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CLASSNOTES
Kathryn Campbell Julian
, a
doctoral candidate in history at
the University of Massachusetts
Amherst, received a Fulbright
research grant for the 2013-14
academic year at Freie Universität
in Berlin. Her current research
focuses on religious communities
and sacred space within socialism.
’08
Megan LaRussa
has continued her
grandmother’s dream of outreach
at Oasis Counseling for Women
and Children,
which has
provided
mental
health
services and
educational
programs in
Birmingham
since 1995.
LaRussa is president of the Junior
Board at Oasis and chaired the
organization’s recent Art Card
fundraiser. She also is the owner
of Southern Femme, a fashion
consulting firm that helps women
look and feel their best.
Hillary HughesTurner
is director
of development for the Pensacola
(Fla.) Children’s Chorus.
’09
Luquire George Andrews, one of
the Southeast region’s leading
advertising, digital, and public
relations agencies, recently hired
Erin Cribb
as junior art director in
the LGA Creative Department. As
a new resident of Charlotte, she is
enjoying exploring and seeing the
beautiful sights of North Carolina.
Kristen Kerr Cotney
graduated
from the UAB School of Medicine
in May. She is an internal medicine
resident physician at UAB.
Vishwanath Danthuluri
,
Benjamin Jones
,
William
B. Moore
, and
Emily Schlitz
graduated from the University
of South Alabama College of
Medicine in May. Danthuluri is a
general surgery resident physician
at Memorial Health University
Medical Center in Savannah, Ga.;
Jones and Schlitz are neurology
resident physicians at UAB
Hospital; and Moore is an internal
medicine resident physician at UAB
Hospital.
Justin Fargason
graduated from
the University of Alabama School
of Law this past spring.
MotionMobs LLC, a Birmingham-
based software development
company,
recently
appointed
Robert
Hahnemann
as its chief
executive
officer.
Hahnemann
was
previously a project manager with
the company.
Rev. Miriam Smith
completed
her Master of Divinity degree from
Duke University in May 2012 and
is serving as associate pastor at
First United Methodist Church of
Alabaster.
Theresa “Tara”Wohleber
Speigle
, CPA, was recently
promoted
to senior
consultant
in the
Assurance
and Advisory
Department
of Beason
& Nalley
Inc., a full-
service accounting and consulting
firm in Huntsville. Speigle’s audit
experience includes government
contractors, local governments,
employee benefit plans,
manufacturers, biotechnology, and
not-for-profit organizations. She is
married to
Michael Speigle
.
’10
After graduating from the
University of Alabama in May
with a master’s degree in English
literature,
Kimberly Paige Farris
has begun a Ph.D. program in
English literature at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
on a Hanner Fellowship. This
past summer, she worked as the
AmeriCorps administrator at the
YWCA Central Alabama.
Kelly Gronemeyer
recently earned
a master’s degree in biology
from John Carroll University in
Cleveland, Ohio. Gronemeyer
presented a portion of the results
of her thesis, “Antimicrobial
function of alkaloids in
geographically different populations
of Oophaga pumilio (Dendrobatid)
and Melanophryniscus simplex
(Bufonid) frog skin,” at the 2013
Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and
Herpetologists in Albuquerque,
N.M. This fall, she is teaching
high school biology at John
Carroll Catholic High School in
Birmingham.
’11
Anthony Bianchi
graduated from
UAB in December 2012 with an
MPH degree in epidemiology. He
began studies at the Alabama
School of Osteopathic Medicine in
Dothan in August.
Brad Elsinger
is a capital recovery
analyst for small business funder
Kabbage Inc. in Atlanta. The
company is a leader among finance
companies worldwide.
Ashley Pittman
began graduate
studies in clinical mental health
counseling at Troy University in
Troy, Ala., this fall.
’12
Katie Adams
is serving as a
TEFL teacher and trainer in the
U.S. Peace Corps in Nicaragua
until November 2014. She is
writing and sharing photos
about her experience at http://
katiewandering.wordpress.com.
Choral reunion
—Members of the college’s former
Hugh Thomas Chorus met at Birmingham’s Ruth’s Chris
Steakhouse on April 24 to celebrate the anniversary of their
Town Hall Concert in Manhattan in 1951, which received
rave reviews in all the NewYork newspapers, especially
The NewYork Times. Enjoying the memories were (left to
right)
Jean Gilmer Simmons ’49
,
Janice HenryWilliams
’52
,
Dorothy Griffis Jones ’47
,
Ann Armbrester Clark ’53
,
and BSC friend Andrew Glaze. Glaze, who attended with
his wife, Adrianna, was recently named Poet Laureate of
Alabama. Unable to attend this year’s reunion were
Julia
Ann Gilmer Glenn ’51
,
Barbara Barnett Smith ’53
, and
Frieda RoserWhite ’51
.
