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Alabama; sophomores Hollie LaShea Bennett of Cullman,
Alabama, and Michael Justin Mohlenbrok of Tuscaloosa,
Alabama; juniors Julia Elizabeth Haase of Roswell, Georgia,
and Dillard Goodpasture Adams III, of Nashville, Tennessee;
and seniors Margaret Campbell Terp of Temple Terrace,
Florida, Taylor Kevin Chadwell of Memphis, Tennessee, Mary
Beth Carlisle of Birmingham, and Jonathan William Faulks of
Nashville, Tennessee.
Saturday evening parties and reunions included Pi Kappa
Phi’s 90th anniversary dinner and Orlean Bullard Beeson
School of Education’s centennial celebration gala, which
recognized 100 Learning for Life honorees.
Tim Gregson, a 1988 graduate from Largo, Florida,
attended the Pi Kappa Phi banquet, which Samford Alumni
Association president, fraternity member and 1983 graduate
Gil Simmons, called a “landmark event” for the chapter.
Fraternity alumni from every recent decade were present to
celebrate the chapter’s history and current record membership
of 115 members.
“Memories came flooding back,” said Gregson. “I saw Pi
Kappa Phi brothers I had not seen since I graduated. It was
great.”
Gregson brought his teenage daughter, Emily, to homecoming
so she could check out his alma mater as a possible
college choice. They were in Reid Chapel on Sunday morning
for a Bible study led by President Westmoreland.
“Returning to Reid is special,” said Gregson, a business
management graduate who attended many convocations and
sang in A Cappella Choir concerts in the chapel. Touring
Korea with the choir remains a special Samford memory, he
said.
Westmoreland, who spoke on Acts 9:1–18, honed in on
the reference to Saul’s regaining his sight and coming to know
Christ. He pointed out that scales sometimes fall from eyes
only after adversity, and that scales often fall after genuine
relationships are built with other people.
And, Westmoreland said, “Scales can only really fall when
we are willing to take a step of faith,” such as Ananias and
Saul did in the New Testament scripture. “When you want to
fully understand God’s will, you must first submit to him and
take a leap of faith.”
Graduates from classes of 1965 and earlier, known fondly
as Golden Bulldogs, enjoyed a Sunday brunch on campus.
Carolyn Yeager Robinson, a 1960 graduate from Maylene,
Alabama, and Malcolm Miller, a 1950 graduate from
Birmingham, received David Lockmiller awards as the female
and male present from the earliest class and who had not
previously won the award.
Each received a handsome clock with Samford engraving
For more images and homecoming coverage, go to
samford.edu/news.
Cheering the Bulldogs
Homecoming king Walker
Edmondson and queen
Lauren Elizabeth Sims
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