor to the Mimosa.

One of the first things they told all The book is sold for $12 and can be the teachers was that, the year before, found at Liberty National Bank in everybody who taught at Crossville had Crossville, Ala., or at a local pharmacy, been fired except for three teachers.” Earl Crossville Drugs. The book was printed Gissendanner was one of the three teach- by BPI, Boaz Printing Incorporated, ers who had not been fired. “They told us and Edith says that readers can look not to ask what happened if we wanted to forward to a lot of pictures throughout keep our job, and I never asked. Can you the book. believe that? I was married to my husband While Edith is one of the oldest for over fifty years, and I never asked.” living graduates of JSU, she embodies Edith and Earl met that first day of the struggle, perseverance and success school at Crossville, and were married by that every modern-day college student Thanksgiving the same year. They had experiences still today. While decades three children, Samuel, Martha and Frank. have come and gone and the look and Today, Edith Gissendanner still name of Jacksonville State University resides in Crossville, near her children and have changed, the invaluable education grandchildren. She has a poodle, Coco, that sleeps lazily on the floor of her beauti- provided by JSU is ultimately the com- ful, well-kept home. Edith enjoys painting, mon, unbreakable link between us all. and has several of her breathtaking works displayed throughout her home. Edith was honored to ride in Crossville’s Christmas Parade this past December as the “Grand Marshall,” where she enjoyed the view from a 1950 maroon Ford convertible. Recently, Edith has written a book entitled Beyond Adamsburg, which is all about her life and the thirty years she taught.

34 : GEM OF THE HILLS JSU Greek

Community wins regional GPA award

On March 6, 2011, the annual Greek Awards Ceremony recognized the outstanding achievements accomplished by JSU fraternities and sororities during the ABOVE: Alpha Xi Delta Sorority (L) Delta Chi Fraternity (R) 2010 academic year. The JSU Greek community showed fraternities and sororities increased their in 2010. The Greek community contin- their commitment to philanthropy and philanthropic endeavors by 3,000 hours ues to exceed the JSU undergraduate hands-on service by donating over 9,000 and $12,000 from 2009. average. Due to these academic achieve- hours and over $46,000 to an array of At the closing of the 2009 award ments, the JSU Greek community philanthropic projects such as Little Tree, ceremony, Dr. Meehan challenged the recently received the Gamma Sigma 2nd Chance Shelter, Autism Speaks, Greek community to increase member- Alpha National Greek Academic Honor Juvenile Arthritis Research, Breast Cancer ship. The students listened and are proud Society regional GPA award. Awareness and Research, Jacksonville to announce that this past year, chapter For questions about JSU Greek Parks and Recreation, Children’s Miracle memberships increased by twelve percent. Life, please contact Ms. Reid in the Network, and the Anniston Soup Kitchen. The overall Greek grade point average Office of Student Life at 256-782-8492 From their generous efforts, the JSU (GPA) of 2.71 in 2009 was raised to a 2.75 or via email at [email protected].

SPRING 2011 : 35 JSU Alumnus’ Class Makes History

ABOVE: (Left-Right) Aaron Roberts, Ken Hill, Dominick Hoyt, David Wilson, Josh Mathis, Matt Curry, Alex Edwards, Moham- * med Mugharbhil and Amanda Lovingood

Many said it couldn’t be done. Even they are a little more advanced than high The pictures recovered from the experi- David Wilson had his doubts, giving school.” Jason Sickle, a former biology ment were NASA quality and included the project only a ten percent chance of teacher at Murphy High School, came a picture of the curve of the Earth. success because he knew the problems to Mr. Wilson with the idea after seeing Once the photos were downloaded involved. But without effort there can be the pictures posted on the internet from from the experiment, the students no success, so despite the possible prob- MIT’s experiment. couldn’t believe what they had done. lems of aloft winds, program failure for the The balloon reached an altitude of “I will never forget the excitement downloaded software to make the camera fifteen miles. The position of the balloon generated by the kids. It gave them all a take pictures automatically, temperatures was shown on Google Earth live as it lifted sense of self worth and confidence that at forty below, parachute deployment, off and traveled a path across North and they can accomplish great things,” says failure of landing in a river or the Atlantic South Carolina and Georgia. “I don’t Wilson. In fact, several of the students Ocean if winds were right, the class kept think people appreciate what it takes to have used the science experiment on working. And everything they thought get to that altitude and do the experiment college applications as an example of could go wrong went right! and successfully get the package back to “what did you do in high school” and Sounds like a NASA experiment, earth in one piece and be able to find it. one student was able to receive a small right? For Mr. Wilson’s high school It was potentially like looking for a needle scholarship because of his involvement students at Murphy High School in North in a haystack were it not for the Spot with the experiment. Carolina, it was pretty close. The honor Tracker which gave out five to ten minute David Wilson earned his Bachelor physics class successfully completed a readings on latitude and longitude of the of Science degree in general business semester-long science experiment that balloon.” The Spot Tracker is a tracking from JSU in 1979 and his Master of Ed- launched a hot air balloon, equipped with device which was donated to the class ucation in general science in 1991. He a GPS and a camera, into the Earth’s by Apparatus (www.apparatus.net) for met his wife, Maria Ellis, at JSU where stratosphere. Mr. Wilson says “It was the the experiment. The tracker was tied to she earned her Bachelor of Science in first time a scientific experiment was car- Google Earth and allowed the class to fol- psychology in 1989 and her Master of ried out at this altitude in the history of low the balloon through coordinates and Education in social sciences in 1992. our state (N.C). I looked on the internet find it when it landed in Columbia, S.C. He says the best part about teaching for and I also think that we are the second The helium required for the project was him “is being associated with kids like high school in the nation to ever accom- donated by AndyOxy, a welding company his current students who can dream and plish this. MIT did the experiment, but in Marble, N.C. make things happen.”

36 : GEM OF THE HILLS ROTC Alumni chapter helping students achieve their goals

RIGHT: JSU student recipients of an annual scholarship honoring Maj. Dwayne Williams, killed *in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon in 2001, are shown with Maj. Williams’ mother, Mrs. Pearl Williams, in front of Bibb Graves Hall. From left, seated are: Cadet Major Alexander Dean, Mrs. Pearl Williams and Heather Sizemore. Standing, from left are: Cadet Timothy Ray and Cadet Lt. Col. Jeremiah Bradford.

The Jacksonville State ROTC alumni keep this program alive such as Mr. Dewey 1950 and the thousands of alumni who chapter is working hard to support ROTC Tate, Mrs. Pearl Williams, local chapters have experienced the ROTC program cadets that need financial assistance now of the Military Officers Association, Elks during their studies at JSU. and in the future. The chapter currently Lodge 189, and the Ft. McClellan Credit If you would like to be a part of awards up to $1,000 per recipient on an Union. this program, contributions can be annual academic basis. During the 2009- To continue growing scholarship op- made on line at www.jsu.edu/giving or 2010 school year, the chapter has been portunities, the chapter also established mailed to the JSU Foundation, Inc. at able to provide twenty of these scholar- a scholarship endowment in 2008. The 700 Pelham Road N, Jacksonville, AL, ships to twenty cadets. fund currently has a balance of $12,000 36265. Please note the donation is for The alumni chapter and the recipients with a hefty goal of $100,000. This goal the ROTC Endowment Scholarship are indebted to the generous contributions can become a reality with the continued Fund. of individuals, alumni, organizations and support of the 1,400 cadets commissioned corporations who have provided funds to through the JSU ROTC program since SPRING 2011 : 37 nursing scholarship in memory of Patricia Bailey

Above: Kevin Callaway, RN, Have you ever been fortunate enough need-based tuition assistance to a nurs- MSN Instructor, College of to cross paths with one of those rare ing student who demonstrates excep- Nursing and Health Sciences characters who enriches your world with tional character, a passion for patient Jacksonville State University friendship and laughter while challenging care and advocacy, and commitment to I chose to teach because of my you to approach life with a greater sense the nursing profession… as Pat did. love for the nursing profes- of appreciation and compassion? For We invite you to be a part of this sion and the opportunity to me, Pat Bailey was an example of such a endeavor! Perhaps you knew Pat – or * have a broader impact on the character. Pat was a natural clinician and maybe you didn’t, but hearing of the quality of health care. I want tireless patient advocate. Pat’s life changed impact she had on my life reminds you to challenge future nurses dramatically when she was diagnosed with of someone who changed the course of to embrace the profession’s historical roots in compassion, breast cancer and the world lost a truly your own. Perhaps you or someone you service, and patient advocacy unique individual when she succumbed to know has been touched by breast cancer while encouraging intellectual the disease a few years later. and you would like to honor them by curiosity that emphasizes In memory of Patricia C. Bailey, a helping someone else. No gift is too evidence-based practice. I take scholarship fund has been established at small (or too large for that matter) and seriously the responsibility for Jacksonville State University to benefit a any support you may be able to contrib- motivating students by helping them identify and remain rising senior in the College of Nursing ute will be greatly appreciated, steward- committed to a set of goals. I and Health Sciences. We have a lofty ed well, and fully tax deductible. Write strive to exhibit patience and fundraising goal in order to ensure that “Patricia C. Bailey Scholarship” in the the willingness to develop each this scholarship lasts forever, but I am memo line of your check made payable student at a challenging pace confident that this can be achieved. When to JSU Foundation, 700 Pelham Road while maintaining a sense of fully funded, this scholarship will provide North, Jacksonville, Alabama 36265. safety and comfort. - Kevin Callaway

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38 : GEM OF THE HILLS SPRING 2011 : 39 with alumni with alumni JSU Alumni everywhere are gathering and having fun. pictured are scenes from just a few alumni events held over the past few months.

Central Alabama Alumni Cruise on the Harriott II in Montgomery

Greater washington d.c. Greater Rome Area Alumni North texas after hours area Alumni dinner at bella roma tour of the white house

Central alabama “denim & Softball reunion late 80’s reunion diamonds” gala

Central alabama “denim & Chattahoochee Valley calhoun county homecoming diamonds” gala alumni chapter celebration 40 : GEM OF THE HILLS with alumni Ms. Rowan’s Bell returned to JSU

LEFT: Harvey & Travis *Stewart, Class of 1951.

Board of Governors

The JSU Alumni Association welcomes its new Board of Governors members. They began a two year term on January 1, 2011.

Valencia Cantrell ’09 Andrea Mercer Clayton ’83/86 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Stewart, ’51 recently donated Ms. Rowan’s bell to the JSU Sara Underwood ’02/04 alumni association. The details of how the bell came into their possession are a little Gene Wisdom ’81 vague but they have kept the bell in safe keeping for the last sixty years. According to the Stewarts, Ms. Rowan, dorm mother for Daugette Hall, would ring the bell at curfew each Clayton Scott ’62 night to signal the women to return to the dorm. Kelly Raw ’07/08 During a “raid” on Daugette Hall one evening, the bell turned up missing. Now, after Holli Blass ’03 all the years, the bell is back home on campus and will be displayed in the alumni house.

Check out the Jacksonville State Universtiy Alumni Association page! stay in touch with your fellow alumni and various JSU alumni activities! It is a great resource for receiving JSU information and professional networking. www.facebook.com

SPRING 2011 : 41 with alumni

Coach Harold Brooks honored In August 2009, Coach Harold Mr. Brooks graduated from B.B. his position. Harold is still involved at Brooks was honored with the Man & Comer High School. He went on to Jack- the Boys Club as the special projects Youth award for his dedication and service sonville State University to attain a Bach- coordinator. to the Boys Club of Sylacauga. The Na- elor of Science degree in business in 1966, tional Organization of Boys & Girls Clubs while also playing on the baseball team. of America considers this to be their most After college, he started his career as prestigious award, and presents it to the the athletic director at the Boys Club of person who has dedicated the most time Chattanooga, but returned to Sylacauga Above: (Left-Right) to working with the youth in their com- after a couple of years to teach and coach Jody Brooks (son), Coach munity. Coach Brooks has been serving at B.B. Comer High School. In 1971, Brooks, and Clyde McGuire, the youth of Sylacauga for forty years. He he became director of the Boys Club of *the Southeast Regional Direc- has been involved with the Boys Club as a Sylacauga. He remained director until tor Boys and Girls Club of club member, volunteer, part-time worker, 2008 when his son, Jody Brooks, took over America and executive director. 42 : GEM OF THE HILLS with alumni

JSU Alumni Serve the Nation through the catholic church

acksonville State he puts his life into. He was not only a University has its devoted student, but…a leader among share of notable leaders.” alumni of whom we “Both (brothers) are natural leaders,” Stay up to are proud. Two of says John Armstrong, who has also served thoJse alumni are The Rever- with the Spencers. “There is simply some- end Robert A. Spencer ’78 and thing special about that entire family.” newly ordained Bishop F. Rich- Rev. Spencer says he and his brother ard Spencer ’73. received the call to serve in the church at Catch up on all the The brothers, Sylacauga natives, different times in their lives, but he says were members of JSU’s ROTC program their religion has always been important latest alumni news and both majored in law enforcement. to them. and events at Rev. Robert A. Spencer says that neither “His faith is as much of his core as of them planned on devoting their lives his integrity and strength of character,” to the church. In fact, he served in the Wisdom says of Rev. Spencer. www.jsu.edu/alumni United States Marine Corps and Bishop Armstrong says that he was able to F. Richard Spencer served in the United follow Rev. Spencer as he practiced his States Army. faith by giving Mass to many Marines. Don’t miss out on Many of Rev. Spencer’s fellow JSU Armstrong, a Protestant, says that “he important ROTC members say he impacted their has taught me a great deal about faith, information. We lives for the better and they have many Catholicism and life.” fond memories of him throughout their Over the years and through their need your e-mail college years. Back then they referred to faith, both men have served the na- address. Please him as “Doc” tion admirably. Rev. Spencer has served e-mail us at “Doc was a natural leader,” says Dave in many areas throughout the world, [email protected]. Bowles, a friend of Rev. Spencer who including a tour in Iraq. He currently is served with him in JSU’s ROTC program. a Navy Chaplain and is stationed at a “Although he had committed to the naval base in San Diego, California. USMC, he was a staple in our ROTC pro- Bishop Spencer has also served gram for his entire career at JSU. Doc had throughout the world. One of his many a huge impact on my life due to his charac- outstanding services was to the victims of ter, belief in our nation and its principles, the Pentagon on 9/11. He was ordained and his dedication to excellence.” a Bishop in September of this year and Gene Wisdom, another friend of Doc, will now serve the spiritual needs of the agrees with Bowles. “What an incredible military in all of Europe and Asia, includ- guy,” he stated. “Doc isn’t a ’do it halfway’ ing war zones. person,” he says. “He is full of life and along with a tremendous sense of humor, he is completely dedicated to whatever SPRING 2011 : 43 with alumni 2010-2011 Board of Visitors College of Arts and Sciences

LEFT: The Gladys M. Carlisle Fine Arts Facility, built in 2007, named after the * long-time JSU Board of Trust- ees member Ms. Carlisle

n 2009, the College of Arts and • A goal of $10,000 to advance student 2010-2011 College of Arts and Sciences Board of Visitors was research by funding twenty student Science Board of Visitors formed to assist the college in awards of $500 each to conduct various ways. The board works research or deliver scholarly papers. John Mann ’67, Chairman together with the dean to advocate A leadership gift has already been given Albert Barber ’60 the mission of the college, meet or exceed toward this goal. Dianne Bragg I Elaine Campbell ’54 the goals and objectives of the college to Dr. J.E. Wade, Dean of the College, external constituencies, advise on areas appreciates the board’s efforts, noting, “we Lisa Cook of innovation and opportunity and assist are fortunate to have these outstanding Nancy Chambers ’71 in identifying and acquiring resources, alumni and friends of the university work- Marshall Corlew ’71 among other things. ing on behalf of the College of Arts and Daniel Craven ’77 The board meets twice a year and has Sciences. Their expertise, combined with James Epik ’83 established the following goals to complete their enthusiasm and commitment to JSU, Lee Herring ’70 in 2011: will greatly benefit the development efforts Timothy Hightower ’77 • A goal of $5,000 to go toward of the college.” Lou Kennamer ’58 supporting the JSU Honors Program. Board members include JSU alumni, David Kinsaul ’70 A special event featuring Pulitzer Prize community leaders, and friends of the Samuel Kinsaul ’73 winning author, Rick Bragg, is university. Shirley Mogil scheduled for September 16, 2011 with Malcolm Street all proceeds going toward the program. Callie Waldrep • A goal of $5,000 to fund a visiting Ford Wiles ’96 artist to assist with the implementa- Pearl Williams ’77 tion of the new Master of Fine Arts program.

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upcoming events & reunions

April 14 Birmingham Chapter “State of the University” dinner at Ross Bridge Resort

April 21 Calhoun County Spring Shrimp Boil at the JSU Alumni House

May 3 Atlanta Area “State of the University” Dinner

July 29 Central Alabama Blues Cruise on the Harriott II in Montgomery

September 24 FAB 40s/Nifty 50s Reunion

JSU Graduate Promoted October 27 Calhoun County Alumni Brigadier General After-Hours

October 28 Class of 1961 “Golden During a recent promotion ceremony at the Pentagon, Colonel Curt A. Rauhut Gamecock” 50-Year Reunion received the following official citation from the United States Army. ROTC Alumni Banquet “The President of the United States has reposed special trust and confidence in Criminal Justice Alumni the patriotism, valor, fidelity, and abilities of Colonel Curt A. Rauhut. In view of these Reunion qualities and his demonstrated potential for increased responsibility, he is, therefore, 1955 Football Team Reunion promoted in the United States Army to the rank of Brigadier General. By order of the 60s Group Reunion Secretary of the Army.” Effective date of promotion is December 3, 2010. Brig. Gen. Curt Rauhut was commissioned through the JSU ROTC department and October 29 received his Bachelor of Science degrees in accounting and military science in April 1984. HOMECOMING 2011 He was a member of Kappa Alpha Order. He is currently serving as the Director, Busi- ness Operations, Office of Business Transformation located at the Pentagon. October 30 International House United Nations Day Tea

ABOVE: Brig. Gen. Curt Rauhut, November 5 Class of 1984 Grey Echelon (former Marching * Southerners and Ballerinas) Reunion

SPRING 2011 : 45 alumnotes ALUMnotes BIRTHS Eric Cristopher Soehren, ’92/’05, and announce the birth of their daughter, *pictures listed top to bottom, left to right Jennifer Nolan Soehren, ’95, Shorter, Karma Leone Kilgore*, August 30, Ala., are delighted to announce the birth 2010. Dr. Allison played football for 1970 - 1979 of their twin daughters, Elise Harper and JSU. He currently is an assistant prin- Emma Katherine*, August 19, 2010. They cipal at Alexandria High School and Dr. Steven J. Allen, ’73/’76, and his wife, also have a two-and-a half-year-old son, serves as adjunct faculty for the JSU Debbie, Woodbridge, Va., announce the Ethan. Mr. Soehren is a non-game biolo- Department of Instructional Leader- birth of their third child, Meredith Kath- gist for the State Lands Division, Alabama ship. Dr. Kilgore is chief deputy district erine*, November 23, 2009. Dr. Allen Department of Conservation and Natural attorney for Talladega County and is a policy analyst and political writer in Resources. He is a charter member of serves as adjunct faculty for the JSU Washington, D.C. Sigma Phi Epsilon at JSU. Mrs. Soehren Department of Criminal Justice. owns and operates an exhibit design com- 1980 - 1989 pany. She was a member of Tri-Beta honor Charles Martin “Marty” Hagood, ’95, T. Keith Howell, ’88, and his wife, April, society at JSU. and his wife, Erica, Lanett, Ala., an- Rome, Ga., announce the birth of their nounce the birth of a new Gamecock. baby girl, Isabella Grace*, May 1, 2010. Sally Haase McDonald, ’94, and her hus- their daughter, Ann Elizibeth*, was Mr. Howell was a member of Sigma Nu. band, Charles, Alabaster, Ala., announce born on April 18, 2010. the birth of their son, Paine Crawford, January 5, 2010. They have a seven-year-old Kenneth Massenburg, ’95, and Jana 1990-1999 daughter, Mary-Paige. Paine and Mary- Osborne Massenburg, ’96, welcomed the birth of their third child, Aaron James Newell, ’91, Deatsville, Ala., is Paige are the grandchildren of Sarah Haase Charles Drew* on March 26, 2010. proud to announce the birth of his TWIN Tate, ’71, and her husband, John, also of Aaron has two big sisters, Adley, seven granddaughters, Ashley Grace and Emily Alabaster. Mrs. McDonald was a member years old, and Aida, five years old. Rose*, September 17, 2010. Mr. Newell of Zeta Tau Alpha. Mr. Massenburg is a Tech Specialist at currently serves as president of the JSU Deltacom and Mrs. Massenburg is a alumni chapter in Central Alabama. Dr. Banyon Allison, ’95/’96/’02, and his wife Dr. Christine Kilgore, Oxford, Ala., Dietitian at HealthSouth.

46 : GEM OF THE HILLS Meredith Allen (above left), Isabella Howell, Ashley Grace & Emily Rose, Elise Harper & Emma Katherine Soehren, Karma Allison, Ann Elizibeth Hagood alumnotes

Emory Richard Serviss, ’95, and his wife, welcomed the birth of their second Heather Plew Brown, ’02, and her Lillian, Auburn, Ala., announce the birth daughter, Kenzie Elizabeth*, July 27, 2010. husband, Richard, Indianapolis, Ind., of their daughter, Josie*, September 16, Mrs. Hinkson played basketball and Mr. announce the birth of their second 2010. Mr. Serviss was a member of the Hinkson played baseball for JSU. Both are child, Robert Charles*, September 6, International House Program at JSU. Josie employed by the Paulding County Board 2009. Mrs. Brown was a member of is the granddaughter of former JSU vice of Education. Zeta Tau Alpha. president for institutional advancement, Joseph Serviss, ’69/’75, and his wife Caro- William Bradford “Brad” Smith, ’00/’01, lyn Harris Serviss, ’67/’77, Jacksonville, and his wife, Kristin Cooper Smith, Ala. ’03/’05, Alexandria, Ala., announce the birth of their son, Cooper Jack*, June 2, Rhonda Wilks Kilgro, ’97/’01, and her 2010. They also have a four-year-old daugh- husband, Wesley, Jacksonville, Ala., ter, Kamryn. Mr. Smith played baseball announce the birth of their first child, for JSU and Mrs. Smith was a member of Whitley Evon*, November 30, 2010. Mrs. Alpha Omicron Pi. Kilgo is a math instructor at JSU. Heather Moreland Stuckey, ’00, and her Julie Michelle Kish Forsyth, ’99, and her husband, Curt, Birmingham, Ala., an- husband, Alexander William Forsyth, nounce the birth of their second child, ’01, Davenport, Fla., announce the birth James Curtis IV*, September 23, 2009. of their daughter, Brooke MacKenzie*, They also have a two-year-old daughter, March 2, 2010. Mrs. Forsyth played Georgia Jayne. Mrs. Stuckey was a member softball and Mr. Forsyth played golf for of Alpha Xi Delta at JSU and is employed JSU. Mrs. Forsyth is an exercise physiolo- by the Georgia-Pacific Corporation. gist and personal trainer and certified golf fitness instructor at the Golf Performance Amy Turner Griffin, ’01, and her hus- Institute of America in Florida. band, Kai, Franklin, Tenn., welcomed the birth of their son, Gabriel William*, 2000-2009 August 30, 2009. Mrs. Griffin was a member of the Baptist Campus Ministry at JSU Lee Hinkson , ’00/’02, and Kelly Nye and served as a Gamecock Hostess. Hinkson, ’03/’04/’05, Dallas, Ga.,

Aaron Massenburg, Josie Serviss, Whitley Kilgro, Brooke Forsyth, Kenzie Hinkson (top right), Cooper Smith, James Stuckey IV, Gabriel Griffin, Robert Brown SPRING 2011 : 47 alumnotes

WEDDINGS Kristi Gearhart Beam, ’95/’01, and Garrett Angela Barnes, ’99, and Dustin Harper, *pictures listed top to bottom, left to right Clark Burgess, ’10, December 12, 2009, March 13, 2010, Hollywood, Ala. Mrs. Anniston, Ala. Mrs. Burgess is employed at Harper is a business owner in Scottsboro, 1970 – 1979 JSU. Mr. Burgess was a member of the JSU Ala. golf team and Pi Kappa Phi. They reside in Elaine Morris Heath, ’75/’95, and J. Jacksonville, Ala. 2000-2009 Braxton Gossett, ’01, March 7, 2010. Mrs. Gossett was a member of the Southerners. Ashley Fuller, ’00, and Michael Dewayne Leslie Bailey, ’98, and Kevin Third, June They reside in Gadsden, Ala. Adams, November 20, 2010, Millbrook, 13, 2010. Mrs. Third was a member of Ala. Mrs. Adams is employed at Baptist Alpha Xi Delta and is employed by Bill 1990 – 1999 South, Montgomery, Ala., as a nurse Miller Photographers, Anniston, Ala. practitioner. James G. Frazier, ’91/’94, and Kyoko Yam- auchi, ’94, July 25, 2009. Mr. and Mrs. Jeana Hill, ’98, and Blake Diamond, July Heather Frieze, ’01/’04, and John Benja- Frazier met during graduate school at JSU. 15, 2010, in Negril, Jamaica. They reside min Nabors, May 8, 2010, Fort Morgan, Mr. Frazier is employed by the Alabama in Albertville, Ala., where Mrs. Diamond Ala. Mrs. Nabors is employed by The Department of Industrial Relations. They is employed by the Albertville City School Shack BBQ, Talladega, Ala. reside in Hoover, Ala. System. Kevin Wright Hopwood, ’01, and Jennifer Cynthia Michelle Hampton, ’91, and Miranda Michelle Atwood, ’99, and Del Puerto Yap, June 19, 2010, Glencoe, Mark Jason Green* is a teacher with the Robert Todd Vickers, June 25, 2010, Ala. Mr. Hopwood is a registered nurse Cherokee County Board of Education. Mountain Brook, Ala. Mrs. Vickers owns at Lakewood Regional Medical Center, The couple resides in Centre, Ala. and operates ACI Group, Inc. She was a Lakewood, Calif. member of Alpha Xi Delta. Stacey Renea Brannon, ’02/’04, and Chad Davis Bruce, February 20, 2010, Cross- ville, Ala. Mrs. Bruce is employed by the Dekalb County Board of Education as an English teacher at Crossville High School.

Katrina Korlisa Garrett, ’02/’05/’10, and Shannon Mark Morris, September 18, 2010, Talladega, Ala. Mrs. Morris was a member of Delta Sigma Theta and is employed by the Anniston City Board of Education.

Charity Machelle Dunn, ’03, and Nathan Ross Hutcheson, July 10, 2010, Arab, Ala. Mrs. Hutcheson is employed by the Marshall County Board of Education as an early childhood education teacher.

Monica A. Brown, ’03/’07, and Christo- pher D. Christian, September 25, 2010, Gadsden, Ala. Mrs. Christian is employed by the Pell City Board of Education as a teacher at Walter M. Kennedy Elementary School.

48 : GEM OF THE HILLS Cynthia and Mark Green alumnotes

Dustin “Dusty” Craig Darnell, ’03, Lydia Shyan Gray, ’05, and Jacob Martin Kati Danielle Richards, ’06, and Rich- and Holly Lynn Martin, ’05, June 25, Peek, ’09, August 28, 2010, Guntersville, ard Eugene Maddox, Jr., April 24, 2010, 2010, Guntersville, Ala. Mrs. Darnell is Ala. Mrs. Peek is employed by the Dekalb Hoover, Ala. employed by the Dekalb County Board County Board of Education at Collinsville of Education as a teacher at Crossville Elementary School. Mr. Peek is employed Anna Rebecca Sanders, ’06/’09, and Elementary School. Mr. Darnell is also by Marshall Medical Center North. Jason Edward Walden, July 17, 2010, employed by the Dekalb County Board of Cedar Bluff, Ala. Mrs. Walden is Education as a teacher and varsity football Charles “Chuck” William Simmons, Jr., employed by Cedar Bluff Elementary coach at Sardis High School. Mr. Darnell ’05, and Hanna Knight, July 31, 2010, School. played football for JSU. Jacksonville, Ala. Mr. Simmons is employed by the City of Jacksonville. Natalie Rebecca Shearer, ’06, and Phillip Evan Whatley, ’03, and Valerie Michael Paul Huff, October 30, 2010, Michelle Brunson, October 2, 2010, Glen- Jonathan Price Dalton, ’06, and Heather Murrells Inlet, S.C. Mrs. Huff serves coe, Ala. Mr. Whatley is employed by The Elizabeth Esneault, ’08, September 11, as Huntsville Hospital Foundation’s Learning Tree. 2010, Huntsville, Ala. Mr. Dalton was a manager of corporate and community member of the JSU cross country team. relations, Huntsville, Ala. Kristine A. “Kristy” Abrams, ’04, and Matt Mrs. Dalton was a member of Alpha Xi Cummings, July 24, 2010. Mrs. Cum- Delta and the Marching Ballerinas. Tim Allen Sutton, ’06, and Heather mings is currently pursuing her master’s Marie Ramer ’10, July 17, 2010, Chest- degree and is employed at Bowdon (GA) Mitchell Ted Hunt, ’06, and Krista Lanette nut Bay Resort. Mr. Sutton is employed Elementary School. She was a Marching Shirley, July 24, 2010, Deridder, La. Capt. by Maxhub Inc. and A-M Entertain- Ballerina at JSU. Hunt was a member of Sigma Nu and was ment. Mrs. Sutton is employed by Rain- commissioned through the JSU ROTC bow Kindergarten and Childcare. Jock Burgess, ’04, and Jessica Patterson, program. He has served in the Army since April 24, 2010, Anniston, Ala. Mr. Burgess 2004 and is currently stationed at Fort Elizabeth Ann Varner, ’06, and Mat- was a member of the Baptist Campus Min- Polk, La., serving as commander, 488th thew Blake Simmons, ’09, July 24, istry at JSU and is employed by Woodard Quartermaster Company, 88th Brigade 2010, Birmingham, Ala. Mrs. Simmons Broadcasting, Oxford, Ala. Support Battalion. was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha. She is employed by Gus Mayer, Birmingham, Daniel Elton Farr, ’04, and Elisha Marie Ashley Michelle McDonald, ’06, and Ala., as visual manager. Mr. Simmons Brannen, June 26, 2010, Ashland, Ala. James Richard McRae, October 2, 2010, was a member of Pi Kappa Phi and is Mr. Farr is employed by The Gates Cor- Cheaha State Park, Ala. Mrs. McRae was a employed by Enterprise Rent-A-Car as poration, Macon, Ga., as a territory sales member of the Marching Ballerinas. management assistant. They reside in manager. Southside, Ala. Joshua Matthew Nix, ’06/’09, and Ashley Julie Rae Williams, ’04, and Dustin Joanna Hellums, ’08, September 25, 2010, Abbie Lauren Wilbanks, ’06/’09, and Michael Tucker, May 8, 2010. Mrs. Tucker Gadsden, Ala. Mr. Nix is employed by the Joshua Benton Brock, September 25, was a member of Phi Mu, the Show Choir, National Credit Union Administration, 2010, Lafayette, Ala. Mrs. Brock is em- and was a Marching Ballerina at JSU. She Columbia, S.C. Mrs. Nix is employed by ployed by the Jacksonville City Board of is employed by the Etowah County Board Moore Orthopedic Clinic, also in Colum- Education at Jacksonville High School. of Education. bia. Jared Barton Arnold, ’07, and Court- Megan Baskin, ’05, and Chad Lancaster, Jennifer Lynn Ogle, ’06, and Derek Brad- ney Jane Birmingham, ’07, June 19, July 10, 2010. Mrs. Lancaster was a mem- ley Smith, June 19, 2010, Fort Payne, Ala. 2010, Irondale, Ala. Mr. Arnold is ber of Tri-Beta Honor Society at JSU and Mrs. Smith is employed by the Tuscaloosa employed by St. Clair County Board of is employed as an environmental inspector County Department of Human Resources Education. Mrs. Arnold was a member at ANCDF. and is pursuing her master’s degree in of Phi Mu and the Marching Ballerinas. social work at the University of Alabama. She is employed by McGriff, Siebels, and Williams, Inc., Homewood, Ala. SPRING 2011 : 49 alumnotes

Miranda Kristen Bragg, ’07, and Marty and is currently employed by Rhamatti Rebekah Fran Holley, ’08, and Brian Camron Lovell, January 8, 2011, An- Law Firm, Huntsville, Ala. Alan Schwanbeck, October 10, 2010, niston, Ala. Mrs. Lovell is employed by Harvest, Ala. Mrs. Schwanbeck is Regional Medical Center in Anniston as a David Graham Lewis, ’07, and Lauren finishing an internship with Saddleback registered nurse. Leigh Zahorscak, ’08, June 19, 2010, Gads- Church in Lake Forest, Calif. den, Ala. Mr. Lewis was a member of the Tiffany L. Dodd, ’07, and Jerry B. Jones, Southerners and is employed by JSU. Mrs. Katie Hopes, ’08, and Nathan Harper, July 10, 2010. Mrs. Jones is employed by Lewis is employed by Big Chief Drive-In. May 1, 2010, Anniston, Ala. the Oneonta City Board of Education, Oneonta, Ala. Christopher Chaffin, ’08, and Rylee Jane Lori Rhae Hubbard, ’08, and Donald Mitchell, ’10, July 3, 2010, Horton, Ala. Joe Crawford II, May 22, 2010. Mrs. Brett Harris, ’07, and Janna Gurtler, Oc- Mr. Chaffin is employed as a lender with Crawford is employed by the First As- tober 9, 2010, Hayesville, N.C. Mr. Harris Citizens Bank and Trust, Albertville, Ala. sembly Christian School, Ashland, Ala. played baseball for JSU. He is employed by the ATF and they reside in Prattville, Ala. Tashara Childs, ’08, and Benjamin Ware, Brooke Emily Kirkpatrick, ’08, and September 5, 2010, Rainbow City, Ala. Barrett Rodney Ragsdale, ’10, June 26, Andrea Glyn Looney, ’07 and Solomon Mrs. Ware is currently attending JSU 2010, Piedmont, Ala. Mrs. Ragsdale is Cope, Jr., May 8, 2010, Hoover, Ala. Mrs. pursuing her master’s degree. a registered nurse for Dr. Shan Young Cope is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho and Jacksonville Medical Center, Jack- and is pursuing her graduate degree in Ashley Epperson, ’08, and Daniel Camp- sonville, Ala. criminal justice at Kaplan University. bell ’09, October 9, 2010. Mrs. Campbell was a Marching Ballerina. She is employed Jennifer Diane Ligon, ’08, and Winston Laura Elizabeth Mason, ’07, and Johnny as a registered nurse at Gadsden Regional Stuart Bentley, ’09, June 19, 2010, An- Eric LaFoy, August 7, 2010, Montevallo, Medical Center. Mr. Campbell is em- niston, Ala. Mrs. Bentley is employed Ala. Mrs. LaFoy is employed at Baker ployed by Snead Ag Supply. by the Cleburne County Board of Donelson, Birmingham, Ala. Education at Fruithurst Elementary Seth Ford, ’08, and Tiffany Bryant, June School. Mr. Bentley is employed by the Kaitlin Elizabeth Shell, ’07, and Jason Al- 26, 2010, Gadsden, Ala. Mr. Ford is the Talladega County Board of Education len Roberts, October 10, 2010. varsity boys’ basketball coach at Westbrook at Drew Middle School. Christian School. Kenton Chase Reaves, ’07, and Angela Amanda Kay Murray, ’08, and Mark Marie Icolano, ’08, June 25, 2010, Bir- Jessica Megan Gandy, ’08, and Daniel Ste- Andrew Randall, October 9, 2010, mingham, Ala. Mr. Reaves was a member phen Wilson, May 8, 2010, Birmingham, Jacksonville, Ala. of Sigma Phi Epsilon. He is pursing his Ala. Mrs. Wilson was a member of Alpha master’s degree at Georgia Southern and Omicron Pi. Vanessa Shea Nelson, ’08, and Cpl. Lee is employed by Norfolk Southern, Atlanta, Roy Burke IV*, June 26, 2010, Oneon- Ga. Mrs. Reaves was a member of Alpha Candice Nicole Gary, ’08, and Jared Rus- ta, Ala. Mrs. Burke was most recently Omicron Pi and is employed by the Shelby sell Harper, May 1, 2010, Guntersville, employed by Sarrell Dental Centers, County Board of Education as a teacher. Ala. Mrs. Harper is a registered nurse at Anniston, Ala. Cpl. Burke attended Marshall Medical Center South. JSU and is currently serving his second Amanda Michelle Tucker, ’07, and Bran- tour in the Marine Corps in San Diego, don Lee Martin, date unknown in 2010. Kathryn Greer, ’08, and Nathan Hartline, Calif., where the couple reside. Mrs. Mrs. Martin was a member of Phi Mu and ’10, June 9, 2010, Nassau, Bahamas. Mrs. Burke was a member of the Interna- is employed by Sarrell Dental Center. Hartline is employed by CVS Pharmacy tional House Program at JSU. and is attending the Harrison School of Katherine Lee Johnston, ’07, and William Pharmacy at Auburn University. Mr. Hart- Kelsey Raye Angles, ’09, and Matthew Landon Lomax, June 5, 2010, Opelika, line is a military veteran. H. Martz, October 9, 2010, Anniston, Ala. Mrs. Lomax was a member of Phi Mu Ala.

