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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2019 SERVING THE UNIVERSITY VOLUME 126 | ISSUE 26 OF ALABAMA SINCE 1894 TITLE IX 6 CONCERTS 7 TIMELINE 8-9 A writer argues that the CW’s In the past, UA was a Take a trip down memory coverage of The Jasons destination for the most lane as The Crimson Honorary Society had a popular musical acts in the White’s news staff recounts lasting impact on the way world. What would it look some of the newspaper’s gender roles are discussed like if those same artists most notable headlines on campus. played here today? from history. CULTURE | HISTORY Campus monuments, memorials tell a one-sided story The University of Alabama landscape is dotted with monuments to the Confederacy and important sites of the Civil Rights Movement. These are rarely discussed on campus tours or at other events. Some faculty and students believe that the University should be more open and honest in telling its Graphic CW / Carly Farmer own history.

BY DESI GILLESPIE CONTRIBUTING WRITER @DESIGILLESPIE1 125 YEARS OF THE et on a squat brick path, a short Sbranch off the sidewalk to the Bus Hub, four grave markers sit nestled against the back of the Biology Building. In front of the fenced-off markers, a plaque with only seven CRIMSON WHITE sentences is on display. But few students ever see the words on it, primarily due to its location. It is the University of Alabama Faculty Senate’s apology for slavery, honoring those “whose labor and legacy of perseverance helped to build The University of Alabama community since its founding.” The plaque is the only such marker on campus. “You have to go ﬁ nd the ways the University has tried to physically reconcile with race,” said Cierra Roberson, a graduate student in gender and race studies. “But you blatantly see Confederate monuments like the boulder in front of Gorgas … It informs how I think the University administration feels about my being a black woman on campus.” SEE PAGE 10-11 THURSDAY 2 December 5, 2019 Sara Norton is a sophomore majoring in aerospace engineering CAPTURING from Crofton, Maryland. WHY: I chose the University of Alabama after meeting my roommate, Keely, through a Facebook group. I couldn’t bear the thought of going to a school CAMPUS without her, so I made the decision to pack my bags and head to Tuscaloosa. To be featured in Capturing MEMORY: My favorite memory at Campus, send an email to Bama so far is the [email protected] time I tried to clean my shoes using dish cw.ua.edu soap. A few weeks later I was walking P.O. Box 870170 414 Campus Drive East to class when it Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Newsroom: (205) 348-6144 started raining, and Fax: (205) 348-8036 my shoes started Advertising: (205) 348-7845 foaming. I had to EDITORIAL STAFF go to the rest of editor-in-chief Savannah Bullard my classes that day [email protected] managing editor Ben Stansell with bubbles on my digital editor Ryan Riha shoes. FUTURE: My visuals editor Carly Farmer goal for the future chief copy editor David Palmer is to land a job at opinions editor Brett Hodges [email protected] NASA. I love space. news editor Rebecca Griesbach [email protected] CW / KEELY assistant news editor Jessa Reid Bolling

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Material herein may not be reprinted without the Orchestra. expressed, written permission of The Crimson White. 125 YEARS December 5, 2019 3 Women’s coverage saw a slow evolution at CW The Crimson White’s coverage of women has taken many shapes through the years – from showcasing photos of “beautiful” women students on the front page to hiring a women’s editor and reaching representational equality in the newsroom. schools in the state of Alabama, but BY MEGHAN MITCHELL then she would also write these CULTURE EDITOR cool fashion columns every week,” @POMEGRANATE_27 Testino said. “So I think I looked to that to kind of see what all you could do as a female journalist.” hen Abbey Crain trekked The way Crain wrote about Wacross campus six years fashion in 2013, though, varies ago in her tutu and ultra-short hair, greatly from how it was written it was with the knowledge that she about historically in the CW. was setting herself apart from the “Miniskirts at UA can be used the rest of the student body. wrong way,” a front-page article in “I wanted to differentiate myself a 1969 edition of the CW, is a prime from the male gaze,” Crain said. example of then-student Bill Newby “I wanted to not look like that. At policing women’s fashion. The University of Alabama, there “The selection of girls who weren’t many dudes, men, I had should wear a miniskirt is more encountered that were fans of easily effected from the negative dressing outside the box.” side: which ones should not wear Crain has a legacy in Tuscaloosa miniskirts. Above and beyond all as co-author of the award-winning others on this list are corpulent, The “Bama Belles” feature was often front-page fodder for The Crimson White of Crimson White article, “The Final obese or fat women,” Newby wrote. the 1960s. CW File Barrier,” which concerned sorority integration. But during her time at student studying history with a these standards still persist today. the CW, the former culture editor focus on queer women, said that “I think women are still expected and multifaceted reporter shared lesbians in media were historically to look pretty, like take that call to an eclectic range of writing. Her If y’all not ready for portrayed to appeal to the look pretty or act like a ‘woman,’” regular fashion column combined the real me, I just can’t heterosexual man of the time. Tina Turner, a senior majoring in with hard-hitting journalism “There was what was called news media, said. changed the way then-CW help it. ‘lipstick lesbians,’” Boyle said. Turner said her family had hoped coworker Laura Testino thought “They were ones that were she would maintain a certain level about journalism. TINA TURNER sexual appealing to heterosexual of beauty in order to continue “I think I started [working at the audiences, normally heterosexual a legacy. CW] right as [Crain] published ‘The men, as opposed to actual “My Aunt Joan, in the 70s, Final Barrier,’” Testino said. “That queer women.” she was the black Homecoming definitely immediately opened my But Newby doesn’t stop there. These beauty standards include Queen,” Turner said. “I mean, she eyes to how journalism could look Others who “should not” wear body size, makeup-use and height, was Homecoming Queen, but she different than what I thought it miniskirts include “girls who are Boyle said. was one of the first black ones. So, ever could.” excessively slim in the legs” and “There has been this idea of a I grew up hearing that up hearing For Testino, Crain provided an women who are “not that type.” body standard – normally smaller- my grandma say, ‘I love [The] example of how a writer could “Provided she fits the framed, blonde-haired women University of Alabama because they report news that varied in impact qualifications of the earlier – and if anyone deviates from made my daughter … Homecoming and seriousness. paragraphs, any time onlookers that, that’s a point of mockery,” Queen.’ I think she just wants me “[‘The Final Barrier’ article] are present is a good time to display Boyle said. “Anyone who’s too tall to keep that image because I’m the happened, and then I remember her charms,” Newby wrote. doesn’t look ‘right,’ if they don’t only grandkid who went to UA.”` Abbey wrote something about a Appealing to the male gaze was look hyper-feminine they say, ‘Oh, class that taught sex-ed and how – and is – a societal expectation you look too masculine, you don’t that compared to the way sex-ed put upon more than just straight look right,’ if they don’t subscribe was being taught throughout other women. Victoria Boyle, a graduate to makeup standards, they’re called out for that saying they don’t look The selection of girls ‘right,’ they don’t look like they’re who should wear a feeling well.” “Bama Belles,” a regular feature miniskirt is more easily in 1960s CW, demonstrated these eff ected from the beauty standards in explicit fashion. Pictures of women adorned the negative side: which pages of the CW, paired with ones should not wear descriptions about their beauty, hobbies and other information that miniskirts. Above and might be “important” to the reader. beyond all others on “Fern is a Phi Mu from Tuscaloosa,” the April 9, 1963, this list are corpulent, feature read. “She is 18, medium height, with brilliant brown hair. obese or fat women. She has no distinguishing marks or scars. If you’re interested, just go BILL NEWBY into the woods where there’s some ‘viney’ trees. She’s a real swinger.” The features, arguably more Turner didn’t succumb to the accurately described as personal expectation she faced. She said she ads, highlighted the importance was too tired for that. placed on beauty at the time. “If y’all not ready for the real me, I Though they take a different form, just can’t help it,” Turner said. CW File 125 YEARS 4 December 5, 2019

