HC 2009 program

Homecoming 2009

Purple Side Song

Bienvenue!

Welcome!

Welcome to Homecoming 2009! I’m glad you are here to share in “A World of Memories.” Whether you attended Alabama College or the University of Montevallo (or both), once you pass through the iron gates onto the brick streets of this lovely campus, memories do come flooding back. Memories of good friends and the fun we had, professors who taught both academic and life lessons, late night (or all night) rehearsals in Palmer Hall, seeing a College Night show for the first time, warm Spring sunshine on the quad, and the brilliant color of a ginkgo tree in the Fall are just a few of my favorites.

The world has changed since most of us walked these streets as students, and Montevallo has changed as well. There are new buildings, new programs, new faces, new ideas, and an exciting new strategic plan developed by the university community. What hasn’t changed is the foundation that makes this University special – the commitment to academic excellence in a liberal arts environment, the energy, enthusiasm, and spirit of “Montevallo people,” and the appreciation of the traditions we cherish as alumni.

I invite you to make the most of your visit to campus this weekend. Share your world of memories with friends, classmates, fellow alumni of other generations, and current students — and learn about theirs. There are activities almost every minute to enjoy — class reunions, departmental receptions, the Art Auction, the Purple and Gold basketball game, and especially College Night. And whether the color of your world in February at Montevallo is gold, purple, or a little of both, I hope you will take with you fond memories of Homecoming 2009.

Karen Kelly, ’80 UMNAA President

Alma Mater WORDS: VIRGINIA POWELL FIGH ’48 MUSIC: LUCY LYNN UNDERWOOD ’54

Alma Mater, ever glorious, Seeking Right and Freedom’s way, Raise a beacon high to guide us: Shed thy light afar, we pray.

Sons and daughters sing thy praises, Steadfast virtues win thee fame, May the years be rich and fruitful, Truth and Honor crown thy name.

[TUNE: THE WHIFFENPOOF SONG] WORDS: MARGARET HAMNER UTLEY ’52

In the town of Montevallo there’s a side we love so well.

It’s the place where Purple spirit always dwells.

Sing the Purples to our leaders, With our voices raised on high, And the magic of our singing casts a spell, Yes, the magic of our singing to the side we love so well.

You can hear us in the morning and the night.

We will serenade our leaders, For we took the sacred vow.

Then we’ll pass and be forgotten like the rest.

We’re loyal Purples, who love our side, Purple Pride!

We will explain why we feel this way, Purple Pride!

Purple pepsters sing with glee.

Show your blood is royalty.

Lord have mercy and it will be ... Vic-to-ry.

Gold Side Song [TUNE: AN OLD ENGLISH ROUND] WORDS: PATRICK SESSIONS ’00

We are a symphony With out hearts in perfect harmony We’ll make a melody That we can’t make separately We are black and gold Love will guide us, it will see us through New, old, loyal Golds This our song we’ll never be through Don’t think that we will ever stop singing Because a song in our hearts is ringing A song of joy that binds us together This is a song that we’ll sing forever Boom! Sha la la Boom! Sha la la Boom! Sha la la [TUNE: AN OLD ENGLISH ROUND] WORDS: BARBARA LONG CURTIS ’54

Hey, Ho, Loyal Gold.

Stop and look and listen to our chant.

Soon we will have won a Golden Victory.

Hey, Ho, Loyal Gold.

[Repeat in Round Fashion]

HOMECOMING a World of Memories TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10 5:30 p.m.

College of Education Alumni Recognition Dinner

Anna Irvin

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13 2:00 p.m.

Class of 1959 Registration 3:00 p.m.

UMNAA Board of Directors Meeting 3:30 p.m.

Class of 1959 Campus Tour 5:30 p.m.

1959 Class Dinner 7:00 p.m.

College Night Productions

Ramsay 106 Wallace Speech & Hearing Center Departing from Ramsay Foyer Ramsay 106 Palmer Auditorium

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14 9:00–11:00 a.m.

Alumni Coffee & Registration 9:30–11:00 a.m.

Kinesiology Coffee 9:30–10:30 a.m.