50 : GEM OF THE HILLS alumnotes

Amy Lauren Ashley, ’09, and Jordan Heather Nicole Evans, ’09, and Devin Ed- Joshua Patrick Hoyle, ’09, and Kayley Heath Smith, June 5, 2010, Fort Payne, ward Campbell, September 4, 2010, Gun- Anne Tatum, June 5, 2010, Samford Ala. Mrs. Smith is employed by Game- tersville, Ala. Mrs. Campbell is employed University, Ala. Mr. Hoyle is a teacher Time and the City of Rainsville, Ala. by Wayne Farms, Albertville, Ala. and coach at Springville (Ala.) High School. Cody Nicole Carpenter, ’09, and Jordan Hellon Elaine Freeman, ’09, and Kelsey Keith Hill, ’09, April 25, 2009, Sylacauga, Lane McWilliams, May 29, 2010, Negril, Heather Virginia Jester, ’09, and Tony Ala. Mr. Hill is employed by Parker Build- Jamaica. The couple resides in Anniston, Burgess, July 24, 2010. Mrs. Burgess is ing Company, Jacksonville, Ala. Ala. employed by Gadsden Regional Medical Center. Shelby Nicole Champion, ’09, and Andy Ashlee Dawn Gaskin, ’09, and Caleb Clyde Spurlin, summer 2010. Mrs. Spurlin Russell Pinyan, June 26, 2010, Boaz, Ala. Shandrika D. Leonard, ’09, and Gavin is employed as a registered nurse in the Mrs. Pinyan is employed by the Albertville L. Christopher, August 28, 2010, Annis- labor and delivery unit at Regional Medi- City Board of Education as a teacher and ton, Ala. Mrs. Christopher is employed cal Center, Anniston, Ala. coach. by the Alabama Department of Human Resources. Spencer Collin Collins, ’09, and Rachel Nicholas Pinnell Hamner, ’09, and Ash- Michelle Johnson, ’09, July 3, 2010, Gun- ton Nicole Harris, ’10, October 30, 2010, Tanner Lynn Maddox, ’09, and Jinnah tersville, Ala. Mrs. Collins is employed Norcross, Ga. Mr. Hamner is pursuing his Marie Padgett, September 18, 2010. Mr. by Albertville City Board of Education. master’s degree at JSU. He is a member Maddox is currently employed by the Mr. Collins is currently attending Wal- of Kappa Alpha Order. Mrs. Hamner, a Red Lobster restaurant chain. lace State Community College pursuing a member of Zeta Tau Alpha, is also cur- degree in physical therapy assistance. rently pursuing her master’s degree at JSU. Leslee Miller, ’09, and Steven Glenn, June 12, 2010. Mrs. Glenn is employed Lindsay LaShay Durham, ’09, and Nathan- Griffin Herb, ’09, and Jessica Brannon, by The Children’s Place. iel Scott Reeves, June 12, 2010, Pisgah, May 1, 2010, Jacksonville, Ala. Mr. Herb is Ala. Mrs. Reeves is employed at Rosalie employed by Life Insurance Company of Lisa Marie Reed, ’09, and Zachary Elementary School as a math teacher. Alabama. Hood, May 15, 2010. Mrs. Hood was a member of Alpha Xi Delta and is a former Southerner. Mr. Hood was also a member of the Southerners.

Leah Brooke Stephenson, ’09, and Joel Robert Price, June 5, 2010, Gadsden, Ala.

Brooke Towers, ’09, and Brent Ingle, September 25, 2010, Albertville, Ala. Mrs. Ingle is employed by St. Vincent’s Hospital, Trussville, Ala.

James Andrew Walker,’09, and Heather Ashley James, ’10, May 29, 2010, Lafay- ette, Ala. Mr. Walker is employed as a teacher in Patterson, La.

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2010 – 2011 Patricia Ann Walker Upton, October 4, YEAR OF GRADUATION 2010, Jacksonville, Ala. She was retired UNKNOWN or attended only Emily Brooke Baugh, ’10, and Matthew from the JSU College of Commerce and Miley S. Baker, November 19, 2010, Bice Jackson, ’10, June 12, 2010, Gunters- Business Administration after twenty-five Alabaster, Ala. Memorial gifts to ville, Ala. years of service. JSU can be made through the JSU Foundation. A Korean War veteran, Emily Nicole Eller, ’10, and Joshua Boyd Rosa Ogletree, June 12, 2010, Jacksonville, he was retired from the Jim Walter Robertson, July 17, 2010, Glencoe, Ala. Ala. She was retired from JSU. Corporation with twenty years of service. Brooklyn Elise Herren, ’10, and Chase Dr. Jack Selman, Birmingham, Ala. He Coleman Whitley, December 11, 2010, was retired from JSU. The alumni office Mary Jo Brooks Davis, October 2010, Ranburne, Ala. Mrs. Whitley is employed was notified by a family member that Dr. Marietta, Ga. The alumni office was by Cleburne County Middle School. Selman had passed away in 2007. notified during the annual Phonathon that Mrs. Davis had passed away. Kayla Elise Musick, ’10, and Langley Dr. Hugh B. McCain, Jr., April 19, Ryan Pullen, June 12, 2010, Sardis City, 2010, Mobile, Ala. He was a retired Christopher J. Decristo, date unknown, Ala. Mrs. Pullen is employed with the JSU sociology professor (1975-2005), Escondido, Calif. He played football for Boaz City School System’s summer camp sponsor of the Sociology Club and faculty JSU in 1985. program. emeritus. A Dr. Hugh B. McCain, Jr. Memorial Sociology Scholarship has Albion Williamson Knight, Jr., January Deidra Marie Pritchett, ’10, and Bruce been created at JSU in his memory and 31, 2010, Birmingham, Ala. He served Wade Barnes, November 6, 2010, Gun- contributions can be made through the in the Alabama Air National Guard. tersville, Ala. Mrs. Barnes is employed as JSU Foundation. The alumni office was a registered nurse at Riverview Regional notified by Dr. McCain’s daughter, Carisa David Mull, October 26, 2010, Gulf Medical Center, Gadsden, Ala. Anderson, of his death. Breeze Fla. Mr. Mull played basketball for JSU from 1968 to 1969. The alumni Jennilee Elaine Shaver, ’10, and Ryan Dr. Leon Dwight Willman, February 23, office was notified of his death by, Patrick Baker, October 23, 2010, Rome, 2010. Retired from JSU, he began his Averette Mull, his wife of thirty-nine Ga. Mrs. Baker is employed by Osceola career first as dean of students, and then years. Elementary School. She was a member of became dean of men and a professor of Zeta Tau Alpha. guidance and counseling. In 2008, he was Leyden E. “Chris” Willingham, date awarded the honor of professor emeritus. unknown, Anniston, Ala. Laura Anne Shaw, ’10, and Scotty Ray Hambrick, September 18, 2010. Mrs. Dr. Gary W. Yunker, Mt. Joliet, Ill., Jim M. McCullough, 2007, Hambrick is employed by Burke’s Outlet February 25, 2011, in Nashville, Tenn. He Birmingham, Ala. The alumni office as a supervisor. began his teaching career at JSU in 1980 was notified by a family member in the Department of Psychology. He during the annual Phonathon that Mr. taught psychology and business courses McCullough is deceased. OBITUARIES in the Department of Management and (The following information was obtained Marketing, where he served for a time as Preston Stephens “Steve” Daniel, through newspaper obituary notices unless Department Chair. Dr. Yunker authored September 16, 2010, Virginia Beach, otherwise noted) many scholarly papers and published two Va. He was an Army veteran of Vietnam books in his field. He retired from JSU in and a retired website developer. Mr. JSU FACULTY/STAFF 2005. Dr. Yunker was married to former Daniel had been a member of the Betsy Burke Pritchett, December 24, JSU assistant professor, Dr. Barbara Southerners. 2010, Jacksonville, Ala. She was currently Yunker, ’85. serving as secretary to the Vice President Billy Kyle Smith, September 6, 2010, of Administrative and Business Affairs at Piedmont, Ala. He was retired from JSU. State Farm Insurance with thirty-two 52 : GEM OF THE HILLS alumnotes

years as an agent in Jacksonville, Ala. Alwyn Barlow, date unknown, Laurens, Grove School. Mrs. Hayes taught for Zachary Dewayne Thomas, date of death S. C. forty-one years, retiring in 1971, all in unknown, Port St. Joe, Fla. Mr. Thomas Blount County. played football at JSU from 1999 to 2000. Kent L. Leffelman, date unknown, Saint Louis, Mo. Mr. Leffelman was a member Drew Thomas Collier, ’36/’45/’71, Mary Viola Simms McDonald, July of the Baptist Campus Ministry at JSU. Cleveland, Ala., March 26, 2010. The 9, 2010, Guntersville, Ala., at the age alumni office was notified by a family of ninety-eight. Mrs. McDonald had Cora Watwood Saxon, date unknown, member that Mr. Collier had passed worked for the Army for thirty years in Wellington, Ala., at age 102. Mrs. Saxon away. Washington, D.C., retiring in 1966. was founder and president of Saxon’s Candy Kitchen in Calhoun County. She Edith Mitchell Faught, ’36, Huntsville, James L. “Red” Whisenant, January 29, was a member of Alpha Xi Delta. Ala., February 2, 2010. The alumni of- 2010, New Market, Ala. An Army veteran, fice was notified by her son, Nicky, that he served for twenty-seven years, serving in William Enos Hazel, June 24, 2010, she had passed away. World War II and in various posts around Anniston, Ala. He was a World War II the world. After retiring from the military, veteran and retired as a Master Sergeant Lossie Stanford Thompson, ’36, he was involved in farming, cattle and the from the Army National Guard. Mr. Hazel Birmingham, Ala., June 15, 2010. Mrs. tire business. He served a short period of was awarded the Purple Heart, Bronze Thompson taught elementary school time as a teacher and coach at Alexandria Star, and WWII Victory Medal among for more than forty years, mostly at High School. others. He was retired from the Anniston Hueytown Elementary School. Army Depot. Irvin Bolding, date unknown, Boaz, Ala. 1940 – 1949 Mr. Bolding played football for JSU in Arthur Clanton Reaves, May 27, 2010, Maude R. McClinton, ’40, Chatom, 1950. Anniston, Ala. Mr. Reaves was a Navy Ala., date unknown. and Air Force veteran. He taught at Robert C. Dillon, April 13, 2010, both Oxford High School and Gadsden Jimmie Loucille Parris Stutts, ’40, Anniston, Ala. Mr. Dillon was an attorney State. He also had a career in real estate Mountain Brook, Ala., September 25, in Anniston for more than thirty- investments and founded the Star 2010. Mrs. Stutts was retired from the eight years. He played basketball and Attractions Talent Agency. In the early Mountain Brook School System, having football at JSU and was a member of the 1990s he became an ordained minister taught at Crestline School for twenty- International House Program. He served and served in numerous churches five years. She was a World War II in the Korean War and then served twelve throughout the region. veteran, serving in the Navy. years in the U.S. Army Reserves as a JAG (Judge Advocate General) officer. James David Spielberg, July 5, 2010, Katherine Anderson Hefner, ’42, Gadsden, Ala., after a year-long illness. Huntsville, Ala., date unknown. The Curtis Eugene Hopson, date unknown, Mr. Spielberg was a realtor in Gadsden. alumni office was notified by Mrs. Hef- Oxford, Ala. Mr. Hopson was a former He was married to Betty Hosey Spielberg, ner’s niece, Carla Snodgrass, that Mrs. member of the Southerners. ’78. They would have celebrated their Hefner had passed away. Mrs. Hefner sixtieth anniversary on August 6, 2010. was retired from the Huntsville City Laura Kay Glover, date unknown, The alumni office was notified by Mrs. Board of Education. Birmingham, Ala. Ms. Glover was a Spielberg that her husband had passed former member of the Southerners. away. Fannie Mae Rice Lott, ’42, Oxford, Ala., July 27, 2010. Mrs. Lott was retired David J. Burnett, April 19, 2010, 1930 – 1939 from the Anniston City School System Scottsboro, Ala., of cancer. Mr. Burnett Ella Culwell Hayes, ’35, Hayden, Ala., with more than forty years of service. marched from 1972 to 1973 with the February 4, 2010, at the age of one hun- Southerners drumline. dred. Mrs. Hayes fondly remembered that when she began teaching in rural Blount County, she was the only teacher at Oak SPRING 2011 : 53 alumnotes

Loles Meade Waldrop, ’42, Roswell, Ga., Mary Swindall Mountcastle, ’49, Auburn, Sherman J. Stewart, ’50, Hazel Green, August 25, 2007. The alumni office was Ala., March 6, 2010. She taught school for Ala., date unknown. Mr. Stewart was recently notified by Mrs. Waldrop’s daugh- over twenty-five years and later owned and married to Adell Pool Stewart, ’50. The ter, Jan Purdue, that Mrs. Waldrop had operated a retirement home. alumni office was notified during the passed away in 2007. annual Phonathon by a family member Irma Potts Murphree, ’49, Blountsville, that Mr. Stewart is deceased. Fannie Adamson Blankenship, ’44, Alex- Ala., date unknown. ander City, Ala., passed away in 2005. The Myra King Ellenburg, ’51, Decatur, alumni office received this information Wallace Grady Murphree, ’49, Blounts- Ala., date unknown. from a family member during the recent ville, Ala., date unknown. Phonathon. Ralph Oliver Haggerty, ’51, Jacksonville, George Joshua Porter, Jr., ’49, Talladega, Ala., June 23, 2010. He was retired Ruth Augusta McConatha Pope, ’46, Ala., July 7, 2010. Mr. Porter served in the from Liberty National Insurance. He Carrollton, Ga., March 3, 2010. Mrs. Marines during World War II. He owned also served on the Jacksonville Medical Pope began her teaching career in 1946 at and operated Porter Realty for sixty-one Center Board and volunteered with Ashville High School in Ashville, Ala. She years, developing residential subdivisions many local groups. taught for forty-two years, retiring in 1986. and locating many businesses in Talladega. Mrs. McConatha was an active member of Mary Ann Cavender Hood, Delta Kappa Gamma. Oliver Ray Woodard, ’49, Cullman, Ala., ’51/’67/’89, Gadsden, Ala., July 19, May 5, 2010. Mr. Woodard played football 2005. She was retired from the Etowah Clifton Nash, ’46, Prattville, Ala., date and basketball for JSU. He coached County Board of Education with thirty unknown. football for twenty-six years and compiled years of teaching service. Mrs. Hood a career coaching record of 179-65-8. went on foreign field missions in Bo- Billye Jean Thompson Whitlock, ’46, Vin- Mr. Woodard served as president of the livia and has had over two hundred fifty cent, Ala., March 6, 2010. Mrs. Whitlock Alabama High School Athletic Association articles and four books published. She taught for thirty years with the Talladega (AHSAA) coaches association. The alumni was married to Curtis Hood,’58. County School System. She served her office was notified by Mr. Woodard’s community on the Housing Committee niece, Marly Landis, that he passed away. Lottie Painter Hudson, ’51, Horton, for twenty-five years and served more than Ala., date unknown. twenty years as an election official. 1950 – 1959 Ralph C. Key, ’51, Tallapoosa, Ga., Betty Nunnally Jones, ’50, Marion, Ala., Grace Payne Kennamer, ’49, Fyffe, Ala., September 5, 2010. He was a retired May 20, 2010. She taught school from October 20, 2010. Mrs. Kennamer taught Tallapoosa postmaster. The alumni 1950 until 1968 in Alabama City, Ala., for more than thirty years in Talladega office was notified by his wife, Willie Jo Panama City, Fla., Marion, Ala., and Sut- and Dekalb Counties. She was married to Brown Key ’51, of his death. tle, Ala. She worked for the Department of the late Pat Houston Kennamer, ’52. The Pensions and Securities (now DHR) from alumni office was notified by Mrs. Ken- Roy J. Nelson, ’51, Attalla, Ala., April 1969 to 1994. namer’s daughter, Patricia Cagle, that she 12, 2010. Mr. Nelson was a World War had passed away. II veteran and retired from Maxwell Air Lois Studdard Lyon, ’50, Arab, Ala., Force Base in Montgomery, Ala. He was February 18, 2010. The alumni office was James C. Leftwich, ’49, Gadsden, Ala., commissioned through the JSU ROTC notified by her son of her death. January 2010. Mr. Leftwich served for program. thirty years as business manager for the James Lewis Machen, ’50, Mountain Rest, Gadsden City Board of Education. The E. Louise Riker, ’51, Springville, Ala., S.C., July 9, 2010. Mr. Machen was a re- alumni office was notified by Mr. Left- date unknown. Ms. Riker was retired tired teacher, principal and administrator wich’s wife, Doris ’69, that he had passed from the St. Clair County Board of for the Hart County Board of Education away. Education. in Hartwell, Ga. He was a World War II Navy veteran. 54 : GEM OF THE HILLS alumnotes

Lena Ruth Traylor Boozer, ’53/’78, teaching career in Jacksonville, Fla., later Dr. Louise Rhodes Clark, ’58, Jack- Jacksonville, Ala., June 1, 2010. She was serving as principal at Sardis High in Boaz, sonville, Ala., August 23, 2010. Dr. an active volunteer with the Jacksonville Ala., and Fort Payne High School in Fort Clark taught at both Jacksonville High Christian Outreach Center (JCOC). Mrs. Payne, Ala., before becoming superinten- and at JSU where she was head of the Boozer played volleyball for JSU. dent of the Fort Payne City Schools. He Home Economics Department. She was retired with twenty-seven years of service. retired from JSU. Garland Hendrix, ’53, Pinson, Ala., died in 2005. He played baseball for JSU. The Frances Jean Hutchinson Stephens, ’55, Louise Reaves Honeycutt, ’58, Weaver, alumni office was advised during that an- Montgomery, Ala., April 11, 2010. She Ala., date unknown. nual Phonathon that he is deceased. taught in Ohatchee, Anniston, Alexander City, and Dothan. Mrs. Stephens was Louise M. Phillips, ’58, Scottsboro, Steve A. Pyron, ’53, Mexico Beach, Fla., librarian at West Decatur Elementary for Ala., date unknown. The alumni office February 20, 2010. During his career, he many years. was recently notified by Ms. Phillips’ helped build music programs at Campbell executor that she has been deceased for High School in Smyrna, Ga., and Valdosta Donzer Grady Loosier, Jr., ’56, Carrollton, several years. High School, Valdosta, Ga. He spent the Ga., date unknown. last few years before retiring in 1990 to Leonard Lamar Stafford, ’58, Fort Lau- Mexico Beach as a sales representative for Ellie Barnard Bohannon, ’57, Browns- derdale, Fla., December 9, 2009. Mr. the St. Regis Paper Company. boro, Ala., November 14, 2008. The Stafford was a retired Broward County alumni office was notified by her son that circuit court judge. He was commis- John Samuel Towns, ’53, Gadsden, Ala., Mrs. Bohannon had passed away in 2008. sioned through the JSU ROTC pro- May, 2010. The alumni office was advised gram. The alumni office was notified by by his wife, Joy, during the annual Phona- Betty Johnson Burch, ’57, Huntsville, Judge Stafford’s former roommate that thon, that he is deceased. Ala., December 31, 2009. Mrs. Burch was he had passed away. retired from civil service employment. The Rudolph Floyd Gilley, ’55, Piedmont, alumni office was notified by her husband Ralph Hilman Stephens, Sr., ’58, Ala., March 8, 2010. He was a retired of her death. Peachtree City, Ga., April 25, 2007, teacher and principal at the Greenwood from cancer. He played baseball for schools. Mr. Gilley was also self-employed Joe L. Currie, ’57, Hixson, Tenn., January JSU. His wife, Jane Collins Stephens, as a logger. 1, 2010. Mr. Currie played on the 1955 and his son, Ralph H. Stephens, Jr., JSU championship football team. He also attended JSU. The alumni office was Wilson C. Hicks, ’55, North Palm Beach, served on the SGA and was commissioned recently notified by his wife that he had Fla., April 1, 2010. Mr. Hicks was a retired through the JSU ROTC program. passed away in 2007. teacher and coach in Palm Beach County. He played football for JSU. General Lou “Genny” Watts McDaniel- Johnny Wilson Truitt, ’58, Pell City, Dawson, ’57, Gadsden, Ala., March 27, Ala., September 9, 2010, from lung can- Jerry W. Roberts, ’55, Gadsden, Ala., 2010. Mrs. McDaniel-Dawson taught at cer. Coach Truitt spent thirty-one years November 1, 2010. In 1974, he organized Gadsden High School for thirty-one years, coaching and teaching in the St. Clair the First State Bank of Albertville, the teaching English and business classes. County School System mostly in Pell First State Bank of Dekalb County in City, at Duran Junior High. In 2006, he Fort Payne and the First American Bank Lloyd Lee Christopher, ’58, Birmingham, was inducted into the St. Clair County of Destin, Fla. Mr. Roberts was a retired Ala., August 17, 2010, after a long struggle Sports Hall of Fame. Army Reserves Lieutenant Colonel with with cancer. He was an Air Force Korean twenty-three years of service to his country. War veteran. Mr. Christopher had a thirty- Louise Garner Woodward, ’59, Signal one year career in public service with the Mountain, Tenn., date unknown. The Tillerow G. “T.G.” Smith, Jr., ’55, Mont- U.S. Department of Labor. He retired in alumni office was notified by a family gomery, Ala., November 30, 2010. He 1989 as the district director for Alabama. member that she is deceased. was a Korean War veteran. He began his Mr. Christopher was married to Iris Baugh Christopher ’58 for fifty-two years. SPRING 2011 : 55 alumnotes

1960 – 1969 School System and Polk County (Ga.) City School System for over twenty School System for more than thirty-eight years. Jim R. Glasgow, ’60, Destin, Fla., March years. She was an active member of Delta 2010. Mr. Glasgow played football for JSU. Kappa Gamma. Mrs. Bedwell was a mem- Maley Windell Daniel, ’64, Gunters- His death was reported by fellow a fellow ber of the Southerners at JSU. ville, Ala., November 2010. Mr. Daniel JSU teammate, Charley Baker. had been employed by Gold Kist as Norman Alfred Smoake, ’61, Gardendale, general manager. The alumni office was William Paul Locklear, ’60, Decatur, Ala., Ala., June 26, 2010. Mr. Smoake was notified by his wife, Margaret, during May 29, 2010. He was an Army veteran commissioned through the JSU ROTC the annual Phonathon, that he had and was the retired owner of Barney’s Beef program. passed away. and Pork House. Mr. Locklear had been commissioned through the JSU ROTC Clarence Robert Boshell, Sr., ’62/’65, Dr. Herbert E. Griffin, Jr., ’64, Oxford, program. Weaver, Ala., February 24, 2010. Ala., December 15, 2010. Dr. Griffin Mickey Grimmett, ’62, Greensboro, Ga., was a retired administrative assistant Hazel Inez Mitchell, ’60, date unknown. March 26, 2010, of a sudden heart attack. with the Oxford City School System. The alumni office was notified by a Mr. Grimmett played football for JSU. He He participated in competitive shoot- classmate of Ms. Mitchell’s, Billie Reid had been commissioned through the JSU ing on the JSU rifle team and was Bryan, ’60, of Anniston, Ala., that she is ROTC program. The alumni office was named to the All-American Rifle Team. deceased. notified by Mr. Grimmett’s daughter, Kim Dr. Griffin had been commissioned Grimmett Baldwin, that he had passed through the JSU ROTC program. Shelby Jean Tankersley, ’60, Alexander away. City, Ala., May 13, 2010. She was retired H. Lavon “Von” Lang, ’64, Fishers, from teaching in the Atlanta area and Dorothy Ann “Dottie” Powell McCollum, Ind., May 2, 2010. Mr. Lang taught in from Russell Corporation in Alexander ’62, Gadsden, Ala., January 1, 2011. Mrs. Alexandria, Ala., and performed with City. Ms. Tankersley was a member of the McCollum was a member of the Southern- the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Baptist Campus Ministry at JSU. ers at JSU. The alumni office was notified before moving to Indiana where he by former JSU instructor and Southerner, made his career as a stockbroker for Tommy Allen Williams, ’60, date un- Dr. Deleath Rives, ’57, that she had passed thirty-eight years. He had been a mem- known. The alumni office was notified away. ber of the Southerners at JSU. by a friend of Mr. Williams that he is deceased. Billy Ray Anthony, ’63/’68, Piedmont, Robert Michael Justice, ’65, Albertville, Ala., May 4, 2010. Mr. Anthony had Ala., April 29, 2010. Mr. Justice owned Harold Ray Gargus, ’61, Huntsville, Ala., taught history in the Calhoun County Justice Sheet Metal in Albertville for August 16, 2010. The alumni office was School System for many years. more than twenty-five years and his notified by a family member during the copper work can be seen on many local annual Phonathon that Mr. Gargus passed James Merrill Johnson, ’63, Fort Payne, homes. away. Ala., April 2010. Mr. Johnson was a retired coordinator and professor at Beaver Robert P. Little, Jr., ’66, Fayetteville, Ann Dyer Hill, ’61, Jacksonville, Ala., County Community College in Pennsylva- Tenn., August 12, 2010. Mr. Little was August 17, 2010. Mrs. Hill taught English nia. He had been a member of the Baptist retired from NASA after thirty-three at Ohatchee High, White Plains High Campus Ministry at JSU. The alumni years of service. and Johnston Junior High (Anniston, office was notified by a family member, Ala.). She was also previously employed by during the annual Phonathon, that he had Jerry Victor McBride, ’66, Scottsboro, Fort McClellan and Redstone Arsenal in passed away. Ala., died in 2007. The alumni office Huntsville, Ala. was notified by a family member, dur- Martha Phillips Little, ’63/’68, Conway, ing the annual Phonathon, that Mr. Joene McKee Bedwell, ’61, Jacksonville, S.C., January 16, 2011. Mrs. Little had McBride passed away. Ala., January 19, 2011. Mrs. Bedwell had taught first grade in the Piedmont (Ala.) been a teacher in the Calhoun County

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Frances Patricia “Pat” Nixon, ’66, Gads- Jeanene Ellen Bedgood, 69, Pinson, Ala., Michael Darrell Barber, ’70, Southside, den, Ala., April 23, 2010. Ms. Nixon August 30, 2010. The alumni office was Ala., December 14, 2010. began her teaching career at Hokes Bluff notified by her cousin, David Marsh, that High, taught at Carver High and complet- Ms. Bedgood had passed away. Larry Wayne Pinson, ’71, Anniston, ed her teaching career at Emma Sansom Ala., date unknown. Mr. Pinson was High. Eva Jean Dunagan, ’69, Palatka, Fla., July co-owner of Pinson Florist. 24, 2010. She taught English at Palatka Clifford Lee Tanner, ’66, Talladega, Ala., High School for thirty-one years until her Doris Anita Copeland, ’72, Gadsden, July 27, 2010. Mr. Tanner was a Vietnam retirement in 2000. Ala., May 2, 2010. The alumni office veteran and was awarded the Bronze Star was notified by a family member during with valor and the Silver Star. Dr. Mitchell Parker Granger, ’69/’73, Jack- the annual Phonathon that she is sonville, Ala, May 1, 2010. Dr. Granger deceased. John Lewis Cofield, ’67, Huntsville, Ala., was retired from JSU after teaching ac- February 4, 2010. Mr. Cofield was an counting for thirty years. He was married Jemmie Randle Liles Hawk, ’72, Army veteran. He worked as a meteorolo- to Dr. Sue Clinkscales Granger,’63/’69, Birmingham, Ala., November 25, gist and comptroller for the U.S. govern- also retired from JSU. 2010. Mrs. Hawk worked as a teacher, ment until his retirement. a real estate agent in Jacksonville, Ala., Billy Warner Naylor, ’69, Knoxville, Tenn., and then retired as a military police Margaret Frances Cooper Ledbetter, ’67, February 11, 2010. Mr. Naylor was a World training evaluator at Fort McClellan in Fairhope, Ala., July 19, 2010. Mrs. Ledbet- War II veteran. He taught for several years Anniston. ter taught school in Anniston, Ala., for in the Etowah County School System but thirty-three years. finished his career as a U.S. Civil Service Allen Sherrill Pinson, ’72, Hilton Head employee. The alumni office was notified Island, S.C., passed away in 2006. The Rausewal Dan Johnson, ’67, Powder by his daughter, Cheryl Naylor Taylor, ’71, alumni office was advised by a family Springs, Ga., September 12, 2010. Mr. of his death. member, during the annual Phonathon, Johnson was a retail grocery store owner that Mr. Pinson was deceased. and former Chairman of Alatoona Federal James Thompson Woodard, ’69, Tallade- Savings and Loan. He had also worked for ga, Ala., November 14, 2010. The alumni Gregory Charles Arnberg*, ’73, Alagasco. office was notified by a family member, Honolulu, Hi., November 30, 2009. during the annual Phonathon, that Mr. A West Point graduate, Mr. Arnberg Jesse Eugene Miller, ’68, Birmingham, Woodard had passed away. was an Army Vietnam and Gulf War Ala., date unknown. The alumni office veteran. He retired as a Major with was notified by a family member, during James Gus Sparks, ’69, North Augusta, twenty years of service. The alumni the annual Phonathon, that Mr. Miller is S.C., November 27, 2010, from cancer. office was notified by his wife, Helen, deceased. Mr. Sparks spent most of his career as an that he had passed away. Major Arnberg advocate for people with disabilities. had been commissioned through the JSU ROTC program. 1970 – 1979 George David Wilson, ’73, Anniston, Ruby Mims Aldridge, ’70, Sylacauga, Ala., has been deceased for more than Ala., date unknown. Ms. Aldridge was a thirty years. The alumni office was just Marching Ballerina at JSU. notified by a family member, during the annual Phonathon, that he had died. Donald Gene Cronan, ’70, Piedmont, Ala., March 10, 2010. He was a retired Gladys Ott Bennett, ’74, Atlanta, Ga., plant manager at SCT Yarn where he had July 30, 2010. Mrs. Bennett taught for worked for twenty-seven years. more than fifteen years in Andalusia, Ala., and in Talladega County, Ala. The