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CW / A’Neshia Turner My Tweets COLUMN: ANNIVERSARY @5theyeblind Undercover deep dives. I OUR VIEW: 125 years mean nothing want y’all out there exposing that a student-run newspaper isn’t be at the top of our game, each gangs, cheaters, drug dealers, BY CW EDITORIAL BOARD worth the time or money. The future newspaper we put out is made with guys who pretend that they of journalism is a mystery, but it a smile. When you love what you t has been 125 years since would appear as if outlets with simple, do, it’s easy to go that extra distance watched New Girl to impress Ithe inaugural edition of The digestible and interactive content to ensure that what you make is girls at the bar, catch 21 cops Crimson White, and journalism, are leading the way. In an effort to quality. More than anything, we hope in lecture halls, everyone along with the rest of the world, has increase our reach, recent years have to pass on the love and passion for changed. Students are now more apt seen our newspaper prioritizing digital journalism necessary to make a great to find information about the goings- content and social media interaction newspaper to the various staffs who on of campus from Twitter than more and more. As we strive to stay will be creating the next 125 years of Feliz NaviSaad our lovely little newspaper. Gone relevant in our digital age, we at The The Crimson White. are the days of print news being the Crimson White pride ourselves on @hannah_saad21 standard. Even television news is one thing: our commitment to getting seemingly suffering as we transition the story right. However, this same Fire @Ben_Stansell to our new online world. More and unrelenting commitment to the facts is Regardless of the more, we find the traditions of the the very reason that the past 125 years past being dismantled in favor of don’t matter. pressure to always be new, innovative forms of media A reputation for quality journalism at the top of our game, Will Bridges and information. means nothing when releasing two @WillT_Bridges newspapers each week. The only issue each newspaper we that matters, the only one the students put out is made with Give @Ben_Stansell a raise. care about, is the one currently on He’s the next Colin Cowherd! As we strive to stay the newstands. No amount of history a smile. will ever cement our reputation so relevant in our digital concretely that we can afford time age, we at The Crimson off. Every week our credibility as a Rebecca Griesbach publication is put to the test. Glaring As the school year progresses and White pride ourselves factual errors, despite how common yet another semester comes to a @rebach97 they may be in our “fake news” era, close, we must now begin to plan our I’d like to see our FOIAs get on one thing: our have no place at The Crimson White. future. Another year will bring fresh commitment to getting While the past 125 years readily reflects faces, new stories and the unique returned. this, it only takes one story to destroy opportunity to continue a legacy of the story right. any sort of trust the student body has great journalism. While we can look in our paper. Even something so simple to the past for those lessons best as a typo creates the appearance of learned through experience, we must Garrett sloppiness and apathy, despite the be mindful to never allow nostalgia @Garrett57831009 Needless to say, in another 125 thousands of papers released in prior to overtake us. The future is never years, The Crimson White will be years. Newspaper journalism is rooted found in the past, and the next great I’d like to hear more about indistinguishable from what it is in the current events of today, so if edition of The Crimson White won’t what different things clubs now, if it is even around. It would we can’t make a good paper today, we be found in our archives. not be inconceivable to think that simply aren’t good journalists. Our View represents the consensus of are doing on campus! the University may one day decide Regardless of the pressure to always the CW Editorial Board.

EDITORIAL BOARD WE WELCOME YOUR OPINIONS Send submissions to [email protected]. Submissions The Crimson White reserves the right to edit all Savannah Bullard editor-in-chief Carly Farmer visuals editor must include the author’s name, year, major and guest columns and letters to the editor. The opinions Ben Stansell managing editor David Palmer chief copy editor OPINIONS daytime phone number. Phone numbers are for contained on this page do not represent the editorial Ryan Riha digital editor Brett Hodges opinions editor verification and will not be published. position of The Crimson White Media Group. 125 YEARS December 5, 2019 5 Money should not be the focus of the holidays are seen as great gifts purely joy out of the holiday if everyone Don’t get me wrong, there may BY HEATHER GANN because they’re expensive. just focuses on whether they be some people who Google the STAFF COLUMNIST What sentimental value does spent enough on someone or cost of their presents or count the money have? If we all decided whether someone spent enough gifts to compare them to last year, hanksgiving has passed, tomorrow that we didn’t want to on them. Different people have but if anyone in your life is like Tand now, the Christmas use it anymore, it would literally different financial means, so that, they’ve missed the concept season is upon us. For many mean nothing. Money would someone could buy you an of the holiday entirely, and you people, this time of year brings a be meaningless slips of paper iPhone and it means literally shouldn’t worry about them. great deal of stress over what to floating in the wind. nothing, while another person buy for their loved ones. People could buy you a candle with all are not only worried about the money they had. purchasing the right present, I think a large part of this Children see the kids but also purchasing a nice holiday guilt can be attributed one. My question is this: Why? Gift-giving should to Christmas advertisements. on TV with the newest Gift-giving should be a happy be a happy gesture Children see the kids on TV with gesture between loved ones, not the newest phone and shoes and phone and shoes and a dollar-fueled stress fest where between loved ones, expect those things from “Santa,” expect those things you are expected to max your not a dollar-fueled not knowing their parents are credit card on the perfect gift footing the bill. I think ads from “Santa,” not for every person you’ve ever stress fest where you intentionally take advantage of knowing their parents interacted with. this. They know a parent doesn’t Personally, my favorite gifts are expected to max want to disappoint their child, are footing the bill. haven’t been large tech pieces your credit card on the so they target their marketing or expensive clothes. They’ve directly at the children. This been homemade or symbolic perfect gift for every doesn’t just apply to kids, though. sentimental gifts someone has person you’ve ever There are countless commercials This time of year, we all need given me. The best gifts are the featuring a husband buying his to take a break from the stress gifts that show the person knows interacted with. wife a new car and vice versa. and bustle of day-to-day life you well and pays attention to This is a ridiculous notion. I don’t and enjoy what the season is all your life and interests. I really know anyone who could afford a about: happy times and spreading think that things like laptops, new car as a Christmas present. our love. new phones or even just cash are On the subject of gift costs, But because of these ads, people a little soulless. Anyone could buy there is also a weird competition feel insufficient and think they Heather Gann is a sophomore you that anywhere; no time or every year over who spent the have to spend hundreds of dollars majoring in news media. Her care went into it. Yet, these most on who. It really takes the for it to be a good Christmas. column runs biweekly. 125 YEARS 6 December 5, 2019

