CLASS NOTES 70s
David Nelson ’70 (Math) retired from UOP Honeywell Co. after 25 years. He has been married to Sarah Nan Nelson for 51 years, and they have 3 children and 9 grandchildren. Brenda Carlisle ’73 & ’97 (Psychology, Marriage & Family Counseling) serves as Resource Development Director for Boys & Girls Clubs of South Alabama. She has been married 45 years to Dennis Carlisle, an architect, and they have one daughter, Laura Carlisle, who is an attorney in New Orleans, and one dog, Sophie, and two granddogs, Tucker and Annie. She is a member of Ashland Place United Methodist and serves on the Board of Directors of The Joseph Project Food Pantry; is former member, Board of Directors of Family Promise of Coastal Alabama, and the Board of the YWCA of Mobile.
Stacie Greene ’97 & ’18 (Psychology) serves as a teacher at Hollinger’s Island Elementary, Mobile County Public School System. She has two children who attend the University of Mobile and play on the men’s soccer team. Brandi Lowe ’98 (English) is a Corporate Compliance Officer at Mobile County Health Department. After she left UM, she went on to law school at Cumberland in Birmingham. After graduation, she took a job with the State of Alabama and worked as an Assistant Attorney General for nearly 15 years. She has recently transitioned to the corporate world. She was married to DeWayne Lowe in 2003 and they have an 8-year-old daughter.
Elizabeth Walker ’79 (Music) serves as a Program Supervisor for the State of Alabama DHR. She is married to Robert Walker and lives in Mobile, AL.
Emmett Foley ’99 (Mathematics) has joined Huffstetler and Co. as a Certified Residential Appraiser.
80s
Bernadette Fidler Bailey ’86 (Nursing/ Biology) is a retired RN who spent a third of her career as a travel nurse for high risk L&D and O.R., and as an RN Preceptor in both units. She’s an Army mom who has five kids and three grandkids. She is also a published poet on Google Books, having thus far written three books.
Kelly Waller Scheetz ’99 (Spanish) is a Spanish teacher at Franklin High School in Williamson County, TN. She serves as President of the TN Foreign Language Teaching Association and National Director of the Sociedad Honoraria Hispanica. She has two children with her husband, Ray: Barret, 13 and Arden, 10.
90s
Scott Seale ’91 (Business & Computer Science) is an Application Engineer at Eaton Corporation in Orange Beach, AL.
Dwayne Norman ’00 (Religion) has been named Senior Pastor at Campbellsville Baptist Church in Campbellsville, KY. His wife, Amanda Norman ’00 (Business), serves as a homemaker for their family.
Henderson Stace ’92 (Business) has been named Special Education Teacher at Cherokee County School District in Canton, GA. Ginger McNamara ’96 (Business) started a new position as Marketing Consultant at BIS Designs. She also was the still photographer on “Run the Race” with executive producers Robby Tebow and Tim Tebow, and still photographer and casting director on “Let There Be Light” with director Kevin Sorbo. Both productions are Christian drama films. 48
Amy Merryman ’96 (Elementary Education) has been named Assistant Principal at Lott Middle School in Citronelle, AL.
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Dana Watson ’00 (Sociology) serves as COO of Alabama Baptist Children’s Homes & Family Ministries. He and Ashleigh Watson ’01 & ’06 (Early Childhood/Elementary Education) were married on May 23, 2001 and together they have four daughters: Aubreigh, Emma, Olivia and Isabella. Dana received a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from Eastern University, a master’s degree in social work from the University of Alabama, and master’s
