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'90

AUDRA ELIZABETH HAMES teaches at Fawzia Sultan International School for students with specific learning disabilities in Kuwait. She teaches both American and Kuwaiti students.

RICHIE IRVIN is president of TeKnowledgy Summit, Inc., a professional training company in Birmingham.

JOHNNY KING and his wife, Kim, live in Pleasant Grove with their two children, Dalton, four, and Raeann, two.

JASON SCHMITT and his family live in Key West, Fla., where they own Bone Gift Shop on Duval Street. He and his wife, Gabrielle, have a daughter, Savannah Delaney, two.

ANDREW PRESTON WOLVERTON is pastor of Valley Grove Baptist Church, Thomaston, Ga. He and his wife, ANDREA CARTER WOLVERTON '91 have two children.

'91

ANTHONY ANDERSON is a portfolio manager and assistant vice president in the Trust Investment Department at SouthTrust Bank, St. Petersburg, Fla. He and his wife, Amanda, have two children, Hunter Jay, two, and Haley Michael, born in January.

ANN CHASTAIN is development director for Project Hannah, the women's broadcast ministry of Trans World Radio. She lives in Kennesaw, Ga.

MARY KATHERINE RICHARDS CHUNN is a part-time paralegal at Carr, Allison, Pugh, Howard, Oliver & Sisson, P.C., law firm in Birmingham. She and her husband, David, have two children: Katie, four, and Jonathan, one.

JEFF A. KYSER is an investment adviser in the Private Client Group at CIBC Oppenheimer, Miami, Fla. He advises clients in the Southeastern U.S. and Caribbean countries.

DEBORAH REYNOLDS MULANIX of Northport is a consultant pharmacist with Northgate Services, Inc. She is a Fellow of American Society of Consultant Pharmacists [FASCP] and a Certified Geriatric Pharmacist [CGP].

RODNEY L. STALLINGS, an associate with John D. Coggin, attorney at law, Centre, graduated from the Birmingham School of Law with honors in August.

JESSICA RUSSELL VELLA is a senior financial analyst with Banctec, Birmingham. She and her husband, Joe, have a son, Joseph Reed, one.

'92

MARY KATHERINE PURSLEY BARFIELD teaches at Shallowford Falls school in Atlanta, Ga. She and her husband, Jeffrey Shane, married in June.

MICHAEL FARGARSON of Trussville is establishing a 24-hour Birmingham House of Prayer. He is ministry facilitator with Craft Brothers Company, Inc./ Servants of Christ. E-mail: MBFofLNT@juno.com.

ERICK THOMAS FITZGERALD M.Div. '96 is director of young adult ministries at Third Presbyterian Church, Uniontown, Pa. In partnership with the Coalition for Christian Outreach, he will also assist with student ministries at Pennsylvania State University­Fayette.

JEFFREY S. QUIETT is 2001­02 faculty assembly president at Houston Baptist University.

LEANNE DENNIS RAINWATER and her husband, Jeff, live in Bessemer with their daughter, Katie, born in February.

DWAYNE KEVIN TODD is director of student affairs at Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, and is pursuing a Ph.D. in higher education administration at Ohio State University.

LISA CARTER WADE is a voice-over talent in local and national radio and television commercials. She and her husband, Michael, live in Birmingham.

'93

TODD BAILEY is an assistant manager, workstation support and virus control officer at Protective Life Corporation, Birmingham. He received an M.B.A. in June from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

JULIE CANTRELL BRYANT of Canton, Ga., is music teacher at Macedonia Elementary School. She and her husband, Keith, have a daughter, Emma Victoria, four, and a son, Avery Mitchell, born in May.

JENNIFER TRETTEL CRAIG and her husband, KARL CRAIG, Jr. '95 live in Lilburn, Ga. She teaches fifth grade, and he is a service technician. They have two children, Karl Michael III, five, and Maggie, two.

AMY EVANS Pharm.D. '01 is a registered pharmacist at University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital.

BROOKE HOLBERT of Vestavia Hills is a professional sales representative with Allergan Pharmaceuticals, calling on cataract/refractive eye surgeons.

KRISTI CRENSHAW HOWZE of Mobile teaches music, science and social studies at E. R. Dickson Elementary. She and her husband, Rick, have two children, Patrick Henry IV, three, and Mary Elizabeth, born in July.

RAY KILLINGBACK is a registered nurse and president of Healthcare Academy of Alabama, Inc., Fultondale.

RHONDA MARABLE Pharm.D '01 is a registered pharmacist at Central Alabama Veterans Healthcare System.

