leadership, policy law and research from Alabama State University. Maury Grayson was named 2017-2018 Teacher of the Year at Montevallo High School. Maury currently teaches chemistry and physical science and has taught at MHS for 14 years.
1991
Mark D. Warner received his master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Adler University in Chicago.
1992
Mark Brown is the new director of communications for FMB Advertising in Knoxville, Tennessee. In his new position, Mark will direct and coordinate FMB’s strategic communications, both print and digital. Kimberly Ramsey of Montgomery was recognized as the University of Montevallo’s Outstanding Alumna in Family and Consumer Sciences. She currently serves as the women’s leadership division director for the Alabama Farmers Federation.
1993
Alan Shaw was named Morrison Healthcare Director of the Year for 2017. He serves as the senior director of food and nutrition services for Mississippi Baptist Health Systems in Jackson, Mississippi, where he resides with his wife, Stephanie Shaw ’93, and their three children.
1994
Nelson Grice curated “Casting Tall Shadows,” the September exhibition at the Shelby County Arts Council Gallery in Columbiana, Alabama. The exhibition featured work by professor emeritus Ted Metz and current UM art students Kristen Berry and Savannah Smith. Dr. Tracy Rockco M.Ed. ’98 was awarded the Montevallo Branch
of AAUW’s Pathfinder Award at their December 2017 meeting. The award is presented to a member who represents the values of AAUW through service to both the organization and community.
1995
Tina Mozelle Braziel was recently announced as the winner of the 2017 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest by the Fresno State Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing. The contest included a $2,000 award and publication of Tina’s debut book, Known by Salt. She currently directs the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
1999
Alan L. Riquelmy has joined the editorial board of The Union daily newspaper in Grass Valley, California. Dr. Armentress D. Robinson M.Ed. ’02, ’08 has joined the Bessemer Board of Education as
the new principal of J.S. Abrams Elementary School.
2000
Julie Neussl Harrison M.Ed. ’02, Ed.S. ’08 was named the Alabama Art Education Association (AAEA) Elementary Art Educator of the Year. She is the
Class of 1958 From left: Emily Hammond, Margaret Ann Edmonds, Beverly Fundaburk, Barbara Bonfield, Yvonne Sterling and Bonnie Strickland
1996
Greg Embry was promoted to executive director of admission services at Georgia Gwinnett College in north Atlanta, where he oversees the office of admissions, the office of new student connections/orientation and the office of testing services. Greg was originally hired on as Gwinnett’s executive director of admissions in July 2017. Tayna Rains is the new executive director of New Futures, Inc., a family homeless shelter dedicated to keeping families together based in Huntsville.
1998
Nicole Moore Stockman was named 2017-2018 Teacher of the Year at Athens Middle School in Athens, Alabama. She lives in Athens with her husband, Matt Stockman ’99, M.Ed. ’01, and two children, Denbree and Turner. April Stone accepted a position as the new executive director of the Hoover Area Chamber of Commerce. Previously, April worked as the executive director of the South Shelby Chamber of Commerce.
Class of 1968 From left: (front row) Billie Dodson, Julia Fuller, Sarah Hallman, Diane Ray, Susan Henley, Marion Hope Formby; (back row) Fred Crawford, Mary Jackson, Paul Doran, Sandi Falkehagen and Suzanne Durham
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