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CLASS NOTES
Dr. Charles Roberts, assistant
professor of history at Andrew
College, has published his
first book, The Farm Security
Administration and Rural
Rehabilitation in the South by
University of Tennessee Press. The
book looks at efforts to solve rural
poverty in the South during the
New Deal, with chapters focused
in and around Birmingham.
Roberts received his Ph.D. in
history from the University of
Alabama. He lives in Eufaula,
Ala., with his wife, Lauren.
’06
Kate
Drummond,
who resides
in Detroit,
graduated
from the
University
of Michigan
in May
2015 with
an MBA from the Ross School of
Business and a MS from UM’s
School of Natural Resources and
Environment. While completing
her MBA, she spent two months
studying at the Rotterdam School of
Management at Erasmus University
in the Netherlands. She joined
Germany-based BASF Corp. in its
MBA Leadership Development
Program in 2015, and has since
completed rotations in Charlotte,
N.C.; Ludwigshafen, Germany; and
Southfield, Mich.
Katherine Tillery Katz is associate
head coach for the Ragin’ Cajuns
women’s basketball team at the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Katz, a native of New Orleans, was
a four-year member of the BSC
softball team.
Rev. Wade Langer Jr. is senior pastor
at The Belief Experiment (formerly
The Capstone UMC) in Tuscaloosa.
’07
Lucy Hamilton Daniel, who served
as past president of the Alabama
Ballet Junior Board, chair of the
Birmingham Zoo Gala and chair
of the Alabama Ballet’s Pointe Ball,
was inducted into Leadership UAB.
Her husband, Christopher Daniel
’08, an associate at Sheffield and
Lentine P.C., has been recognized
for the past three years as a Top
Attorney in Criminal Defense by
Birmingham magazine as well as an
Alabama Super Lawyer Rising Star.
Kruti
Parimal
Gandhi
of Tampa
graduated
with a
master’s
in health
policy and
organization
from UAB and then obtained her
master’s in the Physician Assistant
Program from Barry University in
Miami Shores, Fla. She began her
dermatology physician assistant
career in 2013 in a retirement
community in The Villages, Fla.
Since 2015, she has been practicing
with Advanced Dermatology in
Lakeland, Fla.
’09
Wesley Rich graduated with a
dual JD/MBA from the University
of Tennessee in May 2015 and
is working as the terms and
conditions process lead for
ExxonMobil in Houston.
’11
Haylee Fletcher earned her MPS
degree from the University of
Arkansas’ Clinton School of
Public Service in 2015 before
relocating to Sacramento, Calif.,
for a job as a case manager
with the International Rescue
Committee. She adds, “My studies
at BSC gave me the opportunity
to study abroad and complete my
capstone project overseas—further
cultivating my passion and drive
to serve vulnerable populations
and leading me to my work with
refugees. Thank you Birmingham-
Southern for providing such a great
undergraduate experience!”
Rev. Katie Sack Lloyd is pastor at
Bethel UMC in Mount Washington,
Ky.
Brooks Webb led the USA Baseball
15U National Team to a gold medal
at the Pan Am Championship in
Aguascalientes, Mexico, in 2015,
serving as the team’s general
manager and director. Now Webb
is director of operations for the
baseball program at Vanderbilt
University. He played baseball all
four years at BSC.
’12
In the spring of 2015, Monecia
Miller was inducted into the Honor
Society of Phi Kappa Phi at Auburn
University at Montgomery, where she
earned her MBA. She is currently an
operations manager for USA Security
LLC in Hampton, Ga.
Kait Talley Tracy is now business
operations specialist in the Office of
the Registrar at Emory University. “I
run testing and evaluation for the
university and support other
Award-winning story —A feature length documentary
featuring Henrietta Boggs ’40 garnered multiple honors last
fall, including Audience Choice Awards at both the Sidewalk
Film Festival in Birmingham and the Fairhope Film Festival. It
won the Hoka Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at
this year’s Oxford Film Festival in Oxford, Miss. A Spark Media
production, written and directed by Emmy Award-winning
filmmaker Andrea Kalin, First Lady of the Revolution traces the
life of Boggs, who married three-time president José Figueres
before he came to power following the Costa Rican Civil War in
1948; she became an integral part of the country’s lasting reform.
Boggs, a native of Birmingham who resides in Montgomery, will
turn 99 in May. She will be awarded an honorary doctorate of
humanities at BSC’s commencement on May 27. View the trailer
for the film, which includes rare archival footage of the campus,
at Visit
or to read more.
Pictured at the Sidewalk Film Festival are (l to r) Robert Corna, BSC
visiting instructor of media and film studies; Andrea Kalin, founder
and creative director at Spark Media; Henrietta Boggs; and Dr. Teddy
Champion, BSC visiting assistant professor of media and film studies.