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CLASSNOTES
Lead with Your Heart:
Creating a Life of Love, Compassion, and Purpose
Regina Cates ’95 MPPM
Throughout her new book, Cates shares her amazing (and often heart-wrenching) stories of how she
moved away from a volatile, victimized frame of mind to a place of making conscious actions and
decisions from a centered, heart-driven state. An author and personal empowerment coach, she inspires
people to live lives of limitless possibility through her Los Angeles-based company, Romancing Your
Soul. Keep up with her work at
www.romancingyoursoul.com.*Want to share more books by BSC alumni? Find the Birmingham-Southern College
group on the virtual bookshelf Goodreads and add your own published works!
A
BSC
book collaboration
from three decades
The book,
Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into Their Lives
,
co-authored by
Sara Cunningham Bright ’81
(right) and
Paulette Logan Haywood Ogard ’76
(left), was donated
along with a teacher’s guide developed by
Audrey Ann
Prude Wilson ’68
(center) to each of the 1,090 public
elementary schools in Alabama in September.
The book, published by the University of Alabama Press
in 2010, chronicles the life histories of 84 species of Alabama butterflies and the plants on which they depend.
The authors partnered with several organizations to bring the project to fruition, including
the Alabama Department of Education and Wild South; dozens of individuals also helped
fund the project. Their goal was to advance the cause of conservation through education to
the more than 700,000 children who attend Alabama’s public schools each year.
Wilson, a teacher for 26 years, created the teacher’s guide based on state and national
courses of study. She is currently the education coordinator at Aldridge Gardens in Hoover.
She is also a recipient of the Elizabeth Abernathy Hull Award given by the Garden Club of
America for environmental education of youth.
Bright, a photographer, and Ogard, a writer, who both reside in Birmingham, teamed up
for almost 15 years to document the life histories of Alabama’s butterflies. They continue
to work together on butterfly-related projects.