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Kirkpatrick to Lead Vestavia Hills Schools Foundation
he Vestavia Hills City Schools Foundation recently announced its 2012-13 board of directors. Board members representing community, business and academia support the foundation’s mission of providing perpetual financial support to each Vestavia Hills school and protecting and fostering the standard of academic excellence in the school system. Officers include president Donald “Bo” Kirkpatrick, Carr Allison; vice president Jay Evers, Milo’s Tea Company, Inc.; secretary Ken Maluff, Birmingham 3T Imaging; treasurer Russ Bagby, Summitt Products, LLC; treasurer-elect Todd Nunnelley, Harbert Management Corp.; and past president Scott Ferguson, DDP, LLC. Directors include: Cindy Adams, director of curriculum and instruction, Vestavia Hills City
Schools; Stanley J. Bara III, D.C., film producer; Greg Canfield, Alabama Secretary of Commerce; Pam Cochran, community volunteer; Jim Creamer, Wells Fargo; Jay Dennis, Aliant Bank; Tracie Dugas, community volunteer; Mike Escue, Summit Insurance Group; Gina Henley. Pizitz Middle School PTO president-elect; Betsy Hewett, community volunteer; Amy Irby, community Bo Kirkpatrick volunteer; Brian Lambert, the Lambert Agency, Inc.; Suzanne Lisenby, Vestavia Hills Liberty Park Elementary; Becky Patton, principal, Vestavia
Hills Elementary West; Greg Peterson, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP; Brian Pitts, ITAC Solutions, LLC; Steve Serra, Serra Toyota; Missy Sexton, VIVA Health; Alison Smith, Alison Smith Interiors; Susan Theiss, community volunteer; Jeff Trotman, Westglenn Software; and Melisa Zwilling, Carr Allison. Ex officio members are Jerry Dent, Vestavia Board of Education representative, Alvarez & Marsal Dispute Analysis and Forensic; Vestavia Mayor Alberto “Butch” Zaragoza; Dr. Jamie Blair, superintendent; Shelia Phillips, assistant superintendent; Tracy Lemak, Vestavia Hills Schools PTO Council president; and Sharon Lovell, advisory board. The foundation’s executive director is Ashley Thompson. ❖
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Andrew Julian “Drew” Graham, a member of Boy Scout Troop 86 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Mountain Brook, has earned the rank of Eagle Scout. Troop 86 Andrew Julian held an Eagle “Drew” Graham Court of Honor
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ceremony to recognize Graham’s achievement April 28 in the church’s Graham Hall. Graham’s uncle and fellow Eagle Scout, Julian Hawes Jr. of Dallas, attended and participated in the pinning ceremony. Graham is the 161st Eagle Scout in the 60-year history of Troop 86. He earned 21 merit badges, including electives such as Disabilities Awareness, Dentistry and Small Boat Sailing. He participated in more than 40 nights of camping with his troop over four years, earning the Polar Bear badge for an overnight campout at Fort Mountain State Park in Georgia in February 2012. His Eagle service project was the installation of a 20-foot section of brick pavers along the pathway to the Alabama Veterans Memorial at Liberty Park. The service project entailed more than 130 man-hours to plan and execute and involved more than 20 volunteers. With excess funds raised for the project, Graham was able to donate more than $800 to the maintenance fund for the Veterans Memorial. Graham will be a sophomore at Mountain Brook High School, where he is a member of the cross country and indoor and outdoor track teams. He is the son of Paul and Evelyn Graham of Mountain Brook and the grandson of John and Mary Helen Graham of Atmore, Patricia HawesHipps of Chelsea and the late Barry Mellin Hawes.
to Micheal Le, sponsored by Salem’s Diner, and Paige McBride and Brodie Martin, sponsored by Homewood High School. The chalk art event, which included 24 artists, was sponsored by Homewood Rotary for the fourth year. Proceeds from the art competition and a bake sale held at We Love Homewood Day support the club’s local, national and international projects. Each year, the club awards scholarships totaling about $12,000 to Homewood High School seniors.
Girl Scouts Earn Religious Awards Several Birmingham Girl Scouts recently earned religious awards. Earning the Family of God award were Sara Ruble Allen, Berkley Allen, Barbara Ann Allen, Caroline Crain, Tatum Holley, Sarah Anne Laney, Sofia Obregon, Gabrielle Saia, Claire Stansell and Olivia Stephens. The award is the official religious recognition program of the Roman Catholic Church for children in grades 2-3. The program helps children discover the presence of God in their daily lives as members of their families and parishes. Earning the I Live My Faith award were Caroline Belrose, Maren Condra, Francesca Dichiara, Mary Elizabeth
Dinan, Isabela Lemos, Serra Nolan, Morgan Wiedmeyer and Julia Wolter. The I Live My Faith program is designed to help children in grades 4-6 appreciate more deeply the place that God and religion occupies in their daily life. It complements and supports the more formal religious education provided in Catholic schools and parish programs.
Cockrell Celebrates 106th Birthday Canterbury United Methodist Church in Mountain Brook celebrated the 106th birthday of its oldest member, Helen Cockrell, May 23. At the time she was born, the church was known as Union Hill Methodist Episcopal Church and met at a site on what is now Hollywood Boulevard in Homewood. Today, Cockrell is a wealth of knowledge, a great reader and a person who can share her accounts of some of the greatest events in Birmingham and U.S. history. She often speaks to her visitors about her childhood on a farm, the Great Depression, life in Homewood in the early 1940s, World War II and other events. Canterbury staff members and volunteers visited her May 23 for a small bedside celebration. ❖
DeCamillis Wins Top Chalk Art Prize Annabelle DeCamillis won best of show at the Sidewalk Chalk Art Festival sponsored by Homewood Rotary as part of We Love Homewood Day activities May 5. DeCamillis, 17, won for her design of a child with building blocks spelling “I ‘Heart’ Homewood.” She was sponsored by Commercial Sign and Graphics. Diane Newsome, sponsored by Graham and Co., won the most creative category. Karen Libecap, sponsored by the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, won the Chairman’s Choice award. Claire Lynton, sponsored by Buffalo Rock, won best children’s entry. Honorable mention awards went
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Annabelle DeCamillis’ creation won best of show in Homewood’s May 25 Photo special to the Journal sidewalk chalk art contest.