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CLASSNOTES
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade
Bradley Robinson
reported on
board the USS Cole in January.
Since then, he and his shipmates
have participated in rigorous
training on both coasts of the
Atlantic, culminating in a six-
week long series of war games
with NATO Allies off the coast
of the United Kingdom. Cole
has now deployed to the eastern
Mediterranean Sea for Ballistic
Missile Defense of Israel and U.S.
European allies until early spring.
The ship was attacked by Al-Qaida
in Aden, Yemen, in 2000. “Cole
is a living memorial and a fighting
warship,” said Robinson. “As
such, serving on board is both an
incredible honor and a tremendous
responsibility—we honor our lost
shipmates every day by being
ready to answer our nation’s call.”
Dr. AshleeVinyard
graduated
from the University of Alabama
School of Medicine in May. She
is now pursuing a residency in
general surgery at the University
of Mississippi Medical Center in
Jackson, Miss.
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First Lieutenant
John Mayfield
Jr.
is currently a Cavalry Scout
platoon leader in the Georgia Army
National Guard. He attended the
U.S. Army Reconnaissance Course
in 2012 and graduated as an honors
graduate. As a civilian, Mayfield
is employed as a geographic
information systems technician
with Larson & McGowin Inc. of
Mobile in the company’s Athens,
Ga., office. “I’m more and more
proud to be a BSC grad every year
that goes by!” he said.
PatrickThomas
is a television
news reporter at WVII/WVFX,
a dual affiliate with ABC/FOX in
Bangor, Maine. He earned his
master’s degree in broadcast
journalism at Boston University.
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Nathan DeRosa
of Peachtree,
Ga., is employed by Atlanta’s
ExpressJet Airlines after recently
earning his FAA flight dispatch
license.
Matthew St. John
is enrolled in
the film studies Ph.D. program
at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison this fall.
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Media and film studies graduate
Elizabeth Hagale
helped create
the music video for the new single
“Magenta” by Los Angeles-based pop
singer Deqn Sue. Hagale was recently
mentioned in a Q&A with Sue on
Impose Magazine’s video website.
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Local folk-rock band The Heavy Hearts
released its first full-length album
Keep your Light On
in May, featuring
lead singer and primary songwriter
Lauren-Michael Sellers
. Sellers began
performing locally as a solo act while
studying music at BSC. For about a
year now, the band has performed at
Birmingham venues such as WorkPlay,
Bottletree Cafe, Moonlight on the
Mountain, Iron City, and The Red Cat.
Friends
Attorney
FrankYoung
has joined
the Red Mountain Law Group as
the group’s newest member firm,
Young Law LLC, concentrating
his practice in the areas of civil,
commercial, employment, financial
and healthcare litigation, as well
as international law for strategic
growth for small and medium-
sized companies. He serves on
the Norton Board of Advisors at
BSC and chairs its International
Programs Advisory Committee.
Young also is an adjunct professor
at the University of Alabama School
of Law. A graduate of Washington
& Lee University, he received his
J.D. from Samford University’s
Cumberland School of Law and
an LL.M. in Securities Law from
Harvard Law School.
In
Memoriam
’50
From the day she first arrived on campus
to her golden years,
Margaret “Peggy”
Rountree Stockham
never forgot
Birmingham-Southern. She died May 6, 2014,
in Birmingham, at the age of 85.
Stockham, who graduated with a degree in
history from BSC, was a member of Kappa
Delta sorority and was prominent in many
civic and community activities, including
the Linly Heflin Unit, Bookmarkers Literary
Club, Progress Study Club, and Junior League
of Birmingham. She enjoyed painting,
needlepoint, and crosswords, but her greatest
joy was her family.
She and her late husband, Herbert, were deeply loyal to BSC and provided
consistent support to the college. They and other members of their family were
instrumental in creating a fund for the restoration of the President’s Home on
campus, which the Stockham family built in 1923.
The Hilltop’s Stockham Women’s Building, which was completed in 1931, is named
for her grandmother-in-law, Mrs. W.H. Stockham, the only female chair of the BSC
Board of Trustees, who donated $75,000 toward the building’s construction.
Her only grandson, Edward F. Thomas III, was commissioned as a second lieutenant
in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2012 by BSC President Gen. Charles Krulak.
She is survived by four daughters and four grandchildren.
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