CLASS NOTES Photo by Rebecca White ’15
Alabama College Society From left: Della Scott ’53, Libby Queen ’59, Jo Rayfield ’62, Mel Robinson ’52, Rod Hildreth ’62, Jeannine McElroy ’53, Joyce Blake ’51, Lois Odom ’51
Class of 1956 From left: (front row) Joyce Greathouse, Sue Faulkner, Lela Poythress, Nell Ruth Freeman Marshall, Vera Stephens Cox, Ouida McDonald McIntyre; (back row) Emily Vest Pendleton, Anna Martin, Carol Slaughter White, Mary Louise Rice Dabbs, Marie Zannis, Dean Drake Green, Miriam Oglesby Finch, Anita Ray Giordano
Photo by Rebecca White ’15
CLASS NOTES
1975
Mark Brandon was named as a “fellow” with the Alabama Law Foundation. He is the Dean of The University of Alabama School of Law. Donna Stricklin Compton and college roommate Kimiko Masaki Hotta ’74 reunited after 42 years in Tokyo, Japan, where Kimiko teaches English.
1979
Karl Moor has joined Balch & Bingham, LLP as counsel in the environmental and natural
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resources section in Birmingham. He is a member of the board of directors for the Atlantic Council and also served as chair of the Edison Electric Institute Task Force on Carbon Capture and Sequestration.
1981
K.A. Turner, a director with Alabama Media Group, was elected as president of the APA Journalism Foundation. She worked at The Outlook in Alexander City and The Selma Times-Journal before joining Advance Publications, now Alabama Media
Group. Before relocating to Birmingham in 2012, she worked in Huntsville and Mobile. Thom Gossom Jr. was recognized for his book, A Slice of Life, which tells fictional stories based on events from his own life. A Slice of Life is a three-part collection of “life stories” woven around themes of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances.
1985
Joey Bunch won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 2013 Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shoot-
ings. He was the keynote speaker for APA Journalism Foundation’s luncheon in conjunction with the Pulitzer recognition in February.
1986
Jacquie Brasher has been hired as the part-time executive director of Emanuel Arts Council in Swainsboro, Georgia. Brasher formerly reported from The Forest-Blade in Swainsboro from 1997 to 2008, and was a news anchor and correspondent for Radio Jones (WXRS and WJAT) in Swainsboro from 2008 to 2013.