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wife of a preacher, they served Alabama Walter Ernest Wilkerson, ’74, Jacksonville, Larry Wayne Fowler, ’77, Oneonta, Baptist Churches in various areas of Ala., May, 2010. Dr. Wilkerson, a retired Ala., date unknown. Alabama. psychiatrist, was a realtor with Century 21 Diamond Realty. John Randolph Hatch, ’77, Deborah Susan Braden, ’74/’77, Meridianville, Ala., February 27, 2010. Birmingham, Ala., September 25, 2010. LTC (ret.) John Thomas “Tommy” Woods, The alumni office was notified by a She taught for several years at Oxford ’74/’87, Pell City, Ala., May 2, 2010. A family member, during the annual High School before attending and veteran of Operation Joint Endeavor, Phonathon, that Mr. Hatch is deceased. graduating magna cum laude from the Noble Eagle and Operation Enduring Richard L. Lawson, ’77, Florence, Miss., Cumberland School of Law. Rev. Braden Freedom, he was retired from the Army February 18, 2010. Mr. Lawson was a practiced law in Birmingham until 2001. Reserves with thirty-eight years of Vietnam Navy veteran. In 2004, she received her Master of service. He also retired from civil service Divinity degree and was ordained in the employment at Fort McClellan, Anniston, Billie Smith Rains, ’77, Gadsden, Ala., Episcopal Church. Ala. date unknown. The alumni office was advised by a family member, during the Margaret Ingram Van Cleave Handley, Charles Steve Foster, ’75, Lineville, annual Phonathon, that Mrs. Rains is ’74/’77, Jacksonville, Ala., April 27, 2010. Ala., May 29, 2010. Mr. Foster served in deceased. A registered nurse, Mrs. Handley enjoyed the Alabama National Guard. He was square dancing and loved traveling employed in Florida by the National Pay James Eugene Sanderson, ’77, throughout the nation to square dance Telephone Company as vice president of Hanceville, Ala., July 22, 2009. The festivals. She was a member of Alpha Xi sales. alumni office was notified by his wife Delta. that he had passed away. Dr. Margret Oddsdottir, ’75/’76, Bruce Warren Roberts, ’74, Fairhope, Iceland, died in 2009 of advanced breast Irby Ray Brackett, ’78, Boaz, Ala., Ala., August 22, 2010. Mr. Roberts was a cancer. Dr. Oddsdottir was an expert August 2010. The alumni office was Vietnam Army veteran and was awarded gastrointestinal surgeon specializing in notified by a family member, during the the Bronze Star, Silver Star, Combat advanced minimally invasive surgery at annual Phonathon, that Mr. Brackett is Infantry Badge and two Purple Hearts. the University of Iceland where, in 2002, deceased. He worked in Birmingham as a machinist she became professor and chief of general for the Southern Research Institute until surgery. She was a member of the JSU Rebecca Cline Davis, ’78, Gadsden, 1997. An avid aviation fan, he learned to International House Program. Ala., passed away in 2008. The alumni fly and built his own plane. office was notified by a family member, Jana Stine Calloway, ’76, Durham, N.C., during the annual Phonathon, that Jerry K. Sadler, ’74, Owens Cross Roads, date unknown. Mrs. Davis is deceased. Ala., August 3, 2010. He ran a local industrial supply business with his brother Sylvia D. Siebel Addie, ’77, Willow David Carl Gable, ’78, Birmingham, for more than thirty years. Mr. Sadler was Springs, Mo., January 14, 2010. The Ala., March 10, 2010. a member of Pi Kappa Phi. alumni office was notified by a family member, during the annual Phonathon, Michael Dennis Berry, ’79, Madison, Sallie Ann Brown Swain, ’74, Alpine, Ala., that Mrs. Addie is deceased. Ala., December 1, 2010. He was July 4, 2010. a lifelong employee of the local Dennis R. Crider, ’77, Lincoln, Ala., date Huntsville defense industry. Terry Keith Thomas, ’74, Albertville, Ala., unknown. He was formerly employed by March 20, 2010. He was a retired sales Union Foundry and CMI Electronics. Marie Theresa Johnston Hodges, ’79, manager with D E C, Inc. The alumni Cullman, Ala., March 7, 2010. Mrs. office was notified by a classmate that Mr. Karen Elaine Fenner, ’77, Rio Rancho, Hodges served Cullman County for Thomas had passed away. N.M., date unknown. twenty years in elementary education. She began her career at Holly Pond

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Elementary and retired from West and Grand Isle Golf Club, Albany, Ga., Sherry Jackson Cobb, ’88, Oxford, Ala., Elementary in Cullman, Ala. before returning to work for Southern May 2010. Metal Processing in Anniston. Shirley Ann McKerley, ’79/’05, SSG (ret.) Warren Joseph Harris, ’88, Wellington, Ala., date unknown. Eugene Monk “Gene” Beard, Jr., ’84, Weaver, Ala., August 2, 2010. He was Brunswick, Ga., August 25, 2010. Mr. a retired sergeant from the Jacksonville Mary Craig Regel, ’79, San Antonio, Tex., Beard served in the U.S. Secret Service Police Department with twenty-six date unknown. from 1985 to 2003, and was currently a se- years of service. He was also a retired nior firearms instructor at the Federal Law Army staff sergeant with twenty years of Susan Sams, ’79/’80, Union City, Ga., Enforcement Training Center, Brunswick, service as a military policeman. January 10, 2011. Ms. Sams was retired Ga. He was a member of Sigma Nu. from the Fulton County School System. Susan Annette Bonds, ’89, Jesup, Ga., She was a member of the Baptist Campus Benny Gene Hayes, ’84, Huntsville, Ala., July 24, 2010. Ms. Bonds was employed Ministry at JSU. September 10, 2000. He had been a with the Federal Bureau of Prisons at programmer with Teledyne Brown Engi- the Federal Corrections Institution Linda Thompson Spielmann, ’79, neering, Huntsville, Ala. Mr. Hayes was a in Jesup in the financial management Homewood, Ala., March 27, 2010. The member of the Baptist Campus Ministry department. She was a member of the alumni office was notified by telephone at JSU. The alumni office was notified by Baptist Campus Ministry at JSU. that Mrs. Spielmann had passed away. a family member, during the annual Pho- nathon, that Mr. Hayes is deceased. Stuart A. Davis, ’89, Old Hickory, Deborah Sue Woolverton, ’79, Lerna, Ill., Tenn., February 15, 2010. He was work- March 16, 2010. The alumni office was Wilmer Ray Stafford, ’84, Gadsden, Ala., ing as a department manager at Lowe’s notified by her husband, Art, of her death. February 2010. The alumni office was in Hermitage, Tenn. Mrs. Woolverton had served as a librarian notified by his daughter, Gina Harbison, at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. that Mr. Stafford is deceased. Elaine “Patsy” Finley Jennings, ’89, Eastaboga, Ala., date unknown. 1980 – 1989 Eric Charles Lewedag, ’86, Radford, Va., September 8, 2010. The alumni office was William “Bill” Paul Price, ’89, Birming- Charles Marshall Avery, ’80, Weaver, Ala., notified by a family member, during the ham, Ala., July 19, 2010. Mr. Price was March 11, 2010. Mr. Avery was employed annual Phonathon, that Mr. Lewedag is a member of Kappa Sigma. by Laser Fabrication, Ohatchee, Ala., but deceased. he also enjoyed being a musician, farmer 1990 – 1999 and blacksmith. Patrick L. Money, ’86, Birmingham, Ala., Douglas Alan Stearns, ’90/’92/’94, May 23, 2010, of pancreatic cancer. He Joseph Richard Sabourin, ’80, Lakewood, Pensacola, Fla., October 4, 2010. A was a top sales representative for Yellow Wash., October 28, 2009. The alumni twenty-two year Army veteran, he served Corp. Systems. Mr. Money played football office was notified by a family member, two tours in Vietnam, one in Germany for JSU. during the annual Phonathon, that Mr. and one in Korea. He taught ROTC at Sabourin is deceased. JSU for several years. Mr. Stearns was Wanda Faye Hall Thrift, ’86, Gadsden, awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Ala., March 2, 2010. She was retired from William E. Eubanks, ’83, Athens, Ala., Meritorious Service Medal and Nation- Gaston High School. August 30, 2010. Mr. Eubanks was an al Defense Service Medal among others. engineer at Northrop Grumman, Hunts- The alumni office was notified by his Crystal Moring Nelson, ’87, Springville, ville, Ala. daughter, Latisha Ali, of his death. Ala., December 3, 2010, of breast cancer. Cheryl S. Harris, ’91, Birmingham, A dedicated teacher and coach, Mrs. Hugh Douglas Jones, ’83, Anniston, Ala., Ala., date unknown. Nelson served schools in Ashville, Moody, April 4, 2010. His career began with Tape and Leeds and retired from Gadsden High Craft in Anniston. He also worked for Doris J. Hawkins, ’91, Anniston, Ala., School. Kellwood Industries in McComb, Miss., September 26, 2010. SPRING 2011 : 59 alumnotes

Willie J. Walker, ’97/’01, Riverdale, Ga., Anthony Glen Barge, ’05, Carrollton, Ga., (sadly she’s had to give up hopscotch date unknown. The alumni office was July 7, 2010, in a motorcycle accident. and rollerblading!). And, living in Ha- notified by a family member, during the He was a teacher and coach at Carrollton waii, she’s enjoying paradise every day annual Phonathon, that Mr. Walker had High School. The alumni office was noti- at the age of ninety-six! died in 2007. fied by Franklin Pritchett of the University of West Georgia where Mr. Barge played Kay Black Buckner, ’58, Zellwood, Fla., Jacob Lamar Robertson, ’93, Rome, Ga., basketball before transferring to JSU. has published her second book, Endur- August 2010. ing the Seasons of Marriage, a sequel to Peter Donald Lake, ’05, Anniston, Ala., her first book, Glorious Gleanings from John David Gulotta, ’96, Heflin, Ala., date February 12, 2010. the Fields of Life. If you are interested in unknown. either book, you can visit her website at Captain Kyle Aaron Comfort, ’06, Jack- www.kayblackbuckner.com or email her Jeffrey H. Gotham, ’97, Talladega, Ala., sonville, Ala., May 8, 2010, during combat at [email protected] December 23, 2009. The alumni office operations in Afghanistan. Capt. Com- was notified by Mr. Gotham’s mother fort was commissioned through the JSU 1960 – 1969 that he had passed away. Mr. Gotham ROTC program as a field artillery officer. James Ronald Bennett, ’62, had served as a technical aide at the E. H. His awards and decorations include the Birmingham, Ala., has co-authored Iron Gentry Technical Facility. Air Assault Badge, Bronze Star, and the & Steel: A Guide to Birmingham Area National Defense Service Medal among Industrial Heritage Sites, published in Barbara Gagne Williams, ’97, Naples, Fla., others. Posthumously, he was awarded the September 2010, by The University of date unknown. Purple Heart and Bronze Star medal. A Alabama Press. Mr. Bennett currently memorial scholarship has been established serves as a trustee at JSU. He is a Mary Alford Smith, ’99, Gadsden, Ala., at JSU and contributions can be made former member of the Southerners and date unknown. through the JSU Foundation. is active in the Sixties Group at JSU. A former senator, Mr. Bennett now serves 2000 – 2009 Regina Ezell, ’06, Anniston, Ala., Sep- as state labor commissioner. tember 19, 2010. The alumni office was Velma Lewis Northard, ’00/’01, Anniston, notified by telephone (person unknown) Ala., September 11, 2010. Jo Ann Burton Heath, ’63, Lafayette, that Ms. Ezell passed away. Ala., has been named the Alabama Paul William Thompson, ’01/’04, Crag- Independent School Association’s Class Kathleen Ashley Stansfield, ’08, Birming- ford, Ala., December 9, 2010. A Secondary Teacher of the Year. She ham, Ala., February 24, 2010. A member is a counselor and teacher at Chambers of Alpha Xi Delta, she was currently pursu- William E. Robinson, Jr., ’02, Birming- Academy in Lafayette. ing her graduate degree. She worked with ham, Ala., February 11, 2010. The alumni autistic children and also tutored under- office was notified by his father that he Martin Mike Brewer, ’63, Ooltewah, graduate students at JSU. had passed away. Mr. Robinson served as a Tenn., has been awarded the housing RA at JSU. professional insurance designation, ALUMNOTES Chartered Property Casualty Michael Seth Thompson, ’03, Foley, Ala., Underwriter, by the American Institute February 26, 2010. 1930 - 1959 of Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters of Malvern, Penn. Margaret Virginia Finch, ’39, Kailua-Kona, Milton Tyril “Ty” Johns, ’04, Talladega, Mr. Brewer is currently associated Hawaii, says she’s still very mobile (with Ala., July 3, 2010. An Eagle Scout, Mr. with Tenco Services, Inc., insurance walker or cane), does crossword puzzles Johns was employed for thirty-five years adjusters, and also holds the Associate each day to keep her mind active, but her with Alabama Public Television as a trans- In Claims (AIC) designation from the hearing is becoming more “selective” with mitter engineer. For twenty years he served American Institute. age. She answers emails and loves games as a beat constable in Talladega and was a like Rummy Cube, Upwords and bridge Mason and Shriner. 60 : GEM OF THE HILLS alumnotes

Gideon A. “Gid” Riddle, ’63, Rainbow inducted into the Pleasant Valley Hall of Calhoun County Schools, has begun a City, Ala., was selected the 2010 Alumnus Fame in March, 2010. Mrs. Taylor was an four-year term on the board of direc- of the Year by the Snead State Junior educator for thirty-two years in Calhoun tors of The Alabama Baptist, one of the College Alumni Association. He is a and Randolph Counties at the high school nation’s largest Baptist newspapers. She retired Snead State head men’s basketball and college levels, retiring in 1999. She is a thirty-eight-year veteran of Calhoun coach. He spent twenty-seven years as taught night classes at Gadsden State and County Schools and retired as superin- a varsity coach, four years at the junior JSU from 1970 through 2002. She was in tendent at the end of 2010. college level, and twenty-nine years as a the process of authoring a novel when she teacher. Mr. Riddle played baseball at JSU. passed away in 2006. Carl Maxey Phillips, ’73/’75, Cookev- ille, Tenn., has been recognized by Dr. Michael W. Kimberly, ’65, Anniston, Susan Kines Langston, daughter of Austin Cambridge Who’s Who for demon- Ala., has joined the board of directors at Joe Kines, Jr., ’67, Tuscaloosa, Ala., was strating dedication, leadership and Regional Medical Center. He is retired killed in a car wreck on June 28, 2010. Mr. excellence in accounting services. He is from the Tennessee Department of Public Kines is a former assistant football coach a recognized authority on tax prepara- Health, where he served as director of at the University of Alabama. He played tion, planning and representation, with laboratory services for more than thirty football at JSU. a career spanning more than thirty years. He holds the rank of colonel in the years. Mr. Phillips currently provides his Tennessee National Guard and has worked Charles Edmonds, Sr., ’68, Jefferson tax services on a consulting basis and with the Centers for Disease Control and City, Tenn., former Marshall County has been in private practice for almost the World Health Organization. He was (Ala.) superintendent of schools, is now twenty years. honored with the Tennessee Governor’s superintendent of schools in Jefferson Award for Outstanding Service and was a County, Tenn., near the Great Smoky Tina Richards Jones, ’74/’77, Colum- JSU Alumnus of the Year. Mountains. Dr. Edmonds also practiced bus, Ga., was recently inducted into law in Albertville, Ala., as a contract the Columbus State University College George Martin Thomas, ’63, Meridian, attorney for the Alabama Education of Education Hall of Fame for 2010. Miss., has worked in the field of education Association. She retired from the Muscogee County for forty-seven years. He recently retired as School District as the system mentor professor emeritus from Mississippi State 1970 – 1979 teacher for Middle Schools in 2007 and University where he worked for thirty- Larry Joe Smith, ’70, Guntersville, Ala., seven of those years. received the alumni Distinguished Service Award at homecoming activities at Snead Sandra Parrish White, ’63, Sebring, Fla., State Junior College for his efforts to make was the choral director at Sebring High history come alive for present-day residents School and was recently honored by the of Guntersville and Marshall County. Mr. Florida Vocal Association with the Roll of Smith was student financial aid director at Distinction Award. The award is presented JSU for thirty years. JSU Sigma Phi Epsilon brothers to retired choral directors who have been and ROTC commissionees, left active in the FVA for at least twenty years, to right, Lt. Col. Charles “Chuck” John Thomas Alred, ’72, Piedmont, Ala., Buxton, ’91, and Cpt. Brad Priest, demonstrated excellence in teaching music was promoted to publisher of the Jack- ’92. and who are renowned in the area of vocal sonville News and the Piedmont Journal in and choral education. She is married to Lt. Col. Buxton is the Battalion February 2010, by Consolidated Publish- Commander, 203d MP Battalion, Homer Winfred White, ’71. Mr. White ing Corporation. He had been managing Alabama Army National retired as music minister at Sebring First editor of both newspapers. Mr. Alred Guard. Cpt. Priest is the HHD Baptist Church in 2005, after thirty years Commander of the Battalion. joined the Jacksonville News in 2006 after in the ministry. They provided police transition thirty-two years at the Gadsden Times. training to the Iraqi police in the Basrah Province and served in Ella Ruth Boggs Taylor, ’64/’67/’68, Iraq between September 2009 Dr. Judy Roberts Stiefel, ’72, Annis- Jacksonville, Ala., was posthumously and June 2010. ton, Ala., retired superintendent of the

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now works part time for Columbus State Sheri Hendrix Townsell, ’78, Silver Creek, Timothy Edwin Nabors, ’84/’90, University. Mrs. Jones was a member of Ga., a thirty-three-year veteran teacher at Guntersville, Ala., is superintendent of Alpha Xi Delta. Midway Primary in Floyd County, Ga., has Marshall County Schools. Prior to this, retired. She can’t wait to begin her travels he was principal at schools in Union Sheila Darcille Conway Hogge, ’75, to Alaska, Australia and Africa! Grove and Brindlee Mountain. He has Wilton, Ala., is serving as the city clerk twenty-six years of educational experi- for Jemison, Ala. She previously worked Grover Wayne Whaley*, ’79, Huntsville, ence, with more than twelve of those at Woodgrain Distribution for thirty-three Ala., has been awarded the (stock) Market years as a principal. He is married to years before taking the Jemison post. Technicians Association’s 2010 Charles Tamara Hawk Nabors, ’87. While at JSU, Mrs. Hogge was a member H. Dow Award for his paper titled Planes, of Delta Zeta and the Baptist Campus Trains and Automobiles. The award is MS Jeffrey D. Holmes, ’85, Hampton, Ministry. presented for excellence and creativity in Va., is serving as NCOIC, Command- technical analysis. Mr. Whaley is employed er’s Support Staff, 27th Intelligence Dr. Lewis Gordon Sumner, Jr., ’75, Spring- by Witter & Lester, Inc. Squadron, at Langley Air Force Base, field, Va., is one of the founding directors Va. A member of the International of Patriots Pride Corporation (PPC), a 1980 – 1989 House Program at JSU, he began his national supplier of office products. The Air Force career in 1986. Susan Barber Brown, ’81/’82, Arab, Ala., Veteran-to-Veteran Entrepreneur Sup- has recently accepted a seat on the Board port Group recently selected PPC as the Kandi Thompson Street, ’87, Oxford, of Directors for St. Barnard Prep School. business of the month in October 2010. Ala., has accepted a position with AAA Dr. Sumner is a former member of the Alabama as a new sales agent in their Frank Buck, ’81, Pell City, Ala., has Southerners and Baptist Campus Ministry Oxford office. She is a sales agent of all recently published his book Organization at JSU and was commissioned through the AAA’s insurance products and member- Made Easy! Tools for Today’s Teachers. The ROTC program. ships. book demonstrates how to use innovative and practical digital and paper-based tools Daniel Andrew Craven, ’77, Jacksonville, Darren Douthitt, ’88/’97/’00, Green- to meet the demands of today’s schools Ala., has retired after twenty-six years ville, Ala., was named superintendent and how to organize surroundings to in the pharmaceutical industry. He has of Butler County Schools in March increase productivity and reduce stress. worked for Hoechst-Roussel, Hoechst 2010. He was an assistant superinten- For more information, email Annie Young Marion Roussel, Aventis and, finally, dent in the Lee County School System at [email protected]. Mr. Buck Sanofi-Aventis. Mr. Craven played football since 2008. Mr. Douthitt began his was a member of the Southerners at JSU. for JSU and was a member of the Baptist career in education in 1993. He is Campus Ministry. He is married to Becky married to Tonya Wilson Douthitt, Vanessa A. Jackson Austin, ’82, Harvest, Angel Craven, ’77/’79. ’97/’99/’02. Ala., has had her second book published titled Refreshments for the Heart: God’s Trea- Deborah Eskew Wesley, ’77, Oxford, Ala., Kenneth David Lamson, ’88, Boise, Id., sure Chest, a book of poems and quotes. became senior vice president and chief a certified financial advisor, one of the Mrs. Austin owns and manages CABBIT nursing executive at Children’s Health Designs in Harvest. System in Birmingham in March 2010. She previously worked at Phoenix (Ariz.) JoEllen Duke Holmes, ’84, Decatur, Ala., Children’s Hospital, where she was senior has earned the prestigious Registered Play vice president and chief operating officer. Therapist-Supervisor credential conferred Mrs. Wesley has more than thirty years in by the Association for Play Therapy. She is the health care industry. Thirteen of those a licensed clinical social worker. Mrs. Hol- years were spent at Anniston’s Regional mes was a member of the Baptist Campus Medical Center. Ministry at JSU.

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Members and their spouses of the Pennington High School Class of 1960 recently enjoyed their 50th Class Reunion at Orange Beach, Ala. Those in attendance who also attended JSU are as follows:

Kneeling, left to right: Dr. Jerald Abercrombie, ’64, Dr. Joe Brindley, ’64, James Curtis Fox, ’67, John Cornelius, William Bryce Ratliff, ’65. Standing, left to right: Dr. Syble Hazelrig Brindley, ’64, Iva Absher Thomas, Alene Bullard, ’64, Emilea Smith Copeland, ’64, Doris Cornelius, Jackie Cornelius Shell.

principal founders of Harmonic Invest- Lori Voigt Byrom Stone, ’89, Drum- Donna Taylor King, ’92, Wetumpka, ment Advisors, an investment manage- monds, Tenn., has received her Master Ala., was awarded the Elmore County ment and research firm, announced that of Science in Nursing, with a focus in School District Teacher of the Year the company’s strategy for investing in nursing education and women’s health, in early 2010. Mrs. King is the multi- large-cap U.S. stocks was ranked #1 in the from the University of Memphis, Lowen- disabilities special education teacher at Large-cap Core U.S. Equity Universe by berg School of Nursing, May 2009. Mrs. Millbrook Middle Junior High School, Informa Investment Solutions, a provider Stone was commissioned through the JSU Millbrook, Ala. She also serves on the of investment manager ratings and re- ROTC program. school’s Building Leadership Team and search. Mr. Lamson was a member of the Solid Foundations Committee. She was Southerners at JSU. 1990-1999 a member of Alpha Xi Delta. Syretha Orr Storey, ’90, Laurel, Md., has Col. Timothy M. Sullivan, ’88, Gadsden, Jeffrey Lynn Gardner, ’93/’95, Cen- co-authored Staying on Course: The Early Ala., has taken over as commander at the terfield, Utah, has been promoted to Childhood Board’s Guide to Success. Designed Anniston Army Depot, the facility where district ranger of the Uinta National to support the success of board members, workers repair damaged Strykers. While Forest in Utah. He formerly served as the book helps them stay on course and touring the facility, he discovered the ve- Shoal Creek (Ala.) district biologist. focus on the important work they do for hicle that saved his life in Iraq was one of young children and their families, alerting those being worked on. Col. Sullivan was Cheri Christina Lynn Ferguson, ’95, them to pitfalls and known dangers as they commissioned through the JSU ROTC Waverly, Neb., is the new emergency navigate the early childhood landscape. program. department director at Alegent Health For more information, visit www.childcare- Community Memorial Hospital. She exchange.com. Janice F. Smith, ’89, Huntsville, Ala., has had been an attending physician at the been appointed as a director for Worthing- hospital. A decorated Army veteran, Dr. Elaine Jones Connell, ’92, Jacksonville, ton Federal Bank. She has more than Ferguson is an osteopathic physician. Ala., is now teaching at Pleasant Valley thirty years of experience in government She also raises horses. High School. Mrs. Connell previously contracting. She began her career in 1967 taught at Calhoun County Alternative as an associate engineer in support of Boe- Angela Dawn Gravette, ’99/’08, Jack- School, Jacksonville High, Wellborn High, ing and the “man on the moon” missions. sonville, Ala., a teacher in the Anniston Ohatchee High and Anniston Middle City School System, was proud of her School. Teresa Johnson Ramey, ’89, Florence, students receiving the highest math S.C., has been promoted to vice presi- test scores last year out of all the city’s Robert Alan Cosby, ’92/’02, Rainbow dent of student affairs at Francis Marion schools. She is married to Tony Ray City, Ala., has been appointed superinten- University. Mrs. Ramey began her career Gravette, ’97/’04, director of instruc- dent of the Etowah County Schools. He at FMU in 2006 and served as dean of tional media at JSU. previously served as principal of Southside students and associate vice president of High School and Rainbow Middle School. student affairs. Dr. Cosby is married to Jeannie Johnson Cosby, ’88, also employed with the Etowah County Schools. SPRING 2011 : 63 alumnotes

Lynette K. Hesser, ’99, Wellington, teaches high school special education at Brandon Kyle Hollingsworth*, ’08, Ala., Gadsden State Community Col- Swann School and Center, Champaign, Springville, Ala., has been named the local lege adjunct art professor, has received Ill. Their dad, Dr. Douglas Lind Rokke, host for NPR’s “All Things Considered” the 2010 Alabama Craft Leadership was a visiting professor at JSU from 1998 at the University of Tennessee’s public Award for her “1000 Lbs. of Alabama to 2000. radio station, WUOT 91.9 FM. He will Clay” exhibit which traveled throughout also serve as a reporter for the station. He Alabama between 2007 and 2009, and for Eric Keith Worley, ’03, Lincoln, Ala., has previously served as a host/reporter of her exceptional leadership and service in joined O’Neal Steel, Inc. as corporate the “Morning Edition” at Alabama Public the craft community. She also teaches art safety and security manager in Birming- Radio in Tuscaloosa and was news director appreciation at the college’s Ayers Campus ham. He previously served as safety special- and “Morning Edition” host/reporter for in Anniston. ist at Honda Manufacturing of Alabama JSU’s campus station WLJS-FM. in Lincoln. Mr. Worley was a member of Mitzi Robin Early Wiggins, ’99, Arab, Kappa Alpha. Alaina Jade Young, ’08, Boaz, Ala., has Ala., has been selected Arab’s second- been appointed United Way of Etowah ary Teacher of the Year. She began her Bradley Lee Keef, ’05, Southside, Ala., has County’s new Success by 6 program teaching career at Arab High in 1999. She been promoted to captain in the Alabama director. The program focuses on school is currently working on her education National Guard. He is the full time train- readiness. specialist degree in educational leadership ing officer at the 151st Chemical Battal- at the University of Alabama. ion, Gadsden, Ala. He returned from his Elhadji Amadou Mbodji, ’09, originally second deployment in April 2010, and was from Dakar, Senegal, has been selected 2000 – 2010 promoted in May. Cpt. Keef was commis- by the NBA’s Utah Flash in the seventh sioned through the JSU ROTC program round of the NBA Development Le Draft. Shannon Smith Lakey, ’01/’03/’06, Traf- and is married to Cheyenne Basile-Keef, “Dou” was a four-year basketball letterman ford, Ala., has been named principal at ’09. at JSU from 2006 to 2010. He is JSU’s Blountsville Elementary School. She previ- career blocks leader, second on JSU’s Divi- ously was a teacher at Hayden High and as- Anna M. Daniels, ’07, Jacksonville, Ala., sion 1 rebounding list and eighth in field sistant principal at Hayden Middle School. is now teaching at Kitty Stone Elementary goal percentage. He was a member of the She was a member of Zeta Tau Alpha and School. She previously taught at Gulf JSU International House Program. is married to Christopher Donald Lakey, Shores Elementary School. ’01/’03/’06.

