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Summer 2000
Snells
to Coordinate SE Asia Missions
Jack A. Snell '63 and his wife, Anita Funderburk
Snell '63, of Jacksonville, Fla., have been appointed associate
coordinators for mission teams in Southeast Asia by the Cooperative
Baptist Fellowship. The Snells will reside in Singapore. For
the past 20 years, Snell has been pastor of Hendricks Avenue
Baptist Church in Jacksonville. Mrs. Snell has been a high school
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Georgia
Governor Hosts
Samford Reception
Georgia Governor and Mrs. Roy E. Barnes hosted
a reception for Samford alumni, parents of students and other
friends at the Governor's Mansion in Atlanta Aug. 7. More than
700 attended. Top, Governor Barnes chats with Paula Hovater '69
of Roswell, Ga., co-president of the Samford Alumni Association.
Above, Dean Ruth C. Ash of Samford's Orlean Bullard Beeson School
of Education and Professional Studies, the speaker, left, presents
a memento to Governor and Mrs. Barnes, whose daughter, Alyssa,
is a Samford senior. |
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'62
ANNETTE V. WORTHY retired
from Gadsden State Community College after 31 years in nursing
education. She lives in Hokes Bluff.
'63
CORDELL HARRISON has
been named choir robe division vice president for E. R. Moore
Co. He and his wife, ALMA McKEE HARRISON, live in Mary Esther,
Fla. They have two grandsons.
ROBERT L. JACKSON has been named offensive coordinator of the
Super Bowl champion St. Louis Rams. Jackson, who has coached
with several National Football League teams, played running
back for four seasons (195962) under Coach Bobby Bowden
at Samford. He was a Little All-America selection in 1961.
'64
Rev. KENNETH and JOYCE COX BUSH '65 live in Eufaula,
where he is celebrating 20 years as pastor of First Baptist
Church.
'67
Rev. PERRY NEAL is celebrating his 26th year as an evangelist.
He lives in Wetumpka.
Sirens Return
to Vail East
Their old rooms in Vail Hall are air-conditioned
with Internet access now, but 40 years made little difference
to 10 original residents of Second East.
The 10-among the first inhabitants of Lena Vail Davis Residence
Hall-enjoyed an informal reunion in July, staying in their old
rooms in some cases with their former roommates.
Location was important. All those years ago they dubbed themselves
members of Tri Sigma Epsilon, short for "Sexy Sirens of
Second East."
Part of their bond stemmed from being in the first group
of students to live on the Samford campus after the school moved
from East Lake.
The high point of the weekend was seeing each other, said Dora
Quarles '60 of Pensacola, Fla. For most, it was the first visit
in almost 40 years.
"We sat around and talked and talked," said Quarles.
"We talked about silly things. Each of us would remember
different things, like how we made grilled cheese sandwiches
with an iron."
Quarles bunked with her former roommate Virginia Biddle Chism
'61 of Franklin, Tenn. Others enjoying the reunion were Mary
Jane Abernathy '62 of Stone Mountain, Ga., Shirley Sharp Clark
'60 of Snellville, Ga., Gloria Blair Gann '61 and Jeri Barber
Jackson '59 of Huntsville, Wynona Brutkiewicz Hall '59 of Prattville,
Gloria Atkins Kennedy '60 of Panama City, Fla., Barbara Champlin
Wales '60 of Gainesville, Ga., and Geralene Howell Walker '61
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Rev. RICK CARROLL pastors Bethel Baptist Church, Marietta, Ga.
JANICE CAUDLE GRAVES of Blountsville has been named a
Teacher of the Month by Alfa Insurance Co. She taught in Georgia
and South Carolina before joining the Blountsville Elementary
School faculty in 1972. She and the school each received $1,000.
'69
DR. LARRY D. HALL, professor of sociology at Spring Hill
College, Mobile, has been elected president of the Alabama-Mississippi
Sociological Association. The association was co-founded in
1969 by longtime Samford sociology professor, Dr. Harry Dickinson,
who also was president in 1970.
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Recent Books by Samford
University Alumni
Myra Inman: A Diary of the Civil
War in East Tennessee
by William R. Snell M.A.'67
Mercer University Press
Civil War diaries have provided
a fertile field for scholarly research. Dr. Snell's new book
adds the voice of Myra Inman, who kept a diary between 1859 and
1866, to the genre. Inman was 13 when she started keeping her
daily account. Her town of Cleveland, Tenn., was torn between
citizens with loyalties to the Union and the Confederacy. This
416-page volume is a storehouse of 19th-century manners, social
customs, education, religion and war attitudes. Snell is senior
adjunct professor of history at Lee College in Cleveland.
Also by Alumni
Rice and Cotton: South Vietnam
and South Alabama, John B. Givhan
L'72.
Certain Call and A Seeking Heart: Rediscovering True Worship,
Sarah Standerfer Groves '87.
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