CLASSNOTES
Mary Catherine McAnnally is among Teach for America’s newest leaders working in classrooms across Alabama. She is teaching 7th and 8th grade social studies at York West End Junior High School in Sumter County, Ala., through May 2013. Corinna Herndon Ray grew up watching her mother run her own commercial design company. After graduating in studio art from BSC, Ray returned to Fairhope to work alongside her mom. After her mom passed away in fall 2011, she stepped up to carry on the family-owned company, Herndon’s Marketing Design. Melissa Diane Revis is a math teacher at Gardendale High School in the Jefferson County School District, where she also coaches volleyball, basketball, and softball. Benjamin Schaefer currently is enrolled in the MBA program at Jacksonville University. He also is playing NCAA Division I lacrosse. Simone Schicker is a 2011-12 fellow at the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, N.C. She is spending the summer at the Brandeis Collegiate Institute before heading to Israel at the end of August to participate in a fivemonth Ulpan (Hebrew immersion) program on Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan near Haifa. Chase Landon Seaver of Nashville, Tenn., graduated with a master’s degree in finance from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University in May 2012 and is now working at the international headquarters of Raymond James in St. Petersburg, Fla.
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Lauren-Michael Sellers is a singersongwriter. During her first year at BSC, she joined a band called Jump Function, and is now playing in her own band at various venues across the Southeast, providing audiences with soulful, Southern style folk/indie music with her finger-style guitar-picking and genuine vocals.
Friends Marty Gross has been named associate head men’s basketball coach for Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. Gross began his collegiate coaching career at BirminghamSouthern upon graduating from Jacksonville University in 1977. During his four years at BSC, the Panthers were 103-27, captured three-consecutive Southern States Conference championships, competed in two national tournaments, and achieved a national ranking as high as second in the NAIA polls. Roy Mewbourne, former baseball coach at Birmingham-Southern and Vanderbilt, was inducted into the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame Jan. 27 at the TBCA Clinic in Franklin, Tenn. Mewbourne’s teams won 922 games in his seven years at Birmingham-Southern and his 24 years at Vanderbilt, where he won one SEC championship.
Weddings Bruce Burson ’73 to Monica Calvert Loggins, June 12, 2011. Judy Bidlingmayer Yarborough ’79 to Michael McClure, May 22, 2011. Dr. Sheri Routt ’97 to Barry Barnes, Oct. 9, 2011. Rebecca Kelly Rone ’99 to Dr. Weston Herbert Rothrock ’99, May 26, 2012.
William Aycock III ’01 to Dr. Lindsay Seaborn, Nov. 19, 2011. Kerry Lynn Pitts ’02 to Kevin Smith, March 12, 2011. Jennifer Turner ’02 to Alan House, June 16, 2012. Michelle Morrisey ’03 to Anthony Bencomo, May 20, 2011. Whitney Noell Curvin ’04 to Reid Stewart, March 17, 2012. Brian DeLoach ’04 to Bevin Clare Muire O’Neill ’06, Sept. 4, 2010. Allison Hargett ’04 to Tim England, April 28, 2012. Erik Nolan Boustany ’05 to Caree’ Robin, Nov. 11, 2011. Jennifer “Jennie” Bowers ’05 to Charles Turney “C.T.” Stevens III ’06, June 25, 2011. Kristen Lynn Fuhrmann ’05 to Dr. James Eric Galloway, June 17, 2011. Sarah Elizabeth Sullivan ’05 to Michael Jay Johnson, July 25, 2011. Dr. Matthew D. Wolfe ’05 to Kaylin Mathews, March 24, 2012. David M. Pace ’06 to Kristin Jeffreys ’08, Aug. 20, 2011. Lucy Hamilton ’07 to Christopher Daniel ’08, Aug. 6, 2011. Mitchell Elliott Loper ’07 to Rachel Elizabeth Stinson ’08, March 24, 2012. Katrina Danielle “Dani” Seymour ’07 to Brook Blount, Aug. 6, 2011. Brittany Winfree ’07 to Mathew Bryant Stuber, May 28, 2011. Dyanna Lynn Dambach ’08 to Dr. Joseph Garrett, April 21, 2012. Marian Bradshaw ’11 to James Adams, May 29, 2011. Zachary “Zach” Guyse ’11 to Marie Sloan ’11, Dec. 30, 2011. Bryan Michael Higginbotham ’11 to Laura Bottoms, June 4, 2011. Justin Daniel Ray ’11 to Jessica Raper, April 21, 2012.
Births A son, John Wyatt, Oct. 8, 2010, to Ron Conway ’90 and wife, Suzanne.
A son, Harrison Clay, Dec. 5, 2010, to Kathryn Cannon Lavender ’92 and husband, Larry (big brothers, Matthew and Jacob). A daughter, Mary Frances, June 18, 2011, to Hamp Baxley ’93 and wife, Emily. A son, Jack Marshall, June 9, 2011, to Andrew Marshall Cook ’94 and wife, Amy. A daughter, Collier Ann, Aug. 18, 2011, to Tony Daniel ’94 and wife, Jennifer. A daughter, Jennings Cooper, July 7, 2011, to Carol Cooper Hagan ’94 and husband, Chris (big brother and sister, Ross and Campbell). A son, Luca Burbank, Aug. 24, 2011, to Nicole Bates Provonchee ’95 and husband, Zach. A son, Charles Faulkner, Oct. 12, 2011, to Kelly Rhodes Warren ’98 and husband, Eugene II (big sister, Sarah Frances). A son, John Hayes, Nov. 2, 2010, to Kerri Hinman Culver ’99 and husband, Brian (big sister, Helen). A daughter, Atlee Claire, Nov. 3, 2011, to Jessica Mattes Sobat ’99 and husband, Mark (big brother, Brandon). A son, John Cheshire, July 25, 2011, to John Redding ’00 and wife, Robin (big sister, Elizabeth) A daughter, Ella Tate, Jan. 22, 2011, to Clay Campbell ’01 and wife, Jessica. A son, Oscarr “Carr” Holunder, May 26, 2011, to Hunter Matthew Holzhauer ’03 and wife, Mikael Cobb Holzhauer ’05. A son, Anderson Reaves, July 31, 2011, to Susan Geist Lewis ’03 and husband, Brian. A son, Jeremiah Patrick, Jan. 8, 2011, to Patrick Cashio ’06 and wife, Catherine Dooley Cashio ’07.