Huntingdon alumni to be honored for achievement and loyaltyMontgomery, Ala.—The Huntingdon College National Alumni Association
will honor seven College alumni for their achievement and loyalty
during the College's Homecoming festivities, September 28–30, 2012.
The Alumni Awards ceremony will be held at 5:00 p.m. Friday,
September 28, in the College's Ligon Chapel, Flowers Hall, followed by a reception at 6:00 p.m. James
Anderson of Montgomery, Class of
1976; Kimberly Braxton Lloyd of Auburn,
Alabama, Class of 1989; Thomas Moore of Spartanburg, South Carolina, Class of 1973;
and Stan Self of Fairhope, Alabama,
Class of 1966, will be recognized with the Alumni Achievement
Award. Zach Billingsley of Santa
Rosa Beach, Florida, a member of the Class of 1999, will
accept the Young Alumni Achievement Award. The Alumni
Loyalty Award will be presented to Class of 1944 alumna Emmie
Cardwell Bolden of Birmingham,
a native of Evergreen, Alabama; to Judy
Watson Kingry, Class of 1962, of Dothan,
Alabama; and to Virginia McLean, Class of 1945, of
Bessemer, Alabama. The awards ceremony
is free and open to the public.
Alumni Achievement Awards
Montgomery's James Anderson co-founded and is a partner in
the law firm Beers, Anderson, Jackson, Patty, and Fawal. A
Huntingdon history graduate and 30-year member of the legal
community, Anderson earned his law degree from Cumberland School of
Law and has presented cases before state and federal courts
throughout Alabama and before the U.S. Supreme Court. Anderson was
the youngest appointee ever to serve on the Alabama Ethics
Commission at the time of his appointment by Governor George
Wallace in 1986 and has since served as vice president of the Board
of Bar Commissioners, associate justice on the Alabama Supreme
Court, and a Life Fellow of the American Bar Association and the
Alabama Bar Foundation. Anderson serves on the boards of directors
for the Southeast YMCA and Britton YMCA, on the Metro Board of
Directors for the Montgomery YMCA, and serves as secretary for the
YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly Board of Directors in North Carolina. He
was named YMCA Man of the Year on 1994. A member of the Huntingdon
Athletic Hall of Fame, he has also served on the Huntingdon National
Alumni Association Board of Directors. His daughter, Anna, is a
Huntingdon student.
After completing her degree in chemistry at Huntingdon, Kimberly
Braxton Lloyd earned her Bachelor of Science in pharmacy and
Doctor of Pharmacy degrees at Auburn University, where she joined
the faculty in the Harrison School of Pharmacy in 1998. She serves
as assistant dean for health services and is an associate professor
in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. Lloyd developed and serves
as clinical director for the Auburn University Pharmaceutical Care
Center (AUPCC), which opened in 2000. Under her leadership, the
program has added a clinic and two retail pharmacies. The AUPCC
serves as a training site for primary care and community pharmacy
practice for HSOP students and post-doctoral residents. Lloyd's
teaching responsibilities include contributions to integrated
pharmacotherapy (IP) and contemporary aspects of pharmacy practice
(CAPP). She also teaches the women's health elective and provides
early and advanced practice experience training in primary care.
Her research areas include pharmaceutical care services for employee
populations, pharmacoeconomics, women’s health, and pulmonary
pharmacotherapy. She serves on the Alabama Pharmacy Association's
Board of Trustees and has served as chair of the Alabama Department
of Public Health’s Office of Women’s Health Advisory Board since
2004. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including Hargreaves
Faculty Mentor of the Year, Alabama Pharmacy Association’s
Innovative Practitioner of the Year, APA Distinguished Young
Pharmacist, and APA Faculty Member of the Year.
Dr. Thomas Moore, a Huntingdon chemistry graduate, serves as
chancellor of the University of South Carolina Upstate. His 2011
appointment to that position was the culmination of a 30-year career
in higher education, during which he has served on the chemistry
faculty of Georgia Southern College, Birmingham-Southern College,
and Winthrop University. At Winthrop, he chaired the Department of
Chemistry and Physics, directed the Master of Liberal Arts Program,
served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and, from 2003
to 2011, led the university's academic programs as vice president
for academic affairs. He is active in higher education initiatives
nationally, having served on committees for the NCAA, the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Association of Graduate
Liberal Studies Programs. He is married to the former Marsha
Kirk, Huntingdon Class of 1974.