DIONE DARNESA MARTIN is a system engineer with AT&T in Alpharetta, Ga.

ANDY PARRISH is news anchor/reporter for Alabama Radio Network. He is public address announcer for Samford football and basketball games.

TIFFANI KNIGHT RUSSELL lives in Cedartown, Ga., with her husband, Craig, and three sons, Cooper, Caleb and Turner. She teaches Spanish at Cedartown High School.

NANCY BAKER SCHOTT lives in Murfreesboro, Tenn., with her husband, Nate, and their three children: Nathan Baker, four, Zoe Kathryn, two, and Maximus Gabriel, born in July.

'94

JENNIFER THORN BANKS is guidance counselor at Cornerstone Christian School. She and her husband, Stannon, married in March. They live in Pelham.

KARI ERICKSON CONLEY, community relations manager for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association, is president of the Florida Public Relations Association Orlando area chapter.

TIFFANY TOWNSEND FESSLER of Roswell, Ga., earned a master's in journalism from the University of Georgia in August. She is an account executive with Morton, Vardeman & Carlson.

SHAWN ERIC HALL is minister of education/youth at Hew Hope Baptist Church, Parkersburg, W.V.

MELISSA HUGHES is a clinical psychologist at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Penitentiary, Pollock, La.

MARY JIM HARDWICK MONTGOMERY M.S.N. '01 is chief operations officer of the 433-bed Bay Medical Center, Panama City, Fla.

MICHAEL and ANN ARMISTEAD MOORE '96 live in Nashville, Tenn. He is global account manager for Haworth furniture manufacturer. She is alumni and annual giving director, and tennis coach at Brentwood Academy.

KIMBERLY A. OELSCHLAGER completed U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. She is a hospital corpsman stationed at Little Creek Navy Amphibious Base, Norfolk, Va.

KURT WEIGEL and CAROLYN WAGNER '96 married in June. They live in Charlotte, N.C., where he teaches sixth grade and coaches at Charlotte Country Day School, and she teaches kindergarten with Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools.

'95

JACOB PAUL BRIGHT is owner of Fine Things, Inc., a bridal registry and gift shop in Arab.

ANNE BUSINARO HOLLEMAN and her husband, Key, live in Nashville, Tenn. She teaches first grade at Glenview Elementary School. They have a daughter, Hannah, born in July.

EMILY CLARE INGRAM HORNAK of Salt Lake City, Utah, is director of campus activities for Children's Miracle Network. She works with college campuses and national sponsors to raise money for children's health care at 170 Children's Miracle Network member hospitals.

GLENN ALLEN LEWIS is minister of music at First Baptist Church, Florence, S.C. He earned a master of divinity in church music at Southeastern Seminary, where he received the Ben Johnson Music Award.

JACKI WASHBURN LOWE is vice president of procurement and materials, Southern Company, Atlanta, Ga.

AMY THOMAS PARVIN, D.M.D., is a pediatric dentist in Gardendale.

CARA POLLARD of Asheville, N.C., teaches first grade at Emma Elementary, which was named a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education.

KELLY TRULL is a teacher/ athletics trainer at Fairhope Middle School. He earned a master's in education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1999. He and his wife, Carla, have a son, Caleb Oneal, born in December.

DANIEL WEST M.S.Ed. is a kindergarten teacher at Baker Elementary, Ensley. He attends the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

'96

SEAN FENNELLY married Corinne Sprenkle in July. He
is an account manager with Constructware, Alpharetta, Ga.

CAROLINE NEILSON HOLLOWELL is a reading recovery teacher leader with Mobile County Public Schools. She and her husband, Ralph, live in Fairhope.

HANS OEHLSCHLAEGER and his wife, Hollie, live in Franklin, Tenn. He is a pharmacist at Albertson's Pharmacy.

LAURENCE SIGNAIGO of Birmingham is an interior designer with Business Interiors. He is a member of the International Interior Design Association.

STEPHANIE HAMES WESTMORELAND is pharmacy manager at Super Target Pharmacy, Huntsville. In July, she and her husband, Trey, worked in a pharmacy in Peru during a medical mission trip.

L'96

G. BRIAN MCWHORTER opened a private law practice in Rome, Ga., specializing in personal injury, wrongful death and criminal defense. He and his wife, Gina, have two sons, Connor and Baxter.

'97

APRIL BLAIR married Dean Pittman Farrar in August in Reid Chapel. She is a commercial real estate property manager with Taylor & Mathis, Birmingham.