Music Department Reception 10:00–11:30 a.m.

Family & Consumer Sciences Coffee 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

13th Annual Alumni Art Exhibition and Silent Auction 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

UM Bookstore Open (10% discount for alumni) 11:00 a.m.–Noon English and Foreign Languages Reception

11:00 a.m.–Noon Communication Science and Disorders Reception

Noon Awards & Recognition Luncheon

Distinguished Alumna Award

Nathalie Molton Gibbons Alumni Achievement Awards

Honored Classes/UMNAA Business 1:00–2:00 p.m.

Stephens College of Business Reception 2:00 p.m.

Purple & Gold Basketball Game 2:00 p.m.

1959 Class Photo & Class Meeting 2:00 p.m.

Alabama College Society Meeting & Coffee 3:30–5:00 p.m.

Reception 4:00–5:30 p.m.

Art Auction/Bloch Party 4:30–6:00 p.m.

1969 Class Photo & Reception 5:00–6:30 p.m.

Young Alumni Event 5:00–6:30 p.m.

1979 Class Photo & Reception 5:00–6:30 p.m.

80’s Cluster Reunion/Reception (1985 – 1989) 7:00 p.m.

College Night Productions

Reynolds Hall Myrick Hall Fraser Seminar Room, Davis Hall Ackerley Room, Bloch Hall Bloch Art Gallery Farmer Hall Sarah Palmer Commons Comer Hall Room 202, 2nd Floor Upstairs Lobby Wallace Speech & Hearing Center Anna Irvin Dining Hall

Myrick Hall – Classroom 2 Myrick Hall Ramsay 106 Reynolds Hall Flowerhill Bloch Art Gallery Hill House Eclipse Coffee & Books Reynolds Hall Stewart Student Retreat Palmer Auditorium

Bon Appétit Luncheon Program

February 14, 2008 • Noon • Anna Irvin Dining Hall Presiding

Karen Kelly ’80 President, University of Montevallo National Alumni Association

Invocation

Kit Waters ’78 President-Elect

Welcome

Philip C. Williams President, University of Montevallo

2008 Award Presentations Presiding

Barbara Sloan ’72 Vice President of Awards & Recognitions

Introduction of Nathalie Molton Gibbons Alumni Achievement Award Remarks Introduction of Nathalie Molton Gibbons Young Achiever’s Award Remarks Introduction of Distinguished Alumna Remarks

Ms. Sloan Christopher Stewart ’92 Ms. Sloan Matthew D. Fridy ’98 Ms. Sloan Carolyn L. Duncan ’71

Recognition of Honored Classes Racheal B. Banks ’99

UM National Alumni Association Business Meeting Presiding Report of the Nominating Committee

Ms. Kelly Melanie Poole ’86 Chair

Election

Ms. Poole

Installation of Officers & Directors

Ms. Kelly

Recognition of Retiring Members Alma Mater Accompaniment

Ms. Kelly and Ms. Waters Katelyn Perkins ’10 Drew Spradlin ’11

The recipient of the 2009 Distinguished Alumna Award is Carolyn L. Duncan.

Duncan earned the B.M. degree (organ performance) from the University of Montevallo in 1971 and the M.M. (piano) from Montevallo in 1975. She went on to earn the Juris Doctorate from Samford University’s Cumberland School of Law in 1978 and was admitted to the Alabama State Bar that year.

Duncan served as a staff attorney for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., and for the Alabama Securities Commission. She went on to serve as chief counsel for the latter.

In 1982 she joined Ritchie & Rediker, a Birmingham-based law firm practicing corporate, business, public finance and securities law. She is currently an attorney with Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O’Neal, LLP, one of Birmingham’s leading corporate law firms.

Duncan’s practice is concentrated in securities issuance and compliance matters. Experienced in a wide variety of public and private securities work, she represents issuers, underwriters and other parties in numerous facets of this area of law, as well as securities broker-dealer firms, banks, mutual funds, fund managers and investment advisors in connection with state and federal securities law matters.

