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Methodist Youth and as executive ’68 secretary to the Montana Norton Dill of Birmingham, a Conference Board of Education. director of commercial and He was pastor of St. Paul’s United documentary films, was profiled in Methodist Church in Helena for 17 the April issue of Birmingham years. magazine. The profile cites Dill’s films Music in Their Bones: The ’65 Music and People of Sand Dr. Tennant McWilliams of Mountain (1999) and Kathryn: The Birmingham, former dean of the Story of a Teller (2004). UAB School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, has Catherine Rye Gilmore of relinquished that position to return Birmingham was included in the to the school’s faculty, citing his April 27, 2007, Birmingham desire, after a quarter of a century Business Journal’s “Who’s Who in Glenn family gathers near Cape Town—At the of service in administrative roles, Hospitality.” The arts leader is Cape of Good Hope, wearing their BSC shirts, are (from for a return to full-time teaching president of The Metropolitan Arts left) Lisa Glenn ’06 ; her mother, Laura Whitehurst Glenn and writing. McWilliams joined Center and Virginia Samford ’78 of Murfreesboro, Tenn.; and her sister, Katie Glenn ’11, the UAB faculty in 1974 as an Theatre. BBJ notes “she co- who is a freshman at Birmingham-Southern this fall. assistant professor of history. He chaired the $3 million fund-raising Laura and Katie Glenn recently visited Lisa in South Africa, also had served as department campaign to restore and renovate where she has been studying at the University of the chair, assistant vice president for the historical Clark Memorial Witwatersrand in Johannesburg since January, on a Rotary academic affairs, and interim Theatre as a multi-purpose arts Ambassadorial Scholarship she received last year. She senior vice president for University center for the Birmingham will complete her year abroad in December 2007. While in College, before being named dean Africa, Lisa will participate in the 2007 Rotary AIDS Hike community—now renamed the from Johannesburg to Durban (more than 1,000 km). The of SBS in 1990. Virginia Samford Theatre.” event raises money and awareness for AIDS orphans and other vulnerable children in Africa. ’66 Kirby Sevier Jr. is pictured in the Dr. Harry Mueller III continues to cover story of the June 8, 2007, work for Saudi Aramco in Dharan, Birmingham Business Journal. Saudi Arabia, and travels as often The article reports the expansion ’37 Birmingham Botanical Gardens as he can, having taken trips to of Sevier’s Birmingham law firm Tanzania and IndoChina last year. Emlyn Colmant Bode is working Library, in honor of the club’s Maynard Cooper & Gale PC into on a travel journal, combining her former president, the late Mary Ivy the Huntsville market. Its new many travel diaries into a volume Burks.T he book outlines Burks’ ’67 office there will be staffed with 14 Dr. F. Cleveland Kinney, professor, to be called Emmy’s ABC Travels: tireless efforts to preserve a attorneys who left Balch & senior associate dean, and Air, Boat, and Camper. At the age wilderness area in the Bankhead Bingham LLP’s North Alabama medical director at UAB, was of 90, she and her husband have National Forest. office in an amicable split. The recognized as a leader in area given up camping across the U.S., addition of the Huntsville group health care in the Feb. 9, 2007, Canada, and Newfoundland and ’44 brings Maynard’s attorney roster Birmingham Business Journal. are entertaining themselves with Rev. George Harper of Helena, to 175 and represents a significant The report notes that Kinney “has hundreds of slides, as well as Mont., was speaker at the 125th expansion for the firm founded by served in a variety of roles at UAB, happenings in their hometown of commencement of Rocky Sevier and others in 1984. helping to teach students in Richmond, Va., and visits from Mountain College last May and psychiatry and behavioral their large family. received an honorary doctorate of ’70 public service from the college. neurobiology, cell biology, and Dr. Robert Corley has been named ’41 Harper’s long career in the medicine, as well as playing a director of the Global and large role in the clinical affairs of The Belvedere Study Club recently Methodist ministry has been Community Leadership Honors the University of Alabama School presented a copy of John particularly concerned with youth. Program at UAB. Students in this of Medicine.” Randolph’s The Battle for He served as executive secretary program will be able to participate Alabama’s Wilderness to the of the National Conference of in special honors courses and

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learning experiences relating to sponsored by the college’s Office global and community issues to of Church Relations and dedicated prepare them for leadership roles. to Dr. Roy Wells Jr. ’57, professor For the past 13 years, Corley, an of religion at BSC, who retired this AlumNews assistant professor of history, has past spring after 40 years of directed the UAB Center for Urban teaching at the college. Newsom Affairs. He has served on the was chosen to present the honors council of the UAB Honors inaugural lecture in part because Program since 1989. she was a student of Wells at BSC. The lecture series was Byron B. Mathews Jr. of New York established and endowed by shares entertaining news about his Bishop William Willimon, presiding dog “L’il Pup.” A video of the bishop of the United Methodist pooch won first place in a contest Church North Alabama Area, and March 27, 2007, was a special held in connection with a his wife, Patsy Willimon. day for members of the Moses Mayfield band: Paramount film, Year of the Dog. (vocals, guitar), (guitar), As winners, L’il Pup and Mathews ’72 Matthew Mayfield ’05 Will Mason ’07 (keys), (bass), and Wil Drake (drums). were flown to Los Angeles for a Dr. Donald Bruce Irwin, founder Matt Taylor ’03 Hans Ford ’04 That’s the day their first major label CD was released by Columbia meeting with Paramount and CEO of American Family Care, Records. representatives. L’il Pup also was a 25-year-old, Birmingham-based The Inside, recorded with producer Ben Grosse (Marilyn Manson, treated to prizes, including a day at chain of free-standing indepen- Fuel, Vertical Horizon), features a dynamic, according to the group’s L.A.’s poshest dog spa. dent health clinics, was named a Columbia Records Web site, that is “a balance of bare-knuckled rock finalist for Small Business Person combined with lush ambient textures.” If The Inside is about ’71 of the Year, Category 4 (76-500 anything,” says Mayfield, “it’s about forging connections—reaching Fr. David Lowell, executive employees) in the Birmingham out to people and connecting on a personal, emotional level.” More director of Raphael House, a San Regional Chamber of Commerce about the CD, including purchase information, is available online. Francisco shelter for homeless 2007 Small Business Awards The band first formed in 2002 as the Stewart-Mayfield Project, with families, has been presented a programs. American Family Care, members who had become friends at BSC. Playing to an ever more Jefferson Award, a recognition which now operates clinics in 13 devoted following, the group changed its name to Moses Mayfield. given to individuals making a Birmingham locations, as well as After two indie releases, the 2003 EP, Unified, and the 2004 full-length difference in their communities by three Huntsville clinics and two Enough to Let Go, the group marked a turning point with a sold-out the American Institute for Public each in Mobile and Montgomery, performance at WorkPlay in Birmingham, which was recorded on a Service. An article in the March has announced plans to double its DVD that attracted the attention of a rep at Sony BMG and led to the 18, 2007, San Francisco Chronicle operations within five years, as Columbia contract. details Lowell’s 21-year career at reported in the June 22, 2007, Live appearances, both as headliner and as opener for groups such Raphael House, an organization edition of the Birmingham as Switchfoot, The Fray, and My Morning Jacket, provide the group which also has won the San Business Journal. with the energy that fuels the CD. “Music is storytelling,” says Francisco Foundation’s John R. keyboardist Taylor, “and, to me, being a musician is being a part of May Award for making a Dr. Wayne Killion Jr. of that group that gets to tell the story.” difference in the community, Birmingham, president and CEO of among other awards received. Shook & Fletcher Insulation Co., recently was elected president of Dr. Carol Newsom, author and the National Insulation After nearly 30 years of practicing with a dear friend from vet school, Charles Howard Candler Professor Association, a trade association veterinary medicine in northeast has added three more cats to her of Old Testament at Emory representing the mechanical and Oklahoma, Dr. Mary Jane M. household, and is enjoying life in University, presented Birmingham- specialty insulation industry. Sepmeier has moved from an older home in the country that Southern’s inaugural Bishop’s Killion, who also holds an MPPM Claremore to Ada, Okla., with her backs into a 3,000-acre cattle Lecture in Faith and Ethics April degree from Birmingham- 11 cats, three dogs, horse, donkey, ranch—“like living in Wyoming,” 17, 2007, on the BSC campus. Southern, is a trustee of the and parrot. In Ada, she is happily she says. “The rest of the world is Her presentation, “Three Ways of college. working at a mixed animal practice insignificant once I get home.” Imagining Good and Evil: The Bible’s Internal Conversation,” was

