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ALUMNI<br />
CLASS NOTES<br />
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1960s<br />
’68 W. Allan Williams, M.A. ’69, has semiretired<br />
from the practice of law. He is a Roman<br />
Catholic clergyman (ordained permanent<br />
deacon) for the Diocese of San Diego, California.<br />
1970s<br />
’79 Stephanie J. Phelps received the 2016<br />
Linwood F. Tice Friend of APhA-ASP Award in<br />
recognition of her long-term services and<br />
contributions to the American Pharmacists<br />
Association Academy of Student Pharmacists.<br />
She is associate dean of academic affairs and<br />
professor of clinical pharmacy and pediatrics at<br />
the University of Tennessee Health Science<br />
Center, College of Pharmacy, in Memphis,<br />
Tennessee. 1<br />
1980s<br />
’81 Charles R. Woods, Jr., was elected<br />
executive committee chair of the American<br />
Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on Epidemiology,<br />
Public Health and Evidence. He is affiliated with<br />
the University of Louisville Physicians practice<br />
group, specializing in pediatric infectious<br />
diseases, in Louisville, Kentucky.<br />
’82 Jon R. Roebuck is executive director of the<br />
newly formed Belmont Institute for Church<br />
Leadership in Nashville, Tennessee. He was most<br />
recently pastor of Nashville’s Woodmont Baptist<br />
Church for 17 years. He and his wife, Linda,<br />
have three children and two granddaughters. The<br />
institute is designed to equip church leaders for<br />
entrepreneurial thinking and innovative means to<br />
meet the modern needs of the local community<br />
and culture at large.<br />
’84 Joyce T. Heames, M.B.A. ’88, is dean of<br />
the Campbell School of Business at Berry College<br />
in Mount Berry, Georgia. She was most recently<br />
an associate dean at the College of Business and<br />
Economics at West Virginia University. Prior to<br />
earning a Ph.D. in management at the University<br />
of Mississippi, she was an instructor in the<br />
Community Banking School and director of<br />
undergraduate programs in Samford’s business<br />
school.<br />
’84 Mark Douglas Ray of Decatur, Alabama, is<br />
the new program director at Albany Clinic, an<br />
outpatient counseling center affiliated with the<br />
Mental Health Center of North Central<br />
Alabama. He is a past district president of the<br />
Alabama Counseling Association.<br />
’87 Denise Stimpson Bates is a sales engineer<br />
for Automated Voice & Data Solutions in<br />
Alabama and Texas. She lives in Alexander City,<br />
Alabama.<br />
’88 Peyton C. “Pat” Thetford, J.D., was<br />
appointed by Alabama Governor Robert Bentley<br />
to serve as a judge in the 10th Judicial Circuit,<br />
Birmingham.<br />
1990s<br />
’92 Jeff Roberts of Birmingham was listed in<br />
the March 7, 2016 issue of Barron’s Magazine as<br />
among the top 1,200 financial advisers in the<br />
United States and among the top four in<br />
Alabama. He was inducted into the Ameriprise<br />
Financial Hall of Fame in May.<br />
’94 Tod Hyche, J.D., was named South Carolina<br />
State Chair for the American College of Trust<br />
and Estate Counsel, which includes lawyers who<br />
have demonstrated high levels of integrity,<br />
commitment to the profession, competence and<br />
experience as trust and estate counselors. He is<br />
partner in charge of the Greenville, South<br />
Carolina, office of Smith Moore Leatherwood<br />
LLP. 2<br />
’95 Stephanie L. Morgan-White, J.D., is an<br />
administrative principal with the Glenview Trust<br />
Company in Louisville, Kentucky. She was<br />
honored by her peers as a “Top Lawyer” in the<br />
March 2016 issue of Louisville Magazine. 3<br />
’95 David Rausch, M.B.A., is the new vice<br />
provost of academic affairs at the University of<br />
Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is responsible for<br />
the coordination of various academic units that<br />
include international programs, continuing<br />
education, student success, assessment, accreditation,<br />
institutional research and others.<br />
’96 John Roland earned a Master of Business<br />
Administration degree from Kennesaw State<br />
University in May. He is marketing and social<br />
media lead at Smart Tuition, a tuition management<br />
company for private and faith-based<br />
schools. He and his wife, Amy Gluth Roland ’98,<br />
live in Newnan, Georgia.<br />
’98 Ed Stetzer, M.Div., was named to the<br />
faculty of Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois,<br />
and executive director of Wheaton’s Billy<br />
Graham Center for Evangelism. His roles will<br />
include service as publisher of Evangelical<br />
Missions Quarterly, and as chair of the Wheaton<br />
College Graduate School’s evangelism and<br />
leadership program. 4<br />
’99 Eric Fowler was recently promoted to<br />
lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and was<br />
selected to command the Baltimore Recruiting<br />
Battalion in 2017. He earned a Ph.D. in<br />
international studies from Old Dominion<br />
University in Norfolk, Virginia, in May.<br />
2000s<br />
’01 Robert M. Moss, J.D., is legal director and<br />
senior counsel at Medical Properties Trust Inc. in<br />
Birmingham.<br />
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