Seeing Green
CLASS OF 2012
Emily Cutler was named a winning playwright in the 2013 National Playwriting Competition sponsored by Young Playwrights, Inc. Currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Cutler has been a published poet and writer for several years and has won a number of awards. Her winning entry is entitled “The Road Trip.”
On a recent visit to an Ankara, Turkey, bookstore, Rebecca Barr ’09 spotted this display of books by fellow ISS alum John Green ’95. Next up: The film version of The Fault in Our Stars, which started filming in August and is set tentatively for release in late 2014.
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MEM O RI A M
Coyne (“Drew”) Demaray ’76 of Birmingham passed away on February 18 at the age of 55.
Alumni Mark Louis Taliaferro Jr. ‘61 passed away suddenly on Sept. 29 with his family at his side. He was a resident of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and Deerwood Lake, Ala.
Gregory “Greg” Reynolds ’78 of Pinson died on Sept. 10.
Wendell Cauley ‘68 of Wetumpka lost an all too brief battle with cancer on Aug. 20.
Friends
Hugh Comer Yoe ’70 of Pell City passed away on April 15. He is survived by two brothers, Robert H. Yoe III ’68 and John Goodall Yoe ’72; a niece, Elizabeth Yoe Eldridge; and nephew, Dr. Robert H. Yoe IV ’00. Mark Schuyler (“Schuy”) Van Hoose ’72 of Pensacola, Fla., passed away on July 29.
Gordon Frank Taylor ’02 of Bessemer passed away on Aug. 23.
ISS Board Member Mike Froning died unexpectedly at his home on May 1. He was executive director of the Birmingham Education Foundation and an educator for nearly 50 years. Former ISS Board Member Charles Caldwell Marks, father of Randy Marks ’65 and Charles Marks ’71, grandfather of Caldwell Marks ’93, and father-in-law of Kip Porter ’60, died on Sept. 27 surrounded by his family.
Bright Students, Brilliant Futures
Our 2013 Graduates ARE AttendING These Outstanding Colleges & Universities: Auburn University Berry College Birmingham-Southern College Carnegie Mellon University College of Charleston Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art
Dartmouth College Dickinson College Duke University Eckerd College Emory University Georgia Institute of Technology Harvey Mudd College
Hendrix College Landmark College Loyola University New Orleans Middlebury College Millsaps College Mount Holyoke College* Northeastern University
The Ohio State University Reed College Rhodes College Sewanee: The University of The South Southern Methodist University Stanford University University of Alabama
University of Alabama at Birmingham University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of Notre Dame University of Oklahoma University of Pennsylvania University of Rochester
University of Tampa University of the Pacific Vanderbilt University Villanova University Virginia Commonwealth University Washington University in St. Louis
Let your classmates know what you’ve been doing! Send us your news so we can share it with the Springs community. To submit a class note for the next issue of Indian Springs, please e-mail info and photos to Kathryn D’Arcy at kdarcy@indiansprings.org by Jan. 15, 2014. We look forward to hearing from you!