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Hon. Samuel H. Welch Jr. of ’74 Monroeville was elected to Place 3 Thomas Bankston, general on the Alabama Court of Criminal director of Dayton Opera in Ohio, AlumNews Appeals last November, after served as a judge last spring in the serving the past 27 years as circuit 29th annual W. Cassell Stewart judge in the 35th Judicial Circuit, Vocal Competition held in which includes Monroe and Birmingham. Conecuh counties. Welch, a Republican, replaced Sue Bell ’75 Cobb, who was elected chief In December 2006, Dr. Clinton justice of the Alabama Supreme Anderson of Washington, D.C., Court in November. received his doctoral degree in community psychology and ’73 applied social psychology from the Last May, Sue Dill Grogan University of Maryland, Baltimore principal at Shades Cahaba, and County. Clinton has been her friend, Patricia Kendricks employed by the American Simpson of Birmingham, former Psychological Association for 19 assistant principal at Shades years. He is director of the Cahaba Elementary School, were Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual honored with the Birmingham Concerns Office in the Public Urban League’s Multi-Racial Interest Directorate. In May 2007, James E. Hicks of Dothan took part in a Friendship Award. Simpson now special ceremony honoring the memory of his daughter, has been promoted to the position ’76 the late Erin Kathleen Hicks ’07 , whose life was lost in a of principal at Edgewood In May 2007, David Buchholz of car accident during her freshman year at BSC. Elementary School. Rome, Ga., received a master’s of Erin Hicks was an AOPi pledge. Her father has said divinity from the Candler School of that he was touched by the supportive response he Douglas A. Theology of Emory University. received from the BSC college community, especially his Trant, a Bucholz is a member of the North daughter’s AOPi sisters. Recently, he established an practicing Georgia Conference of the United endowed scholarship in memory of his daughter, which attorney in Methodist Church. will be awarded annually to a member of AOPi’s Knoxville, freshman pledge class. The first recipient of this Tenn., for the ’78 scholarship, Katelyn Hancock ’10, was recognized at the past 29 years, Dr. J. Eugene “Gene” Lammers May event. has been was promoted last fall to the Members of the Birmingham-Southern community who named a ewly n would like to contribute to the Erin Kathleen Hicks Memorial fellow of the American College of created Scholarship may do so through the Office of Institutional Trial Lawyers, a group composed position of Advancement, 900 Arkadelphia Road, Box 549003, of “the best of the trial bar from medical Birmingham, AL 35254. the United States and Canada.” director of Fellowship in the group, founded senior in 1950, is extended by invitation patient only “to those experienced trial safety and lawyers who have mastered the quality for Hospital and Clarian Health ’79 art of advocacy and whose Clarian Partners. Most recently, he was In May 2006, Kathryn Carter professional careers have been Health Partners in Indianapolis, medical director for the Senior Fowler joined the EDS Corp., marked by the highest standards charged with providing geriatric Health Center at Methodist based in Plano, Texas, as a of ethical conduct, medicine expertise and managing Hospital. He also is an adjunct customer sales executive in the professionalism, civility, and quality improvement initiatives clinical professor of medicine at Healthcare Division. collegiality.” within the Clarian hospitals and its the Indiana University School of partner institutions. Lammers has Medicine. served for 14 years with Methodist

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James M. Pool, an attorney with ’82 Maynard Cooper & Gale PC in Angela Birmingham, recently was listed in Fisher Hall AlumNews ’67 Birmingham Business Journal’s has been “Who’s Who in Health Care,” a named vice In the Wake of section published by the journal president of the Assassins, every five years, with the stated publications a new docu- purpose of informing readers of and special mentary by the top healthcare decision- projects at filmmaker makers in the area. the Birmingham Civil Rights Robert Clem Institute. Hall has been with BCRI ’67 wof Ne ’80 since 1993. She most recently Paltz, N.Y., Last May, Patricia Kendricks served as executive assistant to aired this Simpson of Birmingham, former the president and CEO. With this summer on assistant principal at Shades title change, and in her expanded Alabama Public Television to strong reviews. Cahaba Elementary School, and role, Hall will serve as the The film, which premiered at the State Archives her friend, Sue Dill Grogan ‘73, communications representative for in May, tells the story of former Alabama Governor principal at Shades Cahaba, were BCRI and will continue to John Patterson’s entry into politics following the honored with the Birmingham coordinate special projects, as assassination of his father, then Alabama Attorney Urban League’s Multi-Racial well as produce publications and General Albert Patterson. According to Dr. Harvey Friendship Award. Simpson now documents to support the H. Jackson III ’65, professor of history and head of has been promoted to the position institute’s ongoing programs and the Department of History and Foreign Languages of principal at Edgewood projects. at Jacksonville State University, the Patterson film Elementary School. is “a dandy.” In an Anniston Star column of June James I. Owens Jr. is president 13, 2007, Jackson remarks how this “remarkable ’81 and CEO at HomeTown Bank of documentary” helped him appreciate “the Betty Hawk recently was Villa Rica in Gainesville, Ga. He difficulties the man faced and how much he appointed division vice president formerly was senior vice president accomplished despite them.” of the Materials Resource Division and commercial real estate group The Patterson film and other ongoing projects of at the 3M Company in St. Paul, senior credit officer at Regions Clem’s were the subject of June 2007 interviews on Minn. Bank in Birmingham. WBHM radio’s Tapestry and APT’s For the Record, available online. Carol A. Herrmann-Steckel of ’83 Birmingham, commissioner of the Alfred F. “Buddy” Smith Jr. of Alabama Medicaid Agency, now is Birmingham has been named chair a member of the BSC Edward Lee of the Jefferson County Personnel Norton Board of Advisors. Board. Smith is a partner with the previously served as rector of Who Registry. This honor law firm of Bainbridge, Mims, Christ Church in Pensacola. recognizes his professional Bryan Polivka, chief learning Rogers, and Smith. accomplishments as a proven officer and divisional vice Craft O’Neal of Birmingham, chair leader in the regional healthcare president of the eLearning Group Col. Anthony Larry Steadman of of O’Neal Steel Inc., has been industry. Clark, a urologist, has of Laureate Online Education, Bedford, Mass., retired from active named to the Board of Trustees of practiced in Brookhaven with Dr. recently has published his first two duty Sept. 1, 2007, after nearly 24 Children’s Hospital of Alabama. Jeffery Boyd since 1996. novels. The Legend of the Firefish years of service in the U.S. Air O’Neal also serves on the boards (published March 1, 2007) and The Force. Upon retirement, he of The Birmingham Zoo, Emmet Cynthia Lamar-Hart of Hand That Bears the Sword planned to practice government O’Neal Library, and Birmingham- Birmingham, a shareholder at (published July 1, 2007) are the contract law. Southern, among others. Maynard, Cooper & Gale PC, has first two parts of a planned trilogy been named to the group and are available online. The final ’84 ’85 “Southern Women of Distinction” part of the trilogy, The Battle for Rev. Russell J. Levenson Jr. now Dr. Jeff Clark of Brookhaven, by the Southern Women’s Vast Dominion, is scheduled for is rector of St. Martin’s Episcopal Miss., has been chosen as a Committee of 50. publication Jan. 1, 2008. Church in Houston. Levenson member of the Cambridge Who’s

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’86 ’88 Susan Beard Brouillette of In March 2007, Gov. Bob Riley Birmingham was named among appointed attorney Don Lambert the “Who’s Who” of area of Vernon as Lamar County district healthcare leaders in the Feb. 9, judge. 2007, edition of the Birmingham Business Journal. She is CEO of ’90 Alacare Home Health and Hospice, In March 2007, the Rev. Paul and she was named earlier to the Courtright Elliott was named BBJ’s “Top 40 Under 40” and “Top interim rector at St. Andrew’s in Birmingham Women.” the Pines Episcopal Church in Peachtree City, Ga. In 2005, Henry F. Sherrod III of Florence helped found Alabama’s Merle Whitehead Underwood of first organization for attorneys for Birmingham is proud that her employees, NELA-Alabama, an grandson, Brandon Pierce BSC alumni reunite in Washington State— affiliate of the National Employ- Underwood, is a sophomore at Callie Betancourt Daniell ’62 of Port Ludlow, Wash., (third ment Lawyers Association. He Birmingham-Southern. His family from left) learned earlier this year from a newspaper mention that her old college friend Henry King Stanford was elected to its executive board, history on the Hilltop is a strong Jr. ’61 had joined the growing number of BSC alumni in served as president of the group one, she says. Other family Washington State. With help from the Alumni Office, she during 2005 and 2006, and earlier members who are BSC graduates contacted Stanford and learned that he and wife Lois this year was again re-elected include his grandfather, Howard were living in Belfair, not far from her home. After friendly president. Linwood Underwood ’50; great- e-mailing back and forth, Daniell arranged a mini-reunion, great aunt, Jane Hood Newton including BSC classmate Sherrill Lamppin-Bohart ’62 of ’87 McConnell ’41; and great Seattle. Last May (as pictured above), the Stanfords, When contestants representing all grandmother, Mary Newton Daniell, and Lamppin-Bohart met at an inviting restaurant 50 states and the District of Underwood ’25. on the Bremerton waterfront for lunch and long-overdue Columbia gathered in Birmingham conversation. in May 2007 for the National ’92 Do you have college friends you’d like to see again? BSC AlumNet at www.bsc.edu/alumnet can bring you Chicken Cooking Contest, they The winter 2007 issue of Southern together in moments. If, like these alumni, you arrange a were entertained at The Theatre includes a profile of mini-reunion, be sure to send a photo to Restaurant at Culinard and enjoyed Michelle Ladd of Huntsville, a BSC [email protected] for ClassNotes. an elegant dinner planned by theatre major now employed in Culinard Director Anthony the film industry as a motion Osborne and Executive Chef capture fight director/stunt ’93 Don J. “Pete” Walker is senior Gray Byrum. woman/combat teacher. Ladd’s Dr. Julia Tyra Hemphill and officer/chief financial officer for film credits include Lord of the Michael Hemphill of Elliston, Va., American Village in Montevallo. In February 2007, Rebecca Gilman Rings, Return of the King; The are balancing a growing family He reports that another BSC of Chicago was elected to the Chronicles of Narnia; and Flags of (see “Births”) with interesting graduate on the American Village Council of the Dramatists Guild of Our Fathers. careers. She is “working at her staff is William “Billy” Stewart ’03, America. dream job of practicing family who is an interpreted programs Rev. Matthew Irvin Penfield of medicine in a small town in the officer and director of Attorney James C. Pennington Birmingham received his doctor of Virginia mountains.” He primarily performance. from the Birmingham office of ministry degree from Saint Paul is a stay-at-home dad, but also Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & School of Theology in May 2007. directs a local nonprofit Michael H. Witcher of Birmingham Stewart PC was ranked in the 2007 His praxis thesis was published foundation, and has raised more is homeland security director for edition of Chambers USA as a with distinction. Penfield is the than $1 million to renovate an old the Omega Group, and reports leader in the field of labor and son of Dr. H. Irvin Penfield,SC B nursing home into a library, YMCA, that he has worked with the White employment law. Pennington is professor emeritus of political and community center. House, Congress, the Department president-elect of the BSC Alumni science and former provost, and of Homeland Security, and the Association. Elise McWilliams Penfield ’61. intelligence community, advising on sophisticated technology.

