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Class of 1967
Alice Leeth Adamson '67 and husband, Dr. Doug Adamson, from Tucson, were traveling though Maryville for a family reunion and to meet up with some old friends! Alice used to live in Willard House with other female students and Dean Frances Massey, the Dean of Women from 1953-1968. Alice enjoyed looking around the house and remembering how it used to look when she lived here. Interesting fact: Alice and Doug met in Ethiopia as Peace Corps Volunteers!
Class of 1967
is founder and artistic director of an outreach children’s theatre in Tuscaloosa, AL. Kristin also received the “Druid Arts Award” Theater Educator of the year 2013. She is the artist and director of the “Canterbury Gallery” and has been restoring a 200 year old home on Greek Island. Kristin is also a Adjunct Professor / Human Growth and Development at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Class of 1967
This information was acquired from a recent press release from the Alabama Sports Writers Association. The article is from BamaOnline (BOL). https://247sports.com/college/alabama/
BamaOnline’s Kirk McNair among Alabama Sports Writers Association’s 50 Legends
By BOL STAFF – Mar 15, 2022, 4:15 PM
With the 50-year anniversary of the Alabama Sports Writers Association, the organization is announcing its 50 Legends over the course of March.
Each was selected at the end of an extensive process, which began with nominations from the ASWA membership, and numerous rounds of voting by the selection committee, which was primarily made up of the sitting executive council.
The 50 [were] honored during the 2022 ASWA Awards Banquet on June 12 in Birmingham.
[This] honoree is BamaOnLine staff writer Kirk McNair. [Maryville College, Class of ‘69]
McNair has twice served as president of the Alabama Sports Writers Association and been inducted into its Hall of Fame.
He joined the Birmingham Post-Herald in 1967 and was named assistant sports editor in 1969. In 1970, McNair left to join the Alabama sports information department and in 1974 was named sports information director.
He left Alabama following the 1978 season to start ’BAMA Magazine and later BamaMag.com. He sold both in 2002 but continued to work both for various owners including BamaOnLine. He’s covered over 600 Alabama football games. His books include “What It Means To Be Crimson Tide” and “Gamechangers: The Greatest Plays in Alabama Football History.”
Class of 1967
On April 17, at the 2016 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, Dr. Joyce Pigge will be inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in the category of Meritorious Service. Dr. Joyce Pigge, Bethany College, Meritorious Service. On the staff of Bethany College, Joyce has been involved in intercollegiate athletics on the institutional, conference, and national levels for over 45 years. She began her career at Bethany when she pioneered the inception of women’s athletics in the 1970s. Joyce has served Bethany as professor of political science and took on the title of Faculty Athletic Representative in 1979, a position which she has held since. On the conference level, Joyce has been the Eligibility Chair of the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference since 1994 and the Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference since 2007. She has served as the Eligibility Chair and Faculty Athletics Representative for the KCAC since 1996. Joyce has also been active in her participation with the NAIA, by serving on the National Executive Committee and the National Coordinating Committee.
Class of 1967
writes in to share that this week she learned that she has been selected as a “Distinguished Graduate of Mount Vernon Township High School”. The recognition will occur on November 11, 2017, in Mount Vernon, Illinois.
Class of 1967
Joyce accompanied the Bethany College Choir on their tour of Germany and Sweden May 24-June 4, 2018. Upon returning she served as a volunteer at the USGA Men’s Senior Open at The Broadmoor, Colorado Springs.
Class of 1967
I am the chair of the board of Augustine Literacy Project In Brevard, NC. Augustine Literacy Project is a non-profit that tutors disadvantaged children in reading, writing and spelling. I have been a tutor with the project for seven years as well. We serve all schools in our county.
I also play in a mountain dulcimer group that plays for senior citizen facilities.
