Hilltop Photo of the Week

Welcome to Birmingham-Southern’s “Hilltop Photo of the Week” web page and archives. Each week at this site, we’ll feature a photo that depicts some aspect of life on the Hilltop campus, along with brief information about what is taking place in the Photo of the Week.

The college welcomes submissions to be considered for the Hilltop Photo of the Week. Scanned or digital photos can be e-mailed to the Office of Communications at bwagnon@bsc.edu, or photographic prints may be sent through campus mail to Box 549004. Please limit photo submissions to those that depict some aspect of the BSC experience, and be sure to identify what is taking place in the photo, along with location and people involved.

View the Photo of the Week archive here.

Retirement celebrations—Two longtime Birmingham-Southern faculty members and BSC graduates, Dr. Thomas Gibbs and Dr. Roy Wells, will retire from their careers at the college at the end of the spring semester. Gibbs joined the BSC faculty in 1970, and for 37 years has taught a wide variety of courses in music history and theory. Wells has been a part of the college’s religion faculty since 1967, and for four decades has engaged students in divinity studies. The professors were honored at individual retirement receptions in April and May, where they received a BSC chair and throw. Pictured at their receptions are Gibbs (top photo, far right) with BSC Professor Emeritus O.C. Weaver and Jimmie McInerney (green shirt), Gibbs’ friend and a strong supporter of music at BSC; and Wells (bottom photo, seated) with BSC President Dr. David Pollick.