Scholarship Renamed for Alumnus

Samford honors the memory of Logan Deen with its risk management and insurance endowment

BY MORGAN BLACK

In May 2022, the Risk Management and Insurance (RMI) Advisory Board in Samford University Brock School of Business established the Risk Management and Insurance Advisory Board Endowed Scholarship. After losing one of the board’s founding members, Logan Deen ’12, to cancer in November 2022, a unanimous vote in May 2023 approved changing the name of the fund in his memory.

Logan, who was the owner of Logan Deen State Farm in Birmingham, was a dedicated member of the Birmingham business community and was passionate about giving back to Samford students.

He and his wife, Katherine Moore Deen ’12, met while they were students at Samford. “Logan was not just a businessperson that wanted to be successful for himself. He wanted to mentor the next generation and loved being involved with Samford’s business school,” says Katherine.

Logan regularly hosted Samford interns in his office and made it a point to teach them that there was more to a sales career than just medical sales, driving more interest in the insurance industry. “He got

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 16 them interested in insurance when, at first, they didn’t think it was very flashy, and taught them how the industry was about helping people manage the risks of everyday life,” she explains.

The Logan Deen RMI Advisory Board Endowed Scholarship is awarded Samford business majors who are pursuing the Risk Management and Insurance concentration or a career in the industry.

Rusty Yerkes, the Thomas J. Adams Sr./AutoTec endowed professor in risk management and insurance, regularly interacted with Logan through his involvement in the business school and its risk management and insurance program.

Rusty says, “Logan was always a consummate professional. He was a faithful and dedicated Christian, husband and father, and he loved Samford and the Brock School