Duncan has served since 1991 as the Alabama State Liaison to the American Bar Association State Regulation of Securities Committee, and has been involved, either as the primary drafter or as a member of the Alabama Law Institute’s Securities Committees, in every significant revision to the Alabama Securities Act since 1978. She has been an elected member of the Alabama Law Institute since 1992. A member of the Alabama and Birmingham Bars, she is admitted to practice in the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits. She is a frequent speaker and lecturer on securities law. In addition, she is currently listed in the 2009 edition of Best Lawyers in America in Banking Law and Securities Law. One might imagine that with the work Duncan does, she has little time for anything else. They would be mistaken!

Duncan is a member, along with three other Montevallo music alumnae, of The Davis Piano Quartet, named for the late Dr. Maxine Couch Davis, professor emerita of music at Montevallo. The critically acclaimed quartet presents concert programs of the best of the eight-hand repertoire, much of it searched out from music libraries and other sources all over the world. In 2008, the group took a small part of its extensive repertoire to a full house at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, thus achieving the ultimate in the music performance world. The audience was treated to an incredible performance, enhanced by the visual impact of watching four pianists playing over and under each other on two keyboards.

Amid all this activity, Duncan has shared liberally of her time, knowledge and resources with the University of Montevallo.

From the early 1980s until 1997, she served as a member and chair of the University of Montevallo Foundation Board and in 2008 was appointed to serve another term on that board. From 1997–2008, she served with distinction as a University of Montevallo trustee, serving as chair of the audit and finance committee. She has endowed two scholarships through the UM Foundation.

In 1993 the UM National Alumni Association recognized Duncan’s commitment to service by honoring her with the Alumnus Loyalty Award. In 2008 the UM Board of Trustees honored her with a resolution recognizing her commitment and generosity to the University and naming her a trustee emerita.

One supporter summarized Duncan’s commitment to her alma mater, stating “I have known few other alumni whose dedication to the University’s interests, love of what it stands for and concern for its welfare have equaled that which Carolyn has shown, and none who have exceeded it.”

Duncan is married to Sam Jackson.

Distinguished

Alumna Award Carolyn

Duncan

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Margaret McArdle Bertie Allen Margaret McArdle Mary A. Peters Lucy Lenoir Parnell Margaret McArdle Willie Jenkins Rainey Ursual Delchamps Lettie Daffin Perdue Gertrude Meroney Peebles Lucy Lenoir Parnell Mamie Meroney Wofford Tettie Jane Henley Henry Minnie Sellers Mary Lou Reed Corry Lillian Gatchell Marion Walker Spidle Ulma Lee Benton Josephine Watson Moody Thelma Davis Chappelle Nathalie Molton Gibbons Eloise Frost Lee Lulu R. Palmer Lucy Lee Pruett Sellers Ruth Scott Parker Elizabeth Souders Miller Sue Edwards Gillespie Annie Laurie Beckham Williams Laura Frances Jones Mathison Rubye Collins Smith Mary Lou Tiffin Foshee Mary Flynn Sellers Pilgreen Catherine Manning Roper Annie Mae Paulk Turner Ray Jones William Pinkney Powers, III Lucille Scott Farris Ray Lenderman Emily Vest Pendleton Neal Shirley William Latham Ron Bates Todd R. Strange Martha Terry Kirkland Thomas G. Walker, Jr. Augusta Sims Lovelady Mary Louise Rice Dabbs Kirk Lightfoot Paul N. Doran, Jr. Fred C. Crawford Cathy Jo Wheeler Libby Queen Dave Palmer Melanie A. Poole Karen Kelly

Nathalie Molton Gibbons

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Achievement

Award Christopher

Stewart Chris Stewart is the recipient of the 2009 Nathalie Molton Gibbons Alumni Achievement Award. He earned his undergraduate degree in mass communication from the University of Montevallo in 1992.

By all accounts, sports are in Stewart’s blood and have been there from a tender age. He once told an interviewer that when he was five or six years old, he was calling play-by-play into a tape recorder!