order to further integrate women into The University of Alabama. CW promotes women’s rights, In the fall of 1979, the Student Government Association began voting on new dorms that would Title IX through Jasons coverage house both men and women. to think back to see if [there time, The Crimson White’s male As the 1980s approached, BY JAMES BENEDETTO was] anybody on the Editorial editors-in-chief traditionally Mayfield noted that the shift in ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR Board who objected to what we were tapped into the society, gender roles began to receive @JAMES_BENEDETTO tried to do, and I don’t remember but that trend stopped with some resistance. However, the that. We were supportive of it, Mayfield. He said he “[wore] it coverage brought gender issues f you are walking from Denny and we were pretty loud about like a badge of honor” when he to the forefront for students of IChimes to the Ferguson it for the period of time I was at was not chosen for the society. the University. Student Center, nestled to the The Crimson White.” “It’s strange, and I don’t have left of Gorgas Library sits a In the fall of 1977, the CW any science to back this up, but small, round building. reported that The Jasons would during that part of the 70s, it Inconspicuous? Yes, but its be meeting with University was more progressive,” Mayfield presence on the University of officials to discuss the society’s At the CW, we were all said. “I think it went backward Alabama campus is in some ways lack of female members. This for Title IX. I am trying some a decade later, weirdly an intentional reminder of what came at an intriguing time for enough. There was kind of a this campus used to be. the campus, as changing gender to think back to see if conservative backlash on certain After surviving the Civil War roles and the second wave of [there was] anybody things, and I’m not talking and becoming an infirmary feminism led to gender equality. just politically.” in the late 1800s, the all-male “When I was editor, both as a on the Editorial Board The coverage of The Jasons honorary, The Jasons, made the copy editor and as an editor-in- who objected to what and Title IX laid the groundwork Little Round House its home in chief, we had rapes on campus for future writers for The Crimson 1933. “Jason’s Shrine,” as it is that we covered aggressively, we tried to do, and I White. It placed an emphasis sometimes referred to today, and I don’t think that was done don’t remember that. on treating this newspaper as was the home base for the to the extent it was done in an actual publication and not society for over 40 years until the mid- to late-70s and on into degrading it because it was it was banned from campus in the 80s,” Mayfield said. “We MARK produced by students. the late 1970s after violating demanded that the University do MAYFIELD Title IX laws. something about it.” “At the CW, we were all for Mayfield continued by stating Due to intense coverage of James Benedetto is a graduate Title IX,” said the CW’s 1976 the coverage of The Jasons The Jasons and other Title IX student studying journalism. He is sports editor and 1977 editor-in- prohibited him from receiving a issues, the University continued the Assistant Sports Editor for The chief, Mark Mayfield. “I am trying bid into the society. During that to make changes to campus in Crimson White. 125 YEARS December 5, 2019 7 Chart-topping artists, bands, visited the Capstone

It’s one thing to admire LED ZEPPELIN, 1973 left the British pop group One the lineup on a poster for The foursome of Robert Plant, Direction in 2016, released his Woodstock in 1969 or the first Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones and debut record in 2017 and both Coachella in 1999 – but what John Bonham came to Tuscaloosa hosted and played “Saturday about the lineup organized by on the very week that their fifth Night Live” in November. Styles University Programs back in album reached the No. 1 spot on will release his second album this the day? With chart data and the Billboard charts. It was their month. awards stats, it’s not so hard to third album to crest at the top imagine what a similar lineup of the charts, and the band was of A-list musicians would look still riding high off the success of like in 2019. “Led Zeppelin IV,” with sales of 23 million units – making it the sixth highest-selling album of all time. BY LEAH GOGGINS The latest band with three No. 1 ASSISTANT CULTURE EDITOR albums, including a chart-topper @LADYGOGGOG in 2019, is Vampire Weekend, the indie rock group helmed by Ezra Koenig. Vampire Weekend’s THE KINGSTON TRIO, 1959 2019 album “Father of the Bride” The Kingston Trio, fresh off debuted at No. 1 before dropping of their first-ever single going down the chart, remaining on the CW File to the top of the Billboard chart, Billboard Hot 200 for eight weeks. arrived in Tuscaloosa in April of This year Vampire Weekend REBA MCENTIRE, 1993 1959. That year, they would attend embarked on a North American tour that began at May’s Hangout Reba McEntire played at Coleman the second Grammys ceremony CW File and win their second award from Fest and will continue into 2020. Coliseum for 1993’s Homecoming the Recording Academy, making JIMI HENDRIX, 1969 concert, drawing criticism from them 2-for-2 when it came to the many black students at the fledgling Grammys. Their Students could pick up tickets time, according to a 1993 report performance at Foster Auditorium, for Jimi Hendrix’s May 1969 show by then-entertainment editor then, would catch them right at for $4, which would still be less Stacey Capps. Her performance the height of their newfound fame. than $30 in 2019. Hendrix played was supported by John Michael at Memorial Coliseum just two Montgomery and Brother Phelps, months before his iconic set at and she succeeded Jimmy Buffett Woodstock. At the time, Hendrix as Homecoming performer, with Hendrix played at was the highest-paid rock Buffett taking the stage in 1992. musician in the world, according After 10 years of trying to make it Memorial Coliseum to biographer Charles Cross, with big, McEntire had broken through just two months the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1986, with a No. 1 album on the demanding $14,000 per minute at a country chart. Her popularity had before his iconic Madison Square Garden show. His continued through 1993, when she set at Woodstock. modern-day monetary equivalent would issue her second greatest would be Ed Sheeran, whom hits album and play to a sold-out At the time, Hendrix Forbes reports as the highest- crowd in Tuscaloosa. Miranda was the highest-paid paid individual musician of 2018. Lambert, who released an album Sheeran, who typically plays in November, has been hard at rock musician in the at 60,000-plus capacity venues work since she was a teenager, like Wembley Stadium, would world, according to CW File signing her first record deal in certainly be downsizing at the 2003. Where McEntire’s 1993 biographer Charles then-Memorial Coliseum, which STEVIE NICKS, 1983 album peaked at the No. 5 spot on would have held around 15,000 When Stevie Nicks came to the Billboard Hot 200, Lambert’s Cross, with the Jimi spectators. Tuscaloosa – Joe Walsh in tow– in 2019 album hit No. 4. Lambert Hendrix Experience 1983, it was for the second time. plans to tour the record in 2020. Nicks had previously played demanding $14,000 in Tuscaloosa with Lindsey per minute at a Though Buckingham Buckingham when they were still touring as a duo in January 1975. Madison Square and Nicks had just Their relatively unsuccessful Garden show. joined a British group career as Buckingham Nicks had resulted in a single album whose called Fleetwood Mac popularity exploded in Alabama. the month prior, they Though Buckingham and Nicks had just joined a British group Despite being a single artist, ﬂ ew to Alabama and called Fleetwood Mac the month Lil Nas X, with his six-month-old prior, they flew to Alabama hit that stayed at the top of the played at least two and played at least two shows: Billboard Hot 100 for 19 weeks, is shows: one at Morgan one at Morgan Auditorium and certainly the Trio’s modern-day another at Boutwell Auditorium equivalent. Though Lil Nas X’s Auditorium and in Birmingham. In 1983, however, “Old Town Road” and the Kingston another at Boutwell Nicks returned as a solo artist. She Trio’s “Tom Dooley” are separated had not yet left Fleetwood Mac, but by more than 60 years, they share Auditorium her debut record in 1981 signaled country-Western influences and in Birmingham. the end of days for the band. She genre-bending legacies. Lil Nas X would go on to play “Saturday has received six nominations for Night Live” that year, not unlike the 2020 Grammys. 2019’s Harry Styles. Styles, who CW File 125 YEARS 8 December 5, 2019 9

