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Summer 2000
Samford
Theatre Honors Marsh, Inducts Steer and Goldner into HOF
Randy Marsh '71 of Birmingham, a co-founder of
Birmingham Festival Theatre, has been named Outstanding Alumnus
of the Year by Samford University Theatre.
Marsh, director of curriculum and instruction at Alabama School
of Fine Arts, has also written numerous plays for Birmingham
Children's Theatre. Over the years, he has starred in a variety
of Festival Theatre productions.
Former theatre professor Helen Steer and
the late Arnold Goldner '36 have been inducted into the Samford
Theatre Hall of Fame. Steer, who retired from the East Carolina
University faculty in 1997, taught at Samford during 195661.
Goldner pursued a New York stage career before returning to Birmingham
to open a jewelry store in Vestavia Hills.
The honorees were recognized at the Samford Theatre spring
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Randy Marsh '71
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'71
BETSY E. BOX is founder and director of The Bedford School for
children with learning disabilities. The school is building a
new campus on the south side of Atlanta. She lives in College
Park, Ga.
Clark M.B.A. '72
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'72
JIM CLARK, M.B.A., has been named group vice president of Motion-Canada,
responsible
for all Canadian operations of Motion Industries. He will live
in Birmingham.
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Recent Books by Samford
University Alumni
They Say the Wind is Red: The Alabama
Choctaw,
Lost in Their Own Land
by Jacqueline Anderson
Matte '72
Greenberry Publishing Company
When Choctaw Indians in southwest Alabama
were relocated during the 1830s, the MOWA Band stayed behind.
Over the years, it petitioned the federal government-unsuccessfully-to
regain the rights to its land, which the MOWA say were used by
industry to harvest vast amounts of turpentine and timber. During
the 1980s, the MOWA retained Matte, a historian, to research
their history and genealogy. This book traces the tribe back
to ancestors who once owned a part of the Old Mississippi Territory.
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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STANLEY "Sandy" GRAHAM, M.B.A. of Portland, Ore., has
been named vice president of corporate development, Digimarc
Corporation, a leader in digital watermark technology and applications.
L'72
JOHN B. GIVHAN is the author of Rice and Cotton: South Vietnam
and South Alabama, which chronicles his youth in rural Alabama
and his military service in the Vietnam War. A retired attorney,
he divides his time between his home in Andalusia and the hunting
guide service preserve he owns in Safford. He is a former Samford
trustee.
'73
WILLIAM R. BAKER, Jr., M.S.E., of Richmond, Va., a former college
football coach, is a professional scout for the Atlanta Falcons,
Seattle Seahawks and Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football
League.
Dr. JAMES F. HOLLADAY, Jr., is pastor of Lyndon Baptist Church,
Louisville, Ky.
JACK KNIGHT, C.P.A., has joined the Birmingham accounting firm
of Barfield, Murphy, Shank & Smith, PC, as a shareholder.
He and his wife, Sallie, have two sons, David and John.
JERRY MOORE, executive director of the Alabama State Board of
Pharmacy, has begun a one-year term as president of the National
Association of Boards of Pharmacy. He recently earned a law degree
at Birmingham School of Law.
DAN SMALLEY of Arab has been elected chairman of the board of
directors of Gold Kist, Inc. He has a 16-house broiler production
operation and is Marshall County president of the Alabama Farmers
Federation.
'74
J. PHILLIP MARTIN has been named director of education, National
Association of Church Business Administration, Richardson, Texas.
'75
BENNY MARTIN retired in June from Birmingham City Schools after
25 years as elementary teacher and local school technology coordinator.
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