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Giving to BSC Mark Your Calendar For Forward Ever Day 2022 On April 7, the Birmingham-Southern community will celebrate our sixth annual Forward Ever Day, the College’s 24-hour day of giving that supports all areas of campus. The Forward Ever Fund, through the support of alumni, faculty, staff, families, and other donors, raises money for scholarships, research opportunities, departmental needs, student development and organizations events, renovations, equipment, and more. Donors can designate their gifts to support a specific office, academic department, or student organization. Forward Ever Day 2021 set records for total dollars raised and number of gifts, with $477,213 raised from 1,966 donors. Every Forward Ever Day, alumni and other donors participate in competitions to help departments or organizations win additional funds. Academic departments, student organizations, and Greek chapters compete to win Forward Ever Day “titles”: most dollars raised, most donors, and best social media presence. In 2021, the business and accounting program won the $5,000 Grand Prize for highest total dollar amount raised by a department. The department’s award money was used to update the common spaces in Harbert where students and faculty meet for tutoring, studying, and to participate in collaborative projects. One of the easiest ways to get involved in Forward Ever Day is by spreading the word. Share posts on social media or connect with your BSC friends, professors, and colleagues about what you want to support. You can even win one of our contests – Ansley Collins Browns ‘01 won the 2021 Ambassador contest for bringing in the highest overall number of gifts. Sign up to serve as an ambassador and help us promote the day. Sign up at bsc.edu/FEDambassador. TWO EASY WAYS TO GIVE TO BSC BSC 2021 IF YOU LIVE IN ALABAMA, BUY A BSC CAR TAG. BSC gets about $45 from each affinity tag sold and uses that money to fund Driven to Succeed Scholarships for Alabama residents. Ask for a BSC tag at your local DMV. Send us your receipt and we’ll send you a tax receipt for the deductible portion. DESIGNATE BSC AS YOUR NON-PROFIT OF CHOICE WHEN YOU SHOP ON AMAZON SMILE. Visit smile.amazon.com to do your Amazon shopping, and 0.5% of eligible purchases will be donated directly to BSC. Once signed into smile.amazon.com, you will be prompted to pick a charity. You can choose one from the provided list or type in another of your choosing. Type “Birmingham-Southern College,” and our organization will appear. There is no cost to us or you – 100% of the donation generated from eligible purchases goes to BSC. For frequent Amazon users, this additional perk is a great way to give back to BSC effortlessly. Note: Amazon does not share customer information with us, so we are unable to credit individual donors when we receive contributions from Amazon. 62 / ’southern
Remembering Clay Long A Hilltop Tribute At Birmingham-Southern, I discovered so many of the most important people in my life. I still treasure the connection to friends, sorority sisters, theatre cast mates and professors. I even met my husband at BSC, but it wasn’t until later, when I gave him my torts outline in law school, that I think I won his heart. (It was an excellent outline.) While I was a student on the Hilltop, I didn’t realize that one of the most important school connections I would ever make was with a BSC student who arrived at BSC before I was born. In fact, by the time I was a freshman, Clay Long had graduated from Harvard law school, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black and co-founded a law firm in Atlanta that would go on to become one of the nation’s finest. I met Clay when I interviewed for a summer clerkship with Long, Aldridge & Norman. I remember that he took me to dinner in a car that had been converted to run on natural gas because he was concerned about the environment. He was the first person I can remember talking about climate change. Clay didn’t just talk; he devoted his talents to conservation, chairing the Georgia Conservancy Board and working with policy makers to protect Georgia’s environment. Joelle James Phillips ’89 is president of AT&T Tennessee in Nashville and a member of the Birmingham-Southern College Board of Trustees. In my first year at the firm, I was lucky to work on a case with Clay. My most vivid memory of that experience was a meeting during which Clay rejected an option presented because it was morally wrong. He didn’t make a production of it, and he didn’t entertain any discussion about whether the client agreed. He was a fierce competitor, but he would no more consider an unethical move than he would have cheated at tennis – and I would never have bet against him winning in – or on – the court. Clay was so comfortable in his own skin. He knew who he was and what he cared about. In a profession where outsized egos are common, Clay didn’t seem to need any affirmation from the crowd. He was funny but didn’t need the whole room to hear the punch line. I was heartbroken that the BSC family lost such an important and dear friend. Clay’s example will forever inspire me. CLAY C. LONG ’58 Lawyer and conservationist Clay C. Long passed away May 29, 2021, at 85 after battling a neurological illness. He graduated summa cum laude from Birmingham-Southern College and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. As a law clerk for Justice Hugo Black of the U.S. Supreme Court, he drafted the ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, the landmark case establishing that poor people charged with crimes have a right to an attorney. 1974, Long co-founded Long, Aldridge, Stevens & Sumner, a corporate and commercial real estate practice, which 28 years later merged with a Washington-based firm to become McKenna Long & Aldridge. During his life, Long received many awards and accolades, including the Atlanta Bar Association’s Leadership Award – of which he was the first recipient – an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from BSC, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anti-Defamation League. Long gave back to his community in many ways – by serving as Chairman of the Board of MARTA, as Chairman of the Georgia Conservancy, and by working on environmental issues with the Nature Conservancy, the Jekyll Island Authority, and the Jekyll Island Foundation. He was chair of the Georgia Greenspace Commission and served as President of the Atlanta United Way. He was a member of the boards of directors of Research Atlanta, the Atlanta Urban League, the Atlanta- Fulton County Public Library, the Metropolitan Atlanta Community Foundation, Birmingham- Southern College, and many others. Long is survived by his wife of 61 years, Elizabeth E. Long, his daughter and sonin-law, Katie Long and Adam Gelb, and his grandchildren, Max Gelb and Kate Denton. He was preceded in death in 2003 by his beloved daughter, Polly Long Denton. FALL/WINTER 2021 / 63
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