Cynthia Genieve “Geni” Certain, ’08, Melissa Ann Johnson, ’02, Pike Road, Munford, Ala., has been named editor of Ala., has been appointed chief financial The Daily Home. She was serving as the officer for Baptist Medical Center East, newspaper’s managing editor. She has Montgomery, Ala. She has more than also worked for the newspaper’s parent fourteen years of experience in healthcare company Consolidated Publishing Co. at financial management. She previously was the Anniston Star. chief financial officer for Natchez (Miss.) Community Hospital. Pamela Carol McCain Fikes, ’08, Oakman, Ala., is the new Walker County Red Cross Mark Allen Rokke, ’02, Oceanside, Calif., executive director and will oversee Red is serving in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear Cross programs and services throughout technician aboard the USS Ronald Reagan Walker County and including the Marion and has been deployed several times to County office. She is currently pursuing Iraq. His brother Matt attended JSU and her master’s in emergency management. works for Conair in Rantoul, Ill. He was She has twenty-five years of experience recently selected a runner up for CONAIR with the State of Alabama, most recently Corporation’s Employee of the Year 2009. serving the last twenty-three years with the Their mother, Carol Seiber Rokke, ’98, Department of Industrial Relations. 64 : GEM OF THE HILLS Brandon Kyle Hollingsworth 2010 Honor rollof contributors

The Honor Roll of Contributors recognizes Legacy Society stocks, real estate and planned giving. Assets Community Foundation of Northeast Alabama donors investing in JSU’s future through gifts People who remember Jacksonville State from the Athletic Scholarship Endowment Mr. James and Mrs. Sandra Coxwell to the Jacksonville State University Foundation University with a planned gift (bequests, trust are used to reduce expenditures for the overall Dean Electric Company, Inc. from January 1, 2010 through December 31, agreements, life insurance, etc.) up to $100,000 athletics department. Our contributors are play- Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Dedrick, Sr. 2010. qualify as members of the Legacy Society. We ing a significant role in reducing the financial Dekalb County Development Commission are pleased to recognize the following people for burden on the university for our athletic pro- Mr. and Mrs. Mikal Douglas Heritage Society their support. gram. We appreciate very much the following Estate of Beth Wallace Yates The Heritage Society recognizes those persons people who have made current or planned gifts Fort McClellan Credit Union or organizations who have made singular or cu- Mr. Rudy Abbott (in memory of his brother, of at least $50,000 in support of JSU’s Athletic Gewin Tucker & Associates, Inc., Mr. Duane mulative gifts, pledges, and/or bequests or other Earl Abbott) Scholarship Endowment. Paul Willoughby life-income gifts totaling at least $100,000 and Ms. Penny N. Bolen Mr. John Guthrie have notified the Jacksonville State University Mr. James and Mrs. Ethel Boozer In Memorium Mr. and Mrs. John H. Heathcock Foundation in writing of provisions for the Dr. Susie Francis Dempsey Mr. Earl Abbott Mr. and Mrs. Don Hedden JSU Foundation in their wills, in the creation Dr. Hon E. Duncan* The Music Group Alabama Mr. and Mrs. Tony Ingram of charitable trusts or in other future gift plans. Mr. Robert C. Dryden* Anonymous Jacksonville Hotel, LLC Permanent membership in the Heritage Society Mr. Ray Emanuel Farmers & Merchants Bank Jackson Mortgage Company, Inc. is awarded to those listed below who have dem- Mr. Robert F. Fulscher Mr. Jim Coxwell Mr. and Mrs. Randy Jones onstrated this commitment of support. Ms. Dorothy A. Guiliani Mr. James* and Mrs. Miriam Haywood Mr. Bob and Mrs. Lou Kennamer Mr. Jack Hopper* Mr. Jack* and Mrs. Janice* Hopper Mr. Sam and Mrs. LaDonna Kinsaul Anonymous Ms. Leigh Humphreys Mr. Julian and Mrs. Anita Jenkins Mr. and Mrs. W. David Kinsaul Mr. L.W. Allison* Dr. Theresa R. Kisor JSU Alumni Association Mr. Matthew Lemak Mr. David Copeland Ms. Dorthy Kimbrell* Mr. Bob and Mrs. Lou Kennamer Life Insurance Co. of Alabama Mr. James L. Coxwell, Sr. Mr. Sol J. Mandel Mr. Pete Mathews* Loaz W. and Maybeth B. Johnson Memorial Mr. Kenneth and Mrs. Charlene Currie Mr. and Mrs. Clyde McSpadden Mr. Bill and Mrs. Sandra Stone Trust Ms. Sara L. Dryden Mr. Harold L. Shamblin* Mr. Ernest* and Mrs. Kitty Stone* Mr. and Mrs. William Lundy, Jr. Mr. Joseph Walker Elliott* Mr. Sidney Shorts* Mr. Jim and Mrs. Brenda Thornton COL Woody and Mrs. Myrt McCluer Mr. Jim Epik Ms. Sara B. Staples Dr. James M. Williams McKee and Associates Ms. Marjorie Floyd* Mr. and Mrs. James Storey (* deceased) Medical Center Memorial Foundation, Inc. Mr. C. Timothy Garner Mr. Seymour M. West, III Mike Douglas Insurance Agency, Inc. Haynes Family Trust Mr. Gilbert T. Williams Founders Society Ms. Deborah M. Mitchell Ms. Miriam W. Haywood (*deceased) Annual contributions of $5,000 or more are National Philanthropic Trust Mr. and Mrs. Julian W. Jenkins recognized by honorary membership in the Noland Health Services, Inc. Dr. Loaz W. Johnson* Athletic-Scholarship Endowment Founders Society. We are pleased to acknowl- Parker & Lundy Law Firm Mr. and Mrs. Bobby N. Kennamer Jacksonville State University is proud to an- edge these individuals, businesses, foundations Mr. Stephen Perry Ms. Katherine Killebrew* nounce that we have surpassed our goal of $1 or organizations for their support. Dr. Doug and Mrs. Mary Jane Peters Ms. Eloise Y. McClendon* million in current and planned gifts for the Mr. and Mrs. Ted Propes Mr. Roy E. MacNeill, Jr. Athletic Scholarship Endowment Program. Affinity License Plate Donors Randy Jones Insurance Agency, Inc. Mr. Donald B. Martin When we started the campaign, we realized the Alabama Power Company Regions Bank Mr. Pete Mathews* move to Division I would require an increase America’s First Federal Credit Union Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ringer Dr. Martha Merrill in the number of athletic scholarships. The Mr. and Mrs. Gary Angel Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Smith Mr. F. Ray and Mrs. Jimmie Nell Miller challenge was issued and we have now surpassed BASF Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey J. Smyth Mr.* and Mrs. George W. Peacock* our original goal. In fact, one of our contribu- Mr. and Mrs. David R. Belcher Sodexo, Inc. Mr. Ted Propes tors - Pete Mathews - established more than one Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama St. Vincent’s Hospital Ms. Allison B. Rains* athletic scholarship. The Gamecock Athletic Mr. William and Mrs. Mary Brantley State Farm Companies Foundation Ms. Kitty Stone* Department now provides more than three Calhoun Development Company, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stewart Ms. Rebecca Wilkinson hundred scholarships for men’s and women’s Calhoun County Medical Society Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Tate (*deceased) athletics. Scholarships may be endowed through Cengage Learning The Caring Foundation cash contributions, securities, appreciated Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation Mr. John Thornell Thomas The Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation Van Wagner Dorna USA, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Jon Vice Wachovia Corporation Making a Difference Wakefield’s, Inc. Westinghouse Anniston Mr. Roger and Mrs. Debra Whitaker Mr. Duane Willoughby This Honor Roll of Contributors lists the names of alumni, friends, and businesses Mr. Edward R. Wilkinson who made a financial commitment to JSU during 2010. Many of the names in this Mr. and Mrs. Jack D. Womack Working Man, LLC Rentals and Supplies Honor Roll appear for the first time. Others have been recognized in past Honor Mr. and Mrs. Millard Young, Jr. Rolls for their financial support. Young Oil Company, Inc.

Mimosa Society Each donor plays an important role in helping make JSU an even better place to Jacksonville State University is becoming ever more dependent on the faithful support of study, learn, and prepare for life’s great challenges. alumni, friends, and organizations who believe in JSU’s mission. Honorary members of the Mimosa Society have contributed from $2,500 Donor support is greatly appreciated. Reviewing the names in this Honor Roll may to $4,999 this past year. Their commitment even bring back warm memories of people with whom supporters have shared some to making Jacksonville State University the best undergraduate institution in the state of very special times. Alabama is greatly appreciated.

Anniston Motors, Inc. Those who did not make a contribution to the JSU Foundation during 2010 are Bank of America Foundation encouraged to do so during 2011. Remember, “the building of a great university Drs. Joseph and Syble Brindley Calhoun County Insurance Center Inc. is a task which is never complete. Each generation shoulders the responsibility to Mr. Kevin L. Callaway continue the effort.” Cooper Chevrolet, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. David Copeland Costner Auto Sales, Mr. Lenn Costner

SPRING 2011 : 65 2010 Honor rollof contributors Mr. Pat Courington, Jr. Classic Catering Inc. Craig Ford Campaign Ms. Phyllis Clopton 2010 Foundation Board of Directors Cusimano, Keener, Roberts, Knowles & Raley, Coca-Cola Foundation LLC Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Connell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jamie Etheredge Ms. Emilea Smith Copeland Officers: Dr. Theresa Kisor Ms. Edith Street Hallman Mr. and Mrs. Danny Craven Hanceville Nursing & Rehab Center, Inc. Mr. Joey A. Crews Mr. Greg F. Harley Piedmont, Alabama Dr. Cynthia and Mr. Randy Harper Crews Control, Inc. President Dr. Sarah Latham* Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Hightower Mr. Jack and Mrs. LeAnn Crowe Atlanta, Georgia Mr. and Mrs. James T. Hobbs Mr. Kenneth and Mrs. Charlene Currie Jacksonville, Alabama Mr. and Mrs. Terry H. Hodges DBM Properties Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth A. Howell Dr. Joe and Mrs. Melanie Delap Ms. Julia Segars Mr. Don Martin Jacksonville Book Store, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Densmore Vice President Ms. Sally C. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Steve Downing Atlanta, Georgia Mr. Danny Kemp Mr. Ray and Mrs. Linda Emanuel Anniston, Alabama Mr. Jack Lawler ERA King Real Estate Company, Inc. Mr. Grady “Tripp” Leach III Mr. Gary Lewis Faith Temple Christian Center Mr. Floyd Kirby Gadsden, Alabama M. D. G., Inc. Miller Development Group Family Practice of Jacksonville, PC Treasurer Mr. John F. Manning Farmers & Merchants Bank of Anniston Dr. W. Legare McIntosh, Jr. Dr. William T. and Mrs. Jacqueline M. Fielding Jacksonville, Alabama Mr. Dennis Pantazis Sen. Larry Means Gov. and Mrs. James E. Folsom, Jr. Birmingham, Alabama Dr. and Mrs. William A. Meehan Gardner Aviation Specialist, Inc. Mrs. Melanie Delap Deborah Kay Miller, Esq. Mr. Tim Garner Executive Director/ Mr. Ted Propes Ms. Cynthia A. Moon Mr. Joe Garner Ms. Frances A. Moon Dr. Joanne Gates and Mr. Gregory M. Halligan Secretary Atlanta, Georgia Nephrology & Hypertension Consultants Ms. Patricia Hobbs Jacksonville, Alabama Mr. and Mrs. Randy Owen Dr. and Mrs. Doug Ginas Ms. Kay W. Savage Mr. John R. Parrish, III Mr. and Mrs. James D. Glenn Birmingham, Alabama Richard Lindsey Campaign Mr. Steven Godbey Ex-officio Directors: Mr. and Mrs. G. Carter Roper Greater Anniston Bus. & Professional Assoc. Dr. Bill Meehan Mr. Sperry Snow Rotary International District 6860, Rotary Mr. and Mrs. Ken Green District 6860 Mr. Randall and Mrs. Lisa Ham JSU President Birmingham, Alabama Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Serviss, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Ben A. Hardy, Jr. Mr. B. Sperry Snow Mr. Michael P. Harley Mr. Tim Garner Mr. William Stone Mr. Bill and Mrs. Sandra Stone Mr. Cecil Hinds Executive Director of Jacksonville, Alabama Mr. and Mrs. Michael Suco Mr. Bill Hubbard Sunny King Honda Huron Valley Steel Corp. Marketing Services Sunny King Motor Co. Inc. ING Foundation Mr. Charlie D. Waldrep The House of Refuge Intellimed Properties, LLC Mr. Tim Long Birmingham, Alabama The Victoria Inn Jacksonville Exchange Club SGA President Dr. Rebecca and Mr. Arlin Turner The James Rosen Charitable Foundation Mr. Roger Whitaker Mr. Charlie Waldrep Mr. L. Oval Jaynes Directors: Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Waldrop Mr. William and Mrs. Martha Jones Madison, Alabama Ms. Pearl K. Williams JustGive Cisco Matching Gifts Program Mr. Marc Angle Ms. Pamela Young Mr. and Mrs. Morris O. Kay, III Plano, Texas Mr. Rocky Wilkinson Mr. Don Killingsworth, Jr. Atlanta, Georgia Magnolia Society Dr. and Mrs. Michael Kimberly Mr. Alex Baker Donors of $1,000 to $2,499 are recognized Mr. and Mrs. William E. Kimbrough Mr. Millard Young through honorary membership in the Magnolia Mr. James H. Kirkland Birmingham, Alabama Society. Members of this Society provide a Dr. T. Kevin Lackey Piedmont, Alabama vital source of funds to the JSU Foundation. Mr. Robert P. Lane Dr. Ronnie Clayton Unrestricted funds, along with designated gifts Drs. Joel and Sarah Latham Emeritus Directors: for scholarships and other programs, enhance Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lett Jacksonville, Alabama JSU’s academic and athletic programs. Mr. Charles W. Leesburg Mr. Bob Kennamer Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Linn, Jr. Mr. James L. Coxwell, Sr. Anniston, Alabama Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Abbott Mr. John G. Mann Kennesaw, Georgia Mr. Kenneth and Mrs. Linda Abbott Ms. Marie Manning Mr. Malcolm Street, Sr.** Mr. and Mrs. Larry Abrams Mr. and Mrs. Donald Martin McClellan, Alabama ABS Business Systems, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Steve McCarley Anniston, Alabama Agnes McIntyre Manes Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Keith Mitchell Mr. Jim Farrell Alacote, Incorporated Ms. Shirley A. Mogil Anniston, Alabama Mr. James F. Storey Altex Packaging Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Moore Gadsden, Alabama Mr. and Mrs. Marcus E. Angle, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Grant Moore Mr. and Mrs. Rex Angle NE Alabama Regional Medical Center Dr. Sonny Francia* Anonymous Ms. Stacy Neeley Jacksonville, Alabama *faculty member Mr. and Mrs. Albert Barber Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Newell Mr. Glenn and Mrs. Belinda Blackburn Noble Bank & Trust, NA Mr. Tim Garner **deceased B.R. Williams Trucking, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. R. Terry Owens Battelle Memorial Institute Oxford Lumber Co. & Ace Hardware McClellan, Alabama Mr. and Mrs. Fran Blanchard Paradise Central Corporation BNSF Railway Company Ms. Bonnie R. Parker Mr. David Hale Mr. Greg and Mrs. Amanda Bonds Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Parris Rancho Sante Fe, Mr. Rick and Mrs. Dianne Bragg Mr. Allen Paseur Ms. Sharon F. Bridges Mr. David and Mrs. Carla Patterson California Dr. and Mrs. Glen Browder Pearce, Bevill, Leesburg & Moore PC Mr. and Mrs. Dan R. Bryant Mr. Jay Prater, Jr. Ms. Louise Hodges Buco Morris, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Purcell Birmingham, Alabama Calhoun County Bar Association Mr. Robert M. Reagan Dr. and Mrs. C. Neal Canup Regions Bank Mr. Clint Carlson Mr. Richard Reid Dr. Augustine Ihator* Dr. Jan and Mr. Jim Case Ms. Martha Richey Jacksonville, Alabama Mr. and Mrs. Jack P. Causey Mr. and Mrs. John Roberts Cheaha Bank Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Robinson, Jr. Mr. Efram B. Clark Rogers For Congress

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Dr. Don and Mrs. Diane Salls Mr. Frank Dean Judge Arthur C. Murray Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy D. Wilson Drs. Al and Joyce Searway Delta Chi Fraternity NE Alabama Military Officers Association Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilson Mr. Gregory K. Seitz Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Edmiston New Leaf Marketing Mr. Randy and Mrs. Ann Woodrow Dr. Alicia and Mr. Steve Simmons Elite Letterman’s Club Mr. James S. Nolen Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wooster Mr. and Mrs. William R. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Stan Engelhart North Alabama Women’s Center, PC Dr. Virginia and Mr. Harry W. Yocum Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Spears Mr. Paul S. England Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Notar Mr. Matthew York Dr. Mary and Mr. Ronnie Stinson Mr. James Epik Dr. John Nwogu Mr. and Mrs. Paul Stubbs Dr. and Mrs. Mark Fagan Mr. Steve Ogden Patrons Club Supreme Beverage Company Mr. and Mrs. David Farrar Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Ogle Donations to the Jacksonville State University The Anniston Star Mr. Anthony and Mrs. Pam Findley Mr. Amado Ortiz Foundation in the amount of $250 to $499 will The Colonnade Group Mr. and Mrs. Steve Findley Mr. Glenn Painter qualify the giver for the honorary membership Ms. Jennifer Thomas Mr. Benjamin C. Franklin Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Parker in the Patrons Club. A growing membership Mr. and Mrs. Roy Turman, Jr. Freeman Land & Development, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Parker helps to ensure opportunities for student Mr. and Mrs. Pete Turner Dr. and Mrs. Charles Gamble Parker Hannifin Foundation achievement. University Sports Publications Co., Inc. Mr. John T. Garrett Mr. Michael V. Parris Ms. Gay Brewer Vance Mr. Gary Garris Pepsico Foundation LTG (Ret) and Mrs. Ronald E. Adams Dr. and Mrs. Ronald Varcak Mr. and Mrs. Jack Gauldin Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Mr. James Akins WAKM Companies, LLC Mr. Robert D. Germany Mr. and Mrs. Richard Phillips Alexandria High School Waldrep, Stewart & Kendrick, LLC Mr. Don Gibson Mr. and Mrs. George Porter Mr. Kamal A. Ali Ms. Nancy O. Waters Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gibson COL and Mrs. Gregory Potts Mr. Banyon J. Allison Mr. Tracy G. Watkins Mr. Allen W. Gilbert Mr. and Mrs. Jay Puckett American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Ms. Cynthia M. Watson Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Gilbert Quintard Jewelry & Pawn Anniston Radiology Group, PC Mr. Phil Webb Dr. and Mrs. Carl W. Gooding Mr. Dennis D. Rash Mr. and Mrs. Rick Archer Webb Concrete & Building Materials Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Gore Mr. and Mrs. Jim Reaves Mr. Michael D. Askew Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Wilson Mr. M. Keith Goss Ms. Kay Reaves AT&T Foundation Mr. Brian Keith Woodfin Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Gowens Regional Health Management Corp. Mr. Will Beard Yousef Yaqoub, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Gary Gray Mr. and Mrs. Tom Reid Mr. and Mrs. Dick Bell (* deceased) Mr. Jimmy W. Green Dr. W. Ann Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Berry Mr. Mark J. Green Rickey Wiley Construction Mr. and Mrs. Derrick Bryant Benefactors Club Griffith OK Tire Mr. Barry E. Robertson Ms. Diana Cadwallader The Benefactors Club was established to salute Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Grissom Mr. and Mrs. Steve Rogers Mr. Terry W. Casey donors who give $500 to $999 annually. These Mr. Ferris N. Hall Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rosson Mr. Steven Chew gifts are vital to the education of Jacksonville Dr. John B. Hammett, II Royal Automotive, Inc. Dr. Wayne H. Claeren State University students. Mr. and Mrs. David Hammett Mr. Guy J. Rutland Dr. Patty H. Clokey Mr. Tom Hampson LTC (Ret) Johnny Mack Savage Mr. and Mrs. Bob Coley Mr. and Mrs. William Acker, III Mr. Mark Hampton Ms. Sandra Schulman Mr. Don Collins AI Signal Research, Inc. Mr. Dennis Harker Mr. and Mrs. Lydell Self Mr. Christopher Courtney Alabama Power Company Hat Creek Land Company, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Joe Serviss Mr. David Cox Alabama Power Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Hawkins Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Shirey Mr. Jeffrey Davis Anniston BPOE Lodge #189 Mr. C. W. Hayes Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Thomas Simpson Mr. and Mrs. M. David Dawson Anniston Family Practice, PC Mr. Thomas C. Head Ms. Jauneth Skinner Drs. Wayne and Susie Dempsey Anniston OBGYN Associates, PC Mr. James Henderson Mr. and Mrs. James Sledge Ms. Thelma N. Edgar Ms. Christie Atkerson Mr. James Hixon Mr. Gregory Lee Smith Ms. Martha Elton Mr. and Mrs. Jim Aycock Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hooks Dr. Jerry L. Smith Mr. Allen and Ms. Jan Evans Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Barry Humana, Inc. Mr. Joe O. Smith MAJ T. J. Finley Bear Creek Property Owners Association Mr. Cary Hurst Ms. Rhonda L. Smith Mr. Michael Fondren Mr. Randy Beard Mr. Bobby W. Hydrick Mr. Rickey D. Smith Mr. David N. Foote Dr. Ed Bellman Internal Medicine Associates Dr. S. Rush Smith Frank Turner, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James R. Bennett Dr. Mohammad Ismail Sodexo, Inc. & Affiliates Dr. Lisa Ginn Franklin Mr. and Mrs. Tony Bennett Jacksonville Place, LLC Southern Company Services, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Randall Freeman Big Communications, Inc. Clyde Jenkins Farm, Mr. Clyde Jenkins Southern States Bank Mr. Rusty Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Mitch Black JF Smith Group Mr. and Mrs. Bill Sparrowhawk Ms. Michelle Bailey Fuller Mr. Anthony Blevins Mr. and Mrs. Bobby D. Johnson Staff of Life Medical Corporation Ms. Sharron Graham Mr. Joseph Boggs Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Belton Stanford Mrs. Shaun Gray Mr. Dani V. Bone LTC Joseph C. Jones Ms. Jeannie Stanko Mr. John H. Green Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Boozer Mr. Mark Jones Dr. Ty Stansell Dr. and Mrs. Kelly Gregg Mr. and Mrs. Ted Boozer LTC (Ret) Richmond G. Jones Dr. J. Patrick Stewart, MD Mr. Charles Groover Dr. and Mrs. David W. Boyd Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jones Ms. Cindy B. Strickland Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hammett Mr. Stephen R. Brackett JSU 60’s Group Brick Fund Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Sandra Sudduth Mr. Kenneth Hancock Mr. Guy R. Brown Ken Currie Insurance Agency, Inc. MSGT Alvin E. Sutton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Daniel C. Hardman Mr. Jerry N. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kingston Mr. and Mrs. John Swart Mr. Greg and Mrs. Manda Harley Mr. and Mrs. Koven Brown Mr. and Mrs. Bill Kinzy Mr. and Mrs. Dale Taylor Ms. Annease M. Hastings Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Burke Mr. and Mrs. Joe A. Kirkland Telecom Pioneers Dr. and Mrs. David F. Hay Mr. Jim Campbell Mr. Waylan and Dr. Theresa Kisor The Baker Foundation Ms. Jeannie Haynes Dr. and Mrs. William D. Carr Mr. Mike Leathers Dr. Carla and Mr. Cleophus Thomas, Jr. Mr. Arland B. Henning Dr. Cynthia Cater MG (Ret) Larry E. and Mrs. Nancy Lee Mr. and Mrs. David L. Thomas Dr. Karen and Mr. John Henricks Mrs. Linda Mann Cater Ms. Sherrie D. Lemier Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Townsend Mr. Michael M. Hicks Mr. and Mrs. Alan Ceravola Mr. Derek Lemons Trinity Medical Center Auxiliary Mr. Randall J. Holland Mr. Thomas Erwin Chandler, Jr. Mr. Ed Lett Mr. and Mrs. Richard F. Turner Mr. Mark Hopper Mr. Joseph Chastain Dr. David Lewis, MD Mr. Jim Ulrey Mr. and Mrs. Brian Howell Mr. Brian K. Chatham Mr. Michael J. Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Upton LTC and Mrs. William F. Huggins Mr. and Mrs. Odell Christopher Mr. and Mrs. Clark Lewis Dr. K. L. Vandervoort Ms. Janis Lynn Ioannides Mr. John Coleman, III Mr. Andy Lowe Mr. Buck Wade Ms. Debbie Jackson Mr. Dale Collins Mr. Jack B. Lyle Mr. Bill Wakefield Dr. and Mrs. Harvey H. Jackson Dr. Jeffrey Collins, MD Mr. Alton Mann Wal-Mart Store # 0300 Jacksonville Lions Club Mr. Stanley Colvert Mr. and Mrs. Keith Martin Ms. Carol Wallace Dr. and Mrs. Marvin C. Jenkins Ms. Brooke Comfort Ms. Carolyn Matthews Mr. Earl Warren Ms. Cindy Jones Ms. Lisa Shumaker Conary Ms. Willodean S. McCain Dr. and Mrs. Bobby Welch Mr. and Mrs. Todd Jones Mr. Jack S. Cook Mr. Gary Lee McNutt Ms. Gwen Westbrook Dr. Laurie and Mr. William Jones Dr. Nelson Cook Mr. and Mrs. Tony Messer Mr. and Mrs. Doug Wheeler Mr. and Mrs. James H. Joyner, Jr. Mr. Charles A. Cooper, DMD Miller’s Office Furniture Mr. and Mrs. J.P. Whorton Ms. Sandra A. Julich Mr. and Mrs. Mike Cundiff Judge Samuel H. Monk, II Mr. Ford Wiles Mr. and Mrs. Jack O. Kerby Dr. and Mrs. Brent Cunningham Mr. Timothy Moore Mr. Rickey L. Wiley Mr. Joel Wesley King Mr. Harold Day Mr. W. Larry Moses Mr. and Mrs. Don Wilson Mr. Joseph Maloney

SPRING 2011 : 67 2010 Honor rollof contributors Mr. and Mrs. Dennis L. Manns Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Armstrong Ms. Wendy Conner Mr. Jeffrey Lee Griffin Mr. and Mrs. William Martin Mr. Steven Lloyd Armstrong Mr. Dustin E. Cook Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grimes Mr. Gerald and Mrs. Judy McCarver Mr. Ronnie Blake Arthur Dr. Patricia Corbin Mr. Jack Grizzard Ms. Carol McGinnis Mr. Fred Asbell Mr. Donald Lynn Cotton Mr. and Mrs. Larry W. Guffey Ms. Jana Bright McGinnis Mr. Stephen Austin Ms. Rebecca Croft Ms. Alicia Gulledge Mr. Michael D. Askew Mr. John Awbrey Mr. Don Wilson Croft Mr. William C. Gunnin, Jr. Mr. Curtis P. Mitchell BB&T Bank Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Cunningham Mr. Sherman Guyton Mr. George Moore Ms. Connie C. Bailey Mr. Thomas D. Cunningham, III Ms. Brenda Lou Halbrooks Mr. Steven Moxham Mr. Michael Henry Baker Mr. Larry Ralph Curvin Mr. Daniel Scott Hamilton Multimetco, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Neal Ballard Mr. Michael and Mrs. Kimberly Dalesandro Mr. and Mrs. Van Hamilton Mr. John O’Brien, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bass Davie’s School Supply, Inc. Mr. Bruce F. Hanby Mr. Patrick F. O’Brien Mr. Bill Bauman Ms. Irby Davis Ms. Kay Hanlin Mr. Tony Parise Mr. Tony Beam Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, Jr. Dr. Robert M. Hanvey Mr. Michael Pearson Mr. and Mrs. George Beasley Mr. and Mrs. Mike Davis Mr. Adrien L. Haon Mr. Raymond Pharo Mr. and Mrs. David Beck Ms. Joan Dawson Mr. Jethro and Mrs. June K. Harbison Mr. James M. Phipps Mr. and Mrs. A. Cosper Bell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. William Kenneth Day Mr. and Mrs. Claude D. Hardeman Mr. and Mrs. Robert Poore Ms. Johnnie Bell Mr. David Lee Deal Ms. Dawn Harding Dr. Andrea Porter Mr. Tancie Bendall Mr. and Mrs. Harrison M. Dean Mr. Eric Hare Mr. and Mrs. Phil Provence Ms. Suzeanne Benet Mr. Alva Deaton Mr. Donald Harper Rivergate Mini Storage Mr. and Mrs. H. Thomas Bennett Dr. LaJoyce Debro Mr. Terry Harris Rev. Randy Robertson Dr. and Mrs. Veldon J. Bennett Mr. Jack Decker Mr. Carl Harrison Dr. and Mrs. Frank Romano Mr. Ronald Lee Bentley Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Denkins Mr. Matthew Hart Mr. James D. Savage Ms. Cathy Benton Ms. Sunna Denny Mr. Buddy Hartselle Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas Scott Mr. Chester and Mrs. Kathy Berry Mr. and Mrs. Donald D. Denton Ms. Florence Harvey Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Senff Mr. Paul Franklin Berry Mr. Keith Devers Mr. Malcolm Raymond Harwell Mr. Kevin Simon Bill Atkinson & Associates Mr. Shannon Dewitt Ms. Cindy Hawkins Mr. Brennon E. Smith Mr. Welton N. Birdwell Mr. A. Glenn Dobbs Mr. Curtis H. Hayes Mr. Randy Smith Mr. Kyle E. Bluestein Mr. Frank Douthit Mr. Joe Haynie Dr. and Mrs. Roy Smith Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Bonds Mr. Mac Downs COL Jerry D. Heard Dr. J. F. “Pete” Sparks Mr. Ryan A. Bonds Mr. David Driscoll LTC Helen M. Henley Ms. Treva Staggs Ms. Norma Boozer Ms. Rebecca M. Duckett Mr. Charles Hensleigh Mr. Michael E. Stedham Ms. Catherine Bowie Mr. Klaus Duncan Mr. Jerry L. Herrell Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Stephenson Mr. and Mrs. John A. Boyd Mr. William M. Dunlap Mr. Earl C. Hicks, Jr. Mr. William J. Stevens Mr. John R. Boyd Mr. James Dyar Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Hill Mr. Russell Steward Mr. Peter Brandt Mr. David L. Eason Ms. Blanche Hodges Mr. Randall Stewart Dr. Ralph Brannen Mr. and Mrs. Z. R. East Dr. Lybeth Hodges Ms. Whitney Blake Strickland Ms. Pamela Brazzell Ms. Janie Easterwood Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Holman Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Taylor Ms. Kathy L. Bremer Mr. and Mrs. Jesse T. Edge Mr. Kenny Holt The Bank of New York Mellon Community Mr. Buford “Pete” Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Edwards Mr. and Mrs. William T. Hood Partner Mr. Jonathan M. Brooks CPT James D. Eldridge, Jr. LTC John D. Hopson The Ely Company, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Brothers Mr. Robert Ellington Mr. Todd M. Hornsby The Home Depot Political Action Committee Ms. Alice Chamlis Brown Ms. Virginia Ventress Ellis Mr. and Mrs. Dale Howard The Selig Education and Environment Trust Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Brown Ms. Adrian C. Evans Mr. and Mrs. John W. Hughes Ms. Ellan Thigpen Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Brown Mr. Donald V. Ewing Mr. and Mrs. Huey P. Humphrey Ms. Dana Thompson Mr. Kenneth D. Brown Ms. Beverly Farley Mr. and Mrs. Anthony M. Inglis Mr. Vern Townsend Mr. Paul M. Brown Farmers & Merchants Bank of Piedmont Insurance Planning Services, Inc. Mr. David Troupe Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Brown Mr. Barry Gregg Farrar Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Isbell Mr. H. Paul Tumlin Mr. Doug Bufton Dr. and Mrs. William J. Ferguson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Isom Ms. Nancy Turner Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery D. Bullen Ms. Janet G. Fisher Mr. and Mrs. Bobby J. Israel Mr. William Tutwiler, Jr. Mr. Gerald Wayne Burns Ms. June FitchDoughty Mr. and Mrs. Barry James Mr. John David Walker Dr. Marilyn Ann Burson, MD Mr. and Mrs. Ron Foshee Ms. Teresa B. James Wal-Mart Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Ralph A. Butler, Sr. Mr. David L. Foster Mr. Ralph Jennings, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Webb Mr. and Mrs. Terrell Cabler Ms. Anita L. Fountain Mr. Robert Jennings Mr. and Mrs. James R. Webster, III Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Caldwell Ms. Barbara Smith Franklin Mr. Rusty Jessup Wells Fargo Foundation Calhoun Farmers Cooperative, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Frazier Ms. Kathleen Jester Ms. Linda West Mr. and Mrs. Ken Calleja Mr. Mark N. Frolick Jim Thomas and Associates Mr. Clayton S. Whittemore Mr. David Wayne Callicutt Mr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Frost Ms. Alice A. Johnson Dr. Steven J. Whitton Mr. Robert Raymond Calloway Mr. Leland M. Fuller Ms. Billie S. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Wideman Ms. Cynthia Camp Mr. Victor E. Gallier Ms. Deborah Johnson Mr. Joe S. Williams Ms. Imogene Stone Camp Mr. Charles M. Gardner Mr. Edward Johnson Ms. Ruth Williams Dr. Jon Paul Campbell Ms. Louise Gerontakis Ms. Helen M. Johnson Ms. Tracy Williams Mr. Robert and Mrs. Kathy Campbell Mr. Joe N. Gibson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Jackie L. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Willingham Ms. Gail C. Carpenter Ms. Marilyn Gibson Ms. J. Patrice Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Danny Wiseman Ms. Judy Privett Carter Mr. and Mrs. Corley L. Gilliland Mr. and Mrs. Noel Johnson Woodard Broadcasting Co., Inc. Ms. Yolanda Brumfield Carter Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gilliland, III Mr. and Mrs. Sam O. Johnson Mr. Randy E. Casey Mr. Sherman Ginn Ms. Stacey C. Johnson Century Club Ms. Elaine F. Cash Mr. and Mrs. David Glass Mr. John B. Johnston Broad-based financial support is a key to JSU’s Mr. and Mrs. Timothy H. Caudle Mr. Steven Glasscock Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Joiner continued growth and development. Members Ms. Ginger Burton Chamberlain Mr. Jessie Godbey Mr. Donald Allen Jones of the Century Club, those who contribute Mr. Richard and Mrs. Nancy Chambers Gold Star Realty Mr. and Mrs. Donald Jones, Sr. $100 to $249, have acknowledged their desire to Ms. Elene Sparks Chastain Golden Rule Mr. William Jones assist the university in its never ending pursuit Ms. Maria Jane Chiepalich Mr. Ted M. Good Mr. William and Mrs. Martha Jones of excellence. Mr. Mark Edward Choquette, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Michael D. Goodlett Ms. Harumi Kawata Mr. Joseph J. Chorba, Jr. Ms. Allison L. Goolsby COL and Mrs. Charles D. Keith, Jr. AAMCO Transmission Mr. and Mrs. Reid Clark Mr. James Gordon Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Rae Kelley Mr. Andrew R. Abdulhaqq Mr. and Mrs. Cotton Clark Ms. Teresa Gore Dr. and Mrs. James F. Kelley Dr. and Mrs. Milton Acton Ms. Nina Clem Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Grady Mr. Richard Harding Kelley, Jr. Mr. Jonathan Todd Adams Dr. and Mrs. George Cline Mr. and Mrs. John-Bauer Graham Mr. Gene P. Kelly Mr. Johnny L. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Vance Cline Mr. Timothy Graves Mr. Charles I. Kennedy All American Insurance Agency Ms. Jane Cobia Ms. Martha Greaves Mr. and Mrs. William F. Kerr Mr. and Mrs. Cary D. Allen Cole Equipment Company Mr. and Mrs. Andy Green Dr. John J. Ketterer Allergy & Asthma Center LLC Ms. Dodie Coleman Dr. and Mrs. Walter L. Green Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Kicker Mr. Paul R. Allison Collegiate Risk Management Ms. Jane Greene Ms. Shelia Kiker Mr. and Mrs. Cassidy Anderson Ms. Amy Williams Compton COL (Ret.) Therman R. Greene Mr. Don Killingsworth

