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CLASS NOTES
administration and hospital
administration from UAB.
Tyrenda Williams Reed
is the
human resources director at
Cobbs Allen’s corporate of ce
in Birmingham. Reed earned a
master’s degree in journalism and
Latin American and Caribbean
studies from New York University.
In 2016, she was recognized as one
of the city’s “Women to Watch” by
the Birmingham Business Journal.
She lives in Gardendale with her
husband and two daughters.
’02
Leigh Griggs
completed her
master’s degree in management
from Troy University in March 2016
and is employed at Birmingham’s
Department of Veterans Affairs as a
Talent Management System domain
manager.
Robert Hahn
of Pensacola, Fla.,
is senior nancial of cer at Fisher
Brown Bottrell Insurance Inc.
’03
Cori Jobe Fishman
of Lake Worth,
Fla., joined the adjunct faculty at
Florida Atlantic University last fall
and continues to teach high school
science. Her husband, Michael, is a
Realtor (see Weddings).
Katy Leonard
, former Exploration
Term director at BSC, has been
appointed resident dean of Eliot
House at Harvard University.
Mary Jacob McKinley
is working at
First Baptist School in Charleston,
S.C. “I fell in love with Charleston
during Interim Term (now
Exploration Term) my senior year
and moved here after graduation,”
said McKinley, who holds a master’s
degree in teaching from the
University of Southern California.
Last fall she was recognized as a
master teacher in the South Carolina
Independent School Association.
She recently completed the STEM
Ambassador Program at The
Citadel, which focuses on building
a community of science, technology,
engineering, and math teachers in
the South Carolina low country.
Stephanie Rebman
recently marked
her rst year as managing editor of
the Birmingham Business Journal.
She is a veteran journalist who
previously served as editor of the
award-winning Oxford (Mississippi)
Eagle and night editor of the
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
Rev. Dr. David Saliba
is in his
second year serving as senior pastor
of the Perdido Bay United Methodist
Church in Perdido Key, Fla. Saliba
serves on BSC’s Board of Trustees
and holds a master of divinity
degree from the Candler School of
Theology at Emory University, where
he serves on the advisory council.
He earned a doctorate of ministry in
church leadership excellence from
Wesley Theological Seminary in
Washington, D.C. He and his wife,
Elizabeth, have two children
(see Births).
The McWane Science Center in
Birmingham has named
Josh
Vasa
as its new vice president of
operations. He previously served as
festival director for the Sidewalk Film
Festival, corporate support manager
for Alabama Public Television,
development manager at Kid One
Transport, and director of the Of ce
of Multicultural Affairs at BSC.
’04
Rebecca Beers
, an associate in the
Birmingham of ce of Rumberger,
Kirk & Caldwell, was elected
president-elect of the Birmingham
Bar Association’s Young Lawyers
Section; she will serve as president
of that organization in 2018.
Among her professional awards,
Beers received BSC’s Outstanding
Young Alumni award for 2012 and
is immediate past president of the
college’s Alumni Association and
a former member of its Board of
Trustees. In 2015, she was named
a “Rising Star” in law by the
Birmingham Business Journal and
has been named a “Rising Star”
in securities litigation by Mid-
South Super Lawyers since 2014.
She earned her JD
cum laude
from
Washington & Lee University School
of Law in 2007.
’06
Lisa Glenn
was elected to
the governing
board of St.
Mary’s Food
Bank Alliance in
Phoenix, Ariz. Glenn was also
promoted to assistant director for
Lifelong Learning at Arizona State
University. In this position, she
manages the Baobab social learning
network for the MasterCard
Foundation Scholars Program
serving 15,000 African scholars,
and the Young Thinkers Program
for the Al Ghurair Foundation in
the United Arab Emirates.
’07
Dr. Casey Daniel
is assistant
professor of oncologic sciences at the
Distinguished membership
—
Dr. Carol
Newsom ’71
, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old
Testament at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology,
was elected to the prestigious ranks of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, one of the nation’s oldest honorary societies.
Newsom is part of the 236th class of the academy’s members,
a group that includes some of the world’s most accomplished
scholars, scientists, writers, and artists as well as civic, business,
and philanthropic leaders. Her research focuses on the Dead Sea
Scrolls, the wisdom tradition, the book of Daniel, apocalyptic
literature, and theology and the environment. “The honor of
election to the American Academy is also a call to service,” said
Academy President Jonathan Fanton at the induction ceremony
in Cambridge, Mass. “Newsom was the rst woman to be invited
to join the international team of editors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.”
Newsom has written and edited 13 books and scores of articles,
book chapters, translations, encyclopedia articles, and reviews.
She holds an honorary doctorate from BSC.