THROUGH THE YEARS: CW NEWS HEADLINES, EDITORIALS SHINE LIGHT ON CAMPUS HISTORY

BY REBECCA GRIESBACH & JESSA REID BOLLING NEWS EDITOR AND ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR @REBACH97 AND @JR_BOLLING 1956 1962 1963 1970 1976 1986 1989 The Crimson White took a stroll LETTERS FLOOD OFFICE A BELL RANG NEEDED: MORE STUDENTS, CAMPUS UNDER POLICE CLEO THOMAS WINS BY A CROSS-BURNING ‘PRANK’ VISELLI: INSPIRATIONAL LESS PICKETS SIEGE; FLAMES GUT PROVOKES UNREST CAMPAIGN down memory lane, scanning for The CW reprinted excerpts After James Meredith, who WIDE MARGIN DRESSLER GYM headlines that captured pivotal from about 100 letters amid the would later become a civil Vivian Malone Jones was the Cleo Thomas became the first A cross was burned outside of The CW published an editorial suspension of Autherine Lucy rights activist, was barred from first African American student The campus shut down in May of African American SGA president a house that Alpha Kappa Alpha, honoring the candidacy of Joey a historically black sorority, was moments in the University’s history. Foster, the University’s first attending the University of to receive a degree from the 1970 after students lined streets to and the first African American to Viselli, an independent SGA considering using as a residence presidential candidate who lost by African American student whose Mississippi, the CW published University. But, when she set protest the shooting at Kent State. defeat the Machine. Due to the inaccessibility of some for members. No charges were filed a narrow margin. Viselli, the son enrollment was resisted by a an editorial stating that black foot on campus with classmate In its May 4 issue, The Crimson students had legal rights to James Hood, they were met with White chronicled the protests in the cross burning, though it was of the owner of a local pizza chain, archives, this timeline starts in the violent mob. Several of the letters CROSSES BURNED attend Southern universities. resistance by fellow students and with expansive stories and photo AFTER ELECTION rumored the Machine was involved. claimed his father’s restaurant, 1950s and continues on, capturing condemned the actions of the mob, The editorial received backlash Bama-Bino Pizza, was forced to state officials. In a guest editorial essays and included an editorial MERRILL NABS SENATOR but many lauded the University’s from White Citizens Councilors, following then-governor George in remembrance of those who lost Shortly after, 15 men in white close after Greeks boycotted the ‘RAMBLING’ IN OFFICE Machine coverage, campus decision to later expel Lucy Foster who petitioned the Board of Wallace’s infamous Stand in the their lives at Kent State. sheets burned a cross, threw bottles restaurant to punish Viselli for integration, sexual assault cases and “keep the University white.” Trustees to fire the editor, Schoolhouse Door, Hood argued for and chanted “revolutionary tunes” Independent candidate for SGA running against the Machine. Mel Meyer. the importance of education, and on campus. president John Merrill discovered Viselli claimed one of his campaign and student protest. its superiority over other methods two alleged members of the workers was beaten and that he of protest. Machine breaking into his office. received bomb threats. One of Merrill’s campaign workers claimed his car had been run off the road, and Merrill’s wife was allegedly threatened with rape by the Machine.

1991 1993 1999 2011 2013 2015 2016 2017 2019 4,000 COPIES OF THE SAYERS, KNOPKE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TORNADO ARCHIVE THE FINAL BARRIER: 50 ELLIOT SPILLERS WINS THE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS UNIVERSITY ELECTIONS EMAILS SHOW CANDIDATE CW ‘SWIPED’ RECEIVE THREATS YEARS LATER, SEGREGATION SGA PRESIDENCY BOARD RESIGNS WAS OFFERED, QUICKLY SUSPEND SGA While facing scarce power and STILL EXISTS In 2015 The Crimson White TERMINATED FROM OSM About 4,000 copies of The The University suspended Fabien Zinga, a black student internet access, The CW staff Elliot Spillers was elected the devoted an entire edition to Jared Hunter was elected DIRECTOR POSITION Crimson White were stolen, the SGA until 1996 after a non- who ran for SGA president managed to write over 40 articles The Crimson White exposed first African American SGA covering sexual assault on SGA president in 2017, making allegedly by the Machine, in an Machine candidate for SGA as an independent, received and provide lives social media Panhellenic sororities for barring president at The University of campus. Ten months later, the him the first African American A CW investigation revealed effort to prevent students from president that year was assaulted racial threats that he blamed on coverage of an EF4 tornado that black women from membership. Alabama in nearly 40 years, CW revisited the issue, urging student to win the position with that a candidate for the director reading an exposé on the political at her home and a burning cross the Machine. destroyed much of Tuscaloosa. The investigation changed policies making him the first non-Machine the University to address sexual the support of the Machine. Early of the Office of Student Media organization the day before was placed in her yard. The victim and led to the formal integration of candidate to win the position assault, listing current resources in his term, however, the SGA had been hired and fired following SGA elections. was reported to have sustained “a the Greek system. Today, however, since 1986. and telling the stories of Elections Board submitted a letter the publication of ethical concerns golf ball-size bruise on her cheek, racial diversity in historically those affected. of resignation, citing Hunter’s against him. a busted lip and a knife wound white sororities and fraternities is WHY I’M LEAVING THE campaign violations, including on the side of her face.” Months still abysmal. MACHINE his public acknowledgment before the attack, a cross had been of his involvement in the Alex Smith, an SGA senator for burned on her front lawn and Machine. Hunter was arrested the College of Arts and Sciences threatening messages were found for a DUI in 2018 and resigned at the time, wrote an editorial for in her mailbox. immediately after. The Crimson White about her decision to stop working with the Machine. All Photos CW File 125 YEARS 8 December 5, 2019 9

