Fall 2000
Vol. 17 No. 3
Publication Number:
USPS 244-800


Contents

Turkey Creek Vigil

It's the Excitement'

Genome Research Yields Quick Returns

OTHER STORIES
Samford Ranked Fifth in South by U.S. News & World Report

Education School Scores High in Effective Teacher Preparation

Faculty Accolades

Upcoming Samford Tours

ODK Seeking 50 Exemplary Alumni To Mark Society's Anniversary


ALUMNI
Manis Biography Wins Lillian Smith Book Award

University of Georgia Beckons Garver, Hanson with Sizable Postgraduate Packages

Alumni Office Seeks Samford Traditions


NEWS BRIEFS
Sequoyah, Cunningham Join Men's Hall of Fame

Samford Begins Offering Doctor of Education Program

Deupree Recognized for Fighting Illiteracy


SPORTS
Tillette: Men's Team One
Big Question Mark

Cochran, Moore Lead Veteran Women's Basketball Team


CLASS NOTES
BIRTHS
IN MEMORIAM

 

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BARBARA COX FRIEDMAN of Dade City, Fla., is president of a local arts group that has undertaken a $1 million renovation of a 1920s vaudeville theatre. She is also pianist at Dade City First Baptist Church and a piano teacher.

PATTY GRAY SCOTT MANNING and her husband, Philip, attended a Regimental Grenadier Guards garden party on the grounds of Buckingham Palace July 26. The occasion, attended by Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, honored the 25th anniversary of Prince Philip's appointment as Colonel of the Regiment. Patty's husband, a London native whom she met while on vacation in England in 1979, is a former Grenadier Guardsman. She recently retired after a career as an English teacher in Mobile public schools.

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KAREN McCULLOUGH RAY has joined her husband, Eric, in Lima, Peru, where he is attached to the U.S. Embassy as resident engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Their son, Shaun, is with them in Lima.

J. SANTFORD WILLIAMS III, a commander in the Commissioned Corps, U.S. Public Health Service, received an M.B.A. degree from Frostburg (Md.) State University. He is a senior public health analyst, Division of Shortage Designation, Bureau of Primary Health Care, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Md. He and his
wife, the former I. JANICE BOUCHILLON '73, have four children: James IV, Ben, Brittany and Ashley. They live in Frederick, Md.

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REBECCA ANN BOLTON DOBELSTEIN has become the first Jefferson County school system teacher, and one of only 46 Alabama teachers, to receive certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. She teaches seventh grade English at Hewitt-Trussville Middle School. Her daughter and son, Amy and Jayson, are both Samford students.

Dr. JANIE SPENCER, professor of Spanish at Birmingham-Southern College, received the school's 1999­2000 Excellence in Teaching Award.

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SUSAN L. MEASE is chair-elect of the Sustainers group of the Junior League of Philadelphia, Pa. The "over-40" group constitutes about two-thirds of the Junior League's 1000-plus members. She is vice president and marketing director of American Settlement Corporation, a national structured settlement company. She is married to Joseph H. Long and has six stepchildren and eight grandchildren.

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HERMAN J. RUSSOMANNO of Miami, Fla., was sworn in as president of the 67,000-member Florida Bar Association. He is senior partner, Russomanno & Borrello, P.A. He and his wife, Sally, have two sons.