Huntsville Area Residents Among UA Graduates

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama awarded approximately 1,100 degrees at summer commencement exercises held Saturday, Aug. 12, at Coleman Coliseum on the Tuscaloosa campus.

Vivian Malone Jones, UA’s first African American graduate, was the featured speaker. She also received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at the ceremony.

Jones enrolled at UA on June 11, 1963, following Gov. George Wallace’s unsuccessful “stand in the schoolhouse door,” and in 1965 received her degree in business management. In 1996, she retired after more than 30 years in various federal government positions that culminated with her position as director of the Office of Environmental Justice of the Environmental Protection Agency. She currently works with the Atlanta Associates of MONY Life Insurance Company of America.

With this graduating class, UA will have awarded more than 175,000 degrees since its founding in 1831 as the state’s first public university. UA holds commencement three times a year.

The following students from Huntsville and surrounding areas were listed as candidates to receive degrees:

DOCTORAL DEGREE

HORTON-Marsha Dale Campbell.

HUNTSVILLE-Mary Kathaleen Jones.

MADISON-Adrian Vasile Catalina.

MASTER’S DEGREE

ALBERTVILLE-David Darden, Wanda Lou Pollard, Jennifer Beth Rogers, Trina Gordon Slappey, Lisa Gail Springfield, Bruce J. Stover.

ARAB-Margaret Richter Hall, Jennifer Mardis King, Angela Denise Martin.

ATHENS-Deborah Sue Bonnell, Docina Antonio Collier.

BOAZ-Amy Hollaway Bailey, Cynthia Barker Lambert, Michele Lynn Noles, Johnny Robert Pullen, Laura Leigh Ray, Ann Hays Siler, Donna Strickland Williamson.

DECATUR-Eleanor Kathryn Buck, Renita Jill Legg, Rachel Laura Lull, Carolyn Sue Pistorius, Nisha Michele Sivley.

DOUGLAS-John Charles Jimmerson.

FACKLER-Larry Stanfield Mannon.

FLAT ROCK-Donna Houser Davis, Anita Sue Pike, William E. Tillman.

GUNTERSVILLE-Joshua Jamison Swords, Nancy Torbert Wood.

HARVEST-Holly Lynn O’neal.

HAZEL GREEN-Bobby Ray Lipscomb.

HOLLYWOOD-Regan Buckner Webb.

HORTON-Brooke Sloman Garmany, Judith Elaine Wigley.

HUNTSVILLE-Martha Scott Bosworth, Deborah Darlene Carpenter, Suzan McKenzie Ellett, Leslie Ann Gipson, Reene Ausban Hodges, Gary Edward Mahon, Lee Thomas Morgan, Jason Blum Portney.

MADISON-Stephanie Burwell Burton, Kimberly Smith Granger, Karen Maria Kelley, Brigette Renee Perry, Heather Anne Smith.

NEW HOPE-Donna Russey Butler, Happy Ann Porter.

PISGAH-Angela Buckner Bain, Billy Ray Day, Amy Laurene Frost, Lisha F. Overdear.

SCOTTSBORO-Dawn Sharp Atkins, Kelli Brown Holland.

SECTION-Christa Grigg Frakes.

TANNER-Gerald Delmar Jackson.

UNION GROVE-Christy Leigh Barrett.

BACHELOR’S DEGREE

ALBERTVILLE-John Matthew Carter.

ARAB-Bradley Clifton King.

ATHENS-Frank Oliver McCollum III, Lindsay Erin Wellden.

BROWNSBORO-Eleanor Anne Rowan.

DECATUR-Christine Elizabeth Adams, Angela Marie Hampton, Crystal Lynn Hartselle, Erin Lee Maziek, Beverly Lauren Porter, Gregory O’neal Sears, George Emerson Truitt.

GUNTERSVILLE-Hillary Brooke Newman.

HARTSELLE-Yvonne Leigh Moore, Andrea Jewel Shirley.

HAZEL GREEN-Allison Michelle Johnson.

HUNTSVILLE-Tommy Earl Allen, Lisa Heacox Buck, Michael Phillip Fox, Ryan Paul Herrin, Katherine Darlene Hoefer, Clifford E. Kerry Jr., Alicia Ann Mullen, Dennis Hansel Nunez, Audrey Marie Rice, David Matthew Small, Eric Monroe Smith, Lance Almon Smith, Lee Michael Smith, Derek Wang, Douglas Reed Warren Jr., Shelly E. Warren.

MADISON-Brad William Dunkerley Sr., Timothy Michael Gomeringer.

PISGAH-Jason Keith Roden.

SCOTTSBORO-Jeremy Matthew Smith.

TRINITY-Melinda Jenise Dunlap.

Contact

Linda Hill, Office of Media Relations, 205/348-8325