Mobile 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 Mobile and surrounding areas were listed as candidates to receive degrees:

DOCTORAL DEGREE

LINDEN-Roben Wallace Lewis.

THEODORE-Jon Charles Acker.

MASTER’S DEGREE

ANDALUSIA-Jeremy Hutcheson Scott.

ATMORE-Emily Page Swift.

BREWTON-Stephanie Michelle Jackson.

DEMOPOLIS-Sean Michael Smith.

ELBERTA-Michael James Gartman.

FAIRHOPE-Erin Regan Pennington, Sara Virginia Tomlinson.

GREENVILLE-Jonathan Don Stanley.

HOPE HULL-Cara Leigh Bohn.

MOBILE-Lauren Nicole King.

SARALAND-Michael S. Lomax.

THEODORE-Brenda Lynette Head.

BACHELOR’S DEGREE

BREWTON-James Scott Sasser.

CITRONELLE-Kelly Susanne Turner.

COFFEEVILLE-Fredrick Ivan Fluker.

DAPHNE-James Jacob Carroll, Kelvin O’Neal Moore.

DAYTON-Charles Barry Poole.

DEMOPOLIS-Heather Rowley Carpenter.

EAST BREWTON-Jennifer Leigh Daughtrey.

FAIRHOPE-Virginia Ann Herndon.

FAUNSDALE-Elizabeth Christian McKee.

GEORGIANA-Jason Elliott Ealum.

LINDEN-Counce Moody Drinkard.

MILLRY-Tameka Ann Coaker, Shanna Joan Hendry.

MOBILE-Arnela Alichkovich, Kiristen D’Iedre Baker, Brittany Blaire Coker, Anne Cowles Cunningham, John Coleman Dorlon, Jamie Ponder Ellis, Pamela Catherine Ellis,

Michael Acker Galloway, Jennifer Leigh Helm, Sarah Katherine Hill, Michael Charles Hoffman Jr., Lynes Alise Hollon, Eddie Lee Hunter Jr., Catherine Deacy McKean,

William Thomasson Sledge, Bryan Daniel Smith, Corinna Kittrell Stalcup, Michael Cullen Thompson Jr.

MONROEVILLE-David Thomas Davis, Wesley Devon Hines.

ORANGE BEACH-Susan Robinson Whiting, Janis Mindy Williams.

ROBERTSDALE-Shawn Michael O’Connor.

SARALAND-James Edward Hill.

VREDENBURGH-Lasonja Bonita Kennedy.

WING-Christopher Jerrod Lewis.

Contact

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