Col. Dr. J.D. Bailey II ’81 joined the Family Practice of Holyoke in Holyoke, Colo., as a physician. Bailey brings more than 20 years of medical experience to the practice. He served 12 years in the U.S. Air Force before graduating from the School of Medicine at UAB, and then served an additional 18 years as a family medicine physician, special operations flight surgeon, and chief of the medical staff. Bailey retired from the Air Force in 2015 and has since held several family practice and medical director positions in Florida.

Rena Ramsey ’85, managing director of Ramsey Everett Advisory Partners, LLC, and Stephanie Houston Mays ’04, shareholder at Maynard, Cooper & Gale, joined the YWCA of Central Alabama Board as new members. Erin Stephenson ’01 also serves on the Board as vice president of development.

Katherine Holt Antonello ’86 was named president and CEO of Employers Holdings, a small business workers’ compensation specialist in Reno, Nev. Antonello joined Employers in 2019 as executive vice president and chief actuary, and she has more than 25 years of workers’ compensation insurance experience, from actuarial and policy serves to claims and internal audit functions. The chair of Employers’ board notes that in her short tenure with the company, Antonello has shown the “ability to be a visionary and think strategically.” Her parents, Dr. Ira Hawkins Holt Sr. ‘59 and the late Lee Headley Holt ‘62, and brother, Ira Hawkins Holt, Jr. MPPM ’91, all attended BSC.

Rev. Cecelia Walker ’93 was featured by The Alabama Baptist for her service to others throughout the difficulties and tragedies in her own life. Walker currently serves as executive director of Brookwood Baptist Health’s pastoral care program for all five medical centers, including Princeton, where she also leads the Clinical Pastoral Education program. She is an associate minister at Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Birmingham.

Andria Melgren Cleghorn ’98 has been named chief financial officer of O’Neal Steel, bringing more than 12 years of experience to the team. Before joining O’Neal Steel, Cleghorn held several leadership roles in financial management for the concrete and oil industries.

Danielle Ridgeway ’06 has opened “Covering Your Assets,” a new accounting firm in Birmingham that specializes in tax preparation, bookkeeping, payroll, and business formation. Ridgeway has more than 15 years of experience in accounting, auditing, and tax in a diverse range of industries, from higher education to government to the corporate sector. She is a member of the Black Alumni Steering Committee at BSC.

Emily Godsey ’08 began a new position as operations manager in cancer services at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Fla. Godsey most recently served as principal practice partner at Mayo Clinic and has previously held analyst roles at Blue Cross Blue Shield and Miles College.

Kathryn A. LeCroy ’12 published her research, “Floral Color Properties of Serpentine Seep Assemblages Depend on Community Size and Species Richness,” in Frontiers in Plant Science. LeCroy and her co-authors examine the variation of flower color diversity in serpentine seep communities as viewed by bees and flies. This article is a part of LeCroy’s work at the University of Pittsburgh, where she completed her master’s degree in biological sciences in 2015. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Virginia in the environmental sciences department.

Spencer Adametz ’16 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant by his father, Rear Adm. John J. Adametz, Pacific Fleet civil engineer and commander. The ceremony took place at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hi. The family has a long history in military service that Adametz continued when he had the opportunity to commission in the Supply Corps through Officer Candidate School.

Emma Knapp ’17 will compete in the 2021 Miss North Carolina USA pageant held March 5-6. This competition will be Knapp’s first pageant, and she plans on sharing more about her education at BSC and how it helped her grow. She is the proprietor of The Iron Angel, a handmade jewelry line sold in 56 stores nationwide.

Austin Lewter ’20 is serving as a 2021 Jefferson County Memorial Project Fellow. Each year, JCMP selects a group of college students and recent graduates to research and document the untold stories of lynching victims in Jefferson County. Lewter recently shared why the project is important to him in a Bham Now feature.

Lennie Shewmaker McDaniel ’06 and Kiley Stephen McDaniel were married on Nov. 20, 2020, in Athens, Georgia.

Charles Camp Morrow, Jr. (Cam) was born to parents Charles Camp Morrow ’02 and Stacy Morrow. Grandparents are Angela Camp Morrow Baker ’77 and the late Roger S. Morrow ’76, and uncle is the late R. Stephen Morrow ’08.

Hattie Helmling Turke was born Oct. 17, 2020, to parents Matthew Turke ’03 and Hillary Helmling.