MISSY BLAND earned a master's in education at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 2000. She is a child-life specialist in the surgery department at Children's Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

APRIL ANN HARRIS of Tyler, Texas, teaches seventh grade Texas history at Winona Middle School.

MARK M.Acc. '98 and CAROL POINTER HINSON live in Birmingham. He recently passed the Certified Public Accountants exam and works at Sterne, Agee and Leach. She is a French teacher at Highlands School.

ELIZABETH ANNE ROWE JERNIGAN and her husband, Henry, live in Nashville, Tenn.

KAREN WHITE LILLARD and her husband, Stephen, live in Lawrenceville, Ga. They own Roly Poly Rolled Sandwiches in Duluth, Ga., and she teaches second grade at Chattahoochee Elementary.

WILLIAM LUNSFORD and his wife, Ingrid, live in Huntsville, where he is an attorney with Sirote & Permutt, P.C.

MARK NIXON and his wife, Catherine, live in Charlotte, N.C., where he is a manufacturer's representative for Fila, Yonex and Swiss Army. He is pursuing an M.B.A. at Pfeiffer University.

BECKY STOLTZ ROLAND
is a seventh-grade language arts teacher at Forest Circle Middle School, Walterboro, S.C. She and her husband, JOHN ROLAND '96, live in Yemassee, S.C.

CHUCK and BETSY WELLS STOKES live at Samford in Vail Hall, where he is central campus area coordinator for Residence Life. She is an editor and writer.

'98

LOREN GRAYSON DAVIS M.S.Ed. '99 and her husband, PRESTON B. DAVIS '97, L'00, live in Hoover. She teaches second grade at Gwin Elementary School, and he is employed with the law firm of Lloyd, Gray & Whitehead, P.C.

JEFFREY B. GISSING studied this summer at the Institute of Early Christianity in the Graeco-Roman World, Tyndale House, University of Cambridge. The institute focuses on New Testament Bible backgrounds and includes an archaeological analysis of the sites of ancient Ephesus and Corinth. He is a student at Beeson Divinity School.

KARLYN HOENES of Marietta, Ga., works in project management integration at Lockheed Martin Aero and is pursuing an M.B.A. in international business at Georgia State University.

HEATH M. LEWIS and ANGELA HOLSTON '01 married in June. He is a company executive officer with the U.S. Army, Ft. Benning, Ga.

LEANN LINTON married Hudson Hanks in August. They live in Fort Worth, Texas. She is pursuing a double master's degree in marriage and family counseling and Christian education at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

CHERINGTON LOVE SHUCKER received a graduate fellowship through the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs for 2001­02. The Coro Center for Civic Leadership, Pittsburgh, Pa., educates potential leaders about the community as a whole.

MARY ELLEN MONTEITH WILLS and her husband, Ken, live in Birmingham. She is a human resources recruiter for SouthTrust Bank.

'99

DANE and AMANDA JEAN SHERER BLANKENSHIP live
in Cape Coral, Fla. She is with Cingular Wireless, and he is director of publications and membership involvement at First Baptist Church.

VALERIE RUTH CAMPBELL is a mutual fund manager for Sterne Agee Asset Management, Birmingham.

KELLY DEAN married Scott Melven Rhodes in May. They live in Sarasota, Fla.

RYAN RICHARD DORR and LESLIE NIX '99 married in July. They live in Denver, Colo., where she is pursuing a master's in Christian counseling at Denver Seminary. He is employed by Accenture consulting firm.

DANIELLE SCOTT GILLIAM and her husband, JOHN GILLIAM L'97, live in Daphne. He works in the AmSouth Bank trust department, and she attends the University of South Alabama College of Medicine.

HOLLY HUBBARD is a missionary in Mendoza, Argentina, where she is involved in church planting and teaching missionary kids.

NICOLE CHAMBLESS HURT and her husband, Eric, live in Harpersville. She teaches second grade at Chelsea Elementary School.

BETHANY M. LANE is production manager at Details Communications, Birmingham.

GEORGE LAWTON and ANNE LEWIS '00 married in January. They live in Birmingham, where he is a student at Beeson Divinity School. She works at Covenant Counseling Center.

APRIL LEONARD married Clayton Lynch in June. They live in Kansas City, Mo. She is in her second year at the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine.

JEFFREY LIPSCOMB of Statham, Ga., is pursing master of divinity and M.B.A. degrees at Mercer University's McAfee School of Theology.

KELLY SEWARD is a graphic designer with Woman's Missionary Union, Birmingham. She won a trip to Spain from a local radio station and will travel in October.