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... There are 15 plaques on campus that catalog events from the Civil War and prior. Two mention slaves or enslaved labor, and one of those two is the slavery apology marker, erected in 2004. Hilary Green, associate professor of history, said the University has a larger story it is not telling.

The senate’s apology was one of the few times that UA was ahead of the University of Virginia’s racial reconciliation eff orts. The University’s CW fi le problem with her creating a walking tour of campus fi lmmaking class that requires answer any questions that come known as “Hallowed Grounds,” students to produce documentaries up, including those that involve the reconciliation is that it which details the history of slavery on Alabama history. Many projects University’s history.” is seen as a one-time on campus. feature civil rights history, and The University of Virginia is Meredith Bagley, associate Fields is often surprised by often seen as a leader in racial event rather than a professor of communications how little students know before reconciliation among colleges in sustained eff ort. studies, also sponsors an unoffi cial they begin. the United States. UVA’s president tour of important civil rights-era “A lot of my students come here is on the leading edge of historical sites at the University. thinking all the racial problems research and racial activism, HILARY GREEN Roberson took an offi cial campus in America were solved after the publishing a Commission on Slavery tour as part of a class last fall. civil rights movement,” Field said. in 2018. “The justifi cation of a pro-slavery She did not believe it refl ected the “And that’s just not true … I think stance was in [the University’s] experience of black students at there should be a strong program DNA, and it became geared toward the University. focused on racial reconciliation at defending white supremacy and “The campus tour [given by the the University, where there’s every Jim Crow when slavery was Capstone Men and Women] is kind of opportunity for students to There are so many over,” Green said. “[The slavery ahistorical,” Roberson said. “There come together.” apology] marker, without context, are so many opportunities, not Green said that she often hears opportunities, not is insuffi cient. Unless future to just bash the University, but to students voicing their frustration to just bash the generations just stumble across it, state the facts and tell people what with the current state of the offi cial they will not notice history.” happened here … The tour erases campus tour. University, but to The University of Alabama was black life, black trauma and black “The tour, unfortunately, state the facts and tell ahead of many southern colleges memory on this campus.” contributes to our students feeling when it approved the apology Billy Field, an instructor in the like they’re being lied to from the people what happened marker in 2004, Green said. The Honors College, wants the offi cial beginning,” Green said. “I hear this here … The tour erases University of Virginia, hailed as campus tour to include more constantly from white students, a model of institutional racial sites related to the desegregation black students, international black life, black trauma reconciliation in recent years, movement on campus. students when they fi nally learn the installed a similar marker in 2007. “I think that potential students on history of slavery at the University.” and black memory on “We have these bold attempts, but campus tours should be taken to the The Capstone Men and Women this campus. the efforts haven’t been sustained,” site of the Stand in the Schoolhouse do not have a specifi c policy on Green said. “The University’s Door and told the story,” Field addressing historical matters of CIERRA problem with reconciliation is that said. “They should be told about race on campus tours, advisor Lucy ROBERSON it is seen as a one-time event rather its importance in the history of the Arnold Sikes said. than a sustained effort.” whole country.” “Our tours are designed to Kirt von Daacke, assistant dean Green alleges that the University While the plaque at Foster showcase the campus to prospective of arts and sciences at UVA and administration claims the public Auditorium is comprehensive in students,’ Sikes said. “This includes co-chair of that commission, said relations benefi t of the independent describing the event as the primary campus grounds and facilities they that the most diffi cult thing for a projects of professors rather than catalyst for the Civil Rights Act of will frequent once they enroll at UA. university’s administration is taking direct money to offi cial racial 1964, Field believes it should be a The tour route includes Malone- the fi rst step toward reconciliation. reconciliation projects. focus of offi cial campus tours. Hood Plaza and the Autherine “Universities may fear that the G. Christine Taylor, UA Field teaches an Honors College Lucy Clock Tower. Tour guides can history will be bad for the brand, vice president and associate bring bad press or cause protests,” provost of Diversity, Equity and After an in-depth study of slave owners’ journals, a UA law professor presented von Daacke said. “But when you the Faculty Senate with evidence of slave graves on campus. CW fi le Inclusion, primarily referred to begin truth-telling, you fi nd you the extracurricular scholarship invite more people in, and everyone of Green and John Giggie learns and benefi ts from it.” when asked for a comment on The UVA Commission on Slavery this article. and the University were only created Giggie is the director of the after several years of student Summersell Center for the Study activism. Students’ efforts were of the South at The University of sparked by inadequate attempts at Alabama, as well as the editor apologies and racial reconciliation, of the Tuscaloosa Civil Rights von Daacke said. Trail pamphlet. As with the protests after Riley’s The Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Task resignation, campus-wide UA Force, the organization responsible student mobilization on this issue for that project, is separate from has been episodic. the University. It was created by Von Daacke said that a commission of Mayor Walt Maddox university’s administration will and the Tuscaloosa City Council likely only respond to a respectful, in 2016. comprehensive student movement. Green’s scholarship, which draws He emphasized the effectiveness on University archives, resulted in of letter-writing campaigns, non- 11 destructive publicity stunts and in modern American society,” several years in particular. peaceful protests. according to their website. “Much work has occurred, “Our students went out and The University of Alabama has and more is ongoing on our READING BETWEEN tackled these issues in ways that been in talks to join this coalition campus,” Bell said. “Many of the THE HEADLINES were additive and inclusive,” von since November of last year after historic markers on our campus Daacke said. “There’s a student a resolution from the UA Faculty honor those who have more Are Blacks At group focused on reviewing Senate. Taylor said the University recently made significant and OCTOBER 1969: UA Still Slaves? monuments at the university, will “move forward” to become a lasting contributions to moving “Any reader who cannot readily discussing what needs to be part of the group, but no offi cial our campus forward while draw a parallel between the working rewritten, recontextualized or announcement has been made championing equality, including conditions of Associated Cleaners’ removed … Some covered a statue so far. the establishment of plaques and a maids and janitors, Slater’s employees of Thomas Jefferson in Post-it notes The UA Faculty Senate also clock tower dedicated to Autherine and the slaves of ‘Uncle Tom’s to get their point across.” resolved to create its own Lucy Foster, Malone-Hood Plaza, Cabin’ will fi nd this article diffi cult The Memorial to Enslaved commission to study slavery and Judge John England, Jr. Hall to understand,” CW columnist R. Laborers organization was one the University last November. It has and others.” Edward Brown wrote. of the earliest student groups to yet to offi cially form. Provost Kevin Whitaker mobilize at UVA following the Green, a member of that highlighted the University’s Grave marker installing of their apology marker commission, said members establishing of the Office of SEPTEMBER 2004: for UA-owned slaves erected in 2007. have only met for preliminary Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, “Wearing a sticker that says, ‘Hate While they did not have the discussions twice in that as well as Taylor’s work toward is not a UA value,’ is a sugar-coated authority to build a memorial, the time. However, she remains reconciliation initiatives. solution to the problem,” student group held design competitions “cautiously optimistic” about the Whitaker said that “understanding Stephens Williams said. and sparked a larger campus commission’s potential. our past is an important priority.” dialogue on the issue of The memorial will be placed But Roberson believes the Slavery racial reconciliation. prominently near UVA’s Rotunda. A University is attempting to move NOVEMBER 2018: Commission to study historical As a result of the group’s actions dedication ceremony is planned for forward without addressing racism and their own findings, the UVA April 11, 2020. events before the civil rights “When new prospective students commission, along with their Confederate monuments at The movement. She said that their are brought to campus and are given board of visitors, has resolved to University of Alabama are protected presentation of UA history is the tour of campus, they show you build such a monument on campus. under the Alabama Memorial selective at best. the President’s Mansion, and what UVA has also founded the Preservation Act, which prevents “History is cyclical if we don’t they don’t tell you is that what is Universities Studying Slavery the removal of monuments and talk about the past,” Roberson said. typically described if anyone asks coalition, a group of collegiate renaming of buildings over 40 years “[The administration] can never as the ‘gardeners’ homes that are institutions dedicated to “dealing old, according to UA Faculty Senate create a better environment for the behind the president’s mansion,’ with race and inequality in higher President Rona Donahoe. students if they don’t acknowledge they’re actually slave quarters,” education and in university President Stuart Bell said that what the University has done Rona Donahoe, UA Faculty Senate communities as well as the the University has been working on and what black students have president, said. complicated legacies of slavery addressing its history over the last gone through.”

