fall 08 southern_FINAL draft:southern magazine_text pages_draft 1 10/13/2008 11:47 AM Page 75 CLASSNOTES ClassNotes ’41 honoring his outstanding career in Cemetery. In May 2008, a ’58 Last December, Katherine law and politics. rededication service was held for The late Martin Hames, longtime Meadow McTyeire announced those family members and others headmaster of Birmingham’s plans for closing Iron Art Inc., the ’49 unable to attend the original Altamont School, was honored home decor and furniture shop This past May, John Fievet service. this past spring by his friend, artist The Birmingham News has called continued what the editor of Catherine Cabaniss. A painter and “a Mountain Brook institution.” American History magazine has George B. “Hoss” Foss lives with printmaker, she dedicated a March McTyeire presided over the highly called his “personal crusade” to his wife, Luz Maria, in Cuernavaca, 2008 exhibit of her prints in the successful business for 58 years. see that the deaths of 1,015 Mexico, 40 miles south of Mexico school’s Cabaniss Fine Arts Center During that time, she became the American servicemen—his City. He writes that he is the only to Hames, whom she called “a first woman director of the shipmates on the ill-fated British area attorney listed by the great friend to Birmingham Birmingham Chamber of troopship HMT Rohna—are Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory artists.” Commerce, the first woman properly honored in the historical since 1990, and is the only named to Rotary in Birmingham, record of World War II. On Nov. bilingual attorney listed by the ’59 was tapped for the Kiwanis 26, 1943, the Rohna was sunk in American Embassy. He works Dr. James S. Donahoo of Summit, Birmingham Business Hall of the Mediterranean by a German with Mexican attorneys for N.J., received the Distinguished Fame, and was asked by the air-to-surface guided missile, and English-speaking clients, and also Alumnus Award from the governor to chair the state’s 150th to keep reports of the new helps Mexicans with the U.S. law, University of Alabama Medical birthday celebration. McTyeire has weapon secret, details of the countrywide. Alumni Association in February served Birmingham-Southern as a catastrophe were classified by the 2008, in ceremonies celebrating member and officer of the Board U.S. government at the time of the ’50 his outstanding career in of Trustees. She is a member of tragedy and for decades after. Dr. Charles P. Hanby of Chapala, cardiothoracic surgery, most the Ginkgo Society and the Finally, in1996, after great efforts Mexico, writes that he has recently as chief of cardiothoracic Endowment Builders Society. to make the true history of the traveled widely throughout the surgery at the VA Medical Center Rohna known nationwide, Fievet world since retiring almost 20 in East Orange, N.J. Donahoo has ’42 and other members of the Rohna years ago. This summer, he sailed published more than 100 scholarly In May 2008, former U.S. Sen. Survivors Association, which he across Europe in a riverboat, papers in his field, contributed Howell Heflin of Alabama, who founded, dedicated a memorial to traveling on three rivers from Paris chapters to surgical textbooks, died in 2005, was named to the the lost servicemen of the Rohna to Prague. and served as an editor for Alabama Lawyers Hall of Fame, at Fort Mitchell (Ala.) National Practical Reviews in Surgery. His ’53 wife is Carol Manasco Donahoo Dr. Alan R. Dimick of Birmingham ’60. was presented the University of Wedding bells ring at Yeilding Chapel— Alabama Medical Alumni Bailey Leopard of Franklin, Tenn., Dr. Aurelia “Dink” Glosser Taylor ’67 and Preston Barnett Association Distinguished Service was named to the Limestone ’68 (former president of the BSC Alumni Association) Award in ceremonies taking place County (Ala.) Sports Hall of Fame were friends and classmates—both history students of this past February. The in June. An award-winning Dr. Henry Randall—during their student years at association notes, “Over the past Birmingham-Southern. They dated briefly after college newspaperman over many 40 years he has helped found, while both were living in Tuscaloosa, he in law school and decades, he began as a she pursuing graduate degrees at the University of risen to the top of, and continued sportswriter for the Athens High Alabama. Then life took them in different directions, she to provide guidance to virtually School newspaper and Alabama to a home in Gadsden and a career, most recently as an every local, regional, and national Courier and Democrat while still in assistant professor at UA, and he to a position as vice organization concerned with high school. In 1955, employed at president and general tax counsel for Cox Enterprises Inc. emergency care in general and the Birmingham Post-Herald, he in Atlanta. After a number of years, a June 