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when she traveled with her grandparents to Europe as a child and was captivated by the ceilings of cathedrals and stained glass windows of the churches. Churches often appear in her works, as do angels, but the most common theme in her light-washed paintings is tender scenes of children. The mother of three young children of This past summer, her own, Hurry says she often paints Homewood artist Dr. amidst a flurry of activity, sometimes Red Rover by Gina C. Hurry. Don Stewart ’81 says setting her easel in the kitchen and his work took on a new juggling paint with peanut butter and jelly. Other times she dimension—literally. paints outside in the sun and wind. Her trademark acrylics, Stewart, known she says, match her lifestyle: “They forgive; they internationally for his communicate; they respond.” complex, humorous For a look at Hurry’s latest works, you can visit her show drawings, was selected at Monty Stabler Galleries until Oct. 2, 2007. Gallery hours by the Eastern Shore Art are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Center in Fairhope to decorate a five-foot The glass art of Donna Branch MPPM ’93 of the Tara fiberglass pelican using his signature composite technique. GlassArt studio in McCalla recently took the second place He joined 60 artists from around the state in the “Art Takes award for sculpture in the show Southern Roots, sponsored Flight” project. Modeled after Chicago’s successful public by the Academy of Fine Arts, Birmingham. art display “Cows on Parade,” the project planned a display Her glass also was featured in the show Alabama of customized pelicans around the Fairhope area from Originals: Contemporary Craft, July 13-Aug. 31, 2007, in March through September 2007. the Alabama Artists Gallery, Alabama State Council on the Ordinarily, Stewart, a ballpoint artist, draws big pictures Arts in Montgomery. This made up of smaller ones, with a humorous theme that ties exhibition was organized by the images together. For example, his “Fast Food” is a the Alabama Council on the drawing of a motorcycle made up of cookies and sub Arts gallery director, Georgine sandwiches. For the pelican project, Stewart applied his Clarke, in celebration of the composite process to sculpture for the first time. He rebuilt Year of the Alabama Arts. the fiberglass pelican sent to him with shapes of seashells, Branch’s work will be shown after an earlier drawing of his “Shellican.” This time, rather in The Red Clay Survey at the than drawing, he used a painting technique to apply plastic Huntsville Museum of Art, resin to the surface of the bird, slowly transforming wings Sept. 8-Nov. 4, 2007, an and feathers into elongated snail shells, scallops, clams, exhibition which “takes the mussels, oysters, abalone, and more. pulse” of contemporary With all the shells in place, the piece received several coats Southern art. From the nearly of paint before being mounted for display, along with the 1,000 slides considered for works of other artists, along the pleasant streets of Fairhope, this exhibition, 88 works from where they will remain through September. If you plan a 65 artists were chosen. late-summer trip to the beach, be sure to visit Fairhope before “Art Takes Flight”—takes flight!

Join the crowd Sept. 13, 2007, 5 to 8 p.m., at the Monty Stabler Galleries in Birmingham, for the opening of a new show featuring the work of painter Gina Clark Hurry ’94 of Birmingham. A lifelong artist, Hurry says in her studio A Relic of Memories Past by Donna Branch, shown brochure that her love of color and light was first apparent recently in Alabama Originals. Photography by Ralph Anderson.

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BSC treads the boards

Actor Jim Newman ’86 of New York, celebrated for his lead role in Almost Heaven (Playbill said “he plays John Denver with the voice of an angel”), as well as his Broadway appearances in Steel Pier, Minelli on Minelli, Sunset Boulevard, and The Who’s Tommy, now has another significant credit. On March 22, 2007, he opened in Curtains, a Broadway musical that has received eight Tony nominations, including “Best Musical” (with star David Hyde Pierce bringing home Higginbotham brings Evita back to the Birmingham stage. the win for “Best Leading Ten years ago, Kristi Tingle Higginbotham ’87 of Actor in a Musical”). Birmingham starred in Evita at the Clark Memorial Theatre Jim Newman and Dr. David Pollick celebrate This past July, a group of (now the Virginia Samford Theatre) in a Town and Gown at Sardi’s. Birmingham-Southern staff, production that, according to alumni, and friends enjoyed Curtains and afterwards Birmingham News critic Alec Harvey, celebrated its success with Newman at a post-performance “was among the most memorable of gathering at Sardi’s, the famed Times Square restaurant. the venerable theater’s last years.” BSC Alumni Director Lisa Harrison calls Newman’s On May 29-June 3, 2007, she performance “dazzling.” Tickets are available online. returned in a new production of Evita mounted by the Magic City Playwright and director Ed Howard ’70 of Marietta, Ga. Actors Theatre, this time joined by (one of the creative forces behind the hilarious Greater Tuna, husband David Higginbotham ’88 one of the most-produced plays in the English language), and their eight-year-old son, Clay, in recently adapted friend Fannie Flagg’s best-selling novel, the chorus. Her reprise of the Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man for the stage. The resulting challenging role of Evita brought Higginbotham with son, comedy, All the Way from Magnolia Springs, enjoyed a sold- great reviews: According to Harvey, Clay. out run at Birmingham’s “time has only strengthened Higginbotham’s reading of the Virginia Samford Theatre last role. Her singing, as always, is impeccable … she’s giving October and returned in May Evita even more depth than she did in 1997.” 2007 “by popular demand.” The Birmingham News’ Alec Denise Clegg Bennett ’80 premiered her one-woman Harvey, in an Oct. 7, 2006, show, The Heart’s True Scale, at the Firehouse Theatre in review, found Birmingham Richmond, Va., this past April. For this production, actress Amber Quick ’04 , who described as an “original fairytale for brings the character Daisy Fay adults,” she wrote the book as well as the Harper to vivid life, “darned musical score, which features voice and near perfect. … One woman Celtic harp. shows are never easy, but she Bennett, who has done graduate work makes it look like a piece of in drama and holds a master’s in divinity cake.” from Union Theological Seminary, lives in Birmingham area alumni who Richmond with her husband, Jim, and missed the Virginia Samford Theatre performances might their two sons. want to catch a late-September run of All the Way from Bennett Magnolia Springs at the Art Station in historic Stone In June 2007, Dane Peterson ’97 Mountain Village near Atlanta. appeared in the Pulitzer Prize-winning one-man play I Am My Own Wife, in a production staged by Birmingham