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Ms. Kimberly King Mr. Scott Moody Mr. Marvin L. Shaw Mr. Clarence D. Vinson, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Kirby Mr. T. Jeff Moore Mr. Charles E. Shell Ms. Gena B. Vinyard Ms. Linda Klimasewski Mr. and Mrs. Walter Moreland, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sherer Mr. Phillilp Viscasillas Ms. Alison A. Knappenberger Mr. Jerry Morgan Ms. Deborah Shevin Wachovia Foundation Matching Gifts Program Mr. and Mrs. W. James Knight LTC Ellis R. Morris Ms. Charlotte M. Sieber Waffle House 864 Ms. Martha Knox Mr. Jim W. Morrison Mr. Jack D. Silvers Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Walker Mr. William M. Koehler Ms. Gale Morton Mr. Ernest Charles Simpson Mr. Arnold D. Wallace Mr. and Mrs. Shigeji Komatsu Mr. Refrigeration, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Sims Mr. Michael C. Walters Mr. William Ron LaGrone Ms. Linda Munoz Mr. Darin Sims Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Watts Judge Joel Laird Mr. Steven Clark Murphree Dr. Mary Jo Sisson Mr. Daniel T. Watts Mr. Donald T. Lakey, Jr. Mr. Robert H. Mynatt Ms. Shelby Williams Skinner Mr. and Mrs. Miller S. Weatherly Mr. Stephen E. Lambert Ms. Jennifer Nadzadi Ms. Helen Slaughter Ms. Kathy Weathers Ms. Judith Lamberth Mr. William N. Nash, Jr. Mr. James D. Sloan Mr. Bruce C. Webster Ms. Mary Elton Landrum Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence J. Nee, Jr. Ms. Virginia Whatley Sloan Mr. David Weeks Mr. Charles A. Langford Mr. Thomas Carow Nelson, Jr. Ms. Amy Smith Ms. Barbara Little Welch Ms. Renee Lanham Mr. Terry Newsome Dr. Edwin H. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Jonathon Wells Ms. Jean Lanier Ms. Mary Frances Newton Mr. Lecil N. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Paul West, III Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lanterman Mr. David Nichols Ms. Margaret S. Smith Mr. Seymour M. West, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Ted A. Law CPT James B. Nifong Mr. Reginald A. Smith Mr. Clyde Westbrook Mr. William H. Lazenby Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Nolan Mr. Roy C. Smith Mr. Anthony B. White Mr. and Mrs. Timothy R. Leicht Mr. and Mrs. John Noonan Mr. Russell H. Smith Ms. April W. White Dr. Russel W. Lemmons Mr. David L. Normand Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Smith Ms. Vonda Barbour White Mr. Brandon Lewis Ms. Mary Lou O’Barr Mr. and Mrs. Terrell B. Smith Mr. Phillip Whited Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lindblom Ms. Ann Lay Oaks Mr. William Anthony Smith Mr. Judson Whorton Mr. and Mrs. Billy S. Lindsey Mr. Donald Barry Olinger Mr. and Mrs. William O. Smith Mr. Ritchie Whorton Lipscomb Auto Sales Ms. Donna L. Pace Ms. Janice M. Smoake Mr. and Mrs. Gary R. Wigington Mr. and Mrs. Paul Lisborg Dr. Norman Padgett Smurf, Inc. Dr. Barry Williams Ms. Jean Lisenby Mr. David Painter Mr. and Mrs. Brian Snead Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Williams Mr. Jeffrey Little Mr. Richard Palmer Ms. Serena M. Snider Mr. Zachary S. Williams Mr. Ryan B. Livingston Mr. and Mrs. Miller Parnell Mr. Alden Snow Mr. Tracy Lynwood Williamson Ms. Connie Locke Mr. James R. Partain Ms. Vivian E. Snow Ms. Cheryl Chappell Wilson Ms. Susan I. Long Ms. Sara Futral Patterson Mr. Marc S. Spaulding Mr. James R. Wilson, Jr. Ms. Sydney Fox Long Mr. William Patterson Mr. Kevin W. Speaks Mr. and Mrs. Adam P. Wilson Mr. George and Mrs. Mary Lord Mr. David and Mrs. Jonita Ashley Pauley Dr. and Mrs. Ted C. Spears Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wolfe Mr. Justin C. Lord Mr. and Mrs. Randall A. Pauley Dr. and Mrs. Dan Spector Mr. Joseph H. Wood Ms. Virginia Love Dr. and Mrs. John R. Payne Mr. Robert A. Spencer Mr. Randy Wood Mr. David A. Lovvorn Mr. Donald Payne Mr. Stephen K. Spencer Ms. Sara S. Wood Dr. Bill Lowe Ms. Judith Percy Mrs. Nancy Spradlin Woodland Buildings, Inc. Ms. Martha Lytle Ms. Lisa L. Petty Mr. William Joseph Spraggins Mr. and Mrs. Harold L. Worthy Mr. Donald Macargel Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Pickette Ms. Caryl Lynn Stahl Dr. Alison Kay Wright Dr. and Mrs. Eric Mackey Ms. Patricia Pike Ms. Jule Anne Stahl Mr. Charles Nichols Wright Ms. Virginia MacRae Mr. Michael D. Pitts Ms. Mary Lee Stahl Dr. PuSen Yeh Mr. Stephen J. Major Ms. Jane Ponder Mr. and Mrs. Jack Starck Mr. Stephen C. Yocum Mr. and Mrs. E. Thomas Malone Mr. and Mrs. Sean Ponder Mr. Larry Steed Ms. Betty M. Young Ms. Louise Marbut Ms. Mary Ola Porter Mr. Charles L. Stewart Ms. Cynthia B. Young Mr. and Mrs. Terry Marbut Mr. and Mrs. Guice Potter, Jr. Mr. Larry B. Stewart Mr. Rodney Louis Young Marsh For Senate, Mr. Del Marsh Ms. Connie Proctor Mr. Ronald R. Stewart Mr. and Mrs. David Zeigler Mr. John E. Marshall Mr. Randy Proctor Mr. Scott Erwin Stewart Mr. Mike Zenanko Ms. Suzanne Marshall Ms. Cynthia K. Puckett Mr. William B. Stewart Ms. Deborah Martin Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pugh Mr. Larry L. Stoudemire Additional Donors Ms. Nancy D. Martin Mrs. Dorothy G. Quarles Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Stuart Mr. and Mrs. Robert Abdich Ms. Vickie Martin Mr. Bill Queen Mr. Larry Studdard Ms. April Abel Mr. Lane H. Mason Mr. Jeffrey Thomas Randolph SuperValu Retail Accounting Services Mr. Joseph Paul Abercrombie Ms. Willodene Mathews Mr. Kim and Mrs. Karen W. Rawlins COL (Ret) Louis A. K. Sylvester Ms. Andrea W. Abernathy Mr. and Mrs. James Paul Matthews Dr. Gary M. Ray T. Neal Graves & Company Mr. Robert J. Abernathy Mr. John Maurer Mr. Brandon Reaves Ms. Diana Fuller Tate Ms. Charlotte Smith Abner Mr. Jeff Maxwell Mr. William Reid Mr. Charles Mark Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Benny Abney Ms. Brenda Mayhall Ms. Juanita M. Rice Mr. Jimmy G. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Abrams Mr. Bobby R. McAfee Ms. Bonnie Earle Ridgeway The Covenant Group, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Abrams Dr. and Mrs. James Charles McCain Mr. Joseph K. Roberson Mr. James Thomas Ms. Henrietta Acker Mr. Ray McCay Mr. Harvey R. Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Charles Thompson Mr. Lonnie Nelson Acton McClellan Chapter Mr. Gary Rodvelt Mr.. David Thompson Ms. Aimee W. Adams Mr. and Mrs. Mark McClendon Mr. and Mrs. Hoover C. Rogers Mr. Paul Thompson Ms. Brenda Adams Ms. Barbara McClure Ron’s Bar B Q Pit Ms. Lisa Thompson Mr. Joseph Adams, Jr. Ms. Karen McCormick Mr. and Mrs. George N. Rosenbloom Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Thompson Ms. Julie P. Adams Mr. Danny A. McCullars Mr. Erwin Ross, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth C. Thornhill Mr. Mark Adams Mr. John M. McCulloch Mr. Kevin Rowan Mr. Henry Lee Thornton Ms. Michelle Adams Mr. William McGann Mr. and Mrs. Timothy E. Rowe Mr. Michael and Mrs. Debbie Thornton Mr. Tony Ray Adams Ms. Kassandra L. McKenzie Ms. Rachel A. Rushing Dr. Gail Dobbs Tidemann Mr. and Mrs. Doyal Adamson SGT Jachell McKoy Ms. Kathy Russell Mr. and Mrs. William E. Tipton, Jr. Ms. B. Jean Adderhold Mr. A. Byron McLeod Dr. and Mrs. Kelly Ryan Mr. Billy Tolleson Ms. Susan P. Adderhold Mr. Lane McNaron and Ms. April Jackson Mr. Pat Ryan Dr. Ernest W. Tompkins Ms. C.K. Adonni Dr. Howard McVeigh Mr. Michael D. Sandefer Mr. and Mrs. William M. Towns Ms. Joyce Sox Akers Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. McWhorter, Jr. Ms. Ruth Kirby Sanders Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Tredaway Mr. Dean Akin Mr. James Meigs Sarrell Regional Dental Center For Public Mr. Robert E. Trimble Ms. Ellen Y. Akin Dr. and Mrs. John C. Merriman Health Ms. Prosperita Trujillo Ms. Lenita Akles Ms. Shirley Messer Ms. Beverly Trice Scarborough Ms. Ann Burnham Trumbly Ms. Chrystal Alexander COL Joseph Methvin Ms. Linda K. Schiff Ms. Cassandra Turner Mrs. Eleanor Alexander Mr. Glen C. Miller Mr. Larry A. Schott Mr. and Mrs. W. Neil Turner Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Allbritton Mr. and Mrs. Daniel M. Mince Mr. Johnny Ray Self, Jr. LTC (Ret) Garold Van Doren, II Ms. Vickie Alldredge Mr. Jimmy Mitchell Mr. Thomas Edward Sexton, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Al Vanderpol Mr. Bryan Allen Mr. Kenneth Allan Mitchell Sharmarc LLC Dr. Nagarajan Vasumathi Mr. and Mrs. John T. Allen Ms. Pamela R. Montgomery Mr. Jacob T. Sharrock Verizon Foundation Ms. Kathy A. Allen Mr. William E. Montgomery, III Mr. Joseph F. Shaw Mr. Darrell W. Vice Mr. Joseph G. Allinder

SPRING 2011 : 69 2010 Honor rollof contributors Mr. Charles L. Allison, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bailey Ms. Donya Beam Ms. Michelle Bishop Allsport Powersports, Inc. Dr. Sandra Bailey Ms. Aida J. Beard Mr. and Mrs. William Y. Bishop Mr. and Mrs. Corey Almaroad Mr. Howard E. Bain Mr. Ken Beard Ms. Vivian D. Bishop Ms. Jesicca Michelle Althouse Mr. Phillip Bain Ms. Jessica Jean Bearden Ms. Deborah D. Bivins Mr. Joe Ammons Ms. Teresa Bain Mr. George Brian Beasley Ms. Beth R. Black Ms. Kannyetta S. Ammons Mr. Charles Baker Mr. Dale Beason Ms. Kelly Y. Black Ms. Janet C. Amos Ms. Cynthia Baker Ms. Karen Ann Beason Ms. Nila Joan Blackwell Ms. Amy Anderson Mr. Douglas E. Baker Ms. Elizabeth Beaty Mrs. Lucille Blackwood Mr. Stanley R. Anderson Mr. and Mrs. Don Baldwin Mr. Ron Beaucham Mr. Benjamin Blair Mr. Steven L Anderson Ms. Rhonda Baldwin Ms. Deanna Dean Beck Mr. Gregory Blake Ms. Brandy L. Andrews Mr. Timothy Balentine Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Becker Mr. Paul Blake Ms. Kimberly Andrews Ms. Leticia Bankston Mr. Charles D. Becraft Mr. W. Don Blakely Mr. Patrick Andrews Ms. Renee L. Baptiste Mr. Gary Beegle Mr. James Albert Blanchard Mr. James Andruszewski Mr. Bernard Lee Barber, Jr. Mr. Kenneth Beeler, Jr. Ms. Serie Bland Mr. and Mrs. Robert Anglea Ms. Freesa Anne Barber Mr. Stephen K. Behel Ms. Peggy L. Blankenship Ms. Jacquelwyn Anthony Mr. and Mrs. Kinsman Barber Ms. Claire Beil Ms. Holli Blass Mr. and Mrs. William T. Argabrite Mr. D. Zach Barfield Mr. Robin R. Beistline Ms. Deborah Blevins Ms. Valerie Armbrester Ms. Sheree Barker Mr. Devon B. Bell Ms. Merry Blevins Mr. and Mrs. Ralph D. Armstrong Mr. and Mrs. Carl S. Barkley Mr. Dominico K. Bell Ms. Nell Blevins Mr. Stephen L. Armstrong Ms. Katie Barksdale Ms. H. Sue Bell Mr. Roy Blevins Mr. Steven Michael Armstrong Ms. Melissa Robinson Ms. Jennifer R. Bell Ms. Patricia Abercrombie Blount Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Arnett, Jr. Mr. Jeremy Collin Barnes Ms. Krystle E. Bell Blowing Rock Elementary School LTC (Ret) Billy R. Arnold Mr. Lowell P. Barnes Mr. Will Bell, Jr. Mr. Kent Boatwright Ms. Kathryn Arnold Mr. Tony J. Barnwell, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Benefield Mr. Jack Bobo Mr. and Mrs. Randall Arp Ms. Susan Barrs Ms. S. Luette Benefield Ms. Stacie Boddie Ms. Windy Arrington Ms. Cynthia Black Barry Mr. Jason D. Bennett Mr. Ken Bodiford Mr. Michael Arther Mr. Anthony James Bartley Mr. Tony M. Bennett Ms. Cathy Bohannon Ms. Kara S. Arthur Mr. Gregory Barton Ms. Debra E. Benson Mr. Charles Lee Bohannon Ms. Sandy Aspinwall Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bass Mr. James Farrial Berry Mr. A. Richard Bohanon Ms. Kimberly Atkins Ms. Tracy A. Bass Ms. Janet Berry Mr. Virgil A. Bohn Ms. Carolee Ausborn Mr. Cecil Lendell Bates Ms. Mary Ella Berta Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Boman Mr. Jimmy Austin, Sr. Mr. David Alan Bates Ms. Claudia Day Best Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Bonds Mr. Sharon K. Austin Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E. Bates Ms. Deborah Beverly Mr. William Allen Bonds Ms. Sondra T. Austin Ms. Helen Batson Mr. Douglas and Mrs. Mary Bevis Mr. James A. Booker Ms. Veronica Austin Ms. Marcelle Battle Mr. Verdis Franklin Bible Ms. Dolores Booth Ms. Judy Aycock Mr. Ralph Battle Ms. Tonya Hope Bice Ms. Lori Booth Ms. Marie M. Ayers Mr. Glenn William Baty, Jr. Mr. Jack O. Biddy Ms. Angie Boozer Ms. Brenda Babbs Mr. John Bauer, Jr. Ms. Tracy Ragan Billings Mr. Neal Austin Boozer Ms. Juanita Badgett Ms. Patricia Baughan Mr. Joseph Anthony Billingsley Mr. Ray Boozer Mr. Charles Bailey Ms. Lynn M. Baxter Mr. Charles A. Bircheat Ms. Vickie Boozer Ms. Jennifer Bailey Ms. Phyllis Bayes Ms. Alice Birdener Mr. Jack Borden Ms. LaVonda Bailey Ms. Joanna Bazemore Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey P. Birdwell Ms. Joan H. Borders Ms. Mary Bailey Ms. Jeannie L. Bazemore Ms. Scarlett A. Bischoff Ms. Vickie Borrell Ms. Mary Etta Bailey Ms. Charlene Bazzle Mr. John H. Bishop Ms. Lena M. Boswell Mr. Rodney Bailey Mr. Marshall Beall Ms. Mary E. Bishop Mr. Victor Brent Bottoms Mr. and Mrs. Barry Bouchillon Ms. Cindy G. Boudreaux Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Bougere Mr. Brian Bowden Ms. Stephanie M Bowden Ms. Courtney Bowers Mr. Curtis L. Bowie Ms. Mary Bowie Ms. Patricia Bowlin Mr. Chris Bowman Ms. Jane Bowman Ms. Janet H. Bowman Ms. Katie A Bowman Mr. and Mrs. Jody Box Mr. and Mrs. Shaun Boyd Mr. Randy Boyd Mr. Randy A. Boyer Ms. Mary Brackett Ms. Tora Lashay Bradford Mr. Mark Brady Ms. Jerry Sue Brannon Mr. William H. Brannon Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Brasher Ms. Mary E. Bray Ms. Lila H. Brazelton Ms. Patricia Brelsford Mr. Larry Earl Brewer Mr. and Mrs. Dafford Brewster, Jr. Mrs. Rosamond Briegel Ms. Revlon B. Briggs Mr. and Mrs. Elton G. Bright Ms. Sarah D. Bright Mr. Glenn Bright Ms. Janice Brim Mr. Gene R. Brock, Jr. Ms. Amy Henderson Broekhuizen Ms. Connie B. Brooks Ms. Jane Brooks Mr. and Mrs. Jerry W. Brooks

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Ms. Tracy D. Broom Ms. Danielle Calvert Ms. Leigh Ann Clifton Ms. Lisa C. Fluker Mr. John D. Broome Mr. William Aaron Calvert Mr. Michael Dewey Cline Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Crenshaw Mr. and Mrs. Daniell Brown Ms. Brittany Campbell Ms. Sherry Cline Ms. Kimberly Moore Crist Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Brown Mr. Forrest Stuart Campbell Ms. Kelly Clough Ms. Karen Crockett Ms. Eloise S. Brown Mr. Fred Allen Campbell Ms. Ardith Williams Coates Mr. Brent Lee Crowder Ms. Ginger L. Brown Mr. Glenn Campbell Ms. Constance Coates Mr. Carl Crutchfield Ms. Grace C. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Ted Campbell Mr. M. Joshua Coats Ms. Yvonne Crye Mr. Harold S. Brown Campbell Farms Mr. Steve Coats Ms. Debra Culbert Ms. Jacqueline Brown Mr. Jack L. Camper Ms. Jo Ann Cobb Ms. Lois A. Culpepper Ms. Jacquelyn S. Brown Ms. Heidi Campos Mr. Carl Cochran Mr. Coy and Mrs. Judith Culver Mr. Jerrod Ray Brown Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Cantwell Ms. Debra Cochran Ms. Susan Culver Ms. Kathleen V. Brown Mr. and Mrs. James A. Carberry Ms. Marolyn Cochran Dr. and Mrs. David Cummings Ms. Kimberly D. Brown Mr. and Mrs. James Carder Mr. Robert L. Cochran, III Mr. Charles E. Cunningham Ms. Martha S. Brown Mr. Mark Cardwell Ms. Robin Cochran Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Cunningham Ms. Mary Brown Ms. Marie H. Cargile Ms. Shelby Cochran Mr. John Curlee Ms. Patsy Brown Mr. Michael A. Carlson Ms. June Codianne Mr. Willis M. Curls Ms. Peggy M. Brown Ms. Kathy Carlyle Ms. Jennifer L. JonesCoffey Ms. Betty Curren Ms. Portia C. Brown Mr. Charles Carpenter Ms. Karen Coffey Ms. Eileen Curtin Ms. Sharon R. Brown Mr. and Mrs. Jesse R. Carpenter Ms. Jennifer Cofield Mr. James Alan Curtis, Jr. Ms. Vallery J. Brown Mr. Thomas Carpenter Ms. Ranae Coheley Ms. Adrianne Curvin Mr. Brandon Brown Ms. Bernice P. Carr Mr. James Randall Coker Mr. David Curvin Mr. and Mrs. Michael Browning Ms. Daisy R. Carroll Ms. Sharon F. Coker Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Cushing Mr. Gil Bruce Ms. Ginger R. Carroll Mr. Byron Douglas Cole Ms. Kelly D’Eath Mr. and Mrs. William B. Bryan Mr. Jimmy W. Carroll Ms. Susan D. Cole Ms. Patricia Dabbs Mr. Bob Bryant Ms. Lisa Carroll Ms. Emmalie Grace Cole Ms. Rosemary B. Dallam Mr. Bobby Bryant Mr. and Mrs. George Carruth Mr. and Mrs. Marion B. Cole Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Dalton, Jr. Ms. Christa Bryant Ms. Edith Carter Mr. Norman R. Cole Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence W. Danforth Mr. Jack Kenney Bryant Mr. and Mrs. Michael Carter Mr. Randall Cole Mr. Eddie Daniel Ms. Jennifer A. Bryant LTC Joseph Carter Ms. Bridgett Coleman Mr. Lyle Darnell Ms. Mabel Bryant Mr. and Mrs. Nathan L. Carter Mr. Jason Coleman Ms. Sharon P. Dasinger Ms. Robin W. Bryant Mr. Wesley Carter Mr. Roby Coley Mr. Charles W. Daugherty Ms. Scarlet Bryant Ms. Audrey Cartwright Mr. Billy G. Collier Ms. Mary Jim Daugherty Dr. and Mrs. Kirby Bryant MG (Ret) Fred Casey Ms. Deborah Collier Mr. Maurice Daughtry Mr. Thomas Bryant Mr. and Mrs. Rick Casey Ms. Janis K. Collins Ms. Cynthia L. Davenport Mr. Tracy Bryant Mr. and Mrs. James F. Cash Ms. Shannon Smith Collins Mr. Antonio J. Davis Ms. Kimberly A. Buce Mr. Jeffrey D. Cash Ms. Virginia Collins Ms. Candace Davis Ms. Paula R. Buchanan Ms. Jean M. Cassity Ms. Barbara Colvin Ms. Carol Graham Davis Mr. Edward L. Buckner, Jr. Mr. Luis D. Castrillon Ms. Alaina L. Conaway Mr. and Mrs. David Davis Ms. Sabrina Oden Buettner Mr. Kenneth Ray Cater Mr. and Mrs. Danny R. Conaway Ms. Deneen M. Davis Ms. Ellen A. Buffington Mr. Thomas J. Cato Ms. Caroline J. Conde Mr. Edwin F. Davis, Jr. Mr. Derek Bullard Mr. Larry W. Causby Ms. Lynda Osborne Cone Ms. Elizabeth C. Davis Mr. John Mack Bullock Ms. Claudia Cauthen Construction Industries Mr. James M. Davis Ms. Ling Chan Bunch Ms. Leigha M. Cauthen Mr. and Mrs. Billy R. Cook Mr. James M. Davis Ms. Ellen S Burden Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Chambers Ms. Christy Cook Ms. Janis H. Davis Ms. Denise Burford Ms. Patsy S. Chambers Ms. Helen Cook Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Davis Mr. Stanley V. Burger Mr. Jamie D. Champion Ms. Judith Melton Cook Mr. John and Mrs. Joyce Davis Mr. Bradley S. Burgess Mr. Jimmy W. Champion Ms. Kathy B. Cook Ms. Kaye W. Davis Mr. Charles Burgess Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Chandler Dr. Llewellyn Cook Mr. Kenny W. Davis Mr. Jason Paul Burgess Mr. and Mrs. Carey Chandler Mr. Stephen P. Cook Dr. and Mrs. Randall Davis Mr. Jeremy Michael Burgess Ms. Cynthia Chandler Mr. William H. Cook Mr. Robert J. Davis, Jr. Ms. Martha L. Burgess Ms. Dana L. Chandler Ms. Deborah T. Cooley Mr. Ronnie Davis Ms. Mary Sue Burgess Mr. Bart Chandler Mr. Calvin J. Cooper Ms. Vanessa L. Davis Mr. Steven Burgess Mr. William Channell, Jr. Mr. Gayland Cooper Ms. Vivian L. Davis Ms. Shea Nelson Mrs. Jimmie Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Cooper Mr. Walter Maurice Davis, Jr. Mr. George A. Burkhalter Mr. Neal Chapman Ms. Roberta Cooper Mr. William G. Davis Ms. Peggy Burleson Ms. Leah M. Chapman Mr. and Mrs. Christopher L. Corbin Mr. G. Dennis Dawson Mr. Scott Burleson Mr. Wilbur Cleon Chapman, Jr. Ms. Amanda Renee Cornelius Mr. and Mrs. Larry A. Dawson Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Burnett Ms. Willie Kate Charley Ms. Sandra K. Cornelius Mr. Charles De Arman Ms. Jane Self Burnham Mr. Sakon Charoobhathiran Ms. Heather Cortez Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dean Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Burnham Mr. Neil Wayne Chase, Jr. Mr. Vincent M. Costanza Mr. John Deason Mr. Charles Edward Burns Ms. Theresa C. Chatman Mr. and Mrs. Constantine Costas Mr. Leo J. Deason Mr. and Mrs. Matt Burns Ms. Jeri Chauta Mr. and Mrs. Barry Costello Ms. Martha Sue Deason Ms. Jill M. Burt Cheaha Creative Arts, Inc. Ms. Ernestine Cothran Ms. Dalene Decker Mr. and Mrs. Roger Dale Burton Mr. and Mrs. Danny Chesnut Mr. Joe Cotney Mr. James T. Decker Ms. Rosalind P. Burton Ms. Paula Jennings Chesnut Mr. Richard L. Cotney Mr. and Mrs. David Deerman Mr. Larry Busch Ms. Teresa Stacks Childers Mr. and Mrs. Elton Couch Mr. Sid W. Deerman Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Busenlehner Mr. Greg Christian Ms. Pamela Couch Deja Vu Ms. Nancy Bussey Ms. Cheryl Christopher Ms. Deborah Russell Mr. William N. Dejournett Mr. Brad Butler Mr. Dustin Christopher Mr. C. Val Courtney Mr. Antonio Delaine Mr. Eddie J. Butler Dr. and Mrs. Richard M. Christopher Ms. Sharon Covington Mr. Bryan Delauney Mr. Scott R. Butler Mr. and Mrs. Corey Clark Mr. James H. Cowan Mr. Guy D. Deluca Judge Horace D. Buttram, Jr. Ms. Corliss C. Clark Mr. Charles Burton Cowart Ms. Sabrina Gidley Dempsey Ms. Carol H. Butts Ms. Jayne Clark Mr. Eddie L. Cox Mr. Andy Dennis Mr. Randall James Buys Ms. Karen Clark Mr. George F. Cox Ms. Chelsea Denson Mr. Jimmy Byram Dr. William D. Clark Dr. Jim Cox Mr. and Mrs. Jerrold Denson Ms. Brenda W. Byrd Ms. Carol Rae Clayton Mr. and Mrs. Phillip D. Cox Ms. Rosalind L. Denson C.A.G.S. Government Contractor Mr. Ronald Clayton Mr. William Clayton Cox Ms. Betty J. Deuel Mr. and Mrs. Gerry Cagle Dr. Ronnie Clayton Mr. and Mrs. Alton Craft Mr. Oscar H. Dewberry Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Cain Mr. John Wesley Clem Mr. and Mrs. Jason T. Craft Ms. Sherron DeWeese Dr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Caldwell Ms. Linda Clement Ms. Patsy Craig Dr. Carmine DeBiase Mr. Thomas V. Caldwell Ms. Linda C. Bynum Ms. Amanda Crawford Ms. Angela L. Dickert Ms. Georgia Calhoun Ms. Alice F. Cleveland Mr. Clinton Crawford Mr. and Mrs. James Dickinson Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Calhoun Ms. Charlene Cleveland Ms. Melba F. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Diffley Ms. Naquisha L. Calhoun Mr. Jerry Cleveland Mr. Phillip Crawford Mr. James D. Dill

SPRING 2011 : 71 2010 Honor rollof contributors Mr. Scott Dillard Mr. Page Eppele Mr. Jonathan Curtis Garlick Mr. Donald W. Green Ms. Tracey Ditzler Mr. Tracy Ervin Ms. Maxine Garmon Mr. James R. Green Mr. and Mrs. Naclane D. Dixon Ms. Kathryn Erwin Ms. Janis Garner Ms. Jill W. Green Ms. Sally Dixon Ms. Annette Espy Ms. Barbara Garrett Ms. Kimberly Green Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Dobbins Mr. and Mrs. Neal B. Estes Ms. Deborah R. Garrett Mr. and Mrs. Steve Green Mr. James S. Dobbs Ms. Carol Eubanks Ms. Jennifer Garrett Mr. Jimmy Greene Mr. Robert Dobbs Ms. Elaine Eubanks Mr. Thomas L. Garrett Ms. Judith J. Greene Mr. and Mrs. Troy Lee Dobbs, Jr. Ms. Virginia Eubanks Mr. William H. Garrett Mr. Walter Greenhall LTC and Mrs. Bob Dobson Mr. Darius Arnaz Evans Ms. Kimberly J. Garrick Mr. William H. Greenhaw Mr. and Mrs. Terry Dobson Ms. L. Odessa Evans Ms. Jennie Lu Garrison Ms. Rhoda Greenwell Mr. Joey L. Dodd Ms. Susan H. Evans Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Gaskin Ms. Karen Greer Ms. Regina Dodd Mr. Taylor S. Evans Ms. Thresa Y. Gay Mr. Kenneth Gregory Mr. Timothy Dollard Mr. and Mrs. Robbie Evatt Ms. Kellee Geier Ms. Angela Grennier Mr. Ronald Andrew Domian Ms. Lauren Everett Ms. Cynthia Kay Geis Mr. L. Troy Griffin Mr. and Mrs. Erskine G. Donald, IV Ms. Janet Ezekiel Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Gentry Ms. Stepahnie Keller Griffin Mr. Shawn Donovan Ms. Olivia Ann Fadul Mr. John Gentry Ms. Angela G. Griggs Ms. Suzanne M. Donovan Ms. Christa Fair Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gentry Ms. Julie A. Grimes Ms. Tina Dooley Mr. Farid Farahan Ms. Allison M. George Mr. Zachary Tyler Grimes Mr. and Mrs. James Doss Ms. Kay Farmer Ms. Sharon Briggs George Mr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Groce Ms. Lindsey P. Dossey Mr. Robert Farmer Ms. Vicky F. George Ms. Jacqueline Growden Mr. Blaine Douglass Mr. Daniel Farr Get Cocky Mr. John Gruenewald Mr. Robert Downing Ms. Joyce Farrell Ms. Jan Ghazal Mr. Robert M. Gudger Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Doyle Mr. Stephen W. Farros Ms. Martha Gibbs Mr. Cary Guffey Doyle Real Estate Agency, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Faulkner Mr. and Mrs. Keith Gibson Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Guin Ms. Darlene J. Driggers Mr. John Fearon Mr. Barry Gilbert Ms. Elizabeth Gulledge Ms. Jennifer W. Drummonds Mr. Donald G. Fears Mr. and Mrs. Mitch Gilbert Ms. Petula Gunn Mr. and Mrs. John A. Dryden Dr. and Mrs. Robert Felgar Mr. Charles T. Gilbreath Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Guthrie Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery L. Duck Ms. Mary Catherine Felts Ms. Julie Lyn Gilchrist Mr. Perry Wesley Gwin, Jr. Ms. Patricia Doraine Duckworth Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Ferguson Ms. Anne M. Giles Mr. Lothar W. Hadder Ms. Susan A. Due Mr. and Mrs. Jerry G. Ferguson Ms. Geraldine Giles Mr. Larry Haddock Mr. Joel Duke Ms. Sarah B. Ferguson Mr. Lawrence Clinton Gillespie, Jr. Mr. John D. Haddow Mrs. Regina DukeWalters Mr. Edward J. Ferjak Mr. and Mrs. Gene Gillespie Ms. Valisa L. Hadley Mr. Emerald E Dukes Ms. Barbara Ferrigno Mr. and Mrs. W. Charles Gillespie Ms. Brenda Hager Mr. Jimmy Dunaway Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Ficklen Ms. Terri M. Gillilan Mr. Jack Haggard Ms. Cathy Duncan Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Field Ms. Angela Gilliland Mr. and Mrs. C. Gary Haisten Ms. Jennifer Duncan Mr. Michael R. Fincher Mr. William R. Gilliland, Jr. Ms. Patsy Halbrook Ms. Martha Joan Duncan Mr. Robert Byron Finley Ms. Charlotte Gilmer Ms. Kathy Haley Ms. Shirley S. Duncan Ms. Susan F. Firestone Ms. Margaret E. Gilmer Ms. Jo Hall Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Dunivant Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Fisk, Jr. Ms. Patsy B. Gilmore Ms. Beth H. Hall Ms. Betty Jean Dunn Ms. Jacqueline Goodlett Flenord Ginn Auto Sales Mr. Daniel Hall Ms. Claire Dunn Ms. Amelia Watts Fletcher Ms. Holly Gipson Ms. Diane Elizabeth Hall Mr. Louis Reginald Dunn Ms. Sherry Bittles Flett Ms. Mary Givens Ms. Harrietta L. Hall Mr. Sherburne W. Dunn Ms. Kimberly Vann Floyd Mr. Jerry Lamar Gladden Ms. Kandice L. Hall Ms. Landi C. Dunne Dr. and Mrs. Daniel S. Fockele Ms. Luanza Gladden Mr. Phillip Rowe Hall Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Dupree Ms. Sheila H. Fogle Mr. B. Mark Glenn Mr. Tracy D. Hall Ms. Holly Durbin Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Folsom, Jr. Ms. Carol A. Glover Mr. and Mrs. Doug Hamil Ms. Kristi Durham Mr. Joseph E. Forbes Mr. David Glover Ms. Sandra O. Hamilton LTC and Mrs. Randy Durian Dr. and Mrs. Donnie Ray Ford Mr. and Mrs. Jay Gober Mr. and Mrs. Todd Hamilton Mr. Clyde Dusty Dutton Mr. Douglas H. Ford Ms. Leslie C. Gober Ms. Suzanne Hammock Mr. Clark Edward Dyer Mr. James Morris Ford, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Godfrey Mr. John Hamner Ms. Ruth Dyer Mr. and Mrs. Danny Foster Ms. Deborah M. Godwin Mr. Chris and Mrs. Susan Hancock Ms. Mitzi Gibbs Eaker Ms. Joyce Foster Ms. Jana Godwin Mr. Tommy J. Hancock Mr. and Mrs. Tom Early Mr. Wesley Dallas Fowler Mr. Russell C. Godwin Ms. Deborah Lynn Handy Mr. and Mrs. Tim Earnest Mr. W. Michael Fowler Ms. Shirley G. Godwin Mr. Roy Hanlin Mr. Darwin H. Easter, Jr. Ms. A. Jane Fox Mr. Victor R Gonzalez Ms. Helen Hannah Dr. Stanley E. Easton Ms. April S. Fox Mr. Steven Goodman Mr. Jeff Hanner Ms. Joan Eastwood Mr. Otto Willis Fox Ms. Ella E. Goodwin Ms. Jean Hansard Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Eberle Ms. Antionette D. Frails Mr. Nicholas Adam Goosby Ms. Nancy D. Hansen Ms. Mary G. Eccleston Mr. and Mrs. George H. Frankl Ms. Vickie Gord Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Hanson Ms. Natarsha S. Eddins Ms. Lyn F. Franks Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Goss Mr. Haneef Rasha Haqq Mr. and Mrs. J. Russ Edge Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Frasier Ms. Valerie Gossage Mr. William C. Harbin, Jr. Mrs. Mindy G. Edge Ms. Jennifer Harwood Frazier Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Gossett Mr. Jerry Harbour Mr. John C. Edgecomb Ms. Dianne L. Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Jerry J. Goularte Mr. William R. Hard, Jr. Ms. Clyda Edmonds Ms. Karen M. Freeman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Grace Mr. Gary R. Hardeman Ms. Amanda Lynn Edmondson Mr. William A. Frees Ms. Susan Wright Grace Mr. and Mrs. Curtis W. Harden Ms. Mandi M. Edwards Mr. Forrest A. French Mr. Jackson L. Grady Ms. Nancy Ann Harding Mr. Robert K. Edwards Ms. Sandra Freshour Ms. Diane S. Graham Mr. Edwin Costin Hardison Mr. William Ekey Friends of Janney Furnace Mr. Glen Graham Mr. James Henry Hardy, Jr. Ms. Lisa Elders Drs. Rodney and Kathleen Friery Mr. and Mrs. John S. Graham Mr. Jeremy Dean Hardy Ms. Ashley Eliasson Mr. and Mrs. Garry L. Frost Mr. Robert G. Graham Ms. Patricia F. Hardy Ms. Carrie Elkins Mr. Mark Fuller Ms. Robin Reinell Graham Ms. Sara Hare Mr. Estel Elkins, Jr. Mr. Joshua Fuller Ms. Sandra Graham Mr. James H. Harlow Ms. Donna Elling Thompson Mr. Richard Long Fuller Mr. Stephen Gralewski Mr. George Harmon Ms. Mary Elliott Mr. Philip and Mrs. Towana Fuqua Mr. and Mrs. Terry Lee Grammer Mr. Jeremy D. Harper Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Lee Ellis Ms. Angela Kay Gaines Ms. Carla Graves Ms. Mary Nell Bare Harper Mr. Gerry F. Ellis Ms. Rhenetta Gallagher Mr. and Mrs. Don Graves Ms. Amber Harrell Mr. Robert Ellis, II Ms. Betty Galloway Mrs. Jack Eugene Graves, Jr Mr. Brian James Harris Ms. Betty Ellison Ms. Debbie Galloway Mr. and Mrs. Christopher D. Gravitt Ms. Dana Harris Ms. Martha Ellison COL James Franklin Gamble Ms. Cordelia L. Gray Mr. Donald W. Harris Ms. Juanita P. Elrod Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Gamble Mr. Howard W. Gray, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Tim Harris Mr. and Mrs. Terry Elrod Mr. and Mrs. Wiley A. Gammon Ms. LaRevia Dennis Gray Mr. and Mrs. Danny Harris Energen Corporation Ms. Ann Marie Gardner Mr. Larry Gray Mr. Gary and Mrs. Linda Harris Mr. Kerry English Mr. Kevin D. Gardner Ms. Marylene Gray Mr. James Harris Ms. Karen Entrekin Ms. Elaine Gargus Ms. Brenda D. Green Ms. Laura J. Harris

