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CLASSNOTES
Divinity Awards Day
—
James Darrell Cook ’63
received the 2014 Pastoral Ministry Award from Samford
University’s Beeson Divinity School in May. He graduated in
December and is the pastor of Dogwood Grove Baptist Church
in Adger, Ala., which was destroyed by fire late last year.
Services are being held in a portable, modular chapel beside
the ruins until the church is rebuilt. In presenting Cook with
the award, Director of Ministry Leadership Thomas Fuller (on
right) noted that he has “distinguished himself as someone
of pastoral care and demeanor, a pastor’s heart, a love for the
scriptures, and a love to preach and teach God’s word.”
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Two recently
published
books,
Our
Proving Ground:
Memories of the
Good Old Days
and
Fifty-Two
Weeks With
God: God’s
Creation and Men and Women
Who Followed Christ
, talk about
late Methodist minister
Rev.
Robert Lawrence
of Dothan.
He, his wife, and seven children
served small towns in Alabama
and Florida during the Great
Depression and World War II. The
books were written by his son,
Dr. John Lawrence, who almost
followed in his father’s footsteps
until he decided to become a
pediatrician after preaching his third
sermon. The books are available
on Amazon.com and at Barnes &
Noble and Books-a-Million.
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Mary
“Mimi”
Kimbrough
Jackson
of Hoover
has spent
her life
composing
and
performing
music. She is a trained vocalist
and plays both the piano and
the organ. She has composed
music for churches from Alabama
to Singapore, accompanied
the Alabama Symphony on
performances, and worked
as a chorus master for Opera
Birmingham. She continues to
work with Opera Birmingham and
serves as vice president of the
symphony’s Volunteer Council.
She collaborated with her brother,
Dr. ST Kimbrough Jr.
, on the
recently released CD
Songs of
Freedom
,
Justice and Peace
by
Arabesque Records.
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Retired Huntsville orthopedic
surgeon
Dr. John Higginbotham
received the 2014 Samuel Buford
Award, the Medical Association
of the State of Alabama’s highest
honor, for his service to North
Alabama over more than 40 years.
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Mary Kathryn “Kathy” Foxhall
received the Sunshine Award
from the Society of Professional
Journalists this summer for her
notable contributions to open
government. Foxhall is a longtime
freelance reporter in Washington,
D.C., with experience covering
Congress and federal agencies.
For the past six years, she has
spearheaded efforts to raise
awareness about increasing
controls by federal public
information officers that block
reporters.
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Dr. Richard Sims
retired in
January after 33 years of private
medical practice. He graduated
from the UAB School of Medicine
in 1977 and spent three years in
internal/emergency medicine in
Phoenix and Mesa, Ariz. After
residency at the University of
Texas Southwestern/Parkland
Hospital in Dallas, he became
board certified in anesthesiology
in 1985 and practiced primarily at
Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. He
and his wife, Renee, still live in
Dallas. He is continuing his love
of birding, outdoor photography,
desert environments, and naturalist
activities.
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Birmingham resident
Andy
Campbell
and his former law
school classmate, Jay Guin, have
merged their practices to create
the boutique firm Campbell, Guin,
Williams, Guy & Gidiere, LLC.
Along with their partners, they
plan to build a regional specialty
law practice throughout Alabama
and eastern Mississippi. The
firm currently has 16 attorneys
and three offices in Birmingham,
Hoover, and Tuscaloosa. It
represents clients in areas such
as shareholder and corporate
litigation, corporate and municipal
bankruptcy, labor and employment;
municipal law; state and local tax,
and trusts and estates.
Katherine “Katje” Griffis-
Greenberg
was selected as a
doctoral student tutor by the
Humanities Division/Department
of Continuing Education at the
University of Oxford, United
Kingdom, last spring to take part
in the school’s mentored teaching
program. One of only eight
selected doctoral students from
a large group of applicants across
the university, she has been paired
with Egyptologist Dr. Rosalind
Janssen as her mentor instructor
to assist in teaching the course
“Egyptian Artefacts for the Living
and the Dead,” during the 2014-15
academic year.