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featuring the life and work of legendary
Alabama storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham
(mother of Ben Windham ’75), premiered Sept.
25 at the Birmingham Sidewalk Moving
Picture Festival to the delight of a huge audience. The film won the festival’s Audience
Choice award in the documentary category.
director of United Way of Southeast
Mississippi. He previously was employed with
the Social Security Administration.
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David Michael Robertson of Cincinnati has
been invited by Princeton University to be a
guest lecturer to American studies students
there early next spring. His topic will be
Alabamian William Weatherford, the early 19th
century figure who led the Creek Indians in
the great massacre of white settlers at Fort
Mims.
On Nov. 5, 2004, Paulette Logan Haywood lectured on two of her favorite subjects, the relationship between butterflies and their host
plants and the use of the plants in the landscape, as part of the Central South Native
Plant Conference, held this year at the
Birmingham Botanical Gardens. Her presentation was illustrated with slides by nature photographer Sara Cunningham Bright ’81, who
has collaborated with Haywood for nearly 10
years in documenting life histories of
Southeastern butterflies.
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Dr. William U. Eiland of Athens, Ga., director of
the Georgia Museum of Art, has been appointed to two prestigious peer-group positions—
vice chair of the board of directors of the
American Association of Museums and panelist
for the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Advisory
Panel of the Federal Council on the Arts and
the Humanities.
On Aug. 9, 2004, Dr. Kenneth W. Bramlett and
other members of the Orthopaedic Sports
Medicine Clinic in Vestavia Hills began practicing in a new 50,000 square-foot facility
designed to offer patients the latest advances in
treatment and technology.
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In October 2004, Dr. Carol Newsom, professor
of Old Testament at Emory’s Candler School
of Theology in Atlanta, presented an intriguing
series of lectures on “The Bible and the Care
of the Earth” at Independent Presbyterian
Church in Birmingham. Newsom was featured speaker in the First Annual Barbara
Noojin Walthall Bible Study Series.
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When freshman Catherine “Keller” Johnson
’08, daughter of Dr. William Reeves Johnson
Jr., entered BSC this fall, she brought the good
wishes of a family full of previous Hilltoppers.
In addition to her dad, Keller’s family includes
mother Edna Johnson ’81, postgraduate studies; uncle D. Boyd Johnson ’81; aunt Cathy
Johnson McLain, 1980 Summer Scholar; aunt
Anna R. Wells Watts ’88; uncle Brantley R.
Watts ’87; and aunt Juliet L. Hettinger Wells
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Natchez, Miss., native
William Smith followed his
fine arts degree at BSC with
additional study in set design
at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst Theater School and
with a master’s degree in art therapy from
Notre Dame de Namur University in
Belmont, Calif., concentrating on environmental psychology. Today, in his New Orleans studio, Smith uses his continuing interest in the
way people respond to their surroundings to
create visuals
for architects,
interior
designers,
homeowners,
and other
clients.
Smith also
has become
well-known
for his imaginative renderings of architectural landmarks in New
Orleans.
Recently, he
applied his signature style to the creation of a
logo for the Oct. 15-17, 2004, Great Mississippi
River Balloon Race, which takes place each
year at the historic Rosalie mansion high on
the Natchez bluffs.
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Wayne Morse’s review of Inside: A
Public and Private Life by Joseph
Califano appeared in a summer issue
of the Defense Research Institute’s
newsletter. Morse is a partner and
attorney at Clark, Dolan, Morse,
Oncale, and Hair P.C., in Birmingham.
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Don Heflin received a master’s degree in
national security strategy from the National
War College on June 9, 2004. A career
Foreign Service officer, he now is deputy
director of regional affairs for Africa in the
State Department.
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In Summer 2004, the family of James
Henderson Fullton Jr. and Sarah
Evelyn Koehler Fullton returned to
Birmingham after living in distant
places—most recently, South Africa. A
geologist, he’s currently assigned to
the Lafarge Group’s Roberta Plant in
Calera, and she’s looking forward to
new opportunities this latest family
move will bring.
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On Oct. 1, 2004, Dan Kibodeaux of
Hattiesburg, Miss., became executive
A BSC evening in
Mobile—On Oct. 26, BSC alumni and
friends met for an evening of conversation and
refreshment with President David Pollick at the
Country Club of Mobile. Enjoying the event are
(from left) Pollick, Kimi Stinson Oaks ’65 and
Dr. Allen Oaks ’63; Carolyn Delchamps Eichold,
mother of current BSC student Sam Eichold;
Dr. Larkin J. Daniels ’87; and Dr. Bernard H.
Eichold II, father of Sam Eichold.
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Daniel H. Carmichael of Tuscaloosa, AmSouth
Bank city president, was United Way of West
Alabama Campaign chair for 2004.
Laura Fitch Gruber of Kirksville, Mo., was the
Democratic nominee for the Missouri House
of Representatives, Second District, in the
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