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Mr. and Mrs. Norman D. Harris Ms. Linda Hodgens Ms. Kenda Holman Ms. Tricia Hopper Ms. Tashia R. Harris Mr. Jeffery L. Hodges Ms. Elizabeth Holmes Mr. and Mrs. James R. Hopson Ms. Terry P. Harris Mr. Charles David Hoffman, III Ms. Lana Holmes Ms. Donna E. Horne Ms. Karen H. Harris Mr. David R. Hofland Ms. Brenda L. Holt Ms. Dianna Horner Ms. Cathy Champion Harrison Ms. Angela Hoge Mr. and Mrs. Kerry R. Holt Mr. Roy and Mrs. Joan Horsley Ms. Kelly Ann Harrison Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Holcomb Ms. Sabrina Adams Holt Ms. Gloria P. Horton Ms. Kristine Q. Harrison Ms. Ellen Holcomb Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Holt Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Hoult Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Harry Mr. George W. Holcombe, Jr. Mr. Albert T. Homburger Mr. Robert Floyd House Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Hart Mr. Alfred D. Holden Mr. and Mrs. Robert Louis Honaker Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Houts, Jr. Ms. Jo C. Hart Mr. Jon W. Holder Honeywell Hometown Solutions Ms. Andrea La Faye Howard Ms. Beth Hartley Ms. Jean Holderfield Honeywell International Charity Matching Ms. Brandi Howard Ms. Nancey Hartline Mr. Jon and Mrs. Kim Holland Ms. Jo Ella H. Hood Mr. Gene Howard Mr. and Mrs. David Hartman Ms. Linda Holland Mr. James William Hooks Mr. John H. Howell Mr. and Mrs. Jerrod Harvey Mr. Gary and Mrs. Ramona Hollingsworth Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Hopkins Ms. Julie Howell Ms. Kelly J. Haskell Ms. Marie Hollingsworth Mr. Randall Hopkins Mr. William B. Howell Mr. and Mrs. Edward Haslam, Jr. Ms. Stacy Holloway Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Hopper Mr. William Donald Howell Mr. Rainer Haspel Ms. Diana Hastings Mrs. Leslie Adams Hathorn Hathorn Portrait Designs, LLC Ms. Patsy Hatley Remember Us in Your Will Mr. and Mrs. William R. Hawkins, Jr. Mr. William Hawkins Alumni and friends of Jacksonville State University support the JSU Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Dale A. Hay Mr. and Mrs. Winston Terry Hay generously. Contributions are evidence of a deep interest and a determination to see Ms. Janice B. Haydu the University serve for generations to come. The JSU Foundation was established Ms. Brandi S. Hayes Ms. Diane H. Hayes expressly for receiving donations and bequests that will benefit the University. Ms. Carolyn W. Haynes Ms. Hazel Haynes Mr. Jerry Jackson Haynie All who have included the Jacksonville State University Foundation in their wills are Mr. and Mrs. Clifford A. Heard appreciated and JSU urges our other alumni and friends to consider providing for Mr. and Mrs. Randy H. Hedgecock Mr. Randall Todd Heflin the university in their estate plans. Please notify the Foundation if you have includ- Ms. Nancy Hellams ed JSU in your will. Those who wish to make provisions for the Jacksonville State LTC (Ret) Edward J. Helms Dr. Beth Hembree University Foundation in their will, may find these suggestions helpful: Mr. and Mrs. Donald H. Henderson Ms. Kathryn B. Henderson Mr. and Mrs. Kerry R. Henderson AN UNRESTRICTED GIFT Ms. Lani M. Henderson “I give, devise, and bequeath to the Jacksonville University Foundation the sum of Ms. Lisa Henderson Mr. Robert Henderson $ ___ (or other specifically described personal or real property) to be used for the Ms. Sandra Hendley general purposes of the Foundation.” Ms. Elsie Hendrickson Mr. and Mrs. Benny G. Hendrix Ms. Janie Y. Hendrix “I give, devise, and bequeath to the Jacksonville State University Foundation an Mr. and Mrs. Steven J. Hendrix Mr. and Mrs. Keith Henegar amount equal to ___ percent (___%) of the value of my estate at the date of my Ms. Iris L. Henry death.” Mr. Steven D. Henry Ms. Victoria A. Henry Ms. Alisha Henson GIFT FOR A SPECIFIC PURPOSE Ms. Amanda E. Henson Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Henson “I give, devise, and bequeath to the Jacksonville State University Foundation the Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Herren sum of $ ___ (or the property herein described) for (state purpose).” Ms. Blair Herren Mr. Steve Herrin Ms. Katheryn E. Herzberg RESIDUAL BEQUEST Ms. Leigh Hethcox Mr. Larry Gilbert Hice “I hereby give, devise, and bequeath all of the residue of my estate, both real and Ms. Cathy Hicks personal, to the JSU Foundation.” Ms. Gwendolyn Hicks Mr. Jimmy Hicks Ms. Renae Hicks CODICIL Ms. Frances Higginbotham Ms. Carrie Hightower “Having herein before made my last will and testament dated Mr. Dennis Hightower ___ , I (your full name) being of sound mind do hereby make, publish, and declare Mr. and Mrs. William M. Hightower Ms. Amy Pike Hilburn the following codicil thereto:___ (here insert the additional clause) ___ . Except as Mr. and Mrs. David Hilburn herein changed, I hereby ratify, confirm and republish my last will and testament.” Ms. Addie G. Hill Ms. Dorothy D. Hill Ms. Gwen Hill It is important to seek independent legal and tax counsel where appropriate. Mrs. Ms. Jean Hill Mr. Seddrick Hill Melanie Delap, the Foundation’s Executive Director and the University’s Director of Ms. Christa Hilley Development Services will be pleased to discuss planned giving programs and gift Ms. Stephanie L. Hillman Mr. Carl Hinton, III opportunities on a completely confidential basis. She may be reached by mail at Ms. Susan Hinton Jacksonville State University Foundation, 700 Pelham Road North, Jacksonville, AL, Mr. Alan Hipps Mr. Christopher P. Hobbs 36265, or by phone at (256) 782-5306 or (800) 231-5291 extension 5306. Mrs. Ms. Ruth Hobbs Delap can also be reached via e-mail at [email protected]. Mr. and Mrs. George T. Hoblitzell, Jr.

SPRING 2011 : 73 2010 Honor rollof contributors Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Howle Mr. Shawn M. Johnson Ms. Ann C. Knutson Ms. Lanita Lloyd Mr. Kirby Dale Hubbard Ms. Tamara Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Thomas G. Kochan Ms. Carolyn L. Lockey Mr. Ron Hubbard Ms. Valerie E. Johnson Mr. Richard Henry Koehler Ms. Joanne Powell Locklear Mr. and Mrs. Mack Huckaby Mr. Walter Johnson Ms. Janet R. Kornegay Ms. Abby Skinner Lockridge Ms. Allison L. Brown Mr. Ben Johnston Dr. Daniel Krejci Mr. Chris M. Logan Ms. Carol Hudson Ms. Lydia Beth Johnston Mr. Brian Gary Krohn Mr. Danny Logan Mr. and Mrs. John K. Hudson Ms. Sallie Johnston Ms. Frances E. Krontz Mr. Ralph E. Logan Ms. Kim Hudson Mr. and Mrs. Steven Johnston Ms. Sharon Krusinski Logan Heating and Cooling, LLC Ms. Margaret Hudson Mr. and Mrs. William D. Johnston Ms. Sherry Kughn Dr. and Mrs. Robert H. Lokey Mr. Samuel Hudson Ms. Lana J. Joiner Ms. Blanche Kulp Ms. Katherine Johnston Lomax Ms. Rebecca Huff Ms. Susan Joiner Mr. William A. Lacey Ms. Lisa Long Mr. and Mrs. William R. Huff Ms. Betty Rose Jones Mr. and Mrs. Gary Lachapelle Ms. June Longshore Ms. Ophelia Ann Hughes Ms. Bonita M. Jones Mr. Peter T. Lafakis Ms. Karen Lynn Morelock Mr. George A. Hughley Mr. Chad Jones Ms. Penny LaFleur Mr. William Gene Love Ms. Monica Huguley Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones Mr. Stephen J. LaFollette Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Loveless Mr. Douglas Glenn Huie Mr. and Mrs. C. Terry Jones Mr. Randy Lagod Mr. and Mrs. Dale Lovin Mr. Ben H. Hulgan Ms. Deloria Rawls Jones Ms. Peggy Laird Mr. Fred T. Lovvorn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Hull Ms. Frances E. Jones Ms. Rebecca H. Lambert Ms. Lisa Smith Lovvorn Mr. Tony Hulsey Mr. Jason Jones Mr. Thomas W. Lamberth Ms. Helen Lowbridge Ms. Robin Humphrey Mr. John J. Jones Ms. Julie K. Lammel Ms. Jamie Lowe Mr. and Mrs. Wilburn Hunkapiller Ms. Julie Jones Ms. Susan W. Land Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Lowe Ms. Brenda Hunt Ms. Melissa H. Jones Ms. Deborah Landers-Scott Mr. Gregg Richard Lowery Ms. Michelle L. Hunt Ms. Regina T. Jones Mr. Clyde Lane Ms. Joann A. Luker Ms. Stephanie Kay Hurd MAJ Robert Jones, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Roscoe Lane Mr. and Mrs. John D. Lumpkin Ms. Gay Hurst Ms. Ruth Brown Jones Ms. Angela Lang Mr. Chris Lundy Ms. Lara Malmquist Paulson Mr. Stephen E. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Joel Langford Mr. William G. Lynch Hurst Well Drilling, LLC Mr. Terry Durel Jones Ms. Deborah S. Langley Ms. Virginia B. Lyons Mr. Hugh Thomas Hurt Ms. Tiffany D. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Langley Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mabrey Ms. Janice KillianHurtt Dr. Michael D. Jordan Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Langston Ms. Helena Mabrey Mr. Mark Kevin Huskey Mr. William C. Jordan Ms. Diane Langwith Ms. Judith L. Mabry Mr. Thomas Hutchins JSU College of Nursing Mr. Clifford Lanham Mr. Brett A Macek Mr. and Mrs. Richard John Hutnik Mr. Jacob Julian Ms. Fannie Pearl Lanier Mr. Steven Machen Mr. Robert Hymer Mr. William A. Julian Mr. Charles Lankford Ms. Jessica Denise Mack IBM Corporation Mr. Paul David Kadle, Jr. Ms. Joyce A. Lanning Mr. James Macmillan Mr. Harold Eugene Igou Mr. Charles Kah Ms. Melody Lanning Mr. and Mrs. Timothy MacTaggart Mr. and Mrs. Benton F. Iles Ms. Jane Kah Mr. Chad Latta Mr. Richard Madden Ms. Lisa Ingle Ms. Zeistina F. Khan Mr. Skyler Lauderdale Ms. Ashley Michelle Maddox Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Inglis Mr. Firat Karsu Mr. Marc Laxer Ms. Carolyn Copeland Maddox Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Ingram Mr. Ashley Kay Ms. Charlotte S. Leach Ms. Iva Jo Hornbuckle Maddux Ms. Kristy Ingram Ms. Adeola Kayode Mr. and Mrs. Bill Leach Mr. and Mrs. James H. Maddux , Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Kent Irwin Ms. Peggy Anderson Keasler Ms. Suzanne League Ms. Glenda Magee Mr. Chuck Isbell Ms. Anna Keefe Mr. Jerry and Mrs. Mary Eloise Leake Mr. and Mrs. Howard Magness Ms. Brenda Isom Ms. Gloria C. Keel Mr. Joseph W. Leary, Jr. Mr. Stanley Mahan Ms. Rochelle H. Isom Mr. Jason Keener Mr. and Mrs. Alan R. Ledbetter Ms. Charlotte Maise Mr. James H. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Keith, Jr. Ms. Kaitlyn Danielle Ledbetter Ms. Anne E. Malone Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Jackson Mr. Kenneth and Mrs. Marianne Keith Ms. Rebecca E. Ledford Mr. Jeffrey Dean Malone Ms. Pamela Jacobs Mr. James M. Kelley Ms. Carolyn Lee Mr. Robert F. Maloney Mr. Van Lee Jacobs Mr. David Kelly Mr. Charles Lee Ms. Kelly Mangus Maltagliati Mr. and Mrs. Lamar P. Jaggears Mr. and Mrs. David Kendrick Ms. Cherri Lynn Lee Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mandli Mr. Talmadge James, Jr. Mr. Elvin W. Kennamer Mr. Christopher B. Lee Ms. Debora Reaves Mange Ms. Pala Jarecki Mr. Calvin Eugene Kennedy Mr. Ted Lee, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Maniscalco Ms. Leasa Jarman Ms. Dorothy Kennedy Mr. John D. Lee, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Manley JC’s Heating & Cooling Company, Inc. Ms. Kathleen Melton Kennington Mr. Stewart Lee Mr. and Mrs Eugene T. Mann, III Ms. Susan J. Jeffers Ms. Sherri Kent Mr. Jonathan B. Leftwich Ms. Linda L. Mann Ms. Amy A. Jefferson Mr. Lewis A. Kerr Mr. and Mrs. William Lemmond Ms. Robyn Mann Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Jenkins Ms. Letetia Kestler Ms. Mary K. Lemon Mr. and Mrs. Lee Manners Ms. Sherry Jenkins Mr. Donald R. Key Mr. Stanley F. Lemon Ms. Lanis G. Marbut Ms. Wendy R. Jenkins LTC Todd E. Key Mr. and Mrs. Allen Lee Lester Ms. Natalie Marcom Mr. and Mrs. Winston Jenkins Ms. Mary J. Kiker Ms. Sharon Lester Ms. Cynthia Marino Mr. Thomas O. Jenkyn Ms. Shelia Kiker Mr. Edward Letson Mr. Stephen C. Marks, Jr. Ms. Amber Jennings Mr. and Mrs. James Kilgo Mr. Kenneth Lett Ms. Addie Ruth Marslender Mr. John Jennings Mrs. Rhonda Kilgo Ms. Melissa K. Lett Ms. Cassandra Martin Ms. Sheila D. Jennings Ms. Cindy Lee Kilgore Ms. Tina W. Lett Ms. Cynthia L. Martin Ms. Susan Knnedy Jennings Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kilgore Ms. Jean H. Leverett Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Martin Ms. Dixie Lou Jensen Mr. and Mrs. Rex Killough Mr. David Lewis Ms. Donna Martin Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Jensen Mr. and Mrs. Mark Kilpatrick Ms. Kathleen Marie Lewis Mr. and Mrs. John B. Martin Jerry McCullars Agency, Inc. Kim’s Klosets, LLC Ms. Meredith B. Lewis Ms. Natalie S. Martin Ms. Alicia Beth Johnson Ms. Amy King Dr. Terry D. Lewis Ms. Susan P. Martin Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Johnson Ms. Debra King Mr. and Mrs. Titus Lewis, Jr. Ms. Elizabeth Maryanski Mr. Billy Joe Johnson Ms. Lynette J. King Ms. Ethna Ann Licata Ms. Lucinda C. Mason Mr. Bruce W. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Donald G. Kirby Mr. Tony Lindsey Dr. Patricia R. Mason Ms. Carolyn Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kirby Ms. Carol B. Link Ms. Yvonne Mason Mr. Levone Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Kirk, III Mr. John T. Link, Sr. Mr. J. Malcomb Massey Ms. Felicia Johnson Mr. Jeremy G. Kirk Ms. Barbara Linscott Mr. Earl Daniel Mathis Ms. Iris S. Johnson Dr. and Mrs. John Kirkpatrick Ms. Gail Linton Mr. Franklin Douglas Matson Mr. James D. Johnson Ms. Rhonda Kirkpatrick Mr. Cecil S. Little Ms. Cecilia Matthews Mr. Jamie R. Johnson Ms. Jennifer D. Kittle Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Little Dr. Donna F. Matthews, OD Mr. Jay Douglas Johnson Mr. and Mrs. James H. Kleu Ms. Wilena W. Little Mr. Kenneth A. Matthews Mr. Jeffrey Dawson Johnson Ms. Mary B. Klug Ms. Gesna Littlefield Ms. Dora Mattox Mr. Joseph C. Johnson Mr. Bill Knauf Mr. James H. Littleton Ms. Denise F. Maxwell Ms. Karen Johnson Mr. Kristopher Knight Ms. Wilma R. Littleton Mr. Michael A. Maxwell Mr. Marion Johnson Mr. William Lee Knight Ms. Frances Engle Litzel Mr. Jimmy W. May Mr. Michael Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Maurice H. Knighton, Jr. Mr. David L. Liveoak Ms. Veronica J. May Ms. Ruth M. Johnson Mr. Cecil C. Knowles, Jr. Mr. Jack Barrett Lloyd Mr. and Mrs. James H. Mayben

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Ms. Sammie Mayben Mr. and Mrs. John Meadows Ms. Joyce Moultis Ms. Betty J. Owsley Mr. E. Hilliard Mayfield, Jr. Mr. Ronald O. Meadows Ms. Michelle Rait Dr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Padgett Mr. Christopher B. Mayhall Mr. Arthur J. Measles Ms. Adrianne Yvette Moultrie Dr. and Mrs. Micheal W. Palmer Mr. George Thomas Mayne Mr. Donald Medders Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Mountain Ms. Barbara Jean Panazze Ms. Mallory R Mayo Mr. Walter W. Medlock Ms. Gwen Mulligan Drs. William and Elaine Pannell Mr. Quentin R Mayo Mr. and Mrs. William Meeks Ms. Cynthia H. Mullinax Mr. and Mrs. Zachary A. Pappanastos MCA Consulting, LLC Dr. and Mrs. Ron Mellen Ms. Melissa Mullins Mr. Daniel Joseph Paracka Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. McAbee Ms. Melinda Melton Mr. Joseph Munster Ms. Sara Parfait Ms. Wanda McAfee Ms. Nikki A. Meroney Mr. David Scott Murphree Ms. Alecia N. Parker Mr. Rex McAlister Mr. Travis J. Merrell Mr. Robin Murphree Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Scot Parker Ms. Janet McBroom Ms. B. Carol Merritt Mr. Wiley C. Murphree Mr. and Mrs. Steven Parker Mr. Ralph D. McCall, Jr. Ms. Nancy Messer Mr. and Mrs. Leo Murphy Ms. Norma Parker Mr. and Mrs. William McCall Mr. Daniel P. Metcalf MAJ Spencer J. Gaddis Ms. Sherry Parker Mr. Terry McCartney Ms. Dianna Michaels Ms. Jennifer Cobb Murrell Ms. Connie Parkerson Ms. Valarie McClellan Ms. Nancy Michel Ms. Betty Lynn Muszynski Mr. David Lee Parnell Mr. George Jeffery McCool Mr. Charles D. Miles Ms. Debra H. Myers Mr. Kenneth Mark Parnell Ms. Carol E. McCord Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Miller Ms. Karen Myers Mr. and Mrs. H. Shane Parris Mr. James Thomas McCourry Mr. Jack Jeffery Miller Mr. and Mrs. John G. Myers Mr. Edward Dixon Parsons, Jr. Ms. Diane McCoy Ms. Kathleen Miller Judge C. Thomas Nail Mr. Jo Griffin Paschal Ms. Dorothy McCracken Ms. L. Dawn Miller Ms. Sharon Navard Ms. Sue Walters Patrick Ms. Janice W. McCracken Mr. Larry Miller Ms. Theresa C. Neason Ms. Deidra Patterson Ms. Linda Robinson McCrelles Ms. Latoshia Miller Ms. Jacqueline Neidinger Mr. Kenneth Patterson Mr. Ronald Fred McCrimon Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Miller Mr. Joseph Frederick Neighbors Ms. Margaret Patterson Mr. and Mrs. Mike McCullars Ms. Sylvia L. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Robert Neill Paula’s Beef and Beechwood Quail Farm Mr. Jeremy W. McCullars Ms. Tracy M. Miller Ms. Madeleine H. Neither Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pauley Mr. Jerry McCullars Ms. Wilma H. Miller Dr. and Mrs. J. Gordon Nelson Ms. Cecelia Mann Paulson Mr. Eric McCulley Mr. Barry A. Mills Mr. Jason Lee Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Jim Payne Mr. Zachry Clark McCumber Mr. Richart T. Mills, Jr. Mr. Neil P. Nelson Mr. and Mrs. James Payne Ms. Dana R. McCurdy Mr. Robert Mills Mr. Skylar Houston Nelson Mr. and Mrs. Kerry C. Payne Ms. Barbara McCutchins Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth L. Millwood Ms. Deborah L. Nesbit Ms. Shari Payne Ms. Charlotte McDaniel Ms. Shirley Millwood Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nesbit Mr. and Mrs. Carson Pearce Ms. Linda McDaniel Milwood Law Firm, LLC Ms. Brandy Nettles Mr. David A. Pearce The Country Shop Mr. Ray Mims Ms. Melanie Bradford Nevels Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pearson Mr. Joseph D. McDevitt Ms. Catherine Ann Minerich Ms. Joyce Messer New Ms. Jo Ellen Pearson Ms. Catherine Smith McDonald Ms. Lindsey Marie Minton Mr. and Mrs. Philip New Ms. Eleanora Peek Mr. David McDonald Mr. Billy Mintz New Day Yoga, Inc. Ms. Roula V. Peeples Ms. Delvia McDonald Mr. Brian Keith Mintz Mr. James R. Newell Dr. Rebecca D. Peinhardt Mr. Gregory McDonald Mr. David T. Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. James A. Newman Ms. Sheryl Palletier Ms. Bonnie L. McDougal Mr. Gary and Mrs. Martha Mitchell Ms. Willene L. Newman Ms. Michele P. Penland Mr. James K. McDow Ms. Jean Keel Mitchell Mr. Christopher Lance Newton Mr. and Mrs. Thomas R. Pennell Ms. Jacqueline McElderry Ms. Kay M. Mitchell Ms. Penny Epperson Newton Mr. Aulton Ralls Pennington Mrs. Georgia Whitmire McElroy Mr. and Mrs. Phillip D. Mitchell, II Ms. Dewandee Neyman Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Penny Ms. Linna McElroy Mr. Rex Mitchell Mr. Frank C. Nicholls Ms. Jane Pentecost Ms. Andra McEwen Mr. and Mrs. Tony Mitchell Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Nichols, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Erskine R. Penton Ms. Christine McFadden Ms. Rhonda Mitchum Ms. Helen T. Nichols Ms. Joanne B. Pepper Ms. Barbara A. McFall Ms. Linga G. Mix Mr. Joseph Nichols Ms. Brigitte Perigo Mr. Scott McFall Mr. Brent P. Mobbs Mr. and Mrs. William K. Nichols Ms. Peggy Cassidy Perkins Mr. Kevin McFry Mr. Rick Moersch Ms. Monique Nicole Nix Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Wayne Perry Ms. Ruth McGaha Mr. Jamie Moncrief Ms. Shirley V. Nix Ms. Mary Perry Ms. Brandie McGatha Ms. Wanda Moncus Ms. Vivian E. Nix Ms. Wendy Perry Mr. James C. McGee Mr. Shalon Montgomery Mr. Michael W. Noles Mr. and Mrs. Joey Peters Mr. Charles McGeehon Ms. Angela Moody Mr. and Mrs. Leonard G. Nordgren Mr. Kenneth Peters Ms. EmmaJohn C. McGehee Ms. Linda C. Moody Ms. Cindy G. Norman Ms. Ruth Peters Mr. Olive D. McGhee, II Ms. Beverly Moon MSG Obie C. Norris Mr. James G. Petterson Mr. and Mrs. James W. McGlaughn Ms. Jana M. Moon Mr. and Mrs. David Norton Mr. Blake B. Pettus Ms. Lynn G. McGlaughn Ms. Alice A. Moore Ms. Julia Payne Norton Ms. Betty J. Phair Mr. Kyle D. McGovern Mr. and Mrs. Dannie Lynn Moore Mr. Leonard and Mrs. Virginia Norton Ms. Anita Phillips Ms. Dinah H. McGowan Ms. Linda Moore Ms. Sabrina F Novak Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Phillips Ms. Monica McGrady Ms. Martha Ann Moore Mr. Michael A. Novosel Mr. and Mrs. Brian D. Phillips Mr. John McGriff Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Moore Ms. Cheryl L. Nulty Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phillips Ms. Jennifer Wentworth Mr. Bryant Moore Mr. Harry Nuttall Mr. Clyde Phillips COL Michael R. McGuire Ms. Nanci Morales Mrs. Susan Willman O’Bryant Ms. Cynthia Phillips Ms. Anna K. McIlwain Ms. Judy Morgan LTC Joyce O’Claire Mr. and Mrs. David A. Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell McKay Ms. Lynn Morgan Ms. Kaye Nelson O’Connor Mr. Devin J Phillips Mr. Bruce Anthony McKenzie Mr. Matthew P. Morgan Mr. William F. O’Dell, Jr. Ms. Edna Phillips Ms. Dorothy L. Hill Ms. Sylvia Morgan Ms. Joyce O’Donnell Ms. Janet Dale Phillips Ms. Joyce H. McKinney Mr. Gary and Mrs. Sara Morgan LTC Albert D. O’Rear, Jr. Mr. Jeremiah N. Phillilps Mr. Leonard C. McKinney Morgan’s Accounting & Tax Help, Inc. Mr. Timothy E. Oldham Mr. John Edward Phillips, Jr. Mr. Lane McLaughlin Ms. Betty J. Morris Mr. Joey S. Oliver Ms. Leslie C. Phillips Ms. Traci McLaughlin Ms. Eula Morris Mr. Michael Oliver Ms. Paula S. Phillips Mr. Robert McLendon Ms. Frances Knight Morris Mr. Robert Don Oliver Mr. Timothy A. Phillips Mr. and Mrs. Wade Hodges Mr. George M. Morris Mr. Julio Ortega Ms. Lorrie Piazza Mr. Al McMahan Mr. John E. Morris, Jr. Ms. Rhonda Osborne Ms. Brenda Pigott Ms. Bobbie B. McMahan Ms. Melissa Morris Ms. Alice Oswalt Mr. Darry Lee Pilkington COL (Ret) James T. McManus Mr. and Mrs. Sherrill Morris Ms. Beverly Ann Otwell Ms. Cynthia White Pilley Ms. Juanita Benfield McMillan Mr. Phillip Tal Morrison Mr. Loyce Owen Mr. Joseph Pillitary, Jr. Ms. Patricia McMurray Mr. Rodney Morrison Ms. Rebecca Owen Pilot Club of Anniston Mr. and Mrs. Dixon McNair Ms. Anne Morrow Mr. and Mrs. Jeffery Owens Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pinson Ms. Laurie M. McNair Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Morrow Mr. Jeppy Owens Dr. James Pirkle Ms. Sharon Stamps McNeely Mr. Jeffrey Morrow Mr. Kerry Owens Ms. Elizabeth Pitchford Mr. David McPherson Ms. Michelle Morrow Dr. Lori Owens Ms. Nicole M. Pitman Ms. Dora G. McQueen Ms. Melinda Moseley Dr. Mary B. Owens Mr. Bradley A. Plante Ms. Deborah B. McRae Ms. Cindy Moses Ms. Patricia Owens Ms. Wilma Fischer Playford Mr. David R. McWhorter Ms. Nicole Dempsey Ms. Sarah Owens Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Pleasant