A native of Fairfield, Stewart served as a writer and sports editor for the Over the Mountain Journal, a Birmingham-area newspaper, and worked in radio calling high school sports. He spent eight seasons as the play-by-play announcer for Birmingham-Southern College, including coverage of the NAIA tournament games during the Panthers’ 1995 national championship season.

Stewart has carved out a name for himself in radio broadcasting. In the business for more than two decades, he serves as the veteran playby-play voice of University of Alabama basketball for the Crimson Tide Sports Network (CTSN), as well as the lead announcer for Alabama baseball.

During the college football season, Stewart handles the television play-by-play duties for Alabama’s pay-per-view and delayed broadcasts on CSS (Charter Sports Southeast). He also hosts CTSN’s pre-game and post-game radio shows, providing fans a chance to talk about the Bama game of the week.

In 2007, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association (NSSA) honored Stewart, naming him the state’s top sportscaster of the year. It was the second time for Stewart to receive this honor from NSSA, having also been named Alabama’s Sportscaster of the Year in 2004.

In 2008, Stewart launched a free website at chrisstewartsports.com.

The site offers a place where Stewart fans, as well as sports fans of the University of Alabama, can read articles and blogs while keeping up with current sporting events on campus and around the state and nation.

Stewart is married to the former Christy Carmichael. They have two children, Anne and Parker.

Distinguished Alumnus & Alumnus of the Year

AWARD RECIPIENTS Nathalie Molton Gibbons

Young

Achiever's Award Matthew

Fridy

The 2009 recipient of the Nathalie Molton Gibbons Young Achievers’ Award is Matthew Fridy, senior staff attorney for the Hon. Bill Thompson, presiding judge of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.

Fridy earned the B.A. (cum laude) in history with a minor in political science from the University of Montevallo in 1998. He went on to earn the Juris Doctorate degree from the Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, in 2001, graduating near the top of his class, earning eight Scholar of Merit awards and serving as executive editor of the Cumberland Law Review.

Fridy began his law career in 2001 as a law clerk to the Hon. Edwin L. Nelson, United States district judge for the Northern District of Alabama. In 2002 he joined Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, LLC in Birmingham, as an associate. His work there focused on constitutional and election law, complex pharmaceutical litigation and employment law. In 2005 Fridy was named staff attorney to the Hon. Glenn Murdock, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama. He continued his work with Murdock until 2008, when he began working in his current position.

Fridy was active in numerous groups and organizations during the time he was a student at Montevallo. He served on the executive cabinet of the SGA and as a student trustee to the UM Board of Trustees. He was a Montevallo Master and served as president of Alpha Kappa Lambda social fraternity. He served as secretary for Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society, and was a member of Golden Key (national honor society) and Omicron Delta Kappa (leadership honor society).

Fridy is a member of the 2007–2008 class of Leadership Shelby County, of the Alabama State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Federalist Society and Hands On Birmingham. He serves as an elder and as a member of the church governing board at Spring Creek Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Other volunteer work includes his involvement with the Shelby County Republican Party and the Alabama Republican Party. He is founding director of the junior board of directors of the UM National Alumni Association and serves as vice chairman of the student services committee. In addition, Fridy currently serves as chair of UM’s annual fund campaign.