2006 e-mail burn injury in particular.” began studies at BSC, graduating from Barnett renewed the friendship, which soon in 1959. During the late ’50s, he blossomed into romance. The couple married in Yeilding ’57 covered Birmingham sports for the Chapel on Aug. 9, 2008, “a perfect place for our wedding,” Dr. Gene L. Davenport of Post-Herald, and in 1958 he began he says, “since we had met at BSC and the school means Jackson, Tenn., a professor of so much to both of us.” Other BSC family members covering football at the University religion at Lambuth University, include her son, “Mort” Taylor ’95, and daughter-in-law, of Alabama. He returned to Rebekah Tatum Taylor ’96. presented the baccalaureate Athens in 1961 to serve as editor message during the school’s 2008 of the Courier and Democrat and graduation ceremonies in May. in 1973 founded his own fall 2008 / 75 fall 08 southern_FINAL draft:southern magazine_text pages_draft 1 10/13/2008 11:47 AM Page 76 CLASSNOTES A Special Easter on the Hilltop Looking back at a treasured tradition—and a once-in-a-lifetime holiday adventure for a BSC alumna: At the 19th annual BSC Easter Egg Hunt, state artists in Washington, D.C., for a tour of the White 350 members of alumni families gathered House and the Easter egg unveiling ceremony, presided over on the lawn of the President’s Home to by First Lady Laura Bush. To see Willard’s 2008 Alabama enjoy a beautiful spring afternoon. Egg, along with other designs from around the nation, visit Games, crafts, and refreshments were on www.whitehouse.gov/easter/2008/eggsbystate. the agenda, along with an exciting hunt for more than 3,000 colorful eggs. Tanner Battle, younger daughter of Brooke Tanner Battle ’96, is shown here making friends with the BSC Easter Bunny. In other holiday news, Susan Samya Willard ’01, assistant director of records at BSC, celebrated this past Easter in a very special way. Willard is an egg artist, whose hand-painted designs have delighted collectors for years. This year, she was chosen to create the 2008 Alabama Egg for the White House Easter display of decorated Easter eggs from artists in all 50 states. On March 10, she and her husband joined 37 other newspaper, the Williamson (Tenn.) columnist for Condé Nast Portfolio, conduct research, write, make Howard Cruse of North Adams, Leader, which he sold in 1998. His a monthly business magazine. His speeches, and teach courses in Mass., cartoonist and graphic son is Bailey Leopard Jr. ’91 first column in the magazine history. The popular professor novelist, was among 24 artists (wife, Kathryn McLeod Leopard appeared in the March 2008 issue. was the commencement speaker whose work was included in the ’90), and his daughter is Verna at the school’s May 2008 show “LitGraphic: The Art of the Louise Leopard ’87. ’65 graduation. Graphic Novel” at the Norman W. Michael “Mike” Atchison of Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, ’62 Birmingham has been named a ’67 Mass., last fall. For more on Attorney Ed Hardin, after five fellow of the Alabama Law Kyle DeLoach has been named Cruse’s career, see “Cartoon years in Nashville as general Foundation. He is a founding treasurer of the board of the Politics: Howard Cruse brings his counsel for Caremark Rx, has partner of the Birmingham law International Coach Federation, inner life to light in ‘LitGraphic,’” returned to Birmingham and joined firm Starnes & Atchison LLP. He North and Central Alabama by Michael Scott Leonard, in the the firm Burr & Forman. He will has served his alma mater as chair Chapter. He is employed with The Nov. 15, 2007, edition of the focus on complex litigation of the Board of Trustees. He Kyle Group in Birmingham. Berkshire Eagle. involving commercial cases, torts, currently is a member of the board and insurance matters. Hardin is a and co-chair of the college’s ’68 Dr. Charles Gattis, senior minister member of the board at BSC and Destiny: Delivered campaign. Dr. James Cook, BSC professor of at Trinity United Methodist Church is co-chair of the college’s Destiny: music, has been appointed to the in Huntsville, with his congre- Delivered campaign. Dr. Harvey H. “Hardy” Jackson III national council of the Organ gation, last year established the has been named Eminent Scholar Historical Society. In 2004-05, he Trinity Academy of Biblical ’64 in History at Jacksonville (Ala.) established, and currently Learning, an annual exploration of Howell Raines of Henryville, Pa., State University. In this new role, maintains, an online database of the Hebrew and Christian former New York Times executive Jackson, formerly professor and pipe organs in the U.S., which Scriptures through a weekend of editor, has been named a head of the Department of History recently set a record of more than scholarly presentations and contributing editor and media and Foreign Languages, will one million hits.