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December 1 - December 13 125 YEARS 12 December 5, 2019 FROM THE ARCHIVES How three editors covered segregation on campus

According to “The Schoolhouse “Morally, there is no justification Hank Black is a Tuscaloosa BY JESSA REID BOLLING AND Door: Segregation’s Last Stand at for his rejection,” it read. native and a graduate of The REBECCA GRIESBACH the University of Alabama,” which “Legally, there can be no doubt University of Alabama who NEWS EDITOR AND was written by E. Culpepper Clark, he is entitled to become a student currently focuses on coverage of ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR a former UA dean, Carmichael had at Mississippi.” the environment. On April 26th, @JR_BOWLING acquiesced to the mob in expelling James B. Laseter, chairman 2019, he was inducted into the UA @REBACH97 Lucy Foster. of the West Alabama Citizens Office of Student Media’s Hall of Council, wrote to the then-head Fame, where he noted that the football coach Paul “Bear” Bryant climate crisis was today’s most he University of Alabama, and to the then-University of pressing issue. Ta campus that was built Alabama president Frank Rose in Black has experience covering and maintained by enslaved The Crimson White’s 1959 to oppose the team’s upcoming crises. As an editor at The people, did not open its doors to game in Philadelphia against Penn Crimson White, Black reported on African American students until efforts in objectively State’s integrated team. Gov. George Wallace’s 1963 Stand 1956, two years after the Brown covering civil rights After the CW published in the Schoolhouse Door, where v. Board of Education decision. editorials criticizing the West he refused admission to Malone The University did not grant a issues - and using Alabama Citizens Council, Laseter and Hood, who had attempted degree to a black student until the editorial page called for Meyer to be removed as to integrate the University 1965, when Vivian Malone Jones, Editor-in-Chief from the CW. “We seven years after Lucy Foster’s who enrolled in 1963 with James to strongly support do not want to hurt [the University] expulsion. Hood, became the University’s intergration - now, but we cannot sit idly by and “Already, before that day, as first African American graduate. let Meyer remain as Editor.” Hank has written, he had met The Crimson White, the all- took courage and Walter Givhan, another Citizens Vivian Malone and Jimmy Hood white student newspaper, covered Council member, wrote to the in secret sessions at Stillman and wrote editorials about leadership. Board of Trustees requesting College in Tuscaloosa,” the CW’s integration on and off campus, the ouster of Meyer. In meeting 1977 Editor-in-Chief and current garnering several awards and MARK minutes from 1962, Trustee editorial advisor Mark Mayfield national recognition. While the MAYFIELD McCorvey stated that he “expected told Birmingham Watch. “Those paper was rarely critical of UA to write Mr. Givhan to the effect meetings brought together black administration and devoted ample The Board of Trustees later that he was sure the University students interested in enrolling space to the voices of officials, decided that they would not would handle the matter in at UA and currently enrolled editorial commentary condemned readmit Lucy Foster without a proper course and that he had full UA students who supported white violence on campus and court order. But, when a court confidence in Dr. Rose and in the them. The meetings were held supported integration, a stance order for her reentry was served, way in which he was handling the in secret because of the threat of that was met with resistance from the board permanently expelled matter.” violence. After all, the KKK was several white readers. Lucy Foster, citing that she had In efforts to diffuse the situation, headquartered in Tuscaloosa at “slandered” the University. Rose stated that Givhan had that time.” Nelson Cole, 1955-1956 According to Clark, even Cole’s not written the editorial. After Mayfield lauded the leadership guarded affirmations of trust publishing the editorial, the of both Black and Meyer, whose Autherine Lucy Foster, the in the Board attracted hate paper’s staff, Clark wrote, “backed term preceded Black’s. first African American student mail and calls from those who away,” falling “silent” on race in “The Crimson White’s efforts to enroll at the University, spent supported the mob. Cole, who the following months, where they in objectively covering civil her third day of class holed up in had written several editorials failed to chronicle momentous rights issues – and using the a tunnel connected to Graves Hall and was featured on the Today events of integration and racial editorial page to strongly support as a mob of over 1,000 protested Show following Foster’s expulsion, strife at nearby universities. integration – took courage and her enrollment. Later that day, pledged support for Carmichael Meyer received several leadership,” he said. “Hank and on Feb. 6, 1956, she was escorted, and the Board of Trustees. journalism awards for his time as Mel Meyer, the 1962-63 CW editor face-down, in a patrol car to the “If anything can be done, they the CW editor, including the 1963 who preceded him, were the right safety of a nearby barbershop, and will do it,” Cole said. “If nothing Editor of the Year Award from the editors at the right time in the the University suspended her “for can be done, we still believe they U.S. Student Press Association. CW’s history.” her safety.” will choose – and have chosen – the Andrew Littlejohn contributed to On Feb. 7, Byron De La Beckwith, wisest approach to the problem.” Hank Black, 1963-1964 the reporting of this story. a Son of the American Revolution from Greenwood, Mississippi, Mel Meyer, 1962-1963 wrote a letter to UA President Oliver Carmichael, stating that James Meredith, who would he was “delighted to see that later go on to become a civil rights the student body of your school activist, was barred from attending protests integration.” the University of Mississippi “Being a little bit integrated is in 1962. Under the leadership just like being a little bit pregnant!” of Editor-in-Chief Mel Meyer, De La Beckwith wrote in the letter. The Crimson White published “I trust you will do all in your an editorial stating that black power to see that segregation students had legal rights to attend is maintained. Segregation is a Southern universities. right and privilege that all men It was reported that, due to must cherish and preserve at all threats from the Ku Klux Klan cost! Get that ‘c--n’ off the campus. as the result of the editorial, two If you can’t, call on the Citizens private detectives were hired to Council – join it!” protect Meyer for the remainder De La Beckwith ended his note of the semester. The editorial, asking how to get in touch with titled “A Bell Rang” and published The Crimson White, which was on September 27, 1962, called for led by Editor-in-Chief Nelson Cole. Meredith to be admitted. 