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Myrtle Brooke Mary E. McWilliams ’11 Martha Mitchell Bigelow ’43 Louise J. Ryan ’44 Lillian W. Stinson ’31 Mary G. Bird ’30 Bess R. Williams ’26 Ellen C. Walhay ’37 Mildred Alford ’42 Frances E. Nungester ’32 Bennie C. Slaughter ’32 Kapsoon K. Lee ’40 Clyde M. Maguire ’29 Ruth Stovall ’35 Lillian Gatchell ’20 Azile N. McVay ’31 Madie B. Barrett ’40 Howard M. Phillips Marion W. Spidle ’16 Ruth S. Parker ’31 Annie Mae Paulk Turner ’40 Virginia Hendrick ’17 Mattie Hyde ’40 Angie Nazaretian ’50 Sara N. Harris ’42 Marian Hughes Bahr ’41 Retha D. Wynot ’41 Neal Shirley ’59 Elizabeth B. Andrews ’32 Evelyn Ellis Isbell ’30 Mary Louise E. Crammer ’33 Virginia Rembert Liles ’42 Martha T. Kirkland ’40 H. Ray Lenderman ’61 Ron Bates ’74 Laura Frances J. Mathison ’41 Mike Mahan ’61 Jeanne A. Voltz ’42 Bonnie R. Strickland ’58 Polly D. Holliday ’59 Maxine Davis ’33 Jack Hawkins ’67 Lucy L. Underwood ’54 Todd R. Strange ’66 Martha Jackson Ross ’45 Bobbye K. Lightfoot ’52 Nancy L. Worley ’73 Mary Frances Tipton ’57 Marjorie M. Stith ’43 Margaret Kirk Anderson ’43 Butch Ellis ’62 Patsy R. Scales ’66 Thomas G. Walker, Jr. ’75 Louise Pittman ’35 Gary C. Youngblood ’65 Don M. Chance ’72 Robert C. Chapman ’63 Jeanetta Corbett Keller ’75 Kirk Lightfoot ’76 J. Danny Cooper ’70 Dolly Brumfield White ’54 Betty R. Grisham ’43 M. Joyce Greathouse ’56 Patrick Evans ’88 Rebecca Luker ’84

University of Montevallo Alumni Association Board of Directors Executive Officers President President-Elect Parliamentarian

Karen Kelly ’80 Kit Waters ’78 Melanie Poole ’86

Vice Presidents Alumni Clubs Alumni Services Awards/Recognitions Directors/Secretary Finance/Treasurer Special Events Student Services

Tracy Payne ’94 Virginia Young ’84 Barbara Sloan ’72 Jane Glover ’72 DeAnna Smith ’99 Karen Willette ’87 Matt Fridy ’98

Ex-Officio

University of Montevallo President Student Government Association President Director of Alumni Relations Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Faculty Alumni Committee Chair Jr. Board President Admissions Office Representative

Philip C. Williams Cedric Norman Racheal B. Banks ’99 Jeremy Ward ’05 Carolyn Miller Kirby Keith Shoemaker ’98 Lynn Gurganus ’83

Advancement Staff Operations Manager Departmental Secretary Director of Alumni Relations

Administrative Assistant to the Vice President Director of Major Gifts & Planned Giving Accounting Specialist Senior Records Assistant Interim Vice President for University Advancement Assistant Director of Alumni Relations

Public Relations Staff Public Relations Assistant Departmental Secretary Graphic Arts Specialist Director of Public Relations Director of Photography

Members at Large Barbara Bonfield ’58 Virginia Bunn ’64 Sandi Falkenhagen ’68 Ann Griffin ’76 Bruce Higdon ’66 Wadia Josof ’79 Evan Major ’66 Michael Malone ’69 Jeannine McElroy ’53 Mike Meadows ’79 Cynthia Medley ’88 Walt Merrell ’97 Jim Methvin ’73 Norma Nabors ’50 Laurel Self ’94 Alumni Council Representative Paul Doran ’68

Brenda Aldridge Teressa DeAnn Baker Racheal B. Banks ’99 Lois Reach Cooper Leah Fountain ’00 Dianne Kyzer Kim Miller ’06 Cynthia Shackelford Jeremy Ward ’05

Diane Kennedy-Jackson Marsha Littleton Tiffany Roskamp-Bunt ’00 Cynthia Shackelford Matt Orton

Class Reunion Committees

Class

of

1959

Jade Higgins Beavers Jennie Cotney Cowart Patty Talley Debardeleben Cassie Lyles Forbes Barbara Walker Jones Roma Creel Johnson Laura B. Norris Libby Queen Barbara Turner

Class

of

1969

Jerry Fulmer Elaine Wood Hughes Mimi Edfeldt Lawley Randy McDonald Mary Lou Elder Williams

Class

of

1979

Butch Belcher Tricia Corbet Mike Dillard Mike Meadows Rick Neathammer Sharon Parker Vic Pugh Tom Whiting

1980 s C lu s t e r (’85-’89) Suzie Streets Cambron

Y ou ng A lu m n i

Junior Board of Directors

Arrivederci