Class Notes
2005
CLASS OF 2005 From left: (front row) Krystal Swann, Susan Elizabeth Spann, Patricia Lovelady, Jenny Harvard, Eric Leslie, Angela Sanders; (back row) Rosanna McGinnis, Daniel West, Michael Hill, Blake Harvard, Ben Greer MINORITY The newly-formed Minority Alumni Club elected officers at Homecoming. Officers are Cynthia Todd ’88 – President, Fred Miller ’04 – Vice President, Cortez Bennett ’12 – Treasurer and Arielle Jones ’11 – Secretary.
of 40 under Forty. Formerly UM’s director of development and alumni affairs, Racheal is currently the director of health sciences development and alumni relations at the University of South Alabama. Paul Giardina, executive director of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mobile, was recognized in the list of Mobile Bay’s 2014 Class of 40 under Forty. Kathryn Miller Thomas, of Mobile, is a support recipients benefit manager with Volunteers of America Southeast. She ensures that people with intellectual disabilities who are residents in VOA Alabama group homes keep their benefits current.
2000
Julie Neussl Harrison M.Ed. ’02, Ed.S. ’08, M.Ed. ’12, art teacher at Clanton Elementary School, has received National Board Certification in early/middle childhood art education. She was the first teacher in Chilton County to pass the process. Beth House M.Ed. ’03 was named 2014 Teacher-of-the-Year at Thompson
High School. She teaches English and works with the Problem-Solving Team and the Peer Helpers Program. Beth and husband Mike participated in the Dopey Challenge Run at Walt Disney World in January, benefiting cancer research.
2002
Rhetanna D. Taunton received her Juris Doctorate from the Birmingham School of Law on May 17.
Jeff Traywick, senior project manager for the Birmingham Business Alliance’s economic development division, recently received the 40 Under 40 Award for economic development from Development Counsellors International. In the past five years, Jeff has managed or worked on 56 announced economic development projects resulting in more than $199 million in announced capital investment and 1,786 jobs.
2003
Joey Candler Jankoski, of Columbia, Maryland, recently became a National Board Certified Teacher in the area of library media. She is a
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MINORITY ALUMNI CLUB library media specialist at Longfellow Elementary School. Eric Saninocencio has been promoted to digital media director for the NFL’s Houston Texans. The Texans’ digital media efforts have been recognized by the NFL and other sports organizations for several fan engagement campaigns. Eric and wife Heather Huot Saninocencio ’02 reside in Sugar Land, Texas, with their children, Deric, 4, and Isla, 2.
2004
Aubrey Blackwell M.Ed. ’06 has accepted the position of head football coach at Montgomery Catholic Preparatory School. He had previously served as assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at St. James School, also in Montgomery. Aubrey was also the recipient of the Kinesiology Award at the UM College of Education Alumni Awards Dinner, held in conjunction with homecoming in February.
2005
Melanie Tingle M.Ed. was chosen Teacher of the Year at Thompson Middle School in Alabaster. Melanie teaches English language arts.
2006
Eric Browne, a theater teacher at Baker High School in Mobile for the past four years, was featured in a recent article on al.com in Mobile. He sent 28 of his students to the statewide Walter Trumbauer Secondary Theatre Festival, held at Troy University, where they competed successfully with almost 2,000 other high school theater students. Tina Strozier Harris, of Enterprise, recently earned an MBA from Auburn University at Montgomery. Jane Herndon M.Ed. has accepted the position of secondary instruction specialist for Madison County schools.
2007
Evelyn Black, of Montgomery, is firm administrator and a paralegal for the law firm of Ryals, Donaldson & Agricola P.C.
2009
Sharon New Glass, of Calera, completed dental school in 2014 and has taken over the practice of Dr. Paul Morgan in Clanton. Sharon was a hygienist for Morgan while in school and assumed