tion and is practicing as a foster care worker with Elmore County Department of Human Resources in Tallassee, Alabama. Grayson Lawrence of Birmingham received UM’s Outstanding Alumnus Award for Teacher Leadership. He currently serves as assistant principal at Winterboro High School in Talladega County, Alabama. Katrina Lewis is working in child welfare at the Bibb County Department of Human Resources in Centreville, Alabama, where she completed her field education experience as a child abuse and neglect investigator. Megan Nunnery has completed a year of service with Americorps at the Middle Alabama Area Agency on Aging in Calera. Amanda Rosso is now a child abuse and neglect worker with the Shelby County Department of Human Resources in Columbiana, Alabama. Haley Youngblood Smith was promoted to University of Montevallo admissions counselor. Jessica Spradlin accepted a position as director of operations at The Alabama Sweet Tea Company in Montgomery. Robby Wise and Collin Williams, UM professor of art, collaborated on a piece at Space One Eleven in Birmingham. Hanna Yeargan is employed with the Chilton County Department of Human Resources in Clanton, Alabama. She completed her field placement there last year as a Title IV-E stipend recipient.
2017
Brianna Blue is employed in child welfare with the Etowah County Department of Human Services in Gadsden, Alabama. Giselle Casadaban interned at the Breast Cancer Research Foundation of Alabama. She is currently a graduate assistant at The University of Alabama. Lillie Childers accepted a
position as Impact America’s SpeakFirst debate program coach in Birmingham. Laura Cullen accepted a fulltime position as marketing coordinator with Vineyard Family Services in Pelham, which helps feed children in need, promotes responsible fatherhood and parenting and helps families in crisis. Hope Finley is the new marketing and promotions manager with the Birmingham Barons. Nathan Harper teaches at New Century Technology High School in Huntsville. Maggie Jobe teaches at Virgil I. Grissom High School in Huntsville. Brinkley Jones accepted a position as YMCA Camp Chandler program director in Wetumpka, Alabama. Kayla Moore is working in child welfare with the Bibb County Department of Human Resources in her hometown of Centreville, Alabama, where she completed her field education experience.
Watson II were married on July 8 at The Barn at Shady Lane in Birmingham. The wedding party included matron of honor, Tiffany Bennett Reynolds ’10 and maid of honor, Ashley Hatch Sparks ’10. She is the daughter of Marilyn Hearns Henderson ’86. The couple resides in Marietta, Georgia.
BIRTHS
Jessica is a 5th grade teacher for Pelham City Schools, and Reade works for Hibbett Sports corporate office. The family resides in Alabaster.
2016
Karis Watts and her husband, Michael, welcomed their daughter, Elenor Rae, on Nov. 3. The family resides in Montevallo.
DEATHS
2008
1934
2013
1944
Jennifer Restauri Dickinson and her husband, Joshua, welcomed their daughter Charlotte Rose on Jan. 16. Jennifer directs educational programming at the Stark Museum of Art, and Josh helps manage a hardware store. The family lives in Orange, Texas. Jessica Goolsby Hocutt and husband, Reade, welcomed their son, Graham Nils, on Jan. 16.
Grace Lane Harrell, 102, of Macon County, Alabama, died Oct. 23. Grace served as president of the American Association of University Women and once had tea with Eleanor Roosevelt at Christmastime in 1933. Merle Jernigan Calloway, 95, of Montgomery, died Dec. 2. Merle worked for the Alabama Department of Pensions and Security be-
Adam Pettway accepted a position at WSFA-TV Montgomery as a news content specialist. Brianna Rose accepted a position as a morning news producer at WIAT CBS-42 in Birmingham. Rebecca Walden is employed at the Middle Alabama Area Agency on Aging in Calera, Alabama, where she completed her field education experience as a Medicaid waiver initial assessment case manager. Elaine D. Wood received the Alabama Golf Association’s Alabama Women’s Player of the Year Award for the second consecutive year. Alanna White works with domestically abused families at SafeHouse of Shelby County, in Pelham, where she completed her field education experience.
WEDDINGS
2010
Arilyn Henderson and Michael
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