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Volume XLVI Fall 2017 History Alumni Recognized at Homecoming CATION istory alumni Stephen Dillard ’92 and Jade Acker ’93 and Sciences. According to the nominating committee, Dillard H were among six Samford University graduates honored “has been a wonderful representative of Samford, not only during 2017 homecoming festivities with the university’s through his professional accomplishments, but his annual alumni awards. involvement in his community and with Samford.” Alumni of the Year honorees were nominated by members The Humanitarian of the Year award was established in of the Samford community and selected by a committee of 2016 to recognize Samford graduates of distinction, wide Samford Alumni Association representatives and university respect and acknowledged leadership who have made administrators. They are distinguished in their professional outstanding contributions to better the lives of those around careers, community and church involvement, and in their them by staying true to the Samford mission. ongoing service to Samford. The awards were first presented Three individuals, including a husband and wife team, in 1956, and 120 alumni have been honored since, including were recognized with the Humanitarian of the Year award. several from the history department: J. Wayne Flynt (’61), Jade Acker and Shelah Hubbard Acker are founders Sigurd F. Bryan (’46), Kitty Rogers Brown (’01), Mary Ann and directors of Refuge and Hope International, a multifaceted Buffington Moon (’05), James Huskey (’69), and Houston ministry based in Kampala, Uganda, which they founded in Estes (’04), to name a few. 2004. They serve through the missions auspices of the Joel Brooks ’99 and Stephen Dillard ’92 have been named Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Their nomination noted that Alumni of the Year, the highest honor the university they “are devoted to this community, putting aside their own bestows on graduates. comforts for the betterment of their neighbors.” Dillard, who earned a Bachelor of Arts in history in the The Ackers’ commitment to ministry and missions began CELEBRATING 46 YEARS OF CONTINUOUS PUBLI CONTINUOUS OF YEARS 46 CELEBRATING prelaw program, serves as chair of Samford’s Atlanta alumni when they met on a university-sponsored mission trip. Jade chapter and is a member of the Bulldog Club supporting received a Bachelor of Science in history and mathematics in Samford athletics. He has been a practicing attorney in 1993, and Shelah earned a Bachelor of Arts in religion in Georgia and recently was appointed as chief judge of the Court 1996. of Appeals of Georgia. In 2016, he was the featured The Ackers were in Uganda during homecoming, so they homecoming showcase alumnus for Howard College of Arts were presented their awards at a special ceremony July 31. SAMFORD UNIVERSITY • • UNIVERSITY SAMFORD Hon. Janie L. Shores, First Female State Supreme Court Justice, Dies at 85 anie L. Shores, the first woman law professor at Cumberland School of Law and J later the first female member of the Alabama Supreme Court, died Aug. 9 at 85. Shores was a graduate of Samford University (history, ’68) and the University of inside: Alabama Law School. She earned her law degree with honors after serving as a legal secretary in Mobile, Alabama. She practiced first in Selma, Alabama, and then worked Faculty Notes ......................... 2 on the legal staff of Liberty National Life Insurance. In 1965, she was hired as a full- time law professor by Samford’s Cumberland School of Law. Liz Wells Honored .................. 3 Shores ran for the Alabama Supreme Court and was elected in 1974. She served Faculty Books ........................ 4 four terms on the court, retiring in 1999. She maintained an office in the Samford law Colonial Dames ..................... 5 school for a time after her election to the court. She was named one of Samford’s Alum- Awards Banquet .................... 6 ni of the Year in 1983. “Justice Shores was an important pioneer and leader in the Alabama legal communi- Phi Alpha Theta News ........... 7 ty,” said Cumberland School of Law Dean Corky Strickland. “Samford University’s Students of Note .................... 8 Cumberland School of Law will be forever grateful and proud of her role in the law Alumni Notes ......................... 9 school and her contributions to the state.” AHA Annual Meeting............ 10 Shores resided in Montrose, Alabama, in retirement. She was born in Georgiana, Alabama, but was reared in Baldwin County, where she graduated from Robertsdale Office Odyssey .................... 