125 YEARS December 5, 2019 13 Decade of sports journalism accolades nears its end said he is most proud of the story’s The Wilder profile, which was BY JAMES OGLETREE ability to make readers feel as if they written in the summer of 2012 – SPORTS EDITOR were experiencing the play and its two and a half years before Wilder @JAMESLOGLETREE aftermath in real time. won his first World Boxing Council “It was a different perspective on it, heavyweight championship – labama football isn’t the only or maybe the story evokes feelings in chronicled the boxer’s aspirations to Afacet of Crimson Tide athletics people of triumph or of defeat or of awe play football or basketball at Alabama to experience success, accolades and at that moment,” Torrence said. “And I before academic struggles and a national recognition over the last think that resonates with people, and child with a birth defect forced him to 10 years. hopefully I did a good enough job of change course. The student reporters who report conveying that to make people feel With Wilder now one of the biggest on and photograph the University’s 17 that way.” names in the sport, Torrence said it’s NCAA teams have also earned plenty fun to look back at what was a story of hardware for their work, earning intended to fill space during the more than 20 awards and honorable sports-deprived Tuscaloosa summer. mentions since 2010 at both the “Obviously it’s easy to remember regional and national levels. As long as I write now because now he’s a champion Marc Torrence, who spent a year what I saw and could and is fighting all the time,” Torrence each as the assistant sports editor and said. “That’s really cool to think about sports editor of The Crimson White, accurately paint a covering him before that happened.” is the most frequent award recipient picture of what it was In January 2015, when Wilder on the list. Torrence received five was about to claim his first title, honors for four stories covering three like to be there, then CW sports reporter Elliott Propes different sports. that’s the best I can do, wrote another story about him that His coverage of the 2013 Iron Bowl, won first place in the SPJ Region 3 entitled the “Nightmare in Jordan- and that’s what people Sports Writing category. The cover Hare,” won first place in the Best want to read about. of that issue is emblazoned on the Sports Game Story category from the wall of the CW newsroom, with the College Media Association (CMA). MARC headline “VEGAS GETS WILDER” in Marc Torrence said he loved this cover As Auburn’s Chris Davis returned bold text. that ran with his proﬁ le of Deontay Wilder the “Kick Six” for a touchdown, TORRENCE A few feet to the right of that is in the summer of 2012. CW File Torrence said it took a moment for another award-winning issue from the shock to dissipate. When it did, he Two other stories won national October 2014. Photographer Pete For all the touchdown passes, slam realized he had witnessed one of the awards during the decade: Jason Pajor snapped a photo of Saban, hands dunks, floor routines and home runs most memorable moments in college Galloway’s feature on Tyrone Prothro’s on hips, standing in front of players as by the Crimson Tide in the 2010s, football history. recovery from a career-ending leg the team prepares to take the field at the Crimson White has had award- His game story began with him injury won second place in the Sports Bryant-Denny Stadium. The photo winning reporters and photographers describing one of the stadium security Feature category from the Columbia won first place in Sports Photography bringing those moments to Alabama guards trying to hold the Auburn Scholastic Press Association (CSPA), from the SPJ. fans everywhere. students back from rushing the field, and Sean Landry’s coverage of the Two CW photographers were “I just remember enjoying it but finally relenting and high-fiving 2014 Iron Bowl, a 55-44 Alabama win, finalists for SPJ Sports Photography immensely,” Torrence said. “Getting them as they sprinted past. won first place from the CSPA in the Awards in 2018: Hannah Saad for a to go to all those games, whether “I just kind of wrote what I Sports News category. photo of running back Najee Harris it was the Kick Six or the national experienced amidst the technical, Alabama’s next game after the hurdling a Tennessee defender, and championship against Notre Dame or game-story parts of the story,” Kick Six was the Sugar Bowl against Sam MacDonald for a photo of wide the Game of the Century, there was Torrence said. “As long as I write Oklahoma in January. Three days receiver DeVonta Smith celebrating so much. I think it was a good time to what I saw and could accurately before the game, Torrence’s assistant his game-winning touchdown be on the sports desk at the Alabama paint a picture of what it was like to sports editor, Charlie Potter, followed catch in the national championship student paper.” be there, then that’s the best I can coach Nick Saban and several against Georgia. do, and that’s what people want to Alabama players around a children’s read about.” hospital as they greeted patients and The first three paragraphs of the autographed footballs. story capture the feelings of both Potter spotted Saban talking to Alabama and Auburn fans, using the a young girl who was painting her words “unbridled pandemonium,” fingernails, and then Saban sat down “euphoric celebration,” “frenzy,” and let her paint his fingernails. The and “silent and stunned.” Torrence result was a photo and a tweet that won a National Apple Award from the CMA for Best Tweet of the Year. “I was just like, ‘Oh my gosh, when are you ever gonna see this?’” Potter said. The notifications started pouring in, including a retweet from former ESPN reporter Erin Andrews. Like Torrence, Potter didn’t even realize his tweet had been entered into the contest; in fact, he didn’t even know there were awards for tweets. Earlier in Torrence’s career, before he covered Alabama football, he earned an honorable mention for his coverage of gymnastics’ national championship in 2012 and second This photo of former Alabama running place in a Society of Professional back Jalston Fowler after a season-ending Journalists regional contest for a knee injury won a regional award in 2012. profile on Northport-based boxer This photo of a young cancer patient painting coach Nick Saban’s ﬁ ngernails was in- CW File Deontay Wilder. cluded in Charlie Potter’s Tweet of the Year. CW File 125 YEARS 14 December 5, 2019 FIVE CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS THURSDAY December 5, 2019 15