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BSC treads the boards ’94 ’96 Todd Green recently received his Leslie Banta of Staunton, Va., is an Festival Theatre. This challenging doctoral degree from the Divinity artist whose works are featured at piece, which won the Tony Award for School at Vanderbilt University. He a new gallery called Kronos in 2004, is based on the life of Charlotte will serve as an adjunct professor Staunton’s wharf district. von Mahlsdorf, a transvestite who at the Vanderbilt Divinity School survived the Nazi and Communist for the spring 2008 semester. Tonya G. Drake of McCalla regimes in Berlin. According to The recently has been promoted from Birmingham News review of June 8, Stewart Shields is employed in supervisor to manager of industrial “Peterson has made such a name for the television industry and has billing and revenue accounting at himself as a director in Birmingham in worked in the production of reality Energen/Alagasco. Peterson recent years, it’s easy to forget what a shows including Fear Factor and fine actor he can be. ... [This role, in which he plays 40 Flip That House. Now with Actual Ted Whisenhunt, associate characters] provides ample opportunity for him to remind Reality Pictures, he is involved in professor of art at Judson College us.” seeking video submissions for a in Marion, has exhibited his series Peterson made his stage debut 20 years ago at the new Web/television series, “Saints and Haints” at galleries in Birmingham Children’s Theatre. His acting credits since Facebook Diaries. Alabama and Georgia in recent include productions with Town and Gown, Terrific New months. In an article in the Feb. Theatre, Hoover Library Theatre, Summerfest, and more— Ryan S. Simpson is vice president 28, 2007, Marion Times-Standard, and, recently, as a guest artist in the nationally ranked for operations at Middle he says of his work, “In this series, production of Urinetown: The Musical, with the BSC Tennessee Medical Center in I use rigid, simplistic figures that Theatre. He is founding vice president of the Birmingham Murfreesboro, Tenn. are reminiscent of grave markers Area Theatre Alliance, and recently completed his 10th and ... Gothic cathedrals and final year as theater director at John Carroll Catholic High ’95 graveyards in Europe were the School. He can be seen as “Amos” in the musical Chicago Jason Estabrook, former BSC initial source of inspiration for the with the Red Mountain Theatre Company, Sept. 27-Oct. 7, baseball player and assistant ‘Saints,’ which I wanted to present 2007. coach, has been tapped to lead through the eyes of a Southerner. the baseball program at Hewitt- The rich folklore of the Black Belt Amy Miller Brennan ’00 of Rahway, N.J., appeared in Trussville High School in Trussville. region includes stories about Respect: A Musical Journey of Women at the 14th Street Estabrook formerly was coach at ‘Haints’ (derived from the term Playhouse in midtown Atlanta, Moody High. ‘haunts’) … I’m interested in March 8-July 29, 2007. Written exploring the duality of these two by Vanderbilt University Peggy Facklis, assistant general seemingly opposing forces and Professor Dorothy Marcic, this counsel for Essilor of America Inc., cultures.” production follows four women recently was named by the Texas through significant moments in Lawyer as a “rising star,” and by D ’97 their lives, as illuminated by Magazine as one of Dallas’ “Best Andrew Szmela is president of chart-topping pop tunes. Respect Brennan Lawyers Under 40.” Magnolia Lane, a Trussville-based features an ensemble cast, a live band on stage, and more import company that offers Cabell than 50 songs we all remember. Edward “Ward” H. Lacy III of Sweeney’s painted pottery An audience pleaser, the production also won high Birmingham has joined First designs—ceramic trays and other critical marks. Wendell Brock of the Atlanta Journal- Commercial Bank as a vice pieces—with colorful designs Constitution said “Professionalism pays off here—with president. geared to Alabama, Auburn, and fantastic performances by Atlanta actress Denitra Isler and more than 60 other colleges and out-of-towners Amy Miller Brennan, Cory A. Farinacci, and universities. The Magnolia Lane Mary Kathryn Kaye. Playing historical figures like Rosa Collection can be found at area Parks and just regular gals trying to cope with life, these stores and online. women have winning personalities and serious vocal chops, Bennett which is always a good thing when taking on tunes sung by Doris Day, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, and Tammy Wynette. If you want my R-E-S-P-E-C-T, you’ve got to earn it. They do.”

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’98 psychology through the UAB May 2007. He now is engaged in at Carnegie Hall since 1997. Ben Bolton of Franklin, Tenn., an Psychology Training Consortium. his residency in internal medicine environmental scientist, has been She will complete her 2007-08 at the National Naval Medical Christopher Bowen graduated appointed by Gov. Phil Bredesen internship at the Department of Center in Bethesda, Md. from the Louisiana State University to the Tennessee Water & Veterans Affairs Medical Center in School of Veterinary Medicine in Wastewater Financing Board for a Birmingham. ’02 May 2007 and is pursuing three-year term. Bolton will serve Kirstin Anderson continues her specialty training at the Friendship as a representative of the The Birmingham-Southern career in musical education at Hospital for Animals in Tennessee Chamber of Commerce community has welcomed a new Harlem’s St. Aloysius School in Washington, D.C. and Industry. chaplain, Rev. John Richardson. New York City. Her work with the He and wife Jasmine Hodges ’99 students there is lauded in the Lauren Cantrell, a theater teacher Bo Coln now is head boys’ returned to campus earlier this March 20, 2007, edition of the at Battle Ground Academy in basketball coach at Grissom High summer for their new roles on the Carnegie Hall online newsletter. Franklin, Tenn., recently came one School in Huntsville. Coln formerly Hilltop (see page 8). Richardson, a St. Aloysius students have taken step closer to her dream of served in the same position at distinguished graduate of part in the LinkUP! concert series pursuing a career in the film Hewitt-Trussville High. His wife, Birmingham-Southern, has deep Dr. Evelyn Frazier Coln ’99, a ties to the BSC alumni community. dentist, has joined a practice in His family numbers many BSC Huntsville. graduates, among them his mother, the late Catherine Jones Christopher “Chris” Noyes is Richardson ’70; uncles, Mark working as a network Jones ‘73, David Jones ‘76, and administrator for Hunton and John Daniel Jones ’83; Williams law firm in Atlanta. His grandfather, the late Dr. Daniel wife, Dr. Christina Dithmer Jones ’39; great-uncle, Dr. John Noyes, is an anesthesiologist and Howard ’41 (Sarah Shepard Rice assistant professor at Emory Howard ’40); and cousin, Robert Crawford Long Hospital. The Howard ’72. couple lives in Decatur, Ga., with son Owen Alexander, born May ’01 12, 2006. Dr. Brian Flanagan graduated from UAB Medical School in June 2007 ’00 and has begun a residency in Tim Calhoun of Alabaster was internal medicine at UAB Hospital. named Big Brother of the Year in His wife, Dr. Sarah Sharpe the local Big Brother Big Sister Flanagan, practices dentistry in program. He went on to represent Leeds. The couple lives in Alabama in the national 2007 Big Crestline. Young doctor receives recognition—Dr. David Brother of Year awards program. L. Spencer Jr. ’00 , a urology resident at the University of Calhoun and his Little Brother, Wendi Blake Rahm of Decatur has Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, received the 2007 Marquis, have been matched received her master’s degree in Robert S. Caldwell, MD, Memorial Award, presented to him in July at the Mississippi State Medical Association since 2004. Calhoun says that in architecture from the Georgia annual session. The award recognized the quality of his the midst of his busy life as an Institute of Technology. She was work, particularly his practice during a brief period recently named Outstanding First Year assistant vice president at when Mississippi was without a pediatric urologist. Dr. Regions, the opportunity to talk Student in the program and placed Charles D. Pound, chief of the Division of Urology at with his Little Brother “truly adds third in the Architectural Thesis UMMC, praised “the service that David did for the children light to my day.” Competition. Rahm has begun her of Mississippi during this period of need, especially the career with CNNA Architects in indigent population that did not have the ability to travel to Ashley Hanson Gabriel, a doctoral Atlanta. another state for care. … His assistance [proved] far candidate in clinical psychology at beyond his years and experience; patients did not suffer the University of Alabama, has Sean Michael Roark graduated any break in care and, in fact, received excellent care.” been selected for an APA- from the University of South accredited internship in clinical Alabama College of Medicine in

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industry, as noted in the March 28, 2007, online edition of The Decatur Daily. An article there AlumNews ’69 reports that Cantrell was recently tapped to appear as an actress in Dr. Thomas E. Moody ’69, Martina McBride’s music video physician and president of “Anyway.” Though she did not Birmingham’s Urology meet the music star, Cantrell Centers of Alabama, has served during production as her been recognized for his lighting stand-in. exceptional efforts in the battle against prostate Sonya Edwards Eubank of cancer. Though prostate Birmingham now is at Burr & cancer is a very curable Forman LLP as an associate in the disease, he says, with high firm’s labor and employment probability of recovery given group. A 2005 graduate of early identification and Samford University’s Cumberland proper treatment, Alabama’s School of Law, she is a member of record of dealing with the the American Bar Association’s disease has been a poor one. labor and employment and Portico magazine, April alternative dispute resolution 2007, reports some of the sections. problems, as well as Moody’s energetic response: “In 2006, [the National Prostate Cancer Coalition] issued its first prostate cancer report card. Alabama was one of five states to Lauren Faulkner Humphrey is receive a failing grade, based on current prostate cancer screening rates, death rates, and working for Auction Insurance whether or not laws are in place to guarantee insurance coverage for prostate cancer Agency in its fraud investigations screenings. Urology Centers was one group not willing to accept this news. With Dr. unit. She also has begun work on Tom Moody leading the charge, the doctors have taken a grassroots approach to reaching her MBA degree at the University out and spreading the word on the importance of cancer screenings.” of North Alabama in Florence, with Since African-American men are more likely to get prostate cancer and are 2.5 times an anticipated graduation in fall more likely to die from the disease, compared to Caucasian men, Moody’s group 2008. planned an initial clinic, offering free prostate cancer screenings, in Selma in September 2006, followed by a second clinic in October at Birmingham’s Sixth Avenue Baptist Sherrie McCoy Jones,3 2002-0 Church. Since then, the group has continued bringing critical screening services to those president of the Birmingham unlikely to receive them otherwise, with more screenings scheduled this fall in chapter of the International Birmingham and in Perry, Wilcox, and Montgomery counties. Association of Administrative Moody also moved to address problems in access to screenings at a legislative level. Professionals, was named In June 2007, Alabama passed a bill requiring insurance companies to cover physician- Administrative Professional of the ordered exams, and the National Prostate Cancer Coalition was quick to credit Moody, Year at the group’s February 2007 whom they called “the main catalyst for the success.” meeting. In June, she was among “Dr. Moody has been a major presence in the battle against prostate cancer in four finalists for the award at the Alabama,” said NPCC chief executive officer Dr. Richard N. Atkins. “He has donated his state level. Jones is administrative own time and money to set up screenings and raise awareness of the disease across the assistant to Dr. Robert R. state and has testified … on the need for greater access to screening,” tirelessly traveling Rathburn, executive director of to both Washington, D.C., and Montgomery. Sloss Furnaces National Historic In part because of the new legislation, the state recently received an improved grade Landmark. (“C”) in the NPCC 2007 Prostate Cancer Report Card. For more on Moody’s continuing efforts against the disease, see his interview with Megan Mitchell of Birmingham Tim Lennox on the July 8 edition of For the Record: Face to Face, archived online at recently accepted the position of Alabama Public Television. corporate controller of Countryside Hospice Care, located in Alabama

