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and raised in Birmingham. She is
co-founder and program director
of the Spalding University low-
residency MFA in Writing.
’67
Filmmaker and Stone Ridge, N.Y.,
resident Robert Clem’s latest project
has put him back in Alabama—in
Mobile—to pick up footage for the
film “How They Got Over,” which
tells the story of African-American
gospel music and the important
groundwork it laid for soul and
R&B; it will premier this year and
is expected to be on PBS in 2018.
Clem’s 90-minute film celebrating
the centennial of America’s entry
into WWI called “The Two Worlds
of William March” premiered in
Mobile and on Alabama Public TV
in early April.
’72
Dr. Bobby Sharp retired in 2015 as
director of institutional research,
assessment, and planning for
Appalachian State University in
Boone, N.C., after a 35-year career,
including 28 at ASU. Sharp received
a master’s from Duke Divinity
School and then attended the
University of Kentucky for a master’s
in consumer economics before
earning his doctorate at Virginia
Tech. In retirement, he has moved
to Winston-Salem, N.C., where
he enjoys spending time with his
wife, Dr. Sharon Andrews Sharp
’75; daughter; son-in-law; and
grandchildren, plus rediscovering old
interests and exploring new ones.
’78
Jerry Keith Watson is the founder
of Keith Watson Productions Inc.,
headquartered in Gainesville, Fla.
The company’s design team has
produced events throughout the
U.S. at notable venues such as the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the
Guggenheim Museum, Madison
Square Garden, and Lincoln Center.
The company was recently named
Event Producer of the Year by
BizBash magazine. Watson and his
wife, Roberta, have two children.
’80
After serving three years at a
hospital in rural Rwanda, Dr.
Timothy Berg and his family moved
to Kijabe, Kenya, in 2015, where he
has been teaching surgical residents
at Kijabe Hospital. In his blog at
.
com, he wrote “We are adapting
to the totally different way of life
here in our new home, Kenya.”
Berg received his MD from the
Wake Forest School of Medicine in
Winston Salem, N.C.
Dr. Richard Hunter is executive
director of new church development
for the North Alabama Conference
of the UMC. “It’s great to be back
in Alabama and be closer to BSC!”
said Hunter, who relocated from
Atlanta to Huntsville in 2015.
’82
Huntsville High School’s Mike
Chappell retired in 2015 from his
alma mater after spending 32 years
in education, directing 60 or more
plays at Huntsville High and at
Butler High School before that and
appearing in more than 30 plays.
He did not, he stressed, retire from
the theater. He is currently an agent
with Weichert Realtors.
David Wangerin, who is married
to Rebecca Lile ’83, is one of
only 240 certified physician
assistants nationally to recently
earn a Certificate of Added
Qualifications specialty credential
from the National Commission
on Certification of Physician
Assistants. He is employed at
Haywood Regional Medical Center,
Waynesville Family Practice, and
Meridian Behavioral Health Services
in North Carolina.
’83
Lisha Harbaugh Adams is the
new executive deputy to the
commanding general of the U.S.
Army Materiel Command. Adams,
who transitioned to the position
in 2015, is the organization’s most
senior civilian. She earned an
MBA from the Florida Institute of
Technology and has held various
leadership positions in her 30-plus
years of government service.
Rev. Dale Cohen began serving
as the senior pastor of Canterbury
United Methodist Church in
Mountain Brook, Ala., in 2015.
Cohen has spent the past 12 years
working with the North Alabama
Conference and the Northeast
District of the UMC. He received
his master of divinity degree from
Emory University’s Candler School
of Theology.
Dr. Alfred Shearer of Pediatric
Associates in Mobile received
the 2015 Nappie Award for “Best
Pediatrician.” Shearer is a graduate
of the University of Alabama School
of Medicine.
’87
Rev. Melissa Self Patrick, was
appointed to serve at Lesters
Chapel United Methodist Church
in Columbiana, Ala., in 2015. She
also is North Alabama Conference
liaison to the Pan-Methodist
Campaign for Children in Poverty
and is a clergy member of Alabama
Faith in Action. Her husband,
The Hon. Bentley Patrick ’89, was
appointed by Alabama Gov. Robert
Bentley to the Circuit Court in
Jefferson County in 2015 to
Swearing in a BSC affair— The Hon. Robert H.
Smith ’66 (left), circuit judge of Mobile County, administers the
oath of office to the Hon. Joe Basenberg ’67 , district court judge
of Mobile County. Basenberg is serving a six-year term of office.
Both were members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at BSC.