Summer 2000
Vol. 17 No. 2
Publication Number:
USPS 244-800



Contents

FAQ: Samford

Heading to Graduate School with a Fistful of Scholarship Dollars

Viewpoints: Berry and Flynt

Unclaimed Bargains

Miss Alabama 2000

Campus News
Samford, WMU Name Vaughn Director of Christian Women's Leadership Center

Determined Nurse Bell Keeps Clinic Open, Studies Business Side with Stanley Scholarship

Leadership for a Changing World: Rice Suggests Formula for Success

Samford's Ida V. Moffett School of Nursing Received CCNE Accreditation for Bachelor's, Master's Programs

'Burst of New Energy upon the Sciences'

Sports
Major Gift to Athletics

Bulldogs Plan to Exercise Option Again in 2000

Men's Team Captures First TAAC Track Title

News Briefs
Bill Mathews Named VP as Laverne Farmer Retires

Interior Design Gets FIDER Accreditation

Translation Prompts Scholarship Fund

Other Stories
Bobby Bowden Day
Faculty Accolades
Class Notes
In Memoriam
Births

 

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LISA OLIPHANT BEARD is executive director of Medical Group Management Association of Alabama. She and her husband, JEFF BEARD '93, live in Birmingham with their three children: Steven, four, Lauren, two, and Kathryn, born in March.

MORCEASE BEASLEY is senior pastor at Spirit of Faith ministry in Birmingham.

MARK BREWER is enrolled at Cornell School of Law, Ithaca, N.Y., where he was elected president of the International Law Society. He earned a Ph.D. degree at St. Andrews University, Scotland.

MARSHALL and CARISSA COLE CROY live in Birmingham with their two children, Abigail Rae, three, and Caleb Marshall, born in January.

AMY CLEARY CRUTCHER is supervisor of technology and training with WorldTravel Partners, Nashville, Tenn. She and her husband, Devlyn, live in Bellevue, Tenn.

STEPHEN GARDNER has earned a master of science degree in criminal justice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is a special agent with the U.S. Secret Service. He and his wife, MARLEY MYERS GARDNER '95, live in Birmingham.

JOHN STEPHEN and JENNY BARNES JOHNSON, M.D., live in Hoover. She is a resident in internal medicine with Baptist Health Systems, and he is an attorney with Page law firm.

MARK and RACHEL DWYER MANTOOTH '95 live in Morehead, Ky., where he teaches at Montgomery County High School while finishing a master's degree at Morehead State University, and she is staff writer in the university public relations office and yearbook adviser.

JEANA LEE REED teaches 11th grade English at Mountain Brook High School and coaches the debate team.

BRAD HARRIS, L'00, serves as legislative counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee for U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions in Washington, D.C.

MARK MAHANES has been named worldwide sales manager for IBM.com's sales management and operations team, which manages sales and operations for ShopIBM.

PAM FREDERIC MALDIA has completed a master of science in nursing degree and passed her family nurse practitioner boards. She and her husband, Mark, live in Foley.