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appeared in the American premiere of Sir Paul McCartney’s Allison Christen Hargett received oratorio Ecce Cor Meum at a master’s degree from the AlumNews ’70 Carnegie Hall. In March 2007, he University of Nevada, Reno. She is appeared in the semi-staged working as an animal keeper for Dr. William U. “Bill” Eiland production of My Fair Lady starring the Knoxville Zoo in Knoxville, ’70 of Athens, Ga., has been Kelsey Grammer, Brian Dennehy, Tenn. honored with a Lifetime and Kelli O’Hara, with the New Achievement Award from York Philharmonic. Elizabeth Marie McLeod of the Georgia Association of Birmingham graduated with a Museums and Galleries. ’03 master’s degree in counseling As director of the Natalie Anne Perkins Barker of from Wake Forest University in Georgia Museum of Art, Marietta, Ga., is a math teacher at May 2007. Eiland has guided the Griffin Middle School in the Cobb institution through a County school system. John Rogers of Tupelo, Miss., period of unprecedented received a master’s of divinity growth. The museum has Carrie Beth Formby Garrick of degree from the Candler School of greatly expanded the number of works in its Birmingham graduated from the Theology at Emory University in permanent collection, moved into its current location Physical Therapy School at UAB in May 2007. at the University of Georgia’s Performing and Visual December 2006 and began work Arts Complex, increased the size of its membership at Baptist Princeton Hospital in Franklin Slaton of Birmingham is organization, and is close to success in raising the February 2007. an account executive with the necessary funding for much-needed expansion. Alabama Press Association, Under Eiland’s leadership, the museum has won Christopher Perry of Birmingham working with outside sales of Ala- 99 awards for publications, programming, and is an accountant at Hardman, Frost SCAN and DisCover and with exhibitions. Its collection has grown more than 25 & Cummings PC. His wife, out-of-state display advertising. percent and its dependence on state funds has Georgina Simmons Perry ’04, is Slaton formerly lived in declined by 50 percent. an accountant at Kassouf & Co. Washington, D.C., and was employed by The National Sarah Elaine Styers of Mobile Academy of Sciences as a senior graduated from the University of program assistant. South Alabama College of and Georgia. Last May, he was awarded second Medicine in May 2007. She is This fall, Sonya Rachelle Thomas Dr. John David Reed graduated in place in the Mobile Opera’s engaged in her residency in will pursue her MBA degree at the May 2006 from the School of Palmai-Tenser Competition. pediatrics at the University of Darden School of Business at the Dentistry at the University of South Alabama Hospitals. University of Virginia, attending on Alabama and is employed by the Joshua South, who received his a full-tuition fellowship. During the University of Mississippi. He and master’s degree in vocal Joshua Vasa of Pell City has joined past two years, she has been his wife, Olivia Hooper Reed ’05, performance from the Manhattan the corporate support staff at working at Turner Broadcasting reside in Flowood, Miss. School of Music, is active as a Alabama Public Television. He was Systems Inc., in the Turner soloist and ensemble singer formerly development manager for Network Sales Division in Atlanta. Daniel Seigel will assume his first throughout the NYC area. He has Kid One Transport. His wife, Rev. teaching post this fall at LeMoyne performed with the New York Carrie Kramer Vasa, is an Jose David Vega of Birmingham College in Syracuse, N.Y., after Choral Artists, the Choir of St. associate pastor at the First United graduated from the Wake Forest earning his master’s degree and Ignatius Loyola, Temple Emanu-El, Methodist Church of Pell City. University School of Law in May graduate professional diploma in and the Concert Chorale of New 2007. He is employed by Sirote & opera from the Peabody York. In 2006, he sang the role of ’04 Permutt, PC. Conservatory of Music in Peter in the St. Matthew Passion Reginald Bell Jr. of Birmingham Baltimore. During the past year, at the Brooklyn Academy of received a master’s of divinity he appeared in several opera roles Music, and was deemed degree from Candler School of and was a member of the Choir at “unforgettable” by The New York Theology at Emory University in Washington National Cathedral. Times. In November 2006, he May 2007.

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June 9, 2007. ’05 ’07 Herbert A. “Herb” Sklenar, retired Andrew B. Barker ’02 and Kristin In May 2007, Paula Barnes of Kelli Hilyer, formerly editor of The chair and CEO of Vulcan Materials Nicole LeMaitre ’03, June 3, Muscle Shoals completed her Hilltop News, has joined The Co. and a BSC trustee, was 2006. master’s of science degree in Demopolis Times as a staff writer. honored in the June 15, 2007, Elizabeth Ellis Dennis ’02 and hospitality and tourist manage- edition of Birmingham Business Walden French Wright III, April ment at the University of Central Master’s Journal with a Lifetime 14, 2007. Florida. Achievement Award in the 2007 Matthew Thornton Dukes ’02 and Programs Best in Business awards program, Leah Moren Green, April 21, In March 2007, Joseph “Joe” for his impact on the Birmingham 2007. Hutchings and a competition ’78 business community and also for Meredith Jane Randall ’02 and partner won the University of Valerie Kennedy Pailloz was his numerous contributions to the Andrew Hoffman Underwood, Alabama School of Law John A. named director of the Guntersville larger community. June 30, 2007. Campbell Moot Court Competition Museum last February. A recipient Carrie Beth Formby ’03 and Paul and an award for Best Brief. This of a master’s degree in music Dr. Karl Stegall has retired after 23 Garrick, Jan. 13, 2007. good news was shared by Sunday education from BSC, Pailloz spent years as senior minister at First Mary Louis Lydick ’03 and John Vanderver ’04. 25 years in corporate work for United Methodist Church in Quinn ’05, Aug. 11, 2007. Boeing and later Computer Montgomery. He was the Sara Elizabeth Pearce ’03 and Abbott Marie Jones is attending Sciences Corp., before returning recipient of an honorary doctorate David Elwyn Reed, June 9, the School of Law at Tulane to her hometown of Guntersville from Birmingham-Southern. 2007. University in New Orleans. She is 10 years ago. Natalie Anne Perkins ’03 and a staff member for the Maritime James T. Stephens, chair of Michael Barker, May 27, 2007. Law Journal and is a member of ’96 MPPM EBSCO Industries and immediate Christopher Perry ’03 and the Maritime Moot Court Team. Deborah Glascoe Huff is a past chair of the BSC Board of Georgina Simmons ’04, July 14, recipient of the 2007 Silver Beaver Trustees, served as commence- 2007. Chad Long has been promoted Award from the Greater Alabama ment speaker at the University of Rev. Carrie Kramer Vasa ’03 and from client services representative Council of the Boy Scouts of Alabama this past May. Stephens Joshua P. Vasa ’03, Aug. 5, to management associate/credit America Inc. The Silver Beaver is was recipient of an honorary 2006. officer at ServisFirst Bank in Gulf the highest award given to doctor of human letters degree Stephanie L. Houston ’04 and Shores. He will oversee credit and volunteers within the council for from the university. Bernard Mays Jr. ’04, Aug. 18, loan applications. long and outstanding service to 2007. youth. Marriages Christopher Scott Love ’04 and Susan Petty of Mountain Brook Rozalyn Grace Farmer, Dec. 29, has been named the first girls’ 2006. ’05 MPPM James “Jake” O. McKenzie III ’98 youth intern at Grace Presbyterian James J. Bushnell now is dean of Rachel Elizabeth Vinson ’04 and and Carly Elaine Timmons, May Church in Fort Payne. the Birmingham School of Law. Wiley DeWitt Truss ’05, May 12, 18, 2007. The Cumberland School of Law 2007. Erin Regan Pennington ’99 and Kristen Prince of New York City is graduate previously had a more Amy Nicole Woods ’04 and Brian Payne, June 2, 2007. employed as a creative production than 25-year legal career, including Stephen Gaylon Barnett, June James Douglass Grimes ’00 and coordinator at Victoria’s Secret private practice as well as service 23, 2007. Amy Leigh Pirkle, June 9, 2007. Direct. as managing attorney for USF&G Erica Brittney Crump ’05 and Ashley Hanson ’00 and Dr. Mark and Alabama staff attorney for St. Jason Harold Sellers, July 21, Gabriel, Aug. 19, 2006. Richard Scales of Charleston, S.C., Paul Insurance. 2007. Andrew Chase Bell ’01 and has joined First National Bank of Rebecca Clair Perry ’05 and Ryan Megan Brooke Michael ’01, the South as a customer service Kenneth Posey, June 22, 2007. Friends March 31, 2007. representative in its East Bay Anna Leigh Sullivan ’05 and Tyler Carden K. Healey ’01 and John Street office. He formerly was Griffin Price, April 21, 2007. Dr. Paul Bailey, BSC professor Cole, April 28, 2007. employed by Southcoast David Curtis Gaston ’06 and emeritus of biology, is mayor of Joseph Henry Marks ’01 and Community Bank. Katherine Leanne Landry, July 1, Baileyton, near Cullman, a town of Shannon Marie Robinson ’02, 2006. 684 residents. June 23, 2007. Ashley Brooke Goodson ’07 and Nancy Sharmon Meigs ’01 and Jacob Brandon Lindsey ’07, John Douglas Mills ’03,