A 1966 biology graduate, Dr. Stan Self has practiced family
medicine for 30 years. He serves on the medical staff at Fairhope's
Thomas Hospital and on the University of South Alabama College of
Medicine faculty as a clinical assistant professor in the Department
of Family Practice. Self earned his Master of Science in human
physiology at Auburn University and his M.D. from the University of
Alabama School of Medicine. After completing his residency at the
Medical University of South Carolina, he became board certified in
family practice in 1976 and was awarded the degree of Fellow in
1979. He served as Director of Immunology in the research lab at
the University of Alabama-Birmingham School of Medicine under the
guidance of Max D. Cooper, M.D., a world-renowned immunologist.
Self's practice in Fairhope, incorporated as the Self Center, P.C.,
in 1991, is dedicated to the treatment of obesity, related diseases,
and clinical research. His comprehensive program for weight loss is
recognized by his peers as one of the top weight loss centers in the
United States. During the past 15 years Self has been the
investigator for various pharmaceutical companies in more than 40
clinical research trials involving obesity, hypertension, diabetes
mellitus, and other subjects.
Young Alumni Achievement Award
Zach Billingsley, a four-year member of the Hawks baseball
team, relocated to Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, to work for Coastal
Bank and Trust after graduating from Huntingdon with a degree in
business administration. His career progressed from the management
associate program to assistant manager, branch manager, and then
commercial banker in the bank's Destin, Florida, office. There, he
began working as a volunteer and mentor for the Children's Volunteer
Health Network (CVHN). Inspired by the CVHN mission and by his
volunteer experience, he joined the organization's board of
directors in 2007. In 2010 he left the banking industry to become
the executive director of the Children's Volunteer Health Network.
CVHN has formed a network of doctors, dentists, optometrists and
other specialists who volunteer their time to help uninsured and
underinsured children. The organization operates a mobile dental
clinic that travels to elementary schools providing free dental care
for CVHN’s children. With more than 60% of families in the area
having no dental insurance, the need for dental care has grown
significantly. In 2011, Billingsley secured a grant to fund the
re-purposing of an existing building into a state-of-the-art,
three-chair dental clinic, where care is provided at no cost to
uninsured and underinsured children. Billingsley has focused on
efficiency and production since taking the helm at CVHN. The
organization now spends 87 cents of every dollar on programs and has
facilitated more than 7,000 medical, dental, vision and mental
health care appointments.
Alumni Loyalty Awards
Emmie Cardwell Bolden and her husband of 67 years, Herman,
have provided a gift scholarship in the amount of full tuition,
room, board, books, and fees each year for more than 20 years to a
deserving student from Evergreen or Conecuh County in memory of Ms.
Bolden's mother. Two of Alabama's great humanitarians, they have
contributed generously in support of cancer research and treatment
at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of
Alabama-Birmingham. Mr. and Mrs. Bolden are members of the
Huntingdon Society, the Hall of Honor, the Order of the Countess of
Huntingdon and the John Massey Heritage Society giving clubs at
Huntingdon.
Judy Watson Kingry, an elementary education major and
1962 graduate, devoted her professional life to teaching for 31
years in Dothan City schools, simultaneously serving the United
Methodist Church and Huntingdon College. She and her husband, Gip,
have three sons, all of whom are Huntingdon alumni. The Kingrys are
charter members of the Huntingdon Society.
Virginia McLean earned the highest academic award bestowed by
Huntingdon upon her graduation, the Margaret Read Scholarship
Medal. The mathematics graduate served as assistant dean of women
and alumnae secretary for six years at Huntingdon while completing
her graduate degree and later joined the staff in the Social
Security Administration, retiring in 1986 but continuing to
volunteer her time in support of her church and other organizations
in Birmingham. She has attended class reunions faithfully since
1945 and is a charter and continuing member of the Huntingdon
Society.
Huntingdon
College, grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition of the United
Methodist Church, is committed to nurturing growth in faith,
wisdom, and service and to graduating individuals prepared to
succeed in a rapidly changing world. Founded in 1854, Huntingdon
is a coeducational liberal arts college. The College motto, "Enter
to grow in wisdom; go forth to apply wisdom in service," is
inscribed in stone above the front door of John Jefferson Flowers
Hall. Ranked in the top tier of regional colleges by U.S.
News and World Report and consistently listed in the Princeton
Review's "The Best Colleges: Region by Region," Huntingdon
has for two years been recognized on the President's Higher
Education Community Service Honor Roll and is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places. Washington
Monthly, which ranks colleges on the basis of their
contribution to the public good, places Huntingdon in the top 20% of
352 Baccalaureate colleges.
For a list of Huntingdon Homecoming activities, see
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