Class Notes ALABAMA COLLEGE SOCIETY
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From left: (front row) Libby Queen ’59, Della Scott ’53, Bobbye Lightfoot ’52, Margaret Utley ’52; (middle row) Marie Zannis ’56, Dolly White ’54, Miriam Finch ’56, Mary Louise Dabbs ’56, Anna Martin ’56, Jeannine McElroy ’53, Ann Davis ’48; (back row) Mollie Powell ’60, Betty Jean Lobsiger ’56, Vera Cox ’56, Joyce Greathouse ’56, Billie Ray Kohen ’53
1965
CLASS NOTES
1963
Bob Chapman was named president of the United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Birmingham Board of Directors.
1970
The Rev. Stanley Carter has retired from the United Methodist Ministry after 46 years. He resides in Millbrook, Alabama. John Cooke, masonry supervisor emeritus at UM, sent his fossil collection to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Cooke, who resides in Pleasant Grove, credits his geology professor at Montevallo, James Connell, with stirring his interest in fossils. Now that his collection has been relocated, he has taken a new interest in collecting petrified wood.
1972
David Wheeler was recently elected to
the position of treasurer for the Alabama Republican Party. He is retired from Alabama Power Co. with 29 years of service.
1973
Gordon F. Welch, music instructor at Wallace Community College Selma, recently received the Alabama Community College Class of 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Academic Excellence. He has been teaching music courses, both traditional and online, since 2008. He also serves as organist and director of music ministries at Church Street United Methodist Church in Selma.
1975
Reneé Pierce was named Ms. Senior Alabama 2014 and later placed third runner-up in the Ms. Senior America pageant. She utilized her skills on the piano in the talent competition. Reneé serves as pianist and music associate at First Baptist Church of
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CLASS OF 1965
From left: (front row) Martha Hubbard Smith, Sonja Reed Wescott, Betty Jean Barlow Davis, Shirley Harrison Burk, Judy Patrick Ory, Charolette Megginson, Barbara Martin Blackerby, Dolores Crowley Frye, Mary Hardee; (second row) Mary Phillips Cady, Betty Whittle Kozlowski, Carol Robbins Hull, Diana Barkfield, Nancy Dupree Boyd, Taylor Reynolds, Ruth Davis Sundberg; (third row) Joanne Lancaster Gordon, Jean Coplin Mellard, Mary Louise Latham Jones, Charles Wicke, Larry Barton, Carl “Bud” Paepcke, Jackie Grider Tally; (back row) Jane Byrd Autry, Fred Cooper, Suzliee Yonce Draper, Billie Dodson, Donly Ray, Allen Fulton
Boaz where her husband, Tommy, is music director.
1976
Hardwick Gregg recently finished fourth in the USA Cycling National Championship for cyclocross in Austin, Texas, in the 60-64 age bracket. He won the same age category in January 2014 in Boulder, Colorado.
1982
J. Mark Hendrick joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP as chief information officer and will be based in the Birmingham office. He was previously the director of information technology at Baker Botts in Houston, Texas.
1983
Lisa Davis Smith recently retired from the Rockdale County, Georgia, school system, where she taught music in the elementary schools for 18 years. She taught in Georgia for a total of 30 years. She has since accepted the posi-
tion of director of music for children and youth at First United Methodist Church in Monroe, Georgia.
1984
Lee Griner, of Birmingham, has been elected president of the board of directors of Birmingham Festival Theatre, a nonprofit community theater. He is employed in the office of the Institutional Review Board at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Margaret Purcell, of Coker, has been named executive director of the Center for Resiliency at the University of Alabama System in Tuscaloosa.
1985
Joey Bunch was the honoree at the Northeast Alabama Community College Foundation Board’s Holiday Gala in December. Joey began his college days at NACC before transferring to UM. He is a reporter at The Denver Post and was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for