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Aug. 11, 2007. Bo). In Memoriam fund established in honor of her Holly Meredith Kitchens ’07 and A daughter, Katherine Riley, April father, Robert Henry Kirkland ’32, Byron Vladimir Baquero, July 23, 2007, to Mary Harmon through the (Office of Institutional 28, 2007. “Mimi” Brunson ’97 and C. Roy E. Hitchcock ’29 of Advancement, 900 Arkadelphia William Loy Mason ’07 and Sarah Thomas “Tommy” Brunson ’98. Birmingham died Feb. 20, 2007. Road, Box 549003, Birmingham, Isabel Babcock, June 9, 2007. A daughter, Elizabeth Serene, April After attending BSC, Hitchcock AL 35254). John Wilson Nash ’07 and 10, 2007, to Marie Shunnarah graduated from Georgia Tech with Elizabeth Callahan Stone, June Bateh ’98 and husband Brian a degree in architecture. Among Mae McIntosh White ’36 of 16, 2007. (big sisters Anna and Abbie). other places, his design work can Birmingham died May 16, 2007. A daughter, Tilly Lane, Jan. 2, be found on college campuses in She was a founding member of St. Births 2007, to Katie Moran Bostrom South Carolina and Georgia, Luke’s Episcopal Church and was ’98 and husband Joel. particularly at the University of active in numerous community A daughter, Hannah Mathilde, April Georgia. groups. A son, Nicholas Alan, March 25, 14, 2006, to Matt Brown ’98 and 2007, to Dr. G. Alan Young ’90 Sarah Raney Brown ’98. Bartow Crowder Williamson ’33 of Marion Mayer Bergin ’37 of and wife Tammy (big sister Ally A son, Owen Alexander, May 12, Adamsville died March 3, 2007. Arlington, Texas, died March 5, Mackenzie). 2006, to Christina Dithmer She was a retired interior and floral 2007. After attending BSC, she A daughter, Margaret Irene “Meg,” Noyes ’98 and Christopher designer. BSC connections graduated from Northwestern April 25, 2005, to Dr. Julia Tyra Noyes ’98. include her late sisters, Idell University. She served as head Hemphill ’93 and Michael A daughter, Lucy Winifred, July 14, Crowder Kincaid ’31 and Virginia librarian for the Leon Jaworski law Hemphill ’93 (big sisters Naomi 2007, to Gregory Brian Crowder Smith ’36. firm in Houston. She was a Katherine and Emily Marie). Reynolds ’98 and Amy Wear member of the Endowment A daughter, Morgan “Maggie” Reynolds ’00. Mary Julia Minto Harris ’34 of Builders Society at BSC. We Grace, March 31, 2006, to Rev. A daughter, Cate Elizabeth, Jan. Birmingham died June 15, 2007. received notice of her death from Denise Baker Mullaney ’93 and 20, 2007, to Molly Pardue Her husband was the late Claude her classmate, Martha Franklin husband John. Cloran ’99 and husband Chris E. Harris ’39. Other BSC family Matthews ’37. A son, Henry Simpson, Feb. 8, (big brothers Andrew and Evan). members include her late brother, 2007, to William Jonathan Twin sons, Wesley Jackson and Hawlett Minto ’27. Grace Robins Whetstone ’37 of Green ’94 and Tory Simpson Everett Iverson, March 1, 2007, Jackson, Tenn., died June 25, Green ’95. to Dr. Sean Hair ’99 and wife Mary C. Tyler Kitchens ’35 of 2007. A magna cum laude Twin sons, William Carson and Kristin. Center Point died March 31, 2007. graduate of BSC in English and Connor Wilson, Nov. 20, 2006, A daughter, Mary Caroline, Sept. 1, She was a retired teacher who Latin, she received a master’s to Henry Wilson Hilliard ’95 and 2006, to Emily Bell Wilder ’99 served in the Jefferson County degree in New Testament studies wife Amy (big brother and and husband Jim. school system. from Scarritt College and an sister, twins Tanner Clark and A son, Michael Thomas, Feb. 19, Honorary Doctor of Letters degree Kendall Rose). 2007, to Laura Neese Skinner Charles DeForrest McDuff ’35 of from Lambuth University, where A son, John Alexander “Jack,” ’00 and husband Chad. Fairhope died May 5, 2007. A she taught English and speech for June 3, 2006, to Amanda Buck A daughter, Sally Ann, May 31, veteran of World War II, he served 27 years. She was named Varella ’95 and husband John. 2007, to Kimberly Shubert in the U.S. Marine Corps in the Educator of the Year at Lambuth in A daughter, Margaret Grace DeShazo ’01 and husband John. Pacific campaign. Following the 1980. She also served as an “Greta,” Jan. 14, 2007, to A daughter, Mary Evelyn, Jan. 31, war, he returned to Birmingham, educational missionary to India for Eleanor Haggstrom 2007, to Jenny Lou Barber where he worked for Baggett 15 years with her husband, Dr. Christiansen ’96 and husband Grindle ’01 and husband Chris. Transportation Co. and Firestone Wood K. Whetstone ’36. Tyler. A daughter, Adelia “Ada” Joan, Tire and Rubber Co. A daughter, Maggie Audrey, May June 8, 2007, to Alexa Bullock Anne Ratliff Sexton ’38 of 8, 2006, to Jeffrey Garrett Miller McElroy ’01 and Mel McElroy Martha Kirkland Parker ’36 of Mountain Brook died June 22, ’96 and wife Dana (big brother ’01. Birmingham died Feb. 16, 2007. 2007. After attending BSC, she After attending BSC, she graduated from the University of graduated from the University of Oklahoma and served as a teacher Alabama and earned a master’s for three years in the Alliance and degree from UAB. Memorial gifts Crestline Heights schools. Later, may be made to a scholarship she was active in civic affairs. Her

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husband was the late Richard Palmer Sexton ’38. Survivors In Memoriam ’33 include sons Richard P. Sexton Jr. ’68 and Robert R. Sexton ’71. Loulie Jean Norman Price of Studio City, Calif., died Aug. 2, 2005. Called “the world’s most heard Sam F. Carter Jr. ’40 of Vestavia unknown soprano,” she was, as her family’s memorial Hills died May 5, 2007. He held a Web site explains, “considered the most flawless master’s degree in metallurgy studio soprano for more than 50 years in the from the University of Wisconsin entertainment industry, and her voice was heard and enjoyed a distinguished around the world.” career in the iron industry, retiring Price’s is the celebrated voice in the wordless from American Cast Iron Pipe Co. theme to Star Trek, the thrilling soprano in the as vice president and works Tokens’ 1961 hit, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” and the manager after 42 years with the real voice behind the memorable “Summertime” in firm. He served as national the 1959 film Porgy and Bess (dubbed for actress president of both the Foundry Diahann Carroll). Her voice also is that of the “crazy Education Foundation and the soprano ghost” in Disney’s “Haunted Mansion” Ductile Iron Society, was a trustee theme park attractions. of the Metal Casting Training Price, from the 1933 La Revue. In the course of her long career as an ensemble Institute, and was national director singer, Price sang with many of the greats in American music, including Frank Sinatra, of the American Foundryman’s Ray Charles, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, and Elvis Presley. Society. In 1984, he was named She performed as a regular on a number of television shows, including Dean Martin, Alabama Foundryman of the Year. Carol Burnett, and Dinah Shore, appearing both as a singer and actress in various sketches. Survivors include wife Patricia According to her longtime friend, BSC classmate, and fellow music industry luminary, Carter and sister-in-law Dorothy Hugh Martin ’32, author of legendary songs including “Have Yourself a Merry Little Deshazo Carter ’47. Christmas” and “The Trolley Song,” from Judy Garland’s Meet Me in St. Louis, “she found her niche singing with the brilliant group of vocalists in Hollywood who sang back of Hobson Rudolphus “Rudy” Riley the stars and made them sound twice as good. She was the most in-demand of any ’40 of Bluff Park died April 21, singer in that extraordinary group of vocalists ... stepping out of the shadows into the 2007. He was the owner of limelight only once when André Previn chose her to sing ‘Summertime,’ Gershwin’s Ensley-Fairfield Mattress Co. His masterpiece, dubbing for Diahann Carroll [in the film Porgy and Bess].” first wife was the late Doris Martin, who admits happily to a lifelong “crush,” also notes Price’s extraordinary gift Hotlzclaw Riley ’41. Survivors of beauty: In a high school musical he attended when both were 17, she “played a include wife Jewell P. Williamson secondary role, but when she walked down to the footlights and sang ‘There is a Riley. Fascinating Magic in a Smile,’ my heart stopped. I thought she was the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen, and her high, cool, clear soprano knocked me out of my seat. She was Gordon Donald Fletcher ’41, a star that night and was never anything else thereafter. ... Her personal beauty, to quote formerly of Birmingham, died May a lyricist we both love, was ‘just unforgivable.’ She was still movie star beautiful when 2, 2007, in Sun City Center, Fla. she left us at age 92, but when she attended Birmingham-Southern College, her face He was a veteran of World War II, could have launched a thousand ships!” serving as a flight instructor in the But it was her life choices that win Martin’s highest praise. Wisely judging the siren U.S. Army Flight School in song of “fame and fortune, name in lights, all those things that ‘Broadway Babies’ fought Decatur. He then served as a and died for,” instead “she craved simplicity—a devoted husband, loving and bright corporate pilot for the remainder children—these were the desires of her heart, and the God she served so faithfully gave of his career, working for her everything she desired.” In sum, Martin says, “Her life was a legacy from a lady companies in Georgia and whose light shone for many decades with a rare incandescence.” (To see the complete text Alabama. Survivors include wife of Martin’s remarkable tribute, visit http://www.bsc.edu/communications/southern/ Elaire Cooper Fletcher ’41 and summer07/index.htm.) daughters, Susan Fletcher Smith ’67 (Dr. Robert E. Smith Jr. ’68) and Madeline Fletcher “Cissy” Bennett ’69.