11 A NEWSLETTER FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY HISTORY OF DEPARTMENT THE FROM NEWSLETTER A High School. Carlos Alemán, has been chosen to Victorian Courtroom.” Second, she as Book Review Editor. Her tenure serve as Chair of the Hispanic Interest served as chair and commentator at a started in January. Coalition of Alabama (¡HICA!), the panel called “Identities in Flux Between largest nonprofit that serves Latinos in Empire and Nation,” at the Southern John Mayfield has had a busy year. In the state. Alemán started working with Conference on British Studies in Florida, addition to teaching his regular classes, the organization as a volunteer shortly also in November 2016. In April 2017, including courses on the colonial period after joining Samford’s faculty in 2013. she chaired and commented on a panel at and the Civil War, he has been active Alemán was also selected by the Frances the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British professionally. In January, the University Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Studies on “Suffering and Shame: Love, of South Carolina Press released The Leadership as one of six faculty Marriage, and Family, 1600-1900.” Also Field of Honor: Essays in Southern members as a Faculty Fellow in in April 2017, she gave a paper called, Character and American Identity, which Community-Based Learning. As part of “‘I Married the Man, Not the Country’: Mayfield co-edited with Todd Hagstette the one-year fellowship, Alemán will Women’s Resistance to Marital of the University of South Carolina develop a new, or redesign an existing, Denaturalization, 1914-40,” at the Aiken. The book is a collection of essays service learning course that will be British Scholar Meeting in Austin, Texas. by both young and senior scholars on the taught within the 2018-19 academic year. Fifth, in June 2017, she gave a paper at culture of honor and its impact on the Society for the History of Childhood Southern and American identity. It Ginger Frost (University Research and Youth meeting in Camden, New includes studies of dueling and the cult Professor of History) published “‘Such a Jersey, titled “‘She Never Gave Them a of chivalry while drawing in new Poor Finish’: Illegitimacy, Murder, and Minute of Trouble’: Fostering, Adoption, material on honor’s impact on law, War Veterans in England, 1918-1923,” in and Fatherhood in England, 1860-1930.” education, the market revolution, the Canadian journal Historical women’s and African-Americans’ Reflections/Reflexions Historique, Erin Mauldin’s monograph, expressions of honor, religion, and Winter 2016 issue. She also completed Unredeemed Land: An Environmental contemporary politics. Mayfield the final revisions for her article on History of Civil War and Emancipation contributed the lead article entitled “The migration and illegitimacy, called in the Cotton South, was put under Marketplace of Values.” “Waifs, Strays, and Foundlings: contract at Oxford University Press and In June, Mayfield traveled to Illegitimacy and Youth Migration from will be published in May 2018. Finland as the guest of the University of Britain, 1870-1930.” It will appear in She had two peer-reviewed articles Helsinki to serve as the “opponent” in a Gendered Subjectivities and Modalities published this year: “Freedom, defense of a dissertation written there on in Global Youth Migration, ed. Glenda Economic Autonomy, and Ecological Southern honor. (American studies are Bonifacio, and forthcoming from Policy Change in the Cotton South, 1865- popular in Europe.) Dissertation Press. On a very different strain, her 1880,” The Journal of the Civil War Era defenses in Finland are very formal, introduction to the Chinese translation of 7, no. 3, pp. 401-424; and “The black-tie affairs and are open to the Diary of a Provincial Lady (Shanghai Stockman’s War: Hog Cholera in public. Over 50 attended the defense, Press, 2017) appeared both in the book Nineteenth-Century Alabama,” The which lasted two hours and was highly form and as a separate article for the Alabama Review 70, no. 2, Special successful. Later, Mayfield was the guest November 2016 issue of the Chinese Issue: The Environment, pp. 126-140. of honor at a dinner to celebrate the journal Dushu (roughly translated, She presented “Dying Hogs and occasion. Reading) under the title “Delafield and Thieving Slaves: Agricultural Additionally, Mayfield stays active Her Times.” Frost has now published Publications and Racial Control on reviewing dissertations and manuscripts articles in five different countries. Southern Plantations,” at the Southern submitted for publication at various During her sabbatical (2016-2017), Historical Association Annual Meeting, university presses, along with book Frost worked on two book manuscripts, Dallas, Texas, November 9-12, 2017. reviews for academic journals. He one on Victorian World: Fact and Fiction She delivered “The Ecological Refugees continues as a member of the executive (ABC-Clio, forthcoming 2019) and one, of the Cotton Belt: Black Migration from board of the St. George Tucker a new monograph on mixed marriages in Rural to Industrial Spaces in the Wake of Society—a group centered on the study Britain, 1837-1939. She attended five the U.S. Civil War,” at the American of Southern cultural and intellectual conferences as well. In November 2016, Society for Environmental History history. she gave a paper at the North American Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, Most important, he’s in his second Conference on British Studies in March 29–April 2, 2017. year as a grandfather.