Dr. J. E. Keeton ’51 of Northport, Ala., on Aug. 2, 2019. Prior to enrolling at BSC, Keeton enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II and served as a corpsman at the Naval Hospital at Pearl Harbor. He then completed his bachelor’s degree at the College and received his medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He served an internship at the University of Chicago, a residency in psychiatry at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn., and then joined the Veterans Administration Hospital in Washington, D.C., where he pioneered their outpatient treatment program and served as the Chief of Psychiatry. Keeton had a private practice for many years in Bethesda, Md. before rejoining the VA to finish his career in Tuscaloosa. Here, he helped many veterans and developed new treatments for psychiatric disorders. During his retirement, he enjoyed travelling and developing his musical and artistic talents. Keeton’s wife, the late Mary Ann Trantham Keeton ’51, also attended BSC. Keeton generously named BSC in his estate plan.

Dr. Alan R. Dimick ’53 of Birmingham on Jan. 27, 2021. Dimick spent almost four decades in leadership positions at UAB Hospital, where he was a leader in emergency and burn care throughout Alabama. He served as clinical director of the hospital’s emergency department from 1963 until 1976 and directed the hospital’s burn service for 36 years. He laid crucial groundwork that built and improved Alabama’s emergency care system: he worked with community leaders to develop training courses for ambulance attendants and other first responders; he partnered with the Birmingham City Council to create and support an Emergency Medical Services Committee; he helped set up the first paramedic operations and trainings in various communities in the state; and he established the first paramedic training program for fire departments in Birmingham, Homewood, and Vestavia Hills in 1973. As a young surgeon focused on trauma and burns in 1963, Dimick established a special program for burn patients at UAB, a program that put UAB in the national spotlight for burn treatment. He chaired numerous boards, held important leadership roles, and received prestigious awards for his work and service, including BSC’s 1982 Distinguished Alumnus award. In 1999, he retired as a full-time UAB faculty member and joined Children’s of Alabama as a consultant to their burn center. Read more about Dimick’s lasting impact here.

Barbara Carlisle Head ’53 of Birmingham on Jan. 6, 2021. Head loved art and music, especially performing as the lead in many operas as a BSC student under the leadership of Dr. Raymond Anderson. She and her husband, Eugene E. Head, Sr. ‘55, spent decades building a successful business together, serving others, and traveling. She was an active member of Briarwood Presbyterian Church, the Legacy League of Samford University, and the Barkley Square Garden Club.

Harriet Howard Yeilding ’53 of Birmingham on Jan. 10, 2021. Harriet was always a solid anchor in her family and was devoted to all her children and grandchildren. Over the years, she served Greater Birmingham Ministries, first keeping financial records on her dining room table in the early 1970s and later, with her husband, the late N. Manly Yeilding, Jr. ’51, as longtime members of the board of directors. They were faithful members of Canterbury United Methodist Church. Yeilding treasured her lifelong friendships with her Pi Beta Phi sisters from BSC, who have been meeting for lunch and playing bridge twice a month since 1952. She was a lifelong learner, always reading a book, working the New York Times crossword puzzle, or keeping up with her weekly periodicals. She also had a love for art and served as the bookkeeper for Monty Stabler Galleries. The Yeilding family has deep connections to BSC, and Yeilding Chapel is named in their honor. Yeilding’s daughter, Katy Yeilding Olson ’82, and grandsons Nicholas Olson ’09 and Thomas Olson ’19 join more than 30 Yeildings who are graduates of the College.

Louis Cleveland Culver ’56 of Anniston, Ala., on Jan. 26, 2021. Culver graduated from the Birmingham Conservatory of Music in 1952 before continuing his education at BSC. He was the organist and choirmaster at The Church of St. Michael and All Angels for 32 years and taught private piano and organ lessons. Culver later earned his master’s degree in English from Jacksonville State University and served as an English instructor at JSU from until 1993. Read more about his legacy here.

Eugene Kyle Lawson ’57 of Huntsville, Ala., on Jan. 8, 2020. Lawson was a U.S. Navy veteran and served for four years as an electronics technician. Upon graduation from BSC, where he studied physics, he was hired by the Navy and held roles at NASA, Sperry Rand Corporation, Jim Dandy Dog Food, General Research Corporation, Teledyne Brown Engineering, and Hughes Aircraft. Lawson had a passion for music, organs, and sound systems, and he volunteered his time for several churches and the Alabama Diocese Episcopal Church Conference Center.

