OUTSTANDING ALUMNUS AWARD
 

Recipients


2007 Wyatt R. Haskell '57
Founding Partner, Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, Birmingham
2006

John Green '95
Author, New York

2005 Charles K. "Kip" Porter '60
Executive Vice President, Porter, White, & Company, Inc., Birmingham
2004

M.D. Smith IV '59
President, Smith Broadcasting, Inc., Huntsville, Alabama

2003 Ben Russell '57
Chairman and CEO, Russell Lands, Inc., Alexander City, Alabama
2002

Carlisle Towery '55
President, Greater Jamaica Development Corp., New York City

2001 Perry Lentz '60
McIlvaine Professor of English, Kenyon College
2000 Edward Ashworth '67
Former executive director of Southern Poverty Law Center. Currently president of Research Park Inc. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1999 Roy Knight '59
Professor of Architecture, Florida A&M University
1998 John Jefferson Humphries '73
Professor of French Literature, Louisiana State University
1997 Preston H. Haskell III '56
President, The Haskell Company, Jacksonville, Florida
1996 Donald E. Hess '66
CEO Southwood Partners and former CEO of Parisian, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama
1995 Stephen Rolfe Powell '70
Contemporary glass artist and professor of art at Centre College
1994 James J. Burke '69
President and CEO, Jim Burke Automotive, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama
1993 F. Neely Bruce '60
Composer and Professor of Music and American Studies, Wesleyan University
1992 Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. '67
Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Glasgow in Scotland
1991 George Frederick Wooten '61
Professor of Neurology at University of Virginia Health Sciences
1990 Sally L. Nemeth '77
Screenwriter, Los Angeles, California
1989 T. Michael Goodrich '63
President and CEO, BE&K Inc., Birmingham, Alabama
1988 Tennant S. McWilliams '61
Dean, School of Social/Behavioral Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham
1987 James Herbert White III '60
President, Porter White & Company, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama
1986 G. Gray Plosser '63
President, KPS Group, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama
1985 Jeffrey Henry Cohn '64
Physician, Cohn Urology, Birmingham, Alabama
1984 John MacDonald Badham '57
Film Director and President of The Badham Company, Los Angeles, California
1983 William M. Slaughter '56
Attorney, Haskell Slaughter, Birmingham, Alabama
1982 Joseph H. Robinson, Jr. '56
CEO, Robinson Foundry, Inc., Alexander City, Alabama
1981 Gilbert E. Johnston, Jr. '63
Attorney with Johnston Barton Proctor & Powell, specializing in first amendment issues, Birmingham, Alabama

1980

Charles L. Robinson '59
Practiced thirty-four years as an attorney with Johnston Barton Proctor & Powell, Birmingham, Alabama