ALUMNI
CLASS NOTES Class Notes, New Arrivals and In Memoriam are compiled by the Office of Alumni Programs and Annual Giving.
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1950s
’57 Dr. James “Jim” A. Auchmuty Jr. is the author of the recently released book, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Funeral. Proceeds will benefit the Auchmuty Fund for Congressional Leadership at Samford.
1960s
’66 Jerry W. Tyler and wife, Maryann Stringer Tyler ’67, recently retired as minister
of music and music associate from First Baptist Roswell, Georgia, after serving for 34 years. They are both grateful to Samford University for the part it played in a 50-year ministry through music.
1970s
’77 Rev. Dr. L. Vern Farnum was named director of spiritual care and chaplaincy at Indiana University Health Academic Health Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. ’77 Mary Virginia Thompson is the author of The Only Unavoidable Subject of Regret, an extensive account of those who served at Mount Vernon.
1980s
’84 Rev. Stuart Condra is the new worship
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1990s
’91 John Green has received a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Program scholarship to study in Tanzania. He will spend five weeks this summer learning about the cultures and languages of East Africa. Green currently teaches French at New Manchester High School near Atlanta, Georgia. ’92 Mitch McCoy was granted tenure and was promoted to associate professor of Spanish
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and coordinator of undergraduate legal studies at Belmont University.
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’92 Jeff Styres
was recently named vice president of the legal department and assistant secretary of Southern Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company, headquartered in Jackson, Mississippi. Styres has worked in the company’s legal department since 1998 and resides in Madison, Mississippi, with his wife, Belinda, and two daughters, Jessica and Julia. 2
’93 Ben Wiggins has been named the 2018-19 president of the Georgia Association of Educational Leaders, the main professional organization for Georgia’s K-12 school system administrators and teachers. Wiggins is also the past president of the Georgia Association of Secondary School Principals. He has been an educator for almost 25 years and has served as the principal of Oconee County High School since 2014. While at Samford, he was a sociology major and the quarterback of the 1991 national championship semifinalist Bulldog football team. 3 ’98 Leah Lawley Baker received her
bachelor’s degree in nursing at Jacksonville State University in 2018. She was named on the President’s List for fall 2018 and was
inducted into The National Society of Leadership and Success in spring 2019.
’98 Cherington Shucker was named one of Greenville’s Top 50 Most Influential People of 2018 by Greenville Business Magazine.
2000s
’02 Stacey Foshee joined the country’s top ranked pediatric cardiovascular surgery program as a charge nurse and nurse instructor in the pediatric cardiovascular intensive care unit at Texas Children’s Hospital. In March, she was recognized as one of Houston’s Top 150 nurses by the Houston Chronicle and in May was recognized by the Good Samaritan Foundation for excellence in the nursing profession. ’03 Ashley Stidham Seligson recently
founded and is the executive director of Little Hands Serving Hearts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and providing service