Dr. Robert H. Carlson III ’65 of Birmingham on Dec. 19, 2020. After Carlson received his medical degree from the University of Alabama, he received a fellowship to study under French geneticist Jerome Lejeune, who discovered Trisomy 21. He completed his residency in Denver and then took a position at a family practice in Dolores, Colo. Carlson later returned to Birmingham to practice emergency medicine and started one of the first urgent care practices in the state. He also served as a first responder in times of tragedy, setting up triage units at Ground Zero after 9/11 and delivering care to people in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

Ann Turner Hull ’65 of Birmingham on Jan. 17, 2021. Hull studied psychology at BSC, where, in a small auditorium class, she met Leland Hull, Jr. ’64, her loving husband of 54 years. After college, she worked for Dr. Frank Kay at the Frank Kay Clinic and later taught children with disabilities at the Opportunity Center. She served her community as a member of Service Guild and as president of the Mountain Brook Elementary PTA. Her love of people kept her involved and active in Perky Planters and Snippers garden clubs, Vanities and Muses dance clubs, Sew-Fines and the Thimblettes French hand-sewing groups, supper clubs, and Queens Bridge Group (where she was dubbed the Queen Bee). Hull worked with close friends to open their antique business Thistlegate and the Magic Needle in Crestline. She was an active member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church for more than 30 years, a founding member of St. Peter’s Anglican Church, and later an active member of the Cathedral Church of the Advent.

DeLene Logan Sholes ’69 of Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., on Jan. 2, 2021. At the age of 28, Sholes studied education at BSC and then earned a master’s degree in education, specifically reading, from UAB. She taught school at Erwin Elementary School in Birmingham in the early 1970s until she took a teaching position at Freeport High School in 1978. She later became the first teaching principal at Bay Elementary in Point Washington, where she also became a full-time principal. After her years as principal, Sholes worked in an administrative position writing grants for the Walton County School District. She began writing and editing assorted papers, theses, and publications during her retirement, and some of her writings were included on histories of Walton County. Sholes published “Real Principals Have No Class” (2010) as well as numerous articles in local and national publications. She was actively involved with local charities and was a board member of Point Washington United Methodist Church.

Louis Burnette ’90 of Hamilton, Miss., on Jan. 12, 2021. Burnette attended Itawamba Junior College and Bevill State Community College before earning his bachelor’s degree from BSC. Prior to graduation, he served with the U.S. Armed Forces and was honorably discharged after serving in Germany SP4 in 1977. He served with the 257th Signal unit of the Dora Army National Guard and retired after 20 years of service with the rank of Sergeant E-5. Burnette most recently retired from Birmingham Fastener Company. He was a member and deacon of Aiken Grove Baptist Church as well as a Master Gardener and president of his local Master Gardener and Bee Keepers Associations.

Sonja Jaclyn Spiller ’10 of Birmingham on Dec. 5, 2020. After graduating from BSC, Spiller earned her master’s degree in counseling from Lewis & Clark College. She then returned to Birmingham and began her career at Metro Treatment of Alabama prior to opening her private practice, Mind in Moment, LLC, and working with UAB’s Beacon Recovery Program. Spiller always had a love for music and theatre, and she often worked on sets with the crew of IATSE Local 78 and served as the “sound guy” for her dad’s band, 7^th Avenue South.

Corbin Day of Birmingham on Jan. 10, 2021. Day served as a trustee from 1996-2006 and again from 2008-2010, and received an honorary Doctor of Laws from the College in 2004. He graduated from Brown University in 1959 and earned an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. He joined Goldman, Sachs & Co., becoming a partner in 1971 and later managing partner and founder of the company's London Office of Mergers and Acquisitions. In 1986, Day left Goldman Sachs to become vice chairman and director of Jemison Investment Co., a Birmingham-based company begun by his father-in-law, John S. Jemison, Jr., in 1949. At the time of his passing, he was executive chairman of that company. Day and his late wife, Dorothy “Dodie” Jemison Day, were active supporters of educational and cultural institutions in Birmingham and throughout Alabama, including BSC, UAB, the Birmingham Museum of Art, McWane Science Center, the Alabama School of Fine Arts (where the theater bears her name), the Alabama Symphony, and the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. He was a member of Cathedral Church of the Advent. His granddaughter Cece Lacey ’12 is a BSC graduate.