SPRING 2011 : 75 2010 Honor rollof contributors Mr. John J. Plunkett Ms. Beatriz Nunez Vargas Mr. Kenneth M. Robertson Ms. Melissa Patton Savage Ms. Shirley Pody Mr. and Mrs. Chris Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robinson Ms. Patricia Saye Mr. James Poe Ms. Jilda Reynolds Ms. Dondra Robinson Mr. David Schmuck Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Poindexter Ms. Martha Reynolds Ms. Dottis S. Robinson Ms. Laura Schven Mr. Freddie Pollard Mr. Rolfe B. Reynolds Mr. Jerry P. Robinson, II Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Scoggins Ms. Bonnie Ponder Ms. Sharon Rhinehart SGM (Ret) Manuel Robinson Ms. Catherine Scott Mr. David Marc Ponder Ms. Sandra Rhodes Ms. Mary Robinson Ms. Cathy W. Scott Ms. Yvette O. Ponder Mr. Mark Richards Mr. Robert S. Robinson, III Ms. Mary Ann Scott Dr. Margaret J. Pope Ms. Angela K. Richardson Ms. Teresa Jackson Roby Mr. Kenneth Scroggin Mr. and Mrs. Lynn M. Popham Mr. John L. Richardson Ms. Nancy Rochester Mr. and Mrs. Stan Scroggins Mr. Kim Porch Ms. Margaret Bauer Richardson Ms. Adna G. Roden Mr. Gentery L. Sebastian, Jr. Ms. Izola D. Porter Mr. and Mrs. T. Lynn Richardson Ms. Fosteena H. Roden Mr. and Mrs. James R. Segars Ms. Janis Porter Mr. Terry Wilson Richardson Mr. and Mrs. David Rodgers Ms. Cindy Segredo Ms. Teresa Prater Porter Mr. and Mrs. William E. Richardson, Jr. Ms. Carol Hall Rogers Mr. Blake Seguin Mr. William A. Porter Ms. Pam Richey Mr. Alan T. Roggli Mr. and Mrs. Keith D. Seguin Mr. and Mrs. George W. Posey, Jr. Mr. Robert H. Richey Ms. Marguerite Rollins Mr. and Mrs. Mac Seibert Mr. Timothy Posey Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Richey Ms. Elizabeth G Romano Mr. Dewitt Self, Jr. Mr. David Pounds Ms. April Richmond Ms. Heather Farley Mr. Wallace Self Mr. and Mrs. Steven D. Powell COL and Mrs. William Rickett Ms. Shannon Roper Ms. Susan Sellers Ms. Jo Ann Crow Powell Ms. Celeste Ricks Ms. Anita D. Ross LTC F. Hugh Selman LTC and Mrs. William S. Powell Mr. and Mrs. Donald Riddle Mrs. Barbara Hatten Rossie Mr. and Mrs. Lewe H. Sessions Ms. Barbara Prater Ms. Tammy L. Ridley Mr. Robert J. Rowan Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Sewell Ms. Frances H. Prater Ms. Jennifer Riggs CPT Edith Rowe Ms. Susan Moore Sewell Mr. Kenneth D. Prater Mr. Bobby Riley Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Rowe Ms. Ann N. Sexton Ms. JoAnn Pressberg Mr. Richard Riley Ms. Janice M. Rudder Mr. and Mrs. Roy Shaddix Mr. William Prestridge Mr. Raymond Ringer Ms. Karen Ruff Mr. Gregory Shadrick Mr. Jimmey Lee Prestwood Mr. John H. Risse Mr. Barry Lane Russell Mr. Phillip and Ms. Linda Sharp Mr. and Mrs. Douglas M. Price Mr. Terry V. Robbins Ms. Phyllis L. Russell Mr. Dalton Abraham Sharpton Mr. Gary W. Price Mr. Zack Roberson Ms. Freda Rylee Ms. Lisa Sharpton Mr. and Mrs. Gregory K. Price Ms. Paula Brown Roberson Mr. and Mrs. Caleb Salamone Ms. Patricia Ann Sharpton Mr. Graham Price Mr. Terry G. Roberson Ms. Casey Leah Sandel Ms. Amy M. Sheedfar Ms. Janet Langley Price Ms. Carolyn Roberts Ms. Cynthia K. Sanders Ms. Linda M. Sheets Ms. Judy D. Price Ms. Deborah Roberts Mr. David B. Sanders Ms. Carol H. Sheftall Dr. Kay Prickett Mr. Eugene A. Roberts Mr. Frealon Tracy Sanders Mr. James E. Shelton Ms. Linda Prickett Ms. Kelly Roberts Mr. Neil Sanders Mr. and Mrs. John A. Shelton Mr. Garner Pride Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth G. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Terry Lynn Sandlin COL and Mrs. Wison J. Sherrell Pride Services, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Roberts Mr. Roy Sanford Mr. Jarrod E. Shields Mr. Bob Bruner Primm Mr. M. L. Roberts, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Sanguinetti Ms. Patti Shields Dr. and Mrs. T. Wayne Primm Ms. Margaret H. Roberts Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sarro Mr. and Mrs. Byron Shipp Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Prince Roberts Golden Springs Nursery Ms. Torina Parker Satcher Ms. Kathy Shirah Mr. Timothy S. Prince Mr. Daniel L. Robertson Ms. Gail Satterfield Ms. Christy B. Shirley Ms. Peggy Pritchard Mr. Danny Robertson Ms. Debbie J. Sauls Ms. Emi Shoga Ms. Alsylvia Procter Ms. Estelle S. Robertson Mr. Don Saunders Ms. Anne Shumaker Ms. Peggy Prucnal Ms. Genne Puckett Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Pugh Mr. Jerry Pullen Is Your Name Missing? Mr. Andrew Quigley Ms. Cammie Quinn Ms. Jackie Quinn Listed in this report to donors are all contributions made during 2010 to Jacksonville Mr. John Quinn, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Rabin State University through the JSU Foundation, the fundraising arm of the univer- Mr. and Mrs. Roy C. Rackley sity. Every effort has been made to verify names for accuracy and completeness. If Mr. Jackie Ragland Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ragland your name is not included and you think it should be, the following may explain the Ms. Rosemary Ragle omission. Ms. Amy Howard Ragsdale Ms. Pamela Raines Ms. Phyllis Rainwater 1. You made your gift directly to a school, department, etc., and not through the Ms. Jacquelyn Johnson Randolph Ms. Mary Randolph Jacksonville State University Foundation. Gifts that are not made through the Ms. Catherine Rasmussen Foundation are not included in our records and, hence, we are not aware of your Ms. Crystal Ratcliff Mr. Steven D. Raulston gift. The Jacksonville State University Foundation was established in 1978 to Mr. Billy Joe Ray receive all gifts to Jacksonville State University. Ms. Dana A. Ray Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy L. Ray Mr. and Mrs. George M. Ray 2. You made your gift prior to January 1, 2010, or after December 31, 2010. Ms. Janice E. Ray Mr. John Richard Ray Mr. and Mrs. James Rayburn 3. You made a pledge instead of a gift. This listing includes only gifts received. Ms. Lisettet Reaves Ms. Sandra L. Reaves If you made a pledge during 2010 but elected not to begin payment on it until Ms. Susan Reece after December 31, 2010, you will be listed on next year’s Honor Roll. Ms. Barbara C. Reed Mr. Lazarious Reeder Ms. Cheryl Lynn Reese 4. We goofed. Even though the listings were checked and rechecked, mistakes could Mr. Justin Reese, III Mr. and Mrs. Ray A. Reese have been made. We humbly apologize in advance. If you have questions, please con- Ms. Barbara C. Reid tact the Foundation office at (256) 782-5306 or (800) 231-5291 extension 5306 so Ms. Judy Reid Mr. Marcus Renda we can recheck our records and make the necessary corrections. Our e-mail address is Ms. Cathy Rentschler [email protected]. Rescue One Connector Boats

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Mr. Dewane Shumate Ms. Rebekah Spradlin Ms. Misty Tarvin Ms. Anita Turpin Mr. Walter Alan Shumway Mr. Harvey G. Sprayberry, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick H. Tate Ms. Christine Annette Tye Mr. Billy Eugene Shupe Mr. and Mrs. Donald Sprayberry Mr. Jason T. Taylor Ms. Betty W. Tyler COL Alan and Mrs. Martha Sibert Mr. John Springfield Mr. Phillip H. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Tracy Tyler Ms. Melanie Sides Mr. Melvin A. Springs Ms. Sandra J. Taylor Ms. Betty R. Tyree Mr. and Mrs. George Sidloskas Ms. Lindsey Kaye Spurlock Mr. William D. Taylor, III Ms. Ester Uesry Ms. Marva G. Sikes Mr. David Stafford Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Teague Mr. Alva Umphrey Ms. Jane Sikora Stafford Farms Mr. Gregory Alan Teel Ms. Judy Updike Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Sills Mr. and Mrs. David A. Stallings Ms. Amanda Howard Terry Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Usry Mr. and Mrs. Richard Simmons Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Stanford Ms. Nancy Smith Terry Ms. Martha Jean Utter Mr. Scott C. Simmons Ms. Barbara Stappenbeck Ms. Donna Thigpen Ms. Diana Valdez Ms. Sheila Simmons Mr. and Mr. H. Brock Starr Mr. Wayne Thomas Mr. Anthony Gerard Valentino Mr. and Mrs. Tony Simmons Ms. Lynda Stec Mr. Derrick D Thomas Mr. John T. Van Cleave, II Mr. Jamie B. Simpson Ms. Anita Stedham Ms. Easter Barnett Thomas Ms. Jo Edeker Van Dam Ms. Sara Simpson Mr. Christopher B. Steed Mr. George Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Timothy VanEgmond SFC Billy R. Sims Ms. Frances Rhett Steel Ms. Jennifer Thomas Ms. Nadeen VanGordon Ms. Sandra Ray Sims Dr. David Allen Steffy Ms. Jessica Thomas Mr. Bobby K. Vansant Ms. Judy Keener Singleton Mr. Kevin R. Stephen Ms. Joni L. Thomas Mr. Cecil Vaughan Ms. Melba Sirmon Ms. Amanda K. Stephens Mr. Michael Thomas Mr. Philip Vaughan Mr. Jimmy Ray Sitz Ms. Elaine S. Stephens Mr. Miles Thomas Ms. Codie Vaughn Mr. Billy and Mrs. Rhonda Sizemore Ms. Margaret Stephens Mr. John Thomason Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Vaughn Ms. Jackie H. Skala Mr. Mark Stephens Ms. Maria Thomason Mr. Marvin Vaughn Mr. James Skidmore Mr. and Mrs. Michael M. Stephens Mr. and Mrs. David Thompson Ms. Louise Veasley Ms. Carol Friar Skinner Mr. Phillip J. Stephens Ms. Jane Thompson Mr. and Mrs. Carl Vella Ms. Tracie Skinner Stephens Counter Tops Ms. Julia Ann Thompson Ms. Penny Vernon Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Skipper Mr. and Mrs. Robbie R. Stephenson Ms. R. Jane Thompson Ms. Betty Vice Ms. Sonya K. Slaton Ms. Gloria Chaffin Stevens Mr. Danny M. Thornton Ms. Loretta Smith Vice Ms. Donna Slivon Ms. Kimberly Stevens Mr. and Mrs. Evan Thornton MAJ Erik S. Vincent Ms. A. Fance Smallwood Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Stevens, Jr. Mr. Wesley Thornton Ms. Bernice Vineyard Ms. Amy Smith Ms. Connie Stevenson Ms. Sandy Thrasher Ms. Stephanie H. Vinson Mr. and Mrs. Mike Smith Ms. Chiquita T. Steward Mr. Bill Threadgill Mr. Thomas Vinson Dr. Carole W. Smith James Michael Steward Mr. and Mrs. Terry Threadgill Ms. Ann Q. Vise Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Smith Mr. Robert Mark Steward Ms. Brenda Tidwell Ms. Uma Vullaganti Ms. Daisy W. Smith Ms. Voncile Steward Ms. Deidra Tidwell W. Harrison & Son’s, Inc. Dr. Paula and Mr. Dallas H. Smith Ms. Carolyn Robertson Stewart Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tidwell Mr. Jerry Wayne Wade Mr. Daniel Brian Smith LTC John Roy Stewart, Jr. Ms. Barbara Bowman Tillery Ms. Leah Wade Ms. Danielle N Smith Mr. J. Daniel Stewart Ms. Michelle Tilson Mr. Charles Wagner Ms. Donna Smith Dr. Nancy F. Stewart Ms. Leesa Tilstra Mr. William P. Wagnon Mr. Ernest W. Smith, Jr. Ms. Venecia R. Stewart Mr. Andrew M. Tinker Mr. Wren Waites Mr. Albert and Mrs. Evelyn Smith Mr. Jerry T. Still Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. “Happy” Tinsley Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ray Waits, Jr. Mr. Gregory T. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Still Mr. Wesley E Todd Dr. Phyllis B. Waits Mr. and Mrs. Homer Smith, Jr. Ms. Johnnie Sue Stillwell Ms. Anne Tolbert Mr. and Mrs. Russell T. Waits Mr. James H. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Dustin W. Stinson Mr. Duane Clifton Tolbert Mr. William G. Walden Ms. Jennifer Smith Mr. Kenneth Lydell Stokes Ms. Vickie G. Tolbert Ms. Kelly Waldrop Ms. Josephine H. Smith Mr. and Mrs. John Stokesberry Mr. Thomas Tolleson Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Walker Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Smith Mr. Alton Dennis Stone Ms. Angie R. Toney Ms. Laura Pruitt Walker Mr. and Mrs. Bernard T. Smith Ms. Sarah L. Stone Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Toney Ms. Latitia F. Walker Ms. Karen K. Smith Ms. Sharon Stone Ms. Nellie H. Tonogan Mr. and Mrs. David L. Walker Mr. Marion E. Smith Ms. Teresa Stone Mr. Randy C. Torbert Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Walker Ms. Mary Allen Smith Mr. and Mrs. Titus M. Storey Torbert Integral Mr. Steven Tracy Walker Ms. Mary E. Smith Ms. Nicole D. Stott Ms. Norma Jean Tow Mr. Thomas Eugene Walker Ms. Natalie B. Smith Ms. Leslie G. Street Towns Real Estate & Appraisal Service, Inc. Ms. Catherine L Wall Mr. and Mrs. Obie A. Smith, Jr. Ms. Samantha Strickland Ms. Linda Tracy Ms. Darlene J. Wallace Ms. Phyllis M. Smith Mr. Steven Stricklin Ms. Page Trantham Ms. Janice S. Wallis Mr. Richard Scott Smith Ms. Kay F. Stringer Mr. Christopher J. Traylor Mr. and Mrs. Larry Walls Mrs. Rochelle Cammack Smith Mr. James B. Striplin Mr. and Mrs. William Ed Traylor Mr. Walter C. Walraven, Jr. Ms. Ruth Smith Ms. Tisa Stripling Mr. and Mrs. Paul Traylor Mr. and Mrs. David Walters Mr. Taylor M. Smith, Jr. Ms. Jill Stubblefield Ms. Sara Traynor Mr. Jon T. Walters Ms. Teresa J. Smith Mr. Richard D. Stubbs Mr. Paul Triplett Ms. Jayne Walters Mr. and Mrs. Troy D. Smith Ms. Heather M. Stuckey Dr. and Mrs. George W. Trivoli Ms. Barbara D. Waltz Ms. Vivian Smith Ms. Barbara McCraw Studdard Mr. and Mrs. Richard Alan Trotter Mr. and Mrs. Michael P. Wamsley Mr. Wayland Smith Ms. Brenda Garrett Summerville Mr. Milton C. Trovas Mr. Brett Ward Mr. William Smith Ms. Nancy D. Summey Ms. Alicia J. Trued Ms. Hazel Ware Ms. Anne Smoot Mr. Charles Sumner Mr. E. Dan Truitt, Jr. Ms. Peggy Creel Ware Mr. William Ken Snowden Mr. Steven Sumners Ms. Bonny C. Tubbs Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Warmack Mr. Brett Owen Socha Ms. Melinda C. Surry Ms. Cindy A. Tubbs Mr. and Mrs. Robert Warnick Mr. and Mrs. David M. Sok Ms. Carley Suther Mr. Bruce R. Tucker Ms. Becky C. Warnock Ms. Deborah Skipper Solis Ms. Wendy Walker Mr. and Mrs. G. Frank Tucker Ms. Amanda L. Warren Mr. Stephen Soper Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Swader Ms. Jeaneen Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Keith Warren Ms. Dena R. Soth Ms. Apryl Swafford Mr. and Mrs. Larry D. Tucker Ms. Gwendolyn Warren Southside Collision Center Ms. Nina Mae Swain Ms. Monica Tucker Mr. and Mrs. Loren Warren Ms. Susan Sparkman Ms. Catherine Swanger Mr. Robert P. Tucker COL and Mrs. Robert Warren Mr. and Mrs. James T. Sparks Ms. Helen Swann Mr. William E. Tucker Ms. Melissa C. Washington Ms. Kristin Sparks Mr. James and Mrs. Yvonne Swift Ms. Hildred G. Tulley Ms. Martha G. Waskey Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood S. Sparks Ms. Sherry Swindall Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Turecek Mr. David Wassom Ms. Vanessa C. Sparrow Mr. Alan Clinton Swindle Mr. G. Jerome Turley Ms. Betty Ann Watkins Mr. and Mrs. Freddie R. Spears Ms. Gloria Francis Swink Ms. Angela Turner Mr. and Mrs. Richard Watkins Ms. Teresa Speigner Ms. Frances White Swope Mr. Edwin and Mrs. Wendy Turner Ms. Sheri Watkins Ms. Bettye Spielberg Ms. Margaret Tagai Mr. and Mrs. John Turner Ms. Delight Watson Mr. Dwain Spivey Mr. and Mrs. Stacy H. Tallent Mr. Kenny Turner Mr. and Mrs. Leonard A. Watson, III Ms. Jimmie Nell Spivey Mr. and Mrs. Dennis C. Talley Mr. and Mrs. Michael Earl Turner Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Watson, Jr. Mr. Douglas E. Spoon Mr. Robert F. Tankersley Ms. Terri E. Turner Mr. William W. Watson Mr. Michael B. Sport Ms. Helen P. Tapp Mr. Thomas C. Turner Mr. and Mrs. Greg Watts Mr. Chad Spradley Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Wayne Tarvin Ms. Wilhemina Kindell Turner Ms. Clarice Weaver

SPRING 2011 : 77 2010 Honor rollof contributors Mr. Mark Weaver Ms. Jennifer R. Wilson Mr. John R. Parrish, III to Jacksonville State University. To find out Ms. Myrus J. Weaver Mr. and Mrs. Jeremy Wilson Mr. Tom Richey more about becoming a Corporate Sponsor, Mr. Benjamin Webb Ms. Julia Kellett Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Rush please contact Mike Parris, Assistant Athletic Ms. Brenda Henson Weeks Ms. Kimberly Dawn Wilson Mrs. Christa Smith Director of Marketing and Broadcasting at (256) Ms. Rebecca Weeks Ms. Margaret Julia Wilson Mr. Earl Warren 782-5890. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Weems Dr. M. Shawn Wilson Ms. Barbara T. Wilson Ms. Katherine W. Weiser Ms. Enell Wilson Dr. Virginia Yocum COURTESY CAR DEALERS Mr. Bobby W. Welch Mr. and Mrs. Roger D. Wilson Buster Miles Chevrolet Ms. Latricia Welch Mr. Paul A. Wilson IN MEMORY OF Buster Miles Ford Ms. Lisa Welch Mr. Ted Wilson, Jr. Mrs. Athena Arrington KIA Store Anniston Mr. and Mrs. Martin Weldon Mr. and Mrs. Robert Wiltshire Mr. Charles F. Atkerson, Jr. Lenn Costner Auto Sales Ms. Heather Wells Ms. Elizabeth Wingard Mr. Miley Baker Moultrie Toyota Mr. and Mrs. James F. Wescott Mr. Jeff D. Winn, Jr. Ms. Kathy Carlson Sunny King Toyota Ms. Cathy West Mr. Keith Winsell Dr. Louise R. Clark Superior Hyundai Mr. and Mrs. Jeff C. West Mr. Shane Michael Withey Mr. Jerry Norton Cole Mr. Frank Wester Mr. Phillip Wofford CPT Kyle Comfort CORPORATE SPONSORS Mr. Rex Whatley Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Lee Wood Mr. Stephen “Fritz” Cook Ala Army National Guard Ms. Sandra P. Whatley Ms. Shelley Wall Wood Dr. Clyde Cox Alabama Power Mr. and Mrs. Daryl Wheeler Ms. Tina Wood Mr. George Culberson Allstate Ms. Elsie Wheeler Ms. Katy W. Woodall Mr. and Mrs. Van Deerman Anniston Star Mr. and Mrs. Doug Wheeler Ms. Ramona Woodard Ms. Sharon Dempsey Blue Cross Blue Shield Whit’s Cattle Farm Ms. Jillian Wooden Ms. Heather DeWitt Calhoun Co Insurance Center Mr. Martin K. Whitaker Ms. Charlene Woodfin Dr. Mitchell Parker Granger, II Classic Cadillac-GMC Mr. Ronnie Whitaker Ms. Beatrice P. Woodruff Mr. John Bernard Hammett Courtyard by Marriott of Oxford Mr. Benjamin Howard White Ms. Yolanda Woods COL James T. Heathcock Effina’s Mr. Benjamin Wayne White Ms. Mildred Woody Mr. Joseph C. Jones, Jr. Fort McClellan Credit Union Ms. Debora White Mr. and Mrs. William Wooten, Jr. Mr. L. R. “Rush” Jordan Grub Mart Mr. and Mrs. Doug White Mr. Calvin L. Word Mr. Phillip A. Kesler Hampton Inn Mr. Kerry and Mrs. Carol White Ms. Amber N. Worley Ms. Carol Layne Lawler Jackson Mortgage Company Mr. Larry J. White Ms. Robyn Wortham Mr. Loy Scott Lee Jacksonville Bookstore Mr. Randall White Mr. Carl Worthington Ms. Rozelle Lentjes Jacksonville Medical Center Mr. Randall C. White Mr. John R. Worthington, Jr. Mrs. Doris Calhoun Lipham Martin’s LTC and Mrs. Richard E. White Ms. Jill Worthy Mrs. Opal Lovett Mike Douglas State Farm Mr. Samuel White, Jr. Ms. Carlita Nicole Wright Mr. Leon McCluer Noblebank Ms. Sandra White Mr. Joshua Will Wright Mrs. Judith H. McKibbin Papa John’s Pizza Mr. Sherry White Ms. Judy Wright Mr. Jerry W. McNabb Popeye’s Ms. Angela Whitehead Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth B. Wright Mr. Donald Maurice Moon Quintard Jewelry & Pawn Mr. Bryan Patton Whitehead Ms. Audrey Wallace Wyatt Ms. Paige E. Pike Sarrell Dental Clinic Ms. Jordan Claire Whitehead Mr. Clyde Wyatt Mr. Billy Ray Scott St. Vincent’s Dr. George Whitesel Ms. Ellen Reel Wyatt Ms. Carol M. Smith The Gadsden Times Mr. Robert Whiteside Mr. Howard Keith Wyatt Dr. John R. Stewart Wells Fargo Advisors Mr. James Christopher Whitfield Mr. and Mrs. Max Wynn Mr. Bruce James “B.J.” Turner Westinghouse Ms. Amanda W. Whitmire Ms. Nikki Wynn Mr. Frankie Vines Working Man Rentals Mr. Joshua Taylor Whitt Ms. Kelly Wynns Mr. Billy R. Williams Ms. Martha A. Whitt Mr. and Mrs. Alton R. Yancey Dr. Leon D. Willman Scholarship Funds Mr. and Mrs. John Whittamore Ms. Cynthia G. Yancey Mr. Orion Lindell Wright, Jr. The following scholarships have been estab- Ms. Kimberly Wigley Mr. Thomas Wayne Yarbrough lished by individuals, groups, or businesses with Ms. Kay A. Wilder Ms. Mary A. Yates More than 1,000 corporations in this country the JSU Foundation. The scholarships range Mr. Brandon Heath Wiley Ms. Janet Marie Yoke have aid-to-education programs which will from money for the purchase of books to full Mr. Wallace M. Wilhoite Ms. Lauren York match gifts an employee makes to the tuition, room, and board. Some scholarships are Mr. H. Vernon Wilkes Mr. and Mrs. Johnny W. Yother Jacksonville State University Foundation. This funded annually by their donors; others have Ms. Dorothy S. Wilkinson Mr. Huel Young is an excellent way to double the size of your been established as endowed funds, ensuring Mr. Gerald Alan Williamon, Jr. Ms. Peggy Ann Young contribution. In some cases, corporations will that the scholarship Fund will benefit students Mr. and Mrs. Joshua C. Williams Ms. Shelia Young match an employee’s gift three-to-one. Last year, for generations to come. Ms. Charlotte L. Williams CPT Michael Zanetti the Foundation received matching gift contribu- Ms. Dianne Williams Mr. John F. Zauner tions from the corporations listed below. Check Those scholarship funds housed with the uni- Mr. and Mrs. H. Gregory Williams Mr. Leon M. Ziglar, Sr. with your personnel office today or call the JSU versity’s business office are not included in this Ms. Joanne G. Williams Foundation office at (256) 782-5306 or (800) list. If you would like more information on how Mr. and Mrs. Greg Williams Those individuals not listed in the Society or 231-5291 extension 5306 for more information you can establish a scholarship with the JSU Ms. Mary J. Williams Club giving levels are included as Donors in or e-mail us at [email protected]. Foundation, please contact us at Jacksonville Mr. Mike Williams this Honor Roll of Contributors. The support State University Foundation, 700 Pelham Ms. Misty W. Williams of the many alumni and friends who made Matching Gifts Road, N. Jacksonville, AL 36265 or call (256) Mrs. Nekissta N. Williams contributions through the JSU Foundation is American Honda Motor Co., Inc. 782-5306 or (800) 231-5291 extension 5306 or Ms. Rebecca Smith Williams greatly appreciated. AT&T Foundation – Matching Gift Program e-mail us at [email protected]. Mr. and Mrs. Shad Williams Bank of America Foundation Mr. Terrell Ray Williams Tribute Gifts BASF Corporation Adams (Bester A.) Memorial Scholar- Ms. Vanessa Wilson Williams Few tributes are so lasting as a gift that helps Coca-Cola Foundation – Matching Gifts ship: Established by Ms. Bonnie Parker in Mr. and Mrs. Winston Williams promote excellence in education. Each year Program memory of her uncle, Mr. Bester A. Adams, Mr. Bobby L. Williamson the Jacksonville State University Foundation Energen Corporation former teacher and mayor of Oxford, Alabama Mr. Gordon Lanny Williamson receives tribute gifts in memory and honor of Humana, Inc. and graduate of JSU for a deserving incoming Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Williamson a relative or friend. The following individuals IBM Corporation freshman who graduated from Oxford High Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Williamson have been honored through tribute gifts to the MetLife Foundation, – Matching Gifts Program School in Oxford, Alabama. The student must Ms. Naomi Howell Williamson Jacksonville State University Foundation. Parker Hannifin Foundation be enrolled in the College of Education. Ms. Carla Willingham PepsiCo Foundation Alabama Federated Women’s Clubs Mr. Ralph Dale Willingham IN HONOR OF Southern Company Services, Inc. International House Scholarship: Established Ms. Virginia S. Willis Mr. John C. Awbrey State Farm Companies Foundation by Alabama Federated Women’s Club for the Mr. and Mrs. Bill R. Willoughby Mr. Ken Bodiford The Bank of New York Mellon benefit of a deserving female international Mr. and Mrs. Louis N. Willoughby Mr. Jim Case Verizon Foundation student who is a member of JSU’s International Ms. Mildred Willoughby Mr. Michael Dalesandro Wells Fargo Foundation Matching Gifts House Program. Mr. Richard C. Wills COL James T. Heathcock Program Alabama Power Scholarship: Established Mr. and Mrs. Barney R. Wilson Mr. Terry Hodges by the Alabama Power Foundation for deserving Ms. Cala M. Wilson Mrs. Dee Jaskowski Corporate Sponsors donations help to supple- students enrolled in the College of Commerce Ms. Denise H. Wilson JSU Music Department Faculty and Staff ment the Athletic Department’s budget. We and Business Administration. Mr. Eric Dale Wilson Mr. Ralph Moore are pleased to recognize their contributions Almaroad (Mr. and Mrs. Luther) Memo- rial Scholarship: Established by Sam Almaroad 78 : GEM OF THE HILLS recognizing donors investing in JSU’s future

