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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 26, 2003
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Managing editor of Fortune magazine Richard
Kirkland, former surgeon and director of the University of Alabama
Burn Center Dr. Alan Dimick, and retired Alabama circuit judge
James Garrett are among the Birmingham-Southern graduates who will
entertain alumni returning to the Hilltop campus April 11-13 for
the college's Alumni Reunion Weekend 2003.
This year's reunion honors the BSC classes of 1943, 1948,
1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, and 1998,
but is open to all alumni
and their families.
In addition to class gatherings and other
celebrations, alumni can participate in a Friday evening reception
at the home of BSC President Neal R. Berte
and Anne Berte, followed by a baseball tailgate barbecue prior to the BSC
vs. Liberty
University baseball game.
Kirkland, Dimick, and Garrett will participate
in the Saturday, April 12, Alumni Mini-College which also will
feature other successful BSC alumni
including Rev. Dr. Florence Wates Pert, retired senior associate pastor
of the Marble
Collegiate Church of New York City; Dr. William Eiland, art editor, essayist,
and director of the Georgia Museum of Art; and Dr. Kevin Tucker, assistant
professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School and staff nephrologist
for Boston's Brigham & Women's Hospital.
Also on Saturday, there will be a book
signing and sale of books by BSC alumni including Charles Gordon
Brooks, former cartoonist for The Birmingham
News and author of Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year 2003; Carlton Jackson,
University Distinguished Professor in the history department at Western
Kentucky University
and author of Allied Secret: The Sinking of HMT Rohna; ST Kimbrough,
associate general secretary of the General Board of Global Ministries
of the United
Methodist Church in New York City, a professional opera singer, and
author of A Heart
to Praise My God: Wesley Hymns for Today and Charles Wesley: Poet
and Theologian; Clarence Mohr, chair of the department of history at the
University of
South Alabama and author of On The Threshold of Freedom: Masters
and Slaves in
Civil War Georgia; Eiland, author of Crosscurrents in American
Impressionism at the
Turn of the Century and California Impressionists; and Debra Ghigna,
local children's poet and author of Christmas is Coming! Other Saturday events include a 5K run/walk
and 1 mile fun run benefiting the BSC cross-country team; the
annual alumni awards
luncheon; new fraternity house
dedications; campus tours; shows at the Robert R. Meyer Planetarium; open
houses at the college's new Humanities Center, Elton B. Stephens
Science Center, and Southern Environmental Center; and BSC baseball
and softball games.
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