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Mary Ann Nance Farlow ’43 of and loan business in Alabama. Mountain Brook died March 8, Formerly president of the In Memoriam ’33 2007. She was formerly active in Birmingham Advertising Club, she committee work at Canterbury also served as president of the Ruth Baker Truss of Birmingham died June 9, 2007. United Methodist Church and as a Alabama Symphony Orchestra She was a teacher at Tarrant City Elementary School volunteer in various charities. Women’s Committee and was and also served as assistant treasurer for Birmingham- Survivors include grandson active in numerous other Southern. BSC connections include her late sister, Richard Davis Lee ’02. community groups. Ola Grace Baker ’31. Her generous support of Birmingham-Southern Mildred Love McGehee Son ’44 of Mildred Moore Stovall ’44 of includes the Rev. Robert Lee Baker Endowed Birmingham died June 11, 2007. Mountain Brook died March 17, Scholarship Fund, which she and her husband, the She retired as executive vice 2007. She was active at late William “Bill” Truss, established in honor of her president and corporate secretary Canterbury United Methodist late father. of Birmingham Federal Savings Church and in a number of civic and Loan, and was one of the first organizations. Survivors include women executives in the savings husband Edgar Fletcher Stovall.

Lucie Monette King ’41 of Tuscaloosa died April 7, 2007. In Memoriam ’40 Rev. A. Tillman Sprouse ’41 of Birmingham died Feb. 19, 2007. Robert E. Luckie Jr. ’40 died Feb. 28, 2007. A longtime With a doctor of divinity degree business and community leader in the city of Birmingham, from Athens College, he served as he is celebrated as the leading figure in the development of a United Methodist minister in Alabama’s advertising industry. Robert Luckie & Co., churches throughout Alabama, founded in 1953 and becoming Luckie & Forney in 1964 and was district superintendent in with associate John Forney, was the largest advertising Gadsden. He also served on many agency in the state for years and was widely recognized for boards and commissions in the the quality of its work. church, including 15 years as a Since 1966, following Forney’s retirement, the firm has clerical member of the World continued as Luckie & Co., continuing to set standards for Methodist Conference. After one quality and creativity. Luckie was recognized widely for of his sermons was printed in the both his professional and civic contributions. He was a Jasper Daily Mountain Eagle, he member of the Alabama Academy of Honor, created by the Alabama State Legislature to was invited by the World Travel honor 100 Alabamians for outstanding accomplishment and service; a charter member Bureau to tour post-World War II of the Kiwanis Club’s Birmingham Business Hall of Fame; Birmingham Ad Club’s Europe, the Middle East, and “Advertising Man of the Year;” and recipient of the American Advertising Federations North Africa. He met world figures and Printer’s Ink Silver Medal Award. including Anwar Al Sadat, David Among many community efforts, he was president of the Kiwanis Club of Ben-Gurion, Crown Prince Birmingham and of the Metropolitan Development Board, a founding member of the Hussein, and Pope Pius XII, who UAB School of Nursing Board of Visitors, director of the President’s Council at UAB, and granted him permission to hold co-chair of the Jefferson County United Appeal. A World War II veteran, who served as the first Protestant worship service assistant Pacific fleet press officer under Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, he was 1964 chair in the ruins of the Coliseum in of Radio Free Europe. Rome. He held two George Luckie also served his alma mater with energy and devotion. A life trustee of Washington Honor Medals from Birmingham-Southern, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1968 and later the Freedom Foundation of Valley was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree. He served as president of the national Forge. Survivors include wife Ruth alumni association and was a member of the Ginkgo and Endowment Builders societies. Anne Sparks Sprouse. His generosity supported the work of the college in many ways, including the creation of an endowed chair in the English Department. Survivors include granddaughter Laura Luckie Finch ’97.

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He continued his service to the community in retirement, In Memoriam ’41 providing care to mothers at risk through a state of Florida program. Donald Campbell Brabston Sr. of Birmingham died June 3, 2007. Following He served as president of both the graduation at BSC as a member of Phi Beta Kappa and ODK, he completed an MBA American College of Obstetricians from Northwestern University in only nine months, in order to begin military service in and Gynecologists and the Florida World War II. He served as a lieutenant commander on the battleship USS Alabama, Obstetric & Gynecologic Society. receiving nine battle stars and ribbons, and later was instrumental in bringing the ship Survivors include wife Helen to Mobile Bay as a war memorial. Bernstein Fealy and sister Grace Following naval service, he began his accounting career with Ernst & Young in Fealy Reid ’41. Birmingham in 1945 and retired in 1979 as managing partner. In 2004, he was inducted into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame. Betty Hawkins Norton ’47 of the Among many leadership roles in the community, he was president of the Birmingham area died April 6, Birmingham Area Chamber of Commerce; president, honorary life member, and trustee 2007. She held a master’s degree of Central Alabama United Way; and honorary life director of the Salvation Army, in library science from the receiving its highest award for a lay person, the William Booth Award. He also served as University of Alabama. After a chair of the YMCA and the Executive Service Corps of Birmingham and was treasurer of stint as a reporter and the United Way Community Food Bank. photographer at The Birmingham A faithful supporter of Birmingham-Southern, Brabston received the Distinguished News in the ’40s, she served as a Alumni Award in 1976. He established and served as first chair of the Edward Lee librarian at Glenn High School from Norton Board of Advisors. He was a member of the Ginkgo and Endowment Builders 1967 to 1985, and at Woodlawn societies, and his generosity made possible many areas of support at the college, High School from 1985 to 1987. including the Mary Jane and Donald C. Brabston Scholarship and an endowed chair in Survivors include husband Robert accounting. Louis Norton.

Barbara Allen Blackwell ’47 of Birmingham died Feb. 20, 2007. She attended Vassar College In Memoriam ’44 before graduating from BSC. She was active in the altar guild at St. Bibb Allen of Birmingham died March 17, 2007. A veteran of World War Luke’s Episcopal Church, as a II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Corps, flying more than 100 missions in volunteer at St. Vincent’s Hospital the Aleutians and the European Theater and receiving seven bronze stars, and the Birmingham Museum of the Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Belgian Croix de Guerre. Art, and as a member of the Junior He later received a bachelor’s degree from Auburn University and League. Survivors include attended the University of Alabama School of Law. At the legal firms husband Jack Henderson London, Yancy, Clark and Allen and Christian and Small, he practiced law Blackwell. for 57 years. During that time, he served as president of the Birmingham Bar Dr. Jack Fealy ’47 of Palm Beach, Association (which also honored him as “Lawyer of the Year”), the Fla., and New York, N.Y., died Alabama Bar Association, and the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association. March 29, 2007. He received his He was author of the widely used Alabama Liability Insurance Handbook. medical degree from George He taught torts for 40 years at the Birmingham School of Law, where he Washington University, and, was named professor emeritus in 2005. following military service, began a Survivors include wife Louise Irving Bibb ’45. practice of obstetrics and At his family’s request, donations may be made in his memory to the Bibb Allen Honors Endowed gynecology in West Palm Beach in Scholarship at Birmingham-Southern, through the Office of Institutional Advancement, 900 Arkadelphia Road, 1957. In his 29-year career, he Box 549003, Birmingham, AL 35254. delivered more than 7,000 babies.

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Elizabeth Adele “Betty Adele” Bass Verchot ’47 of Decatur died In Memoriam ’51 Feb. 7, 2007. In early years, she was employed by the IRS and Auburn University. Survivors include husband Edgar A. Verchot.

Nanette Davis Dewald ’49 of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., died March 21, 2007. Survivors include husband Robert H. Dewald.

