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CLASSNOTES
Class
Notes
’51
The North Georgia Annual
Conference of the United
Methodist Church, in partnership
with The Foundation for
Evangelism, presented its 2013
Harry Denman Evangelism Award
for unusual and outstanding efforts
to
Rev. Richard Hunter
. Hunter
is currently appointed at Sugar Hill
UMC in Buford, Ga. He graduated
from Emory University’s Candler
School of Theology and received a
Doctor of Ministry degree from the
University of Chicago’s McCormick
Theological Seminary. He was
ordained an elder in 1985.
’55
BSC professor emeritus
Dr. Bob
Whetstone
of Birmingham has
released his sixth novel, Jacob’s
Robe (Lulu Enterprises, 2013). The
novel is about a young man who
survives an auto accident in which
his twin brother dies. A nurse, the
daughter of a local Cherokee chief,
along with a local pastor, aid the
man in his
recovery
as he
struggles
to retrieve
some small
glimmer of
his past.
’56
JoTaylor
is co-author of the fifth
update of Alabama Elder Law, a
1,000-plus-page treatise on the
practice of elder law in Alabama,
published by Thomson-Reuters.
Taylor resides in Birmingham.
She earned a second
undergraduate degree from BSC
in 1958.
’58
ST Kimbrough Jr.
of Durham,
N.C., recently published the
volume Radical Grace: Justice
for the Poor and Marginalized—
Charles Wesley’s Views for the
Twenty-First Century. Kimbrough
is a Research Fellow of the Center
for Studies in the Wesleyan
Tradition of Duke Divinity School,
founder of The Charles Wesley
Society, and editor of its annual
journal. He has taught on major
theological faculties in the U.S.
and abroad. Kimbrough is also an
internationally known baritone, and
his newest CD, Die Jahreszeiten/
The Seasons (German folk songs),
was just released by VMS Records.
’59
After 50 years of practicing
dentistry in his hometown of
Clanton, Ala.,
Dr. Curtis Baker
has
retired from Baker Family Dentistry.
He graduated from the University
of Alabama School of Dentistry
in 1963. His son, Dr. Chris Baker,
joined his practice in 1990 and is
continuing its operation.
’61
Jonathan May
of Sawyerville,
Ala., recently published his second
novel, Siren Song, which features
strange goings-on concerning
the old dead town of Erie in Hale
County, Ala., and highlights the
Black Warrior River. His first novel,
Rumors of Wolves, was published
in 2006. May also published a
memoir, A Fever of the Mad,
written by his late friend Tom
Canford
about his
work as
a movie
publicist.
The books
are available
from
Amazon
in paper
and Kindle editions and are
downloadable from bookstores and
libraries.
Alum
News
’70
Dr.William Eiland
, director of the Georgia Museum of Art at the
University of Georgia, received the American Alliance of Museums
(AAM) Award for Distinguished Service to Museums in July during
the AAM’s annual conference in Baltimore. The award was instituted
in 1981 and recognizes excellence and contributions to the museum
profession for at least 20 years.
Eiland has been the director of the Georgia Museum of Art since
1992, a period of unprecedented growth for the museum.
He has given his time for many years to such professional
organizations as AAM, for whose accreditation program he acts as
one of six commissioners as well as a frequent site visitor to applicant
museums; the Southeastern Museums Conference; the Georgia
Association of Museums and Galleries (GAMG); the Association of Art
Museum Directors; the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Advisory Panel for
the National Endowment for the Arts; and the International Council of
Museums.
AWoodrowWilson Fellow, Eiland has received several other
fellowships, including the Danforth Teaching Fellowship at the
University of Virginia, a Museum Professionals Grant from the National
Endowment for the Arts, and a Research Fellowship from the UGA
Center for Humanities and Arts. He has edited and contributed to more
than 50 publications.
Eiland previously earned a Lifetime Achievement Award from
GAMG in 2007 and Museum Professional of the Year from the same
organization in 2000. The Southeastern College Art Conference named
him Outstanding Museum Professional in 1999. He was inducted into
the Sigma Pi Kappa national honor society in 2010 and received BSC’s
Distinguished Alumni Award later that year.
A native of Sprott, Ala., Eiland now resides in Athens, Ga.