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LEGACY OF LEADERS: HISTORY OF CRIMSON WHITE EDITORS

1894 — C.C. PUGH 1924-25 — BEN A. GREEN 1955-56 — NELSON COLE 1989-90 — DANNY SUSICK/ 1894-95 — ELIJAH STEWART PUGH 1925-26 — ETHELRED “EPP” SYKES 1956-57 — PHIL SMITH/JUDY MEANS CAROLYN ACREE 1895-96 — LOUIS MARION MOSELEY 1926-27 — ARTHUR BENNETT 1957-58 — JAMES WILLIAM HALL 1990-91 — GEORGE ARNOLD 1896-97 — EARLE PETTUS MCLEAN 1958-59 — TOM LANKFORD 1991-92 — PETER O’CONNELL 1897-98 — S.H. SPROTT 1928-29 — ORVILLE RUSH 1959-60 — BOB COHN 1992-93 — LAWRENCE SPECKER 1898-99 — JAMES W. STICKNEY JR. 1929-30 — FRANK RUSHING 1960-61 — WAYLON SMITHEY/ 1993-94 — BARRY HARRELL 1898-99 — LEO LEVA BROADWAY LOUIS AMIS 1994-95 — SEAN KELLEY 1900-91 — FRED GEORGE MOORE 1930-31 — JAMES BENTLEY 1961-62 — JIM WILDER 1995-96 — MICHELLE HALL 1901-02 — GEORGE HERBERT JONES ROBERTS JR. 1962-63 — MEL MEYER 1996-97 — LESLEY BROWN 1902-03 — HUGH WADDELL ROBERTS 1931-32 — ELWOOD ROSS 1963-64 — HANK BLACK 1997-98 — MICHAEL HAUN 1903-04 — JAMES HOLTZCLAW RICHARDSON 1964-65 — BILL PLOTT 1998-99 — JODY GLAESER KIRKPATRICK 1932-34 — PAUL DUNCAN 1965-66 — BILL MOORE SHAMBLIN JR. 1999-00 — MELISSA WYLLIE 1904-05 — JOHN WESLEY VARDAMAN 1934-35 — CARROLL KIRPATRICK 1966-67 — BILLIE BLAIR 2000-01 — JOSEPH BRYANT 1905-06 — JOHN WILLIAM “BILLIE” 1935-36 — BILL STURDEVANT 1967-68 — BILL CROWE 2001-02 — LUKE CONNELL MCLEOD 1936-37 — FRANK EDWARD 1968-69 — DANA BEECHAM 2002-03 — STACEY WHITLOW 1906-07 — JELKS HENRY CABINESS DAVIDSON 1969-70 — BILL KILGORE 2003-04 — CHRIS SANDERS 1907-08 — HUGH MADISON CAFFEY JR. 1937-38 — WALT BOGART JR. 1970-71 — PETE COBUN 2004-05 — LAUREN DAVIDSON 1908-09CATHERINE — SAM F. CLABAUGH 1938-39 — BILL GRAHAM 1971-72 — DESPINA VODANTIS 2005-06 — CHRIS OTTS 1909-10 — SAM F. CLABAUGH 1939-40 — BOB COLLINS 1972-73 — RON CASEY 2006-07 — MARLIN CADDELL 1910-11PRICE — AUGUSTUS LAURENCE 1940-41 — C. HAYNES THOMPSON 1973-74 — RICK MCCAMMON 2007-08 — MIKE FAULK BARBER 1941-42 — HOWARD “HANK” LEWIS 1974-75 — MONDE MURPHY 2008-09 — COREY CRAFT 1911-12 — WILLIAM RICHARDSON JR. 1942-43 — WILLIAM EMMETT BROOKS DONALDSON 2009-10 — AMANDA PETERSON 1912-13 — CHARLES MCPHERSON/ JR./BARBARA HODGE 1975-76 — HOKE PERKINS 2010-11 — VICTOR LUCKERSON ADUSTON ROGERS JR. 1943-44 — LORRAINE NELSON 1976-77 — HOKE PERKINS 2001-12 — VICTOR LUCKERSON 1913-14 — JESSE HAMILTON JACKSON 1944-45 — ANN WOOD 1977-78 — MARK MAYFIELD 2012-13 — WILL TUCKER 1914-15 — JESSE HAMILTON JACKSON 1945-46 — BARBARA ROSENFELD/ 1978-79 — JERRY TAIT 2013-14 — MAZIE BRYANT 1915-16 — JOHN HALE PEARSON JANE FRERET 1979-80 — SUZANNE KENNEMER 2014-15 — DEANNE WINSLETT/ 1916-17 — JOHN ASA ROUNTREE 1946-47 — JANE FRERET 1980-81 — REBEL STEINER ANDY MCWHORTER 1917-18 — BARTLEY C. DURHAM JR. 1947-48 — CHARLES W. MCBURNEY 1981-82 — JOHANNA CLEARY 2015-16 — SEAN LANDRY 1918-19 — FRANK L. BATTS 1948-49 — CHERI CHANDLER 1982-83 — ELLEN ROSSLER 2016-17 — PEYTON SHEPARD 1919-20 — W. EMMETT PERRY 1949-50 — HARRY COOK 1983-84 — LANCE MCKERLEY 2017-18 — ELIZABETH ELKIN 1920-21 — JOHN J. SPARKMAN 1950-51 — SAM W. HARVEY 1984-85 — H. EDGAR HOWARD 2018-19 — JAKE STEVENS 1921-22 — LEIGH MALLETT CLARK 1951-52 — TOM TAYLOR 1985-86 — JAN CRAWFORD 2019-20 — SAVANNAH BULLARD 1922-23 — JOSEPH SAMUEL PERRY 1952-53 — CHARLES WILSON 1986-87 — MIKE BRANTLEY 1923-24 — FORREST B. “DUKE” 1953-54 — BRUCE HARRISON 1987-88 — ELIZABETH MCKENZIE MERRITT 1954-55 — BILL RASCO 1988-89 — LEE MCCARLEY