Winter 2000
Vol. 17 No. 4
Publication Number:
USPS 244-800


Contents

National Model of Excellence

Soldier and Soldat

Studying Guide-by-Your-Side

Love Those Statistics!

These Were Close, Too

Other Stories
Willingness to Change Made Education School Most Effective

Faculty Compendium

Watching for Patent Expiration Dates Can Save Consumers on prescription Drug Costs


Bennett Cites Influence of a Great Teacher, Dean Percy Burns

A Cappella Choir CD Available

Floyd, Marler Receive $56,000 Lilly Fellows Program Grant

Debow, Sansom Get $32,000 Award from Atlas, Templeton

Samford Honors Alabama Ministers
Alumni
Scofields Rate a Homecoming Cheer
for Loyal Support of Their Alma Mater

Crimson Editors Half a Century Apart
Find Differences, Similarities in the Job


Having a ball at Homecoming


Sports
Men's Cross-Country Team Wins Second TAAC Title; Kolb Named All-TAAC Freshman After Nine-Goal Season
CLASS NOTES
BIRTHS
IN MEMORIAM

 

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'60

SYLVIA TURNER SOLOMON of Baltimore, Md., retired in June after teaching middle school for 37 years.

'61

SHEILA HACKWORTH BANCROFT M.S. '70 of Birmingham retired in May after teaching first grade for 40 years.

ARLINE APPLING BLACKWELL, a retired math teacher, was elected to the Hueytown city council.

'62

Dr. PEGGY TROUT of Annandale, Va., is principal of Headstrong Global E-Solutions Co.

'63

BENNY JACKSON is in his 26th year in evangelism. He lives in Germantown, Tenn.

GINGER GAMMILL LANCASTER of Gainesville, Ga., is a retired teacher. She and her husband, Ben, have two adult children and two grandchildren.

PASQUAL A. SALAMONE and his wife, Nell, have retired and moved to Fairhope.

'64

JUDITH A. HARRIS CULLIFER of Dalton, Ga., retired after teaching 32 years in Georgia schools.

'65

JEANNE BROWN BRADFORD is board member and vice president/season tickets, Birmingham Music Club.

SARALYN MONROE COLLINS of Winter Park, Fla., is general manager of Step-Up Consulting and Training, Orlando.

ELIZABETH DORSTE CROWTHER earned a master's degree in special education at Florida International University in 1999. She lives in Miami, Fla.

Dr. HORACE GARLAND GORDON of Hueytown is a judge for Technology and Learning magazine's national teacher of the year program.

JAMES C. JACOBS is a senior principal analyst at Logicon's Modeling, Simulation and Analysis Center in Arlington, Va. He and his wife, Sheila, live in Fairfax, Va. They have three grown sons and a daughter in college.

WILBURN T. STEPHENS of Columbus, Ga., retired from the music ministry in Georgia. He works part-time at Mount Zion Baptist Church.

'66

WILLIAM C. ARMISTEAD, Jr., is vice president of business development, NETZEE company, Birmingham. A state senator, he lives in Columbiana.

Dr. LARRY W. DRAPER, an evangelist, is founder of Sound the Trumpet Ministry, which works with Bible institutes to train new pastors in Russia. He lives in Rome, Ga.

'67

LARRY BOLTON, M.D., practices family medicine in Scottsboro.

JOHN A. "Tony" and SANDY MCSWAIN KENT live in Dixon, Calif. She was honored as 1999­2000 Teacher of the Year for the Dixon Unified School District. He flies for Delta Air Lines as a captain on the B-737-800.

REBECCA SPENCE of Niceville, Fla., received a doctor of education degree in August from the University of West Florida.

'68

JUANITA KING GRAHAM retired this year as principal at Stanton Elementary School, Stanton, Ky.

JANICE CAUDLE GRAVES is one of three Alabama elementary school teachers to receive a presidential award for excellence in science teaching. She teaches at Blountsville Elementary.

PHIL CONSTANTS HARRISON retired after a career as a public school administrator in Hattiesburg, Miss.

THOMAS and MARGARET EVANS REDD '67 recently moved to LaFayette, Ga., where he is controller of Blue Bird North Georgia bus manufacturer. He celebrated his 30th year with the company.

NANCY WRIGHT RYAN of Overland Park, Kan., is state president of Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers.

'69

LINDA WEBB LONG is marketing and public relations coordinator for American Village, a citizenship education center and historical park in Montevallo. She lives in Hoover.

SUZANNE MADDOX retired from teaching. She was most recently counselor at Mountain Brook Elementary School.

LEE CRONENBERG KETCHAM VAN ORSDEL received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the School of Library and Information Studies, College of Communication and Information Sciences, at the University of Alabama. She holds a master's in library science from the school. Former head of reader services at Samford, she is dean of libraries, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Ky.