in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Almaroad Burger King/Ingram Scholarship: Estab- the President’s Mansion, where she lived for Finley (Nile Borden): Established in and will benefit an incoming freshman from lished in honor or Mr. John Ingram, a former nineteen years until her husband retired in memory of Nile Borden Finley, a Calhoun Pleasant Valley High School. offensive lineman on JSU’s football team. Mr. 1971. The scholarship will benefit deserving County, Alabama elementary school teacher, Alumni Association Annual Scholarship Ingram was named one of Burger King’s scholar- students. for the benefit of a junior or senior majoring in Fund: Established by the JSU Alumni Associa- athletes during 1995. Collins Memorial Scholarship: Estab- elementary education. tion to benefit deserving full-time undergradu- Bush Memorial Scholarship: Established lished in memory of Mr. John H. Collins, a Finley (Drs. Wayne and Sara) Scholar- ate students. in memory of Newbern Bush, a retired faculty former JSU faculty member in the Department ship: Established by Drs. Wayne and Sara Amerson (Minta) Scholarship: Estab- member who taught mathematics. The scholar- of Accounting. Finley of Birmingham, Alabama, and founders lished in memory of Minta Amerson for the ship is to be awarded to a full-time, native-born Cottingham (Harry and Jean) Scholar- of UAB’s Laboratory of Medical Genetics, benefit of a deserving full-time graduate student Alabama student who has attained junior status ship: Established by Diane C. DeSante and to benefit undergraduate students from the enrolled in the College of Education and who and is majoring in mathematics. Deborah C. Cottingham to recognize Mr. Harry Alabama counties of Clay, Coosa, or Randolph. graduated from Berry High School in Berry, Judge H. Dean Buttram, Jr. Scholarship and Mrs. Jean Cottingham and their contribu- Preference will be given to students majoring in Alabama. The first scholarship was be awarded in Pre-Law: Established by Judge H. Dean But- tions to our local community. This scholarship mathematics or science, either pre-professional in 2008. tram, Jr. for the benefit of deserving students will benefit a student enrolled in the College of or secondary education. Only students who Anniston Rotary International House majoring in political science, history, psychol- Education and majoring in math or science. have attained junior or senior status and have Scholarship: Established by the Anniston Ro- ogy, sociology or criminal justice. Cox (Christopher) Memorial: Estab- at least a B average will be eligible for the tary Club for the benefit of deserving students Calhoun (Charles and Doris): Estab- lished by Mr. Richard Mayfield in memory of scholarship. who are members of JSU’s International House lished by the family of Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun his roommate and Sigma Nu fraternity brother. Fitzpatrick Memorial Scholarship: Estab- Program. for the benefit of a deserving full-time junior Criminal Justice Alumni Scholarship: lished by the family of Ms. Martha B. Fitzpatrick Areno (Tony) Scholarship: Established or senior student admitted to the College of Established by this alumni chapter for the in her memory. Ms. Fitzpatrick was a former by Faye Pritchett in honor of Tony Areno for a Education and Professional Studies who has a benefit of deserving students majoring in member of the Jacksonville State University deserving nursing student who is considering a GPA of 3.0 or higher. criminal justice. Board of Trustees. career in the specialized field of neurology, offer- Calhoun County Alumni Association Curley Memorial Scholarship: Estab- Floyd (Marjorie) Scholarship: Estab- ing services to brain injured patients. Scholarship: Established by this alumni chapter lished in memory of Mr. Andrew Curley to lished through a bequest of Ms. Marjorie Arnold Memorial Scholarship: Estab- for the benefit of deserving students from provide support for an upper-level student in Floyd to benefit descendants of her father, Mr. lished in honor of Dr. Herman R. Arnold, a Calhoun County. education. Bufford N. Floyd. If there are no applications Baptist minister for more than fifty years, and Calhoun County Medical Alliance Daugette Memorial Fund: Established from descendants, then the scholarship will be his wife, Sallie C. Arnold, a well-known artist Society Scholarship: An annual scholarship in memory of Colonel Clarence W. Daugette, open to members of the First Baptist Church of and art instructor. established by the Calhoun County Medical Jr., a former member and chairman of the Jack- Centre, Alabama, who plan to pursue a career Arrington Memorial Scholarship: Alliance Society to benefit a junior or senior sonville State University Board of Trustees, for in teaching, medicine, religion, law, engineer- Established in memory of Ms. Athena Ar- student enrolled in the College of Nursing and the benefit of deserving international students ing, or business. rington, a 1954 graduate of JSU, for the benefit Health Science who plans to practice nursing in participating in the University’s International Ford Scholarship: Established by Joe of a deserving senior majoring in elementary Calhoun County upon completion of degree. House Program. and Brenda Ford of Gadsden, Alabama, for the education. Calhoun/Cleburne County Bar Associa- Dedrick (Thomas and Angelita) Scholar- benefit of a deserving full-time undergraduate Art Achievement Scholarship: Estab- tion (CCCBA): Established by the Calhoun/ ship: Established by Mr. Thomas Dedrick, a student from Etowah County. lished by Dr. Karen Henricks, Mr. Marvin Cleburne County Bar Association for the trustee of Jacksonville State University for the Fort McClellan Credit Union ROTC Shaw, Ms. Diana Cadwaller, and Mr. Gary Gee benefit of a deserving full-time, undergradu- benefit of a deserving full-time undergraduate Annual Scholarship: The credit union estab- of the Department of Art for the benefit of an ate student with a major in riminal justice. student from Greensboro High School lished this scholarship for deserving ROTC undergraduate student majoring in art. Preference will be given to a student from the Dempsey Memorial Scholarship: Estab- cadets. It is reserved for students enrolling in Athletic Scholarship Endowment: Calhoun/Cleburne County area. lished in memory of Ms. Sharon Dempsey who, Military Science III or IV. Selection is made by Provides assistance through the JSU Foundation Carr (Dr. William D.) Scholarship: at the time of her death, taught mathematics. the Professor of Military Science. for members of the JSU athletic program. Established by Dr. William Carr for deserving Recipients of this scholarship will be restricted Freeman (Charles B. and Stephanie R.): Bailey (Patricia C.) Scholarship: Estab- students who previously served as an ambas- to mathematics or mathematics education Established by Charles and Stephanie Freeman lished by Kevin and Lee Callaway in honor of sador or peer counselor. Applicants must be majors who have attained at least junior status. for a deserving full-time undergraduate student their dear friend and mentor, Patricia C. Bailey, currently enrolled in graduate school. $1,000 Applicants must have completed at least thirty majoring in accounting. for the benefit of a deserving, rising senior in per recipient will be awarded for five years to hours of their education at Jacksonville State Gadsden Music Company Scholarship: JSU’s nursing program. Student must demon- qualified candidates. University. Established by the Gadsden Music Company, strate good character and have the potential for Central Alabama Alumni Chapter: Es- Duncan (Dr. John E.) Scholarship: Inc., for the benefit of a child or grandchild of a mentoring others in nursing. tablished for a deserving student in the Greater Established by Dr. John E. Duncan of Gadsden, former Southerner. Bannister (Chris) Memorial Scholar- Montgomery, Ala. area. Alabama, for the benefit of a deserving full-time Gamble (Linda Gail Waldrop): Estab- ship: Established in memory of Chris Bannister Chemistry Department Scholarship: undergraduate student from Etowah County. lished by Charles Gamble in honor of his wife, for deserving students. Established by members of the JSU Department Dryden Memorial Scholarship: Established Linda, to benefit a deserving full-time under- Belser (CPT Donnie R.) ROTC of Chemistry for the benefit of a deserving in memory of Mr. Robert C. Dryden for the graduate enrolled in the College of Education. Scholarship: Established by the JSU ROTC student majoring in chemistry. benefit of deserving students. Garner Scholarship: Established by Mr. Class of 2001 for a deserving student enrolled Cherokee County Alumni Association Edwards Memorial Scholarship: Tim Garner of McClellan, Alabama, to benefit in Military Science courses in honor of CPT Scholarship: Established by this alumni chapter Established in memory of A.D. (Gus) Edwards, a deserving incoming freshman student from Donnie Belser who was killed in action in Iraq. for the benefit of deserving students from former dean of men, for the benefit of a deserv- Cherokee County High School. Recipient of the scholarship must be at least a Cherokee County. ing member of the Kappa Alpha Order. Georgia Scholarship Fund: Established sophomore and must be a contracted ROTC Clark Louise Rhodes Scholarship: Estab- Elite Letterman’s Club Leadership by JSU alumni living in Georgia to provide Cadet. Selection will be made by the Professor lished by Dr. Louise Rhodes Clark, who retired ROTC Scholarship: Established by the ELC needed assistance for deserving students in of Military Service. in 1982 as the head of the home economics Leadership for the benefit of a deserving con- the state. Blount County Alumni Association department. The scholarship will benefit deserv- tracted ROTC Cadet with an academic standing Gibbins Nursing Scholarship: Estab- Scholarship: Established by this alumni chapter ing students in family and consumer sciences. of sophomore, junior, or senior who has lished by the Calhoun County Medical Society for the benefit of deserving students from Cleo and Carla Thomas Scholarship: committed to serve an eight year military service to honor Dr. George W. Gibbins of Anniston, Blount County. Established by Cleophus Thomas, Jr. and Carla obligation as an Army Officer. Selection will be Alabama, for his enlightened and dedicated Bolt Scholarship: Established by Bir- Thomas of Anniston, Alabama. Mr. Thomas made by the Professor of Military Science. leadership and service to his community and mingham attorney A.W. Bolt, this scholarship is is chairman and chief executive officer of A.G. Elliott Scholarship Trust: Established its citizens. for the benefit of deserving students. Gaston Corporation, and Mrs. Thomas is through a bequest of Ms. Marve P. Elliott of Greater Birmingham Area Alumni Boozer Scholarship: Established by Mr. an Anniston physician. This scholarship will Piedmont, Alabama, to honor her husband, Mr. Scholarship Fund: Established by the alumni S. David Boozer, an Anniston architect, for a benefit deserving students. Joseph Walter Elliott. chapter for the benefit of deserving students in deserving student. Cole (Leone) Memorial Scholarship: Etowah County Alumni Association the Greater Birmingham area. Boozer (James and Ethel) ROTC Schol- Established by the Jacksonville Book Club in Scholarship: Established by this alumni chapter Greater Rome Area Scholarship: Estab- arship: Established by James and Ethel Boozer memory of Ms. Leone Pruett Cole. Ms. Cole, for the benefit of deserving students from lished by JSU alumni living in Georgia for the for a deserving student enrolled in Military former wife of JSU President Houston Cole, Etowah County. benefit of deserving students from the Greater Science courses and of a Class standing of died in 1949. Exchange Club of Jacksonville: An Rome, Georgia area. Junior or Senior. Selection is made by the JSU Cole (Martha) Memorial Scholarship: annual scholarship established by the Exchange Greater Washington DC Area Alumni Professor of Military Science. Established by Ms. Kitty Stone, wife of former Club of Jacksonville for the benefit of a deserv- Scholarship: Established by this alumni chapter Bragg (Margaret) Scholarship: Estab- JSU President Ernest Stone, to honor the ing entering freshman from the Jacksonville for the benefit of deserving students from the lished in honor of Mrs. Margaret Bragg by her memory of another first lady of JSU. Martha community. Greater Washington DC area. son Rick Bragg, a 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner, for Bellinger Graves of Gadsden, Alabama, married Farmers and Merchants Bank Scholar- Greer and Rushing (Ester and Hester) a deserving student. Dr. Houston Cole in 1952. She served as a gra- ship: Established by the Farmers and Merchants Scholarship: Established by Harold Greer and Browder (Glen, Becky, and Jenny) cious hostess and contributed to the social life Bank of Piedmont for the benefit of a deserving Franklin Greer in the name of their mother, Scholarship: Established by the Glen Browder of Jacksonville and the JSU campus. Ms. Martha student from Piedmont, Alabama. Esther Greer and her sister, Hester Rushing for family for a deserving full-time undergraduate Cole was the first president’s wife to reside in the benefit of a deserving student who is a resi- student majoring in political science. dent of Alabama and plans a career in teaching. SPRING 2011 : 79 2010 Honor rollof contributors Grimes (Charles and Mary) GHS Johnson (Loaz W. and Maybeth B.) Scholarship: Established by Charles and Mary Memorial Scholarship: Established through Ways of Giving to the Grimes for the benefit of a deserving Garden- a trust agreement by Dr. Loaz W. Johnson dale High School graduate. and Maybeth B. Johnson to assist deserving Grimes (Charles and Mary) MJHS students. JSU Foundation Scholarship: Established by Charles and Mary Jones (James H. and Myra Hume) Schol- Grimes for the benefit of a deserving Mortimer arship: Established in memory of Dr. James Jordan High School graduate. H. Jones and Myra Hume Jones by former Ways of giving to the Jacksonville State University Hale (David F.) Scholarship: Established members of the International House Program, Foundation are listed below. If you have questions, please by David F. Hale for the benefit of a deserving friends, associates, and children of Dr. and Mrs. student who is a brother of the Delta Chi Jones. Award of the scholarship shall be made call the Foundation office at (256) 782-5306 or (800) 231- fraternity. to a full-time undergraduate student who is a 5291 extension 5306, or send e-mail to [email protected]. Hallman Scholarship: Established in member, in good standing, of the International honor of Charlie and Edith Hallman for the House Program. benefit of deserving students who have gradu- Jones (Joseph C., Jr.) Memorial ROTC Current Gifts ated from Guntersville High School. Scholarship: Established by Reverend and Mrs. Hamric (Grace) Scholarship: Established Joseph Jones in memory of their son, Joseph, Cash: by Grace Hamric in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Jr. The scholarship is reserved for ROTC cadets Checks ensure donors a proper record of their contributions. J. R. Hamric for the benefit of an incoming enrolling in Military Science III or IV. Selection Make checks payable to the Jacksonville State University freshman who is a graduate of Jacksonville High is made by the Professor of Military Science. School. JSU Alumni Association Scholarship: Foundation. The Foundation will provide receipts, which Harvey Memorial Scholarship: Estab- An endowed scholarship established by JSU’s may be required by the IRS. lished in memory of Brian Harvey for the ben- National Alumni Association for the benefit of efit of deserving College of Nursing students. deserving students. Securities: Heathcock (Col. James T.) ROTC JSU Faculty Women’s Club Scholarship: Investment-grade stocks and bonds that have increased in Memorial Scholarship: Established by Mr. Established by the Faculty Women’s Club of and Mrs. John H. Heathcock in memory of his Jacksonville State University for the benefit of a value make excellent gifts, providing the securities have brother. Mr. James (Jim) T. Heathcock. This deserving young lady from Calhoun County. been held for the required period of time. scholarship is reserved for an Advanced ROTC Justice Scholarship: Established to honor cadet or an ROTC contract student. Karen A. Justice ’93, upon her graduation from Real Estate: Higginbotham Scholarship: Established Jacksonville State University by family friends Property that has appreciated in value makes an excellent by the family of Ms. Miriam Jackson Higginbo- Bill and Liz Roberts of Birmingham, Alabama. tham, who was the dean of women at JSU for This scholarship will benefit deserving students gift because the full value of the gift is deductible by the many years. enrolled in the College of Nursing. donor, and the donor’s profit will not be taxable as capital Hill (Ed) Memorial Scholarship: Estab- Mr. and Mrs. Steve Kendrick gain. lished in memory of William Edward (Ed) Hill, Scholarship: Established for deserving students longtime photographer for Jacksonville State who are pursuing management or accounting Deferred Gifts: University. The scholarship will be awarded to majors, and who are residents of the state of a deserving student who either has an interest Alabama and who graduated from an Alabama Life Insurance: in photography or wants to pursue a career in high school. The first scholarship was awarded photojournalism. in fall of 2009. The cash surrender value of a life insurance policy is nor- Holaway (Gary and Sandra) Scholarship: Kennamer Scholarship: Established by mally immediately tax deductible, and later gifts made to Established by Ms. Sandra Holaway in memory Bob and Lou Kennamer of Anniston, Alabama, of her husband Gary, former member of the for the benefit of a junior or senior enrolled in pay the premiums will also be deductible. More importantly, Southerners and past president of the Gray the College of Commerce and Business Admin- donors have the satisfaction of providing the Jacksonville Echelon. The recipient will be selected by the istration. Mr. Kennamer was a member of the State University Foundation with a more sizable gift. JSU marching band director and will go to Jacksonville State University Board of Trustees. a full-time undergraduate student who is a mem- King Memorial Scholarship: An annual Trust and Annuities: ber of the Southerners, is enrolled in the Col- scholarship established by the Greater Anniston lege of Education and Professional Studies, and Business and Professional Association through Cash, marketable securities, or real property may be used to is majoring in early childhood or elementary proceeds from the Sunny King Charity Golf establish a charitable trust or annuity from which the donor education. Only students who demonstrate aca- Classic. The scholarship, which is established in would receive income for life. Upon his/her death, the assets demic aptitude shall be eligible for this award. memory of Mr. E.D. “Sunny” King, Jr., will ben- Recipients of the scholarship must march in the efit a deserving student from Calhoun County. would go to the Jacksonville State University Foundation. fall semester to receive the award. King Toyota Entrepreneurial Scholar- There are favorable income tax, capital gains tax, and estate Ingram Memorial Scholarship: ship: Established in memory of Mr. E.D. tax treatments for such gifts. Established by the family of Mr. Stanton B. “Sunny” King, Jr., a prominent Calhoun Ingram for the benefit of deserving students County automobile dealer, by Toyota Motor Bequest: who are members of JSU’s International House Sales U.S.A. Inc., and Southeast Toyota Program. Distributors, Inc., for the benefit of a deserving Gifts willed to the Jacksonville State University Foundation Jackson Company Scholarship: An student in the College of Commerce and Busi- are of mutual benefit to the Foundation and the donor. Annual Scholarship established by Mr. Larry ness Administration. Note: All gifts to the Jacksonville State University Jackson for the benefit of a Saks High School Knighton Memorial Scholarship: (Anniston, Alabama) student who has demon- Established in memory of Ms. Audrey Knighton Foundation are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law. strated good citizenship. The scholarship will to benefit Social Work majors during the field be selected by the Saks High School Scholarship instruction phase of their instruction. The Bequest: Committee. Kroc (Ray A.) McDonald’s Scholarship: Jenkins Scholarship: Established by Mr. Established by McDonald’s of Jacksonville to A Great Way to Leave-A-Legacy Julian Jenkins, an Anniston architect, for the benefit deserving employees attending Jackson- The JSU Foundation has been fortunate to receive sev- benefit of a JSU or transfer student who is a ville State University. eral major gifts in the form of bequests. This is a simple, sophomore student or above with a designated Larry Miles Memorial Scholarship: Es- major in art, who has demonstrated, in the tablished in memory of Dr. Lawrence R. Miles, inexpensive way to Leave-A-Legacy as well as an excellent opinion of the art faculty, an exceptional a long-time dean of admissions, for the benefit way of possibly reducing your estate taxes. Your bequest creative ability and dedication to the arts. of deserving students. can be directed toward a specific purpose, such as es- Joey Crews Scholarship in Art: Estab- Lawler Memorial Scholarship: Estab- lished by Joey Crews for a deserving full-time lished in memory of Ms. Carol L. Lawler by her tablishing a scholarship fund that will benefit deserving undergraduate majoring in art. family and friends for the benefit of a student in students. You, too, can make a difference in a student’s life Johnson (J.C.U) Scholarship: Estab- the College of Nursing and Health Science. lished by Ms. Elizabeth Lloyd Johnson in Ledbetter Memorial Scholarship: Es- by providing scholarship support. Please contact the Office memory of her husband. The scholarship will tablished in memory of Ms. Doris Ledbetter, a of Development Services, (256) 782-5306 or (800) 231- benefit deserving junior, senior or graduate career Calhoun County educator, by her sisters, 5291 extension 5306, for more information. We can also be students from Calhoun County majoring in for the benefit of a student majoring in either reached via e-mail at [email protected]. education. education or nursing.

80 : GEM OF THE HILLS recognizing donors investing in JSU’s future

Lee (Loy Scott) Memorial ROTC Schol- of deserving upper-level or graduate students of Mr. Charley Pell, former JSU head football the Professor of Military Science. arship: Established by Major General (Ret.) and who have demonstrated academic aptitude and coach, by his former players and friends. Selig (Ernst S.) Corrections Officer Mrs. Larry E. Lee of Ohatchee, Alabama, in who have demonstrated involvement in campus Phi Beta Kappa Association Scholar- Scholarship: Established to promote the educa- memory of their son, Loy Scott. The scholarship functions and organizations. ship: Established by the Northeast Alabama tion of a deserving full-time undergraduate is reserved for ROTC cadets in Military Science Miller (Bill) Memorial: Established by Phi Beta Kappa Association for the benefit of a enrolled in criminal justice with a concentration III or IV. Selection is made by the Professor of Bill Miller Jr. in memory of Mr. Bill Miller. This deserving upper-level student. in corrections. Military Science. scholarship will benefit a deserving incoming Physical Plant Association Scholarship: Sentell (Mark A.): Established by Mark Lewis (Aaron H.) Memorial Scholarship: freshman from Ohatchee High School in Established by members of the university’s A. Sentell for the benefit of deserving students Established by Mr. Lewis for students from Ohatchee, Ala. physical plant for the benefit of its employees enrolled in College of Business and a member Cherokee County. Miller (Richard C.) ROTC Scholarship: and families. of the Human Resources Management Society Lewis (Gary O.) Scholarship: Established Established by Dr. and Mrs. James E. Hanks Piedmont Alumni Scholarship: Estab- that he founded in the early 80’s. by Mr. Gary Lewis for the benefit of a deserving and by Mr. Bobby and Mrs. Maudellen Welch lished for the benefit of deserving students from Serviss (Joseph A. and Carolyn H.) full-time sophomore that is a graduate of Gads- and the Class of 1965 in recognition of Mr. Piedmont. Scholarship: Established by Mr. Joseph A. and den City High School(Etowah County, AL) with Richard Charles Miller. Political Science Department Scholar- Mrs. Carolyn H. Serviss to benefit a deserving a minimum 2.5 overall GPA. Miller (Richard C.) ROTC Scholarship: ship: Established by faculty of the JSU Depart- student from the state of Alabama who is Lindsey Scholarship: Established by Mr. Established by Mr. and Mrs. John H. Heathcock ment of Political Science for the benefit of a enrolled in the nursing program. Billy S. Lindsey of Anniston, Alabama, for the in memory of Mr. Richard C. (Charlie) student majoring in political science. Shamblin Family Scholarship: Estab- benefit of a deserving student. Miller, ’65. This scholarship is reserved for an Pope Scholarship: Established by Mr. lished through a bequest of Mr. Harold C. Morris and Essie Longshore Scholar- Advanced ROTC cadet or an ROTC contract Horace M. and Dr. Margaret J. Pope to benefit Shamblin of Gadsden, Alabama, for the benefit ship: Established in memory of Mr. Morris and student. deserving students majoring in health and of deserving students from Cherokee, Etowah, Ms. Essie Longshore by their daughter, Betty Moersch Nursing Scholarship: Named physical education. or Calhoun Counties who have been accepted Longshore Cameron. The scholarship will in honor of Dr. Barbara L. Moersch of Price-Montgomery (WJSU-TV) Scholar- into the College of Education and Professional benefit full-time undergraduate students who Jacksonville, Alabama, by family and friends for ship: Established by Anniston Broadcasting Studies. demonstrate academic aptitude. the benefit of a deserving upper-level student Company, Inc., for the benefit of deserving Sheppard (Mildred L.) Scholarship: Lovett Scholarship: Established by Mr. majoring in nursing. students enrolled in the Department of Established by the board of directors of the Opal R. and Ms. Opal A. Lovett for a deserving Moersch Scholarship: Established in Communication. Country Day School, Inc., Montgomery, student majoring in history, English, or art honor of Dr. Robert and Ms. Eloise Moersch by Reid (Marcus and Jean) Scholarship: Es- Alabama, to honor Miss Mildred Louise Shep- who has achieved sophomore or higher status. family and friends for the benefit of a deserving tablished by Mr. Marcus and Mrs. Jean Reid for pard, the school’s founder and only headmaster. Mr. Lovett was the university’s photographer upper-level finance or economics student. the benefit of a deserving full-time undergradu- Scholarships will benefit those students who prior to his retirement. Ms. Lovett taught in the Montgomery Scholarship: Established in ate student who is a graduate of Jacksonville will commit in writing to major in education English department prior to her retirement. Ms. honor of Dr. Theron E. Montgomery, president High School, Anniston High School, or Bob and teach K-12 for no less than two years. Lovett has been selected as an emerita faculty emeritus of JSU, for the benefit of a deserving Jones High School. Sodexo Scholarship: Established by So- member. student. The Northeast Alabama Phi Beta Reaves Memorial Scholarship: dexo services for the benefit and internship of a Lowery Memorial Scholarship: Estab- Kappa chapter makes the selection. Established in memory of Dr. James A. Reaves, student in family and consumer science field. lished in memory of Ms. Mary L. Lowery for Nabors (Wallace A.)Scholarship: Estab- former vice president for academic affairs, for SouthTrust Bank Scholarship: a deserving student in family and consumer lished by Dr. Alice and Mr. Greg Cusimano for the benefit of a deserving student. Established by SouthTrust Corporation of Bir- sciences. the benefit of a full-time undergraduate student Richey (Tom and Freda) Scholarship: mingham, Alabama, for the benefit of deserving Madison County Alumni Association who is a graduate of Glencoe High School, Established in honor of Mr. Tom Richey for the students enrolled in the College of Commerce Scholarship: Established by this alumni chapter Etowah County, Alabama. Must be admitted to benefit of a deserving student enrolled in the and Business Administration. for the benefit of deserving students from the College of Education and Professional Stud- College of Education and Professional Studies. Sowell Scholarship: Established in honor Madison County. ies with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher. Robinson (Ernest) Scholarship: Estab- of Dr. Elizabeth Sledge Sowell, professor of fam- Manes Memorial Fund: Established Nixon (Alethea) Marshall County Alum- lished by Ernest Robinson for the benefit of a ily and consumer sciences, by Ross Laboratories through a Trust Agreement from the Agnes ni Scholarship: Established in memory of Ms. deserving student majoring in nursing. for the benefit of senior students majoring in McIntyre Manes Foundation to assist deserving Alethea Nixon who was a volunteer firefighter. Rogan (Major James P.) ROTC Annual nutrition and foods. students with emergency loans. The scholarship is for the benefit of a junior or Scholarship: Established by Robert E. Rogan to Spain-Hickman Scholarship: Established Manners Scholarship: Established by senior who graduated from Marshall County benefit deserving students enrolling in military by Rotary International District #6860 in honor Mr. Lee and Ms. Jetta Manners for the benefit High School or a transfer from Snead State and science courses and of a class standing of junior of Mr. Frank E. Spain and Mr. Roy Hickman. of deserving students majoring in art. Ms. Man- who is majoring in emergency management. or senior. Mr. Spain and Mr. Hickman are former presi- ners worked in the Office of Admissions and Northeast Alabama Military Officers As- ROTC Alumni Chapter Scholarship: dents of Rotary International. The scholarship Records until her retirement. Mr. Manners was sociation (MOAA) ROTC Annual Scholarship: Two chapter scholarships are awarded annually will benefit deserving International House head of the Department of Art when he retired. The association established this scholarship to deserving ROTC cadets. The scholarships are students participating in JSU’s International Mr. Manners has been selected as an emeritus for deserving ROTC cadets. It is reserved for reserved for ROTC cadets in Military Science House Program. faculty member. students enrolling in Military Science III or IV. III or IV. Selection is made by the Professor of Sparrowhawk Memorial Scholarship: Matt Morris Cheerleading Scholarship: Selection is made by the Professor of Military Military Science. Established in memory of Master Miles Timothy Established in memory of Matt Morris, a JSU Science. ROTC Anniston Elks Lodge Scholar- Sparrowhawk, infant son of Paul and Connie cheerleader who lost his life in an automobile Nursing Alumni Chapter Scholarship: ship: Established by the Anniston Elks Lodge Sparrowhawk of Jacksonville, Alabama. The accident. Scholarship will benefit a deserving Established by this alumni chapter for the ben- to benefit a deserving student enrolled in the scholarship will benefit deserving under- JSU cheerleader. efit of deserving students majoring in nursing. ROTC program. graduate members of the Southerners who are McBride (Grady E., III) Memorial Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Theta Eta ROTC Endowed Scholarship: Estab- enrolled in summer courses. ROTC Scholarship: Established by JSU ROTC Chapter Annual Scholarship: Established lished by the Army ROTC Alumni Chapter to Stamper (Colonel Archie) Memorial commissionees of years ’68 and ’69 in memory by the Theta Eta Chapter to promote the benefit a deserving full-time student enrolled in Scholarship: Established by the Retired Officers of Grady McBride, ’68, who was killed in education of a deserving full-time, freshman or the ROTC program. Association, northeast Alabama chapter, in action in Vietnam. The scholarship is reserved sophomore undergraduate student. Saks High School Good Citizenship memory of Colonel Archie Stamper. for ROTC cadets enrolling in Military Science Manila Henegar Brooks Pachoud Scholarship: An Annual Scholarship estab- Stanfield (Don V.) Memorial Scholar- III or IV. Selection is made by the Professor Scholarship: Established for the benefit of a lished by Mr. Larry Jackson for the benefit of a ship: Established by Kathy Stanfield in memory Military Science. deserving student enrolled in the College of Saks High School (Anniston, Alabama) student of her husband, Don V. Stanfield to promote McClendon (Eloise Y.) Memorial Schol- Education and Professional Studies. who demonstrated good citizenship. The schol- the education of a deserving full-time under- arship: Established in memory of Mrs. Eloise Y. Parker Scholarship: Established by Mr. arship will be selected by the Saks High School graduate student. McClendon, a former JSU Foundation board Jeffrey A. Parker for the benefit of a deserving Scholarship Committee. Stewart (John Morgan) Scholarship: member for the benefit of deserving students. senior-level student in the College of Commerce Savage (Kay Webb & Perry L., MD) Established in memory of John Morgan Stewart McNabb (Jerry W.) Memorial ROTC and Business Administration. Family Scholarship: Established by Dr. Perry and his wife, Vera Stewart, of Piedmont, Scholarship: Established by classmates in mem- Pearce, Bevill, Leesburg & Moore L. and Ms. Kay Webb Savage of Birmingham, Alabama. The scholarship will be awarded to a ory of Jerry McNabb, ’59, who was killed in Scholarship: Established by the Birmingham Alabama, for the benefit of deserving students senior class member graduating from Piedmont action in Vietnam. The scholarship is reserved accounting firm for a deserving upper-level who are children of employees of Alabama High School or Spring Garden High School. for ROTC cadets enrolling in Military Science student majoring in accounting. Orthopedic & Spine Center. Students from Stewart Scholarship: Established in III or IV. Selection is made by the Professor of Peacock (Bill and Catherine Scholar- Piedmont, Alabama and Calhoun County will honor of Dr. John R. Stewart, former director Military Science. ship): Established by Catherine Peacock for the have second preference in the award of this of the JSU International House Program, by his McSpadden Scholarship: Established by benefit of a deserving full-time students enrolled scholarship. former students and friends for the benefit of a Mr. and Mrs. Clyde McSpadden in honor of in the College of Education and Professional Savage (Jerry) Memorial ROTC Scholar- deserving International House student. Mr. McSpadden, JSU professor emeritus, for Studies. ship: Established by Mr. Tom Gilbreath of Boaz, Stone (Kitty) Memorial Scholarship: deserving science education majors. Peacock Honors Endowed Scholarship: Alabama, in memory of his classmate, Jerry Sav- Established in memory of Kitty Stone, a leader McWhorter (Earlon and Betty) Scholar- Established by Catherine Peacock for the ben- age, ’67, who died while on military active duty. in local public education. The scholarship is ship: Established by Earlon and Betty Mc- efit of a deserving full-time Honors student. The scholarship is reserved for ROTC cadets in to be awarded to benefit graduate study in Whorter of Anniston, Alabama, for the benefit Pell Scholarship: Established in honor Military Science III or IV. Selection is made by elementary education.

SPRING 2011 : 81 2010 Honor rollof contributors Three Tate (Dewey) ROTC Annual Scholar- and friends. by Ms. Rebecca Williams Blair and Mr. Forrest 3.0 GPA from high school and maintain a 2.5 ship: Established by Mr. Dewey Tate to benefit Warren, Averett, Kimbrough & Marino Randall Blair for the benefit of a deserving GPA during college. deserving students enrolling in military science Scholarship: Established by Warren, Averett, student. Woodrow Scholarship: Established in courses and of a class standing of junior or Kimbrough & Kimbrough, LLC for the benefit Williams (Ruth F. and Billy R.) Schol- honor of Ms. Ann Jackson Woodrow, a 1977 senior. of a deserving full-time, undergraduate student arship: Established in honor of Mrs. Ruth and graduate of JSU’s Lurleen B. Wallace College of Thompson (Robert Samuel “Sam”) who is majoring in accounting. Student must Mr. Billy Williams for the benefit of a deserving Nursing. The scholarship will benefit deserving Memorial Scholarship: Established in memory have a minimum GPA of 3.0. full-time undergraduate student. First scholar- students admitted to the nursing program. Retirement of Mr. Sam Thompson, a beloved teacher, Watters Scholarship: Established by ship will be awarded In fall of 2011. Yates (Melvin) Memorial Scholarship: drama coach, and music director who touched Virginia Watters for the benefit of a deserving Willman (Dorothy and Leon) Music Established by Shirley Thornburg in memory the lives of so many students. The scholarship graduate of Fayetteville High School. Scholarship: Established by Leon and Dorothy of her uncle, Melvin Yates, a 1932 alumnus of Lifestyle Options... will benefit a deserving Alabama high school Whitaker (Roger and Debra) Account- Willman for the benefit of a deserving full-time JSU. This is a general scholarship created by student, who is junior or senior majoring in ing Scholarship: Established by Roger and undergraduate student majoring in music. Mrs. Elizabeth “Beth” Yates for the benefit of a music or drama. Student must have a minimum Debra Whitaker for the benefit of deserving Wilson (Barbara) Scholarship: full-time student. Unique GPA of 3.0. student majoring in accounting. Established by Ms. Barbara T. Wilson on her Yocum (Dr. Virginia): Established in Trathen (Robert D.) Memorial: Estab- Whitestone Scholarship: Established in retirement from Jacksonville State University. honor of Dr. Virginia Yocum to promote the lished in memory of Mr. Robert D. Trathen honor of Ms. Heather Whitestone, a former The scholarship will benefit a full-time under- education of junior level, full-time, undergradu- One Big, Happy and in honor of Ms. Charlotte C. Trathen. Mr. JSU student who was selected as Miss America graduate student enrolled in the elementary ate enrolled in the Department of Family and Trathen was an instructor in the accounting de- for 1995. The scholarship is to be awarded to education or secondary health and physical edu- Consumer Sciences. Must have a minimum partment. This scholarship–which embodies the a deserving student who qualifies for support cation. Only students who have a 2.5 through GPA of 3.0 or higher. theme of Scholarship, Integrity, Service–is for and services through JSU’s Disability Support 4.0 grade point average, have been an Alabama Young Scholarship: Established in trib- the benefit of senior-level accounting students. Services. resident for a minimum of seven years prior ute to Ms. Ruth L. and Mr. Millard V. Young, Vice (Teresa Cunningham) Scholarship: Whorton Scholarship: Established in to applying, and have completed at least thirty Sr., for the benefit of a deserving student from Fam i ly Established by Teresa Cunningham Vice for the honor of Mr. J.P. Whorton, a 1951 graduate of hours of their education at Jacksonville State Piedmont, Alabama. The Millard V. Young, Sr. benefit of deserving full-time, undergraduate JSU, by friends for the benefit of a deserving University shall be eligible for this award. family and the Martha Young Norton family students enrolled in JSU’s nursing program student from the Sand Mountain area. Wilson (Clyde and Jerry) Scholarship: established the scholarship. who demonstrate academic aptitude and reside Williams (Major Dwayne) Business Established by Dr. and Mrs. Jerry B. Wilson for Zeta Tau Alpha Scholarship: Established in Alabama. Scholarship: Established for the benefit of the benefit of deserving students majoring in by the Zeta Tau Alpha Sorority for the benefit of Vietnamese/International Scholarship: a deserving full-time undergraduate student education. a deserving Zeta Tau Alpha member at JSU. Established by Ms. Nguyen Le for the benefit of enrolled in the College of Commerce and Busi- Wilson (P. O. and Margaret) Achieve- One Of The deserving Vietnamese students currently study- ness Administration. ment Scholarship Fund: Established by Mr. P. ing in the English Language Institute. Williams (Major Dwayne) Memorial ROTC O. and Mrs. Margaret Wilson to promote the Waldrep (Charlie D.) Scholarship Fund: Scholarship: Established by Ms. Pearl Wil- education of academically superior, entering Established by Charlie Waldrep for the benefit liams and friends in memory of her son, freshman, full-time students. Recipients will be of a deserving full time undergraduate student Major Dwayne Williams who was killed at known as “Wilson Scholars”. Premiere from the city of Birmingham. the U. S. Pentagon on 9/11. Selection of the Womack (Jack and Kathy) Scholarship: Walters Scholarship: Established in recipient will be made by the JSU Professor of Established by Jack and Kathy Womack for the honor of Dr. David L. Walters, long-time Military Science to contracted ROTC Cadets. benefit of a deserving full-time student graduat- director of the Southerners, by former members Williams-Blair Scholarship: Established ing from Oneonta High School. Must have a Retirement Explore the Benefits of Giving Communities

Real Estate In The South Gifts of cash and securities are not the only options available to those who want to support the Jacksonville State University Foundation. An outright gift of real estate is often especially beneficial to some donors. Such a gift may benefit both the donor as well as the Jacksonville State University Foundation.

By making an outright gift of real property, donors avoid capital gains tax and receive an income tax charitable deduction of the property’s full fair market value (if the property is held long term, is not subject to a mortgage, and has not been subject to accelerated depreciation).

Examples of real estate gifts include personal residence, farm, vacation home, condominium, commercial building or acreage, etc. Donors may reserve the right to either live in the donated residence or to continue to farm the property during their lifetime and, if de- sired, the lifetime of a surviving spouse. Through such an arrangement, called a charitable life estate contract, the donor will be entitled to a current income tax deduction for a portion of the fair market value of the property.

When thinking about making a gift to the Jacksonville State University Foundation, evaluate the possibility of real estate. Mrs. Melanie Delap, Director of Development Services, can work with donors’ attorneys or tax advisors in exploring the benefits of this unique giving opportunity. Please call (256) 782-5306 or (800) 231-5291 extension 5306. The e-mail address is [email protected]. Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way! Assisted Living Last will and testament is the cornerstone of a person’s estate plan. It is a lasting expression of support and affection for family and others the donor wishes to remember. If a person does not have a will or other estate plans, state government will decide how the property and other affairs are handled. Planning for one’s own demise isn’t easy, but decisions made now can later provide financial security for family, friends, and others.

When preparing a will, remember the Jacksonville State University Foundation. A donor can create a scholarship or other perpetual fund Independent Living Alzheimer’s and through a simple provision in his or her will. Such funds can provide a visible and enduring tribute. One’s actions today can leave a powerful legacy for tomorrow. Dementia Care

For further information please contact Mrs. Melanie Delap at JSU’s Office of Development Services (256) 782-5306 or (800) 231-5291 extension 5306. Mrs. Delap can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

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