Betty Jo McWilliams Harmon ’49 of Birmingham died March 9, 2007. Following graduation from the BSC Conservatory of Music, she taught music in the Birmingham public schools before pursuing further studies at the Philadelphia Academy of Vocal Newman Manly Yeilding Jr. of Birmingham died May 20, 2007. Following graduation Arts. Later, she was a soloist with from BSC, he graduated from the New York University of Law in 1954. He then served First United Methodist Church and in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps of the U.S. Army in Japan, returning to Canterbury United Methodist Birmingham in 1956 to join the law firm which would become Dominick, Fletcher, Church for more than 30 years, Yeilding, Wood & Lloyd P.A. He practiced there for more than 40 years and served as was a singer and director for the managing partner for 25 years. Birmingham Civic Opera, and was Active in professional affairs, he was president of the Alabama State Junior Bar and a soloist with the Birmingham served on the Birmingham Bar Executive Committee. He also was a founding member Symphony Orchestra and the of the Estate Planning Council of Birmingham, serving on its board and as president. Hugh Thomas Singers. She taught A lifelong Methodist, he served in many leadership roles in the church, including voice at Birmingham-Southern and chair of the board of the United Methodist Children’s Home and of the board of in her home studio. Survivors Pastoral Care and Counseling, and as a member of the board of Ordained Ministry. include husband Carroll C. Always drawn to matters of social justice, he was one of the founders and supporters of Harmon, sister Elise McWilliams Greater Birmingham Ministries for more than 35 years. Penfield ’61 (Dr. H. Irvin Penfield, Yeilding’s family has many ties to Birmingham-Southern and its members have long BSC professor emeritus of political been loyal supporters of the college. His grandfather was Birmingham businessman science and former provost), and Frank B. Yeilding, memorialized at BSC by his family’s gift of Yeilding Chapel. Frank nephew Rev. Matthew Irvin Yeilding sent all six sons to Birmingham-Southern, including Manly Yeilding’s father, Penfield ’92. Newman M. “Red” Yeilding ’22 , who served the college for decades in a variety of administrative roles, including a brief term as interim president. Manly Yeilding’s Ross Leon Keith Jr. ’49 of mother was Annie Lou Fletcher Yeilding Westbrook ’30. Andalusia died March 13, 2007. A Survivors include wife Harriet Howard Yeilding ’53 , sister Anne Yeilding Upton ’53 veteran of World War II, he served (W. David Upton ’53) , daughter Katy Yeilding Olson ’82 , and grandson Nicholas Olson in Naval Intelligence. Later, he ’09. was employed by the Frigidaire Manly Yeilding was a loyal alumnus of the college and was a recipient of the Sales Corp., a division of General Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997. He was a member of the Ginkgo and Motors Corp., for more than 30 Endowment Builders societies. years. Survivors include wife At his family’s request, donations may be made to Birmingham-Southern in his memory, Janette A. Keith. through the Office of Institutional Advancement, 900 Arkadelphia Road, Box 549003, Birmingham, AL 35254. Ernest M. Pharo ’49 of Atlanta, formerly of Birmingham, died May 26, 2007. A lifelong musician, he

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was trained as a classical pianist, theaters, serving as business doctoral degree from Vanderbilt Birmingham died May 21, 2007. A but loved to entertain with popular manager of Panama City’s Pelican University’s Peabody College, she longtime member of the music and, during World War II, Players in the 1950s and, more later was a composer, radio host, Birmingham business community, hosted a musical radio show in recently, as assistant director of and producer for public radio, and, he was co-owner, with his father, Birmingham. Later, following theaters in Virginia and South from 1976 to 1989, was professor of Continental Enterprises. service in the Korean War as a Carolina. Survivors include partner of music and chair of the Visual Survivors include wife Joni Taylor. chaplain’s assistant and organist, George Loukides. Tomlin’s friend and Performing Arts Department he served in the U.S. State and classmate Dolores Brow Cook at Huntingdon College. Survivors Carolyn Jones Wilder ’63 of Department, with postings ’53 shared the news of his death. include husband Col. Robert S. Helena died April 2, 2007. An throughout Central and South Barmettler. accomplished musician, she was America, Europe, and the Middle William A. McGregor ’54 of the owner of Opus II Music House East, where he employed his Arcadia, Calif., died June 7, 2007. Jerome Franklin (Frank) Brown ’59 and was an agent with RE/MAX fluency in four languages. of Dacula, Ga., died April 6, 2007. Realty and a member of the Returning to Birmingham, he dealt L. Dwight Henslee ’57 of Cullman Following service in the U.S. Air Birmingham Board of Realtors. in jewelry and antiques and died Feb. 16, 2007. He was the Force, he was employed for many Survivors include husband Jack became an accomplished painter retired president of Henslee years by Westinghouse/ Eaton Wilder. and iconographer. Insurance Agency. Survivors Corp. include wife Etheline “Susie” William “Bill” R. Thomas Jr. ’65 of Dr. Paul William Scokel III ’49 of Henslee. Dr. Gary Edward Ganus ’60 of Tuscaloosa, formerly of Opelika, Birmingham died June 1, 2007. Birmingham died May 14, 2007. died March 6, 2007. With a With a degree from the University Daniel Lee Burgess ’58 of He served in the Vietnam War as a master’s degree in mathematics of Alabama, he practiced medicine Birmingham died May 29, 2007. major in the U.S. Army National from the University of Tennessee, until his retirement in 2006. He was a veteran of the Korean Guard Medical Detachment and he served two years in the U.S. Survivors include wife Anne H. War, serving in the U.S. Marine was awarded the Bronze Star. Army as a researcher in the Army Scokel and daughter Nona Scokel Corps. With a degree from the With a degree from the School of Scientific Engineering Corps in Buskill ’89. Cumberland School of Law at Dentistry at the University of Bethesda, Md., and later at Walter Samford University, he practiced Alabama, he served as a family Reed Army Medical Center in James L. Sullivan ’49 of Lynn law for more than 30 years and dentist to patients in Birmingham Washington, D.C. He also taught Haven, Fla., died May 4, 2006. was active in professional and Tarrant for more than 40 years. math at Abraham Aldwin Survivors include wife Georgia L. organizations. He served as a Survivors include wife Lynda Agricultural College in Tifton, Ga., Sullivan. municipal judge for the city of Henderson Ganus. and for Houston (Texas) public Sumiton for 22 years and was schools. Louise Elizabeth Williamson ’50 of president of the Municipal Judges Rev. Daniel Zachery Kitchens ’60 Birmingham died March 25, 2007. Association during that time. He of Huntsville died Sept. 17, 2006. Timothy Edward Hill ’83 of She was a teacher with more than was a devoted member of the First With graduate degrees from the Adamsville died Jan. 2, 2007. 40 years of service in Jefferson United Methodist Church of Vanderbilt Divinity School, he was County schools. Birmingham and served on its a pastor with the North Alabama Dr. John W. Carroll Mills ’85 of administrative board. Survivors Conference of the United Mountain Brook died Jan. 19, Sam M. Tomlin ’53 of Sarasota, include wife Beverly S. Burgess. Methodist Church for 45 years. 2007. He was a veteran of the Fla., formerly of New York City, During that time, he served U.S. Navy, serving on the aircraft died May 30, 2007. He was Dr. Jeanne E. Shaffer ’58 of churches in Birmingham, carrier USS Ranger. With a degree employed by the NYC public Montgomery died April 9, 2007. Anniston, Columbiana, several in in dentistry from the University of school system for 21 years, Singer, composer, radio host, and North Alabama, and was district Alabama and with additional teaching fifth and sixth grades, college professor, she was a superintendent of the Huntsville training in oral surgery and before he was promoted to lifelong musician who began her District. He also served as chair of endodontics, he maintained a guidance counselor, working with career singing on radio at age four, the board of directors of the private practice for 19 years. He emotionally handicapped children. signed a five-year contract to sing United Methodist Children’s Home also served as director of the After retirement, he operated a with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in Selma. endodontics program at the used and rare book company, Old at age 11, and appeared in the Survivors include his wife, Emily University of Alabama School of Mill Books, which later became a MGM movie Girl of the Golden Gannaway Kitchens, and children Dentistry, was active in mail-order firm. He was a West at age 12. With a master’s including Joel Daniel Kitchens ’89. professional associations, and volunteer for several amateur degree in music from BSC and a Richard “Jack” Taylor Jr. ’60 of served as president of the

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Birmingham Dental Department of Veterans Society. Survivors include Affairs, the Alcoholism wife Helen Crow Mills. Recovery Center, and other public agencies. His Dr. Charles Thayer memorial service was held Montague ’89 of Johnson at Yeilding Chapel on June City, Tenn., died March 5, 4, 2007. Survivors include 2007. With a medical wife Carmetta Craddock degree from the Haden. University of Alabama, he worked for 10 years for Rev. Gerry M. Hearin Jr., Anesthesia and Pain Friend, of Huffman died Consultants. Survivors Feb. 17, 2007. A longtime include wife Jennifer minister in the United Montague. Methodist Church, he was a past chair of the board of Rev. Sidney Hill Jr. ’91 of directors of pastoral Birmingham died March advisors at Birmingham- 18, 2007. He was Southern. Survivors formerly employed by the include wife June Hearin. United Mine Workers of you’ve made the friends. America. Survivors Judith Jinks Nelson, include wife Carol Hill. Friend, of Hueytown died April 25, 2007. She was Barbara K. Phillips Chafin retired from many years of now keep them. ’92 of Forestdale died service in institutional March 12, 2007. She was advancement at manager of America’s Birmingham-Southern. First Federal Credit Union, Forestdale Branch. Bishop Carl Julian AlumNet Survivors include husband Sanders, Friend, of
A searchable alumni directory Jerry Chafin. Richmond, Va., died March 7, 2007. A former trustee
A permanent BSC e-mail address Robert Walter Dean ’98 of of Birmingham-Southern Brandon, Miss., formerly with a long and distin-
Register for BSC events of Birmingham, died Jan. guished career in the 28, 2007. He was a United Methodist Church,
Make gifts veteran, having served as he retired as bishop of the a medic in Vietnam. He Alabama-West Florida was employed by the Conference in 1980. He Mississippi Construction was co-founder of the Education Foundation. Alabama-West Florida Survivors include wife United Methodist Gretchen Buntyn Dean. Foundation and served, Birmingham-SouthernBSC College among many other Dr. Hugh H. Haden Jr., positions within the www.bsc.edu/alumnet Friend, of Birmingham church, as president of died June 3, 2007. He UMCOR and as vice practiced medicine in president of the Board of Birmingham for more than Global Ministries. 50 years and also worked with the Mental Health Association, the

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