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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'97

MISSY BLAND earned a master's in education and works at Children's Hospitals Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

BRAD DAVID is pursuing an M.B.A. degree at Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.

ALISON DUNCAN married Eddie Jerden in July. She earned an M.A. degree in industrial and organizational psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in 1999. They live in Atlanta, Ga.

MARK M.Acc. '98 and CAROL POINTER HINSON live in Birmingham, where he is an accountant and she is a French teacher.

MICHAEL MANN was commissioned a mission intern by the General Board of Global Ministries of the United Methodist Church. He is assigned to the National Council of Churches in Nagpur, India, where his duties include relationship-building with the people of India and examining the impact of global structures on India's rural and urban communities. He earned an M.Div. degree at Princeton Theological Seminary.

JOHN E. PHILLIPS, Jr. and SHANNA STEEL '99 married in August and live in Pelham. He teaches and coaches girls' basketball, cross-country and track and field at Mountain Brook Junior High School. She teaches music at Chelsea Elementary School.

EMILY PREBLE married Radford Harrell in September. They live in the Atlanta area.

TABITHA DOLES WALDROP teaches junior high and high school science at Bessemer Academy. She and her husband, Adam, have a baby daughter, Kendall Brianna. They live in McCalla.