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cultures chair Mike Ledgerwood will assume
leadership of the program.
She hopes to dedicate more time to her
creative writing — she is working on a
collection of poems — and a new interest in
film studies that she developed through her
teaching.
How has her field changed? “As with
other fields, there is an increasing interest in
technology and cultural studies,” she said.
Bolden taught Spanish conversation
and grammar, Latin American culture and
Latin American literature. She holds the
bachelor’s degree in psychology from Lake
Forest College, a Master’s Certificate in
Latin American studies and master’s and
doctoral degrees in Spanish American
literature from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Arlene Hayne
A New Chapter
“So many things to read — so little time!”
So stated nursing professor Arlene Hayne
when asked to share a few specifics about
her retirement, which began this summer.
Her specifics did not include titles, just
categories of books. “Although I enjoy a
good fiction novel, I also read history,
religion and biographies.”
Writing is another one of her interests.
An author of two textbooks on nursing
administration and multiple publications,
she has been involved in grants written and
awarded for a rural community Parish Nurse
program, a mobile health van and a
community health fair for children with
disabilities. Other publications are currently
in the pipeline as well. No doubt Hayne will
combine these interests with another
planned activity: travel.
“Everyone wants to travel when they
retire, and we [she and her husband, Van]
are no different,” she said. “There are many
parts of this wonderful country we want to
visit, including Alaska as well as the train
trip across Canada.”
Hayne joined Ida V. Moffett School of
Nursing in 2002. “Being part of innovative
programs there” was a highlight of her tenure,
she said. “Moving the graduate program to
the online environment before any other
program was a unique challenge,” she said.
“The Registered Nurse to Master of
Science in Nursing program we developed
was cutting edge at the time and remains
exemplar to this day. More recently, contributing
to the planning, development implementation
of the post-master’s Doctor of
Nursing Practice program was a highlight.”
Hayne said, “the best thing about being
at the Samford nursing school has been the
opportunity to work with colleagues who
exemplify excellence as well as care and
compassion.”
She said she had seen plenty of change.
“My fields encompass health care, nursing,
administration, leadership and higher
education, so what hasn’t changed and
continues to change at a remarkable pace?
Essential skills for any of these areas are the
ability to effectively communicate and be an
agent of change, which is what I have tried
to pass on to my students.”
Hayne has a background in critical-care
nursing and nursing administration. She has
held positions as a staff nurse, clinical
specialist, director of nursing, director of
corporate quality improvement and health
care consultant.
Patricia Outlaw
Dancing to Retirement
Beeson Divinity School professor Patricia A.
Outlaw is looking forward to dancing her
way into retirement. “Having been bivocational
for the majority of my working life, I
am looking forward to the days ahead to
dance,” she said.
“In the African tradition, ‘to dance’ is
‘to breathe,’” she explained. “To everything
there is a season,” she said, including “a time
to dance.”
Outlaw has taught at Beeson Divinity
School 15 years. A highlight has been “the
privilege of working with a community of
believers who frequently pray together in
their offices, in their classroom settings and
in community worship services.” She said it
has been a joy and a privilege to work in a
context “where prayer is the norm and not
the exception.”
An ordained minister in the African
Methodist Episcopal church, Outlaw serves
as pastor of Bethel A.M.E. Church-Rising in
Birmingham.
“I don’t think I would have survived as
long as I did at Beeson Divinity School had
I not been able to combine my teaching and
ministry in the classroom setting,” she said.
“My training as a psychologist, preacher,
professor and pastor equipped me to teach
with passion from an academic and
pragmatic approach. It is one thing to teach
from a mere academic perspective, but it is
another thing altogether to teach from the
pulpit of a seasoned pastor.”
Outlaw said the most significant
changes in the field of pastoral care and
psychology have been the ongoing effort to
integrate spiritually and psychology. Thirty
years ago, it would have been considered
outside the norm for psychologists to give
consideration or merit to the spiritual
orientation of his or her clients, she said.
Outlaw was the first woman to
graduate from Beeson Divinity School’s
Doctor of Ministry program (2002). She
also holds degrees from Towson State, St.
Mary’s Seminary and University, and a
Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. ◗
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